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Welcome to iCHSTM 2013

On behalf of the British Society for the History of Science, I would like to welcome you all to the 24th International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The BSHS is proud to host the International Congress, in the United Kingdom for the third time, with support and encouragement from many other UK-based bodies. We have all appreciated this opportunity to contribute to the global development of our subject. The 2013 meeting promises to be the largest ever, with quality to match. Manchester is a very appropriate place for our meeting, with its rich and unique traditions of science, technology and medicine. Our colleagues on the Local Organising Committee have truly put their hearts and souls, as well as countless hours of work, into the preparation of this event, and I think you will be able to see evidence of the care and trouble they have taken. I hope your week at the Congress will be filled with stimulating discussions and congenial interactions with colleagues from many corners of the world.

Hasok Chang

President

British Society for the History of Science

Welcome to Manchester On behalf the Local Organising Committee for iCHSTM2013, it is a pleasure and a privilege to welcome iCHSTM delegates to the City and University of Manchester. For this exceptionally large meeting, we have tried to provide a wide variety of intellectual and social activities. With up to 24 parallel tracks, the academic programme is the heart of iCHSTM, and we hope it will stimulate lively discussion and debate both within and about our field. But iCHSTM also offers an extensive formal and informal social programme, from official receptions to HSTM-related music and comedy, and a wide range of HSTM-themed walks, tours and visits. And iCHSTM will actively use social media to promote our field to the wider world. We hope that iCHSTM2013 will be a Congress to remember, and that you enjoy your time in Manchester!

Jeff Hughes and James Sumner

Co-chairs

iCHSTM Local Organising Committee

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About the programme The first section of this programme consists of a day-by-day summary of the programme content, including session titles and details of other events.

The second and largest section presents a complete description of the sessions, including abstracts. This section begins with all the symposia and standard paper sessions (codes beginning P, Q, S, T, W) in numerical order, without reference to the letter code. There then follow sections for plenaries, special and lunchtime sessions, social and public events, and committee meetings. Walks, tours and excursions are listed in the daily summaries but are not described in detail in this programme: see the website or ask at the Congress Events Desk for full details.

The final section lists the participants alphabetically, with contact information and listings of the sessions in which they are involved.

The letters prefixing the event codes have the following meanings:

A: plenary events

C: committee meetings

E: special sessions (discussion events, talks and film

screenings)

F: lunchtime advice sessions aimed at graduate students

and early-career researchers

J: formal social programme (receptions and Congress

Dinner)

K: ‘fringe’, informal social programme (music and comedy)

L: public events

M: walks and tours on the University campus

P: organised symposia accepted by ICOHTEC

Q: sessions compiled from stand-alone papers accepted

by ICOHTEC

R: other receptions

S: organised symposia accepted by the central Congress

organisers

T: sessions compiled from stand-alone papers accepted

by the central Congress organisers

W: sessions compiled from stand-alone papers accepted

by the Scientific Instrument Commission

Room locations are given with the building name first, followed by the room number. The lecture theatres in the Schuster Building are not numbered, but take their names from Manchester physicists: ‘Schuster Rutherford’ refers to the Schuster Building’s Rutherford Lecture Theatre, etc.

Information about facilities on and around the site, along with site maps, is provided in the short summary programme distributed to all attendees. For further information, including a full clickable version of the programme, see the website at www.ichstm2013.com

Day-by-day listing

SUNDAY 21 July

Committee meeting DHST Council Meeting (C271)

15:00–17:30, Room 2.57, Simon Building

Social programme Welcome reception (J321)

18:00–20:00, Manchester Museum

MONDAY 22 July, early morning

Plenary Congress opening ceremony and keynote (A391)

08:45–10:30, University Place LT A and B

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Monday) (X221)

09:15–13:00

www.ichstm2013.com

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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 22 July MONDAY

11:00–12:30

S025-A University Place 2.218

Headwinds through the Iron Curtain: fundamental and applied sciences in Communist Eastern Europe

S045-A Roscoe 1.007

Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses ▪ How did actors compute with measured numbers? Part 1


Preserving scientific heritage to enable working with knowledge: how historians, archivists and scientists can engage in preserving and disseminating scientific heritage via a global online system


Publishing the sciences ▪ Scientific intelligence and expertise

S084-A Roscoe 2.4

Social science, ideology, and public policy in the United States, 1961 to 2011

S092-A Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Astronomy and its cultural role in the ancient Near East

S099-A Roscoe 2.2

History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East ▪ Ancient metrology

S114-A Roscoe 1.009

Mathematics and patronage ▪ Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

T159-A University Place 4.204

Place and affect in early-modern sciences ▪ Early modern


Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences ▪ Pure and applied life sciences

11:10–12:40

S017 University Place 3.205

Boundaries at work: producing experimental and clinical knowledge of/with epilepsy between neurology, psychiatry and neuroscience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries


Working in science and as art: twentieth-century ‘experimental’ relationships ▪ Demonstrating natures

S062-A Roscoe 2.3

Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange ▪ Practice: recovering early alchemy and chemistry

S091-A Roscoe 2.5

The achievements of R J Boscovich in the philosophy of nature, astronomy, technique and culture: historical resources and contemporary epistemic reflections ▪ Boscovich’s achievements in the philosophy of nature and modern science

S105-A Schuster Moseley

One hundred years of the Bohr atom ▪ Foundations

S108-A Roscoe 1.010

Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world ▪ Observers and instruments

T163-A Roscoe 1.008

Mapping, geography and geology ▪ The politics of mapping


Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering ▪ Cultures of knowledge and practice

Special session 40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC ▪ Get socialised: ICOHTEC in the big picture (E118-A)

11:10–12:40, Schuster Bragg

Committee meeting Science and Empire Commission business meeting (C268)

11:00–13:00, University Place 4.212

Lunchtime sessions Why blog? An introduction (F303)


Graduate students’ guide to Manchester (F311)


Walks and tours around the Congress site Manchester Museum tour (M351)


Campus history walk: physics (M240)

13:00–13:45, Walk starts outside the main entrance to the Manchester Museum

A short walk about Turing (M384)


Manchester Museum tour (M352)


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MONDAY 22 July ▪ early afternoon

14:00–15:30

S025-B University Place 2.218


S045-B Roscoe 1.007

Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses ▪ How did actors compute with measured numbers? Part 2


Preserving scientific heritage to enable working with knowledge: how historians, archivists and scientists can engage in preserving and disseminating scientific heritage via a global online system ▪ Sharing knowledge in context: linked data and online technologies in scientific archives


Publishing the sciences ▪ Periodicals and popularisation

S084-B Roscoe 2.4


S092-B Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Instruments and inscriptions in Greco-Roman astronomy

S099-B Roscoe 2.2

History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East ▪ Metrology and standardization

S114-B Roscoe 1.009

Mathematics and patronage ▪ Nineteenth and twentieth centuries

T159-B University Place 4.204

Place and affect in early-modern sciences ▪ Spaces and practical knowledge


Working worlds of the twentieth-century biological sciences ▪ Eugenics

14:10–15:40


Pratiques et théories dans le champ de la santé mentale: quel(s) rapport(s)?


