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Scientific Instrument Society AGM 2023

British Optical Association Museum 42 Craven Street, London, United Kingdom

An opportunity to enjoy a curator-led tour at the British Optical Association Museum, courtesy of incoming SIS Chair, Neil Handley, PhD, AMA, FRSA The British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists is the oldest museum of ophthalmic optics (optometry) in the world, established in 1901, and since its move almost adjacent to the …

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£15

Fireside Chat ‘About Rare Masters of Nuremberg Ivory Diptych Dials’

On-line, for SIS-members only.

By Alexander Thekale Synopsis Numerous ivory diptch sundials are known in the standard literature and can be found in various museum collections. Most of them are made by members of the well-known families Karner, Miller, Tucher, Troschel and Reinman, and a few others with a limited number of surviving pieces. This is not, of course, …

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Fireside Chat: Creating digital records on shared public storage

On-line, for SIS-members only.

Presented by Tom Jackson, UK Example of an object owned by an institution (image by T. Jackson). This presentation provides one possible answer to the question of how to create and where to store digital records about objects of historical interest including the restoration of historic scientific instruments. In particular objects which are not owned …

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