Museum of the History of Physics University of Padua
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Padova Medical Museum
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What is UNIVERSITY MUSEUM? What does UNIVERSITY MUSEUM mean? UNIVERSITY MUSEUM meaning
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A university museum is a repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the institution of higher learning. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the building that is now the Museum of the History of Science. A more recent example is the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, originally constructed as a hotel in 1796 it is now the official museum of the University of Bath.
Historically, the focus of university museums and galleries included curatorial research into, as well as the display of, commemorative, ceremonial, decorative and didactic collections. For academics, these collections served as a valuable research resource. For students, museums performed both a leisure and learning function, developing their visual literacy, critical thinking, and creative skills. Aside from campus, museums served their perspective city and town's communities, spreading museological literacy among the different target audiences.
With decades, the role of the university museums changed as they started to become more open and receptive to the cultural needs of the public. Public educational outreach is considered now by many university museums as an integral part of their mission, some even adopt a market approach. Changes and decentralization of the institutional values coinciding with budgeting shortfalls in some cases gave rise to tensions and a lack of cohesive identity among a demoralized staff. Many campus museums have critical needs for facilities, staff, and support. In the 21st century, despite the challenges brought by transition, the university museums not only continue to play important role in object-based learning (tradition that reaches beyond the record of the founding of the University of Bologna) but also perform important civic and cultural functions for the larger society.
Organizationally, university museums are represented by a variety of historical, traditional and novel entities, such as anatomical theaters and archeology museums, natural science and art museums, history museums, planetariums, arboretums and aquariums, archives and house-museums, science and arts centers, ecomuseums, hospital museums, and contemporary art galleries, as well as discipline-specific collections hosted by academic departments and institutes; some special collections are hosted by the university libraries. In general, university museums and collections are classified based on disciplinary criteria or the nature of the artifacts. In Europe the number of the university museums and collections is estimated as 12,914.
The first university museums can be traced to the medieval universities and their teaching collections to support medical education — the physic, or botanical, garden (hortus medicus) and the anatomical theatre (theatrum anatomicum). The first hortus medicus was established in Italy in either Padua or Pisa in the 1540s and the first theatrum anatomicum in Padua in 1594 for the purpose of educating both the apothecaries and doctors. In the beginning of the 17th century, anatomical theaters were established at the universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Leiden and Montpellier. There are records that document the use of Pisa’s hortus medicus opened in the 1590s as a teaching museum. Soon, the teaching museum model was adopted by painters, sculptors, and architects. The cabinets of physics and chemistry followed the suit. At the University of Oxford, the picture gallery of Christ Church College was founded in 1546. In 1671, the University of Basel granted public access to the Basilius Amerbach’s cabinet, which was donated by the city of Basel. However, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, that was opened in 1683 is generally perceived as the first university museum on record. In the following centuries the diversity and complexity of the university museums and collections dramatically increased.
Helen Cornaro, University of Padua, Padua, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, also Helen Cornaro (5 June 1646 - 26 July 1684), was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, who was one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and in 1678 she became the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. degree. As a young girl, Lady Elena was seen as a prodigy. By the advice from Giovanni Fabris, a priest who was a friend of the family, she began a classical education. She studied Latin and Greek under distinguished instructors, and soon became proficient in these languages at the age of seven, including French and Spanish. She also mastered Hebrew, Spanish, French and Arabic, earning the title of Oraculum Septilingue. Her later studies included mathematics, philosophy, and theology. Elena came to be an expert musician. In addition to mastering the sciblis of her time which means she mastered almost the entire body of knowledge Elena mastered the harpsichord, the clavichord, the harp, and the violin. Her skills were shown by the music that she composed in her lifetime. In her late teens and early twenties, she became interested in physics, astronomy, and linguistics. Carlo Rinaldini, her tutor in philosophy, and at that point the Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Padua, published a book in Latin centering on geometry. The book was dedicated to a twenty-two year old Elena in 1668. When her main tutor, Fabris, passed away, she became even closer to Rinaldini, who took over her studies.
Padua on segway: Galileo's Podium | Italia Slow Tour
Padua on the road, on Segways: techno slow tour! First stop: the University, following the traces of Galileo Galilei who spent in Padua 18 years, teaching mathematics. There is still his podium to be visited! The modern science was born here: in those times Padua was the crossroads for thinkers of great standing: Copernicus and Harvey also passed through here.
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VIU Lectures 2013: Energy: Science and Communication, P. Martin, University of Padua
Professor Martin starts to stress the topic of energy from a scientific point of view and opens the dialogue with Alessandra Viola, a scientific journalist, who explains issues, patterns and challenges related to the communication of scientific topics and news to the public.
HYPE 2018
The first HYPE – HistorY and Physics Experience – was jointly organized by the International Students of History Association (ISHA), the Italian Association of Physics Students (AISF), and National Committee for Italy of the International Association of Physics Students (IAPS), in Bologna, Italy, from May 25th to May 27th, 2018.
The event gathered students of history and physics in the historic city of Bologna and provided a platform for an open and informative exchange of ideas and experiences in the study and analysis of the role that nuclear physics, and physics in general, has played in changing the course of human history.
Video made by ISHA Maribor.
Galileo - An Educational Film
An educational film dramatising the life of Galileo and his scientific discoveries.
Chapters
2:15 - Scene 1: Of Mice and Pendulums. Pisa Cathedral, Italy, 1583.
7:50 - Scene 2: The Feather and the Weights. The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1590.
14:55 - Scene 3: The Spyglass. Optician's Shop, Holland, 1608.
21:15 - Scene 4: Galileo's Star Party. Galileo's Garden, Padua, Italy. 1609.
