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Book of Abstracts Ii Contents XLI National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy Monday 06 September 2021 - Thursday 09 September 2021 Book of Abstracts ii Contents La cosmografia dantesca fra antico e moderno ........................ 1 DANTE. L’EREDITA’ COSMOLOGICA DI UN CRISTIANO ................. 1 L’astronomia nella Divina Commedia ............................. 1 LA SCESA ALL’INFERNO: DANTE E GALILEO VERSO LA GRAVITAZIONE . 2 Dante, scienza e tecnologia ................................... 3 Orologi meccanici al tempo di Dante ed i suoi sviluppi ................... 3 Filippo Angelitti: un astronomo dantista ........................... 4 Cesare Minerbi’s «Kontinuirlicher Resonatoren-Apparat nach Schaefer E. Zimmermann, Leipzig-Berlin» now part of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments of the University of Ferrara .................................... 4 La formazione degli insegnanti: un urgente impegno a cui assolvere ............ 5 History of Physics for Physics Education: challenges, opportunities and research directions ................................................ 5 Il ruolo della Storia nella formazione in Fisica: motivazioni e prospettive future. Una dis- cussione introduttiva. .................................... 6 Enhancing students’ understanding of “science in the making” within a historical perspec- tive .............................................. 6 Laboratorio ”povero” di storia della scienza: un’esperienza in DAD ............ 7 Principles of physics for philosophers ............................. 7 «Non ci basta studiare le cose nei libri; vogliamo guardarle nel libro vivo della natura». Francesco De Sanctis propone per tutti l’educazione esperienziale. .......... 8 The musical systems by Rameau and Tartini. Creativity and inconsistency . 8 The combination tones: from Tartini to Helmholtz ...................... 9 Viviani. Prospettive di uno scienziato ............................. 10 Giovan Battista Amici, astronomer optician, naturalist and instrument maker in Modena from 1809 to 1831 ...................................... 10 iii Francesco Zantedeschi and Macedonio Melloni: a dispute in the history of Italian electro- statics ............................................ 11 Il De stella nova (1606) di Kepler e il dibattito sulla natura e i moti delle ’novità celesti.’ / Kepler’s De stella nova (1606) on the nature and motions of the ’celestial novelties’. 12 The Legacy of Clavius: Giovanni Paolo Lembo’s Reaction to Galileo’s Celestial Novelties (1610-15) ........................................... 12 The Riccioli-Borelli-Angeli controversy and the deviation of free falling bodies . 13 Representing the Truth: The Case of a Jesuit Astronomer and a Jesuit Polymath . 14 Understanding, disseminating, and interpreting Kepler: Riccioli and the three laws of plan- etary motion ......................................... 14 The History on the Moon .................................... 15 How do celestial bodies interact? Looking for Kepler’s astronomical physics on a page of his Epitome ......................................... 15 The Dream of Kepler: a retrospective work on the human side of the scientist . 16 Kepler’s astronomy: an interplay between kinematics and dynamics . 16 BOSCOVICH ON ORBIT DETERMINATION FOR COMETS AND PLANETS (1746-1785) 17 Bruno Pontecorvo: Dalle scoperte di via Panisperna alle prospezioni petrolifere dell’Oklahoma ................................................ 17 Astronomy in the Jesuit mission to Ming China ....................... 18 Towards a Biography of the Ether ............................... 18 Il Nuovo Cimento in the changing landscape of physics: A network-historical analysis . 19 Franco Selleri revealed: what his unpublished archives said . 19 Looking stereoscopically at Goethe vs. Newton: Heisenberg and Pauli on the future of physics ............................................ 20 THE LAST 30 YEARS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICS: QUO VADIS? . 20 The Institute of Physics in Milan during the Fascist Regime . 21 Aurorae borealis and cosmic rays: from Vannevar Bush’s Differential Analyzer to digital simulation .......................................... 21 Alcuni aspetti della ricezione di Enrico Fermi in Unione Sovietica . 22 A look inside Feynman’s approach to gravitation ...................... 22 Feynman on “Planetary Motions” ............................... 23 Intertheoretic relations, singular limits and emergence: a critical overview of the relation between classical and quantum mechanics ........................ 24 L’evoluzione della Fisica Nucleare (dei Nuclei) in Italia dopo Fermi . 24 iv Masters and students: the Felici-Bartoli-Stracciati-Corbino case . 