Event programme - list

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Sunday, July 25, 2021 17:00 – 17:50

Virtual Hall 1
Welcome Speeches, Opening

Michael Osborne (United States)
Tomas Zima (Czech Republic)
Juliane Mikoletzky (Austria)
Petr Svobodny (Czech Republic)

Sunday, July 25, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 1
Plenary Symposium Pandemics, science, and society - ID 318
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 852
What is an epidemic?
Warwick Anderson
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 716
Bolsonaro’s chloroquine: science, pandemic, and pandemonium in Brazil
Marcos Cueto
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 388
Genetic engineering and prospects for living in a pandemic
Luis Campos
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 665
Commentary
Mary Brazelton

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium Social factors in the passage from invention to technological system (ICOHTEC) - ID 161
10:00 - 10:25
ID: 531
Making an invention known. Importance of the socio-economic network in the innovation processes concerning architectural terracotta, France, 19th century
Cyril Lacheze
10:25 - 11:00
ID: 532
Processes at work in the emergence and militarization of a technological system: seaplanes in France in the 1910s
Marion Weckerle
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 936
Clean and save food for the urban consumer: the modernization of yoghurt production
Elitsa Stoilova

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium The perils of prediction (DHST- DLMPST Joint Commission) - ID 349
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 776
Prediction in and about science
Hasok Chang
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 627
Engineering, prediction, and mathematics
Johannes Lenhard
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 757
The perils of predicting complex systems: And what we can do without prediction
Miles MacLeod
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 593
The many faces of prediction. Lessons from the various astronomical expeditions organized in the 1910s to test Einstein’s light bending prediction
Ana Simões

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 1/2) Giants and dwarfs in the transformations of mathematics in the XVIII century - ID 1006
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 480
Updating and innovation in Mathematics at the beginnings of the Spanish College of Artillery (1764-1808)
Juan Navarro-Loidi
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 582
Pasqual Calbó, a Minorcan scientist-artist, and his mathematical course (c. 1800)
Antoni Roca-Rosell
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 599
Reflections from mixed mathematics to physic mathematics in Spanish eighteenth century
Maria Rosa Massa Esteve

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Session I (Part 1/2) - History of Astronomy
10:00 - 10:20
ID: 997
Diversifying modern astronomy: a history of academic activism
Jörg Matthias Determann
10:20 - 10:45
ID: 1070
The Reconstruction of a Working Model of Heumgyeonggak-nu, Astronomical Clock
SANG HYUK KIM
10:45 - 11:05
ID: 1175
Eclipse in the 19th century Ottoman applied source
Solmaz Ceren Özdemir
11:05 - 11:25
ID: 1139
A Phylogenetic Appraisal of the Concept of Celestial SPHERE
Mohammad-Mahdi Sadrforati
11:25 - 11:45
ID: 1061
A Survey of the First Persian Book in Modern Astronomy in Iran: Mas‘ūd Anṣārī’s A Summary of Astronomy (1819)
Mohammad-Hossein Poorabbas

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium Science and Religion from an angle - ID 166
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 186
‘Our English science’: science and religion in an imperial context
Stuart Mathieson
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 229
Catholics and national identity in modern Germany
Jeffrey Zalar
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1312
Darwin’s Greek ancestors: Evolution, communism and nationalism in Greece (1880-1940)
Kostas Tampakis

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 1/5) Science and literature in small and large scales (Commission on Science and Literature)- ID 248
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 722
‘A Lord of the Rings-type world’: J.R.R. Tolkien and the paleoanthropological imagination
John Holmes
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 999
‘To discerne the Lyon by his paw’ – Imitation and plagiarism in early modern English science
Barbara Bienias
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1009
Illustrated scientific instruments books in late Qing: popular science, social fashion and trade
Hao Chang

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Session II (Part 1/3) - Biological Sciences - History of Zoology
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1204
A global history of zoos in the long nineteenth century
Oliver Hochadel
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1130
In multis una: Professionalization of wildlife zootechnics as a scientific practice in the zoological gardens’ system of Mexico City
Hugo Domínguez Razo
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1163
May the peripheries lead us to the center: interwar Japanese zoology in Micronesia
Lisa Yoshikawa

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium Re-imagining imaginaries. Rethinking our stories - ID 431
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 701
Aircrafts, ships and satellites. Space sciences as field sciences
Gemma Cirac-Claveras
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 829
Human technologies and social policy: alternative sociotechnical imaginaries of mindfulness in the UK
Stephen Morris
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 864
Health diplomats and scientific experts on the verge of contagious breakdowns
Flavio D'Abramo
Gerardo Ienna
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 872
The Frankenstein complex: historical imaginaries of cybernetics and cyborgs, and contemporary imaginaries of artificial intelligence and robots
Colin Williams

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 1/3) The Greek and medieval Ptolemy (CHAMA) - ID 91
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 331
Theodosius’ /Spherics/ and Ptolemy’s spherical astronomy
Nathan Sidoli
10:30 - 10:55
ID: 156
Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus in 2021: achievements and outlook
David Juste
10:55 - 11:30
ID: 111
The dissolution of the carrying sphere in Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses and ‎its reception in the medieval Arabic tradition
Paul Hullmeine
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 134
Traces of the unrevised translation of the Almagest by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn
Pouyan Rezvani

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (1/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 124
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 985
Collaborating hands: artisan, scholar, and the techniques of prototyping in 17th-century Korea
Hyeok Hweon Kang

Monday, July 26, 2021 10:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Epidemic histories in southeast Asia (Pacific Circle) - ID 104
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 853
The sciences of disease prevention and the regulation of mobility in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
Hans Pols
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 816
Missions of mercy: trade routes and the dispersion of vaccination for smallpox in Southeast Asia
Claudia Michele Thompson
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 765
Epidemic Invasions in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Michitake Aso

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 2/2) Giants and dwarfs in the transformations of mathematics in the XVIII century - ID 357
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 354
Mixed and applied mathematics in 18th century Prague
Davide Crippa
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 689
A recently discovered text by Bolzano
Elías Fuentes Guillén
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 927
Foundations in service of education: calculus textbooks in 18th century Prague
Jan Makovský
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 433
Wendlingen: a Bohemian scientist in the Eighteenth Century Spanish Court
Joaquim Berenguer

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 4
Session V Cold War
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1024
Shaping Cold War science: The case of Herbert Simon and Hao Wang
Javier Poveda Figueroa
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 884
One shall not kill the science. Kazimierz Petrusewicz and the attempts at the stalinist transformation of the Polish academic field
Łukasz Bertram

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 5
Session VI (Part 1/3) - Academies, Societies, Laboratories and other Institutions
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1208
Cooperative empires: Scientific societies in Vienna, imperial agents, and the “Orient” (1870–1914)
Johannes Mattes
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1098
Cooperation between Russia "Giants" and "Dwarfs" Scientific Centers in the Formation of a New Scientific and Educational Landscape in the First Years of Soviet Power
Elena Sinelnikova
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1186
To establish the Japanese society for history of science; two phases and historical backgrounds.
Daishi OKADA

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium Gas and electricity as an element of technological development in Latin Europe: technicians, processes, gas works, and networks (ICOHTEC) - ID 1314
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1315
ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS IN LATIN EUROPEAN GAS INDUSTRY (1914-1945)
Antonio J Pinto
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1316
Gasworks in spain, the knowledge based in the technological diffusion
FRANCESC X. BARCA-SALOM
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1317
The adoption of the electricity in Barcelona at the nineteen century and the actuation of the gasworks
Joan Carles Alayo Manubens

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
Session VII (Part 1/2) - Biographies
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1116
“Narro, ergo sum” – Comparing autobiographical narratives in the history of Austrian science
Sandra Klos
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1249
Von Mises, Reichenbach, and Popper on the law of large numbers
Hans Fischer
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1252
Boscovich and Leibniz. A reappraisal
Luca Guzzardi
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1330
Some Research Directions Represented by N.D.Moiseev in his Monograph Essays on the Development of Stability Theory
V.N. Chinenova

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 1/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 204
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 293
Transformations: Turning research experiments into teaching demonstrations
Peter Heering
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 463
Tracing the life of 19th century laboratories in Greek educational institutions through historical textbooks and archival documents
Flora Paparou
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 394
The impact of salih zeki's optical works on physics education in 20th-century ottoman turkey
Sena Aydın
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 263
Robert Pohl in Madras: German teaching instruments and practices in India
Roland Wittje

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 2/3) The Greek and medieval Ptolemy (CHAMA) - ID 92
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 113
Tracing Arabic translations of the Almagest in al‐Farghani’s Elements of Astronomy
Razieh-Sadat Mousavi
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 342
An Almost Forgotten Contribution to the Tetrabiblos
Nadine Löhr
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 112
(Dis)continuity of Ptolemaic planetary distances and sizes in Arabic astronomy
Hamid Bohloul
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 174
A philological chimera: Pseudo-Ptolemy's Book of the Fruit and its transmission
Emanuele Rovati

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (2/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 125
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 212
The trace italienne, a military innovation with dramatic consequences on the besieged. The siege warfare during the Italian Wars (1494-1559)
Jacopo Pessina
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 438
Italian imitations of French ordnance: an artillery revolution, or a logistical problem?
Fabrizio Ansani

Monday, July 26, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium Socialist Hydro-Expertise in Cold War Ghana : Cold War Technopolitics Beyond the Giants? (ICOHTEC)- ID 552
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 913
Export of Czechoslovak Hydro-expertise in the Cold War Era
Jiří Janáč
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 637
Long Shadow of Colonialism. Path Dependence and Hydropower Projects in Ghana
Viktor Pál
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 666
Damming the Cold War – Czechoslovak technopolicy in Ghana
Jakub Mazanec
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1089
Technocratic internationalism. GDR coal refinement and international cooperation during the early Cold War
Jan Zofka

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Expanding the range of statistical mechanics: from Poincaré and von Zeipel to Smoluchowski and Fowler - ID 21
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 47
Stars as molecules: Poincaré and von Zeipel on globular clusters and the structure of the universe
Scott A. Walter
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 328
From Statistical Mechanics to Random Fluctuations: Marian Smoluchowski’s Research Program, 1904-1917
Chen-Pang Yeang
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 189
The work on statistical mechanics by Ralph Fowler and his Cambridge group in the 1920s
Martin Niss