Working in science and as art: twentieth-century ‘experimental’ relationships ▪ Demonstrating technologies

S062-B Roscoe 2.3

Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange ▪ Visualising: the matter of form in modern chemistry


Data at work ▪ Biology, agriculture and medicine

S091-B Roscoe 2.5

The achievements of R J Boscovich in the philosophy of nature, astronomy, technique and culture: historical resources and contemporary epistemic reflections ▪ Boscovich’s heritage in the European context

S105-B Schuster Moseley

One hundred years of the Bohr atom ▪ Elucidations

S108-B Roscoe 1.010

Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world ▪ Expeditions

T163-B Roscoe 1.008

Mapping, geography and geology ▪ Geological travels


Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering ▪ The machine

Special session 40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC ▪ From hardware to software: changes in the ICOHTEC research agenda (E118-B)


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late afternoon and evening ▪ MONDAY 22 July

16:00–17:30

S025-C University Place 2.218


S045-C Roscoe 1.007

Mathematical facets of measurement, measuring units, measured quantities and their uses ▪ How did actors use and discuss measuring units?


Preserving scientific heritage to enable working with knowledge: how historians, archivists and scientists can engage in preserving and disseminating scientific heritage via a global online system


Publishing the sciences ▪ Why publish?

S084-C Roscoe 2.4


S092-C Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ European medieval astronomy and astrology

S099-C Roscoe 2.2

History of metrology: a view of comparison between the West and the East ▪ The modernization of metrology

S114-C Roscoe 1.009

Mathematics and patronage ▪ Twentieth century

T159-C University Place 4.204

Place and affect in early-modern sciences

16:10–17:40


Pratiques et théories dans le champ de la santé mentale: quel(s) rapport(s)?

S062-C Roscoe 2.3

Reworking the history of chemistry: practice, revolution, visualization and exchange ▪ Exchange: global histories of chemistry

S067 Roscoe 1.008

Corps, santé, médecine et maladies en milieu de travail en Amérique latine, 19e et 20e siècles


Data at work ▪ Making coding cultures

S105-C Schuster Moseley

One hundred years of the Bohr atom ▪ Ramifications

S108-C Roscoe 1.010

Knowledge at work in the oceans of the world ▪ On the interpretation of in-situ data


Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering ▪ Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering

Special sessions Discussion: social media, public engagement and the history of science, technology and medicine (E302)


40th anniversary symposium: the history of ICOHTEC ▪ Long-term ICOHTEC research themes (E118-C)


Walks and tours around the Congress site Campus history walk (M241)


Social programme UK learned societies’ reception (J322)

18:00–19:30, University Place Drum

Music: The Noisy Frame. Lives of clothmakers in song and testimony, 1780-1840 (K331)

21:00–22:30, Jabez Clegg

Other receptions ICOHTEC anniversary reception (R326)

17:45–18:45, Schuster Foyer

iCHSTM tweetup (R338)

18:00–19:30, Ducie Arms

Public event The Turing Machine Opera, with Decode/Recode (Monday performance) (L346)

18:15–20:00, Capitol Theatre

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TUESDAY 23 July ▪ early morning

09:00–10:30


Les sciences mathématiques 1750-1850: continuités et ruptures


Plant science and global food security in the twentieth century

S051-A Roscoe 1.007

Population control and reproductive health rights in Cold War Asia ▪ East Asia

S087-A Roscoe 1.009

Science and the emotions: transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives

S092-D Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Astronomy and its applications in western Asia and the Islamic world


Geology in art and literature ▪ The geological imagination

S115-A Roscoe 2.4

Mathematical knowledge at work in Ancient China

P125 University Place 4.206

Enforced specialization in computing technology: debugging the history of cooperation and competition in COMECON countries

W131-A Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Trade and transfer of scientific instruments, part 1


Contexts of natural history ▪ Botany books and careers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries


Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere ▪ Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere

09:10–10:40


Research in science museums: the state of the art ▪ Museum-university collaborations: an ideal marriage?


Paris: capital of hygiene? ▪ Food, fitness, and fatality: hygiene and bodies

S046-A Roscoe 1.008

Visual communication in early-modern to modern learned journals

S053-A Roscoe 2.3

Knowledge at work across cultural boundaries


Connected histories? Science and technology from a new historiographical perspective


Materia medica and pharmacy: from the medicinal virtues to the active principles of plants

S106-A Roscoe 2.5

Philosophy at work in modern physics


Post-Second World War science and technology ▪ Postwar contexts

S199-A Roscoe 1.010

Science, technology and medicine in the Ottoman Empire

Committee meetings Oceanography Commission business meeting (C260)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Tuesday) (X222)

09:15–13:00

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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 23 July TUESDAY

11:00–12:30


Les sciences mathématiques 1750-1850: continuités et ruptures


Aspects of the history of radio communications: how radio has transformed the world, and exploration, since the days of David Livingstone (1813-1873)


Plant science and global food security in the twentieth century

S051-B Roscoe 1.007

Population control and reproductive health rights in Cold War Asia ▪ South Asia

S087-B Roscoe 1.009


S092-E Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ South and East Asian astronomy, part 1

S100-A Roscoe 2.2

Comparative perspectives on ancient astronomy: the Chinese and Greek traditions ▪ Chinese calendar-making


Geology in art and literature ▪ Geology between Enlightenment and Romanticism

S115-B Roscoe 2.4


W131-B Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Trade and transfer of scientific instruments, part 2


Contexts of natural history ▪ Spaces and places of natural history


Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere ▪ Science and religion in local contexts

11:10–12:40


Research in science museums: the state of the art ▪ Artefacts and beyond: multiple perspectives on material culture research


Paris: capital of hygiene? ▪ Administering the hygienic city: regulation and reform

S046-B Roscoe 1.008

Visual communication in early-modern to modern learned journals

S053-B Roscoe 2.3

Knowledge at work across cultural boundaries


Connected histories? Science and technology from a new historiographical perspective


Materia medica and pharmacy: from the medicinal virtues to the active principles of plants

S106-B Roscoe 2.5


P123-A Schuster Bragg

The invisible bicycle: new insights into bicycle history ▪ Patterns of growth and decline


Post-Second World War science and technology ▪ Organisations

S199-B Roscoe 1.010

Science, technology and medicine in the Ottoman Empire

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Ordsall Hall Gardens tour (X353)

11:00–12:00, Ordsall Hall

Cottonopolis walk (X389)

11:00–13:00, Walk starts outside Visitor Information Centre, Piccadilly Gardens

Special session Victorian science spectacular (E308)

11:00–12:30, Pear Lecture Theatre, Coupland 1 Building

Lunchtime sessions Graduate students’ guide to Manchester (F312)


Careers and funding: academia, museums, and public institutions (F317)




Manchester Museum herbarium tour (M357)


Campus history walk: chemistry (M242)




Committee meetings Modern Physics Commission business meeting (C264)

12:45–13:45, Roscoe 2.5

Tyndall Correspondence Project meeting (C276)


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TUESDAY 23 July ▪ early afternoon

14:00–15:30

S016-A Roscoe 1.007

Image-making and knowledge-making in early-modern Europe ▪ Images at work


Cornucopia or Pandora’s box: digital working methods, web portals and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) in the history of science and technology


Science in agriculture: interactions of science, agriculture and environment ▪ Remembering Rachel Carson: the Green Revolution and the politics of industrial agriculture

