Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education , by Elizabeth Cavicchi and Peter Heering, eds

• Autores: Eugenio Bertozzi
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 741-743
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education is the first volume of the Scientific Instruments and Collections series entirely dedicated to the use of historical scientific instruments in educational activities, and it is constituted by selected papers from annual sic meetings by authors of nine countries (Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the USA) and about twenty institutions. The editors Elizabeth Cavicchi and Peter Heering have for long time called the attention of historians of science and science educators on the subject. With this publication, they use their expertise in the field to provide the readers with a vast array of cases where activities based on historical scientific instruments are carried out in primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, museums, exhibitions and cultural festivals. The possible uses of historical collections vary across the different countries according to specific restrictions put on cultural heritage; nonetheless, as the general editor Giorgio Strano points out, there is a “live-wire” which connects the contributions, i.e. the belief that historical apparatuses can trigger a process of understanding of science which is threatened by the “black boxes” of today’s laboratories.