Conference Brochure - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
Conference Brochure - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
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18:00 Welcome Party<br />
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2009<br />
MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Welcome Addresses<br />
9:30 G. A. Danieli: President, Istituto Veneto <strong>di</strong> Scienze,<br />
Lettere ed Arti<br />
9:45 H. Em. A. Card. Scola: Patriarch of Venice<br />
10:00 P. Rafanelli: Director, <strong>Dipartimento</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Astronomia</strong>,<br />
Università <strong>di</strong> Padova<br />
10:15 E. Cappellaro: Director, INAF-Osservatorio<br />
Astronomico <strong>di</strong> Padova<br />
10:30 R. Sinclair: Chair, INSAP International Executive<br />
Committee<br />
10:45 Coffee Break<br />
Session 1: Galileo and His Age<br />
11:15 P. Galluzzi: Galileo's Telescope: The Instrument that<br />
Changed the World<br />
11:40 G. Coyne, S.J.: Galileo and Bellarmine<br />
12:05 M. Pastore Stocchi: The Telescope: Outline of a Poetic<br />
History<br />
12:30 Lunch at the Venue<br />
14:30 P. Petrobelli: Music at the Time of Galileo<br />
14:55 D. Fabris and T. Stone: Galileo and Music: a Family<br />
Affair<br />
15:20 O. Besomi: Galileo Reader and Annotator<br />
15:40 R. L. Poss: Eclipsed by Galileo: Thomas Harriot and His<br />
Renaissance Connections<br />
16:05 S. Perkowitz: Galileo Through a Lens: Telescopic,<br />
Microscopic, Cinematic<br />
16:30 Coffee Break<br />
17:00 G. Thiene: The Patient Galileo<br />
17:25 M. Sànchez de Toca: A Never En<strong>di</strong>ng Story: The<br />
Pontifical Commission on the Galileo Case. A Critical<br />
Review<br />
17:50 G. Wells: The Long View: Light, Vision, and Visual<br />
Culture after Galileo<br />
18:15 Poster Viewing<br />
18:45 End of the Day<br />
TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Session 2: Astronomy and Art<br />
9:00 M. Incerti: Transient Astronomical Events as Inspiration<br />
Sources of Me<strong>di</strong>eval and Renaissance Art<br />
9:25 M. Gahtan: Giorgio Vasari and the Image of the Hour<br />
9:50 G. Mariani Canova: Padua and the Stars: Me<strong>di</strong>eval<br />
Painting and Illuminated Manuscripts<br />
10:15 Coffee Break<br />
10:45 V. Shrimplin: Church of San Miniato al Monte:<br />
Astronomical and Astrological Connections<br />
11:10 M. S. Longair: Galileo, Elsheimer and The Flight into<br />
Egypt<br />
11:35 M. Men<strong>di</strong>llo: Celestial Imagery: Saints and Sinners in<br />
the Sky<br />
12:00 P. Molaro and P. Selvelli: The Mysteries of the<br />
Telescopes in the Jan Brueghel's Paintings<br />
12:30 Poster Viewing<br />
13:00 Break<br />
14:30 R. Olowin: Man, Controller of the Universe: the 1934<br />
Fresco in the Palacio de Bellas Artes<br />
14:55 J. Cogswell: Meanwhile, More Light<br />
15:20 E. Feinberg: Transformations from Earth to Sky<br />
15:45 J. M. Pasachoff and R. Olson: Blinded by the Light:<br />
Solar Eclipses in Art-Science, Symbolism, and Spectacle<br />
16:15 Coffee Break<br />
16:45 V. Valerio: Piero della Francesca's Dream of<br />
Constantine<br />
17:10 I. Elmqvist Soederlund: Celestial Ceilings and Royal<br />
Glory. A Swe<strong>di</strong>sh Example<br />
17:35 J. Hatch: Modern Earthworks and their Cosmic Embrace<br />