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 1/2) Science and empire in the age of global history (Science and Empire Commission) - ID 538
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 828
What can we learn from decolonial perspectives on colonial / decolonial sciences ?
Patrick Petitjean
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 721
Symposium 538: Science and empire in the age of global history.
Deepak Kumar
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 948
Migration, plantation, empires
Cristiana Bastos
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 915
Of Mice and Snakes : a connected history of medicine in Brazil and India (1870-1914)
Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 1/5) Re-scaling & de-centering the history of oceanography: the ‘hidden figures’ and hidden dimensions of global ocean science (ICHO) - ID 448
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 871
An 'Indian' ocean? Marine biology and scientific authority in British India
Aviroop Sengupta
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 844
Post-War Reconnaissance of Japanese Fishery and Ocean Science and its Contribution to the Development of U.S. Scientific Programs in the Pacific: 1947-1958
Carmel Finley
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 784
Female Peruvian scientists in fishery science: The marine biologists of IMARPE, 1964-1982
Alejandra Osorio
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 843
Recovering hidden histories of marine and aquatic invasion biology
Christine Keiner

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 5
Session VI (Part 2/3) - Academies, Societies, Laboratories and other Institutions
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 1136
Nearly fallen giant: the case of the Russian Academy of Sciences, experiencing the impact of the new management reform
Anna Fedorova
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 1196
Emergence of Scientific Community in India: Role of Indian Science Congress Association, 1914-1947
Sneha Sinha

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 1/4) The materiality of knowledge circulation between China and Europe: physical formats, epistemic genres, spatial localities (16th-18th century) (ISHEASTM) - ID 31
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 655
Towards a Cross-Cultural History of Eurasian Medicine: The State of the Field
Marta Hanson
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 281
Xu Shizhi and pulse diagnosis in eighteenth-century Naples
Henrietta Harrison
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 53
Tactility, pulse, and body knowledge in transit: John Floyer's reading of diagnostic touch in English and Chinese medicine
Yijie Huang
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 79
Crustaceans, crosses, and cures
Oana Baboi

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium Histories of materials: biographies, institutions, tools, across scale - ID 384
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 971
Biography of materials
Bernadette BENSAUDE-VINCENT
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 979
Across scales in materials research
Ellan Spero
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 921
Tools in the History of Materials Research
Joseph Martin

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 2/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 205
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 284
Crossing the boundaries between instrument makers, science, and industry
Christian Forstner
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 478
From Paris to Prague: Precision Tuning across Boundaries
Pavel Šturm
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 1078
Denis Papin’s Digester: a European history
Marco Storni
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 272
From steam engines to equatorial telescope mounts: Controlling power and crossing boundaries from 1780 to 1860
Richard Kremer

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium Sources and resources in history of science: does size matter? (CBD) - ID 329
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 925
Revealing the invisible: human versus computational approaches to bibliographic discovery
Stephen Weldon
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 401
Object and objectivity: archives as interpretation
Venkat Srinivasan
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 403
A fragment of the dissemination of the history of science in the Baltic States - the conference Scientiarum Baltica
Giedre Mikniene
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 428
Big data management and visualization: how can dwarves find a place among giants?
Jose luiz goldfarb

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 3/3) The Greek and medieval Ptolemy (CHAMA) - ID 90
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 168
Greek texts by and related to Ptolemy recovered from the late antique palimpsest Ambrosiana L 99 sup.
Victor Gysembergh
Alexander Jones
Emanuel Zingg
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 376
The Ptolemaic Analysis of the Hipparchian Lunar Model
Gonzalo Recio
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 782
The gravitational influence of Jupiter on the Ptolemaic value for the ‎eccentricity of Saturn ‎
Christián C, Carman
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 110
Ptolemy’s tradition of astronomical tables in the Islamic world
Benno van Dalen

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 1/6) Transportation History: Solving problems or creating bottlenecks? Railway history in political and economic context (ICOHTEC) - ID 10
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 576
Engineers vs political and financial stakeholders in Portuguese railways: a sociotechnical approach to a peripheral nation (1850s-1910s)
Hugo Pereira
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 623
Building Critical Infrastructure in the Past: The Railway Line St. Petersburg – Riihimäki in the 1860s
Timo Myllyntaus

Monday, July 26, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium VII (Part 1/2) Collaborations and Rivalries in the History of Mathematics (ICHM) (with IMU) - ID 84
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 164
"If I have seen further”: the fortunes of Newton and Hooke in the accepted narratives of the Scientific Revolution
Niccolò Guicciardini
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 119
The Sailor and The Savant: The ebb and flow of a scientific partnership
Nicolas Michel
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 135
Felix Klein (1849-1925) and Georg Pick (1859-1942): support and a (largely unknown) attempt to co-operate
Renate Tobies
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 107
Ronald Ross and his ‘capable assistant’ Hilda Hudson: a collaboration on the mathematical theory of epidemics
June Barrow-Green

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium Size matters: exploring the textual dimensions of scientific knowledge in four centuries of British publishing (DHST- DLMPST Joint Commission) - ID 491
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 606
‘It is light, it is cheap, it is readable’: volume, frequency and brevity in nineteenth-century medical journalism
Sally Frampton
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 596
Big book, little book: sizing up mid-twentieth-century British biological books
Alex Aylward

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Museum revolutions? Transformations of science and technology display in Central and Eastern Europe since the 20th century - ID 386
18:00 - 18:15
ID: 460
E-POSTER Darwin in Moscow. Soviet Science Museums and the "Enlightenment of the Masses"
Mirjam Voerkelius
18:15 - 18:30
ID: 501
E-POSTER Regional Industry, Interactive Exhibits, and Marxist History? Polytechnical Museums in East Germany
Martin Weiss
18:30 - 18:45
ID: 443
E-POSTER Late and limited. The rebuilding of Berlin’s science and technology museums in both parts of the divided city
Arne Schirrmacher
18:45 - 19:00
ID: 629
E-POSTER From Museums to Centers: Exhibiting Science in Poland
Ewa Wyka

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 2/2) Science and empire in the age of global history (Science and Empire Commission)- ID 539
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 819
Scientific Research in Colonial India - Part 1: The Bombay Presidency
Pushkar Sohoni
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 821
Scientific Research in Colonial India - Part II: The Princely States of Baroda and Travancore
John Mathew
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 756
Did Kāśīnātha tarkālaṅkāra know sanskrit? recovering the thought worlds and practices of "brokers" in east india company india
Minakshi Menon

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium Wet ecologies: The media in (under)water worlds - ID 447
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 632
Imagining submarine and subterranean coral: Geology and the economics of marine fossil remains, Penny Magazine 1833
Anne Ricculli
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 850
Luminous marine animals and an enlightened public: How bioluminescence popularized marine biology
Katharina Steiner
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 795
Live from the depths: Telepresence and the production of deep ocean science
Alicia Caporaso
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 668
Pteropods realized: From bio-indication to bio-inspiration
Samm Newton

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium Colonial Science in the Pacific (Pacific Circle) - ID 634
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 972
Actor and Network in Science and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
Joseph Foukona
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 953
Making Australian public scientists: measuring Victorian Scientific 'Giants' at 19th-Century Exhibitions
Peter Hoffenberg
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 854
Comment
Hans Pols

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 3/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 206
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 255
Giants and dwarfs at the Ordnance Office in the Tower of London
Rebekah Higgitt
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 320
Looking through and at giants: the iconography of telescopes and gigantism in the nineteenth century
Pedro Raposo
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 1320
Fermenting at scale: ICI’s ‘Pruteen’ experiment – from animal feed to bioplastic, 1967-1991
Rupert Cole
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 1030
Small components, "Big Science": electronics and engineering at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Osnat Katz

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 9
Session I (Part 2/2) - History of Astronomy
18:00 - 18:20
ID: 1026
The sphere of anthony ascham: the earliest known english translation of sacrobosco's sphaera by a minor renaissance author among elite commentators
James Brannon
18:20 - 18:40
ID: 1128
Astronomical tables in ancient Egyptian royal tombs from c. 1100 BCE
Sarah Symons
18:40 - 19:00
ID: 1109
Is Oppenheimer the father of black holes?
Carla R. Almeida
19:00 - 19:20
ID: 1160
Exploring Pluto and Europa: the U.S. planetary sciences and politics, 1989-2020
Michael J. Neufeld
19:20 - 19:40
ID: 1142
A Hitheto Unknown Iranian Calendar Named Yamīnī
Maedeh Hosseinzadeh

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 1/2) Politics, Protest and Big Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 564
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 706
Transnational Localism? Knowledge Production in the Italian 1970s-80s Anti-Nuclear Movement
Roberto Cantoni
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 891
Postcolonial nuclear consensus and contemporary anxieties: a history since the global re-enchantment with nuclear India
Kumar Sundaram Pathak
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 649
The public lantern’s interplay of light and darkness: between police monitoring, savings-based extinguishings, and protests (Paris, Barcelona, 18th c.)
Benjamin Bothereau

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 2/6) Transportation History: Colonial and extra-European railways (ICOHTEC) - ID 489
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 966
Transport and public works in the Moroccan protectorate. The Tangiers-Fez railway (1914-1927) and civil engineer J. Eugenio Ribera
Inmaculada Aguilar
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 832
How the Panama Isthmus Railroad Accelerated American Commercial Expansionism
Shunsuke Munakata

Monday, July 26, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 2/2) Collaborations and Rivalries in the History of Mathematics (ICHM) (with IMU) - ID 87
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 109
Circumventing gendered barriers to knowledge through spousal cooperation: Mrs and Mr Mary Somerville
Brigitte Stenhouse
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 221
George Boole & Mary Everest Boole
David Dunning
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 118
Who counted Professor Weldon's crabs: Florence Weldon and the hidden labour of 19th century data analysis
Ursula Martin
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 249
Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer: a partnership in applied mathematics emerging from a teacher-student relationship and welded by persecution
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Monday, July 26, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 1
Commission on Women and Gender Studies Business Meeting

Monday, July 26, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 2
Commission for the History of Physics Meeting

Monday, July 26, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 3
Science & Empire Commission Meeting

Monday, July 26, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 12
ICHM Meeting

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 11:30

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium Crossing the borders between meteorology, climatology and geography (Commission on the History of Metereology and Commission on the History of Geography) - ID 424
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 583
The Maldivian Nakaiy calendar in the age of climate change
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 581
For an epistemology of climate science(s) in Latin American: between convergences, breaks and perspectives
Antonio Carlos Oscar Júnior

