Workshop "Promises of Precision"

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From: Gluch, Sibylle -skd <Sibyll...@skd.museum>

Dear Collegues,

 

Please, find attached the programme for our workshop “Promises of Precision: Questioning ‘Precision’ in Precision Instruments”, which will take place at the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, September 29-30. As we are having a hybrid format, you are kindly invited to participate. Please, contact me off-list for the Zoom link (sibyll...@skd.museum) , which I will send out next week. For technical reasons, the number of participants is limited.

 

With best wishes,

Sibylle

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

“Promises of Precision – Questioning ‘Precision’ in Precision Instruments”

Workshop 29-30 September 2021

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), project number 392130775

 

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Venue: Hans-Nadler-Saal, Residenzschloss

9:00                       WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

 

SESSION 1 – Chair: Silke Ackermann

9:30                       Arthur Harris, Liba Taub:

Measurement and precision: A brief look at some ancient accounts

10:00                     Boris Jardine:

                               The politics of precision and the authority of artisans, 1582-1684

10:30                     Dana Jalobeanu:

                               Francis Bacon on instruments of detection and instruments of measure

 

11:00                     Coffee Break

 

SESSION 2 – Chair: Jim Bennett

11:30                     Samuel Gessner:

                                “Si te omni modo delectat precisio”: the use of precision in 16^th-century instruments

12:00                     Michael Korey:

                               Heavenly precision? Variant views of the quality and accuracy of planetary clocks

12:30                     Richard Kremer:

                               Searching for precision? Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum

                               (Stettin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler

 

13:00                     Lunch Break

 

 

SESSION 3 – Chair: Jonathan Betts

14:00                     Sibylle Gluch:

                               Time troubles: Equation clocks and ideas of precision in early 18^th-century

                               observatories

14:30                     Luís Tirapicos:

                               Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical

                               clocks

15:00                     Rossella Baldi:

                               How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy: Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users

 

 

15:30                     Coffee Break

 

SESSION 4 - Chair: Martina Schiavon

16:00                     David Aubin:

                               Popularizing precision: Cassini III’s dialogues on astronomy and his letter on the

                               shape of the earth

16:30                     Emily Akkermans:

                               The role of negotiation in the pursuit of precision

17:00                     Richard Dunn:

                               All at sea with the numbers, or, the art of being imprecise

 

 

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Venue: Hans-Nadler-Saal, Residenzschloss

SESSION 1 – Chair: Frédéric Soulu

9:00                       Mario Cams:

                               From the Parisian academy to the Mongolian steppe: Observational precision, field

                               work and unexpected results

9:30                       Miguel Ohnesorge:

                               Theodolites at 20,000 feet. Justifying precision measurement during the

                               trigonometrical survey of Kashmir, 1855-65

10:00                     Simon Naylor:

                               Atmospheric empire: Meteorology at Britain’s colonial observatories

 

10:30                     Coffee Break

 

SESSION 2 – Chair: Friedrich Steinle

11:00                     Christian Forstner:

                               Imitation vs. precision: Zeiss, Riken Keiki and mining interferometers

11:30                     Paolo Brenni:

                               Was precision always necessary?

12:00                     Christoph Hoffmann:

                               Perfection, sharpness, accuracy, error

 

12:30                     FINAL DISCUSSION

 

 

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Dr. Sibylle Gluch

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

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