The 45th Scientific Instrument Symposium will be held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, from 7 to 11 September 2026 for the first time. This global event will bring together specialists in the history of science, scientific and technical heritage conservation, museologists and researchers from leading international institutions in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchâtel. Organised by the Association Automates […]
The 44th Scientific Instrument Symposium will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 29 June – 5 July 2025 as part of the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology. https://www.ichst2025.org/ The theme of the XLIV Scientific Instrument Symposium is ‘Peoples, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation’ in accordance with the theme of the […]
Pexels/ Photo by Julia M Cameron Tuesday 26th November – Stand alone papers, Session on Conservation of Scientific Instruments 12:00 UTC – technology check for speakers and chairs 12:15 - 13:45 – Session 7 Chair: Emma Angelini Stand alone papers: Maddalena Napolitani Models of Precision: Some Reflections on Eustachio Porcellotti’s Reconstruction of Galileo’s […]
Pexels/ Photo by Julia M Cameron Monday 25th November – Education session, Time service in observatories session, Stand alone papers 12:00 UTC – technology check for speakers and chairs 12:15 - 13:45 – Session 5 Chair: Ileana Chinnici Scientific Instruments in Education: Nikos Anastasakis Historical Scientific Instruments in the Modern Teaching Methods Flora […]
Pexels/ Photo by Julia M Cameron Tuesday 19th November – Session on Scientific Instruments in Education 12:00 UTC – technology check for speakers and chairs 12:15 - 13:45 – Session 3 Chair: Panagiotis Lazos Scientific Instruments in Education: Corinne Doria Fostering Science and Museums Accessibility: Examining the Case of Leading Scientific Institutions in […]
Pexels/ Photo by Julia M Cameron Monday 18th November – Stand alone papers 12:00 UTC – technology check for speakers and chairs 12:15 - 13:45 UTC – Session 1 Chair: Louise Devoy Stand alone papers: Fred Davey The New Zealand Time Service and associated geophysical observatories in the 19th and early 20th centuries […]
The 43rd Scientific Instrument Symposium was held in Ottawa, Canada from 16 - 20 September 2024 at Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation. Call for papers: SIC-XLIII Call-for-Papers 2024 Eng/French Conference website (to be discontinued soon) English: https://sic2024.ca/ French: https://sic2024.ca/fr/ Documents: XLIII_Scientific_Instrument_Symposium-SIC_2024_Print_Schedule SIC XLIII conference poem Precision on the Rapids (English, […]
Thanks to the generous support of our parent organisation, the DHST, we can offer a limited number of fixed grants of 300 Euros per person to help subsidise registration or travel costs for current students and early career researchers to attend our annual symposium in September: https://sic2024.ca/ Scholars with the following criteria may apply: - You are a […]
We are happy to announce the program for the SIC Online Seminar for accepted speakers who could not attend and present their paper at the SIC Symposium in Palermo due to illness or other reasons. We will now get the opportunity to listen to their papers online. The Seminar will take place at 19:00 – […]
This event will gather specialists—historians of science, furniture, labor, and politics, as well as horologists, and conservators—around the Pope Orrery (built 1776-1787 in Boston) to interpret it from their diverse vantage points. Together we will use the Pope Orrery as a mise-en-scène for an examination of Boston and the British world during the American Revolution, […]
Join us online as the SIC President, Roland Wittje, takes part in this 24-hour global event in which 53 speakers based in 35 different countries will be speaking about the latest ideas in history of science scholarship. Roland’s talk, entitled Rethinking Scientific Instruments and Education in History of Science will take place during Session 9 […]
Hosted by Ileana Chinnici at the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Sicily Through Ages, Cultures, Concepts: Instruments in Collections, Books, Archives The INAF (National Institute for Astrophysics– Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo and Servizi Biblioteche, Musei e Terza Missione) and the University of Palermo, Department of Physics and Chemistry, are pleased to host the annual symposium of […]