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 1/3) Knowledge of the heavens in transcultural perspectives:the circulation of astronomy and astrology between civilizations - ID 142
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 178
The modes of adaptation of babylonian astronomical knowledge in early imperial China
Yuzhen Guan
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 301
Rāhucāra of the Gārgīyajyotiṣa – The oldest Indian eclipse theory extant and its transmission in Central and East Asia
Bill Mak
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 169
The planetary positions and zodiacal signs of Horoscope Astrology during the Tang and Song Dynasties
Zhijia Jin
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 203
The competition between the 12 Zodiacal Signs and the 28 Lodges in Genethliacal Astrology China, 6th to 16th centuries CE
Shenmi Song

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Decolonising Pandemics? (Pacific Circle) - ID 512
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 615
‘Modernity as pandemic: settler Australia as an experiment in self-quarantine’
Lorenzo Veracini
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 894
small pox, science and settler colonialism: contested historiographies
Geoffrey Gray
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 970
epidemic and De-imperialisation through the case of Japanese Imperial Army Soldiers in PNG during WWII
Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1292
Malaria, mobility, and the death of the fair races: German scientific models of hardiness as (inevitable) decolonization.
Christine Winter

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium Designing curricula as an interdisciplinary programmed framework in the history of science & scientific–technical teaching (IDTC) - ID 60
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 170
Can environmental philosophy enhance the understanding of the physical world?
Constantine (Kostas) Skordoulis
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 243
A NoS Experimental Curriculum on motion: Galileo and His Contemporaries
Vincenzo Cioci
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 208
Emergence and Contingency in Modern Scientific Theories. New Insights in Teaching.
Anastasios Kapodistrias

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 1/2) To explore from West to East: persons, methods and results - ID 81
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 101
From Saint-Petersburg to Beijing. The line of magneto-meteorological investigations. Second half of 19 – early 20 centuries.
Tatiana Feklova
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 335
History of technology
SUO BAO
11:00 - 11:20
ID: 133
E-POSTER N.A. Nordenskiöld’s polar expeditions and the Russian society
Andrey Skrydlov
11:20 - 11:35
ID: 198
E-POSTER Imperial exploring expeditions: a case study on the archeographic expedition
Jen-Heng Chen

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 1/3) Reflections of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire: scientific interactions among various ethnic and religious backgrounds, societies and institutions - ID 436
10:00 - 10:20
ID: 803
Issues and Problems of Addressing Multi-dimensional Scientific Activities in the Ottoman Empire
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
10:20 - 10:35
ID: 607
E-POSTER The Principle and Drawing of a Universal Asterlobe
Atilla Bir
10:35 - 10:50
ID: 574
E-POSTER "Reflections of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire: scientific interactions among various ethnic and religious backgrounds, societies and institutions (PART 1/3)
TUNCAY ZORLU
10:50 - 11:15
ID: 580
Professionalization in Science: Tanzimat to Turkish Republic (1839-1946)
Tuğba Yılmaz
11:15 - 11:45
ID: 965
Ahmet Muhtar Pasha’s astrolobe making manuel: Riyaz al-Mukhtar
Emirhan Tezer

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 2/5) Science and literature in small and large scales (Commission on Science and Literature) - ID 271
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 686
What postage stamps can tell us about the scientific instruments?
Panagiotis Lazos
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 978
Hands-on knowledge: medieval manuscripts, instruments, and literary interpretation
Samuel GESSNER
Janine Rogers
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1082
On the Spanish origins of the "Cientifico/a"
Jorge Alejnadro Laris Pardo
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1253
Writing a biography of a so-called ‘dwarf’ in science: the example of the female geneticist Tine Tammes
Ida Stamhuis

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 1/4) Placing mathematical knowledge in a world of and beyond nations (IASCUD)- ID 452
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 931
The topology of interwar Japan: studying an emerging community institutionally and conceputally
Harald Kümmerle
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 681
From circulation to transfer of knowledge: infinitesimal calculus in Colombia during the 19th century
Bertrand Eychenne
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 613
Computing with WEIZAC in the early days of the State of Israel: Chaim Pekeris's contribution to applied mathematics (1948-1960)
Leo Corry

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium One hundred years of Niels Bohr’s Institute (Commission on the History of Physics) - ID 365
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 461
Koç’s theory: an unorthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics
Enes Tepe
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 556
The history of the niels bohr institute as seen through the life and career of christian møller
Helge Kragh
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1102
The Socrates of physics: looking at Bohr through Wheeler’s and Heisenberg’s eyes
Stefano Furlan

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 9
Session VIII (Part 1/2) - Gender
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1248
Moving beyond disciplinary limits and gender role in Spain: C. Arenal (1820-1893) on psychology
Annette Mülberger
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1148
Degeneration, Gender, and German Immigration: the case of Elza (Rio de Janeiro, 1920s)
Pedro Felipe Muñoz
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1168
Cotton, makeup and a prosthetic penis. Male and female trans* embodiment techonologies in the mid-twentieth century in Argentina
Patricio Simonetto

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (3/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 126
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 849
Ottoman ıntelligence and weaponry
SOMER ALP ŞİMŞEKER
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 541
The jeune école and the development of China’s naval defense, 1870s-1890s
Mingyang LI
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 141
Beyond the usual Verdächtige - Military innovation in Central Europe from the Vereinsgewehr to the Feldl machine gun
Jorit Wintjes
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 961
Technology and french colonial warfare 1871-1914
William Dean

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 1/2) DISHAS and recent research on the history of astronomical tables: Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese sources (CHAMA) - ID 76
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 108
Editing and analysing John of Lignères’ Tabule magne with DISHAS
Matthieu Husson
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 145
What does the seven metre long 18th century Sanskrit astrological scroll contribute to our understanding of astronomical ideas from western India ?
Aditya Jha
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 146
Tables, calculations and calendars in a time of crisis: the production and public consumption of astronomy in China, 1664-1669.
Christopher Cullen

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 13
Session II (Part 2/3) - Biological Sciences
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1001
The dwarf that created a giant industry: The culture of dwarf mulberry tree and its spreading in China
Chuan-hui Mau
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1032
The founders of Romanian biological oceanography - Emil Racovitza, Ioan Borcea and Grigore Antipa
Alexandru Ș. Bologa
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1182
D’Arcy Thompson, civic science, and fin-de-siècle Darwinism. A case study of scientific and social change
Giuliano Pancaldi

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 11:30 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 10
Informational session (Commission on the History of Metereology and Commission on the History of Geography)

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 2/3) Knowledge of the heavens in transcultural perspectives:the circulation of astronomy and astrology between civilizations - ID 143
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 167
Who Are the Authors of Indian Astrology Text in the Chinese Tripiṭaka?
Liqun ZHOU
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 154
On contemporary epochs in Chinese calendrical systems and their possible foreign origin
Weixing Niu
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 157
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the moon
Seyyed Mohammad Mozaffari
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 397
Al-Bīrūnī’s interpretation and revision on Indian mathematical astronomy in "India"
Yue PAN

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 1/2) Under Tropical Skies: Relocating Giants and Dwarfs in Meteorology (International Commission on the History of Meteorology) - ID 24
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 64
Defining drought and understanding tropical climate: the place of meteorological observations in the understanding of weather stations in northeastern Brazil (1850-1920)
Almir Leal de Oliveira
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 36
Connecting Australia to the World: Darwin as a meteorological hub in the continent’s tropics
Ruth Morgan
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 62
Joanne Simpson’s hot tower hypothesis and the history of tropical meteorology: The atmosphere is stable -- except when it isn't
James Fleming

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 1/2) Localising Global Technical Knowledge: Founders and Educators of Engineering Schools and Universities in Modern China, c. 1850-1950s (ICOHTEC) - ID 147
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 540
Training modern Chinese naval engineers in a French way: Fuzhou navy yard (1866–1907) and its educators and students
Mingyang LI
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 165
Pioneers of Educating China’s Technical Elites: An Official-Industrialist Sheng Xuanhuai (1844–1916) and His Educational Enterprises
Hailian Chen
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 261
The civil engineer Ling Hongxun (1894–1981) as an educator
Thorben Pelzer
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 909
Commentation and Discussion: Understanding Chinese Engineering Education in a Comparative Perspective (1)
Wolfgang König

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 2/3) Reflections of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire: scientific interactions among various ethnic and religious backgrounds, societies and institutions - ID 437
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 618
The Birth of Modern Meteorology in the Ottoman Empire in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (1854-1894)
Saltuk Duran
13:30 - 14:05
ID: 875
Buy or make dilemma in history: technology transfers and military innovations in ottoman empire during 18th and 19th centuries
Melikşah Kaçar
14:05 - 14:30
ID: 577
E-POSTER The Initiative on “Aerial Telegraph” in the Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Kacar

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 2/4) The materiality of knowledge circulation between China and Europe: physical formats, epistemic genres, spatial localities (16th-18th century) (ISHEASTM) - ID 32
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 100
Knowledge embodied in objects: the transformative circulation of enamel between Europe and China in the late 17th and 18th century
Catherine JAMI
Bing Zhao
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 51
Tracing innovations and technology exchanges between Europe and China. Enamelled objects at the 17th-18th century turn
Philippe COLOMBAN
Burcu Kırmızı
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 449
Samples, books and maps: the meandering routes of mineral knowledge between Macao and Paris
Huiyi Wu
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 71
The dissemination of western essential oil knowledge and distillation techniques in late Ming and early Qing China
Chengsheng Sun

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 2/4) Placing mathematical knowledge in a world of and beyond nations (IASCUD)- ID 454
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 830
From the local to the global: connecting the evolution of statistical thought and practice in eighteenth century Europe
Adam Dunn
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 711
International mathematics in literature: the Oulipo’s mathematical connections
Natalie Berkman
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 895
Emphatic adverbs, proper nouns, and the disciplinary grammar of international mathematics
Michael Barany

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 4/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 207
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 425
A matter of trust and control: Questioning the precision of ‘precision clocks’ in 18th-century observatories
Sibylle Gluch
Michael Korey
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 295
Determining, keeping and transmitting time. A century of famous and forgotten precision clocks at the Neuchâtel observatory (1858-1958)
Julien Gressot
Romain Jeanneret
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1023
Under the microscope: Making minerals visible in mineralogy and popular science in modern China
Xi Ma
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 338
An Oscilloscope and a Life: the Beginning of China’s Electronic Measuring Instruments Field
Ke Zhao

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 9
Session VIII (Part 2/2) - Gender
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1171
Identity and Experiment: Female Psychologist’s Reflections on Identity and Their Role in Experimental Styles, Germany 1920s
Laurens Schlicht
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1224
Breaking borders: a case of Victoria Lady Welby
Konstantin Skripnik
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1227
Anne Conway on monads
Anastasia Guidi Itokazu
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1238
Science After the Suffragettes: Trouble at T’ Mill for Irene Manton
Nicola Williams

