Last modification: 31 August 2006
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, September 8, 2006
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Session slot M-4
Location: Aula / Assembly Hall, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | ACTIVITY / SPEAKER |
| 09.00-10.15 | General Assembly of the ESHS (members only) |
| 10.15-10.45 | (Pl) "Alexander von Humboldt - The explorer and the scientist" - a presidential address by Prof. Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin, Germany) |
| 10.45-11.00 | (Pl) "Towards a new web site of the DHST: participatory media for a community of scholars, possibilities and choices" by Fabio BEVILACQUA (Pavia, Italy) |
| Location: Corridors of the 2nd floor, Collegium Novum, Jagiellonian University | |
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 11.00-11.30 | Cofee Break |
PARALLEL SYMPOSIA
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Session slot 4.A
Chair: Sona STRBANOVA (Prague, The Czech Republic) Symposium R-2: "Achievements of Central Europe in Science, in the light of historical studies" Location: Aula / Assembly Hall, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "Three generations of natural scientists in Hungary 1848-1918" by Éva Katalin VÁMOS (Budapest, Hungary) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "Gregor Mendel and the Scientific Milieu of His Discovery" by Jiří SEKERÁK (Brno, The Czech Republic) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "The Lvov School of Mathematics" by Roman DUDA (Wroclaw, Poland) |
| Session slot 4.B
Chair: Annette B. VOGT (Berlin, Germany) Symposium R-10: "From Maria Sklodowska-Curie to the 21st Century: Working on Women and Science in History of Science" Location: Senate Room, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | ------------- |
| 11.55-12.20 | "A Scientific Outsider: Astrid Cleve von Euler and Her Passion for Research" by Kristina ESPMARK (Umea, Sweden) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "Roses for the Gentlemen: The question of Women's rights in medical studies at the University of Vienna before 1897" by Felicitas SEEBACHER (Klagenfurth, Austria) |
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Session slot 4.C
Chair: Patrick PETITJEAN (Paris, France) Symposium R-17: "Politically active Scientists in the 20th Century" Location: Room 30, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "The Rationalism beyond science: the politic and religious activism of the Union rationaliste" by Yannick BÉZIN (Paris, France) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "The concept of nature and environmental projects: UNESCO in its first decade" by Heloisa Maria BERTOL DOMINGUES (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| 12.20-12.45 | ------------- |
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Session slot 4.D
Chair: Geert VANPAEMEL (Leuven, Belgium) Symposium R-18: "Circulating Knowledge: A European perspective on communication of science" Location: Room 56, Collegium Novum (2nd floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "The 'Americanisation' of Dutch Universities in the 1960s and 70s: The Case of Chemistry at the University of Groningen" by Ton van HELVOORT (Groningen, The Netherlands) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "The 'Holsteinisation' of the Dutch dairy cattle breeds in the 1970s and 1980s" by Bert THEUNISSEN (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| 12.20-12.45 | ------------- |
| Session slot 4.E
Chair: Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS (Florina, Greece) Symposium R-8: "Weights and Measures: the first integration in Europe?" Location: Room 6, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "The decimal metric system facing scientists and population" by Suzanne DÉBARBAT, Simone DUMONT (Paris, France) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "In Search of Common Standards - The 1650 Computer of Casimir Simienowicz for Weight Conversions" by Romualdas SVIEDRYS (Brooklyn, N.Y., USA) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "Gauß, Meyerstein and Hanoverian precision weights and measures" by Klaus HENTSCHEL (Berne, Switzerland) |
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Session slot 4.F
Chair: Pasquale TUCCI (Milano, Italy) Symposium R-9: "Global Physics and Local Research in the 20th Century" Location: Room 7, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "Greenland Ice Sheet Project: Collaboration of local specialisations on global problems" by Maiken LOLCK (Aarhus, Denmark) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "The reception of the De Broglie principle in England" by Jaume NAVARRO (Cambridge, The Great Britain) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "From Möbius to Heisenberg - Mathematical and theoretical physics in Leipzig 1830 - 1945" by Karl-Heinz SCHLOTE (Leipzig, Germany) |
| Session slot 4.G
Chair: Michal KOKOWSKI (Cracow, Poland) Symposium R-4: "Nicholas Copernicus in focus" Location: Room 1, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "Bibliografia Kopernikowska. T.1-3 (Copernican Bibliography Vol. 1-3)" by Henryk BARANOWSKI (Torun, Poland) and "Investigations on the life and extensive works of Nicolas Copernicus" by Marian BISKUP (Torun, Poland) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "How Copernicus saw what Ptolemy and everyone else for 1400 years missed" by Howard MARGOLIS (Chicago, USA) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler on Linear Distances" by André GODDU (Stonehill, USA) |
