This online seminar was created to provide an opportunity for speakers who could not attend the Athens Symposium to present their papers to the SIC community. 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 16:00 CST Replicating the Enigma Machine: Code Brain in the Past, Education Today Zhao Ke (Electronic Science and Technology Museum, University of Electronic …
Call for Papers We will take the 40th anniversary of the Scientific Instrument Symposia as an occasion to discuss how the study of scientific instruments has changed in the last four decades and where we stand today. Are we now studying different kinds of instruments? Has the very definition of what is a scientific instrument …
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Understanding the history of science education is essential if we want to understand the generation, reproduction and circulation of scientific knowledge, practices, practitioners, and objects. While history of science education has moved from the periphery to the focus of history of science in recent decades, the central role of instruments, demonstrations and models in teaching …
An international workshop organized by Paola Bertucci, with the support of the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the History of Science and Technology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum. This workshop is sponsored by the Scientific Instruments Commission. All events …
The Physics Museum, located within the Physics Department of the National University of La Plata, has the mission of preserving, studying, and providing access to the historical heritage that forms its collection, and to function as a participatory science center. The Museum’s collection developed around a complete set of Max Kohl demonstration instruments, which was …
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A 20-minute video tour of the historic domes and telescopes, followed by a Q&A session in the SAAO Museum, hosted by Ian Glass and Auke Slotegraaf. The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, was founded in 1820 and in 1972 became the headquarters of the newly created South African Astronomical Observatory. Over the years, many …
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Call for Papers Symposium theme: Giants, Dwarfs and Scientific Instruments For its annual symposium to be held at the 26th International Congress of History of Science in Prague, the Scientific Instrument Commission invites papers related to the congress theme of “Giants and Dwarfs”, that is, the question of scale in the making and using of …
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As the first comprehensive museum of electronic science and technology of China, the Electronic Science and Technology Museum (ESTM) was built by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu in 2016. The ESTM has collected over 14,000 objects in six sections, namely radar, radio and television, electronic measuring instruments, electronic components …
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On Tuesday 23 March 2021, the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) will host a virtual visit to the Museum of Palermo Astronomical Observatory (Museo della Specola di Palermo) at 16:30-17:30 Central European Time (CET) (UTC+1), starting at 15.30 GMT, 10:30 EST and 09:30 CST respectively. Ileana Chinnici will share with us a selection of interesting items from the …
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Our host Alexi Baker will share with us a selection of interesting objects from the collection, followed by a Q&A session. The Yale Peabody Museum has a nationally-important but little-known collection of many interesting and important artifacts. It initially emerged from Professor Derek de Solla Price (1922-1983) working to preserve Yale's own apparatus from across …
The XXXIX Symposium was held as a virtual conference from 14-18 September. Presentations were pre-recorded, with live Q&A sessions held between 12.00 – 18.00 London time, to enable maximum participation across different time zones. Symposium theme: Spaces for Instruments The ‘spatial turn’ in history of science and historical geography has seen fruitful exploration of the …
Report - “Instruments at Crossroads” The XXXVIII Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission took place from the 23d to the 27th of September 2019 in Havana, Cuba. It was jointly organized by the University of Havana, the Cuban Chemical Society, the Cuban Physics Society and the Office of the Historian of Havana. It took place …
