International Conference on University Collections of Historic Scientific Instruments

大学历史科学仪器收藏国际会议

• 批准号: 0236341
• 负责人: Richard Kremer
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Conference; University; Collections; Historic

The study of historic scientific instruments is one of the fastest growing areas in the history of science. Researchers increasingly are turning to the material culture of the laboratory as a way of investigating the practice of science; the general public is drawn to historic artifacts as a tangible, concrete way of connecting to our scientific heritage. Until recently, much of the historic apparatus accessible to scholars and the public could be found only in large national collections, such as the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Deutsches Museum in Munich, or the Science Museum in London. Yet in literally dozens of universities and colleges across the globe, smaller but equally valuable collections of historic scientific instruments can be found, often located near the laboratory spaces and archival documents where they originally had been used. This proposal seeks support for an international conference to uncover and strengthen these university collections, and to make them more visible to both scholars and local public audiences. "Mundi Subterranei: Scientific Instrument Collections in the University" will be held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, from 24-27 June 2004. The conference will bring together about 100 persons--curators, scientists, historians, librarians and archivists--who in widely varying ways are currently caring for university collections of historic scientific apparatus. Co-sponsored by Dartmouth College and the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, the conference will address four issues. First, panels will discuss practical problems of collection management, creating collection mandates, organizing and cataloguing collections, storing and handling apparatus, etc. Second, scholarly papers on collections, individual instruments, makers, and laboratory practices will be presented. Third, we will discuss ways to make collections more accessible for teaching and research, both locally and beyond. Finally, the conference will introduce collection managers to an international registry of historic scientific instruments now being developed by the Scientific Instrument Commission (www.isin.org). A concurrent exhibit of instruments from the Dartmouth Collection will illustrate many of these issues. University instrument collections offer rich, yet underused resources for increasing and diffusing knowledge about our scientific past. The Dartmouth conference will be a pioneering effort to strengthen this infrastructure by enhancing links, both nationally and internationally, among these collections.

对历史科学仪器的研究是科学史上增长最快的领域之一。研究人员越来越多地转向实验室的物质文化，以研究科学实践。公众被历史文物作为一种与我们的科学遗产联系在一起的有形，具体的方式。直到最近，只有在大型国家收藏中才能找到许多历史悠久的设备，例如华盛顿特区的史密森尼人，慕尼黑的德意志博物馆或伦敦的科学博物馆。然而，在全球数十个大学和大学中，可以找到较小但同样有价值的历史科学仪器收藏，通常位于最初使用的实验室空间和档案文件附近。该提案寻求支持国际会议，以揭露和加强这些大学收藏，并使学者和当地公众受众更加明显。 “ Mundi Subterranei：大学的科学仪器收集”将于2004年6月24日至27日在新罕布什尔州汉诺威市的达特茅斯学院举行。该会议将召集约100名策展人，策展人，科学家，历史学家，历史学家，馆员，图书馆馆员和档案馆，他们目前以不同的方式照顾大学的历史科学学院。该会议由达特茅斯学院（Dartmouth College）和国际科学哲学联盟的科学工具委员会共同赞助，会议将解决四个问题。首先，小组将讨论收集管理的实践问题，创建收集任务，组织和分类收集，存储和处理设备等。其次，将介绍有关收藏，单个工具，制造商和实验室实践的学术论文。第三，我们将讨论使收藏在本地及以后的教学和研究更容易获得的方法。最后，该会议将向科学仪器委员会（www.isin.org）开发的历史科学工具的国际注册表介绍收集经理。达特茅斯系列的同时展览将说明其中许多问题。 大学仪器收集提供了丰富而没有充分利用的资源，用于增加和扩散有关我们科学过去的知识。达特茅斯会议将是一项开创性的努力，以通过在这些收藏中加强联系，以加强基础设施。