| Session slot 4.H
Chair: Andrzej Kajetan WROBLEWSKI (Warsaw, Poland) Symposium R-varia I: Location: Lecture Room H, Collegium Olszewskiego, Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "Restructuring the connections (Scientific networks of the University of Tartu shattered by language shifts)" by Ken KALLING, Erki TAMMIKSAAR (Tartu, Estonia) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "The revival of the Vilnius University in 1919: historical conditions and importance for Polish science" by Ewelina Tylinska (Warsaw, Poland) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "The Studies and the History of Mathematics at the University of Lithuania in 1920-1940" by Juozas BANIONIS (Vilnius, Lithuania) |
| Session slot 4.I
Chair: Claude DEBRU (Paris, France) Symposium R-14: "Progress in Science and Science in Progress: Cultural Perspectives" Location: Room 13, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "A qualitative view of scientific progress (and possible regression): What are the right questions to ask in experimental science?" by Claude DEBRU (Paris, France) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "Erratic progresses - Model of the erraticism" by Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA (Paris, France) |
| 12.20-12.45 | "Science, Mennonites and Dissent in the Dutch Enlightenment" by Ernst P. HAMM (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| Session slot 4.J
Chair: Fabio BEVILACQUA (Pavia, Italy) SYMPOSIUM R-varia II Location: Room 14, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 11.30-11.55 | "Archimedes' centres of gravity theory as a logical foundation in Torricelli's mechanics?" by Raffaele PISANO (Rome, Italy) |
| 11.55-12.20 | "Mathematics Science and Memory: Florentine Painting and the origins of the experimental model during the Italian Renaissance" by Richard K. MERRITT (Decorah, Iowa, USA) |
| 12.20-12.45 | ------------- |
| Location: Corridors of the 2nd floor, Collegium Novum, Jagiellonian University | |
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 12.45 -14.15 | Lunch |
| Session slot 5.A
Chair: Andrzej PELCZAR (Krakow, Poland) Symposium R-2: "Achievements of Central Europe in Science, in the light of historical studies" Location: Aula / Assembly Hall, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Browicz or Kupffer cells?" by Andrzej SRODKA, Ryszard W. GRYGLEWSKI and Wojciech SZCZEPANSKI (Cracow, Poland) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "A somewhat obscure discoverer of plasmodesmata - Eduard Tangl (1848-1905)" by Piotr KÖHLER (Cracow, Poland) and Denis J. CARR (Pearce, Australia) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "Ludwik Fleck as a medical scientist, microbiologist and immunologist" by Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI (Poznan, Poland) |
| Session slot 5.B
Chair: Sona STRBANOVA (Prague, The Czech Republic) Symposium R-10: "From Maria Sklodowska-Curie to the 21st Century: Working on Women and Science in History of Science" Location: Senate Room, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | ------------- |
| 14.40-15.05 | "Portraying gender" by Sasa LADA, Olga FOTAKOPOULOU, Katerina CHATZIKONSTANTINOU (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "The biochemist and physiologist Lina Stern (1878-1968) at the intersection of personal and academic history" by Jean-Jacques DREIFUSS (Geneva, Switzerland), Natalia TIKHONOV (Strasbourg, France) |
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Session slot 5.C
Chair: Patrick PETITJEAN (Paris, France) Symposium R-17: "Politically active Scientists in the 20th Century" Location: Room 30, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "The International Conferences on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and Cold War confrontation: scientific internationalism in the 1950s and 1960s" by Ulrike WUNDERLE (Tübingen, Germany) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "Norbert Wiener's Politics and the History of Cybernetics" by Mathieu TRICLOT (Lyon, France) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "Science is not national, but scientists are" by Simon OLLING REBSDORF (Aarhus, Denmark) |
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Session slot 5.D
Chair: Bert THEUNISSEN (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Symposium R-18: "Circulating Knowledge: A European perspective on communication of science" Location: Room 56, Collegium Novum (2nd floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Knowledge transfer about sex and gender: The case of Women's Studies in the Netherlands" by Jeannette van der SANDEN (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "Local vs Global Knowledge: Is It a Meaningful Dichotomy?" by Zibartas Juozas JACKUNAS (Vilnius, Lithuania) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "Scientific connections in new Europe after World War I. The example of mathematics in Strasbourg and Brno" by Laurent MAZLIAK (Paris, France), Pavel SISMA (Brno, The Czech Republic) |
