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, September 5, 2023 (8:30 AM) to Friday, September 8, 2023 (1:45 PM)

Monday, September 4, 2023
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

8:30 AM Registrazioni / Registration

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Ingresso

9:15 AM Saluti istituzionali di benvenuto / Welcome

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Aula B
9:45 AM Il Saggiatore e la nascita della scienza moderna / The Assayer and the Birth of Modern Science
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B
Contributions

9:45 AM The Assayer Assayed - HEILBRON, John (University of California, Berkeley)

10:30 AM 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 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
11:25 AM Il Saggiatore e la nascita della scienza moderna / The Assayer and the Birth of Modern Science
11:25 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Aula B
Contributions

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

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

12:05 PM 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 PM Was Galileo accurate in recording Moon's images in Sydereus Nuncius? - TUCCI, Pasquale (retired, Università degli Studi di Milano)
12:45 PM Premiazione Premio SISFA / SISFA Prize 2023

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Aula B

1:15 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Copernico e il nuovo Cosmo / Copernicus’ Changeover From the Old to the New Cosmos
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Aula B
Contributions

2:30 PM Celio Calcagnini’s Philosophical Defense of the Motion of the Earth (ca. 1518) - OMODEO, Pietro Daniel (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

3:00 PM Copernicus' contribution to the Copernican Revolution - RUSSO, Lucio (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

3:30 PM Between Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. A memory of Owen Gingerich (1930-2023) - TRUFFA, Giancarlo (Member of SISFA)

3:50 PM Copernicus and Vespucci between East and West - GROPP, Harald (Universität Heidelberg)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: Apertura dei lavori
Apertura dei lavori
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Aula B
Contributions

4:30 PM Personalities and places of physics and astronomy in Padua from Galileo to the 20th century - PERUZZI, Giulio (DFA, Università di Padova)

5:10 PM Whitehead's relational formulation of relativity - GIANNETTO, enrico (Università di Bergamo)

5:30 PM 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)
6:00 PM Visite al Museo "Poleni"
Visite al Museo "Poleni"
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
9:15 AM Copernico e il nuovo Cosmo / Copernicus’ Changeover From the Old to the New Cosmos
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

9:15 AM 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)
9:45 AM Copernico e il nuovo Cosmo / Copernicus’ Changeover From the Old to the New Cosmos
9:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

9:45 AM A dynamical interpretation of Hipparchus’ diagrams - AMABILE, Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

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

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

10:45 AM An information analysis of the ‘Celestial Object’ concept in Copernican Revolution. - GASCO, Enrico (Zirak)
Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 20th Century
9:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

9:45 AM Bernardo Dessau. Physicist, scientist, teacher - CARLOTTI, GIOVANNI (University of Perugia - Dept of Physcis and Geology)

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

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

10:45 AM 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 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
11:25 AM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: History and epistemology of physics
11:25 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

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

11:45 AM Scientific Phenomenological Realism and the Physics of Unobservables: Einstein, Husserl, and Neelamkavil - CASTILLO, Ruth (University of Roma Tre) NEELAMKAVIL, Raphael
Il Saggiatore e la nascita della scienza moderna / The Assayer and the Birth of Modern Science
11:25 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

11:25 AM 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 AM 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 PM Music in Holland: Consonances According to Simon Stevin - CAPECCHI, Danilo (Sapienza Università di Roma (retired))
12:05 PM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 20th Century
12:05 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

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

12:25 PM Italian physics in the international organization of science: The case of IUPAP - LALLI, Roberto (Politecnico di Torino)
12:25 PM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
12:25 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

12:25 PM 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 PM Analysis of a correspondence between Giovanni Poleni and Jacopo Belgrado - DAMIANI, Francesca (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
1:05 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
1:05 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM In Memoria / Commemoration of Giuliano Romano (1923-2013)
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