S087-C Roscoe 1.009


S092-F Schuster Blackett


S100-B Roscoe 2.2

Comparative perspectives on ancient astronomy: the Chinese and Greek traditions ▪ Greek tradition in various cultures


Geology in art and literature ▪ Geology and nineteenth-century fiction

S115-C Roscoe 2.4


W131-C Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ The bigger, the better: physics and astronomy


Early-modern mathematics ▪ Working cultures of early modern-European maths


Contexts of natural history ▪ Local contexts for natural history


Science, technology and medicine in the public sphere ▪ Public cultures of nineteenth-century science

14:10–15:40


Research in science museums: the state of the art ▪ Using the Web and social media to extend the traditional aims of museums


Cross-cultural transmissions of medical knowledge in premodern Asia

S060-A Roscoe 1.010

The transmission of medical knowledge in the Islamic world

S063-A Roscoe 1.008

The paper world of science in the age of industry and Empire ▪ Communicating through manuscript and print

S065 Roscoe 2.3

Knowledge between transmission and local cultural boundaries: migrating scientists and physicians in the twentieth century


Medical knowledge at the colonial work front: health reports as research tools ▪ Writing knowledge: colonial physicians

S106-C Roscoe 2.5



Post-Second World War science and technology ▪ The politics of science, technology and medicine in the European context

Special sessions The future of journals in the history of science, technology, and medicine (E301)


Manchester in the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Using campus heritage for public history: some cases and issues (E309-A)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits John Dalton walk (X388)

13:30–15:30, Walk starts outside Visitor Information Centre, Piccadilly Gardens

Guided walk: Manchester peace and justice trail (X358)

14:00–16:30, Walk starts by the giant pebble on Barbirolli Square outside Bridgewater Hall

Imperial War Museum North tour: ‘Saving Lives’ (X354)

15:00–15:30, Imperial War Museum North

Committee meetings IASCUD Executive Committee meeting 1 (C265)


ICOHTEC Executive Committee meeting (C261-A)


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late afternoon and evening ▪ 23 July TUESDAY

16:00–17:30

S016-B Roscoe 1.007

Image-making and knowledge-making in early-modern Europe ▪ Colour matters


Cornucopia or Pandora’s box: digital working methods, web portals and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) in the history of science and technology


Science in agriculture: interactions of science, agriculture and environment ▪ Agricultural science: interactions between agricultural problems and theoretical knowledge

S092-G Schuster Blackett


S112-D University Place 1.218

Geology in art and literature ▪ The art of geological mapping

W131-D Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Understanding instruments of physics through re-use and replication

T152 Roscoe 1.009

Gender at work


Early-modern mathematics ▪ Non-western mathematics in translation and appropriation

T165-D University Place 3.204

Contexts of natural history ▪ Animals, monsters, and culture

16:10–17:40


Research in science museums: the state of the art ▪ Developing a public history of science, technology and medicine


Cross-cultural transmissions of medical knowledge in premodern Asia

S060-B Roscoe 1.010


S063-B Roscoe 1.008

The paper world of science in the age of industry and Empire ▪ Newspaper networks


Medical knowledge at the colonial work front: health reports as research tools ▪ Writing, counting and accounting for public health: empire, state and nation

S106-D Roscoe 2.5



Post-Second World War science and technology ▪ The nuclear Pacific

Special sessions Manchester in the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Roundtable discussion: Manchester topics and contexts (E309-B)




Committee meetings ICOHTEC Executive Committee meeting (C261-B)


IASCUD General Assembly (C281)


Social programme Civic reception (J323)

19:00–21:00, Manchester Town Hall

Comedy: XS Malarkey (K332)


Public events Strange ice (L345)

16:00–17:30, Room G51, Chemistry Building

The Turing Machine Opera, with Decode/Recode (Tuesday performance) (L347)

18:15–20:00, Capitol Theatre

Victorian science spectacular (L342)

19:30–21:00, Portico Library

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WEDNESDAY 24 July ▪ early morning

09:00–10:30

S015-A Roscoe 1.009

Novel expertise and emerging specialists


From natural history to ecology: towards a comparative history of life sciences in the long nineteenth century

S029-A Roscoe 1.007

Visual, material and empirical culture in early-modern Iberian science: artifacts, regiments, vessels, nautical charts, natural specimens, cosmographers, naturalist and pilots


The contribution of Friedrich Engels in the history of science and technology ▪ The actuality of Engels' work


Science × Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems

S069-A Roscoe 2.2

Putting the human sciences to work: managing human minds and bodies in the twentieth century ▪ Governing minds and bodies with the human sciences

S092-H Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Ptolemy Graecus, Arabus, Latinus, part 1

S096-A Roscoe 2.4

The making of transnational science: scientific contacts between China and the West during the late Qing and Republican China

S112-E University Place 1.218

Geology in art and literature ▪ Communicating geological knowledge


Literary approaches in the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Literary approaches

09:10–10:40

S035 Roscoe 1.008

Image and context: visual representations and the boundaries of scientific practice


Systems biology: a paradigm at work?

S060-C Roscoe 1.010


S088-A Roscoe 2.3

Expanding women’s sphere: knowledge and the re-definition of women’s work in the twentieth century

S107-A Roscoe 2.5

Poincaré’s Méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste in historical context: bridging the frontiers of knowledge in mathematics, astronomy and wireless tech ▪ Wireless technology and theory, 1896-1914


Geography and its publics ▪ Multiple publics, part 1

P120-A Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Premodern military technology

P123-B Schuster Bragg

The invisible bicycle: new insights into bicycle history ▪ Adoption, appropriation, demonstration


Twentieth-century sciences in comparative (inter)national contexts ▪ Mid twentieth-century applied sciences


History of technology ▪ Ships


Science and technology museums in context ▪ Science and technology collections in museums

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Wednesday) (X223)

09:15–13:00

Committee meetings Scientific Instrument Commission business meeting (C253)

09:00–10:30, Schuster Rutherford

Special sessions Historical and contemporary communications technologies in Africa: a case study in Cameroon and wider reflections ▪ Generating knowledge (E047-A)


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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 24 July WEDNESDAY

11:00–12:30

S015-B Roscoe 1.009

Novel expertise and emerging specialists



S029-B Roscoe 1.007

Visual, material and empirical culture in early-modern Iberian science: artifacts, regiments, vessels, nautical charts, natural specimens, cosmographers, naturalist and pilots


The contribution of Friedrich Engels in the history of science and technology ▪ Analyzing Engels' work


Literary history and the history of science ▪ Scientific institutions and literary culture


Science × Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems

S069-B Roscoe 2.2

Putting the human sciences to work ▪ Culture and constructing citizens with the human sciences

S092-J Schuster Blackett

Astronomy and its applications in ancient and medieval societies ▪ Ptolemy Graecus, Arabus, Latinus, part 2

S096-B Roscoe 2.4

The making of transnational science: scientific contacts between China and the West during the late Qing and Republican China

W131-E Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ The ravages of time


Literary approaches in the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Literary sources in HSTM

11:10–12:40


Systems biology: a paradigm at work?