18:00 Poster Viewing<br />
19:30 Dinner at the Venue<br />
Session 3: Astronomy and Music<br />
21:00 C. Ambrosini: Big Bang Circus<br />
21:30 G. Schwartz and D. Catera: Universe: A Thought<br />
Symphony<br />
22:30 End of the Day<br />
WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Session 2 (continued): Astronomy and Art<br />
9:00 D. Madacsi: Fragile Light: Inspiration in Retrospect<br />
9:25 M. Bolt: Telescope Forms, Aesthetics, and Material<br />
Culture<br />
9:50 G. Mort: Eye of Beholder<br />
10:15 Coffee Break<br />
Session 4: Astronomy and Literature<br />
10:45 R. Sinclair: Astronomy as a Brief but Critical Element in<br />
Literature<br />
11:10 B. Adams:The Hands of the Pleiades: The Celestial<br />
Clock in the Classical Arabic Poetry of Dhu al-Rumma<br />
11:35 D. Garwood: From the Satellites of Jupiter to Lost Time:<br />
Galileo, Proust, and the Demise of the Paris Meri<strong>di</strong>an<br />
12:00 A. Lebeuf: The Alphabet in the Sky<br />
12:30 Poster Viewing<br />
13:00 Break<br />
14:30 R. Buonanno: Athanasius Kircher: The 17th Century<br />
Science at the Crossroad<br />
14:55 B. Peperkamp: The Discovery of Heaven<br />
15:20 F. Clynes: Cyberspace and Sacred Sky<br />
15:45 Coffee Break<br />
FREE AFTERNOON<br />
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Session 5: Astronomy and Religion<br />
9:00 F. Mario Fales: Massartu. The Nightly Observation of<br />
Astronomical Phenomena for Assyrian Kings (7th<br />
Century BC)<br />
9:25 N. Miller: Cicero's Cosmos: The Dream of Scipio<br />
(Somnium Scipionis)<br />
9:50 A. Belenkiy: Newton's Datation of the Passion of Christ<br />
10:15 Coffee Break<br />
10:45 G. B. Lanfranchi: The Discovery of the Regular<br />
Movements of Celestial Bo<strong>di</strong>es and the Development of<br />
Monotheism in the Ancient Near East<br />
11:10 O. Longo: Tot Graeci tot Sententiae. Astronomical<br />
Perspective Multiplicity in Ancient Greece<br />
11:35 A. A. Locci: Israel's Quadrant. Weeping, Laughing and<br />
the Measures of the Stars<br />
12:00 G. Tanzella-Nitti: Galileo's View of the Book of Nature<br />
in the Frame of the Historical Development of the<br />
Metaphor of the Two Books<br />
12:30 Poster Viewing<br />
13:00 Break<br />
Session 6: Astronomy and Inspiration<br />
14:30 N. Campion: Enchantment and the Awe of the Heavens<br />
14:55 C. Impey: Vision: New Ways of Seeing at the Universe<br />
15:20 A. Goldschmidt: Looking at the Sky with a Very Large<br />
Neutrino Telescope 2 Kilometers under the Ice Surface at<br />
the South Pole<br />
15:45 J. D. Mooney: Wild Ricing Moon and the Ojibwe; the<br />
Utes and the Pleaides<br />
16:15 Coffee Break<br />
16:45 A. Nota: From Failure to Symbol of Astronomical<br />
Discovery: The Inspiring Story of the Hubble Space<br />
Telescope<br />
17:10 M. Livio: The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope on<br />
Our Culture<br />
17:35 C. Moore and A. Richman: Fin<strong>di</strong>ng Inspiration in the<br />
Face of Endangered Starry Nights<br />
18:00 E. C. Krupp: Going Public<br />
18:25 J. Staude: The House of Astronomy - A New Center for<br />
Public and Educational Outreach<br />
18:00 Poster Viewing<br />
19:30 Dinner at the Venue<br />
Session 7: Astronomy and Movies<br />
21:00 J. F. Salgado: Adler Video Suites (Movie)<br />
22:00 End of the Day
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