Final Program

GENERAL INFORMATION

During each Symposium and Thematic Session the chairpersons will be assisted by 'technical chairs' provided by the Organizing Committee in order to facilitate the running of sessions and offer technical support/advice should problems arise. Each talk, including commentators, will be allowed max. 20 minutes; speakers present one after another; questions and general discussion will follow at the end of each session. The tutorial for taking part to the conference with Microsoft Teams is available here. Links to the virtual rooms will appear on this page before the week of August 24. Plenary events that exceed the capacity of the virtual rooms (250 people) will be live streamed on youtube (the youtube link will be posted here).

Download the book of abstracts here

Please note that all times refer to Central European Summer Time (CEST)

T = Thematic Session / S = Symposium

Monday 31 August

9.00 - 12.00 - ESHS Council Meeting

12.00 - 13.00 - Centaurus Mentoring Program (led by Koen Vermeir)

YouTube Live Streaming of the Plenary Events

14.00 - 15.00 - Conference Welcome and Program Presentation

15.00 - 15.20 - Neuenschwander Prize Lecture

Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens)

The Sisyphean fate of historians of science

Chair: Erwin Neuenschwander

15.20 - 15.40 - Plenary Lecture ESHS President

Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens)

History of Science and its Interlocutors in the Humanities

Chair: Ana Simões

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16.00 - 16.30 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 1

Clara Florensa (University Autonoma of Barcelona)

Agnotology, epistemologies of ignorance, and invisibilisation studies in the history of science

Chair: Ezio Vaccari

16.30 - 17.00 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 2

Paolo Savoia (University of Bologna)

Checking the Surface: Vernacular Science, Everyday Knowledge, and Observation in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Toni Malet

17.00 - 17.30 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 3

Sietske Fransen (Biblioteca Hertziana)

Media Changes and Early Modern Visual Cultures of Science

Chair: Elena Canadelli

17.30 - 18.30 - Early Career Network Working Group (led by Matthieu Husson)

Tuesday 1 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual room opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: T4 - Museums and Collections

Chair: Elena Canadelli (University of Padua, Italy)

1 - Daria D. Novgorodova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Pietra Dura Mosaic As A Mineralogical Object In The 18th Century Russian Collections

2 - Galina Krivosheina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Popularization of Science Through Visual Patterns: The 19th Century Moscow Scientific Exhibitions

3 - Miriam Focaccia (Historical Museum of Physics,Center Enrico Fermi, Italy), The new Museum of Physics dedicated to Enrico Fermi and the role of place in engagement with science

4 - Pedro J. Enrech Casaleiro* (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Nuno Peixinho, Ana Lourenço & Teresa Barata, Astronomical visual and material culture: Reviving the University of Coimbra Observatory

5 - Cristina Luís (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Historical Biocollections. A time travel through Citizen Science in Portugal

Room 2: S40 - Picturing health under tropical medicine lens

Convener: Isabel Amaral (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Chair: Daniele Cozzoli (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

1 - Kristin D. Hussey (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), ‘A pathological pilgrimage’: Race and power in Patrick Manson’s slide registers

2 - Isabel Amaral (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), Visual culture of medicine during the WWI: the Portuguese experience in Africa

3 - Kathleen Walker-Meikle (King's College London, UK), Seeing skin: Diagnosing diseases of enslaved people in 17th-century Cartagena

4 - Daniele Cozzoli (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), commentator

Room 3: S39 - High speed films, animated gears, blinking cells, flat spheres: sensory and epistemic cultures of science and technology

Convener: Arianna Borrelli (Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany), Florian Hoof (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Chair: Arianna Borrelli (Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany)

1 - Simona Casonato (National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Italy), Ultra-rapid research in Italy 1950-1990. The art and science of specialized cinematography in engineering laboratories

2 - Andrea Loettgers & Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna, Austria), What do we see when cells blink?

3 - Florian Hoof (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), Overcoming flatness. Modelling and animating kinematic mechanisms

4 - Arianna Borrelli (Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany), The flat sphere: Haptic, visual and verbal knowing in high medieval astrolabe manuscripts

Room 4: S23 - Universities and Their Cities. Visual Traces of Universities and Scholars in University Cities across Eras - 1

Conveners: Milada Sekyrková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic), Marek Ďurčanský (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

Chair: Milada Sekyrková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

1 - Marek Ďurčanský (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic), University of Prague outside Prague

2 - Robert Tomczak (Basel University, Switzerland), Visual traces of Basel University and Its Scholars (XV-XVIII) - University Heritage as a Family Legacy

3 - Andor Mészáros (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Hungary), The Role of the University in Formation of the Capital of Hungarian State in 19th Century

4 - Adéla Jůnová Macková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic), Visual traces of Czechoslovak Orientalists in the interwar period

Room 5: S9 - The changing relation between visual representations and theoretical frameworks: tables, diagrams, plots, and drawings in the history of physics and astronomy - 1. Early modern astronomy

Sponsored by Società Italiana di Storia della Fisica e dell'Astronomia - SISFA (Italian Society for the History of Physicis and Astronomy)

Conveners: Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Salvatore Esposito (INFN Naples, Italy)

Chair: Salvatore Esposito (INFN Naples, Italy)

1 - Stefan Zieme (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Knowledge Cultures and Translations: Latin-Arabic Traditions of the Almagest

2 - Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University, Italy), Solving the clash among world systems in a glance! Astronomical tables as visual tools, 1610-1687

3 - Pasquale Tucci (University of Milan, Italy), What did Leonardo and Galileo see observing the Moon?

4 - Anna Jerratsch (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), Forms and Practices of Visual Representations in Early Modern Cometary Tracts

Room 6: S75 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 1

Sponsored by SISM - Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche (Italian Society for the History of Mathematics)

Conveners: Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy), Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

Chair: Maria Teresa Borgato

1 - Luigi Pepe (University of Ferrara, Italy), The Institutes of the Republics and the Kingdom of Italy: French Model and Italian Experiences

2 - Brigitte Stenhouse (Open University, UK), The representations of British mathematics in the early nineteenth century

3 - Elisa Patergnani (University of Ferrara, Italy), Models and textbooks for technical education in Italy

4 - Erika Luciano (University of Turin), The theory of practice’: Quintino Sella and the role of scientific collections from Turin's Lezioni di mineralogia to Lincei's presidence (1847-1884)

Room 7: S26 - Spaces of Visual Epistemology

Convener: Maria Teresa Costa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany)

Chair: Maria Teresa Costa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany)

1 - Alena Williams (University of California San Diego, USA), Jean Painlevé and Experimental Cinema in the Palais de la Découverte

2- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), Strategies of Making Visible in Experimentation

3 - Stefanie Bürkle (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), Studio and laboratory. Workshops of Knowledge and Spaces of Failure

4 - Katrin Glinka (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany), Visual Representations of Thought: on Museum Displays and Visualization Interfaces

Room 8: S15 - Marginalising or expanding personal experiences of nature? On the (loss of) authority of field research in 20th century geophysical sciences

Conveners: Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University, Denmark), Dania Achermann (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Chair: Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

1 - Robert-Jan Wille (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Sounding the aerial ocean. Maintaining a transcontinental network of sensible weather balloons at the Lindenberg Aeronautical Observatory, 1905-1915

2 - Vladimir Janković (University of Manchester, UK), The Balkans as Fieldwork: Jovan Cvijić's Visceral Ethnography of Lands in Strife and Turmoil

3 - Dania Achermann (University of Bern, Switzerland), “A strong back and love for snow and ice”: Diversification in glaciological research from the 19th to the 20th century

4 - Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University, Denmark), Understanding and misunderstanding aridity and drought: From the UNESCO Arid Zone Programme to modelling and remote sensing approaches

Room 9: S71 - How to create a new scientific school? On some international contacts and collaboration of mathematicians and logicians in the first half of 20th century

Convener: Danuta Ciesielska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Chair: Wiesław Wójcik (Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland)

1 - Wiesław Wójcik (Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland), Warsaw Mathematical School - its sources and impact on the development of world mathematical logic

2 - Danuta Ciesielska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Felix Klein and David Hilbert foreign students in Göttingen

3 - Galina I. Sinkevich (Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia), International mathematical contacts of Russia in the first half of the 20th century

4 - Joanna Zwierzyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Scientific international contacts cooperation about a century ago in the light of correspondence between Samuel Dicksteinand Władysław Natanson

Room 10: S56 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 1

Conveners: Oliver Hochadel (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), Miquel Carandell-Baruzzi (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

Chair: Juliana Adelman (Dublin City University, Ireland)

1 - Helen Cowie (University of York, UK), A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853

2 - Oliver Hochadel (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), In life and death. Avi, the emblematic elephant of the Barcelona Zoo

3 - Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Rendering Animal Bodies Between the Zoo and the Natural History Museum in Poznań (1924-1945)

4 - Violette Pouillard (Ghent University, Belgium), Knowledge production, animal experiences, and the zoo as a laboratory

Room 11: S20 - Visualizing and Modelling Sensory Actions (VMSA) for Inquiring Science & Technology into History - 1

Convener: Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France)

Chair: Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France)

1 - Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France), Visualizing and Modelling the Concept of Cycle as Dynamic Relationship Physics-Mathematics into History: Science or Applied Art?

2 - Paolo Bussotti (University of Udine, Italy), The Visualization of Leibniz’s Cosmological Model

3 - Julien Gressot & Romain Jeanneret( University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Modelling of a “chaîne opératoire” as a Visualisation Method for the Material Analysis of a Culture of Precision with the Case Study of the Observatory of Neuchâtel (1858-1880)

4 - Joseph Kouneiher (Nice-Cote d'Azur University, France), Visualizing the Measure of Immeasurable

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: S1 - Mobile Materials: Mutable Meanings and Knowledge Modulation - 1

Conveners: Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Vienna, Austria)

Chair: Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Vienna, Austria)

1 - Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), Knowledge Lost, Knowledge Regained: 19th Century Museums and Cultures of Object Circulation

2 - Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh, UK), Scottish Missionaries and the Bemba: Ethnography, Exchange and Colonial Encounter

3 - Leendert van der Miesen (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Mobile Music: Images and Instruments on the Move in the Correspondence of Marin Mersenne

4 - Bronwyn Parry (King's College London, UK) DNA Testing: Centres of Calculation and the ‘Copernican Revolution’ of Bioinformational Data Extraction

Room 2: S41 - Soviet-French links in genetics

Convener: Jérôme Pierrel (Bordeaux University, France), Sergey Shalimov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Chair: Jérôme Pierrel (Bordeaux University, France)

1 - Sergei I. Fokin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Russian zoologists on French soil. Guests - Roscoff Biological Station, hosts - Villefranche Zoological Station

2 - Sergey Shalimov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Soviet-French links in biology in the second half of the 1960s.

