Name: XLV National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy
Start: 2025-09-09T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-12T14:30:00+02:00
Location: DIFI-Università di Genova

Monday 8 September 2025
Tuesday 9 September 2025

09:00

09:00 - 09:30

09:30

09:30 - 09:45
Room: Aula Magna
09:45
09:45 - 10:25
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:45 Angelo Pagano (1956-2024): In Memory - Pirrone, Sara (INFN - Sezione di Catania) Pagano, Emanuele (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:55
10:55
10:55 - 12:50
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

10:55 Italian Physicists and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics: From the Stark–Lo Surdo Effect (1913) to 1938 - Robotti, Nadia (Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma)

11:35 Heisenberg’s 1925 “Umdeutung” Paper: A Commented Translation from the Physicist’s Perspective - Giliberti, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano)

12:00 Looking for Quantum Logic: A Journey into von Neumann’s Works and his Legacy - Di Mauro, Marco (INFN, Sezione di Roma)

12:25 "Alchemy", in Our Time - La Rana, Adele (Sapienza University of Rome & INFN, Rome 1 Division)
12:50
12:50 - 13:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

12:50 The Scientific Instrument Collection of the 'Giovanni Boato' Museum, Department of Physics, University of Genova - Mantovani, Roberto (Università di Urbino)
13:20 Lunch
Lunch
13:20 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 The Dependence of Time on the Electromagnetic Field in the Interpretation of Lorentz Transformations - Giannetto, Enrico (Università di Bergamo)

14:55 The Forgotten History of Weak Isospin - Rossi, Paolo (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Pisa)
15:20

15:20 - 15:50
Room: Aula Magna

15:50 Coffe break
Coffe break
15:50 - 16:25

17:15

17:15 - 19:00
Wednesday 10 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 What Is Quantum Mechanics? Revisiting a Neglected Historical Path - Zanghì, Pierantonio (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova)
09:40
09:40 - 10:55
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:40 On First Looking into Bohr-Rosenfeld for Quantum Gravity - Furlan, Stefano (Universiteit Utrecht)

10:05 Bohr and Heisenberg: Debate on the γ-Ray Microscope - Bolzonetti, Noemi (Utrecht University)

10:30 From Continuity to Complementarity: Tracing the Conceptual Foundations of Bohr’s Quantum Framework - Passaro, Marina (Utrecht university)
09:40 - 10:55
Room: Aula 603
Contributions

09:40 New Insights into Galileo's Contribution to the First Two Laws of Motion - Cioci, Vincenzo (Liceo scientifico "F. Sbordone" di Napoli - Sezione di Napoli dell'Associazione per l'Insegnamento della Fisica ETS)

10:05 Anachronisms in the History of Science: The Secret Face of Isaac Newton - Costa, Matteo (Università Sapienza di Roma)

10:30 Voices Through the Wires: The Reception and Experimentation of Bell's Telephone in Italy, 1877–1878 - Mantovani, Roberto (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
10:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:25
11:25
11:25 - 12:05
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:25 Scientific and Technical Collections (PST) between Cataloguing and Storytelling: Synergies among MIC, University and Secondary Schools in the Ligurian Territory - Maltese, Stefano (MIC - Ministero della Cultura, SABAP città metropolitana di Genova e provincia della Spezia) Vinardi, Monica (MIC - Ministero della Cultura, SABAP città metropolitana di Genova e provincia della Spezia)
12:05
12:05 - 13:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

12:05 Rethinking an Eighteenth-Century Observatory: The New Exhibition at the Specola Museum in Bologna - Rossi, Elisabetta (Università di Bologna)

12:30 The Astronomical and Copernican Museum: From the Original Collection to Later Developments - Verduci, Domenica (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche 'Enrico Fermi' e Università di Bologna 'Alma Mater Studiorum')

12:55 The Origins of the Physics Cabinet of the University of Naples - Del Monte, Rosanna (Museo di Fisica Università di Napoli Federico II)
12:05 - 13:20
Room: Aula 603
Contributions

12:05 South-risk, South-safety: The Lightning Rod in Naples - Gargano, Mauro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 Meteorological Observations in Naples in the 19th Century: The Data Collection of the Real Gabinetto Fisico - Naddeo, Adele (INFN, Sezione di Napoli)

12:55 Two Centuries of Meteorological Observations in Foggia - De Frenza, Lucia (SISFA)
13:20 Lunch
Lunch
13:20 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 The History of Physics Contribution to Physics Education: The Experience of Module T6 of the Master IDIFO2426 - Michelini, Marisa Balzano, Emilio (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli) Esposito, Salvatore (Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini", Università di Napoli Federico II & INFN Sezione di Napoli) Giliberti, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano) La Rana, Adele (Sapienza University of Rome) Leone, Matteo (University of Turin) Straulino, Samuele (Università di Firenze)
15:20
15:20 - 16:35
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

15:20 From Galileo to Hawking: How Analogies Have Influenced Astronomical Thought and Its Scientific Communication - Macchia, Giovanni (University of Urbino)

15:45 The Critical Inertia of Teaching the Principle of Inertia - Cerreta, Pietro (Associazione ScienzaViva, Calitri)

16:10 Precipitation Measurement by Analog Rain Gauges: Historical Aspects and Application to Interdisciplinary Workshops for Lower Secondary School - Telesio, Francesca (Istituto Comprensivo Teglia, Università degli Studi di Genova)
15:20 - 16:35
Room: Aula 603
Contributions

15:20 Montefeltro in the 17th Century: Water Management and Knowledge of the Environment in Archive Documents - Pietrini, Davide (University of Urbino)

15:45 A Case of (Hidden) Identity: Ralph Greatorex’s Sundial as a Dividing Engine - Rocca, Luca (Università di Pisa)

