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Book SynopsisThese essays draw on recent and versatile work by museum staff, science educators, and teachers, showing what can be done with historical scientific instruments or replicas. Varied audiences - with members just like you - can be made aware of exciting aspects of history, observation, problem-solving, restoration, and scientific understanding, by the projects outlined here by professional practitioners. These interdisciplinary case studies, ranging from the cinematic to the hands-on, show how inspiration concerning science and the past can give intellectual pleasure as well as authentic learning to new participants, who might include people like you: students, teachers, curators, and the interested and engaged public. Contributors are Dominique Bernard, Paolo Brenni, Roland Carchon, Elizabeth Cavicchi, Stéphane Fischer, Peter Heering, J.W. Huisman, Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alistair M. Kwan, Janet Laidla, Pierre Lauginie, Panagiotis Lazos, Pietro Milici, Flora Paparou, Frédérique Plantevin, Julie Priser, Alfonso San-Miguel, Danny Segers, Constantine (Kostas) Skordoulis, Trienke M. van der Spek, Constantina Stefanidou, and Giorgio Strano.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Foreword Introduction: Using Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education – Experiences and Perspectives Elizabeth Cavicchi and Peter Heering 1. Reading Instruments for Historical Scientific Practice: An Experiential Pedagogy for Material Culture Alistair Kwan 2. Filming Nineteenth Century Physics Demonstrations with Historical Instruments Paolo Brenni 3. Making It about the Objects: A Reboot of a History of Science Course Janet Laidla 4. Using Original Instruments from a Museum Collection in Demonstrations Jan Waling Huisman 5. The Collections of Scientific Instruments of the Faculty of Sciences of Rennes: A Tool for School Education and for the Training of Students and Teachers Julie Priser and Dominique Bernard 6. The Collection of Scientific Instruments from the Maraslean Teaching Center and Experimental Science Education: Then and Now Panagiotis Lazos, Constantina Stefanidou and Constantine Skordoulis 7. Examples of the Use in Education of Historical Physics Instruments at Secondary School and University Level in France supported by ASEISTE Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alfonso San-Miguel and Pierre Lauginie 8. The Use of the Museum Collection for Educational Purposes Roland Carchon and Danny Segers 9. Historical Scientific Instruments in Exploratory Teaching and Learning Elizabeth Cavicchi 10. “What Is Happening in the Lab?” Transforming the School Laboratory into a Contextual Science Teaching Environment Flora Paparou 11. Historical Instruments, Education, and Do-It-Yourself in the Cabinet of Curiosity of Brest, France: University Experiences in Mathematics Frédérique Plantevin and Pietro Milici 12. Educational Experiences in Re-Enacting Historical Experimental Procedures Peter Heering > 13. The Lorentz Lab: Reviving the Scientific History of Teylers Museum with Working Replicas Trienke M. van der Spek 14. The Fall of Bodies According to Galileo: A Free Adaptation from the Geneva Museum of the History of Science Stéphane Fischer Index
