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Download Abstracts XXXVII Scientific Instrument Symposium Leiden/Haarlem, 3-7 September 2018 Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’ The Abstract Submission Form Journey of medical instruments from Harappa to Gandhara Naila Abbasi, House 206 Lane 7 Askari 10 Rawalpindi 46000 Pakistan [email protected] Keywords: Harappa, Gandhara, medical instruments Abstract The Harappan civilization in the northwest of South Asia stands as the sixth oldest and as the third largest civilization in world history. Otherwise known as the Indus valley civilization (IVC), it flourished between 3000-1300 BCE. It was followed by the Gandhara civilization, which developed to the north of the Harappan between 1000 BCE and its demise in 1000 AD. In 1931, Sir John Marshal, who pioneered archeological excavations in IVC, mentioned various instruments of domestic use with possible applications in medical and surgical practice, which testify to the scientific acme of the Harappan civilization. Numerous studies have been dedicated to the extant scientific artifacts of Harappa. Most are focused on weights and measures, symbols, and manuscripts, some of which still remain to be deciphered. While some instruments have been fully studied in terms of their function and evolution, many pottery artifacts are yet to be studied in depth. The peculiar shape of some pots and pitchers in particular suggests that they were much more than simple 1 ornamental accessories and common use items. On the other hand, the Gandhara civilization produced highly advanced tools and instruments with unambiguous applications in the medical sciences. This study aims to revisit the Harappan tools and instruments by focusing on their medical applications, and by comparing them with later artifacts from the Gandhara civilization. Short biography and research interests Naila Abbasi is a pharmacist by profession. She holds a master’s degree in pharmacology, teaching in a local university as Assistant Professor. She attended the XXXVth SIC Symposium in2016 in Istanbul, and this raised her interest in the history of pharmaceutical instruments. 2 XXXVII Scientific Instrument Symposium Leiden/Haarlem, 3-7 September 2018 Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’ The Abstract Submission Form THE IMMATERIAL TURN? S.J.M.M. Alberti a b a National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, United Kingdom b University of Stirling, Stirling, FK8 1NZ, United Kingdom [email protected] Keywords: history of science, museums, Material Turn, stored collections Abstract The Scientific Instruments Commission has long aimed to encourage the study of material culture in the history of science. Studies of scientific things have blossomed in recent decades, and many university-based scholars now write eloquently about instruments, their history and their use. And yet if we look closer at the ‘material turn’, how has this translated into hands-on use of instruments? How many historians access instruments in collections as a matter of course, and how many deploy object study in history of science publications? This short evidence- based provocation will consider the value and use of scientific instruments in scholarship (and other elements of museums’ missions). Among the many fine publications about material culture, how many historians use material culture? Does this matter? 1 Short biography and research interests Sam Alberti is Keeper of Science & Technology at National Museums Scotland and Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy. His research interests are in museum history and the role of science collections. 2 XXXVII Scientific Instrument Symposium Leiden/Haarlem, 3-7 September 2018 Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’ The Abstract Submission Form THE JACQUARD LOOM : AN UNEXPECTED SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT IN THE ARTE DELLA LANA MUSEUM OF STIA (ITALY) E. Angelinia, A. Gorib aDipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129, Italy bMuseo dell’Arte della Lana, Via Giovanni Sartori 1, Stia (Arezzo), 52017, Italy [email protected] Keywords: technological heritage, museum, mechanical revolution, scientific instruments Abstract The Arte della Lana Museum is located in Stia in Casentino Valley (Tuscany) in the complex of a woolen mill, recently restored after decades of neglect. The woolen mill, nowadays a wonderful sample of industrial archaeology, after many vicissitudes and events ceased production in 1985, thus ending its glorious and venerable history. The Museum, illustrating wool production, exhibits a number of looms from draw-looms for weaving operated entirely by hand to semi-automated and automated weaving looms, including the Jacquard loom. The latter may be considered the precursor computer, since the weaving and textile industry greatly influenced the development of modern digital technology. 1 In 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard patented the Jacquard loom, which used perforated cards to control the movements of some parts. Similar to the operation of binary code, the presence or absence of holes allowed counterweights to move, changing the position of the wires. The basic concept of the mechanics of the Jacquard loom is the following: each hook in the loom attempts to push the warp to the opposite side of the weft; this is either permitted or prevented depending on the punch card. The warp is pushed when that location corresponds to a hole in the punch card that holds a pre-set pattern that is read by the loom and guides it. The mechanical revolution of Jacquard would have remained incomplete without the inventions of the nephew of the mechanic Jean-Antoine Breton, a M. Berly, who in 1818 developed a card press that industrialized punch card production. The evolutions of Jacquard mechanics increased the production rates and improved the pattern execution, thus allowing the progressive mechanization of textile production. Short biography and research interests Emma Angelini is full professor of Applied Physical Chemistry in Politecnico di Torino, she is vice-president of the ICC - International Corrosion Council. Her research areas are corrosion and protection of metallic materials, plasma chemistry, safeguard and valorization of Cultural Heritage, from materials characterization to environmental monitoring. She is involved in intercultural dialogue activities between different audiences carried out in the Arte della Lana Museum and in the Galileo Museum of Florence. Andrea Gori is the director of the Arte della Lana Museum of Stia and is responsible for the didactic section of the Galileo Museum of Florence. He develops programs of guided visits and laboratory activities on numerous topics of the history of science for schools and for the general public, with experiences allowing participants to manipulate reproductions of some of the exhibits. 2 XXXVII Scientific Instrument Symposium Leiden/Haarlem, 3-7 September 2018 Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’ The Abstract Submission Form Marrākushī’s Globe and Its Impact on Globe-Making in the Islamic World Dr. Taha Yasin Arslan Istanbul Medeniyet University, Kadikoy, Istanbul, 34000, Turkey [email protected] Keywords: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Marrākushī, Jāmiʿ al-mabādī wa al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al- mīqāt, astronomical instruments, celestial globes. Abstract Abū al-Ḥasan al-Marrākushī was a Mamluk astronomer active in Cairo in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was famous for his voluminous work Jāmiʿ al-mabādī wa al- ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt (An Encyclopaedia of Timekeeping: From A to Z) which deals with the construction and use of dozens of instruments ranging from universal plates to sundials. Although many of the instruments were already known before Marrākushī, some are of his own design. He introduced a celestial globe with a quadrant and two rings. The quadrant was a unique addition to the traditional globe; its main purpose was to achieve high accuracy in calculations. Unfortunately, no globes of this type are extant; indeed, there is no mention of a celestial globe with a quadrant in any of the relevant sources. This seems contradictory since Marrākushī was extremely influential in instrumentation and his work was widely used around the Islamic world. This paper argues for the utility of Marrākushī’s model and questions the lack of its influence on globe-making traditions in the Islamic world from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. 1 Short biography and research interests Taha Yasin Arslan is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science Istanbul Medeniyet University in Istanbul, Turkey. He specializes on the timekeeping and the astronomical instruments of the Islamic world. He also makes digital and physical replicas of the instruments. His recent focus is on the transition of knowledge in the Islamic world between the 12th and 16th centuries within the context of the astronomical instruments and texts. 2 XXXVII Scientific Instrument Symposium Leiden/Haarlem, 3-7 September 2018 Instruments and the ‘Empire of Man over Things’ The Abstract Submission Form Integrating Historical Technologies into a University Natural History Museum A.S. Baker Division of Historical Scientific Instruments, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, CT, 06520-8118, USA [email protected] Keywords: Museums, Universities, Education, Outreach Abstract Yale University’s Peabody Museum houses a rich Historical Scientific Instrument collection [HSI]
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