3 - Jérôme Pierrel (Bordeaux University, France), French-Soviet symposiums in molecular biology, 1974-1992, from a French perspective

4 - Laurence Roche Nye (Sorbonne University, France), Life sciences in orbit: Scientific cooperation, technology and know-how transfer in space radiobiology during the Cold War

Room 3: S8 - Quantification of Taste - Food and Drink as Matters of Science

Convener: Alwin J. Cubasch (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Chair: Alwin J. Cubasch (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

1 - Armel Cornu (Uppsala University, Sweden), Tasting healing waters - The sensory experience of chemists in early modern France

2 - Sénia Fedoul (University of Lyon, France), The making of an oenological discourse - Boundaries of taste and expertise between oenologists and sommeliers in France during the Interwar Period

3 - Paulina S. Gennermann (University of Bielefeld, Germany), Getting to the core - Analyzing flavors and fragrances in the postwar period

4 - Alwin Cubasch (University of Innsbruck, Austria) commentator

Room 4: S13 - Teaching science with light projection: regimes of vision in the classroom, 1880-1940 - 1

Conveners: Nelleke Teughels (KU Leuven, Belgium), Wouter Egelmeers (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Chair: Nelleke Teughels (KU Leuven, Belgium)

1 - Michael Markert (University of Göttingen, Germany), Casting long shadows on experimental physics. The lectures of Robert Wichard Pohl (1884-1976)

2 - Wouter Egelmeers (KU Leuven, Belgium), The visual narratives of ‘patchwork’ slide series and ‘scientific’ viewing in Belgian schools

3 - Adeline Werry (University of Louvain, Belgium), Two forms of teaching for two types of slides and lantern projections

4 - Sabrina Meneghini (De Montfort University, UK), Lantern slides in geography lessons: imperial visual education for children in the British colonial-era

Room 5: S10 - The changing relation between visual representations and theoretical frameworks: tables, diagrams, plots, and drawings in the history of physics and astronomy - 2.Twentieth century physics and astrophysics

Sponsored by Società Italiana di Storia della Fisica e dell'Astronomia - SISFA (Italian Society for the History of Physicis and Astronomy)

Conveners: Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Salvatore Esposito (INFN Naples, Italy)

Chair: Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany)

1 - Luisa Bonolis & Juan-Andres Leon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Imaging gamma-ray air showers. The role of novel visual techniques in the birth of very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy in the 1980s

2 - Adele La Rana (University of California Riverside, USA) Visualizing the invisible, listening to the inaudible: the explosion of Supernova 1987A and the alleged revelation of gravitational waves

3 - Stefano Furlan (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), “If I can’t make a picture, I don’t understand”: John A. Wheeler’s visual style and gravitational collapse

4 - Salvatore Esposito (INFN Naples, Italy), Feynman diagrams, or visualizing the quantum world

Room 6: S76 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 2

Sponsored by SISM - Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche (Italian Society for the History of Mathematics)

Conveners: Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy), Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

Chair: Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

1 - Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy), Hermite and Brioschi: Scientific and academic relationships at the end of the nineteenth century

2 - Nicla Palladino* (University di Perugia, Italy), Maria Rosaria Enea & Giovanni Ferraro, Determinant theory in the 19th century in Italy

3 - Riccardo Rosso (University of Pavia, Italy), Seminar activities and mathematical research in Germany in the second half of the 19th century

4 - Erwin Neuenschwander (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Striking Parallels: Nation building and renewal of mathematics in Risorgimento Italy and its effects on Germany

Room 7: S7 - An University style: appearance and image of Russian universities and their inhabitants of different epochs

Conveners: Alexander Sorokin (Tyumen State University, Russia), Mikhail Gribovskiy (National Research Tomsk State University, Russia)

Chair: Alexander Sorokin (Tyumen State University, Russia)

1 - Mikhail Gribovskiy (National Research Tomsk State University, Russia), University professor of Tsarist, Russia: Appearance, material culture, social characteristics

2 - Hanna Bazhenova (Institute of Central Europe, Poland), Warsaw Imperial University: Perception by contemporaries and historiographic trajectories

3 - Dmitry Khaminov (Tomsk State University, Russia), The image of history in universities of the Asian periphery and the perception of historians by Imperial and Soviet authorities

4 - Alexander Sorokin (Tyumen State University, Russia), Soviet professor: transformation of the image of Soviet scientists in Russian cinema in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries

5 - Vasiliy Mironov (National Research Tomsk State University, Russia), commentator

Room 8: S25 - Historicizing climate futures: representational politics and public imaginaries

Convener: Vladimir Janković (University of Manchester, UK)

Chair: Vladimir Janković

1 - Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘Greenhouse Paradise: Climate Futures and Soviet Agriculture Scenarios’

2 - Julia Lajus (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), ‘’Warming of the Arctic’ in the 1930s - 1940s and its Influence on Soviet Discussions about Arctic Climate Fluctuations’

3 - Robert Naylor (University of Manchester, UK), The Bryson Synthesis: Piercing a Fog of Economic Complication with a Calamitous Climate Future’

4 - Vladimir Janković (University of Manchester, UK), commentator

Room 9: T3 - Mathematics, Education and Arts

Chair: Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Mao Dan (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Correlation between Failures of Mathematical Sciences and Their Roles in Education: Comparing Hellenistic-Principate Period and Renaissance

2 - Matteo Torre (Liceo Scientifico L.B. Alberti, Italy), Symmetries and asymmetries: a path through the history of physics, mathematics and art

3 - Loredana Biacino (University of Naples, Italy), Relationship between abstractionism in the arts and in mathematics at the beginning of the 20th century

4 - Maria Rosaria Enea (University of Basilicata, Italy) & Riccardo Rosso (University of Pavia), Preparing A Generation Of Young Mathematicians

Room 10: S57 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 2

Conveners: Oliver Hochadel (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), Miquel Carandell-Baruzzi (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

Chair: Juliana Adelman (Dublin City University, Ireland)

1 - Clemens Maier-Wolthausen (Zoological Gardens Berlin, Germany), Stocking a Zoo. Sources for Live Animals 1844-2020 - the Case of Berlin

2 - Mareike Vennen (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), The Zoological Garden in Berlin - Practices and Politics of Zoo Logistics and Urban Ecologies

3 - Miquel Carandell-Baruzzi (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and practices in the Aquarama of the Barcelona Zoo in the 1960s

4 - Wiebke M. Reinert (Kassel University, Germany), The Seals‘ Applause, the keepers‘ tip. Interspecial con/figurations of labour, leisure and popular science at the zoo, 1850-1970

Room 11: S16 - Contextualizing mechanism in twentieth century biology: visual and material cultures of description, narrative, and cooperation

Conveners: Dominic Berry (London School of Economics, UK), Hanna Lucia Worliczek (University of Vienna, Austria)

Chair: Mathias Grote (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)

1 - Hanna Lucia Worliczek (University of Vienna, Austria), “Merely descriptive” and therefore dismissed? Descriptive epistemic practices of modern cell biology in the context of evolving mechanistic-explanatory demands and innovative imaging technologies after 1950

2 - Dominic Berry (London School of Economics, UK), Mechanisms or nature narratives? Erwin Chargaff on DNA-protein binding

3 - Caterina Schürch (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Ascidians and urine: on the materiality of mechanism research

4 - Thomas Bonnin (Bordeaux University, France), Narrative vs. mechanistic explanations of the origin of eukaryotes

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13.45 - 15.45

Room 1: S2 - Mobile Materials: Mutable Meanings and Knowledge Modulation - 2

Conveners: Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Vienna, Austria)

Chair: Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

1 - Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda (University of Chile, Chile), Building Precision: Installation in Chile of a Repsold Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908-1913)

2 - Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Vienna, Austria), Following Instructions and Changing Directions: Knowledge-making in and between Sites of Ethnographic Specimen

3 - Jessica Ratcliff (Cornell University, USA), Model India: Making Meaning with Opportunistic Collections at India House, London c. 1825-55

4 - Marianne Klemun (University of Vienna, Austria), “Special Commission” Meteorites: Fireballs and Short-term Sensations

Room 2: S3 - Learning by Doing and Doing to Learn: Skills, Texts and the Materiality of Surgical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - 1

Conveners: Elaine Leong (University College London, UK), Maria Pia Donato (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

Chair: Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Heidi Hausse (Auburn University, USA) Building a Surgical Armory: Johannes Scultetus in Ulm, c.1631-1645

2 - Maria Pia Donato (CNRS - Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France), Books, manuscripts and the material culture of surgery in early modern Italian hospitals

3 - Carolin Schmitz (University of Cambridge, UK), Surgical Textbooks Meet Legal Records: Instructing and Witnessing the Practice of Surgery in Early Modern Spain

4 - Elaine Leong (University College London, UK), Illustrating Surgery: Print, Images and Vernacular Surgical Manuals in Early Modern England

Room 3: T12 - Medicine and Society

Chair: Marco Bresadola (University of Ferrara, Italy)

1 - Elisabeth M. Yang (Rutgers University, USA), Constructing the Moral Infant in American Medical and Scientific Discourse, 1850s-1920s

2 - Carlo Bovolo (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy), Catholics towards Eugenics in the First Half of 20th Century

3 - Fedir Razumenko (University of Calgary, Canada), Cancer ‘Epidemic’, Quackery, Innovation, and Justice in Canada: how ‘strangers’ began approaching the bedside in the mid-twentieth century

4 - Dolores Steinman & David A. Steinman (University of Toronto, Canada), Reassessing Medical Exploration of Blood Flow Patterns

Room 4: T22 - Cosmology

Chair: Qi-Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

1 - Gerd Grasshoff (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Computational history of science for material objects - ancient sundials

2 - Valerie Shrimplin (Gresham College, UK), Circles, Spheres and Globes: Models of the Universe as Depicted in Art

3 - Genco Guralp (San Diego State University, USA), Seeing as Knowing: The Cosmological Image and the Making of Evidence

4 - Eve-Aline Dubois (University of Namur, Belgium), A Steady-State Explanation for Cosmic Microwave Background

Room 5: S54 - Popular Representation / Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories - 1

Sponsored by IUHPS / DHST Commission on the History of Physics

Conveners: Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Chair: Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

1 - Klaus Hentschel (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Philosophical (Mis-) Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity - Historiographic Considerations of How They Arise and How to Analyze Them

2 - Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Edmund T. Whittaker, Einstein and anti-Semitism

3 - Hiroto Kono (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), The Formation of a Science of Matter in Wartime Japan and the Role of a Visual Model

4 - Emilie Skulberg (University of Cambridge, UK), Curved Space on a Flat Surface: The Event Horizon Telescope and Visual Representations of Black Holes

Room 6: S46 - Material culture in the positioning of national science in Ibero-America: natural history museums, scientific cabinets and educational institutions - 1

Conveners: Carolina Valenzuela Matus (Autonomous University of Chile, Chile), María Gabriela Mayoni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Chair: María Gabriela Mayoni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

1 - Carolina Valenzuela Matus Autonomous University of Chile, Chile), Scientific culture in Chile and Latin America. Tendencies and perspectives (XIX-XX centuries)

