Name: XLIV National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy
Start: 2024-09-17T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-20T14:20:00+02:00
Location: Firenze

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

from Tuesday 17 September 2024 (08:30) to Friday 20 September 2024 (14:20)

Monday 16 September 2024
Tuesday 17 September 2024

08:30 Registrazioni/Registration
Registrazioni/Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Saluti istituzionali : Salvatore Esposito (Presidente SISFA) - Marco Pierini (Prorettore al trasferimento tecnologico, attività culturali e impatto sociale UNIFI) - Guido Risaliti (Vice Direttore Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia UNIFI) - Simone Esposito (Direttore INAF Osservatorio astrofisico di Arcetri) - Giovanni Passaleva (Direttore Sezione INFN di Firenze)
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 The history of Florence Institute of Physics from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s - Dominici, Daniele (Università di Firenze)

10:00 Waiting for another centennial: first ideas for Astrophysics at the Arcetri Astronomical Observatory (1872-1921) - Bianchi, Simone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 History of the National Institute of Optics (INO) in Arcetri - Farini, Alessandro (CNR-Istituto nazionale di Ottica)

11:30 The city of stars: Astronomy and science communication in Florence between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. - Ciardi, Marco
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Contributions

12:00 Bruno Rossi and the magical years in Arcetri: 1929-1932 - Bonolis, Luisa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

12:30 L’influenza dell’ambiente fisico e astrofisico di Firenze sui contributi di Occhialini allo studio dei raggi cosmici - Tucci, Pasquale (Retired, Università degli Studi di Milano)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 When Condensed Matter Physics became King - Martin, Joseph (Durham University)
15:00

15:00 - 15:40

15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 18 September 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Il ‘sistema Marconi’ e il suo sviluppo, fra scienza, società e politica - Paoloni, Giovanni (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Dip.to di lettere e culture moderne)

09:30 Information Transmission as Artificial Intelligence - Bianchini, Francesco

10:00 The art of communicating: from the Theory of Information Transmission to the Shannon-Fano Code - Campanile, Benedetta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

10:20 From Shannon to Von Neumann: A partial understanding of Information - Covoni, Niccolò (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo BO - Università della Svizzera Italiana)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:51
Room: Room A
Contributions

11:10 Theoretical Patterns for Understanding Scientific Collaborations - Guzzardi, Luca (Università degli Studi di Milano)

11:30 At Home in a Super-Copernican Cosmos: The Nature of the Observer and Wheeler's 'It from Bit' - Puleio, Daniele (Pontificia Università Lateranense)

11:50 Fusing Europe from EURATOM to ITER: A network analysis of European techno-scientific cooperation in controlled thermonuclear research - Lalli, Roberto (DIMEAS, Politecnico di Torino)

12:10 The Diplomacy of Standardization: How the SUN Commission Negotiated Electrical Units During the Interwar Period - Bassanelli, Sara (Università di Pavia, Northwest Italy Philosophy PhD Program - FINO)

12:30 "Percepire, comprendere e comunicare i luoghi storici della meteorologia ferrarese attraverso la multisensorialità". A Public Engagement Project of the University of Ferrara - Maragno, Anna (Università di Ferrara)
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Library
Contributions

11:10 William Rowan Hamilton, Poet and Mathematician - Amabile, Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

11:30 Earliest meteorological observations in Naples in the 18th century - Naddeo, Adele (Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini", Università di Napoli "Federico II" andI NFN, Sezione di Napoli)

11:50 The first meteorological series of southern Italy. Report on a rediscovered archive - De Frenza, Lucia (Università degli Studi di Bari)

12:10 On the “last discovery of Cavalier Melloni” - Del Monte, Rosanna (Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali e Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II)

12:30 The passage of the Comet C/1861 J1 in 1861. Angelo Secchi's drawings and the Cometa San Pietro tempera, history and restoration. - Macaluso, Tiziana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:50 Enrico Dal Pozzo un fisico del risorgimento tra eresia e innovazione. - Sanchini, Giampaolo
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Library
Contributions

14:00 The first electron charge measurement: status, meaning and implications of J.J. Thomson's and R. Millikan's respective research - Monti, Francesca (University of Verona)

14:20 Dirac’s Quantum Time - Giannetto, Enrico (Università di Bergamo)

14:40 La corrispondenza italiana di Bruno Pontecorvo dal 1945 al 1950 - Rossi, Paolo (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa)

15:00 Exchanges in the nucleus in the 1930s: Werner Heisenberg and Ettore Majorana - Di Mauro, Marco (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento)

15:20 Revisiting Bruno Rossi’s experiment on cosmic rays showers: comparison with the original results - Righi, Tommaso (Università di Firenze)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 The Belli-Babinet tap: an innovation in pneumatic technology in the first half of the 19th century - Mantovani, Roberto (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

14:20 Hidden Treasures: The tale of Florentine Thermometers 150 years after their crafting - Rossi, Elisabetta (University of Milan)

14:40 Lippmann: history, art and science in one photo - Gurioli, Massimo (Università di Firenze)

