Historical scientific instruments in contemporary education / / edited by Elizabeth Cavicchi, Peter Heering.

• Superior document: Scientific instruments and collections ; Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Cavicchi, Elizabeth,; Heering, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

These essays draw on recent and versatile work by museum staff, science educators, and teachers, showing what can be done with historical scientific instruments or replicas. Varied audiences - with members just like you - can be made aware of exciting aspects of history, observation, problem-solving, restoration, and scientific understanding, by the projects outlined here by professional practitioners. These interdisciplinary case studies, ranging from the cinematic to the hands-on, show how inspiration concerning science and the past can give intellectual pleasure as well as authentic learning to new participants, who might include people like you: students, teachers, curators, and the interested and engaged public. Contributors are Dominique Bernard, Paolo Brenni, Roland Carchon, Elizabeth Cavicchi, Stéphane Fischer, Peter Heering, J.W. Huisman, Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alistair M. Kwan, Janet Laidla, Pierre Lauginie, Panagiotis Lazos, Pietro Milici, Flora Paparou, Frédérique Plantevin, Julie Priser, Alfonso San-Miguel, Danny Segers, Constantine (Kostas) Skordoulis, Trienke M. van der Spek, Constantina Stefanidou, and Giorgio Strano. .

Table of Contents

List of Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Using Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education - Experiences and Perspectives -- Elizabeth Cavicchi and Peter Heering -- 1. Reading Instruments for Historical Scientific Practice: An Experiential Pedagogy for Material Culture -- Alistair Kwan -- 2. Filming Nineteenth Century Physics Demonstrations with Historical Instruments -- Paolo Brenni -- 3. Making It about the Objects: A Reboot of a History of Science Course -- Janet Laidla -- 4. Using Original Instruments from a Museum Collection in Demonstrations -- Jan Waling Huisman -- 5. The Collections of Scientific Instruments of the Faculty of Sciences of Rennes: A Tool for School Education and for the Training of Students and Teachers -- Julie Priser and Dominique Bernard -- 6. The Collection of Scientific Instruments from the Maraslean Teaching Center and Experimental Science Education: Then and Now -- Panagiotis Lazos, Constantina Stefanidou and Constantine Skordoulis -- 7. Examples of the Use in Education of Historical Physics Instruments at Secondary School and University Level in France supported by ASEISTE -- Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alfonso San-Miguel and Pierre Lauginie -- 8. The Use of the Museum Collection for Educational Purposes -- Roland Carchon and Danny Segers -- 9. Historical Scientific Instruments in Exploratory Teaching and Learning -- Elizabeth Cavicchi -- 10. "What Is Happening in the Lab?" Transforming the School Laboratory into a Contextual Science Teaching Environment -- Flora Paparou -- 11. Historical Instruments, Education, and Do-It-Yourself in the Cabinet of Curiosity of Brest, France: University Experiences in Mathematics -- Frédérique Plantevin and Pietro Milici -- 12. Educational Experiences in Re-Enacting Historical Experimental Procedures -- Peter Heering -- > -- 13. The Lorentz Lab: Reviving the Scientific History of Teylers Museum with Working Replicas -- Trienke M. van der Spek -- 14. The Fall of Bodies According to Galileo: A Free Adaptation from the Geneva Museum of the History of Science -- Stéphane Fischer -- Index.