2 - Maria de Fátima Nunes (University of Évora, Portugal), The XII International Congress of Zoology - Lisbon, 1935 - Approaches to Visual and Scientific Culture

3 - Francisco Garrido (National Museum of Natural History, Chile), Museum falsifications and the debate of Precolumbian writing in the ancient Andes

4 - Víctor Guijarro (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), commentator

Room 7: S79 - Secretaries of Knowledge: Scribal Helpers and Social Visibility in the Worlds of Scholarship, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries

Conveners: Francesca Antonelli (University of Bologna), José Beltrán (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, France)

Chair: José Beltrán (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, France)

1 - Paola Molino (University of Padua, Italy), The Power of a Mistake: Library Scribes, with Too Much Ink and Never Enough Wood

2 - Hülya Çelik & Chiara Petrolini (University of Vienna, Austria), Court librarian Sebastian Tengnagel’s “Oriental” Copyists and Their Role in Fostering Knowledge of the Orient in the Seventeenth century

3 - José Beltrán (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, France), Secretaries of Nature: Scribes, Scholars, and the Archive of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Paris

4 - Francesca Antonelli (University of Bologna, Italy), A Visible Assistant? Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1758-1836) as a Secrétaire

Room 8: S19 - Sensory and Material Economies in early Fossil Capitalism

Convener: Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge, UK)

Chair: Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge, UK)

1 - Eoin Carter (University of Cambridge, UK), Political Sensation: Artisan Radicalism and Materialism in 1820s Britain

2 - Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University, USA), Oeconomizing Matter and Mind: Mining and the “Psychological Policy” behind Alexander von Humboldt’s Sustainability

3 - Jenny Bulstrode (University of Cambridge, UK), The Sensation of Surplus Extraction: Fossil-fatigue and the Naturalisation of Capital in the Industrial Origins of Climate Change

4 - Eoin Phillips (Ramon Llull University Barcelona, Spain) Inland Empire: Canals, Waterways and Oceanic Labour in the Industrial Revolution

Room 9: S84 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 1

Conveners: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France), Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

Chair: Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

1 - Zhu Yiwen (Sun Yat-sen University, China), Visual Aspects of Mathematical Operations Carried Out With Counting Rods

2 - Christine Proust (CNRS / University of Paris, France), Semantics of layouts and alignments. The case of mathematical cuneiform texts

3 - Guillaume Loizelet (University of Tolouse, France), Diagrams as computational tools ?

4 - Zhou Xiaohan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), A comparative study on the representations of abacus as visual aids appearing in mathematical writings of the 16th century

5 - Eleonora Sammarchi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Ordinary language and the construction of tables in the Arabic arithmetical-algebraic tradition

Room 10: S58 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 3

Conveners: Oliver Hochadel (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), Miquel Carandell-Baruzzi (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

Chair: Juliana Adelman (Dublin City University, Ireland)

1 - Ilja Nieuwland (Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands) ,“A primeval world, conjured into the present”. Carl Hagenbeck’s Urzeitpark in Stellingen

2 - Shai Ben-Ami (The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel), Zoos and animal collections in Israel: from Biblical times to the Biblical Zoo

3 - Hugo Domínguez Razo (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Actualizations of the Moctezuma’s Zoo’s idea in Chapultepec Zoo’s architectures

4 - Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna, Austria), commentator

Room 11: S28 -The nature of scientific discovery in the chemical sciences - 1

Conveners: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium), Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Chair: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium)

1 - Charlotte A. Abney Salomon (Science History Institute, USA), Element Discovery in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

2 - Pierandrea Lo Nostro & Duccio Tatini (University of Florence, Italy), Hugo Schiff and his bases, a story begun in the XIX century

3 - Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), The chemistry of the imponderable? Radium, polonium and the discovery of elements in the era of radioactivity

4 - Soňa Štrbáňová (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Early discovery of sexuality in yeast

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16.00 - 18.00

Room 1: S32 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 1

Convener: María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain)

Chair: María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain)

1 - Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California Los Angeles, USA), Intangible yet all pervasive

2 - Ana Romero de Pablos (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), Uranium ore: Materiality and meaning of a hybrid object

3 - Gina Surita (Princeton University, USA), Mildred Cohn, metabolism and the mass spectrometer

4 - Miguel A. Rego Robles (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC Spain), Brain’s digital images in the 1970s: Inventing a hybrid technology

Room 2: S6 - Neither “Lowly,” nor “Soft”: How Taste Produces Knowledge, Makes Expertise, and Forms Identities

Convener: Ardeta Gjikola (Columbia University, USA)

Chair: Ardeta Gjikola (Columbia University, USA)

1 - Laura Eliza Enriquez (Concordia University, Canada), Taste before Taste: Gustation as Knowledge in the Early Modern Collection

2 - Alexander Wragge-Morley (New York University, USA), Intersubjective Experience and Medical Expertise in the 18th Century

3 - Ardeta Gjikola (Columbia University, USA), The Judgment of a Connoisseur

4 - Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands), Taste Identities: How a Cough Medicine Became Interwoven with National Identity

Room 3: S30 - Vegetal inferences: A sociology of plant science

Convener: Ariane Dröscher (University of Trento, Italy)

Chair: Ariane Dröscher (University of Trento, Italy)

1 - Maura C. Flannery (St. John's University, USA), Making Plants into Status Symbols

2 - Anna Svensson (Independent Scholar, Sweden), “Specimens of Woods:” A natural history of the pianoforte

3 - Ariane Dröscher (University of Trento, Italy), Romantic gardens as spaces of knowledge

4 - Joela Jacobs (University of Arizona, USA), Dangerous Entanglements: Writing Plants, or Phytopoetic Agency in the German Literary Imagination

Room 4: S67 - Media of Science

Conveners: Sigrid Leyssen (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany), Henning Schmidgen (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)

Chair: Henning Schmidgen (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)

1 - Benoît Turquety (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), “Philosophical Toys”: Science and the Invention of Media in the 19th Century

2 - Sigrid Leyssen (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany), How Scientists Understand Film. Filmology and Scientist’s Media Theories

3 - Hannah Wiemer (Humboldt-University, Germany, Store and retrieve: Hans Scharoun’s Staatsbibliothek and the library as a scientific medium in post-war Berlin

4 - Chris Salter (Concordia University, Canada), Neuronal Media

5 - Orit Halpern (Concordia University, Canada), commentator

Room 5: S55 - Popular Representation / Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories - 2

Sponsored by IUHPS / DHST Commission on the History of Physics

Conveners: Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Chair: Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia, Canada)

1 - Xavier Roqué (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), The visual and material culture of small physics

2 - Connemara Doran (Harvard University, USA), Imaginings and Icons: Imaging the Cosmic First Light, 1974-2014

3 - Pavel Yushin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia) Inverted Space-Time in Pavel Florensky’s Scientific Imagination: A Commentary on the Cover of the Journal Makovets (№3, 1923)

4 - Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia, Canada), Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution

5 - Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain), commentator

Room 6: S87 - Cultures of expeditionary science: Exploring the role of scientific expeditions in scientific knowledge production, (geo)political struggles and popular imaginaries in the 20th and 21st centuries

Convener: Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Chair: Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University, Denmark)

1 - Sofia Viegas (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Two of a kind: two collecting opportunities; the same purpose? Colonial botany in Portuguese Africa at the University of Porto herbarium

2 - Catarina Fontoura (Falmouth University, UK), Photography, science-making and wild animals in the Royal Society-Royal Geographical Society Xavantina-Cachimbo expedition to Mato Grosso, Brazil 1967-69

3 - Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Entangled expeditionary culture in the 21st century: The many meanings of the Danish Galathea 3 Expedition from August 2006 to April 2007

4 - Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University, Denmark), commentator

Room 7: S35 - Visual Culture of Amateurs in Science (1850-1950)

Convener: Laurence Guignard (University Paris Est Créteil, France)

Chair: Laurence Guignard (University Paris Est Créteil, France)

1 - Florent Serina (University of Strasbourg, France), The Botanical Collection of a Psychotherapist: Pierre Janet’s Herbarium

2 - Maria Esmeral Henriquez (EHESS Paris, Fance), To Press, Dry, Organize and Represent. From a Herbarium to Botanical Illustration

3 - Verónica Ramírez (University Adolfo Ibañez, Chile), Professionals and Amateurs under the Scrutiny of Magazines. Satirical Media and Astronomy in Chile (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)

4 - Nathalie Richard & Hadrien Viraben (Le Mans Université, France), The Amateur and the Transmedia Drift of Archaeological Images: James Miln (1819-1881) at Carnac

5 - Florian Mathieu (University of Paris-Saclay, France), The Observation of Sunspots and Their Representations in Societies of Amateur Astronomers in France at the Beginning of the 20th Century

6 - Hadrien Viraben (Le Mans Université, France), commentator

Room 8: S37 - Paper, Metal, Glass: Material Reproduction in Pre-Modern Science

Convener: Katherine M. Reinhart (University of Wisconsin, USA), Megan Piorko (Georgia State University, USA)

Chair: Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter, UK)

1 - Agnese Benzonelli (University College London, UK), Texts, experiments and artefacts, a combined approach to the study of black bronze alloys

2 - Umberto Veronesi (University College London, UK), Of copying, mixing and recycling: The glass distillation apparatus of a 16th-century alchemical laboratory and its material history

3 - Megan Piorko (Georgia State University, USA), Transmutating Alchemical Knowledge on Paper: Using and reusing alchemical texts in the seventeenth-century

4 - Katherine M. Reinhart (University of Wisconsin, USA), Science in Circulation: Coins, Copying, and the Materiality of Scientific Imagery

Room 9: S85 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 2

Conveners: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France), Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

Chair: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

1- Eunsoo Lee (Stanford University, USA), DPointing out the Visual in Ancient Greek Science

2 - Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France), A homogeneous culture of drawing diagrams in relation to mathematical procedures in Old-Babylonian southern Mesopotamia?

3 - Reviel Netz (Stanford University, USA), Why were Greek Diagrams Schematic?

4 - Gregg De Young (American University in Cairo, Egypt), An excursion into the archaeology of mathematics: situating the manuscript BULAC ARA 606

Room 10: S29 - The nature of scientific discovery in the chemical sciences - 2

Conveners: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium), Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Chair: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium)

1 - Helge Kragh (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Can non-existing objects or laws be discovered?

2 - Sarah Hijmans (University of Paris, France), Analogy, Indecomposability and the Discovery of Aluminium

3 - Gisela Boeck (University of Rostock, Germany), Germanium - discovered as the predicted eka-silicon?

