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 …
The XXXVII Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission will take place from the 3d to the 7th of September 2018 in Leiden and Haarlem, the Netherlands. The general topic of the conference is Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’. In The New Organon (1620), Francis Bacon famously wrote that “the empire of man over …
Questions of place are gaining increasing importance in the work of historians of science, technology and medicine, to such an extent that some scholars suggest this corresponds to a veritable "spatial turn". It is unavoidable that researchers take sides on issues such as the situatedness of knowledge and practices, the problems pertaining to their movements …
The SIC is delighted to announce that we have been invited by our colleagues from the Department of History of Science, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, for our symposium in 2016. ‘Instruments between East and West’ will be the conference theme. ‘Between East and West’ in this context might refer to ‘Orient and Occident’ or …
The SIC is delighted to announce that we have been invited by our colleagues from the Archivio Scientifico e Tecnologico of the University of Turin (ASTUT), Italy, for our symposium in 2015. Plans are in place for special visits to the noted University collections of physics, anatomy, and criminal anthropology as well as to Turin’s …
The topic of this meeting will be New Views on Old Instruments, with the potential to include sections such as: New analytic methods New ways of public engagement with instruments New political aims (for example UNESCO recognition for material heritage) New challenges posed through (mostly, but not exclusively) post-war scientific instruments (conservation, selection, issues of …
Welcome to the website archive of the 2013 International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, hosted at the University of Manchester, UK, from 21 to 28 July 2013. iCHSTM 2013 was the largest meeting in the history of the field. Taking as its theme Knowledge at work, it featured nearly 1400 papers across 23 parallel …
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Optisches Museum, the Ernst-Abbe-Foundation Jena cordially invites to participate in the symposium “Optical Instruments and the Collection of the Optisches Museum” located in the auditorium of the Optisches Museu, Carl-Zeiß-Platz 12. The conference is held in cooperation with the Institute of History of Medicine, Natural Sciences …
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The Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is glad to host the 31st edition of the Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission. The conference is open to all interested in the history, preservation, documentation and use of scientific instruments. The Conference will take place between 08 and …
The 9th International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education will take place at the Institut für Physik und Chemie und ihre Didaktik at the Universität Flensburg, Germany in 2012, from July 30th to August 3rd. Plans are to open the conference on Monday morning and to close in the early afternoon on …
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The 30th Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission will take place from 19-24 September 2011 in Kassel, Germany and will be hosted by the Astronomisch-Physikalisches Kabinett (APK). The main theme of this year’s symposium is Instruments, Texts, and Images though, as always, papers on other topics relating to scientific instruments will be welcomed, space-permitting. An …
Symposium Announcement The Museo Galileo and the Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica are very pleased to host the XXIX Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (Division History of Science and Technology) in October 2010. The Symposium is open to anyone interested in the history, preservation, documentation …