S088-B Roscoe 2.3

Expanding women’s sphere: knowledge and the re-definition of women’s work in the twentieth century

S107-B Roscoe 2.5

Poincaré’s Méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste in historical context: bridging the frontiers of knowledge in mathematics, astronomy and wireless tech ▪ Early applications of Poincaré’s Méthodes nouvelles in celestial mechanics and mathematics


Geography and its publics ▪ Multiple publics, part 2

P120-B Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Early modern guns and forts

P123-C Schuster Bragg

The invisible bicycle: new insights into bicycle history ▪ Cycling down by the memory lane

T177-A Roscoe 1.008

Images and models in modern medicine ▪ Visual cultures in modern medicine


Twentieth-century sciences in comparative (inter)national contexts ▪ UK state institutions in the twentieth century


History of technology ▪ Aeronautics and infrastructures


Science and technology museums in context ▪ Museum, history and nation

Special sessions Screening: John Milne documentary (E307)


Historical and contemporary communications technologies in Africa: a case study in Cameroon and wider reflections ▪ Using knowledge (E047-B)






Campus history walk: North Campus (M244)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits Working Class Movement Library tour (X359)

12:00–13:00, Working Class Movement Library

Heritage bus trip and tour of the Museum of Transport (X360)

13:30–16:30, Bus departs from University Place to the Museum of Transport

Lunchtime sessions Publishers’ advice session: thesis to book (Manchester University Press) (F315)


Careers and funding: public engagement in the history of science, technology and medicine (F318)


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WEDNESDAY 24 July ▪ early afternoon

14:00–15:30




Literary history and the history of science ▪ Literary knowledge, scientific knowledge, and literary form

S059-A Roscoe 1.009

Space at work: space programmes, the environment and nuclear technology ▪ Space programmes and nuclear technology

S071-A Roscoe 2.2

The science of man? Bounds of knowledge in the twentieth century

S076-A Roscoe 1.007

Theology at work in science / Science at work in theology


Beyond the animal model: Linking humans and animals in modern medicine

S098-A Roscoe 2.4

Religion and natural knowledge in the encounter of East Asia with Europe, 1600-1800

S129-A Schuster Blackett

Islamic astronomy in its cultural context ▪ Cosmography and hay'a

W131-F Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Instruments for exploration

T186 University Place 4.213

Ecology, conservation, environment


Medicine and the media

14:10–15:40

S010-A Roscoe 1.010

The introduction of mathematics in Iberoamerica (part II) ▪ The foundations of mathematics


Industrial heritage and history of technology in the Luso-Brazilian world


Wiring intelligence

S081-A Roscoe 2.5

Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period

S110-A Roscoe 2.3

Homemade science: domestic sites and the gendering of knowledge


Geography and its publics ▪ Geopolitics and exploration, part 1

P120-C Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Military technology in the long nineteenth century

P121 Schuster Bragg

Men, knowledge and technologies in the development of the modern oil industry up to the early decades of the twentieth century

T177-B Roscoe 1.008

Images and models in modern medicine ▪ Models and worldviews


Twentieth-century sciences in comparative (inter)national contexts ▪ Modern French science: economy and institutions


History of technology ▪ Knowledge transfer in universities and industry

Excursions, off-site tours and visits People’s History Museum tour (X361)

14:00–15:00, People’s History Museum

A smellwalk of Manchester: can you smell Chinatown from here? (X383)




Committee meetings DHST General Assembly 1 (C272-A)


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late afternoon and evening ▪ 24 July WEDNESDAY

16:00–17:30


Literary history and the history of science ▪ Historicism in science and literature

S059-B Roscoe 1.009

Space at work: space programmes, the environment and nuclear technology ▪ Space programmes and the environment

S071-B Roscoe 2.2

The science of man? Bounds of knowledge in the twentieth century

S076-B Roscoe 1.007

Theology at work in science / Science at work in theology


Beyond the animal model: Linking humans and animals in modern medicine

S098-B Roscoe 2.4

Religion and natural knowledge in the encounter of East Asia with Europe, 1600-1800

S129-B Schuster Blackett

Islamic astronomy in its cultural context ▪ Observational astronomy and its applications

W131-G Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Instruments and public health


Philosophical issues


Medicine and the media

16:10–17:40

S010-B Roscoe 1.010

The introduction of mathematics in Iberoamerica (part II)


Industrial heritage and history of technology in the Luso-Brazilian world


Wiring intelligence

S081-B Roscoe 2.5

Between physics and technology: the embodiment of knowledge in the inter-war period

S110-B Roscoe 2.3

Homemade science: domestic sites and the gendering of knowledge


Geography and its publics ▪ Geopolitics and exploration, part 2

P120-D Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ From the late nineteenth century to the First World War

T177-C Roscoe 1.008

Images and models in modern medicine ▪ Medical techniques and medical knowledge

Special sessions Of music, engineers and drugs: when Cottonopolis became Madchester (E343)


Screening: A City Speaks (E336)



17:45–18:30, Walk starts outside the main entrance to the Manchester Museum WITHDRAWN

Committee meetings DHST General Assembly 1 (C272-B)


Public event Chemists, brewers and beer-doctors (L348)


Receptions Annals of Science anniversary reception (invitation only) (R330)

17:30–19:00, Uni Place 4.209

Women in Science Research Network launch (R328)


Social programme Comedy: Bright Club (K333)


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THURSDAY 25 July ▪ early morning

09:00–10:30

S001-A Roscoe 1.009

Knowledge preserved, knowledge lost: challenges in collecting and interpreting material culture of science and technology ▪ Knowledge preserved


Science as Public Culture revisited ▪ Institutions

S009 Roscoe 2.2

Leonardo da Vinci and the history of science


From patronage to biotech: new perspectives on medicine and commerce


Creating facts: disputed knowledge-claims in the nineteenth century ▪ Establishing and standardizing knowledge


Putting knowledge to war: research, development and the image of science in the First World War

S070-A Roscoe 1.007

Transferring and forming pharmaceutical knowledge: from practical work to academic disciplines and back, from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries ▪ Documenting pharmaceutical knowledge


Using modern computing power to analyse and explicate ancient astronomical sources: opportunities and challenges

S117-A Roscoe 2.4

The institutionalization of mathematics and the founding of national societies

W131-H Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Innovative optical instruments


New themes and approaches in science studies ▪ Interdisciplinarity

09:10–10:40

S012-A Roscoe 1.010

Arabic foundations of science ▪ Demonstration and empiricism in Avicenna

S014-A Roscoe 2.5

Fossil work: making paleontological specimens and knowledge


Practising photography in the sciences


Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work in the long eighteenth century


Collecting and using oral histories of science and technology: international perspectives

S082-A Roscoe 1.008

Ideological blueprints: rational choice, equilibrium and planned development in economics ▪ Equilibrium and rational choice

S093-A Roscoe 2.3

New perspectives on classification and methodology in history of science: theoretical and technological bases for managing primary sources


Geography and its publics ▪ Geographical education and knowledge, part 1


The history and philosophy of mathematical optimization

P120-E Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Between the wars

Q127-A Schuster Bragg

ICOHTEC special topics in the history of technology


Topics in nineteenth-century physics ▪ Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical sciences

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Thursday) (X224)

09:15–13:00

Chatsworth House excursion (X231)

09:30–17:30

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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 25 July THURSDAY