4 - Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium), It’s not elementary. The successive lives of eka-manganese aka element 43

16.00-18.00

Documentary "The Decision. Edoardo Amaldi and science without borders"

Watch the movie here

Followed by a round table with Ugo Amaldi (CERN, TERA Foundation), John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Luciano Maiani (Emeritus Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Adele La Rana (University of California Riverside, USA)

Wednesday 2 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual room opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: S77 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 3

Sponsored by SISM - Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche (Italian Society for the History of Mathematics)

Conveners: Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy), Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

Chair: Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

1 - Livia Giacardi (University of Turin, Italy), Geometric Models in Mathematics Teaching in Italy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2 - Salvatore Coen (University of Bologna, Italy), Cesare Razzaboni, his work and the renewal of engineering studies in Bologna

3 - Cinzia Cerroni (University of Palermo, Italy), The Mathematical Circle of Palermo: internationalism and local influences

4 - Aldo Brigaglia (University of Palermo, Italy), Le premier éclair d’un rétablissement des anciens liens qui unissaient les savants de toutes les peuples et de toutes les race, Edmund Landau and the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 1919 - 1934

Room 2: S52 - Sight, Touch and the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Medicine

Convener: Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University, UK)

Chair: Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University, UK)

1 - Jennifer Wallis (Imperial College London, UK), ‘A good, firm, kitchen table and a piece of stout mackintosh’: The sensory and material culture of postmortems in private houses, c.1850-1930

2 - Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham, UK), ‘The incinerated moustache’ and ‘Major Sewall’s thumb-nail’: Applying the Scientific Senses to Spontaneous Human Combustion

3 - Katherine Rawling (University of Leeds, UK), Making sense of insanity: photography in the nineteenth-century asylum

4 - Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University, UK), Engaging the senses in medical photography

Room 3: T10 - Supernatural and Criminology

Chair: Monica Azzolini (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Eva Yampolsky (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), The materiality of the supernatural: the pharmacological function of relics in the miraculous healings at Saint-Médard in 18th century France

2 - Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (University of Bari, Italy), Criminals, saints and some vampires. The natural, the preternatural and the supernatural in the different early modern European cultural contexts

3 - Andrea Graus (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France), Scientific demonstrations and the commodification of child prodigies in Paris

4 - Lara Bergers (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Smelling a Rat. The Use of the Senses in 20th Century Dutch Criminal Investigations and Trials

5 - Fabio Frisino (University of Bari, Italy), Tarantism: a Psychiatric Controversy in the Twentieth Century

Room 4: S62 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 1. Scientific Images and International Rivalry

Sponsored by IUHPST/DHST Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

Conveners: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK), Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary)

Chair: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK)

1 - Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford, UK), Competing Images of Chinese Science: Photography in the Communist-Nationalist Battle for International Legitimacy during the Second World War

2 - Lif Lund Jacobsen (Danish National Archives, Denmark), Seismograph Diplomacy

3 - Daniele Cozzoli (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), American media and the Scientific and Technological Collaboration between the USA and USSR from Sputnik to détente

4 - Pascal Griset & Anne de Floris (Sorbonne Université, France), Show, Not Tell? The Astronaut as Political Mascot or as an Ambassador?

Room 5: T17 - Cartography

Chair: Matthieu Husson (Paris Observatory, France)

1 - Chiara D'Agostini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark), A multisensory approach to cartography. The case of Planudes’ rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Geography

2 - Friederike Frenzel (Technical University of Dresden, Germany), About the Sensuality and Sensibility of Charts Flattening the Earth while Circumnavigating the Globe with James Cook

3 - Oyndrila Sarkar (Presidency University Kolkata, India), Maps & Manuals: Visual Cartography in the Indian subcontinent 1820-1890

4 - Lachlan Fleetwood (University College Dublin, Ireland), ‘The Snow-line and the Arid-line’: Attempts to Scientifically Define and Visualise the Limits of Habitability in Imperial Maps and Gazetteers of Central Asia

Room 6: S36 - New transnational perspectives on 20th-century organismic biology

Convener: Marco Tamborini (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany), Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Chair: Elena Canadelli (University of Padua, Italy)

1 - Jan Baedke & Abigail Nieves Delgado (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), The endosymbiosis of the endosymbiotic theory: Meyer-Abich’s and Böker’s work on developmental evolution

2 - Flavia Fabris (Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austria), The Philosophical Impact of Cybernetics on Waddington’s Epigenetics

3 - Marco Tamborini (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany), Form, Organism, and Architecture

4 - Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), The ‘Organism’ in Post-war Biology: Paths, Boundaries, and Environments

Room 7: T11 - Modern Biomedicine

Chair: Maria Conforti (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)

1 - Janina Wellmann (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany), Visualizing Morphogenesis: The Art of Moving in Biology

2 - Enrique Wulff (Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalucía, Spain), Visualizing data with professor Tsugita: a history within distinct macromolecular classes

3 - Anne van Veen (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Sensing Suffering

4 - Shiori Nosaka (EHESS Paris, France), An unification of the world by vaccination: a case of Germany and Japan at the turn of the 20th century

Room 8: T18 - Earth Sciences and Geography

Chair: Ezio Vaccari (University of Insubria, Italy)

1 - Elena Zanoni (University of Verona, Italy), “The best triumph of our century” : big alpine tunnels and popularisation

2 - Nikolai Dronin* (Moscow State University, Russia), Nataliya Kalutskova, Vladimir Dekhnich & Elina Sheremet, History Of Scenery Studies in Russian Geography

3 - Giancarlo Scalera (INGV Rome, Italy), Variable radius cartography - History and perspectives

4 - Iraklis Katsaloulis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Predicting earthquakes with electric signals: Experiment and Credibility

5 - Sandra Rebok (NCIS, Germany), Humboldtian Science in the United States: Bridging the arts and the sciences

Room 9: T29 - Measurements

Chair: Ezio Mesini (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Emma Prevignano (University of Cambridge, UK), How to make the metre: materialising the new metrology in Revolutionary and early nineteenth century France

2 - Fabio Bevilacqua, Lidia Falomo Bernarduzzi & Maurizio Licchelli (University of Pavia, Italy), “À tous les temps, à tous les peuples!” Towards a Biography of the Pavia University Platinum kg (1800-2020)

3 - Jan Potters (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Disputing measurements: on the German material-theoretical culture of charge-to-mass ratio measurements

4 - Roberto Lalli & Dirk Wintergrün (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany), Understanding scientific texts with machine learning: A computational approach to the history of exoplanet exploration

Room 10: S43 - A Visual Story of the Invisible. Toxicants Revealed

Conveners: Alexandre Elsig (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Ximo Guillem-Llobat (University of València, Spain)

Chair: Alexandre Elsig (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

1 - Ximo Guillem-Llobat (University of València, Spain) & José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez (Inter-University Institute López Piñero, Spain), Toxic Pesticides in Spanish Rural Films during the First Half of the 20th century

2 - Bas Blaasse, Gayatri Kodikal, Marta Macedo, Analeah Rosen, Svenja Schennach, M. Luísa Sousa & Jaume Valentines-Álvarez* (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), Hydrocarbon Toxics in Lisbon EXPO 98: Memory, Environment and Visual Politics

3 - Alexandre Elsig (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Video Shooting to Denounce Industrial Pollution: Swiss Television and the Environment in the 1970s

4 - Joshua McMullan (University of Leicester, UK), Making the Invisible, Visible: Radioactive Contamination and UK Government Response to Sheep Farmers in North Wales after Chernobyl

Room 11: T14 - Chemistry

Sponsored by GNFSC - Gruppo Nazionale Fondamenti e Storia della Chimica (Italian Group on the History of Chemistry)

Chair: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium)

1 - Paolo Zani (University of Bologna, Italy), Chemistry As A New Science Of XVIII Century: How Was Its Visual Communication In The Printed Texts Present In Bologna ?

2 - Marco Taddia (University of Bologna, Italy), Nernst’s controversial contribution to the theory of electrochemical cells

3 - Antonio Martino* & Gaia Naponiello (University of Roma Tre, Italy), A sensory and a mimesis approach in the history of chemistry education: Ostwald's Conversations on chemistry

4 - Elena A. Baum (Moscow State University, Russia), Educational innovations of the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University (MSU): the using of museum funds for a practice-oriented teaching of history of chemistry

5 - Stylianos Kampouridis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Modeling molecules, making reliable predictions: John A. Pople and Theoretical Model Chemistry

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: S47 - Material culture in the positioning of national science in Ibero-America: natural history museums, scientific cabinets and educational institutions - 2

Conveners: Carolina Valenzuela Matus (Autonomous University of Chile, Chile), María Gabriela Mayoni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Chair: Carolina Valenzuela Matus (Autonomous University of Chile, Chile)

1 - María Gabriela Mayoni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Studying the material culture of science education in Argentina: consumer market, transnational circulation, local application and teaching practices

2 - Víctor Guijarro (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), The representation of science, body and objects in construction kits and in the active education movement: Tensions between industrialists and teachers in the interwar years

3 - Katya Braghini (Pontifícal Catolic University of São Paulo, Brazil), Scientific toys: male dominance in representations about Science

4 - Oliver Hochadel (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), commentator

Room 2: S81 - Rare diseases and visual practices: from medical collections to self-representation

Convener: Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Chair: Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez (University of Salamanca, Spain)

1 - Raúl Velasco-Morgado (University of Salamanca, Spain), Photography and collecting practices behind rare diseases in late modern Spain

2 - María José Ruiz Somavilla (University of Málaga, Spain), The representation of people with Turner syndrome in the medical treatises (1940-2015)

3 - Mafalda Sousa (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), The construction of the category “rare diseases” in the daily press: the Portuguese case (2002-2015)

4 - Danielle Souza Fialho da Silva (University of Salamanca and Fiocruz, Spain), Group images and associations of patients with postpolio syndrome in social media in Brazil

Room 3: S61 - I Spy With My Little Eye: Visualizing Science in Early Modern Europe

Conveners: Christoph Sander (Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome Italy), Pamela Mackenzie (Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, Italy)

Chair: Sietske Fransen (Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, Italy)

1 - Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University, France), The Puzzle of the Retinal Picture for Gassendi’s Theory of Vision

2 - Oscar Seip (Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy), How the World Became a Stage: On the Theatricalisation of Scientific Practices

3 - Pamela Mackenzie (Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, Italy), Nehemiah Grew and the comparative methodology and visual epistemology in his Anatomy of Plants

4 - Christoph Sander (Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, Italy), Visible Magnetism. Diagrams and Experiments in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Room 4: S63 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 2. Visualizing Environmental Crisis

Sponsored by IUHPST/DHST Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

Conveners: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK), Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary)

Chair: Giulia Rispoli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany)

1 - Doubravka Olšáková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic), Think Globally, Act Locally: How Brontosaurus, a Prehistoric Animal, Became a Symbol of limits to Growth and Mass Environmental Movement in Communist Czechoslovakia

2 - Agustí Nieto-Galan (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), “The bicycles of Stockholm”: Environmental diplomacy, scientific expertise and dissent at the 1972 UN Conference

3 - Régis Briday (LISA, France) & Sebastian Grevsmühl (EHESS Paris, France), Ignoring what cannot be ignored: visual diplomacy and the ozone hole

