XXIV Scientific Instrument Symposium
Beijing, China
24-30 July 2005
Scientific Instrument Commission's Program Talks
Section: SS16 - Scientific and Technical Museologie-instruments
Session chairs: Jean Davoigneau and Sara J. Schechner
Date: Morning and Afternoon 28, July 2005
1. Jean Davoigneau, Françoise Le Guet Tully (France)
In Search of a ‘Close Approximation to the Ideal Observatory’ Around the 1880
2. Ewa Wyka
Abraham Izrael Staffel and His Inventions
3. Sara J. Schechner
Benjamin Franklin’s Role in Selecting Scientific Instruments for Harvard
4. You-Liang Zha
Sichuan Academy of Social Science, Senior Researcher Innovation of Science and Technology Museums
5. Soraya Boudia; Philippe Molini (France)
Local Instrumental Culture and the Emergence of a Scientific Field: the Curie Laboratory and Radioactivity
6. Paolo Brenni
25 Years of Studies in the Field of Historical Scientific Instruments
7. Soubiran Sebastien
History and Instruments of Physics in Strasbourg After 1945
8. Gudrun Wolfschmidt (USA)
Solar Tower Telescopes in the West and the East
9. Giorgio Strano
Tycho's Essential Observatory from West to East
10. Gloria Clifton
Chinese and Japanese Instruments in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum - the Uses and Limits of An Accidental Collection
11. Fernanda Costa
Laboratorio Chimico da Escola Polytechnica de Lisboa: the Scientific Instruments of Chemistry from the 19th Century Return to Their Original Places
12. Dana A. Freiburger
The Influence of Hilger Spectroscopes in Japan
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