11:00–12:30

S001-B Roscoe 1.009

Knowledge preserved, knowledge lost: challenges in collecting and interpreting material culture of science and technology ▪ Knowledge lost


Science as Public Culture revisited ▪ Media


From patronage to biotech: new perspectives on medicine and commerce


Creating facts: disputed knowledge-claims in the nineteenth century ▪ Communicating and disputing knowledge-claims


Putting knowledge to war: research, development and the image of science in the First World War

S070-B Roscoe 1.007

Transferring and forming pharmaceutical knowledge: from practical work to academic disciplines and back, from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries ▪ Transferring pharmaceutical knowledge


Using modern computing power to analyse and explicate ancient astronomical sources: opportunities and challenges

S117-B Roscoe 2.4


W131-J Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Mathematical instruments for royalty and the rich


New themes and approaches in science studies ▪ Current problems and approaches

T162 Roscoe 2.2

Aspects of the history of modern chemistry

11:10–12:40

S012-B Roscoe 1.010

Arabic foundations of science ▪ Foundations of science from Avicenna onwards

S014-B Roscoe 2.5

Fossil work: making paleontological specimens and knowledge


Practising photography in the sciences


Collecting and using oral histories of science and technology: international perspectives

S082-B Roscoe 1.008

Ideological blueprints: rational choice, equilibrium and planned development in economics ▪ Beyond, before and beneath planned welfare

S093-B Roscoe 2.3

New perspectives on classification and methodology in history of science: theoretical and technological bases for managing primary sources

S111-F University Place 1.219

Geography and its publics ▪ Geographical education and knowledge, part 2


The history and philosophy of mathematical optimization

P120-F Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Second World War military technology

Q127-B Schuster Bragg

ICOHTEC special topics in the history of technology ▪ Knowing users: social demands in shaping technology and designing products


Topics in nineteenth-century physics ▪ Discipline and metrology



Campus history walk (M246)




Manchester Museum herbarium tour (M374)


Committee meetings Teaching Commission business meeting (C283)


Lunchtime sessions Metrics and journal rankings: a workshop (F316)


Careers and funding: policy advisors and history (F319)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits Godlee Observatory visit (X375)

various times, Godlee Observatory

Working Class Movement Library tour (X367)


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THURSDAY 25 July ▪ afternoon and evening

Plenary IAHS keynote address and prize award ceremonies (A392)


Committee meetings IAHS General Assembly (C274)


Walks and tours around the Congress site University of Manchester Museum of Medicine and Health collections (M387)

14:00–16:00

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Godlee Observatory visit (X375)

various times, Godlee Observatory

Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate excursion (X232)

12:45–17:30

Modernist Manchester walk (X390)

13:00–15:30, Walk starts at University Place

Police Museum tour (X368)

13:30–15:30, Police Museum

People’s History Museum tour (X369)


Chetham’s Library tour (X386)

14:00–15:30, Chetham’s Library

Guided walk: Victorian and Edwardian Manchester (X365)


Guided walk: Manchester peace and justice trail (X366)


Museum of Science and Industry tours, plus: meet the curators and archivists (X233)

14:00–17:00, Museum of Science and Industry

National Media Museum tour in Bradford (X387)

14:30–16:00, National Media Museum, Bradford

National Railway Museum tour in York (X385)

14:30–16:30, National Railway Museum, York





Social programme Museum of Science and Industry reception (J324)

19:00–21:00, Museum of Science and Industry

Music: Dave Haslam, Haçienda DJ (K334)


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FRIDAY 26 July ▪ early morning

09:00–10:30


Forensic histories: global perspectives ▪ Spaces and traces: global takes on forensic investigation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

S097-A Roscoe 2.2

From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century ▪ Antiquity and tradition before the colonial eras


The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Transmission of knowledge over time and between cultures


Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Climates of conquest? Anxieties about climate variability and change in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia

S117-C Roscoe 2.4


W131-K Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ Heritage and collections

T161-A Schuster Blackett

Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Twentieth-century astronomy

T166-A Roscoe 1.007

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ Networks of circulation and exchange


Medicine and colonialism

T195-A Roscoe 1.009

Science education ▪ The role of HSTM in teaching to scientists, medics and engineers

09:10–10:40

S005-A Roscoe 2.3

Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Approaching machines and mathematics


Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die ▪ What is progress?


Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ A 'Red' International Geophysical Year? Alliances and divisions in episodes of international scientific collaboration

S104-A Roscoe 1.010

Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Early synthetic materials


Geologists in the field ▪ Methodology of fieldwork

P120-G Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Weapons of mass destruction

T158-A Roscoe 1.008

Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Working with Newton: contexts of Newtonianism in the eighteenth century


Contemporary medical practice and ethics

Committee meetings Women and Gender Studies Commission business meeting (C251)


CHAMA business meeting (C255-A)

09:10–10:40, Roscoe 2.5

History of Geography IUC business meeting (C257)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits Jodrell Bank Observatory excursion (Friday) (X225)

09:15–13:00

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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 26 July FRIDAY

11:00–12:30


Forensic histories: global perspectives ▪ Questions of expertise: experts in criminal investigations and criminal trials


History of science and the ecology of knowledge: the limitations, expectations, and needs of four knowledge communities

S097-B Roscoe 2.2

From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine ▪ Transmission and traditions: East Asian versus Western technology and medicine


The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Medicine in context


Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Narratives on climate and water

S117-D Roscoe 2.4


W131-L Schuster Rutherford

32nd Scientific Instrument Symposium ▪ The big picture: documenting and displaying historic instruments and their makers

T161-B Schuster Blackett

Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Theory in early twentieth-century physics

T166-B Roscoe 1.007

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ The history and philosophy of biology

T191 Roscoe 1.009

Science and art


History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Histories of the history of science, technology and medicine

11:10–12:40

S005-B Roscoe 2.3

Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Numerical mathematics and analog computing


Dynamics of knowledge: how technologies evolve, triumph and die ▪ Constructing technologies


Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ Resources and national security

S104-B Roscoe 1.010

Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Late advanced materials


Geologists in the field ▪ The importance of place

P120-H Schuster Moseley

Eighth annual symposium on the social history of military technology, incorporating the Gunpowder Study Group ▪ Cold War military technology

T158-B Roscoe 1.008

Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy


Contemporary medical practice and ethics

Committee meetings CHAMA business meeting (C255-B)

11:10–12:40, Roscoe 2.5

Pacific Circle Commission business meeting (C263)




Campus history walk: physics (M247)




Excursions, off-site tours and visits Working Class Movement Library tour (X376)


Special sessions Nineteenth-century geological sections (lunchtime viewing session) (E337)


Committee meetings Meteorology Commission business meeting (C254)


BSHS EGM (C275)

12:45–13:45, Schuster Blackett

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FRIDAY 26 July ▪ early afternoon

14:00–15:30

S030-A Roscoe 1.009

Is it the medium? Ways of communicating science in twentieth-century Europe ▪ Print, radio, news-reel


Medical knowledge traditions at work


History of science and the ecology of knowledge: the limitations, expectations, and needs of four knowledge communities

S097-C Roscoe 2.2

From antiquity to tradition? Innovation and the past in East Asian science, technology and medicine, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century ▪ Antiquity, tradition and self-construction in the age of nationalism, part 1


The historical and cultural dimensions of Islamic science ▪ Mathematics, physics, and the heavens


Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Working atmospheres: histories of climate, technology and economics

T161-C Schuster Blackett

Modern physics and astronomy at work ▪ Techniques in modern physics

T166-C Roscoe 1.007

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century biological sciences ▪ Philosophy, race, ethnography


The politics of public health ▪ Public cultures of nineteenth-century medicine


History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities and social sciences

14:10–15:40

S005-C Roscoe 2.3

Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Mathematics through the machine's eye: the advent of digital computing


Planet Earth, the environment, and the Cold War ▪ Environmental monitoring and the ideological battlefield in the environmental sciences

S104-C Roscoe 1.010

Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Infrastructure, instruments & ideas


Geologists in the field ▪ Constraints on fieldwork

T158-C Roscoe 1.008

Knowledge and experiment in natural philosophy ▪ Prints, texts and readings


Science, medicine, industry and markets ▪ Medicine, science and industry


Bio/medical practices


Pedagogy and textbooks ▪ Mathematical and technical pedagogy

Special sessions The tables turned: Victorian séance event (E310)

14:00–15:30, Pear Lecture Theatre, Coupland 1 Building

Committee meetings History of Astronomy IUC business meeting (C269)


Excursions, off-site tours and visits Victorian street tour at Salford Museum and Art Gallery (X377)

14:00–15:00, Salford Museum and Art Gallery

People’s History Museum tour (X378)




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late afternoon and evening ▪ 26 July FRIDAY

16:00–17:30

S030-B Roscoe 1.009

Is it the medium? Ways of communicating science in twentieth-century Europe ▪ Exhibition, museum, TV


Medical knowledge traditions at work


Gaining it / losing it/ regaining it(?) Knowledge production in climate science, status anxiety, and authority across disciplines ▪ Climate change discourse and the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)


The politics of public health ▪ Topics in eighteenth-century medicine

T176 Roscoe 2.2

East Asian medicine


History and historiography of the history of science, technology and medicine ▪ Professional issues in HSTM

16:10–17:40

S005-D Roscoe 2.3

Mathematics and machines: explorations of machine-assisted mathematics since 1800 ▪ Programming mathematics on digital computers

S104-D Roscoe 1.010

Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back ▪ Modelling natural materials


Geologists in the field ▪ Fieldwork case studies


Science, medicine, industry and markets ▪ Medical markets


Pedagogy and textbooks ▪ Educational contexts

Special sessions Neu-Whitrow Bibliography Prize presentation and Commission on Bibliography and Documentation business meeting (E300)


Screening: Ernest Rutherford documentary (E306)

16:00–17:30, Schuster Blackett

Committee meetings CHOSTIS business meeting (C258)


ICOHTEC General Assembly (C267)


History of Mathematics IUC business meeting (C262)


IASCUD Executive Committee meeting 2 (C282)


East Asia Commission business meeting (C266)


Walks and tours around the Congress site Campus history walk: chemistry (M248)


Public event BSHS Dingle Prize lecture: David Wright, Downs: the history of a disability (L341)

18:00–19:00, Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum

The tables turned: Victorian séance event (L344)

19:30–21:00, Portico Library

Receptions History of Mathematics IUC reception (R329)

17:30–19:00, Uni Place Restaurant

Literary and Philosophical Society reception (R327)

17:30–18:45, Schuster Foyer

Social programme Email Special (jazz) (K335)


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SATURDAY 27 July ▪ early morning

09:00–10:30

S003-A Roscoe 1.009

Historical development, contemporary investigations and perspectives of the logical and philosophical foundations of science, technology and medicine ▪ The logical foundations of scientific knowledge


Colonial science at work


The work of medical schools since the Second World War: the reconfiguration of knowledge, practice and pedagogy ▪ The identity, space and organization of medical education


Transnational nuclear perspectives

S101-A Roscoe 2.4

Ancient cultural and technological interactions between East and West along the Silk Road

T157-A Roscoe 2.2

Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology ▪ Early astronomical contexts


Scientific expeditions, travels and colonialism ▪ Colonial expeditions


Information technology, communications, networks

T203-A Roscoe 1.007

Technical cultures of practice and knowledge ▪ Pre- and early-modern texts and technologies

09:10–10:40

S006-A Roscoe 1.010

Empires of longitude: international perspectives on navigation, mapping and science ▪ State interests

S018-A Roscoe 2.5

Global Spencerism

S028-A Roscoe 1.008

Genetics, eugenics and culture: transatlantic perspectives, 1900-2000

S061-A Roscoe 2.3

Re-creating past science and technology


Geologists in the field ▪ Travels and new worlds

P119-A Schuster Moseley

Everlasting bath: the history of sauna technology and culture ▪ Technological basis and social context

Q127-C Schuster Bragg

ICOHTEC special topics in the history of technology ▪ Just applied science? The origins of technological knowledge


Topics in the history of modern mathematics ▪ Mathematical institutions and communities in modern Brazil


Medical authority boundaries and medical knowledge ▪ Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine


Twentieth-century medicine ▪ Cancer

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late morning and lunchtime ▪ 27 July SATURDAY

11:00–12:30

S003-B Roscoe 1.009

Historical development, contemporary investigations and perspectives of the logical and philosophical foundations of science, technology and medicine ▪ Philosophico-methodological problems of mathematics and physics in the process of their historical development


The work of medical schools since the Second World War: the reconfiguration of knowledge, practice and pedagogy ▪ Policy and specialisms in medical education



S101-B Roscoe 2.4

Ancient cultural and technological interactions between East and West along the Silk Road

T157-B Roscoe 2.2

Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology ▪ Astronomy and instruments in Asian contexts


Scientific expeditions, travels and colonialism ▪ Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonialism and travel


International organisations in twentieth-century science, technology and medicine

T203-B Roscoe 1.007

Technical cultures of practice and knowledge ▪ Skills, knowledges and practical work

11:10–12:40

S006-B Roscoe 1.010

Empires of longitude: international perspectives on navigation, mapping and science ▪ Knowledge in circulation

S018-B Roscoe 2.5

Global Spencerism

S028-B Roscoe 1.008


S061-B Roscoe 2.3

Re-creating past science and technology

S113-F University Place 1.219

Geologists in the field ▪ Landscapes and meaning

P119-B Schuster Moseley

Everlasting bath: the history of sauna technology and culture ▪ Cultural heritage and scientific knowledge

P132 Schuster Bragg

Sonic skills at work: listening as an entrance to knowledge acquisition


Topics in the history of modern mathematics ▪ Biographies and contexts in history of maths


Medical authority boundaries and medical knowledge ▪ Medical boundaries and disputes


Twentieth-century medicine ▪ Asian, Pacific and Western medicine

Committee meetings Modern Chemistry Commission business meeting (C252)


Walks and tours around the Congress site Campus history walk: biology and medicine (M249)


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SATURDAY 27 July, early afternoon

14:00–15:30

S003-C Roscoe 1.009

Historical development, contemporary investigations and perspectives of the logical and philosophical foundations of science, technology and medicine ▪ Epistemological and ontological aspects of scientific knowledge


“A work to be done”: the manual and the cognitive in early-modern science


Science and optical media: imaging technologies, knowledge formation and the rise of the scientific imagination ▪ Optical media and scientific practices