4 - Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary), Picturing atomic development: the IAEA bulletin and global nuclear technical assistance

Room 5: T20 - Nuclear Energy and Particles Physics

Chair: Fabio Bevilacqua (University of Pavia, Italy)

1 - Eleonora Loiodice (University of Bari, Italy), The importance of prevention: MIT scientists’ idea of “life belts” around the cities in 1950

2 - Polina Petrukhina (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia), High-energy physics laboratory case study: the changing role of material culture

3 - Daniela Monaldi (York University, Canada), The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics

4 - Hein Brookhuis (KU Leuven, Belgium), Making MYRRHA: a techno-political history at SCK CEN 1995-2020

5 - Rocco Gaudenzi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), Analogies as visual tools in nuclear and particle physics

Room 6: T16 - Environmental studies

Chair: Andrea Candela (University of Insubria, Italy)

1 - Fiona Amery (University of Cambridge, UK), Colour Perception and Audibility: Sensing the Aurora Borealis During the Second International Polar Year, 1932-1933

2 - Andrey Vinogradov (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany), Fish vs. Oil: struggle with pollution of Caspian and Volga waterways (1870-1931)

3 - Stathis Arapostathis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Expertising Greece: Science Advice, Pollution and State formation, 1980-2020

4 - Gemma Cirac-Claveras (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Re-imagining the space age. Aircraft, fieldwork and satellites

5 - Sofia Varino (Potsdam University, Germany), An Unnatural History of Gaia Theory According to James Lovelock & Lynn Margulis

Room 7: S42 - Views from the periphery: visual, material, and sensory cultures of science in early modern Scotland

Conveners: Lewis Ashman (University of Edinburgh, UK), René Winkler (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chair: Monica Azzolini (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Lewis Ashman (University of Edinburgh, UK), A sign of the times: Newton's calculus and the limits of geometry in eighteenth century Scotland

2 - David McOmish (University of Edinburgh, UK), Edinburgh’s Supernova: examining the universe anew after the collapse of Aristotelian Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh, 1612-1640

3 - René Winkler (University of Edinburgh, UK), Robert Sibbald's Auctarium Musæi Balfouriani and the role of museums and collecting in the making of natural scientific knowledge during the early Scottish Enlightenment

4 - Martha McGill (University of Warwick, UK), Science and the supernatural: bodies, minds and invading spirits in early modern Scotland

Room 8: S72 - How can the description of visual and material practices contribute to a better understanding of scientific cultures? - 1. Mathematical cultures

Sponsored by DHST-DLMPST scientific section IASCUD (International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity)

Convener: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

Chair: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

1 - Anna Kiel Steensen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), The mathematical use of graphic position in C. F. Hindenburg’s combinatorial school

2 - Emmylou Haffner (University of Paris Saclay, France), Writing practices in mathematical drafts: what can the materiality of writing before publication tell us about mathematics?

3 - Gisele Dalva Secco (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brasil), Computer-assisted proofs as a new form of mathematical culture? The case of the Four-Color Theorem

4 - Roy Wagner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Diagrammatic cognition and distinct mathematical cultures

Room 9: S82 - Envisioning Mathematics - 1. Conjectural Imagery

Convener: Tatiana Levina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), Anya Yermakova (Harvard University, USA)

Chair: Tatiana Levina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)

1 - Daria Drozdova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), Geometry and Visualisation of Temporal Dimension of Motion in 17th-18th Century Mathematics and Mechanics

2 - Jens Lemanski (Fern University in Hagen, Germany), Visual Turns and Crises of Intuition in 18th-century Philosophy of Mathematics

3 - Irina Starikova (National Research University Moscow, Russia), Diagrams in mathematical thought experiments

4 - Andrei A. Paramonov (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Drafting as elemental force: Topological images in the works of Merab Mamardashvili

Room 10: S17 - Acting with Images and Objects: The Political Epistemology of Mobile Atomic Exhibitions - 1

Convener: Maria Rentetzi (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Chair: Maria Rentetzi (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

1 - Maria Rentetzi (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Mobility Matters: How to Form a Transnational System of Nuclear Power

2 - Loukas Freris (Technical University Berlin, Germany), The Image Technical Assistance: The of IAEA’s Mobile Radioisotope Laboratory travels to Greece

3 - Tatiana Kasperski, (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain): From Nuclear Carnival to “Geek” Picnics: Engaging the Public in Nuclear Science and Technology in post-Soviet Russia

4 - Donatella Germanese (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), The Italian Atomic Exhibition on Wheels, on the Screen, and on Paper

Room 11: S53 - Gardens-Laboratories in Early Modern Botany, Chemistry, and Physiology

Convener: Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Chair: Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - María M. Carrión (Emory University, USA), Nature Gazing in the European 16th-Century Dried Gardens

2 - Matteo Fornasier (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), The Botanical Philosophy behind the Jardin des Plantes

3 - Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Bucharest, Romania), The Ascent of Water in Malpighi’s, Grew’s and Ray’s Physiology of Plants-Laboratories

4 - Julie Davies (University of Muenster, Germany), Early Modern Women and Their Garden Laboratories

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13.50 - 15.10

Room 1: S49 - Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science as a crossroad between histories of displays and displays of histories - 1. Exhibitions and Teaching

Conveners: Eugenio Bertozzi (University of Bologna, Italy), Sébastien Soubiran (University of Strasbourg, France)

Chair: Sofia Talas (University of Padua, Italy)

1 - Laila Zwisler (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), The museum comes to class

2 - Carmen López San Segundo & Francisco Javier Frutos-Esteban (University of Salamanca, Spain), Linternauta: A Web Application for the Interpretation of Magic Lantern Slides as Sources of Scientific Culture

3 - Caterina Morelli (University of Bologna, Italy), Botany between past and present

Room 2: T13 - Medicine and Technology

Chair: Paolo Savoia (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Hanna Vikström (Umeå University,Sweden), Who decides what should be in a decayed tooth? Dental filling materials, science and debates, 1860-1880

2 - Srijita C. Pal (University of Southern California, USA), Visualizing Medical Transport: The Myth and Reality of First World War Ambulance Journeys

3 - John Nott* & Anna Harris (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Knowing the normal, learning disease: technology, sensoriality and the student body

Room 3: S14 - Teaching science with light projection: regimes of vision in the classroom, 1880-1940 - 2

Conveners: Nelleke Teughels (KU Leuven, Belgium), Wouter Egelmeers (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Chair: Wouter Egelmeers (KU Leuven, Belgium)

1 - Nelleke Teughels (KU Leuven, Belgium), Scientific vision and the material culture of the classroom: discursive shifts and classroom transformations in Belgian schools, c. 1900-1940

2 - Margo Buelens-Terryn (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Science at the service of politics. The interplay between scientific lantern lectures in educational institutions and the pillarization in Antwerp and Brussels (c.1860-1920)

3 - Audrey Hostettler (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Managing interest, fostering activity: progressive education and film screenings in Swiss schools during the interwar period

Room 4: S64 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 3. The symbolic power of scientific images in international spaces

Sponsored by IUHPST/DHST Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

Conveners: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK), Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary)

Chair: Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany)

1 - Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK), Unknown Pleasures in Music, Science, and Diplomacy

2 - Grigoris Panoutsopoulos (University of Athens, Greece), Investigating the Materiality of CERN’s Science Diplomacy

3 - Beatriz Medori (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Radioactivity on tour: the picture of Eve Curie at the Portuguese Oncology Institute

Room 5: T2 - Galileian Studies

Chair: Helge Kragh (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

1 - Filip A. A. Buyse (Domus Comeliana, Italy), Galileo and the Transformation of Sensory Qualities: from Intrinsic Properties to Extrinsic Qualities

2 - Hannah Tomczyk (University of Cambridge, UK), Making the mathematization of velocity useful

3 - Cesare Pastorino (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Collecting Material Evidence from Mathematical Instruments: The Case of Johannes Kepler’s use of Galileo Galilei’s Compasso Geometrico e Militare as a Source of Experimental Data

Room 6: S11 - Calculating Tool, Diagram and Algorithm in the Ancient Eastern and Western Mathematics - 1

Conveners: Kostas Nikolantonakis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), Zhigang Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Chair: Kostas Nikolantonakis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)

1 - Kostas Nikolantonakis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), The algorithmic aspect in the frame of Ancient Greek Mathematics: the cases of Heron of Alexandria and of Theon of Alexandria

2 - Zhigang Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Seeing is believing: a cases study on the role of diagrams in ancient Chinese mathematical texts

3 - Hongyan Jia (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), The Understanding of Western Algebra Knowledge by Qing Dynasty Mathematicians - An analysis of the geometric diagrams in Jiegenfang bili

Room 7: S33 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 2

Convener: María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain)

Chair: Mauro Capocci (University of Pisa, Italy)

1 - Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am (Brandeis University, USA), The International Mobility of Adenovirus and the Discovery of RNA splicing: The Perspective of Women and Junior Scientists

2 - Daniela Sclavo (University of Cambridge, UK), From Local Cuisines to Seed Banks and Laboratories: Chiles (Peppers) as Scientific Objects

3 - Ana Barahona (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico), Collaborative networks and hybrid objects: women geneticists in Mexico, 1960s-1970s

Room 8: S59 - Scientific landscape: the global and the local

Convener: Elena Sinelnikova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Chair: Nadia Asheulova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

1 - Maryam Gasan Seyidbeyli (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan), “Risala At-Tibb” (A Treatise On The Medicine) Of Nasir Ad-Din At-Tusi

2 - Elena Sinelnikova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Scientific Societies In Russian Province After The October Revolution

3 - Nadia Asheulova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Presenting The New Comparative Project Of Academies Of Sciences In China and Russia, and The Max Planck Society Post Ww II

Room 9: S78 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 4

Sponsored by SISM - Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche (Italian Society for the History of Mathematics)

Conveners: Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy), Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

Chair: Maria Teresa Borgato (University of Ferrara, Italy)

1 - Claudio Fontanari (University of Trento, Italy), Francesco Severi’s personal library

2 - Massimo Galuzzi (University of Milan, Italy), Ludovico Geymonat. Philosophy, political commitment and mathematics

3 - Maria Giulia Lugaresi (University of Ferrara, Italy), The Fabio Conforto Fund in the IAC, INDAM and University of Rome Archives

Room 10: S18 - Acting with Images and Objects: The Political Epistemology of Mobile Atomic Exhibitions - 2

Convener: Maria Rentetzi (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Chair: Maria Rentetzi (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

1 - Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta (Public University of Navarra, Spain), Scientific Communication or Propaganda? The Atoms for Peace rally in Spain (1954-1964)

2 - Gisela Mateos & Edna Suárez-Díaz (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico), ‘Improvisation is the rule and flexibility and absolute necessity’: Mobile Atoms in Latina America

3 - Joshua McMullan (University of Leicester, UK), commentator

Room 11: T6 - Zoology and Entomology

Chair: Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna, Austria)

1 - Cecilia Veracini (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Portuguese trade of non-human animals in the Age of Discovery (15 th-16th C.)

