Conveners
Strumentaria
- Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University)
This talk examines the development of the Belli-Babinet tap, a key innovation in pneumatic technology during the 1830s. In 1827, Giuseppe Belli (1791-1860), an Italian physicist then lecturing at the Imperial Regio Liceo of “Porta Nuova” in Milan, published an article in a scientific journal edited in Pavia by Pietro Configliachi and Gaspare Brugnatelli. Belli described a novel and intriguing...
The rediscovery of seventeenth-century Florentine thermometers in a warehouse of the Pitti Palace in Florence in 1829 marked a significant point in preserving scientific heritage. Uncovered by the physicist Vincenzo Antinori, these artifacts, presumed lost, miraculously survived over 150 years. Antinori identified these thermometers as formerly belonging to the Accademia del Cimento’s...
Gabriel Lippmann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for the invention of a method of colour photography exploiting the phenomenon of reflection interference, a rather unknown method today. The original Lippmann plates are very beautiful and extremely rare and, to our knowledge, only one exists in Italy at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Florence.
The history of the...
In this transdisciplinary archaeoastronomical project, the researcher examined the hypothesis put forward by the historian Giuseppe Gerola (1877-1938) who postulated at the beginning of the 20th century that the early Christian sacred buildings in Ravenna, Italy, were oriented towards the sunrise on a specific day. His methodology, however, did not allow him to determine the orientation with...
Sulla parete orientale della Chiesa abbaziale di San Martino delle Scale esistono due quadranti incisi nel muro, entrambi riconducibili a tracciati lunisolari.
Uno dei due, più evidente e oggi restaurato, è stato già oggetto di una mia relazione al Convegno di Storia dell’Astronomia di Cagliari nel 1999.
L’altro quadrante, inciso con un tratto sottilissimo, si manifesta appena riproponendo...