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Session slot 5.E
Chair: Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS (Florina, Greece) Symposium R-8: "Weights and Measures: the first integration in Europe?" Location: Room 6, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Weights and Measures: the Greek efforts to integrate the Metric System" by Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS (Florina, Greece) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "The Netherlands and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures" by Frans van LUNTEREN (Amsterdam-Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "Weights and Measures of the Spanish military engineers until the metrical unification " by Juan NAVARRO LOIDI, Pilar MERINO SAENZ (Rentería, Basque Country, Spain) |
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Session slot 5.F
Chair: Maiken LOLCK (Aarhus, Denmark) Symposium R-9: "Global Physics and Local Research in the 20th Century" Location: Room 7, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Nuclear physics instrumentation in Norway: 1933-1955" by Roland WITTJE (Trondheim, Norway) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "Triangle Collaboration" by Juraj SEBESTA" (Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "The Internationalization of Physical Cosmology" by Helge KRAGH (Aarhus, Denmark) |
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Session slot 5.G
Chair: Michal KOKOWSKI (Cracow, Poland) Symposium R-4: "Nicholas Copernicus in focus" Location: Room 1, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | ------------- |
| 14.40-15.05 | "The early Copernican biographies and portraits as part of the reception of Copernicus" by Andreas KUEHNE (München, Germany) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "The Leiden interpretation of Copernicus' theory of the universe" by Rienk H. VERMIJ (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
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Session slot 5.H
Chair: Roman DUDA (Wroclaw, Poland) Symposium R-varia I: Location: Lecture Room H, Collegium Olszewskiego, Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Gruber and the Machine Ship Model" by Stanislav JUZNIC (Ljubljana, Slovenia) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "Jubilee of Jan Hempel's Geognostic map of coalfield in Polish Kingdom" by Andrzej J. Wójcik (Warsaw, Poland) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "The Explorers of the Northern Part of the Silesia - Cracow Upland. Natural Research Between the Middle of the 19th Century and the End of the 20th Century" by Ewa KACZMARZYK (Czestochowa, Poland) |
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Session slot 5.I
Chair: Claude DEBRU (Paris, France) Symposium R-14: "Progress in Science and Science in Progress: Cultural Perspectives" Location: Room 13, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "Back to Progress: One or More Scientific Paradigms" by Aleksandar PETROVIC (Kragujevac, Serbia) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "How Does Knowledge Accumulate? Circulation-processes in a Long-term Perspective" by Henk WALS (Hague, The Netherlands) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "On the relationship between the natural and the human sciences: Energetic Sociology" by Daan WEGENER (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
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Session slot 5.J
Chair: Fabio BEVILACQUA (Pavia, Italy) SYMPOSIUM R-varia II Location: Room 14, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 14.15-14.40 | "The beginnings of scientific interests in electrical phenomena in Hungarian Kingdom" by Miroslav MOROVICS, Andrej SPERKA (Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 14.40-15.05 | "From the 17th century to the present-day in Estonia: Evolution of exact and natural sciences" by Vahur MÄGI (Tallinn, Estonia) |
| 15.05-15.30 | "The last paper by Ettore Majorana: an analysis" by Carlo ARTEMI (Orvieto, Italy) |
| Location: Corridors of the 2nd floor, Collegium Novum, Jagiellonian University | |
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 15.30-16.15 | Tee Break |
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Session slot 6.A
Chair: Juraj SEBESTA (Bratislava, Slovakia) Symposium R-2: "Achievements of Central Europe in Science, in the light of historical studies" Location: Aula / Assembly Hall, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "Natural Scientist I. PULUJ and Discovery of the X-Rays" by Warfolomey SAVCHUK (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Scientific and personal contacts of Polish physicists with Einstein" by Bronislaw SREDNIAWA (Cracow, Poland) |
| 17.05-17.30 | ------------- |
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Session slot 6.B {CANCELLED !}
Chair: Symposium R-10: "From Maria Sklodowska-Curie to the 21st Century: Working on Women and Science in History of Science" Location: Senate Room, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | {Cancelled on 30 August 2006 !} |
| 16.40-17.05 | {Cancelled on 25 August 2006 !} |
