XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium Istanbul, 26-30 September 2016 “Instruments between East and West” DRAFT PROGRAMME as of 25 July 2016

Monday, 26 September 2016

14.00 Registration starts at the symposium venue (Istanbul University Congress and Culture Center) 15.00 Optional visit to the Museum for Science and Technology in Islam in Sultanahmet Those who wish to visit the Museum are kindly invited to meet at the registration desk at 3 pm. No need to register in advance. The entrance fee (10 TL/3 Euros), which is not included in the registration fee, will be collected at the Museum’s entrance. 18.30-20.30 Opening ceremony Visit to the exhibition “Science Manuscripts, Prints and Instruments in Istanbul University Collections Welcome reception Venue: Bayezid II Museum for Bath Culture at the Istanbul University campus

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

08.00 Registration at the symposium venue (Istanbul University Congress and Culture Center) Conference Hall Room 2 Room 3 09.00-09.15 PLENARY SESSION A

Welcome and Introduction

09.30-10.45 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 The Migration of Objects Thinking Big – The 20th A Taste for Instruments and Ideas between the Century Instrumentalised Ottoman Empire and LAWSON, Ian, Muscovy Northern in the KARABACAK, Rukiye, Glass in Early Modern Period 1500-1700 – Part I Bizden England: A Mundane SABUNCUOGLU, The Object and a Special ELMQVIST SÖDERLUND, Installation of the First Ten Emblem Inga, Turkish and the Turk Electron Microscopes in at Tre Kronor in the First and First GOUZEVITCH, Dmitri, Half of the 17th Century Outcomes in Irina GOUZEVITCH, The Rise of the Scientific FORSS, Charlotta, The GRANDIN, Karl, Atomic Instrument Production in Practice of Lending and Age Models: Promoting Russia: From the Blending: Knowledge National Nuclear Program Turneries of Peter the Construction in the Wake of at the Car Dealer Great to the Instrumental a Swedish Embassy to the Chamber of the Academy Ottoman Empire, WEISS, Martin of Sciences 1657/1658 P.M., Shipshape Cold War: The Construction of KREMER, Richard L., How Research Vessels in East Did the Torquetum (or and West Germany Turketum) Get Its Name?

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-12.30 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 The Migration of Objects Instruments for the Senses Trade and Diplomacy and Ideas between the Ottoman Empire and LAZOS, KOCAMAN, Northern Europe in the Panagiotis, George VLAH Meltem, Some Period 1500-1700 – Part II AKIS, Making the Invisible Observations on the Visible:Timoleon Scientific Instrument ACKERMANN, Argyropoulos’ Device for Trade in the 19th Century Silke, Trade and Tribute – Studying Standing Waves Ottoman Empire European Objects in the Ottoman Empire URREIZTIETA, Carlos SCHOLZE, Bernd, The Calderón, Music and “An- Magic Lantern as JOHNSTON, Stephen, The esthetics” in Early Modern Intercultural Ambassador Medium Is the Message? Science: The Monochord Between Cultures and The Materiality of as Scientific Instrument Religions: Imrich Instruments Between East Emanuel Roth and the and West First Dissolving-View Shows in the Ottoman

Empire, 1845/1846 SNICKARE,

Mårten, Materiality and the AGERON, Formations of Identities: Pierre, Reconstructing The Role of Ottoman the Moroccan Sultan’s Objects in Early Modern Collection West Swedish Kunstkammern European Scientific Instruments (XIXth c.)

12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.10 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Astrolabes Crossing Longitude and Navigation Ex oriente lux: Early Cultures, Crossing Time in Practice Modern Instruments in Asia MARNANI, Pouyan DUNN, Richard, On a Slow Shahidi, A User’s Guide to Boat to China: Assessing CAMS, Mario, Empire the Musarṭan Astrolabe: A Instrumental Hierarchies in Building in Qing China: Newly Rediscovered Navigational Practice The Role of Paris-Made 15th Century Manuscript Surveying Instruments (c. MORFOULI, 1685-1725) RODRÍGUEZ ARRIBAS, Meropi, Galileo’s Time Josefina, Jewish Measurer SHI, Yunli, Jie XU, Astrolabes: The Sephardic Haohao ZHU, The and the Ashkenazi GORNISCHEFF, Earliest Astronomical Traditions Feliks, Navigational Instruments Introduced Instruments of Estonian by the Jesuits to China ASADOLLAH, Seamen, ca 1860-1960 as Described in Three Texts Attached to Safaei, Describing the Michele Ruggieri’s Theory of the Earth’s ÜÇSU, Kaan, Small Plane Manuscript Portuguese- Rotation by Using Four Table: An Invention by an Chinese Dictionary Kinds of Astrolabes Ottoman Military Officer

