Name: XLIII National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy
Start: 2023-09-05T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-08T13:45:00+02:00
Location: No location set

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

from Tuesday, 5 September 2023 (08:30) to Friday, 8 September 2023 (13:45)

Monday, 4 September 2023
Tuesday, 5 September 2023

08:30

08:30 - 09:15
Room: Ingresso

09:15

09:15 - 09:45
Room: Aula B
09:45
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Aula B
Contributions

09:45 The Assayer Assayed - HEILBRON, John (University of California, Berkeley)

10:30 The origin of Galileo’s New Science in a challenging problem - BÜTTNER, Jochen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25
11:25
11:25 - 12:45
Room: Aula B
Contributions

11:25 What means that the book of nature is written in mathematical characters? - BUSSOTTI, Paolo (University of Udine)

11:45 Galileo’s Reception and Rework of the "Optical Theory" of Comets - COSCI, Matteo (University Ca' Foscari Venice)

12:05 Galileo «makeshift theologian»? A few remarks on Augustine and Galileo’s biblical exegesis - GATTEI, Stefano (Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Trento)

12:25 Was Galileo accurate in recording Moon's images in Sydereus Nuncius? - TUCCI, Pasquale (retired, Università degli Studi di Milano)
12:45

12:45 - 13:15
Room: Aula B

13:15 LUNCH
LUNCH
13:15 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Room: Aula B
Contributions

14:30 Celio Calcagnini’s Philosophical Defense of the Motion of the Earth (ca. 1518) - OMODEO, Pietro Daniel (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

15:00 Copernicus' contribution to the Copernican Revolution - RUSSO, Lucio (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

15:30 Between Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. A memory of Owen Gingerich (1930-2023) - TRUFFA, Giancarlo (Member of SISFA)

15:50 Copernicus and Vespucci between East and West - GROPP, Harald (Universität Heidelberg)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30
16:30 Apertura dei lavori
Apertura dei lavori
16:30 - 17:50
Room: Aula B
Contributions

16:30 Personalities and places of physics and astronomy in Padua from Galileo to the 20th century - PERUZZI, Giulio (DFA, Università di Padova)

17:10 Whitehead's relational formulation of relativity - GIANNETTO, enrico (Università di Bergamo)

17:30 Enrico Federico Jest: a skilled scientific instrument maker in Turin during the first half of the 19th century. - LA GUIDARA, Elena (Liceo Artistico "Aldo Passoni", Torino)
18:00 Visite al Museo "Poleni"
Visite al Museo "Poleni"
18:00 - 19:30
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

09:15 When the time was ripe to publish Copernicus: a view of the European intellectual context of the first half of the 16th century - VALLERIANI, Matteo (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
09:45
09:45 - 11:05
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

09:45 A dynamical interpretation of Hipparchus’ diagrams - AMABILE, Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

10:05 Nicolaus Copernicus, a testimonial of the heliocentric system at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua - ZANINI, Valeria (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:25 The gregorian calendar formulated by Luigi Lilio and the supposed influence of Copernicus - VIZZA, Francesco (CNR-ICCOM)

10:45 An information analysis of the ‘Celestial Object’ concept in Copernican Revolution. - GASCO, Enrico (Zirak)
09:45 - 11:05
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

09:45 Bernardo Dessau. Physicist, scientist, teacher - CARLOTTI, GIOVANNI (University of Perugia - Dept of Physcis and Geology)

10:05 Maurizio Buscalioni: The first director of the Caracas observatory - VERRILLI HERNANDEZ, David (Universidad Central de Venezuela)

10:25 Celestial micro-mechanics 1916-17: Einstein vs. Schwarzschild, Sommerfeld, Epstein - AFRIAT, Alexander (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)

10:45 Free-energy calculations in soft and hard matter: From Hamiltonian thermodynamic integration to early applications of umbrella sampling - MACUGLIA, Daniele (Università di Pechino)
11:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:25
11:25
11:25 - 12:05
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

