Historical scientific instruments in contemporary education /

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

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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...

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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.
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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.

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