GALILEAN FUNDATION FOR A SOLID EARTH 1669-2019: 350th anniversary of Nicolas Steno's Prodromus

Convegno internazionale
Mercoledì 16 Ottobre 2019
Palazzo Fenzi/Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia


Ore 9.00
PALAZZO FENZI, Via San Gallo 10, Firenze
Registrazione

Marco Benvenuti
Presidente del Sistema Museale d'Ateneo Università degli Studi di Firenze
Saluti

Chairman: Stefano Dominici

Jasper Brandt Andersen
The Danish Society for the History of Medicine - Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Bartholin and Niels Stensen - Master and pupil

Nuno Castel-Branco
Johns Hopkins University, Department of History of Science and Technology - Baltimora, Maryland, USA
Nicolaus Steno's arrival in Italy and mathematics

Ore 11 Coffee break

Niels Bonde
University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum - Copenhagen, Denmark
Steno on fossils and fishes

Troels Kardel
Gammel Holte - Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicolaus Steno's research - Conjectures from incidental observations making organic and inorganic processes measurable

Giambattista Vai
Università di Bologna, Museo Geologico Capellini, Dipartimento BiGeA - Bologna, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci's and Nicolaus Steno's geology

Ore 13.00-15.00 Light lunch
Ore 15.00

Chairman: Troels Kardel

Alan Cutler
Montgomery College, Department of Engineering, Physical and Computer Sciences - Rockville, Maryland, USA
Steno and the rock cycle

Stefano Dominici
Università di Firenze, Museo di Storia Naturale - Firenze, Italy
The order of things: Steno's experience of nature in Tuscany

Silvio Menchetti
Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra - Firenze, Italy
How do crystals grow? Steno's approach

Desmond Moser
University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences - London, Ontario, Canada
Crystalline Stenonian time features from Earth and beyond

Ore 17.30
MUSEO DI GEOLOGIA E PALEONTOLOGIA Via La Pira 4, Firenze
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