T157-C Roscoe 2.2

Pre-modern astronomy and cosmology ▪ Astronomy: techniques of the east and west


Medical ethics and psychology ▪ Institutions and ethics


Science, technology and medicine and the state ▪ Science, medicine and the authoritarian state

T195-B Roscoe 2.4

Science education ▪ Translating science across borders: the role of textbooks

T203-C Roscoe 1.007

Technical cultures of practice and knowledge ▪ Contexts of innovation

14:10–15:40

S006-C Roscoe 1.010

Empires of longitude: international perspectives on navigation, mapping and science ▪ Navigation, encounter and exchange

S018-C Roscoe 2.5

Global Spencerism

S028-C Roscoe 1.008



Alchemy: the relationship between working and knowing from late antiquity to the seventeenth century

P124 Schuster Moseley

Generating knowledge in practice: experiments in the building sector

P133 Schuster Bragg

Knowledge for use: universities, industry and roots of the knowledge economy


Sources and biography


Topics in the history of modern mathematics ▪ Nineteenth- and twentieth-century mathematics


Medical authority boundaries and medical knowledge ▪ Medical boundaries of authority and expertise


Twentieth-century medicine ▪ Institutions

Committee meetings DHST General Assembly 2 (C273-A)


INHIGEO business meeting (C256-A)

14:10–15:40, Roscoe 2.3

Excursions, off-site tours and visits Imperial War Museum North tour: ‘Saving Lives’ (X382)

15:00–Thu 25 , Imperial War Museum North

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late afternoon and evening ▪ 27 July SATURDAY

16:00–17:30


“A work to be done”: the manual and the cognitive in early-modern science


Science and optical media: imaging technologies, knowledge formation and the rise of the scientific imagination ▪ Scientific images and the scientific imagination




Medical ethics and psychology ▪ Late twentieth-century psychology and psychiatry


Science, technology and medicine and the state ▪ Postwar physical sciences

T195-C Roscoe 2.4

Science education ▪ Science and education

T203-D Roscoe 1.007

Technical cultures of practice and knowledge ▪ Science and technology across boundaries

16:10–17:40

S018-D Roscoe 2.5

Global Spencerism


Sources and biography


Topics in the history of modern mathematics ▪ Problems in the history of maths in the long nineteenth century


Medical authority boundaries and medical knowledge ▪ Knowledge-making in modern medicine


Islamic science and medicine

Committee meetings DHST General Assembly 2 (C273-B)


INHIGEO business meeting (C256-B)

16:10–17:40, Roscoe 2.3

Social programme Congress dinner (J325)

19:00–22:00, Manchester United Football Club


17:45–18:30, Walk starts outside the main entrance to the Manchester Museum WITHDRAWN

SUNDAY 28 July

Plenary DHST and BSHS young scholars’ prize presentations and Congress closing ceremony (A399)


Committee meeting DHST Council meeting 2 (incoming and outgoing Council) (C284)


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S001. Knowledge preserved, knowledge lost: challenges in collecting and interpreting material culture of science and technology

Thu 25 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

Symposium organisers: Anna ADAMEK | Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada Peter LIEBHOLD (non-participant) | Smithsonian Institution, United States

Symposium abstract

Museums are depositories of knowledge on methods, processes, innovations, & socio-economics inherent to science & technology. It is curators’ responsibility to preserve knowledge imbedded in material culture of science & technology. This job poses interesting challenges. Perceptions, priorities, practical considerations, gender bias, and personal interests influence decisions on what is saved and what is lost. The need to preserve artifacts is balanced against access to data that they carry. In this Symposium American, Canadian & European museum professionals discuss issues associated with collecting and studying scientific & technological artifacts. Franz Klingender, Canada Agriculture Museum, in Canada Is A Mighty Big Country and I Can Hear The Warehouse Walls Groaning examines the institution’s mandate to collect the country’s history of science & technology. If it were ever realistic to expect that such a mandate could be fulfilled, in today’s climate it is no longer possible. We need to ask whether a different preservation model should be considered. Marzena Wozny, Museum of Archaeology, Krakow talks about Unique archaeological documentation, Gabriel Leńczyk’s sketches of medieval defensive structures. Leńczyk conducted extensive archaeological excavations and pioneered an inventory of hillforts in Poland. As time and human intrusion alter the landscape, the Leńczyk’s sketches become very valuable. Gosia Taborska, Jagiellonian University Museum, discusses Scientific Instruments & Laboratory Equipment as Museum Exhibits. Scientific instruments constitute a special group of museum artifacts that testify to the evolution of scientific methods & development of new technologies. Sadly, only a fraction of instruments ends up in the Museum. The Museum is educating University employees about heritage value of equipment and principles of acquisitions. Anna Adamek, Canada Science & Technology Museum, in My Wife Said This Sh*t Has to Go examines gender dynamics in donations. Majority of objects are donated by men or by wives & daughters to honour work and lives of husbands and fathers. Few donations preserve women’s contribution to science, technology & medicine. The paper looks at reasons for this trend & strategies employed to mitigate the situation. Zbigniew Stachniak, York University, Toronto discusses testing of computer artifacts. One of the main issues in the history of computing is how to conduct research that requires experimentation with hardware. The hardware may not exist any more, or be fragile; it can be displayed but not manipulated.

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Thu 25 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

Chair: Deborah SCOTT | Fleming College, Canada

Peter LIEBHOLD | Smithsonian Institution, United States

WITHDRAWN: Collecting problematic history

Franz KLINGENDER | Canada Agricultural Museum, Canada

Canada is a mighty big country and I can hear the warehouse walls groaning

Collection development is increasingly becoming a problem for museums worldwide. Often the administration does not see the need to acquire more objects or storage is already full so there is no room for more object even if a rationale could be made for their acquisition. When an institution has the mandate to collect a country’s history the challenges become even greater. The Canada Agriculture Museum’s collecting mandate is meant to represent all aspects of this country’s agricultural story. That encompasses everything from an iron-faced wood 17th century plough pulled by a brace of oxen to a 40 foot long late 20th century robotic machine that allows four cows to be milked simultaneously when they feel the need. It is to include everything from the rake used on PEI to collect dulse for use as fertilizer to the self-propelled machine for harvesting grapes used in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. If it were ever realistic to expect that such a mandate could be fulfilled, in today’s climate of limited financial and personnel resources it clearly is no longer possible. We also need to ask whether we must be the sole custodian for everything of significance or should a different model be considered? The Canadian Museum of Nature has for many years worked within a collaborative framework that often sees them coordinating the preservation of natural history specimens but the actual specimens going into partner public institutions elsewhere in Canada. This presentation will examine why a network of partner agriculture museums may be the sole reasonable road forward, how one could be formed, the challenges involved and what it might look like.

Susanne GRUBER | Technisches Museum Wien, Austria

Objekte von der Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 in der Warenkundesammlung des Technischen Museums Wien

Als dritte Weltausstellung nach London und Paris in den Jahren 1861 und 1867, zeigte die Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 viele Produkte und Kunstgegenstände der ganzen Welt, die weitgehend unbekannt am europäischen Markt und bei den Konsumenten waren. Viele Ausstellungsstücke stießen auf großes Interesse bei den Besuchern, wie z.B. Japanische Lackarbeiten, Porzellan und Fächer, was den sogenannten Japonismus im europäischen Kunstgewerbe dieser Zeit auslöste.

Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes, wurde die Geschichte der Warenkundesammlung imTechnischen Museum Wien rekonstruiert und Objekte identifiziert, die auf der Wiener Weltausstellung zu sehen waren. Alle im Folgenden vorgestellten Objekte sind japanische Artefakte oder tragen japanische Inschriften.

Eine Gruppe von Teedosen aus Holz wird mit einem Etikett aufbewahrt, das die Inschrift des „Cercle Oriental.“ trägt, ein Pavillon, der speziell für die Ausstellung errichtet wurde. Alle vier Dosen sind quadratisch und haben die Abmessungen 5,7 x 5,7 x 10 cm. Sie sind aus verschiedenen Hölzern gefertigt, wie “kurogaki”, auch “Echter Kakibaum”, oder “kaya”, auch “Japanische Nusseibe”.

Zwei japanische Musterbücher mit Seidenbrokaten haben eine direkte Verbindung zum Generaldirektor der Weltausstellung, Baron Wilhelm von Schwarz-Senborn. Es sind japanische Bücher, die von links nach rechts aufgeschlagen werden, die Muster sind an der linken Buchseite montiert. Die Rückseite der Stoffe ist nicht mit einem Papier verdeckt. Dadurch sind auch die Details der Bindung zu sehen. Die Muster sind sehr aufwändig und meist sehr farbintensiv. Bei zahlreichen wertvollen Stoffen sind goldfarbene Fäden eingewebt.

Als dritter Punkt wird ein Set von sechs Japanischen bemalten Wachskerzen vorgestellt, die in einer schwarzen Box mit den Maßen 52,5 x 32 x 9 cm aufbewahrt werden. Eine Kerze ist als Bambus-Sprosse stilisiert. Eine weitere Kerze trägt die traditionellen japanischen Glückssymbole für langes Leben, Kraniche und eine Schildkröte, die aus

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dem bewegten Meer auftaucht. Zwei andere Kerzen zeigen schöne Frauen in eleganten, höfischen Kleidern. Dieses Set ist ident mit den fotografierten Objekten für die japanische Ausstellung in Wien. Weitere Hinweise auf Etiketten, wie den Cercle Oriental, weisen ebenfalls darauf hin, dass diese Objekte auf der Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 zu sehen waren.

Objects from the Vienna World Exposition of 1873 in the Commodity Science Collection of the Vienna Technical Museum

Being only the third of its kind after the first two World Fairs held in London and Paris in 1861 and 1867 respectively, the Vienna World Exposition of 1873 showcased many products and artefacts from all around the world that hitherto had been largely unknown to European markets and consumers. Many of these foreign exhibits were very well received by the public, some, such as, for example, Japanese lacquers, porcelains and fans, even causing a stir that was conducive to an overall craze for things Japanese and to the so-called Japonism in European arts and crafts of the time.

As an outcome of a research project, we reconstructed the history of Commodity Science Collection of the Technical Museum Vienna and identified objects shown at the Vienna Word Expo of 1873. The presented groups of objects below are Japanese artefacts or at least bear Japanese inscriptions.

A group of wooden Japanese tea caddies are preserved together with a tag that bears the imprint “Cercle Oriental.”, a pavillon built for the Expo. All four tea caddies are quadrangular, measuring 5,7 x 5,7 x 10 cm, and made from various woods, such as „kurogaki “, or „black Japanese Persimmon“ and „kaya“, or „Japanese nutmeg-yew”.

Two Japanese silk fabric sample books point to their direct connection with the Expo’s Austrian director general, Baron Wilhelm von Schwarz-Senborn. The Japanese-style bound books, their spine is on the right side, measure 43 x 39 x 2 cm, their covers consisting of a fabric with floral design. The reverse side of the fabrics is left uncovered, to see the weaving details. As to the designs, they are very intricate and mostly very colourful. Many fabrics have gold-coloured threads weaved into them.

And for yet a third item in the collection, the set of six superb Japanese painted wax candles, stored in a black-painted quadrangular wooden showcase, measuring 52,5 x 32 x 9 cm. One candle is imitating a bamboo sprout, one has a design of a crane flying in the air and a tortoise emerging from a wavy sea, both traditional Japanese lucky symbols for longevity. Two other candles feature a beautiful woman in an elegant courtly dress. The sets similarity to the photographed items as well as other internal evidence connecting it with the Cercle Oriental make it also highly probable that it had been on display at the World Expo in 1873.

Co-Autor, Translation: Dr. Susanne Formanek, Akademie der Wissenschaften

Commentary: Deborah SCOTT | Fleming College, Canada

S001-B. Knowledge lost

Thu 25 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Roscoe 1.009

Chair: Deborah SCOTT | Fleming College, Canada

Malgorzata TABORSKA | Jagiellonian University, Poland

Scientific instruments and laboratory equipment as museum exhibits

Scientific instruments constitute a special group of museum memorabilia, valued not only as artefacts of handicraft, but also as testimony to the evolution of scientific methods, development of new technologies and progress in research. They acquire a particular value for university museums which illustrates traditions and everyday life of the school as well as achievements in researches and teaching. The Jagiellonian University Museum owns the largest collection of scientific instruments in Poland, the oldest dating from the Middle Ages (astronomical instruments from the 14th c.) and the youngest – from the 21st c. (multiwire drift chamber, 2001). Over 80% of the instruments have been given to the Museum from the equipment of the Jagiellonian University institutes and laboratories. Many of them have an interesting provenance, sometimes well documented. The main difficulty in objects acquisitions comes from the fact that only a fraction of them ends up in the Museum - usually only these that are the most cumbersome, and unwanted and at the same time difficult to transport due to their size and weight. To remedy this situation the Museum is educating the University employees about the proper way to collect old equipment and about general principles of acquisition. One of the methods used is a blurb presenting the newly acquired artifacts on the pages of the University monthly “Alma Mater” together with words of gratitude. Another method is the direct contact with the staff of the specific department or institute. A case study looks at 2011 acquisition of nearly 250 items from the Zoological Institute. This opportunity arose when the Institute was transferred to the new University Campus. The Museum was fortunate to acquire all main types of the collected artifacts, such as:

standard scientific equipment, factory-made as well as for special applications

prototype scientific instruments, often made in the University workshops, sometimes even by the researchers themselves,

office materiel,

instruments for educational purposes,

scientific laboratory equipment connected with research apparatus.

Majority of artifacts are in good condition, sometimes needing only minor repairs or conservation care. Due to the limited space of the permanent exhibition and its historical character, most of the artifacts are kept in the storehouse to be used as a base for future thematic exhibitions.

Anna ADAMEK | Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada

My wife said this sh*t has to go

This paper examines gender dynamics in unsolicited donations to the CSTM. Vast majority of objects that come to the CSTM through passive collecting are donated by men or donated by wives and daughters to commemorate work and lives of their husbands and fathers. Very few donations are originated by women who want to preserve another female’s contribution to the science, technology and medicine. Moreover, in Adamek’s 20 years at the Museum no men has ever called to donate objects associated with his mother’s, wife’s or daughter’s work. The paper looks at possible reasons for this phenomenon and attempts to answer several key questions. What is the relationship of men

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