Programme
Sunday 23 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus
ICHST 2017 Registration
Monday 24 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus
| Morning | ICHST 2017 |
| Afternoon | ICHST 2017 |
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus
| Morning | ICHST 2017 |
| Afternoon | ICHST 2017 |
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus, Room 13
| 13:30 | Opening Session Silke Ackermann, SIC President Marcus Granato, LOC Chair |
Chair: Silke Ackermann, University of Oxford, UK |
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| 13:45 | Measuring professions and mathematical instruments in early Modern Europe Antoni Malet, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
| 14:00 | Studying and exhibiting instruments of global infrastructures for environmental monitoring and surveillance Soraya Boudia, University of Paris Descartes-CERMES3, Paris, France Sébastien Soubiran, Jardin des Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France |
| 14:15 | Discipline building with material culture: Instruments and the history of science in late 20th century Britain Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK |
| 14:30 | Debate |
| 15:00 | Coffee-break |
Chair: Rich Kremer, Dartmouth University, USA |
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| 15:30 | Early forms of telescopes, in theory and in practice Marvin Bolt, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA Michael Korey, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany |
| 15:45 | The Theatrum Astronomicum of the University of Leiden according to the 1637 Astronomical records by Georg Marggrafe Oscar T. Matsuura, MAST, Brazil |
| 16:00 | Networks of a new micro-world: Production, trade and ownership of microscopes in the early Dutch Republic Huib J. Zuidervaart, Huygens ING (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - KNAW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 16:15 | The machine that goes ‘bing’: nineteenth-century uses of telephone instruments in medicine, mining and the military Michael Kay, University of Leeds, UK |
| 16:30 | Debate |
Thursday 27 July 2017
MAST - Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences
Chair: Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland, UK |
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| 9:00 | A device to unveil military secrets: the C.I.S.E. Cockcroft-Walton accelerator Leonardo Gariboldi, University of Milan, Italy |
| 9:15 | Instruments of development: German teaching apparatus and practices at IIT Madras Roland Wittje, IIT Madras, Chennai, India |
| 9:30 | Did the presence of scientific instruments affect the destiny and workload of liberated Africans? Science and freedom: new evidence about foreign engineers in nineteenth-century Brazil - Minas Gerais Télio Cravo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil |
| 9:45 | From the global to the local: technology transfer from low Earth orbit to Alabama Emily Margolis, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| 10:00 | Debate |
| 10:30 | Visit - MAST exhibitions, collections, archives, laboratories |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
Chair: Roland Wittje, IIT Madras, India |
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| 14:00 | Scientific instruments as tools for the transmission of knowledge: the case of a fifteenth-century treatise on the operation of the Musartan astrolabe Pouyan Shahidi Marnani, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA |
| 14:15 | The operation of scientific instruments and machines: the use of audiovisuals in exibitions Adriana Mortara Almeida; L. Foronda; O.S. Junior; J. Q. Novo; G. B. Piedade; M. G. Almeida; D. Soquettia; D. Bandeira, Instituto Butantan - Brazil |
| 14:30 | Electromagnetic devices in early nineteenth-century Padua Sofia Talas & Fanny Marcon, Museum of the History of Physics, University of Padua, Italy |
| 14:45 | Debate |
Chair: Sofia Talas, University of Padua, Italy |
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| 15:15 | Science and technology heritage in Portuguese and Brazilian Museums: first results of a new comparison Marcus Granato, Victor Abalada & Luisa Maldonado, MAST, Brazil |
| 15:30 | Managing and preserving scientific and technological heritage in Cuba: an urgent and difficult task Claudia Felipe Torres & Lubia Diaz Bernal, University of Havana, Cuba |
| 15:45 | Cultural heritage of science and technology in Brazilian universities: an introduction to the museums and collections of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ethel R. Handfas, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 16:00 | Research institutes in Pernambuco (Brazil): disposal and preservation of science and technology heritage Emanuela Sousa Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 16:30 | Debate |
| 17:00 | Coffee break |
Chair: Michael Korey, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany |
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| 17:30 | The role of instruments in the evolution of timekeeping Taha Yasin Arslan, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey |
| 17:45 | Revamping the solar system: orreries, Copernican armillary spheres, and the idea of ‘discovery’ in astronomy Pedro M. P. Raposo, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA |
| 18:00 | Quantum mechanics and industrial research: the corroboration of the Casimir Effect Ad Maas, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, The Netherlands Beto Pimentel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 18:15 | Debate |
Friday 28 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus, Room 13
Chair: Marta C. Lourenço, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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| 9:00 | Linking past and future: Henrique Morize (1860-1930) and the National Observatory, Brazil Maria Lúcia N. M. Loureiro & Ana Beatriz S. Cascardo, MAST, Brazil |
| 9:15 | The ‘personal’ equations of American astronomer Joel Stebbins Dana A. Freiburger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| 9:30 | Research of recent material culture of science at the MAST: the objects from the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas Janaina Furtado, MAST, Brazil |
| 9:45 | Challenges and opportunities in the study of recent heritage of Science and Technology: two examples of astronomical instrumentation Tânia Dominici, MAST, Brazil |
| 10:00 | Debate |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 | SIC Annual General Meeting |
| 12:30 | Group photo |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Chair: Pedro Raposo, Adler Planetarium, USA |
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| 15:30 | From the working world to the museum world: the Keuffel & Esser theodolite, Museum of Topography, Federal University of Pernambuco Bruno Melo de Araújo, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 15:45 | The three lives of the EAI 8800 Calculator: from nuclear fear to the museum Cyrille Foasso, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France |
| 16:00 | Dissemination and influence of the Zeiss Optical Planetarium in the Republic of China (1923-1949) Nan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| 16:15 | How a science artist made na impact in wave theory Jasmin Janka, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany |
| 16:30 | Debate |
| 16:40 | Closing session Richard Kremmer, incoming SIC President Sofia Talas, incoming SIC Secretary |
| 17:00 | Coffee break |
Saturday 29 July 2017
Praia Vermelha Campus
ICHST 2017