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium Marxism and the history of science: new perspectives - ID 22
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 40
Quantum and materialist dialectic: dynamic and statistical regularity in Hessenian Marxism
Sean Winkler
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 421
Criticism of machinism and modernity
Stany Mazurkiewicz
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 74
"Edgar Zilsel and the Critique of the Mechanical conception of Nature"
Gianna Katsiampoura
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 38
Engels, plagues and 19th century epidemiology
Camilla Royle

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (4/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 127
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 199
The cordite case: understanding the inner technological issues in an otherwise social-legal legacy
yoel bergman
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 139
Victorian science meets the reality of industrial war: H.S.S. Watkin and rangefinding and the Royal Artillery, 1870-1918
Steven Walton

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:00 – 16:00

Virtual Hall 13
Presentation - Wiley Digital Archives
15:00 - 15:30
ID: 1329
Uncovering Hidden Stories in the Archives of Learned Societies
Ray Abruzzi

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 16:00

Virtual Hall 15
Chat with Wiley

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium Lives in danger, workplace in decay… „Ordinary“ intellectuals of Jewish origin and their fate between 1930s and 1950s. - ID 715
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 987
A Treasure of the USHMM Archive: Dr. Ilka Dickman
Tereza Kopecká
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 988
Transformation of the students and pedagogical staff of Prague universities in the second half of the 1930s
Ivana Ebelová
Milada Sekyrková
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 989
Institute of Light
Vira Gamaliia
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 990
German-Jewish scientists and their fate between 1933 and 1960
Annette B. Vogt

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 2/2) Under Tropical Skies: Relocating Giants and Dwarfs in Meteorology (International Commission on the History of Meteorology) - ID 25
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 37
The world of filipino weathermen of the manila observatory and the philippine weather bureau, 1884-1935
Kerby Alvarez
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 35
Just doing their job: The Hidden Meteorologists of Colonial Hong Kong c. 1883-1914
Fiona Williamson
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 377
Rainfall prediction in post-colonial South Asia: The connected projects of astrology, folklore, and meteorology, 1948-1963
Sarah Carson
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 1297
Dwarfs or Empire Builders? Italian colonial meteorology between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Angelo Matteo Caglioti

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 2/2) Localising Global Technical Knowledge: Founders and Educators of Engineering Schools and Universities in Modern China, c. 1850-1950s (ICOHTEC) - ID 148
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 898
Promoting and Localising Mechanical Engineering Education in Modern China: Liu Xianzhou (1890–1975) and His Pioneering Educational Practices
Lisheng FENG
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 197
Educating Chinese Textile Students between Theoretical Knowledge and Practice: A Comparative Case Study of U.S.- and France-Returned Teachers at Peiyang/Tianjin University in the 1950s
Xuan Su
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 679
Debates on traditional architecture in China: Uncovering the layers of the reception of Liu Dunzhen
Constantin Canavas
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 910
Commentation and Discussion: Understanding Chinese Engineering Education in a Comparative Perspective (2)
Wolfgang König

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 2/5) Re-scaling & de-centering the history of oceanography: the ‘hidden figures’ and hidden dimensions of global ocean science (ICHO) - ID 453
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 945
Debating Value and Purpose: The Inland Ohio- Mississippi River System within Broader Water Networks
Kristen Fleming
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 764
Vulnerable at Sea: Environmental-Health and the Maritime Environment
Katy Kole de Peralta
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 589
De-centering conservation in the Indian Sundarbans Delta: a nexus between global ocean science and competing grounded environmentalities
Amrita Sen
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 646
Knowing the beast: how different styles of population modelling developed in early fisheries science
Jennifer Hubbard

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 3/3) Reflections of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire: scientific interactions among various ethnic and religious backgrounds, societies and institutions - ID 602
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 753
Ottoman temporality: towards an understanding of multivalent and multi-cultural temporal reckoning in early ottoman history
Maryam Patton
16:00 - 16:15
ID: 996
E-POSTER The Existential Struggle of The Printing House Against The Verbal Culture and Manuscript Tradition in The Ottoman Empire
Nihal Ozdemir
16:15 - 16:35
ID: 1013
E-POSTER Theoretical Backround of "ilm al-misaha" (science of measure) in the Ottoman Classical Period (1300-1800)
Elif Baga
16:35 - 17:05
ID: 1012
"Ilm al-misaha" through applications: a study of al-misaha manuscripts in the ottoman classical period (1300-1800)
Zehra Bilgin

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 1/5) Computing in the sciences and in technology. An Aristotelian perspective (HaPoC) - ID 11
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 78
Rockets, Engines, Biohybrids: 21st Century Motor and Temporal Regimes
Janina Wellmann
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 256
Conspicuous computing. Organizing the cutting edge of computability (1980-2020)
David Gugerli
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 595
Mainframe computer or programmable pocket calculator? Two calculation tools for two epistemological approaches of computing in French medieval history (1967-1981)
Edgar LEJEUNE

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 3/4) Placing mathematical knowledge in a world of and beyond nations (IASCUD)- ID 456
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 824
The Malthus Library: The library as cognitive instrument in the making of the population principle
Kevin Lambert
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 664
The Kitchen and the Dacha: Productive Spaces of Soviet Mathematics
Slava Gerovitch
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 876
Internationalization and the interplay of theory and experiment in 1970s high energy physics
Vitaly Pronskikh
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 879
Can mathematical knowledge be a form of self-knowledge? The case of the late Russian Empire.
Anya Yermakova

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 5/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 209
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 310
The transformation of a failed scientific instrument: a tool for teaching science, a work of art, and an inspiration for art
Marvin Bolt
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 442
Show, don’t tell: the magic lantern and 19th-century science popularisation
Trienke van der Spek
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 287
Play, design, science: spinning tops, crossing spaces, understanding physics
Artemis Yagou
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 968
No future without history
Jan Waling Huisman

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 1/3) Evolution of mathematics in China: major figures, anonymous contributors, and the giants among them (ICHM) (with IMU)- ID 66
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 341
Concerning Classical Chinese Mathematics, We Only Know a Few Bits and Pieces
Shuchun Guo
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 406
Approaching the “True Value” (Mihe 密合) and Cui Chaoqing’s Examination of Two Pursuit Problems in the Nine Chapters: “Rushes and Reeds Growing Simultaneously” and “Two Rats Tunneling Through a Wall”
Hongcheng GAO
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 398
Survey of mathematics during the Warring States Period: from bamboo slips to ancient documents of the Qin and Han dynasties
Zhaoyang WU
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 408
On the Stylization of Traditional Chinese Mathematics
Zelin XU

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 10
Session X (Part 1/2) - Diplomacy, behavior
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 1190
'Pure and Applied Regulations': The origins and evolution of Portuguese science-based Food Safety legislation (1875-1905)
José Ferraz-Caetano
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 1157
Scientific policies in Brazil under democratic and authoritarian governments after Second World War
Olival Freire Junior
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 942
Anticipating Transformation: Emigrés as cross-bloc Expectation Managers in 1980s Europe
Konrad Sziedat

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 3/6) Transportation History: Railway modernisation - infrastructure and motive power (ICOHTEC) - ID 492
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 799
Reservation systems for passenger railway travel
Reima Suomi

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 12
Session III (Part 3/3) - Geography
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 1240
Wahlenberg’s forgotten map: barometer, vegetation and colour layer tinting
Zsolt Győző Török
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 1207
Alfred Russel Wallace and the authority of field observation: the making of a giant of the ethnography of the Amazon
Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 1277
Scholars who travelled and explorers we remember. Perspectives on the character and crew of the Nordenskiöld expeditions in the 1860’s and 1870’s
Päivi Maria Pihlaja

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Empire of knowledge: South Asia, 1850-1971 (Science and Empire Commission) - ID 502
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 611
Western Sanitary Science and Hygienic Practices in South India, 1850-1920
B Eswara Rao
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 590
Evolution of electrical engineering in colonial Calcutta: Bhadralok aspirations on academia and industry interface, 1880s – 1940s
Suvobrata Sarkar
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 603
Changing geographies, redefining disease: migration and modernisation in ayurveda, 1902-1960
Burton Cleetus
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 586
Towards a new modern: The land grant model and India’s rural universities
Prakash Kumar

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 1/3) Great to small: spatial and temporal scales in the history of the geosciences (INHIGEO) (with IUGS) - ID 504
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 941
Powers of Scaling: Conceptual and Sociopolitical Considerations in A. P. Coleman's Mapping of the Sudbury Region
Ernst Hamm
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 758
From rocks to mountains: the use of 'small' specimens for the 'great' history of the Earth during the 18th century
Ezio Vaccari
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 949
Macro-evolution vs micro-evolution in Palaeontology. The 1970's "Punctuated Equilibria revolution" and its scientific/political issues
Claudine COHEN
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 667
Scaling down the earth’s history: visual materials for popular education by Nerée Boubée (1806-1862).
Silvia Figueiroa

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 3/5) Re-scaling & de-centering the history of oceanography: the ‘hidden figures’ and hidden dimensions of global ocean science (ICHO) - ID 450
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 591
“Unnamed marine animals” –oceanic microfauna, collection ecologies and hidden knowledge makers, ca. 1750-1850
Dominik Huenniger
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 835
Science from the quarterdeck: Naval-scientific networks and the 1870s Challenger Expedition
Penelope Hardy
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 797
“So-called” coral reefs: Algae, transnational networks and the biological turn in reef science 1896-1928
Emily Hutcheson
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 908
Circulating coral: Tracing the Pacific origins of captive coral systems
Sam Muka

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 2/5) Computing in the sciences and in technology. An Aristotelian perspective (HaPoC) - ID 12
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 83
Diagrams vs equations in circuit design
Maarten Bullynck
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 252
There is no hardware either: virtual machines and practical languages
Mark Priestley
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 264
There will be a time-fight tomorrow: Old problems in new logics
Troy Astarte
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 1335
informative HAPOC meeting
Liesbeth De Mol

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 4/4) Placing mathematical knowledge in a world of and beyond nations (IASCUD)- ID 457
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 885
Cold War story-telling in the mathematical communities of the United States and the Soviet Union
Barbara Walker
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 848
Global mathematics and local masculinities
Ellen Abrams
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 822
Toward a history of math anxiety: From oral examination to written testing in American redefinitions of student performance, 1890s-1920s
Andrew Fiss
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 897
End-of-symposium comment and discussion, moderated by the symposium organizers
Michael Barany
Ellen Abrams

