XLI National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

Session

SISFA Prize 2021

6 Sept 2021, 12:50

Conveners

SISFA Prize 2021

• Salvatore Esposito (INFN - Sezione di Napoli)

SISFA Prize 2021: Part 2

• Salvatore Esposito (INFN - Sezione di Napoli)

69. Cesare Minerbi’s «Kontinuirlicher Resonatoren-Apparat nach Schaefer E. Zimmermann, Leipzig-Berlin» now part of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments of the University of Ferrara

Maragno, Anna (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)

06/09/2021, 13:00

The aim of this research is to reconstruct the past of the «Kontinuirlicher Resonatoren-Apparat nach Schaefer», a particular instrument preserved in the CISFIS – Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments of the University of Ferrara, highlighting the physics behind it.
This CISFIS item consists of a box of four resonators developed by Karl Ludolf Schaefer and manufactured by E. (Ernst?...

70. Bruno Pontecorvo: Dalle scoperte di via Panisperna alle prospezioni petrolifere dell’Oklahoma

Renna, Luigi

07/09/2021, 17:00

sisfa 2021

During his American and Canadian period between 1940 and 1947, Bruno Pontecorvo was involved with mineral and oil survey to a degree that has often been overlooked in his biographies and other research work about his studies. This essay dissects patents and papers from that period authored by Pontecorvo himself and his collaborator at Well Surveys inc. William Russell to bring into light...

72. Astronomy in the Jesuit mission to Ming China

Bottanelli, Valentina

07/09/2021, 17:15

The representation of the physical world has historically played a crucial role in the constitution of the alterity and of inter-states relations, but it has often been neglected by anthropological studies and ethnographies. An analysis of the jesuit mission to Ming China (1577-1644) offers an outstanding opportunity to tackle this issue.
In fact, the contextual study of both private letters...