Fireside Chat “Antique mineralogical instruments – the Medenbach collection”
On-line, for SIS-members only.Presented by Olaf Medenbach. Synopsis 3 petrographic microscopes by Nachet & Fils, Paris, ca. 1920, ca. 1880 and 1914 (from left). Mineralogy is a classical natural science and deals with the physical and chemical properties of minerals and synthetic crystals and materials. Though it might be defined as a branch of solid-state physics, the scientific …
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11th Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture 2023 and SIS Ruby Jubilee Celebration: ‘The Zuylenburgh Collection & the reminiscences of an antiques dealer’
Royal Automobile Club 89 Pall Mall, St. James's, London, United KingdomBy Bert Degenaar, Netherlands, with an introduction by Huib Zuidervaart, Netherlands. Part 1: Collecting scientific instruments over time: the Zuylenburgh Collection in context Huib Zuidervaart Retired Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Member of the Scientific Instrument Society Collecting scientific instruments as objects demonstrating the history of science is …
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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