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

26–29 Sept 2022
Europe/Rome timezone

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Planetary theories and astronomical instruments: mechanizations and visualizations between geocentrism and heliocentrism (1400-1700)

26 Sept 2022, 11:00

Conveners

Planetary theories and astronomical instruments: mechanizations and visualizations between geocentrism and heliocentrism (1400-1700): Part 1

  • GIOVANNI CARLOTTI (University of Perugia - Dept of Physcis and Geology)

Planetary theories and astronomical instruments: mechanizations and visualizations between geocentrism and heliocentrism (1400-1700): Part 2

  • Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University)

Planetary theories and astronomical instruments: mechanizations and visualizations between geocentrism and heliocentrism (1400-1700): Part 3

  • Giancarlo Truffa (Member of SISFA)

Planetary theories and astronomical instruments: mechanizations and visualizations between geocentrism and heliocentrism (1400-1700): Part 4

  • Fabrizio Bonoli (Università di Bologna)

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  1. 56. Masterpiece makers: the role and legacy of the Della Volpaia family in the production of scientific instruments in the Renaissance
    Taglialagamba, Sara (Università di Urbino)
    26/09/2022, 11:00
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    Between the XV e il XVI century, three generations of architects, engineers, and manufacturers of machines, clocks, astronomical and measuring instruments stood out in the Della Volpaia family. The Salviati, Rucellai, the Medici, and other Florentine noble families estimated their works. Many members of the Della Volpaia family were in relationships with numerous established artists, such as...

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  2. 33. The models of the orb of Mercury made by Girolamo Della Volpaia: Perugia and Chicago
    Truffa, Giancarlo (Member of SISFA)
    26/09/2022, 11:25
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    Girolamo Della Volpaia (1530-1614), member of one of the most important families of instrument and clock makers based in Florence during the Renaissance, made many instruments now disseminated in public and private collections around the world. There are sundials of different kinds, nocturlabes, horary quadrants and armillary spheres, all made with great skill, both technical and artistic.
    He...

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  3. 41. Mercury, the different models of the cosmos, the theoricae of Girolamo della Volpaia
    Prof. Marcacci, Flavia (Pontifical Lateran University)
    26/09/2022, 11:50
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    Mercury and Venus are the closest planets to the Sun and the Earth. In the geocentric model, they were situated near the Earth: above the Moon and below the Sun; for this reason, they were called “inferior” planets according to the Ptolemaic system. Following the Platonic system, those planets were located above the Moon and the Sun and below Mars. In the so-called “Egyptian” system, derived...

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  4. 73. Of anomalous planets and heavenly mechanisms: Realizing true Ptolemaic motion with wondrous gearing.
    Prof. Korey, Michael (​​Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon - Oberkonservator ∙ Senior Curator)
    27/09/2022, 12:00
  5. 40. What is an "Armillary Sphere" and What It Is Not: The Case of the Great Armillary Instrument by Antonio Santucci of 1588-1593
    Dr Strano, Giorgio (Museo Galileo: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza)
    28/09/2022, 09:15
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    Antonio Santucci of Pomarance (d. 1613), cosmographer of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando I de 'Medici, went down in history for a New Treatise on Comets published in 1611 and reprinted posthumously in 1619. Another of his treatises "Above the New Invention of the Armillary Sphere” has instead remained in manuscript form. The making of the object described therein is believed to coincide...

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  6. 59. FATHER EGNATIO DANTI AND PERUGIA
    Ercoli, Simonetta
    28/09/2022, 11:10
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    Why talk about Egnatio Danti in Perugia? Danti was an exemplary protagonist of the Renaissance homo faber and also author of important treatises on mathematics and optics. Carlo Pellegrino was born in Perugia in 1536 and changed his name to Egnatio when he entered the Dominican Order to take up the priesthood. As a boy with his aunt Teodora, he studied Mathematics, Geometry and Astronomy....

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  7. 34. A new look at the Antikythera Mechanism
    Amabile, Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
    28/09/2022, 11:35
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    In this talk I'll sketch the outlines of a new interpretation of the Antikythera Mechanism (II cent. BC). My aim is twofold: 1. To reassess the role of sphairopoiia (i.e. construction of spheres) in the development, reception, and transmission of Greek mathematical astronomy. 2. To reconstruct the astronomical theory embedded in the Antikythera Mechanism, following the constraints imposed...

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  8. 17. Federico Commandino and Ptolemy's De Analemmate
    Ciocci, Argante (Seminario di Storia della Scienza.Università di Bari)
    28/09/2022, 12:00
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    Federico Commandino’s Latin editions of the mathematical works of the ancient Greeks constituted an essential point of reference for the scientific research of the moderns. Thanks to his tireless work of understanding and reestablishing the texts of Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Apollonius and Pappo, the mathematics of the moderns was able to lift its sails to overcome the Hercules columns of...

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