Here is the current programme for the joint meeting of the British Society
for the History of Science and the Scientific Instrument Commission of
IUHPS/DHS.
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Do Collections Matter To Instrument Studies?
Saturday, 29 June
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Session 1: Agendas
Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)
Iwan Morus (Queen’s University, Belfast)
The Oldenburg Group (Physics Department, University of Oldenburg)
12.30 BSHS EGM
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Session 2: Research papers
Katie Eagleton, ‘A King, Two Lords and Three Quadrants’
Gerard Turner on the discovery of a new form of nocturnal
Sara Schechner, ‘Doing It with Lenses and Mirrors: Recovering the Methods
of Art and Science from Historical Instruments’
3.30 Session 3: Historian and curator ‘head to head’
Graeme Gooday and Paolo Brenni
4.00 Tea
4.30 Session 4: National museum perspectives
Science Museum, London
Neil Brown, ‘Scientific instruments: what can museums provide and what do
historians want?’
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
A contribution on instrument research at the Boerhaave from the curators
Deutsches Museum, Munich
Ulf Hashagen, 'Research on objects at the Deutsches Museum’
6.15 Break
7.00 BSHS Presidential Address
Jim Bennett, ‘Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century: what were
instruments for?’
‘8 till late’ Reception at the Museum of the History of Science
Sunday, 30 June
9.15 Session 5: Types of collection
Gerard Alberts, ‘Ephemere objects, computers in the museum'
Henning Schmidgen, ‘Images of Instruments: A virtual collection’
Debbie Snow on science collections at the University of Leeds
Marta Lourenco, ‘Working with words or with objects? The contribution of
university museums’
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Session 6: Interviews
Robert Anderson and Robert Fox
12.30 Lunch
1.45 Session 7: Experiences with collections: positive and negative
Roland Wittje, 'Scientific instrument collections and writing histories of
20th century physics: experiences and perspectives'
C. Millan-Verdú, L. Garrigós-Oltra and G. Blanes-Nadal, ‘Development and
cataloguing in colorimetry’
Boleslav Lichterman, ‘Opening and closing the windows: some remarks on the
evolution of instruments for cranial trepanation’
Laura Cházaro, Nina Hinke, Gisela Mateos, ‘What can be asked to a small
collection of sundials in Mexico?’
3.15 Tea
3.45 Session 8: News and discussion
News of initiatives and developments; round table discussion
4.30 Close
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Booking forms are available from:
BSHS Executive Secretary
31 High Street
Stanford in the Vale
Faringdon
Oxon
SN7 8LH
United Kingdom
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