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Folding Light, Unfolding History: An Object Biography of the Hofmann Telescope at the Deutsches Museum By Luisa Lovisetti, University of Milan & INFN Milan, Italy A SIS Grant supports this […]

Humfrey Cole in Florida By Stephen Johnston, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford A SIS Grant supports this research. A longer piece on this subject will feature in a

Space Age Lunar Globes in Vienna By Luís Tirapicos A SIS Grant supports this research. A longer piece on this subject will feature in a future SIS Bulletin. In the

Righi’s polystereoscope as a teaching device: materialisation of a new understanding of human vision? By Andreas Junk, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. A SIS Grant supports this research. A longer piece on

Investigating a “Coulomb’s torsion balance with modifications” in the collections of the Deutsches Museum, Munich By Elisabetta Rossi (PhD candidate, University of Milan), Daniel Liu (Postdoc, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich),

Delineating the journey of European astronomical instruments in Ottoman education and beyond (1773-1923) By Solmaz Ceren Özdemir, graduate of the Masters programme in the History of Science Department at Istanbul

Precarious innovation in Francoist Spain: biography of an orbigraph By Anxo Vidal Nogueira, University of Valencia, Spain This research was supported by a SIS Grant. A longer piece on this

The use of volvelles in alchemy By Zoe Screti This research was supported by an SIS Grant. A longer piece on this subject will feature in a future SIS Bulletin.

Restoring and testing a Pixii version of Coulomb’s Torsion Balance acquired by the University of Barcelona in 1848 By Júlia Garcia This research was supported by a SIS Grant. A

Guglielmo Marconi’s magnetic detector in a cigar box: Biography of a material myth By Roberta Spada, Politecnico di Milano / Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Italy This