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Lelong Paul, Electricity: Condenser Jars, an Electro-Static generator, and a Vase with Flowers. Gouache painting, C. 1820.
Langevin (coulored engraving). Electricity and its industrial applications. 1853, after L. Allard.
Colour plate from James Ferguson. Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1790) showing the "Trajectorium" Lunare and delineates the Paths of the Earth & Moon.
Università di Urbino Carlo Bo - Dip. di Scienze Pure e Applicate (DiSPeA)
Scuola di Scienze, Tecnologie e Filosofia dell'Informazione
Corso di Laurea Magistrale (biennale) in "Filosofia dell'Informazione" (LM-78).
Curriculum: "Filosofia della Scienza e della Tecnologia"
Storia della Strumentazione Scientifica
History of Scientific Instruments
Secondo anno - 6 CFU - 36 ore
Testi di studio consigliati
Gerard L. E. Turner (a cura di), Storia delle Scienze. Gli strumenti, Vol. 1, Einaudi 1991.
William R. Shea (a cura di), Storia delle Scienze. Le Scienze Fisiche e Astronomiche, Vol. 2, Einaudi 1992.
Gerard L. E. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments, Sotheby Publications, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1983.
Antony Turner, Early Scientific Instruments Europe 1400-1800, Sotheby's Publications, London 1987.
Thomas Crump, A brief history of science as seen through the development of scientific instruments, Carrol & Graf Publishers, New York 2001.
Robert Bud, Deborah Warner (editors), Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, London & New York 1998.
Maurice Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and EighteenthCenturies and their Makers, Portman Press, London 1972.
Giuseppe Boffito, Gli Strumenti della Scienza e la Scienza degli Strumenti con l'ullustrazione della tribuna di Galileo, Ristampa dall'edizione originale del 1929, Multigrafica editrice, Roma 1982.
Gerard L'E. Turner: Some historians of science like to describe themselves as intellectual historians, seeing as their proper study the development of concepts in man's attempt to explain the material universe. I do not, of course, dispute the value of this study. What is unfortunate is the imbalance that I see in the history of science brought about through the failure to recognize the potential of the study of scientific instruments, which are, after all, ideas made brass.
Gerard L'E. Turner: Some historians of science like to describe themselves as intellectual historians, seeing as their proper study the development of concepts in man's attempt to explain the material universe. I do not, of course, dispute the value of this study. What is unfortunate is the imbalance that I see in the history of science brought about through the failure to recognize the potential of the study of scientific instruments, which are, after all, ideas made brass.
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