2 - Nadezhda Slepkova (Zoological institute RAS, Russia), Zoology in the space of Eurasia: how the Zoological museum in St. Petersburg became a largest center for taxonomic research in Russian Empire

3 - Tom Quick (University of Manchester, UK), Purifying the Therapeutic Maggot in Interwar America: Efficiency, Purity, and the Genealogy of Antibiotics

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15.25 - 16.45

Room 1: S50 - Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science as a crossroad between histories of displays and displays of histories - 2. Future Exhibitions

Conveners: Eugenio Bertozzi (University of Bologna, Italy), Sébastien Soubiran (University of Strasbourg, France)

Chair: Caterina Morelli (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 -Sofia Talas (University of Padua, Italy), Renovating a university physics museum: challenges and perspectives

2 - Timo Mappes (German Optical Museum Jena, Germany), Transforming static displays of optical instruments to holistic interactive presentations

3 - Eugenio Bertozzi (University of Bologna, Italy), Sébastien Soubiran (University of Strasbourg, France), Private jewels or public showcases for the Academia? the Museum of the Third Millennium

Room 2: S21 - Visualizing and Modelling Sensory Actions (VMSA) for Inquiring Science & Technology into History - 2

Conveners: Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France)

Chair: Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France)

1 - Antonella Foligno (University of Urbino, Italy), Model-Building Practice as a Cognitive Enterprise

2 - Vincenzo Cioci (Lille University, France), Exploring Sensory Galileo’s Tools for Modelling Motion into History of Physics & Nature of Science

3 - Daniel Jon Mitchell (Science History Institute, USA), “A Much More Purely Experimental and Descriptive Science:” Tyndall, Guthrie, and the Disciplinary Reformation of Late-Victorian Physics

Room 3: S24 - Universities and Their Cities. Visual Traces of Universities and Scholars in University Cities across Eras - 2

Conveners: Milada Sekyrková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic), Marek Ďurčanský (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

Chair: Milada Sekyrková Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

1 - Juliane Mikoletzky (Technical University Vienna, Austria), The Fascination of the „Campus“ Idea. 200 Years of Location Development of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

2 - Jan Kotůlek (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic), Century of Příbram as an University City 1849-1945

3 - Ab Flipse (Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands), The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a Campus University: ‘Cité Universitaire’ between Dream and Reality

Room 4: S65 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 4. The symbolic power of scientific images in international spaces

Sponsored by IUHPST/DHST Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy

Conveners: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK), Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary)

Chair: Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Hungary)

1 - Carlos Godinho (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Nationalizing Scientific Diplomacy: the Celestial Sphere in the 1500s and 1900s Portuguese Politics and Diplomacy

2 - Ronald E. Doel (Florida State University, USA), Alternative Narratives: Learning from Examining Historical Photographs of the Empire of American Science

3 - Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões & Paula Urze (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), Techno-diplomacy in the age of New Imperialism. The Pink Map episode in images

Room 5: T21 - Scientific Instruments

Chair: Lucio Fregonese (University of Pavia, Italy)

1 - Henk Kubbinga (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Nicolaus Mulerius and his Academy-Portrait: Copernicanism in the Netherlands anno 1618

2 - Yoshimi Takuwa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Francesco Algarotti’s ‘Newtonian prisms’ and their experimental accuracy

3 - Manuel Xavier (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Instrumental Failure or Surveyor Incompetence? Gago Coutinho’s Salmoiraghi theodolites

Room 6: S12 - Calculating Tool, Diagram and Algorithm in the Ancient Eastern and Western Mathematics - 2

Conveners: Kostas Nikolantonakis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) Zhigang Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Chair: Zhigang Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

1 - Chunzhi Tian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Pacioli's Study of Euclid's Elements - An analysis of the geometric diagrams in Summa

2 - Ri-na Sa (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), The Study of the Spread of Chinese Traditional Mathematics in Japan- According to the algorithms and diagrams on the Jinkōki

3 - Tsukane Ogawa (Yokkaichi University, Japan), Elimination theories in China and Japan

Room 7: S34 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 3

Convener: María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain)

Chair: María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain)

1 - Marta Velasco Martín (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Yeasted bananas in glass bottles and gendered practices in the Drosophila population Genetics

2 - María Jesús Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Spain), Imaging the human fetus: chromosomes, ultrasound scanning and photographs in the 1960s

3 - Mauro Capocci (University of Pisa, Italy) commentator

Room 8: S27 - Layers of history: From the coast to the mantle in Mediterranean science

Convener: Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne University, France)

Chair: Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne University, France)

1 - Lino Camprubí (University of Sevilla, Spain), 3D Visions of the Mediterranean

2 - Davide Orsini (Mississippi State University, USA), A Sea of risks: environmental monitoring and representations of radiological risks in the Mediterranean during the Cold War

3 - Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne University, France), Secrecy, oil and geology in representing the deep Mediterranean

Room 9: S86 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 3

Conveners: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France), Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

Chair: Adeline Reynaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

1 - Mathieu Ossendrijver (Free University Berlin, Netherlands), Diagrams and figures in Late Babylonian mathematical practices

2 - Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France), From material objects to diagrams. Counting rods in China between the first and the thirteenth centuries CE

3 - Alexei Volkov & Viktor Freiman (University of Moncton, Canada), Calculation of the area of a circle in East and West: Infinitesimal procedures and their visualisations

Room 10: S4 - Learning by Doing and Doing to Learn: Skills, Texts and the Materiality of Surgical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - 2

Conveners: Elaine Leong (University College London, UK), Maria Pia Donato (CNRS - Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris, France)

Chair: Paolo Savoia (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Peter Murray Jones (King's College, Cambridge UK), Show and Tell: A Medieval Operation for Early Modern Surgeons

2 - Annemarie Kinzelbach (German Museum for the History of Medicine, Germany), Transforming Skills: Two Early Modern Manuscripts and Surgery of Hernia in Early Modern Imperial cities

3 - Silvia De Renzi (Open University, UK), Teaching surgery in seventeenth-century Rome: Books, bodies and Guglielmo Riva’s printed pictures

Room 11: S70 - Material Transformations: Chemical Knowledge and the Production of European Porcelain, c. 1708-1820

Conveners: Gabriella Szalay (Harvard Art Museums, USA), Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University, USA)

Chair: Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University, USA)

1 - Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Independent Scholar, USA), The Role of Archival Recipes in Interpreting the Chemistry of Early Meissen Enamels

2 - Gabriella Szalay (Harvard Art Museums, USA), Patterns and Dyes: Textiles and European Porcelain Production in the Long Eighteenth-Century

3 - Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University, USA), Chemists and the Origins of Mass Production in the Porcelain Industry

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17.00 - 18.30

Round Table The Digital Life of Objects and Images: Challenges and Perspectives for the History of Science

YouTube live streaming of the Roundtable

Chaired by Elena Canadelli (University of Padua), with Jessica Bradford (Science Museum, London), Paolo Galluzzi (Museo Galileo, Florence), Massimo Mazzotti (University of California, Berkeley), Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge), Laura Ronzon (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan), Dagmar Schäfer (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

Thursday 3 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual room opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: S60 - Visualizing Races. Practices, tools and objects in the depiction of human diversity since the late 19th Century

Convener: Luc Berlivet (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS France), Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa, Italy)

Chair: Elena Canadelli (University of Padua, Italy)

1 - Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa, Italy), Dante’s Bones. From phrenology to forensic anthropology (1865-2009)

2 - Luc Berlivet (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS France), Mixed Methods. The Interplay between Visual and Analytical Tools in Interwar Italian Racial Science

3 - Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University, Israel), From Visual Perception to Racial Classification: SS Racial Cards and the Nazi re-Shaping of European Population

4 - Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland), Tree-Thinking and Tree-Building in Anthropology

Room 2: T24 - Agriculture and Genetics

Chair: Ilaria Ampollini (Università di Trento)

1 - Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge, UK), A Poultry Affair: Genetics, Graft Hybrids and the Struggle for American Agriculture, 1900-1911

2 - Olga Elina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Modernising Soviet Agriculture: Science, Technology, and Art at the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, 1923

3 - Sotiris Alexakis & Stathis Arapostathis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Chemical Politics in the fields and beyond: Knowledge, Experts and the Chemicalization of Agriculture in Greece

4 - Mike Buttolph (University College London, UK), Recruiting cognitive commitment: Mendelism as a thing of beauty

Room 3: S45 - Re-Mediating Science: The material projection of knowledge from 2D to 3D

Convener: Ion Gabriel Mihailescu (Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland), Simon Dumas Primbault (EPFL - LHST, France)

Chair: Jérôme Baudry (Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland)

1 - Marie Thébaud-Sorger (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France), The Flow of Paper: From Instructions to Montgolfières, and Back

2 - Stefano Gulizia (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Mechanizing the Kunstkammer: Astronomical automata and the legitimation of early mod-ern knowledge through a translation across media

3 - Simon Dumas Primbault (EPFL - LHST, France), “Transplanting the human mind into inanimate matter”: Leibniz’s Reckoning Machine Seen from a Media Perspective

4 - Ion Gabriel Mihailescu (Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland), Casting States of Matter: the construction of thermodynamic 3D-models at the end of the 19th century

Room 4: T7 - Sciences and New Worlds

Chair: Luca Tonetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge, UK), Archaeology, Astronomy, or Hermeneutics? The Jesuit China mission and different ways of knowing the deep past in Europe

2 - Dimitri Bayuk (Financial University Moscow, Russia), Imperial Border Visualised, or Cognitive Compensation for the Defeat at Nerchinsk

3 - Tracy Wietecha (Leopoldina National Academy of Science, Germany), German Scientists, their Observationes, and Institutional Ties to the New World in the Seventeenth Century

4 - Inês Gomes & Dulce Freire (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Paving the way for integrated research in the history of science and the rural history: seeds and travels between the Iberian Peninsula and the New World

Room 5: S69 - From Places to Milieus of Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Savant Practices

Convener: Paul-Arthur Tortosa (European University Institute / University of Strasbourg, France)

Chair: Émilie d’Orgeix (EPHE - PSL, France)

1 - Emanuele Giusti (University of Florence, Italy), From the Field to the Bookshop: Shaping the Image of Persepolis in the Early Eighteenth Century

2 - Paul-Arthur Tortosa (European University Institute / University of Strasbourg, France), Smelling disease, tasting medication: inspecting military hospitals during the campaign of Italy, 1796-1797

3 - Beatrice Falcucci (University of Florence, Italy), The Empire of Things. Colonial museums in Fascist Italy

4 - Lea Delmaire (SciencesPo Doctoral School, France), A situated home for science: The Istanbul Antituberculosis Training and Demonstration Centre as a milieu

5 - Émilie d’Orgeix (EPHE - PSL, France), commentator

Room 6: T27 - Geometry and Algebra

Chair: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

1 - Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Hidden Messages in Greek Mathematics: Style and Philosophy in Euclid