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 6/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 210
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 520
Back into the laboratory from 19th century toystores – the curious case of the Zeiss stereotelemeter
Andreas Junk
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 371
The Turkification of Astronomical Instrumentation in Ottomans between the 15th and 19th centuries
Merve Sandallı
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 536
Evolution of astrolabes from planispheric to universal and its transmission from the Islamic west to Islamic east
Saliha Bütün
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 930
Jagiellonian University mechanicians –their workshop and instruments – 19th-20th century
Ewa Wyka

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 2/3) Evolution of mathematics in China: major figures, anonymous contributors, and the giants among them (ICHM) (with IMU)- ID 69
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 192
A comparative examination of epistemological values utilized by Chinese mathematicians from Liu Hui to Mei Wending in solving fangcheng problems
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 195
Pitiscus’ numerical solution for sin 1° and his influence on Chinese mathematic
Jie Dong
Yuan Yuan Guo
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 344
The Position and Influence of the 13th-century Chinese Mathematician Yang Hui in the History of Chinese Mathematics
Shirong Guo
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 323
New Arguments on the Relation Between Geng Shouchang and the Compilation of the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures
Dahai Zou

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 2/2) DISHAS and recent research on the history of astronomical tables: Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese sources (CHAMA) - ID 77
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 1327
Shanati: A Project to Reconstruct the 1st Millennium BCE Ancient Babylonian Chronology to the Day
David Danzig
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 114
The numerical differences of the two versions of Ḥabash al-Ḥasib’s astronomical tables
Johannes Thomann
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 317
The emergence of auxiliary astronomical tables in medieval Europe
Glen Van Brummelen
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 1325
Demonstration of DISHAS, Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences
Segolene Albouy

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 13
Session II (Part 3/3) - Biological Sciences
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 1063
Morphine, alcohol, and the victorious body: how intoxicants intersected bodies and minds in the development of the biological subject
Matthew Perkins-McVey
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 1156
Biology in BAAS during the nineteenth century: T.H. Huxley and the ephemeral life of a discipline
Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Caso
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 1159
Julian Huxley, UNESCO and transhumanism: an outline of a biopolitical proposal
Paulina Cruz-Castañeda

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 3
IDTC business meeting

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 1/4) Mathematical proofs and styles of reasoning: East vs. West - ID 49
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 94
Symbolic algebra as a synthesis of East and West
Ladislav Kvasz
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 238
Geometric reasoning and arithmetic reasoning in the medieval tradition of Euclid's Elements
Leo Corry

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 3/3) Knowledge of the heavens in transcultural perspectives:the circulation of astronomy and astrology between civilizations - ID 144
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 152
The Transmission of European Medical Astrology in Qing China
Haohao Zhu
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 153
A Primary Research on the Calculating Method of the Solar Eclipses in a Chinese Version of the Tychonic System (Chóngzhēn lìshū 崇禎曆書)
Longfei Chu
Chen Ji
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 179
A public cosmology lecture with a clockwork astronomical model in 18th century Japan
Ryuji Hiraoka
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 472
The Non-Ptolemaic Islamic Star Tables in the Huihui-lifa and the Sanjufini-zij: Focusing on the analysis of precession and epoch
Eun-Hee Lee

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 1/2) New perspectives: differentiating cultures in ancient mathematics (IASCUD) - ID 527
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 608
Cultures of quantification and computation as testified by the Śulbasūtras
Keller Agathe
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 621
Variety in a uniform tradition: A comparison of metrology and mathematical education in Old Babylonian sources
Robert Middeke-Conlin
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 661
An analysis of the Double-Fourteenth Book in Billingsley's translation of Euclid’s Elements
Jingbo CAO
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 890
Differentiating two practices and the underlying epistemic principles in the “rule of three” procedures in China
Shuyuan Pan

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium Military research and the militarization of research in Cold War Europe - ID 346
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 405
The military origin of computing and long-term planning in Cold War Sweden
Eric Bergelin
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 736
The hidden university: The military research institutes as knowledge producers in Cold War Sweden
Niklas Stenlås
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 944
“Entirely at your service, except [….]”. Dutch scientists and military research during the Cold War
Friso Hoeneveld
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 947
Industrial and military research in the Versuchsanstalt Pibrans during Nazi occupation and its Cold War continuation
Jan Kotůlek

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Session XII - History of Bibliography
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1228
Retrospective bibliographical index - a universal source for history of science
Birute Railiene
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1232
Polish Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Technology at the Institute of the History of Science, PAS
Jan Kozakowski
Dorota Kozłowska

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium Environmental policy, mining, and recultivation in East and West Germany. Brown coal of the Lausitz, Wismut, and the Ruhr (1949-1989/2000) (ICOHTEC) - ID 522
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 697
The coal mining spoil heaps in the Ruhr area and their integration in the landscape
Ron-David Heinen
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 705
Soil and socialism. Recultivation of lignite mining in the German Democratic Republic
Martin Baumert
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 734
Environmental Policy and the Uranium Ore Mining in East Germany, 1946-1990
Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 3/3) Great to small: spatial and temporal scales in the history of the geosciences (INHIGEO) (with IUGS) - ID 505
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 671
Scale in the history of geology: dinosaurs and ostracods
Michiko Yajima
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 889
The elaboration of the concept of Gondwana and the making of the scientific discourse for extractivism
Mariana Ferrari Waligora
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 911
The Rearrangement of Scaling and Networking: Cosmographical Worldview Evolved into Geological Mapping
Toshihiro Yamada

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 10
S (1/2) Women and academic careers in Central and Eastern Europe after the 2nd World War (1945–1968). S. held in honor of S. Štrbáňová (Com. on Wom. and Gender in Sci., Tech. and Med.) - ID 17
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 95
Female scientists at the newly established institutes of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (1945-1960)
Željko Oset
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 23
Female scientists and the Academy of Science in 1950s and 1960s
Adéla Jůnová Macková
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 26
Heading a communist hierarchy: The case of Savka Dabčević Kučar
Marijana Kardum
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 392
Female scientists in Berlin (East) at the University and in the Academy of Sciences (1946-1972)
Annette B. Vogt

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (5/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 128
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 149
From death rays to the Bolton Paul Defiant: a radical reinterpretation of interwar military technical development
David Zimmerman
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 314
Giants in between. Ernst Mach’s research within the framework of civil and military r&i of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Regina Jonach
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 555
The photomosaic map, also known as the WWI “Flying Cinema”
Noemi Quagliati

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 1/2) Scientific Instruments and Literature (Commission on Science and Literature) - ID 288
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 732
Early 70s, Nançay is the setting for a film and a novel
Jean Davoigneau
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 806
The Expo 58 as a global event for the development of scientific instruments in the Cold War and its use in spy novels.
GEORGE VLAHAKIS

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:00 – 17:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 14:00

Virtual Hall 1
Pacific Circle Committee Meeting

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 3/4) The materiality of knowledge circulation between China and Europe: physical formats, epistemic genres, spatial localities (16th-18th century) (ISHEASTM) - ID 33
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 52
From Text to Map: Maps and Geographies as Catalysts for Cross-cultural Contact in Late Ming China
Mario Cams
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 59
From maps to texts: knowledge transition in early Jesuit writings
Anna Strob
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 63
Monuments, hermeneutics, or astronomy? China and the invention of 'philosophical history'
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium Astronomical tables and canons in the Alfonsine tradition - ID 115
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 597
Building new astronomical tools: a mise en perspective of the equation of time in Lewis of Caerleon's astronomical works
Laure Miolo
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 598
The hierarchical structure of tables: Lewis of Caerleon on the equation of time
Stefan Zieme
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 617
Planetary latitudes tables in Conrad Heingarter’s astronomical manuscripts
Camille Bui
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 639
Conrad Heingartner’s notes on canons for finding planetary latitudes
Nicholas Jacobson

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 5
Session VI (Part 3/3) - Academies, Societies, Laboratories and other Institutions - Laboratories
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1104
A glance at Emil Artin's mathematical laboratory – his letters to his doctoral father Gustav Herglotz
Peter Ullrich
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1197
Visiting and working with a giant: Coauthorships and acknowledgements at the Zoophysiological Laboratory of August Krogh
Allan Rye Lyngs

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
E-posters (Part 3/3)
13:00 - 13:10
ID: 1256
E-POSTER (De)colonizing climate change
Siddarth Venkatesh
Agnidh Ghosh
13:10 - 13:20
ID: 1257
E-POSTER How to teach experiments in times of distance learning
Susanne Gruber
13:20 - 13:30
ID: 1265
E-POSTER Pierre Duhem Forgotten? A Reply from an Epistemological Point of View
Mirella Fortino
13:30 - 13:40
ID: 1237
E-POSTER Early history and development of high voltage electron microscope in Japan
Kotaro Kuroda
13:40 - 13:50
ID: 1270
E-POSTER Ancient and Early Modern Geometrical Optics
Piotr Błaszczyk
13:50 - 14:00
ID: 1272
E-POSTER European scientists-researchers of the Caucasus (XVIII-XIX centuries)
Zulfira Gagaeva
14:00 - 14:10
ID: 1274
E-POSTER Authors and patentees in aeronautics and aviation, 1880-1914
Peter B Meyer
14:10 - 14:20
ID: 1282
E-POSTER Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel: the Last Judgment Decoded
Valerie Shrimplin

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
CHAMA Meeting

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 7/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 211
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 289
The Very First Use of Sextants and Octants in Turkish Marine in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Hakan SEMİZ
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 479
Scale for the Setting: The Tension Between Accuracy and Ease of Use in Exploration c1830-1850
Jane Wess
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 432
London as a stopover for Russian circumnavigations in the first half of the 19th century
Feliks Gornischeff
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 275
Britain’s worldwide seismograph network and its private funders, 1896–1932
Alexandra Rose

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 2/3) Great to small: spatial and temporal scales in the history of the geosciences (INHIGEO) (with IUGS) - ID 506
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 656
Henry Thomas De la Beche’s (1796-1855) Duria antiquior: temporal visualization within the golden age of geology (1788-1840)
Renee Clary
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 660
Small pieces of rocks, shells, sand grains and mineral nodules: islands and ocean as geological strategic projects in Brazil
Maria Margaret Lopes
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 812
Scale in the history of geology
Martina Kölbl-Ebert
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 893
Caught between cosmos and crystals, space and time: John Herschel’s planet Earth
Gregory Good