| 17.05-17.30 | ------------- |
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Session slot 6.C
Chair: Geert SOMSEN (Maastricht, The Netherlands) Symposium R-17: "Politically active Scientists in the 20th Century" Location: Room 30, Collegium Novum (1st floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "These Twisted Times: The Russian Delegation to the 1931 Congress and the Battle for Russian Science in the 1930s" by C. A. J. CHILVERS (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "J.D. Bernal as Historian of Science" by Mikulas TEICH (Cambridge, The Great Britain) |
| 17.05-17.30 | "The Second Generation of Historians of the Social Relations of Science" by Vidar ENEBAKK (Oslo, Norway) |
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Session slot 6.D
Chair: Geert VANPAEMEL (Leuven, Belgium) Symposium R-18: "Circulating Knowledge: A European perspective on communication of science" Location: Room 56, Collegium Novum (2nd floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "Scientific exchanges between Giovanni Battista Amici and European scientists" by Alberto MESCHIARI (Pisa, Italy) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "New sources, new look: the Ostrodzko-Elblaski Canal / Poland About the network origins of its Inclined Planes" by Eckhard SCHINKEL (Dortmund, Germany) |
| 17.05-17.30 | "Paul Ehrenfest as a mediator" by Marijn J. HOLLESTELLE (Leiden, The Netherlands) |
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Session slot 6.E
Chair: Konstantinos NIKOLANTONAKIS (Florina, Greece) Symposium R-8: "Weights and Measures: the first integration in Europe?" Location: Room 6, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "First applications of the decimal metric system in Italy" by Maria Teresa BORGATO (Ferrara, Italy) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Success and constraints in the adoption of the metric system in Portugal" by Fátima PAIXAO, Fátima REGINA JORGE (Castelo Branco, Portugal) |
| 17.05-17.30 | "Money: From Virtual Reality to the Real Thing - Emerging National Currencies and the Transformation of Traditional Peasant Economy in Northwest Germany" by Karl-Heinz ZIESSOW (Cloppenburg, Germany) |
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Session slot 6.F
Chair: Helge KRAGH (Aarhus, Denmark) Symposium R-9: "Global Physics and Local Research in the 20th Century" Location: Room 7, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini: a cosmopolitan scientist" by Pasquale TUCCI (Milano, Italy) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Developing a Technique for Researches in Cosmic-ray Physics: Nuclear Emulsions from Bristol to Europe" by Leonardo GARIBOLDI (Milano, Italy) |
| 17.05-17.30 | "The G-Stack collaboration and the Mediterranean flights (1952-1955): a first example of European collaboration in particle physics" by Cristina OLIVOTTO and Leonardo GARIBOLDI (Milano, Italy) |
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Session slot 6.G
Chair: Michal KOKOWSKI (Cracow, Poland) Symposium R-4: "Nicholas Copernicus in focus" Location: Room 1, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "Towards a Cognitive History of the Copernican Revolution" by Peter BARKER (Oklahoma City, USA) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Nicholas Copernicus in focus of interdisciplinary research" by Michal KOKOWSKI (Cracow, Poland) |
| 17.05-17.30 | (POSTER): "Copernicanism in Iceland" by Einar H. GUDMUNDSSON, Eyjólfur KOLBEINS, Thorsteinn VILHJALMSSON (Reykjavik, Iceland) |
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Session slot 6.H
Chair: Stephanie DUPOUY (Paris, France) Symposium R-varia I Location: Lecture Room H, Collegium Olszewskiego, Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | ------------- |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Surgeons in the courtroom: forensic expertise and local power at Paris and London, 1760-1790" by Christelle RABIER (Paris, France) |
| 17.05-17.30 | "Mapping the face: Anatomy of Passions by J. Parsons, P. Camper and C. Bell" by Stephanie DUPOUY (Paris, France) |
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Session slot 6.I
Chair: W. Gerhard POHL (Linz, Austria) Symposium R-varia III (CHEMISTRY) Location: Room 13, Collegium Olszewskiego (ground floor), Jagiellonian University |
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| TIME | CONTRIBUTED PAPER / SPEAKER |
| 16.15-16.40 | "Cold Light in the painting Group Portrait in the Chemist's House" by Alicja RAFALSKA-LASOCHA, Wieslaw LASOCHA, Anna JASINSKA (Cracow, Poland) |
| 16.40-17.05 | "Controlling Infectious Diseases at the End of 18th Century in Spain" by Núria PEREZ-PEREZ (Barcelona, Spain) |
| 17.05-17.30 | (POSTER): "Liebig and Wöhler and the Concept of Isomerism" by Soledad ESTEBAN SANTOS (Madrid, Spain) |
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EXCURSIONS
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| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 18.00-21.00 |
Collegium Maius - Jagiellonian University Museum [Friday, September 8, 18.00-21.00] Jagiellonian Library - Collection of manuscripts and rare books (including the autograph of De revolutionibus!) [Friday, September 8, 18.00-19.30] |
