| Programme Details |
| Saturday 29 June 2002 |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Session 1: Agendas |
Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)
Iwan Morus (Queen's University, Belfast)
The Oldenburg Group (Physic's Department, University of Oldenburg) |
| 12:30 |
BSHS EGM |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Session 2: Research papers |
Katie Eagleton, ‘A King, Two Lords and Three Quadrants’
Gerard Turner on the discovery of a new form of nocturnal
Sara Schechner, ‘Doing It with Lenses and Mirrors: Recovering the Methods of Art and Science from Historical Instruments’ |
| 15:30 |
Session 3: Historian and curator ‘head to head’ |
| Graeme Gooday and Paolo Brenni |
| 16:00 |
Tea |
| 16:30 |
Session 4: National museum perspectives |
Science Museum, London
Neil Brown, ‘Scientific instruments: what can museums provide and what do historians want?’
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
A contribution on instrument research at the Boerhaave from the curators
Deutsches Museum, Munich
Ulf Hashagen, 'Research on objects at the Deutsches Museum’ |
| 18:15 |
Break |
| 19:00 |
BSHS Presidential Address |
| Jim Bennett, ‘Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century: what were instruments for?’ |
| 20:00 |
Reception at the Museum of the History of Science |
| Sunday 30 June 2002 |
| 09:15 |
Session 5: Types of collection |
Gerard Alberts, ‘Ephemere objects, computers in the museum'
Henning Schmidgen, ‘Images of Instruments: A virtual collection’
Debbie Snow on science collections at the University of Leeds
Marta Lourenco, ‘Working with words or with objects? The contribution of university museums’ |
| 11:15 |
Coffee |
| 11:45 |
Session 6: Interviews |
| Robert Anderson and Robert Fox |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Session 7: Experiences with collections: positive and negative |
Roland Wittje, 'Scientific instrument collections and writing histories of 20th century physics: experiences and perspectives'
C. Millan-Verdú, L. Garrigós-Oltra and G. Blanes-Nadal, ‘Development and cataloguing in colorimetry’
Boleslav Lichterman, ‘Opening and closing the windows: some remarks on the evolution of instruments for cranial trepanation’
Laura Cházaro, Nina Hinke, Gisela Mateos, ‘What can be asked to a small collection of sundials in Mexico?’ |
| 15:15 |
Tea |
| 15:45 |
Session 8: News and discussion |
| News of initiatives and developments; round table discussion |
| 16:30 |
Close |