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 10
S ( 2/2) Women and academic careers in Central and Eastern Europe after the 2nd World War (1945–1968). S held in honor of S. Štrbáňová (Com on Wom and Gender in Scie, Tech and Med) - ID 18
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 481
Microbiologist Jindra Málková (1914-1954) between family, science and ideology.
Martin Franc
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 30
Could a woman become a professor of mathematics in a communist – ruled Poland?
Danuta Ciesielska
14:00 - 14:15
ID: 1333
Soňa
Milada Sekyrkova
14:15 - 14:45
ID: 1322
Reminiscences and recollections of an “amateur“ historian of science
Soňa Štrbáňová
14:45 - 15:00
ID: 1334
Video
Petr Svobodný

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (6/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 129
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 336
Does the military need history?
Matitiahu Mayzel
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 877
On civil service: reusing military assets for civilian purposes in Italy 1945-1955
Ciro Paoletti
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 900
Warfare in the Cyber Age - Blurred Boundaries, New Trajectories for Conflict and Competition, and the Growing Cyber Role of the Private Sector in National Defense
Christopher Weimar

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 1/2) Scientific Instruments and Literature (Commission on Science and Literature) - ID 286
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 682
Tell-tale instruments in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Sara J. Schechner
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 802
Magic instruments in literature
Convin Splettsen

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 15:00 – 15:30

Virtual Hall 15
Chat with Wiley

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 1
The gender gap in science, and in the history of science and technology: historical perspective and IUHPST/DHST policies (Com. on Women and Gender in Science, Technology and Medicine) - ID 98
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 182
Gender differences in the Global Survey of Scientists
Rachel Ivie
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 233
Effects of gender on academic publishing in mathematics and physics
Helena Mihaljević
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 172
History, One of Many Tools Towards New Practices for Gender Equality in the History of Science
Isabelle Lémonon Waxin
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 181
Victorian women in the natural sciences: Historical perspectives for current Gender Gap work
Don Opitz

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 18:00 – 20:45

Virtual Hall 1
General Assembly

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 2/4) Mathematical proofs and styles of reasoning: East vs. West - ID 55
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 89
Did Lobachevsky have a model of his "imaginary geometry"?
Andrei Rodin
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 96
Proof-events and agency: a new approach to the history of proving
Ioannis Vandoulakis
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 136
Diagrammatic proofs in the east and west
Jens Lemanski
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1294
António Monteiro and his influence on Brazilian and Argentinian Mathematics (1945-1980)
Luis Saraiva

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 1/3) Meteorological and magnetic observatories in the 19th century - ID 276
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 569
North and south: knowledge exchange between the magnetic and meteorological observatories of Greenwich and the Cape, 1841 to 1910
Louise Devoy
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 678
Kew observatory in europe and beyond, 1850-1900
Lee Macdonald
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 752
Astronomical labourers and the self-registering instruments of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich 1838-1881
Daniel Belteki

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 3/5) Computing in the sciences and in technology. An Aristotelian perspective (HaPoC) - ID 13
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 42
Computers in the service of Ekistics: On the science of human settlement in the post-war period
Nathalie Bredella
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 137
How computers helped to build Czechoslovak dams in the 1950
Helena Durnova
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 180
Theoretical and practical objectives of early machine translation in the 1960s
Jacqueline LEON
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 332
The telos of confrontation: The place of ideology in history and historiography of Cold War computing
Ksenia Tatarchenko

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 2/2) Politics, Protest and Big Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 565
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 640
Lewis Mumford on science, technology and power
Peeter Müürsepp

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 1/3) History of technology and museum business in XXI century. New actors, new networks, new and old issues - ID 558
10:00 - 10:10
ID: 868
E-POSTER Museum or "shelter for old machines"? The case of private local museums
Anna V. Samokish
10:10 - 10:20
ID: 896
E-POSTER Making the way to post-industrial museum
Roman V. Artemenko
10:20 - 10:30
ID: 924
E-POSTER Connected computer brands - how big brands connected unknowingly with each other
Bart van den Akker
10:30 - 10:40
ID: 933
E-POSTER Computer museum as ICT technology archive
Rihards Balodis

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium Popular Representation/Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories (Commission on the History of Physics) - ID 225
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1291
Whittaker, Einstein and the History of the Ether. Alternative interpretation, blunder or bigotry?
Jaume Navarro
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 274
Causation and morality: Herbert Samuel and Arthur Eddington about Heisenberg’s principle
Florian LAGUENS
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1185
Goethe ab omni naevo vindicatus (fere): 20th-century physicists reread Goethe vs. Newton
Rocco Gaudenzi
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1313
When space-time met the world revolution
Alexei Kojevnikov

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 1/2) Knowledge Cultures of the In-Between (Europe/East Asia): Mixtures, Communications and Ruptures in Material Cultures of Knowledge - ID 340
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 570
Using female body drugs for healings and longevity in Late Ming China
Hsiu-fen Chen
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 725
Women‘s medicine in premodern Europe (2): Conceptions of birth, hands, time and the world: from premodern to modern obstetrics
Bettina Wahrig
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 699
Eumenol—merck’s patent emmenagogue and its chinese contexts (1896-1961)
JEN-DER LEE
Chih-Hung Chen
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 766
Translation, Production and Application: Western Medicine at the Early Qing Court
Shih-Hsun Liu

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 8
Session XIV - From Late Barock Time towards Enlightenment
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1153
Conflict and Controversy in the University of Halle: Social Control and the Early Sciences in Germany, c. 1694-1730
Ellen McLinden
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1031
The idea of “science” in eighteenth-century England.
Luiz Carlos Soares

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 1/3) Professional lineages and the pursuit of astronomy in medieval and early modern India (CHAMA) - ID 175
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 399
The Parvadvayasādhana of Mallāri: A Sanskrit table text to compute eclipses
K Ramasubramanian
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 321
Gaṇeśapakṣa: the Grahalāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña and its commentaries by Mallāri and Viśvanātha
Sahana Cidambi
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 414
From complements to critiques: the culture of astronomy in Kāśī of the seventeenth century
Anuj Misra
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 333
The Gūḍhārthaprakāśikā of Raṅganātha and its significance
Dinesh Mohan Joshi

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 10
Session XV (Part 1/2) - Chemistry
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1119
Philip II and the hispanic early modern empire: alchemy and natural history at Potosi
Mariana Sánchez
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1091
Iatrochemistry movement at ottomans
ilknur şahin
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1169
The tantalum metals and the attribution of elementary status in nineteenth-century analytical chemistry
Sarah Hijmans

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 4/6) Transportation History: Canals and goals of civil engineering (ICOHTEC) - ID 526
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 788
Navigation canals in Spain. Territorial and ideological impact of a utopia
Daniel Crespo
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 762
The Industrial Canals: From Transport Routes to Leisure, Cultural and Environmental Corridors. Regent´s Canal, London
Beatriz Cabau
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 841
The British vs. the French: Rival Traditions in the Planning of American Canals and Railroads, 1800 to 1869
Todd Shallat
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 712
Technological continuation and innovation: three super combined bridge of the Qiantang River and the Yangtze River, 1935-1969
Lie SUN

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 13
Session XVII (Part 1/2) - Science and Philosophy
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1088
The asymmetric model of the relation between the history of science and the philosophy of science
Alexander Fursov
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1172
Issues of evaluating the significance of Late Medieval Natural philosophy
Julita Slipkauskaitė
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1093
Collaboration of Polish Logicians with Heinrich Scholz and “Group from Münster” (1932-1956)
Gabriela Besler

Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Thursday, July 29, 2021 12:00 – 13:00

Virtual Hall 15
Chat with Wiley

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium Assistive technologies, (dis)ability studies, and public health (ICOHTEC) - ID 200
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 258
From fluorescent gloves to closed-captioning. The deaf American’s struggle for civil rights
Magdalena Zdrodowska
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 789
“Circumventive organs” and artificial tissues’ designs. Around the inside-body prosthesis in bioartistic projects
Ewelina Twardoch-Raś
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 958
When health became wealth: the Progressive Era and the economic foundations of public health in the United State
Michael Halpern

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium IUHPST essay prize lecture and presentation (DLMPST Joint Commission (JC)) - ID 315
13:00 - 15:00
ID: 1326
Misinformation age: What early modern scientific fakes can tell us about today’s online fabrications
Marlis Hinckley

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium The History of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics in Germany (ICOHTEC) - ID 1318
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1319
Histories of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Germany
Rudolf Seising
Helen Piel
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1321
From Syntelman to Rotex – or the birth of autonomy
Frank Dittmann
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1323
Comment on the Symposium’s Papers by Stefan Poser and Discussion on Robots and AI
Frank Dittmann

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 2/3) History of technology and museum business in XXI century. Information technology and computer science: heritage issues - ID 845
13:00 - 13:15
ID: 955
E-POSTER How myths are born: John V. Atanasoff, Mikhail Kravchuk, and Sergey Lebedev
Valery V. Shilov
13:15 - 13:30
ID: 956
E-POSTER Timeline excerpts from the history of the Szeged IT collection
Mihály Bohus
13:30 - 13:45
ID: 957
E-POSTER Andromorphism in the language of computers: a short history
Chris Zielinski

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
Session XIX (Part 1/4) - History of Physics
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1008
Estevao Cabral versus Isaac Newton: a Portuguese critique on Newtonian theories of light and colors
Breno Arsioli Moura
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1143
Accuracy and error in Lord Rayleigh's teamwork
Vasiliki Christopoulou
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1058
Planck's constant in retrospect
Henk Kubbinga
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1075
Photography as a scientific tool in the study and medical illustration of the bubonic plague in Portugal (1899-1909)
maria estela jardim

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 2/2) Knowledge Cultures of the In-Between (Europe/East Asia): Mixtures, Communications and Ruptures in Material Cultures of Knowledge - ID 471
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 578
Therapeutic Trials of Prophylactic Alkaloids in British Malaya
Jiun Shen FONG
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 579
Coca and cinchona: enacting the material relation in/between Taiwan and the globe
Shao-li Lu
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 687
Medicalisation and its dependency on miracles and ruptures: Materialisations of drugs in South China (ca. 1870-1920)
Dominik Merdes
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1311
General discussion of Panels 471 and 340
Bettina Wahrig

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 8/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 213
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 767
The catalogue of Lavoisier’s collection: new light on an important 18th century collection of scientific instruments.
Paolo Brenni
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 283
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1744-1799): a pioneer of alpine measurement
Fischer Stéphane
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1095
Ultramicroscopy in solid and liquid media – optical equipment to study nanoparticles prior to 1920
Timo Mappes

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 2/3) Professional lineages and the pursuit of astronomy in medieval and early modern India 2/3 (CHAMA) - ID 176
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 387
Some traditional astronomical teachings from Lalla to Bhāskarācārya through Śrīpati
Jambugahapitiye Dhammaloka
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 402
Remarkable contributions of Muniśvara: Dadhigrāma's tail end astronomer
Mahesh K
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 426
Mathematical-Astronomical works by Luṭfullāh and Khairullāh, son and grandson of Aḥmad Ma‘mār, the architect of Taj Mahal
S M Razaullah Ansari
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 514
The use of continued fraction technique among the works of Kerala astronomers
Venketeswara Pai R.