LAUGINIE, P., A Strange SARMA, Sreeramula “Universal” Astrolabe in a Rajeswara, A Museum of French Secondary School Astronomical Instruments in 18th-Century India? Sawai Jai Singh’s Collection of Portable Instruments at Jaipur

ABBASI, Mubashir Ul- Haq, Ancient Astronomical Instruments in Pakistan

15.10-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-17.00 Business Meeting and Photo 17.00 Transfer to the Greek Orthodox High School and then to Rahmi Koç Industrial Museum

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Conference Hall Room 2 Room 3 09.00-09.30 PLENARY SESSION B

EHGAMBERDIEV, Shuhrat, Reconstruction of the Ulugh Beg Observatory’s Main Instrument: Achievements Made and Challenges Ahead

9.30-11.00 Agora 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-12.30 MODERATED POSTER SESSION

BAŞARAN, Vural, Scientific Instruments Used and Currently Exhibited in the Ankara University Physics Department

ETKER, Şeref, The Young Turk and his Ophthalmoscope

MASLIKOV, Sergei, The World’s Largest Wooden Astrolabe at the Hermitage

NICOLAIDIS, Efthymios, Time-Measuring Instruments of the Observatory of Paris

PERANI, Laura Serra, Paolo BRENNI, Anna GIATTI, Physics Instruments at the Enrico Caffi Museum of Natural Sciences, Bergamo

SOMI, Morteza, A Treatise on the Construction of Astronomical Instruments by Munajjim Ḥusaynī Gīlānī

ŚWİĘCİCKA, Elżbieta, Silk Bags (Kese) and Unique Seal Capsules (Baysa) Attached to Tatar Diplomatic Letters of the 17th Century

TAHAOĞLU, Tahsin Ömer, The Scientific Insturment Collection of Kandilli Observatory

ZANETTI, Cristiano, Presentation of the Exhibition “Janello Torriani, Genio Del Rinascimento” (Cremona 10 September 2016 – 29 January 2017)

12.30-14.00 Lunch & Optional short lunch-time visit to the “Museum for the History of ” at Istanbul University (Meet at the registration desk at 13.15) 14.00 Transfer to Topkapı Palace Museum (introductory visit and clocks collection) 17.00 Transfer to the Naval Museum; Visit and reception

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Conference Hall Room 2 Room 3 09.00-09.30 PLENARY SESSION C

SCHAFFER, Simon, Oriental Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation

9.45-11.00 Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Instrumentation and Stars and Spheres Dialling Across the Globe Imperial Surveys Between East and West TRUFFA, Giancarlo, Rings BAGHERI, and Armillae Mohammad, A History of BULSTRODE, Jenny, A Gnomonics in Iran Copper Compass DANIŞAN POLAT, Rose in Greenwich Gaye, A 16th Century TURNER, Anthony, A Ottoman Compendium of Mingling of Traditions: HIGGITT, Astronomical Instruments: European Portable Sun- Rebekah, Instruments in Admiral Seydi Ali Reis’s Dials and Islamic Dialling Ink; Instruments in Motion: Mir’at-ı Kâinat During the Ottoman Drawing the 1874 Transit of Period Venus Hawai’i Expedition MUSAVI, Razieh, An JARDINE, Boris, Joshua Iranian Quadrant for NALL, Charles Piazzi Finding Qibla Smyth and the Instruments of Imperial Measurement

11.00-11.15 Coffee break 11.15-12.30 Session 13 Session 14 Session 15 Sextants Old and New Instrumental Sensitivities Instruments and Texts Between East and West ZAMANI, LAIDLA, Janet, Hugo Maryam, Structure and Masing’s Seismographs – STRANO, Giorgio, From Application of Sextant From Tartu to Five East to West, and Vice- Continents Versa: The Routes of GÜNERGUN, Feza, Gaye Pre-Telescopic DANIŞAN POLAT, Atilla JOHNSON, Observational POLAT, Measuring the Alex, Constructing Instruments Altitude with an Alla Franca Seismographs in Britain Instrument: The Ottoman and , 1870-1914 AMINI, Hassan, The Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise Mathematical Compass on the Sextant DEVOY, Between East and West Louise, Collaborative Neighbours: Using Local AGERON, Pierre, Mahdi Buildings to Establish ABDELJAOUAD, Easter Calibration Markers for n and Western Airy’s Altazimuth Instruments in Osman Telescope, 1880-1887 Efendi’s “Gift of the Convert” (1779)