36:10 - Scene 5: A Visit From the Pope. Galileo's Garden, Florence, Italy, 1633.
51:00 - Epilogue: The Space Probes. A student's room, Lancaster University, 2009.
Shroud of Turin Used to Create 3D Copy of Jesus
In early 2018, Researchers in Rome unveiled a 3-D carbon copy of what Jesus looked like, based on the measurements of the Shroud of Turin.
The statue is the three-dimensional representation, in actual size, of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth.
Based off the model they are able to tell, he was nearly 5 ft. 11 inches tall, whereas the average height at the time was around 5 ft. 5 inches.
Researchers believe that they finally have the precise image of what Jesus looked like, and based on the marks on the Shroud of Turin, Jesus received “a total of at least 600 blows.” The sculpture of his tortured body reflects these wounds.
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Celebrating Marie Curie’s Birthday in Rome - 10th November 2017
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Marie Skłodowska Curie’s birth, the event “L’eredità di Marie Skłodowska-Curie a 150 anni dalla nascita” will take place in Rome on 10th November 2017.
This event is organised by the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) and the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in collaboration with the European Commission and the Research Executive Agency, and will involve the MCAA Italy Chapter.
This event is also dedicated to the impact of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) on the researchers’ careers and to the recently adopted policy for the recruitment of Marie Skłodowska-Curie researchers at Italian universities and research institutions. They will be able to directly recruit the winning fellows for a tenure track professorship thanks to a new Italian Ministerial Decree (D.M. 963 – 12/2015).
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Places to see in ( Pavia - Italy )
Places to see in ( Pavia - Italy )
Pavia is a city south of Milan, in Italy. It’s known for the Certosa di Pavia, which is a Renaissance monastery complex, with sculptural and fresco decorations, north of town. In the city center, the centuries-old University of Pavia houses the University History Museum. It displays scientific and medical equipment dating as far back as the Middle Ages. The university’s botanic garden has roses and medicinal plants.
Founded by the Romans as a military garrison, Pavia has long been a strategic city both geographically and politically. It sits at the centre of an agricultural plain (hence its ugly periphery), it is an important provincial political player with strong Lega Nord leanings, and its university is considered one of the best in Italy, with previous alumni including explorer Christopher Columbus, physicist Alessandro Volta and poet and revolutionary Ugo Foscolo. Aside from its vibrant atmosphere (Instituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, IUSS, is a partner in over 300 international exchange programs), Pavia’s historic centre preserves a clutch of worthwhile sights including, to the north of the city, the fabulous Carthusian monastery Certosa di Pavia.
Pavia has retained many monuments from its glorious Medieval past, when it was regarded as the most important town in northern Italy. Among its splendid churches, the leading architectonic exemplars are its Cathedral, boasting one of the largest domes in Italy; and the Basilica di San Michele, a masterpiece of the Romanesque.
The tour continues with Visconti Castle, a square-plan building with four towers surrounded by a large moat, now home to the Civic Museums that hold relics from the Roman period, as well as sculptures from the Lombard era, and an art gallery. Another famous attraction is the covered bridge, a reproduction of a 13th-Century bridge destroyed during the Second World War; it leads to the Borgo Ticino, location of the Church of Santa Maria in Bethlehem.
Lying between Pavia and Milan is the Convent of Certosini, a monumental marble complex built in the 14th Century by Gian Galeazzo Visconti. The Certosa of Pavia, along with the church, was completed about a century later, and, to this day, is an oasis of calm and harmony graced by precious artworks. Its carved marble entrance gives visitors their first hint of the grandeur that characterizes this place. Inside, in fact, is the Palazzo Ducale, where noble guests were accommodated. The church's façade, overlooking a spacious courtyard, is also in marble.
In the Oltrepò area south of Pavia, we find a varied countryside, and then Voghera, with its ancient town center circled by avenues that replaced the old city walls. Inside this perimeter is the Visconti Castle and the Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo, circumscribed by arcades. Varzi, on the other hand, still maintains its Medieval quarter, with Palazzo Malaspina, the quadrangular tower and the Gothic-Romanesque Capuchin Church constructed in limestone. This quarter is accessible via two ancient Mangini and Clock Towers, added in the 18th Century.
The most important town in the Lomellina zone is Vigevano, embellished by the Piazza Ducale, a fine example of Renaissance architecture; it is based on a three-sided design with arcades and elegantly-painted facades, closed on the fourth side by the Baroque façade of the Cathedral.
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shoulders of giant outside Galileo Galilei's house in Padova
In 1609 Galileo Galilei used his telescope first time to observe the sky in this house in Padova. As an astronomy student I'm *so* exiting to visit here. I sang this song to touch the history.
It was a calm and cloudless night but it was all still a blur,
A shaking of our Universe was just about to occur.
It was Summertime... 1609.
when Galileo used his telescope for the very first time.
and he saw mountains and craters on the moon,
and a Milky Way with thousands of stars,
and he saw Jupiter, with four tiny moons,
he was the only man on Earth that night who knew.
That Copernicus was right,
come outside with me tonight,
and I can show you wonders of the world,
to surprise and delight.
I've got my telescope with me,
just wait until you see,
that on the Shoulders of Giants....
... we'll see beyond!
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Hanging Out as Far South as You Can Get in England
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Welcome to the Universtiy of Pavia: Prof. Ilaria Poggiolini
The University of Pavia gives a warm welcome to all its international students: more than 350 from all over the world. They will spend their next few months in Pavia thanks to Erasmus+ and other partnerships.
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By bicycle. Go to college
Means of transportation to college. Faculty of Science, department of Physics and Astronomy in Padua, Veneto, northern Italy. Historic center and anciet ancient gate Tito Livio. Historical ruins of a walled city.