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 10
Session XV (Part 2/2) - Chemistry
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1056
Russian colloid chemist Weymarn’s activity in Japan in 1920s
Takako Honjo
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1262
The Chemical Agent Monitor: UK-US technological collaboration in the 1980s
Abigail Eiceman
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1151
Hierarchies of models: creating a normative framework for computational quantum chemistry
Stylianos Kampouridis
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1205
The politicisation of hydroxychloroquine during sars cov-2 pandemic- making a giant of a dwarf
Kamna Tiwary

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 1/2) Transnational entanglements in Cold War social science – ID 359
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 419
Cold War social sciences: Transnational entanglements
Mark Solovey
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 513
Catastrophes, cross-cultural studies, and Cold War: The transnationalism of US-American “social science disaster research”
Cécile Stehrenberger
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 777
From Industrial Sociology to Social Planning: Sociology and Welfare Policies in Late Socialism, Czechoslovakia 1968-1989
Vítězslav Sommer
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 827
Paying attention to each other’s feelings. East German management training and the transnational geneaology of its psychological techniques
Verena Lehmbrock

Thursday, July 29, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 12
Session XVI (Part 2/5) - Medicine
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1236
Rough on rats: pesticides and suicides in the age of empire
Peter Soppelsa
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1083
Ukrainian researchers of the spanish flu pandemic in 1918-1920
Olena Vasylieva
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1087
Science, history and ethic: the anthropological anti-racist discourse of Juan Comas in Mexico.
Miguel García Murcia
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1090
The Relationship between People's Beliefs and Medical Activities in Hubei in Late Imperial China
Lu Cheng

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:00 – 15:30

Virtual Hall 15
Chat with Wiley

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium_Migration, transportation, mobility and displacement (ICOHTEC) - ID 158
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 201
Displaced cities: interiority and identity in refugee camp
Rana Abudayyeh
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 241
Racist Borders: Technology, Pseudo-Science and Migration Policies in late 19th Century Germany, Russian Empire, Canada, and Brazil
Jan Musekamp
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 382
Mobile Jobs, Mobile Worksites in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1931-1945.
Tracy Walker Moir-McClean

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 2
Symp (Part 4/4) The materiality of knowledge circulation between China and Europe: physical formats, epistemic genres, spatial localities (16th-18th century) (ISHEASTM) - ID 34
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 194
Little tools of Sinographic knowledge
Florence Hsia
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 568
Michael Boym SJ (1612-1659) and the publication of Flora Sinensis (Vienna, 1656) as part of the Jesuit enterprise
Eszter Csillag
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 50
Georg Joseph Kamel SJ (1661–1706): Natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Sebestian Kroupa
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 727
The Golden Mirror of Flowing Waters and the Global Mapping of Waterways
Alexander Statman

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 4/5) Computing in the sciences and in technology. An Aristotelian perspective (HaPoC) - ID 14
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 48
How Lew Kowarski brought computing to CERN
Arianna Borrelli
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 771
The principle of the division of labor in computing practices (1940s-1950s): presuppositions, advances, biases
Marie-José Durand-Richard
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 236
"Coded conduct: making users and the automation of mathematics"
Stephanie Dick

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 4/5) Re-scaling & de-centering the history of oceanography: the ‘hidden figures’ and hidden dimensions of global ocean science (ICHO) - ID 455
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 636
Giants of the deep: Scientific and cultural encounters with polar gigantism in Antarctica
Joy McCann
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 969
Science in a Sub: the inter-war expeditions of Vening Meinesz
Katharine Anderson
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 610
Canada’s underwater habitat program and vertical dimensions of marine sovereignty
Antony Adler

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 3/3) History of technology and museum business in XXI century. Information technology and computer science: heritage issues - ID 846
15:30 - 15:45
ID: 951
E-POSTER Eastern European computers in the 60s and 70s: independent design, licensing, and cloning
Tomasz Kulisiewicz
15:45 - 16:00
ID: 950
E-POSTER Iskra Delta project "Milijarda" (en.: Billion) – Yugoslavs setting up an internet network in China in 1984
Gaja Zornada
16:00 - 16:15
ID: 952
E-POSTER The origins of computer industry in Slovakia
Martin Šperka

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium Tradition, innovation, and emerging technologies (ICOHTEC) - ID 240
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 920
Creative Construction: The Integral Importance of Froth, Fraud and Fear in Emerging Technologies
Jonathan Coopersmith
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 820
Metering power: thieves and innovation in electric Mexico City, 1900-1918.
Diana Montano
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 404
“Like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants”. Tradition and innovation in salt extraction technologies: the case of Tuscany (centuries 15th BC-21st AD)
Valentina Limina

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium Neighborhood relations: Revisiting the history of biochemistry and its neighbors in the first half of the twentieth century - ID 193
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 260
Biochemistry — characterized by its linking capacities
Caterina Schürch
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 232
"Tymonucleic acid was not as respectable as our DNA": Jean Brachet’s research on nucleic acid metabolism (1929-1945)
Alessandra Passariello
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 487
Commentary: Of biochemical communities, identity-forming alliances, and Otto Warburg’s poaching in foreign disciplinary territories
Kärin Nickelsen

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 9/14) Scientific Instrument Commission - Annual General Meeting (SIC)

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 3/3) Professional lineages and the pursuit of astronomy in medieval and early modern India (CHAMA) - ID 177
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 282
Mādhava's Lagnaprakaraṇa and its influence on the Kerala school
Aditya Kolachana
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 337
Mathematics embedded in the nṛttaṃ and saṇgītaṃ traditions of India
Sruthi Natanakumar
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 380
Investigations on eclipse data preserved in the Kerala tradition
D.G. Sooryanarayan

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium Other than the Population Council: A Trans-Asian History of Science and the Population Problem in East Asia - ID 45
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 93
Imperial Geography of Population: Population at the Intersection of Empire, Nation, and Race in 1910’s Korea
Jin-kyung Park
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 561
“Fertile Womb Battalion”: The Politics of Motherhood in the Japanese Wartime Population Policy
Sujin Lee
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 525
Belated eugenics? “Feeble-minded” children and the emergence of medical genetics in South Korea
Jaehwan Hyun
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 434
Technoscience and Fertility Governance in Taiwan’s Family Planning Programs, 1960s-1970s
Yu-Ling Huang

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 2/2) Transnational entanglements in Cold War social science – ID 368
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 780
Decentering Cold War Social Science: Alva Myrdal's Social Scientific Internationalism at UNESCO, 1950-1955
Per Wisselgren
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 588
‘Knowledge Societies’ in the Cold War: When ‘knowledge’ and social science expertise became highly controversial (1940-1980)
Markus Arnold
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 855
'Algorithmic thinking' as a Soviet reinvention of Western theories: cognitive psychology in the USSR in the 1960s --1970s.
Ekaterina Babintseva

Thursday, July 29, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 1/2) The shaping of differences in the historiography of ancient mathematics - Editing and translating ancient mathematical texts (IASCUD) - ID 543
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 659
Authority and Authenticity. Editing ancient mathematics in Restoration Oxford
Philip Beeley
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 730
J. –L. Lagrange and the translation and diffusion of the greek texts
Xiaofei Wang
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 804
Using European Algebra to Interpret Chinese Traditional Mathematics: The Role of Mei Juecheng (1681-1764) in the Development of Evidential Studies
Qi Han
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 1324
Mathematics and Evidential Scholarship in Eighteenth Century China
Yiwen Zhu

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 3/3) Meteorological and magnetic observatories in the 19th century - ID 279
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 592
The creation of the Austrian I.R. Central Institute of Meteorology and Earthmagnetism (ZAMG) in 1851
Christa Hammerl
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 743
Fail at home, success abroad. The case of the Spanish geomagnetic observatories in the XIX century
Josep Batlló
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 779
History of space weather studies and observations: Russian aspect
Anatoly Soloviev
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 818
Algiers 1841: French colony to serve the Magnetic crusade?
Frederic Soulu

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 5/5) Computing in the sciences and in technology. An Aristotelian perspective (HaPoC) - ID 15
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 75
What’s in a name? Origins, transpositions and transformations of the triptych Algorithm – Code – Program
Liesbeth De Mol
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 257
A multiperspective causal analysis of computing in predictive models based on machine learning
Franck Varenne
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 901
Finding a story for the history of computing
Thomas Haigh
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 277
Roundtable: Promoting dialogue in the history of computing – an Aristotelean perspective
Daniela Zetti

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 5/5) Re-scaling & de-centering the history of oceanography: the ‘hidden figures’ and hidden dimensions of global ocean science (ICHO) - ID 836
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 980
Secrecy and Sea-floor spreading: Rethinking the role of Navy oceanography in the development of plate tectonics
Naomi Oreskes
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 977
An ‘open secret’: Geologists and oil industry secrecy in the Mediterranean’s seafloor exploration
Beatriz Martínez-Rius
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 983
Secrecy and seabed mining: questioning the freedom of marine science during the 1970s
Sam Robinson
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 1295
The Invisible Sinking Surface: Hydrogeology, Fieldwork and Photography in California
Rina C. Faletti

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 1/2) Pedagogy beyond giants and dwarfs: using the history of science to enhance education and promote inclusiveness - ID 508
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 793
The History of Chemistry in Chemical Education
John Powers
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 781
In praise of a historical storytelling approach in science education
Daniel Gamito-Marques
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 751
Big history in 10-minute videos: How highlights help in survey courses
Allison Marsh
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 763
Bringing history into the lab: a new approach to scientific learning in general education
David Brandon Dennis