15:00 Sacred Alignments of Early Christian Churches and Baptisteries in Ravenna, Italy - Spinazzè, Eva (Università di Friburgo)

15:20 The celestial Weigel Globe in the Stibbert Museum: restoration and valorisation - Giatti, Anna

15:40 Un quadrante lunare, forse cosmologico, nell’Abbazia di San Martino delle Scale - Tuscano, Maria Luisa (SISFA)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30 Remembering Giorgio Dragoni (F. Bevilacqua and P. Tucci)
Remembering Giorgio Dragoni (F. Bevilacqua and P. Tucci)
16:30 - 17:00

17:00 SISFA general Assembly
SISFA general Assembly
17:00 - 18:30

20:30 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Thursday 19 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Angelo Catone and the comet of 1472 - Gargano, Mauro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:20 Astronomical observations and scientific practices between Cayenne and Paris - Gambaro, Ivana (DAFIST - Università Genova)

09:40 A Hebrew witness of the Theorica Planetarum from 1492 Naples - Wartenberg, Ilana (Tel Aviv University)

10:00 ‘E noi uscimmo a riveder le stelle’: the Medici family and the scientific patronage in Florence - Bercigli, Erika (Università degli Studi di Bologna)

10:20 Joseph Sauveur and the fixed sound - Capecchi, Danilo

10:40 The history of the many versions of the "Curie's Principles". A comparative study of their versions and their ranges of validity - Drago, Antonino (Dept. Physical Sciences, University Federico II Naples)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:40
Contributions

11:30 Beyond the Milky Way: an historical perspective - Corbelli, Edvige (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 A semi-Malthusian analysis of the possible social and cultural causes behind Hubble's discovery of the law of recession of galaxies - Adamo, Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 Hubble did not discover the expansion of the universe: observation versus discovery - Macchia, Giovanni (University of Urbino)
12:40
12:40 - 13:10
Contributions

12:40 The origins of solid state physics in Italy: 1945-1960 circa - Giuliani, Giuseppe
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:21
Room: Room A
Contributions

14:00 Photon or light quantum? - Longo, Francesco

14:20 The Lorentz force and transformations: an example of how the history of physics can simplify teaching - Battocchio, Andrea (Liceo Statale "Primo Levi" di San Donato Milanese)

14:40 From Faraday’s candle to today’s STEM: some suggestions for teachers - Cerreta, Pietro (Associazione ScienzaViva, Calitri)

15:00 Cultural Understanding of Physics: Quantum Mechanics a Century Later - Giliberti, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano)
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Library
Contributions

14:00 Insegnamento scientifico nel Seminario Vescovile di Bergamo tra XVIII e XIX Secolo - Serra, Laura (Ateneo di Scienze Lettere Arti di Bergamo)

14:20 The two transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882: or, “the greatest astronomical events of the 19th century” - Lovisetti, Luisa (University of Milan, Department of Physics)

14:40 The Lorenzoni-Abetti Correspondence: Insights into Italian Astronomy and Social Context Post-Unification - Zanini, Valeria (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 Friendly Stilbon, fraudful Hermes. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli and the rotation of Mercury - De Piccoli, Lorenzo

15:20 Solar storms that enchant and frighten: a historical-artistic journey among the aurorae boreales appeared in the sky of Naples over the last two centuries - Sasso, Clementina (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10

16:10

16:10 - 18:00

18:00

18:00 - 21:00
Friday 20 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden. A Princely Collection of Scientific Instruments - Plassmeyer, Peter (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon Zwinger)

09:30 Il Museo Enrico Fermi di Roma apre le porte ai più giovani: metodi e strumenti per raccontare la scienza alle nuove generazioni - Verduci, Domenica (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche 'Enrico Fermi')

09:50 "IL MONDO IN TASCA" MUMEC Museum celebrations 2024 - Casi, Fausto (SISFA)

10:10 THE ARCHIMEDES INSTITUTE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SCIENTIFIC-EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS: THE ROLE OF SCHOOL MUSEUMS IN TRACING THE HISTORY OF DISCIPLINES - Mortellaro, Rossella (Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

10:30 Gli incunaboli e le cinquecentine dell’INAF: un catalogo a stampa per scoprire il patrimonio bibliografico antico degli Osservatori italiani - Olostro Cirella, Emilia (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

10:50 THE ASTRONOMY BOOKS OF THE FORMER ISTITUTO TECNICO OF FLORENCE - Faustini, Laura (Museo Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Firenze))

11:10 Le città del tempo delle Marche - Mauro, Oronzo (Indipendent Researcher)
11:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
12:00 - 12:40
Contributions

12:00 Astronomical sciences and scientific diplomacy: Giuseppe Lorenzoni (1843-1914) and the International Geodesic Association during the second half of the 19th Century - Schiavon, Martina (Université de Lorraine)

12:20 The Italian Society of Sciences known as the Society of XL in Modena in the late 18th and 19th centuries - Corradini, Elena (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
12:40

12:40 - 13:20

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