Galilean foundation for a solid earth
350° anniversary of Nicolas Steno's Prodromus
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Wednesday 16 October 2019
PALAZZO FENZI
Via San Gallo 10, Firenze
Ore 9.00 Registration
Marco Benvenuti
Presidente del Sistema Museale d’Ateneo
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Welcome
Chairman: Stefano Dominici
Jesper Brandt Andersen
The Danish Society for the History of Medicine,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Bartholin e Niccolò Stenone - 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 mathematic
Ore 11 Coffee break
Niels Bonde
University of Copenhagen,
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Steno and fossils
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 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