Tue 25 March

Tue 25 March
9.00 – 9.30 – Registrations
9.30 – 10.00 -Welcome addresses (A. Ciaravella, M. Palma, M. Gruttadauria, A.
Gasperini)
I Session (History)
10.00 – 10.35 – Sibylle Gluch (Dresden Transport Museum)
On the history of time in observatories
10.35 – 11.10 Rossella Angelica Baldi
The successful market of 18 th -century British clockmakers
11.10 – 11.40 – Coffee break
11.40 – 12.15 – Julien Gressot (Université de Neuchâtel)
Archival sources and material culture for the study of observatory clocks
2.15 – 12.50 – Günther Oestmann (Technical University of Berlin)
The regulator clocks by J. H. Kessels
12.50 – 13.30 – Discussion on Session I
13.30 – 15.00 – Light lunch
15.00 – 17.00 Visits to collections:
Museum of Motors and Mechanisms (short introduction by Giuseppe Genchi
on Clocks like cold motors: similar approaches)
Historical Collection of Physics (short presentation by Aurelio Agliolo Gallitto
on The Hipp chronoscope in Palermo)
Specola Museum