Milan & Naples, Italy, 13-16 October 2004

Naples, 15-16 October 2004
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa Comunale
80121 Naples

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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)

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13 ottobre 2004 – h. 14.30
Apertura dei lavori: Erminio Giavini

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

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14 ottobre 2004 – h. 9
Presiede: Daniela Candia

FRANCO ANDRIETTI (Università di Milano) – MICHELA FAZZARI (Roma), Aspetti storici ed ottici della microscopia italiana del Seicento: il caso di Buonanni

MARIAN FOURNIER (Museum Boerhaave), Microscopes used by three Dutch microscopists

GIANNI MICHELI (Università di Milano), Malpighi e il microscopio della natura

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14 ottobre 2004 – h. 14.30
Presiede: Bernardino Fantini

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?

GILLES DENIS (Université dé Lille I), L’influence de l’école italienne de botanique microbiologique sur la pensée et les travaux de Pasteur

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Naples, 15-16 October 2004

Instrumental Practices and Microscopical Knowledge in the Construction of Biomedical Sciences (19th and 20th Centuries)

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October 15, 2004 – h. 9
Chair: Hans-Jorg RHEINBERGER

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

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October 15, 2004 – h. 15
Chair: Giorgio BERNARDI

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

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October 16, 2004 – h. 9
Chair: Gianni MICHELI

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

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For more information apply to:
Miriam Spoerri, Miriam.Sporri@medecine.unige.ch (Naples)
Cristina Papadia, cristina.papadia@tiscali.it (Milan)