11:25 Logical Interpretation of Pierre Curie’s Paper on Symmetries (1894) - DRAGO, Antonino (Dept. Physical Sciences, University Federico II Naples)

11:45 Scientific Phenomenological Realism and the Physics of Unobservables: Einstein, Husserl, and Neelamkavil - CASTILLO, Ruth (University of Roma Tre) NEELAMKAVIL, Raphael
11:25 - 12:25
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

11:25 Atoms of Fire: Galileo's Unachieved Theory of Heat and the Early Beginnings of Thermometry (c. 1603-1638) - SALVIA, Stefano (University of Pisa)

11:45 Signs of the principle of virtual work and of the “principle of conservation” in the Mechanicorum Liber by Guidobaldo del Monte - PIETRINI, Davide (University of Urbino)

12:05 Music in Holland: Consonances According to Simon Stevin - CAPECCHI, Danilo (Sapienza Università di Roma (retired))
12:05
12:05 - 12:45
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

12:05 Physics for Medicine at the Milan Institute of Complementary Physics - GARIBOLDI, Leonardo (Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli")

12:25 Italian physics in the international organization of science: The case of IUPAP - LALLI, Roberto (Politecnico di Torino)
12:25 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
12:25 - 13:05
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

12:25 From the Earth to the Sun: the quest for the Astronomical Unit by means of the 1761 and 1769 Venus transits - LOVISETTI, Luisa (University of Milan, Department of Physics)

12:45 Analysis of a correspondence between Giovanni Poleni and Jacopo Belgrado - DAMIANI, Francesca (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
13:05 LUNCH
LUNCH
13:05 - 14:15
14:15
14:15 - 16:15
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

14:15 Saluti istituzionali e ricordo del nipote

14:35 Giuliano Romano's Exceptional Astronomical Research at Padua - UMBRIACO, Gabriele (Università di Bologna - Università di Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:05 Giuliano Romano and the archaeoastronomy - ANTONELLO, Elio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:35 In Memory of Prof. Giuliano Romano - VANZIN, Enio

15:55 The "Meetings with Nature" Giuliano Romano and Don Paolo Chiavacci - BERTOLLO, LAURA (Centro di Spiritualità e Cultura-/Associazione Incontri con la natura don Paolo Chiavacci_ Pieve del Grappa (Tv))
16:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:35
16:35 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
16:35 - 18:15
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

16:35 Giovanni Poleni's "pinwheel" calculator: a project destined to disappear - CAMPANILE, Benedetta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

16:55 Natural electricism in Giuseppe Maria Giovene’s researches - DE FRENZA, Lucia (SISFA)

17:15 Giuseppe Bianchi astronomer of the Restoration in the Estense State - CORRADINI, Elena (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

17:35 Celestino Galiani and the strengthening of astronomy in Naples: a preliminary investigation of his correspondence - GARGANO, Mauro (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

17:55 The work of Abbot Giuseppe Conti in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. - DEL MONTE, Rosanna (Museo di Fisica Università di Napoli Federico II)
16:35 - 18:35
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

16:35 “Fermi's Early Work on Quantum Mechanics” - ROSSI, Paolo (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa)

16:55 First steps towards understanding neutrinos. A tribute to Enrico Fermi on the 90th anniversary of the β decay model - VISSANI, Francesco (INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

17:15 Exchange interactions between Europe and Japan in the 1930s: Tomonaga, Yukawa and the birth of nuclear theory - DI MAURO, Marco (University of Trento)

17:35 Bruno Rossi and the art of jumping on the Sputnik bandwagon - BONOLIS, Luisa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

17:55 Observatory INTEGRAL in the geopolitical perspective - DUBROVINA, Olga (University of Padua)

18:15 Physics and mathematics using and designing machines and mechanisms - ARTIANO, Giancarlo (Università degli Studi L. Vanvitelli)
18:15 Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
18:15 - 18:35
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

18:15 Old quantum physics for cultural education - GILIBERTI, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano)
19:00

19:00 - 20:15
Thursday, 7 September 2023
09:15
09:15 - 10:15
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