16:10 Symbol, Political Tool, Failed Innovation: The Strange Case of the Torlonia Telescope at the Osservatorio del Campidoglio - Macaluso, Tiziana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:35 - 17:00

17:00

17:00 - 19:00
Room: Aula Magna

20:45

20:45 - 21:45
Thursday 11 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 The Wild-Hofmann Polaristrobometer: A Nineteenth-Century Breakthrough in Optical Sugar Analysis - Lovisetti, Luisa (Università degli Studi di Milano)

09:25 Belinograph, the Ancestor of the Facsimile: Its Role in the Transmission of Still Images - Casi, Fausto (SISFA)

09:50 The Fast Analogue Computer of the Milan Relativistic Cyclotron - Gariboldi, Leonardo (Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli")

10:15 Technological Innovation for the Valorization of Astronomical Heritage: The New Multimedia Installation of the "La Specola" Museum in Padua - Di Giacomo, Federico (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Aula 605
Contributions

09:00 The First Fresnel Memoir - Ganci, Salvatore (none)

09:25 Agostino Codazzi: Scientific-Military Architect in the Construction of Venezuela and Colombia - Verrilli Hernandez, David (Universidad Central de Venezuela)

09:50 Francesco Orioli: A Multifaceted Physicist in the Early Italian Renaissance - Sanchini, Giampaolo (MIM - Università di Perugia - Ordine dei Chimici e dei Fisici di Roma)

10:15 Eugenio Beltrami between Mathematics and Music - Capecchi, Danilo (SISFA)
10:40 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 11:50
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 Reenactment and the History of Natural Philosophy: Scientific Educational Games from the 17th to the 19th Century - Ampollini, Ilaria (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)
11:50
11:50 - 13:05
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:50 From Experiments to Concepts, from Theories to Experiments: Toward a Circular and Historical-Epistemological Didactics of Contemporary Physics - Salvia, Stefano (University of Pisa)

12:15 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Analogy in the Natural Sciences and Their Public Dissemination: The Case of Gravitational Waves - Adamo, Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:40 The Militancy of the Dedalo Publishing House in Bari: il Manifesto, Sapere and More - Romano, Luigi (Università degli Studi di Bari)
11:50 - 13:05
Room: Aula 605
Contributions

11:50 Maria Kahanovicz: The Brief Scientific Adventure of the First Female Professor at the University of Bari - Campanile, Benedetta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

12:15 The Polymer Model in Early 20th Century Physics - Gasco, Enrico (Zirak)

12:40 Joint Commitment Model as a Tool for Understanding Scientific Collaboration: The Case of Nuclear Fusion Research - Guzzardi, Luca (Università degli Studi di Milano)
13:05 Lunch
Lunch
13:05 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 Opening Cassini's Session

15:00 Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Astronomy in his Bolognese Years: 1649-1669 - Bònoli, Fabrizio (Università di Bologna)

15:40 Cassini at the Observatoire Royal: Adapting the Building to Astronomers' Practices - Deias, Dalia (Université de Bordeaux, Laboratoire SPH, EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre Alexandre Koyré)
16:20 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
16:20 - 16:50
16:50
16:50 - 17:40
Room: Aula 605
Contributions

16:50 Astronomy as Cultural Heritage: Educational Engagement Across Generations at the Regional Astronomical Observatory of the Antola Park - Monticelli, Moreno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:15 Introducing NOCTIS: A Coordinated Network of Small Telescopes - Sangaletti, Leonardo (Università di Genova)
16:50 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:50 In Search of Longitude at Sea: The Tables of Jupiter's Satellites from Galileo to Vincenzo Renieri - Truffa, Giancarlo (Member of SISFA)

17:15 “Una di telescopi, di lettere e di stelle in movimento”: The Comet Dispute between Cassini, Viviani and Riccioli - Bercigli, Erika (Università degli Studi di Bologna)

17:40 Cassini on the Long Time, between Practical Astronomy, Instrumentation and Metrology - Schiavon, Martina (Laboratoire Temps Espace (LTE) - Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université de Lille, LNE, CNRS)

18:05 The Age of Cassini: The Marriage of Historiography and Iconography in a 18th-Century Painting in Palazzo Patrizi-Montoro. - Gandolfi, Giangiacomo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
17:40
17:40 - 18:30
Room: Aula 605
Contributions

17:40 Studies on Symmetry in Theoretical Physics: The Universal Validity of Curie’s Principle and Noether’s Theorem - Drago, Antonino (Dept. Physical Sciences, University Federico II Naples)

18:05 At Home in a Super-Copernican Cosmos, Part III: The Big Bang Is Now - Puleio, Daniele (Pontificia Università Lateranense)
Friday 12 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 11:10
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Navigation after ‘The Longitude Problem’: Instruments and Innovation in 19th- and 20th-Century Seafaring - Nall, Joshua (Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge)

09:40 The Climate Crisis and Its Sentinels - Palazzi, Elisa (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino)

10:20 Antonio Maria Jaci: A Competitor for the British Prize for Determining Longitude at Sea - Tuscano, Maria Luisa (Associata INAF-OAPA; SISFA)

10:45 KM3NeT: Deep-sea Neutrinos - Badaracco, Francesca (Università di Genova)
11:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40
11:40
11:40 - 12:50
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:40 The Incomparable Historian: In Memory of John Lewis Heilbron (1934-2023) - Gattei, Stefano (Università di Trento) Gambaro, Ivana (DAFIST University of Genova)

12:10 The Meridian Line of the Meridian Hall of the Genoa University Palace - Candito, Cristina (Università di Genova) Riva, Walter (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Scelsi, Valter (Università di Genova)
12:50

12:50 - 13:30
Room: Aula Magna