12.30-14.00 Lunch & Optional short lunch-time visit to the “Museum for the History of Pharmacy” at Istanbul University (meet at the registration desk at 13.15) 14.00-15.15 Session 16 Session 17 Session 18 Instruments on Display Re-working Historical Instrumentalising the Instruments and Planets HOOIJMAIJERS, Experiments Hans, Shifting From a GAMINI, Amir Chronological Display to a WITTJE, Roland, Paolo Mohammad, Ancient Thematic Museum BRENNI, How to Make the Mechanical Instruments Arc Speak? Experimenting and the Mechanical DESBOROUGH, in Electroacoustics Worldview: Greek, Jane: Science in London: Islamic and the Modern 1600-1800 JANKA, Jasmin, A Gaze Science on Sounds – The Chladni AHN , Tae-beom : Ten Figures of Other Scientists KOREY, Michael, Great Experiments and Samuel GESSNER, Science and Splendour BERTOZZI, Karsten Eugenio, Production and GAULKE, Dental Gaps, Circulation of Teaching True Solar Motion, and Instruments During the the Parameters of Twentieth-Century: The Eccentricity: Tracing Example of the Fully- Planetary Theory in the Automatized Cloud Geometry of Unevenly Chamber by the Officine Toothed Wheels Within Galileo in Florence. Renaissance Clocks

BOHLOUL, Hamid, Kāshānī’sṬabaq Al-Manātiq: The Most Advanced Equatorium Ever Designed in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

15.15-15.45 Coffee break 15.45-17.00 Session 19 Session 20 Session 21 From the Provinces to the Telescopes in Unexpected Physics at Schools and in Western Skies to Outer Places Laboratories Space: Instruments in Collections and on BOLT, Marvin, Michael LAZOS, Expeditions’ KOREY, Scoping Out Panagiotis, George Telescopes: The Surprises VLAHAKIS, Scientific BRENNI, Paolo, Some of a Familiar Instrument Instruments in Greek Unusual Instruments of a Schools of Istanbul Provincial Collection CAPLAN, James, What’s in a Name? The Nebulous MARCON, Fanny, Sofia HUISMAN, Jan Terminology of Telescopes TALAS, The Changing Waling, From Outer Space Roles of Universities and to the Museum Floor TABATABAEI, Seyyed Schools: The Case of Hadi, The Advent and Physics Research and CHINNICI, Ileana, Italian Entrance of the Telescope Teaching in Nineteenth- Astronomical Expeditions to Into Iran Before Century North-East Italy West Modernization of the Country in the 19th Century LEPPIK, Lea, Georg Friedrich Parrot and His Laboratory in Early 19th- Century Tartu

17.00 Transfer to Pera Museum

Friday, 30 September 2016

Conference Hall Room 2 Room 3 09.30-10.00 PLENARY SESSION D

BIR, Atilla, Mustafa KAÇAR, Taqi al-Din and Tycho Brahe: A Comparative Study of Their Observational Instruments

10.15-11.30 Session 22 Session 23 Session 24 Instruments Crossing the It’s a Material World New Light on Old Seas Sources FARZPOURMACHIANI, BRET, Abouzar, Instruments and CALVO, Emilia, Rosa Patrice, Instruments of Methods for Recognizing COMES, Scientific Knowledge and Power in the Purity of a Metal Piece Instruments in Al- Colonial Context: The and Amount of Each Battani’s Al- Al-Sabi Scientific Instruments in the Element in Alloys and in Plato of Tivoli’s French Occupation of Latin Translation. A Egypt, 1798-1801 ANGELINI, Emma, P. Comparative Study of BRENNI, A. GIATTI, S. Scientific Terminology PANTALONY, David, GRASSINI, Plasma (Arabic & Latin) Hasan UMUT, From the Treatments for the Associated to the Ottoman Empire to Preservation of Ancient Construction of Canada: Migrating Instruments Instruments Scientific Instruments Across Cultures ARSLAN, Taha Yasin, Eliminating the BEARE, Steve, Alva Necessity of Using Mason, Philadelphia Observational Instrument Maker, 1825- Instruments on 1860 Timekeeping

POLAT, Atilla, Treatises on the Description and Use of the Sector (Pergâr-ı Nisbe) in Manuscript Collections of Turkey

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-12.30 Closing session

12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30 Transfer to Kandilli Observatory 17.15 Transfer to pier for the Bosphorus cruise & Gala dinner

Saturday, 1 October 2016

Full-day excursion to the Prince Islands – Visit to Greek Theological seminary collections – Lunch on the island. Departure time and place to be announced