2 - Ladislav Kvasz (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), On the constitution of algebraic symbolism

3 - Davide Pietrini (University of Urbino, Italy), The three-dimensional representation meets the geometrical representation: a new way to divulge the mechanics

4 - Alexandru Liciu (University of Bucharest, Romania), Robert Hooke’s Lectures for Improving Navigation and Astronomy: “practical Geometry”, “mechanical Algebra” and the Search for Longitude

5 - Xiaofei Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), With or without diagrams: Geometry in the teaching of Analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique around 1800

Room 7: S31 - Visualizing the history of knowledge: Methods and epistemic implications of digital humanities' visual techniques

Convener: Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Dirk Wintergrün (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany)

Chair: Marieke M. A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands)

1 - Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands), Of Patterns and Patches: Visualization Methodologies for a Digital History of Knowledge

2 - Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany) & Hou Ieong (Brent) Ho (University College London, UK), Visualizing the Knowledge Organization of 4,000 Chinese Local Gazetteers

3 - Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling & Gerhard Müller (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany), SoNAR (IDH) - Interfaces to Data for Historical Social Network Analysis and Research: Reflections on an on-going project

4 - Dirk Wintergrün & Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Interpreting complex data in the history of science: visualization and quantification in socio-epistemic networks

Room 8: S91 - From technical practice to the visual representation of the features of the Earth: travels, tools, fieldwork - 1

Sponsored by INHIGEO - IUGS / IUHPST International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences

Conveners: Maria Faccioli (University of Insubria, Italy), Claudia Principe (Italian National Research Council - CNR, Italy)

Chair: Ezio Vaccari (University of Insubria, Italy)

1 - Maria Faccioli (University of Insubria, Italy), The evolution of the representations of the Earth: some examples of graphic forms of stratigraphic column in the eighteenth century

2 - Daniele Musumeci* (University of Catania, Italy) & Stefano Branca (INGV Catania, Italy), The history of volcanology in Catania in the twentieth century

3 - Maddalena Napolitani (ENS Paris, France), Visual representations of graphite’s exploitation: Jean-Pierre Alibert’s (1844-1857) Siberian expedition between art and science

4 - Francesca Gambino* (University of Turin, Italy), Alessandro Borghi, Anna d’Atri, Luca Martire, Marco Giardino, Luigi Perotti & Mauro Palomba, Tourinstone: the application of the geo-history of Torino (NW Italy)

Room 9: T30 - Psychology and Epistemology

Chair: Luigi Traetta (University of Foggia, Italy)

1 - Leonardo Capanni (University of Parma, Italy) The two senses of synesthesia: An exploration in mid-nineteenth century France

2 - Anna Dadaian (University College, UK), Jung’s Psychological Types and the ‘Visual’

3 - Winifred E. Newman (Clemson University, USA), The Neuroscience of Beauty and Gorillas

4 - Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest, Romania), Emblems as magic tools and heuristic devices: Bruno, Bacon and Culianu. An exercise on perspectival contextualism

5 - Havelok Symes (Independent Scholar, UK), Cartesian Dualism: Kepler, Pauli and the Epistemological Break

Room 10: T15 - Scientific Communication

Chair: Francesco Paolo De Ceglia (University of Bari, Italy)

1 - Hugo Silveira Pereira (Nova University of Lisbon & University of Évora, Portugal), “Progress” and the illustrated press in Portugal (1878-1914)

2 - Evgeniya A. Dolgova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia), From cultural to popular-science films: popularization practices of scientific knowledge in the 1920-1930s

3 - Antoni Malet (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain), The Public Image of Science in Francoist Spain, 1939-1959

4 - Nicolas Rasmussen (University of New South Wales, Australia), Picturing Prescription: Scientific Rationale and Visual Representation in Pharmaceutical Advertising since the Second World War

5 - Giulia Bovone (Italian Academy of History of Pharmacy, Italy), “I treat them like dinosaurs” the unwritten history of pharmacy hidden in the design of vintage pharmaceutical boxes and bottles

Room 11: S74 - Greco-Roman Science in Dialogue with Culture Representations, Materials, Sensations and Feasts

Convener: Daniele Morrone (University of Bologna, Italy)

Chair: Daniele Morrone (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Liba Taub (University of Cambridge, UK), Representing Mathematics in Ancient Greece and Rome

2 - Raquel Martín Hernández (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), The Material Expression of the Persuasive Analogy The Medical Use of Gemstones in Greco-Roman Times

3 - Michiel Meeusen (Gerda Henkel Foundation, Belgium), Imperial Science and Sympotic Culture Performing Knowledge at the Feast

4 - Daniele Morrone (University of Bologna, Italy), Explaining Taste Without a Taster. The Chemistry of Flavours in Plutarch’s Scientific Reflection

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: T26 - Archaeology and Material Culture

Chair: Maria Paula Diogo (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)

1 - Fedra A. Pizzato (University of Verona, Italy), From Troy to the “Great Mediterranean”. How archaeological materials influenced Giuseppe Sergi’s theory on human origins

2 - Johannes Thomann (University of Zurich, Switzerland), The Earliest Arabic Horoscope and the Origin of the Square Horoscope Diagram

3 - Mariana Sánchez (University of Paris Diderot, France), Material culture in El Escorial: Distillation devices

4 - Antonio Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain), The Tacit Dimension of Artisanal Knowledge in the Iberian maritime culture of the Early Modern Age

5 - Artur Neves* (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), Maria João Melob, Maria Elvira Callapez & Robert Friedeld, On the scent of Celluloid: an investigation of relevant industry practices

Room 2: S94 - Libraries and Archives in the History of Sciences

Sponsored by Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archivistici e Librari, Sapienza University of Rome

Convener: Giovanni Paoloni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Chair: Giovanni Paoloni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

1 - Livia Castelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), From book shelves to bibliography and bibliophily: construction and reception of a sixteenth century ‘spring advice book’ in the Istituto delle Scienze of Bologna library collections’ items

2 - Sandro Caparrini (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy), A peek at the desk of a nineteenth-century mathematician: the manuscripts of Giovanni Plana (1781-1864) in the Academy of Sciences of Torino

3 - Elena Scalambro (University of Turin, Italy), Gino Fano’s literary heritage

4 - Francesca Nemore (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), The "Archives of Science" project and website

Room 3: T25 - Scientific Travels

Chair: Dimitri Bayuk (Financial University Moscow, Russia)

1 - Maija Kallinen (University of Oulu, Finland), Keeping up appearances. Pehr Kalm and the self-fashioning of an 18th-century travelling naturalist

2 - Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge, UK), Joseph Banks, Georg Forster and the Visualisation of Nature in the Age of Revolutions

3 - Agnese Ghezzi (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence, Italy), Visualising anthropology: the observational struggle between closeness and distance

4 - Anna Gustavsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Montelius And Emilia-Romagna, Or How To Find People, Places And Practices Behind A Great Man´S Work

Room 4: T5 - Scientific Institutions

Chair: Clara Florensa (Nacional Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

1 - Victor Kupriyanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Science, society and political power in G.W.F. Leibniz’s projects of the organization of science

2 - Carlos Fernando Teixeira Alves (University of Lisbon, Portugal), The introduction of chemistry (and the new discoveries) in two catholic universities in Southern Europe. The case of Salamanca and Coimbra at second half of the 18th century

3 - Sandra Klos (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria), ‘To see with your own eyes’: Travelling and boundary work in personal CVs of members of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna (late 19th century)

4 - Anna V. Samokish (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), The specifics of communication of the scientific and pedagogical community of Petrograd in the minutes of the meeting of the Society for the Dissemination of Natural History Education

5 - Vitor Bonifácio (University of Aveiro, Portugal), The early years of the Portuguese Association for the Advancement of Science (1917–21)

Room 5: T23 - Astronomy and Astrophysics

Chair: Adele La Rana (University of California Riverside, USA)

1 - Rheagan Eric Martin (Warburg Institute London, UK), Seeing Through: The Possibility of Transparency in Fifteenth-Century Printed Astronomical Texts

2 - Suzanne Débarbat (Paris Observatory, France), Changing Looks: Observations of the Satellites of Jupiter from Galileo to the Space Age

3 - Carlos Hugo Sierra (University of Basque Country, Spain), Dreams Of The “Artificial Retina”. Objective Nature And Astronoetics In The Context Of The Mid-Nineteenth Century Technology Of Scientific Sight

4 - Andrew Clive Davenhall (Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK), Charles Piazzi Smyth and the Art of Scientific Illustration

5 - Marina Rieznik (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Technical images in astronomy in Argentina since the late nineteenth century

Room 6: T28 - Mathematics

Chair: Erika Luciano (University of Turin, Italy)

1 - Clelia Vittoria Crialesi (University of Toronto, Canada), Picturing Numbers: Pandulphus Of Capua And The Hindu-Arabic Numerals In 11th-Century Italy

2 - Antonino Drago (Federico II University of Naples, Italy), Sensory Physics And Inertia Principle: The Case Of Nicholas Cusanus

3 - Jane Amanda Wess (Independent Researcher, UK), Epicycloids and Epicycloidal Teeth: A Small Consideration of Mathematics and It's Technological Applications in the 18th Century

4 - Gabriela Besler (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland), Gottlob Frege’s Correspondence with Italian Mathematicians as a Material Sign of Culture of Science

Room 7: S80 - The international scientific conference: a visual, material and sensory history

Convener: Laura C. Forster (Birkbeck University of London, UK)

Chair: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Mémosciences, Belgium)

1 - Thomas Mougey (EHESS Paris, France), Building the Conference Hall: the Material and Spatial Construction of the Scientific Conference at the Parisian Expositions, 1900 - 1937

2 - Laura C. Forster (Birkbeck University of London, UK), Living the Conference: science and socialization in Interwar Britain

3 - Georgiana Kotsou (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Periodic table manners: the materiality of rituals in international chemistry conferences

4 - Charlotte Bigg (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France), Performing and experiencing scientific conferences

Room 8: S92 - From technical practice to the visual representation of the features of the Earth: travels, tools, fieldwork - 2

Sponsored by INHIGEO - IUGS / IUHPST International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences

Conveners: Maria Faccioli (University of Insubria, Italy), Claudia Principe (Italian National Research Council - CNR, Italy)

Chair: Ezio Vaccari (University of Insubria, Italy)

1 - Guido Roghi (Italian National Research Council - CNR, Italy), The unpublished Compendium Faunae et Florae fossilis Bolcensis of Abramo Massalongo

2 - Gianbattista Vai & Stefano Marabini (University of Bologna, Italy), Original visual imaging in Marsili’s (1658-1730) geology

3 - Johannes Mattes (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria), Surveying, Mapping and (Dis)Trusting: Knowledge and Visions of Earth in Early Modern Cave Maps

