International Workshop On The History of Microscopy
Milan & Naples - 13-16 October 2004
Dipartimento di Biologia (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Antonio Vallisneri (Milano)
Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno (CNR, Sezione di Milano)
Institut d’Histoire de la Médécine et de la Santé (Université de Genève)
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Napoli)
Milan, 13-14 October 2004
Università degli Studi
Dipartimento di Biologia - via Golgi
20133 Milano
Naples, 15-16 October 2004
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa Comunale
80121 Naples
Milan 13-14 October 2004
Biostoria / Biohistory
‘Tecnologie’ contemporanee per la storia della microscopia
(XVII-XVIII secc.)/
Contemporary ‘Technologies’ for the History of Microscopy
(17th-18th Centuries)
13 ottobre 2004 - h. 14.30
BRIAN J. FORD (NESTA), The birth of microscopy
JAMES B. MCCORMICK (Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago), Evolution of the Microscope in the 17th and 18th Century ; Philosophical, Social, and Economic influences
CHRISTOPH LUETHY (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Hopes and Expectations of the First Microscopists (and their 20th-Century Vindication)
MARC J. RATCLIFF (Université de Genève), Testing microscopes and instrumental systems during the 18th century
GIULIO MELONE (Università di Milano), Il vivo e il morto al
microscopio ottico: una breve storia delle tecniche di preparazione del
materiale biologico per l'osservazione al microscopio ottico
14 ottobre 2004 - h. 9
FRANCO ANDRIETTI (Università di Milano) - MICHELA FAZZARI (Roma), Aspetti storici ed ottici della microscopia italiana del Seicento:il caso Buonanni
MARIAN FOURNIER (Museum Boerhaave), Microscopes used by three Dutch microscopists
MARTA STEFANI (Università di Siena), Il microscopio nelle esperienze di Francesco Redi
14 ottobre 2004 - h. 14.30
GIANNI MICHELI (Università di Milano), Malpighi e il microscopio della natura
DARIO GENERALI (Università di Trento), L'uso del microscopio in Vallisneri
MARIA TERESA MONTI (ISPF-CNR, Milano), Gli "animaluzzi" di Bonaventura Corti: microscopia spallanzaniana o alternativa d'eccellenza?
GIULIO BARSANTI (Università di Firenze), Spallanzani and his tardigrades: the microscope of resurrections
GILLES DENIS (Université dé Lille I), L'influence de l'école italienne de botanique microbiologique sur la pensée et les travaux de Pasteur
Naples 15-16 October 2004
Instrumental Practices and Microscopical Knowledge in the Construction of Biomedical Sciences (19th and 20th Centuries)
October 15, 2004 - h. 9
STEPHEN JACYNA (University College London), Negotiating Microscopy Truth in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ANNE LA BERGE (Virginia Tech), Paul Broca and Medical Microscopy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
OHAD PARNES (Universität Bern), German Early 19th Century Microscopical Research
October 15, 2004 - h. 15
JUTTA SCHICKORE (University of Cambridge), Utilising our Ancestor's Errors. Alexander Monro Secundus and Early Nineteenth-Century Microscopy
PAOLO BRENNI (Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence), Microscopes in the 19th Century: Some Notes on their Design, Production and Trade
DAVID CAHAN (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Helmholtz and Abbe: Microscopy Theory and Purposes
ARIANE DRÖSCHER (Università di Bologna), Art, Facts, Artefacts: the Golgi Apparatus in the Era of Light Microscopy
October 16, 2004 - h. 9
CHRISTIANE GROEBEN (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples), "For Methods go to Naples" (1883): The Stazione Zoologica as an Originator and Distributor of Methods and Tools
ANDREW MENDELSOHN (Imperial College London), Pasteurian Science and Microscopy
BERNARDINO FANTINI (University of Geneva), Microscopical Observations and Theoretical Contexts: the Case of the Discovery of Malaria Aetiology
NICHOLAS RASMUSSEN (University of Sydney), The Electron Microscope and the Molecular Biology of the 1960's
BRUNO STRASSER (University of Geneva), How the Electron Microscope Became a Microscope: The Politics of Memory in the History of Scientific Instrumentation