2:15 PM Saluti istituzionali e ricordo del nipote

2:35 PM Giuliano Romano's Exceptional Astronomical Research at Padua - UMBRIACO, Gabriele (Università di Bologna - Università di Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:05 PM Giuliano Romano and the archaeoastronomy - ANTONELLO, Elio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:35 PM In Memory of Prof. Giuliano Romano - VANZIN, Enio

3:55 PM 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))
4:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
4:35 PM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
4:35 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

4:35 PM Giovanni Poleni's "pinwheel" calculator: a project destined to disappear - CAMPANILE, Benedetta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

4:55 PM Natural electricism in Giuseppe Maria Giovene’s researches - DE FRENZA, Lucia (SISFA)

5:15 PM Giuseppe Bianchi astronomer of the Restoration in the Estense State - CORRADINI, Elena (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

5:35 PM Celestino Galiani and the strengthening of astronomy in Naples: a preliminary investigation of his correspondence - GARGANO, Mauro (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

5:55 PM The work of Abbot Giuseppe Conti in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. - DEL MONTE, Rosanna (Museo di Fisica Università di Napoli Federico II)
Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 20th Century
4:35 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

4:35 PM “Fermi's Early Work on Quantum Mechanics” - ROSSI, Paolo (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa)

4:55 PM 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)

5:15 PM Exchange interactions between Europe and Japan in the 1930s: Tomonaga, Yukawa and the birth of nuclear theory - DI MAURO, Marco (University of Trento)

5:35 PM Bruno Rossi and the art of jumping on the Sputnik bandwagon - BONOLIS, Luisa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

5:55 PM Observatory INTEGRAL in the geopolitical perspective - DUBROVINA, Olga (University of Padua)

6:15 PM Physics and mathematics using and designing machines and mechanisms - ARTIANO, Giancarlo (Università degli Studi L. Vanvitelli)
6:15 PM Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination: Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
6:15 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

6:15 PM Old quantum physics for cultural education - GILIBERTI, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano)
7:00 PM Visite al Museo "La Specola"

7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2023
9:15 AM Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

9:15 AM After the Abbé Nollet, the teaching of physics in "Lycées" in France - KHANTINE-LANGLOIS, Françoise (Université Lyon 1)

9:45 AM 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 AM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 18th and 19th Centuries
18th and 19th Centuries
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Aula Rosino
Contributions

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

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

10:55 AM Innovations and inventions from the Nobel family in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - FRANCHINI, Laura (Associazione Amici di Città della Scienza Napoli)
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

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

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

10:55 AM Bologna Bottles revisited with unexpected links to war events - TADDIA, Marco (Professore Alma Mater Università di Bologna)
11:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM
11:35 AM Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

11:35 AM "LOOK UP!” A virtual exhibition about the historical astronomical atlases - DI GIACOMO, Federico (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:55 AM Musei, Archivi e collezioni scientifiche / Museums, Archives, and scientific collections
11:55 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

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

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

12:45 PM 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)
1:05 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
2:05 PM Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
2:05 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

2:05 PM 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)

2:35 PM 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)
4:35 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM SISFA General Assembly
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Sala Jappelli
Contributions

5:00 PM Assemblea Sociale / SISFA General Assembly
Friday, September 8, 2023
9:15 AM Musei, Archivi e collezioni scientifiche / Museums, Archives, and scientific collections
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

9:15 AM The Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932), an academy of astronomical sciences internationally open - SCHIAVON, Martina (Université de Lorraine)

9:45 AM A geo-historical itinerary: evidence of the time measurement in Padua - MARCON, Luigi

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

10:25 AM 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 AM Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: History and epistemology of physics
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

10:45 AM The rise of multi-messenger astrophysics and the pro-social function of models - GUZZARDI, Luca (Università degli Studi di Milano)
11:05 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Rostagni
Contributions

11:30 AM 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 PM 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 PM Galileo's experiments with Arduino - TORRE, Matteo

12:40 PM C. Bonfanti's book collection - KLUN, Giuliano (Università degli studi di Udine)
Visite al Museo "Bernardi"
Visite al Museo "Bernardi"
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Conclusioni / Final remarks and greetings

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula Rostagni