25 With a source so small to fit in one hand”: Fermi and the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity ......................................... 26 Bruno Touschek (1921 - 1978): A perspective review of his life and science at the centennial of the birth .......................................... 26 A transition in the notion of interaction in classical mechanics . 27 A RATIONAL RE-CONSTRUCTION OF DIRAC’S BOOK OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AC- CORDING TO TWO RECENT RESULTS ......................... 27 ERASMO RECAMI: DELLA PASSIONE DELLA FISICA ................... 27 EINSTEIN AND HUSSERL An approach to the study of the problem of the Unobservables in the Theory of General Relativity and Phenomenology . 28 Italian Influence on Venezuelan Science and Physics ..................... 29 Skilled Scientific Instrument Makers in Rome in the 19th Century: the Lusvergh Family 29 L’inventario degli astrolabi in Italia - descrizione del progetto e primi risultati . 30 The planetary models of Jupiter, Venus, Moon and Sun and the Eighth Sphere in theMusei Civici di Vicenza: notes on their discovery and descriptive historical and educational aspects. ........................................... 30 The KN3000 accelerator and the history of the nuclear physics in Florence in the lastthree decades of the past century through a museum itinerary . 31 Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan ....................... 32 The new History of Physics Museum in Padua - Exploring the potentialities of auniversity physics collection ...................................... 32 Al Museo della Specola di Palermo con la realtà virtuale e aumentata . 33 Scientific collections and Preventive Conservation ...................... 34 Divulgazione e comunicazione dell’astronomia a Napoli: da Ernesto Capocci ai social media ................................................ 34 Astronomy and card-games: between education and science popularization (XVIIIth-XIXth century) ........................................... 35 ”Seconda stella a destra” – un progetto culturale per attirare l’interesse del pubblico verso la storia dell’astronomia, valorizzando l’arte e il patrimonio culturale . 35 The History of Astronomy, fil rouge of the INAF Palermo guide: ”Palermo, second starto the right” ........................................... 36 La sinestesia musica-colore alla luce di vecchie e nuove tecnologie. 37 Time in Stoic Physics. ..................................... 38 v The Earth expansion links with the old concepts of hydrodynamic gravitation andtired light ............................................. 38 History of SISFA ......................................... 39 Le radici sociali e politiche dell’istituzionalizzazione della storia della fisica in Italia . 40 40 years of SISFA ........................................ 40 vi XLI National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics … / Book of Abstracts Astronomical and mechanical knowledge in Dante’s times / 53 La cosmografia dantesca fra antico e moderno Author: Sperello di Serego AlighieriNone Dante aveva una grande passione e conoscenza dell’astronomia, fra le pochissime cose che condi- vido con lui, oltre al cognome. Da uomo medioevale si trovava in mezzo fra le credenze degli antichi e le conoscenze moderne, che ha più volte anticipato, come mostrerò con alcuni esempi: la nostra Galassia, le macchie lunari e l’universo curvo, illimitato ma finito, che anticipa l’ipersfera di Ein- stein. Astronomical and mechanical knowledge in Dante’s times / 48 DANTE. L’EREDITA’ COSMOLOGICA DI UN CRISTIANO Author: Roberto Buonanno1 1 Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Dante, basandosi sull’insegnamento dei filosofi greci trasmesso dagli astronomi arabi, disponeva della conoscenza cosmologica appropriata a una persona colta del suo tempo. Nella Commedia, però, egli si trova nella necessità di innestare gli elementi specifici della cosmologia cristiana in quella delle sfere cristalline della tradizione greca. Si trattava di conciliare un mondo meccanico nel quale le rotazioni dei cieli avvengono essenzialmente senza ragione con un mondo nel quale tutto è determinato dalla distanza, sia fisica che ideologica, dal Creatore. Dante si è trovato quindi a concepire una realtà nella quale lo spazio è costituito, oltre che dalle tre coordinate usuali (alto-basso, avanti-dietro, destra-sinistra), dalla nuova coordinata “ virtù”, cioè la distanza dal Creatore. Esamino quindi il singolare parallelismo fra il cosmo concepito da Dante e quello einsteiniano che si rivela attraverso il semplice cambiamento fra coordinata “virtù” e coordinata “tempo”. Astronomical and mechanical knowledge in Dante’s times / 66 L’astronomia nella Divina Commedia Author: Guido Risaliti1 1 Università degli Studi di Firenze “Stelle” è la parola con cui si
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