4 - Andrea Candela (University of Insubria, Italy), commentator

Room 9: T19 - Scientific Education

Chair: Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, UK)

1 - Robert Middeke-Conlin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Education and professional practice in the Old Babylonian city of Lagaba

2 - Ilaria Ampollini (University of Trento, Italy), Science-themed board games and card decks in the Modern Age

3 - Rosanna Evans (University of Leeds, UK) Problem solving: hand- and home-made objects in the Science Museum’s English school science teaching collections, 1944-1988

4 - Isabel Malaquias & João Oliveira (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Thinking outside the immediate sensory box: cathodic rays and X-rays

5 - Christian Sammer (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Health on Display: Clarity Lost and Regained in German Health Education Exhibitions during the 20th Century

Room 10: S89 - Is historical epistemology a political epistemology? The case of knowledge from below

Conveners: Charles Wolfe (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Gerardo Ienna (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

Chair: Charles Wolfe (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

1 - Sascha Freyberg (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Ideals vs. Dispositifs? Cassirer and Foucault on the political dimension of the history of knowledge

2 - Giulia Gandolfi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Science and technology as epistemology: Canguilhem on the ‘pre-scientific’

3 - Gerardo Ienna (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Bourdieu: how to write historical epistemology from below

4 - Charles Wolfe (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), “La médecine empirique a existé de tout temps” (T. Bordeu, 1764): medical empiricism as knowledge from below

5 - Pietro Omodeo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), commentator

Room 11: S66 - Arabo-Islamic Science & the Manipulation of Nature

Convener: Lucia Raggetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Chair: Lucia Raggetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

1 - Liana Saif (The Warburg Institute, UK), The Scientific Philosophy of Talismanry: The Case of Kitāb al-Nukhab attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

2 - Robert Sieben-Tait (University of Bologna, Italy), Cheering the soul: Badr ad-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Qāḍī Baʿalbakk and his physiology of happiness

3 - Masayo Watanabe (University of Bologna, Italy), Making Talismans in the Graeco-Arabic Tradition

4 - Maryam Zamani (University of Tehran, Iran), Two Explanations for one Demonstration related to Mercury anomalies in the Almagest

5 - Lucia Raggetti (University of Bologna, Italy), commentator

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13.45 - 15.45

Room 1: S44 - Aesthetic representations of scientific knowledge

Conveners: Elisabete Pereira (Nova University of Lisbon & University of Évora, Portugal), María Alejandra Pupio (National University of the South, Argentina)

Chair: María Alejandra Pupio (National University of the South, Argentina)

1- Cecilia Simón (National University of the South, Argentina), Rational visual devices in the discussion of the antiquity of man in the Río de la Plata (Argentina, the decade of 1910)

2 - María Alejandra Pupio (National University of the South, Argentina), Elisabete Pereira (Nova University of Lisbon & University of Évora, Portugal), Object of objects": paintings and sculptures of archaeological objects from a comparative analysis between Portugal and Argentina, the first half of the twentieth century

3 - Ana Margarida Ferreira (Civic Museum Santos Rocha, Portugal), Didactic and artistic strategies of communication at the Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz, Portugal (1894-1910)

4 - Quintino Lopes (University of Évora, Portugal), An Experimental Phonetics Laboratory, between science and art

5 - Maria de Fátima Nunes (University of Évora, Portugal), commentator

Room 2: T9 - Renaissance and Early Modern Medicine

Sponsored by SISUMed - Società Italiana di Scienze Umane in Medicina (Italian Society of Humanities in Medicine)

Chair: Maria Conforti (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)

1 - Viktoria von Hoffmann (University of Liège, Belgium), Vidi et Tetigi. Touch, Sight, and Anatomical Experience of the Body in Renaissance Italy

2 - Ariella Minden (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence, Italy), Creating the Scientific Image: The Case of Berengario da Carpi’s Isagoge Breves (1523)

3 - Joana Balsa de Pinho (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Renaissance hospitals in Portugal: from visual to material culture of science

4 - Barbara Di Gennaro (Yale University, USA), The Materiality of Theriac in Seventeenth-Century Bologna: Standardizing Compounds through Sensory Evaluation

Room 3: S48 - A Scientific Encounter: Artists responding to and engaging with research collections and museum objects

Convener: Richard Talbot (Newcastle University, UK)

Chair: Ed Juler (Newcastle University, UK)

1 - Alistair Robinson (Harvard University, USA), Post-Specimen

2 - Irene Brown (Newcastle University, UK), ‘Exploring the wonder of electricity’

3 - Richard Talbot (Newcastle University, UK), ‘Making Connections’

4 - Wolfgang Weileder (Newcastle University, UK), ‘Salon de Ledoux’

Room 4: S90 - Sensory experience in early-modern scientific writing

Convener: Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter, UK)

Chair: Katherine M. Reinhart (University of Wisconsin, USA)

1 - Ivana Bičak (University of Exeter, UK), Versifying Experience: Early Modern Poetry Collections of Danish Anatomists

2 - Giulia Rovelli (University of Insubria, Italy), Medical Case Histories and the Role of Personal Experience in the Popularization of Learned Medicine

3 - Lucia Berti (University of Milan, Italy), Sir Thomas Dereham: A scientific intermediary between Italy and the Royal Society

4 - Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter, UK), Silenced witnesses: everyday experience in scientific narrative

Room 5: S68 - The practice of geometry in medieval Alfonsine astronomy

Conveners: Samuel Gessner (Paris Observatory, France), Richard L. Kremer (Dartmouth College, USA)

Chair: Matthieu Husson (Paris Observatory, France)

1 - Nicolas A. Jacobson (Paris Observatory, France), The justificatory role of diagrams in an anonymous set of fourteenth-century canons for the Alfonsine tables (Erfurt Q366 ff. 70v-73v)

2 - Laure Miolo (EPHE - PSL, France), Figuring and calculating eclipses at the end of the 15th century: Lewis of Caerleon and his geometrical canons

3 - Angela Axworthy (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany), Geometrical models of the universe in the fifteenth century: the case of Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi

4 - Samuel Gessner (Paris Observatory, France), The transposition of numerical data from tables onto the scales of instruments: Teorice novelle (15th c.)

5 - Richard L. Kremer (Dartmouth College, USA), commentator

Room 6: S83 - Envisioning Mathematics - 2. Artistic Imagery

Convener: Tatiana Levina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), Anya Yermakova (Harvard University, USA)

Chair: Irina Starikova (National Research University Moscow, Russia)

1 - Tatiana Levina ((National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), Symbol of Absolute Infinite: Visualising Georg Cantor’s Idea

2 - Anya Yermakova (Harvard University, USA), Rethinking 'scratchwork' for the global history of science: the case of Logic in the early 20th C Russian Empire

3 - Tamara Caulkins (Central Washington University, USA), Geometry for Nobles: The Mathematics of Self-Fashioning in the Age of Enlightenment

4 - Michele Emmer (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Parallels Stories in Mathematics and Art

Room 7: T1 - Sciences and Visual Arts

Chair: Koen Vermeir (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France)

1 - Antoni Roca-Rosell (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain), Teaching of drawing in the 18th century in France and Spain and the beginnings of technical education

2 - Alberto Vianelli (University of Insubria, Italy), From unique artworks to public reproductions in a scientific journal: the vélins and the first years of the Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle

3 - Nelson Arellano-Escudero (University Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Chile), TSolar techs visual representations: science, technology and the governance of social value (1816-1976)

4 - Xavier Calvó-Monreal (Catalan Society for The History of Science and Technology, Spain), The unknown work of art and the consolidation of a research group: The Department of Macromolecular Chemistry, according to Jordi Maragall i Mira

5 - Maria Concetta Calabrese (University of Catania, Italy), The Scientific Collection of Antonio Ruffo: Scientific Objects, Art Commissioning, and Material Culture in Early Modern Messina

Room 8: S22 - Color Charts as Trading Zones between Science and Art 1500-1800

Convener: Giulia Simonini (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Chair: Sarah Lowengard (The Cooper Union, USA)

1 - Truusje Goedings (Indipendent Scholar, Netherlands), A 17th Century Dutch Attempt at Making a Full Colour System with over 1,700 Different Hues

2 - Erma Hermens (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), ‘Through the eye and through text’. A unique 17th-century Dutch Colour Chart for Painters: Identification and Interpretation

3 - Giulia Simonini (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Lambert’s Color Pyramid: Practical Applications for Artists’ Techniques and Materials

4 - André Karliczek (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany), Materialization of Vision - Color Standards in the Early Sciences

5 - Friedrich Steinle (Technical University Berlin, Germany), commentator

Room 9: S93 - Medialities of natural knowledge in 18th century Europe: herbaria, notes, illustrations

Conveners: Alexandra Cook (University of Hong Kong), Sarah Benharrech (University of Maryland, USA)

Chair: Alexandra Cook (University of Hong Kong)

1 - Alexandra Cook (University of Hong Kong), Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Or why searching for a needle in a haystack is worth it

2 - Sarah Benharrech (University of Maryland, USA), Abbreviated botany: note-taking in A.-L. de Jussieu’s courses (1775-1777)

3 - Dorothée Rusque (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Make Nature Visible. The Graphic Representation of the Animal World in Jean Hermann’s Tabula affinitatum animalium (1783)

4 - J. Cabelle Ahn (Harvard University, USA), Conducting Nature: Exposing Plant Iconography in Late Eighteenth-century Paris

Room 10: S73 - How can the description of visual and material practices contribute to a better understanding of scientific cultures? - 2. Scientific cultures

Sponsored by DHST-DLMPST scientific section IASCUD (International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity)

Convener: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

Chair: Karine Chemla (CNRS / University of Paris, France)

1 - Peeter Müürsepp (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Practical Realism and Material Practices

2 - Vitaly Pronskikh (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA), Gas jet targets at NAL: from material practice to epistemic culture

3 - Xi Gao (Fudan University, China), A Way of Understanding body knowledge: Illustrations and wax models for anatomical education during the Qing dynasty

4 - Han Qi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Picturing Science: Scientific Instruments as a Part of Ritual Objects---Scientific Cultures at the Kangxi and Qianlong Courts

Room 11: T8 - Medical Displacements

Chair: Elaine Leong (University College London, UK)

1 - Valentina Pugliano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Onorio Belli (1550-1603), Prospero Alpino (1553-1617) and Venice’s Levantine Doctors: A Forgotten Network of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean World

2 - Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford, UK), Visualisations of tactility in Chinese pulse diagnostics

3 - Yijie Huang (St Catharine’s College Cambridge, UK), How to clarify touch? Literal idioms, numbers and their relationship in John Floyer’s (1649-1734) pulse diagnostics

4 - Chen Wei (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), The Road of Adulterated Herbs: the intercultural comparison of true knowledge about false things

5 - Yiwei Yan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Tools and Practice of "Cutting": Surgical instruments brought to China by 19th-century medical missionaries

16.00 - 19.00

ESHS General Assembly and Closing of the Conference