09:15 After the Abbé Nollet, the teaching of physics in "Lycées" in France - KHANTINE-LANGLOIS, Françoise (Université Lyon 1)

09:45 The scientific legacy of via Panisperna. History, experiences, and perspectives of the Enrico Fermi Museum. - FOCACCIA, miriam (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche 'Enrico Fermi') GARBINI, Marco (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche 'Enrico Fermi')
10:15 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
10:15 - 11:15
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

10:15 An imperial total solar eclipse: 8th July 1842. - ZAGGIA, Simone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:35 Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti Lab in Fermo and the Maggiori Sisters - MAURO, Oronzo (Indipendent Researcher)

10:55 Innovations and inventions from the Nobel family in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - FRANCHINI, Laura (Associazione Amici di Città della Scienza Napoli)
10:15 - 11:15
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

10:15 On the Grimaldi Phenomenon - GANCI, Salvatore (none)

10:35 Science Images. Reinventing science within an ever-changing world - BERCIGLI, Erika (Università degli Studi di Bologna)

10:55 Bologna Bottles revisited with unexpected links to war events - TADDIA, Marco (Professore Alma Mater Università di Bologna)
11:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:35
11:35
11:35 - 11:55
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

11:35 "LOOK UP!” A virtual exhibition about the historical astronomical atlases - DI GIACOMO, Federico (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:55
11:55 - 13:05
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

11:55 Scientific instruments and the neglect of teaching in the history of physics - WITTJE, Roland (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

12:25 The Copernican and Astronomical Museum of the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Rome: Heritage and Research - GANDOLFI, Giangiacomo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 The construction of domes for Italian astronomical observatories in the 20th century: the case of A.Bombelli realizations - MARZI, Tanja (Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Architettura e Design)
13:05 LUNCH
LUNCH
13:05 - 14:05
14:05
14:05 - 16:35
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

14:05 The Role of History of Science in Enhancing Physics and Chemistry Education - IDOYAGA, Ignacio (Universidad de Buenos Aires) LORENZO, María-Gabriela (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

14:35 Round table / Tavola rotonda: Come può essere utile la storia alla didattica della fisica e dell'astronomia? - BOCCATO, Caterina (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) ESPOSITO, Salvatore (INFN - Sezione di Napoli) GIANNETTO, enrico (Università di Bergamo) LA RANA, Adele (University of Macerata and INFN Section Rome 1) LEONE, Matteo (University of Turin) MICHELINI, Marisa (URDF Dept of Math-Info_Phys in University of Udine) PANTANO, Ornella (Università di Padova) STRAULINO, Samuele (Università di Firenze)
16:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:35 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

17:00 Assemblea Sociale / SISFA General Assembly
Friday, 8 September 2023
09:15
09:15 - 10:45
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

09:15 The Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932), an academy of astronomical sciences internationally open - SCHIAVON, Martina (Université de Lorraine)

09:45 A geo-historical itinerary: evidence of the time measurement in Padua - MARCON, Luigi

10:05 If 3D printing and CG graphics meet the historical heritage… - DIMA, Marco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:25 The first astronomical observations trough the photographs collected in Inaf-Oar archive. Study to support conservative recovery. - MACALUSO, Tiziana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:45
10:45 - 11:05
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

10:45 The rise of multi-messenger astrophysics and the pro-social function of models - GUZZARDI, Luca (Università degli Studi di Milano)
11:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

11:30 Real-world phenomena as useful tools in physics teaching - DE LUCA, Roberto (Dipartimento di Fisica "E. R. Caianiello" - Università degli Studi di Salerno)

12:00 Gravitation: a project for secondary school students using history of Physics and museum instruments. - BAGNO, Paola (Liceo Scientifico I.Nievo e Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia (ATENA))

12:20 Galileo's experiments with Arduino - TORRE, Matteo

12:40 C. Bonfanti's book collection - KLUN, Giuliano (Università degli studi di Udine)
Visite al Museo "Bernardi"
Visite al Museo "Bernardi"
11:30 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 13:30
Room: Aula Rostagni

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