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 6
CHAMA Meeting

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium Artifices in human form: bodies as technology and technologies of the body in early modern and modern China (ICOHTEC) - ID 343
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 651
Penicillin and the industrialization of pharmaceutical technologies in China
Mary Brazelton
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 653
Industrial craft: machine, skill, and the making of the factory system
Yuan Yi
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 654
Medical things and the healer’s body in the Qing court’s Golden Mirror, 1742
Marta Hanson
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 729
Psychology as bodily technology in industrial China
Victor Seow

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 10/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 215
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 546
Science, commerce, and art: the evolution and significance of the microscope slide
Alexi Baker
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 873
The IGN instrument Gallery – a collection of threatened instruments
Loïc Jeanson
Jean Davoigneau
19:00 - 19:15
ID: 1279
E-POSTER A paper sky - Planispheric celestial volvelles
Thomas Hockey

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 3/3) Evolution of mathematics in China: major figures, anonymous contributors, and the giants among them (ICHM) (with IMU)- ID 70
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 105
Woodsman and commoner: why did Zhao Shuang and Liu Hui become interested in gou-gu methods?
Zhigang JI
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 117
Liu Hui, Jia Xian, Yang Hui, and two problems in the Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics: inscribing squares and circles in given right triangles
Joseph Dauben
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 122
Some examples of how correctly transcribe characters in the 筭數書 Suanshushu
XULIN ZHOU
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 132
Yang Hui's Study of Mathematics in 13th-Century China
Wann-Sheng Horng

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 1/2) Symposium_Gender and technological systems (ICOHTEC) - ID 121
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 155
The united states’ wireless women of world war I
Alexander Magoun
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 494
“Not spoke for”: rearticulating gender, labor, and technology
Khanh Vo
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 695
Al Jolson or Helen Tykociński? A controversy over who was the first to give voice to a film
Sławomir Łotysz

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 5/6) Transportation History: Modern landborne transport solutions: from roads to hubs (ICOHTEC) - ID 530
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 718
From the atmospheric railway to Hyperloop: pneumatic transport from the 19th until the 21st century
Laura Meneghello
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 728
Making transportation easier and faster for whom? The emphasis on automobility of post-war traffic engineering and its appropriation in Portugal
M. Luísa Sousa
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 887
Transportation hubs: new public spaces for the city
Patricia Hernández-Lamas
Beatriz Cabau

Thursday, July 29, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 13
Symposium (Part 3/3) CHCMS (History of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences) - ID 1296
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 1306
Vanadium: A History of Mexican Chemistry
Rocio Gomez
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 1307
Chemurgy: Agricultural Engineering in Republican China and the American Midwest, 1925-1935
Tristan Revells
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 1308
Chemical information and the history of modern chemistry
Evan Hepler-Smith
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 1310
Comment and general discussion
Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 1/2) The role of universities in Soviet science - ID 222
10:00 - 10:20
ID: 296
E-POSTER From initiative to plan. Features of the organization of scientific research in Russian universities of the Imperial and Soviet periods
Mikhail Gribovskiy
10:20 - 10:50
ID: 308
Molecular biology in Soviet universities in the early 1960s
Jérôme PIERREL
10:50 - 11:20
ID: 628
Science studies in the Soviet Union
Viktor Kupriyanov
11:20 - 11:50
ID: 928
The value and the role of the universities in the development of scientific schools and research areas: the experience of Tomsk universities in the 20th century
Alexander Sorokin

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 3/4) Mathematical proofs and styles of reasoning: East vs. West - ID 73
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 230
Mathematical rigour, mathematical creativity, and the transgression of limits
Eberhard Knobloch
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 268
"Proofs as Games?" Frege vs. Hilbert and Wittgenstein
Ingolf Max

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 1/2) Reading the skies: exploring the intersection of ethnometeorology, folk traditions and meteorology (Commission on the History of Meteorology) - ID 416
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 572
Folk meteorology in spanish philippines: Indigenous views on weather, climate, and the environment in the philippines, 16th-19th century
Kerby Alvarez
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 573
Weather and Religion in Europe in the Vulgar Era: the Meteo - providential Saints
Matteo De Vincenzi
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 619
Weather lore and meteorology in the notes of Jan Strialius of Pomnouš (1535/1536-1582)
Barbora Kocánová
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 631
The meteorological knowledge and beliefs in ancient Greece in "Diosemeia" of Aratus
Milan S. Dimitrijević

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 1/5) Art, image, and astronomical knowledge (ICHA/CHAMA) - ID 184
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 518
What can Neolithic imagery convey about bright stellar transients?
Richard Strom
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 339
The Many Face(t)s of Comets in Early Modernity
Anna Jerratsch
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 553
Mount Taranaki, the great comet of 1882, and the genesis of cometary photography in New Zealand
John Drummond

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Symposium (Part 3/5) Science and literature in small and large scales (Commission on Science and Literature) - ID 273
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 724
The evolution of scientific instruments as a history of intersecting lives: Literature representations of the scientific progress at the 16th century Astronomy
Manolis Kartsonakis
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 759
«Greek Gifted Students’ Emotional, Social and Academic Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis»
Anastasia Kyritsi
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1246
The problem of scientific terminology in Lady Welby's significs
Ekaterina Shashlova
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 737
The Doctor - Poet Miltiades Emmanuel (1825-1916), the dengue fever in the city of Smyrna in Asia Minor and a satirical poem
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 1/3) Interactions and interchanges in the history of science, technology, and medicine - ID 151
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 390
Symposium Introduction and overview
Hugh Slotten
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 594
Collecting, classifying and constructing nature: indigenous knowledge and the naming of species in the Pacific, 1768–1782
Edwin Rose
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 796
Implementing global health policy: eradicating smallpox in Nepal
Susan Heydon

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium Unexpected Technology-Based Games (ICOHTEC) - ID 280
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 937
Tourism – a Kind of Playing? A methodological approach
Stefan Poser
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 584
PlayXR – prototyping multiplayer mixed reality gaming
Georg Hobmeier
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 882
Neuromorphic Games, from Ramon y Cajal to art and play in public experiments with Brain Computer Interfaces
Margarete Jahrmann
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 358
Playgrounds—Topographies of Play and Technology
Florian Bettel

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 1/2) They might be giants: lesser power and alternative channel efforts in science diplomacy (Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy)- ID 484
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 698
Combining History and International Relations to theorize non-state science diplomacy actors: lessons from H2020 InsSciDE
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 783
Competing with giants: the alliance between science and diplomacy for the defense of Portuguese colonial claims in the Congo
Daniel Gamito-Marques
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 962
Instruments in science diplomacy: Seismographs and the Limited Test Ban Treaty
Lif Jacobsen
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 741
A disunited front: china’s failure to win support for bacteriological warfare allegations in the world federation of scientific workers
Gordon Barrett

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 10
Session XVI (Part 3/5) - Medicine
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1125
A mother’s siege: love and knowledge in understanding autism
Marga Vicedo
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1126
Early experimental-psychological work on deductive reasoning in the light of logical positivism
Niki Pfeifer

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (7/7) 16th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (ICOHTEC) - ID 130
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 362
An age of crisis in space?: science fiction and the future of space warfare
Heather Venable
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 466
The Social History of the GPS: How Precision Navigation and Timing has Transformed Our Lives
Michaela Schannep

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium (Part 2/2) The shaping of differences in the historiography of ancient mathematics - Editing and translating ancient mathematical texts (IASCUD) - ID 547
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 630
Historiography in the making: Humboldt and the mathematicians on ancient mathematical texts
Ivahn Smadja
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 620
Editing the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Christopher Hollings
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 825
Differences between interpretations using and not using modern mathematical symbols? The “procedure of pile-accumulation” in the Jade Mirror (1303)
Xiaohan Zhou
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 847
Van der Waerden’s Approach to History of Science. His methods and results in comparison to contemporaries
Erwin Neuenschwander

Friday, July 30, 2021 10:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 14:00

Virtual Hall 5
CHCMS Business Meeting

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 2/2) The role of universities in Soviet science - ID 224
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 290
Science in the Soviet Satellites: East-German Research on an example of the Central Institute for Nutrition
Georgy Levit
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 334
Genetics in Soviet universities in the “post-Lysenko” epoch
Sergey Shalimov
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 345
Resuming the exchanges between Soviet and French universities after Stalin’s death: the example of the mathematician A.N. Kolmogorov’s visit to Nancy and Paris in 1958
Laurent MAZLIAK
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 851
Soviet university seen from Japanese academia
Hirofumi Saito

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 2
ISHEASTM Meeting

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium (Part 2/2) Reading the skies: exploring the intersection of ethnometeorology, folk traditions and meteorology (Commission on the History of Meteorology) - ID 418
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 566
Manchester the rainy city: the emergence, popularisation and persistence of a meteorological myth
Alexander Hall
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 644
Reading the skies: exploring the intersection of ethnometeorology, folk traditions and meteorology
Biswanath Dash
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1137
Climate at the margins: how consumer demand can exacerbate vulnerabilities to climatic fluctuations
Robert Naylor
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 1147
The application of meteorology by the Republic of China in the development of rural areas, 1912-1949
Xiao Liu

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 2/5) Art, image, and astronomical knowledge (ICHA/CHAMA) - ID 185
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 652
Star atlas: ancient astronomy in the planetarium
Katie Boyce-Jacino
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 246
Some thoughts on stellar constellations in rock art
Christiaan Sterken
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 503
Reconstruction of historical constellations
Susanne M Hoffmann
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 254
The Hellenistic constellations through words and images
Stamatina Mastorakou

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
Session XIX (Part 2/4) - History of Physics
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1247
The introduction of vacuum tubes by the Imperial Japanese navy, 1914-1918
Kento Yokoi
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1123
Virtual Particles: From Hideki Yukawa to Richard Feynman
Jean-Philippe Martinez
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1198
Atomic fish: Sublime and non-sublime nuclear nature imaginaries
Anna Storm

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 2/3) Interactions and interchanges in the history of science, technology, and medicine - ID 162
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 393
Linnean taxonomy of the New Zealand fauna: From Cook’s collections to modern genetics
Hamish Spencer
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 396
Tracing the Artisan in a Philosopher's Practices
Catherine Abou-Nemeh
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 798
Missionaries and science in global context
John Stenhouse
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 926
The making of green gold: An entangled history of medicinal plants introduced to the Philippines in the Age of the Galleons
Marianne Jennifer R. Datiles

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium (Part 2/2) They might be giants: lesser power and alternative channel efforts in science diplomacy (Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) - ID 485
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 677
Ukrainian science diplomacy in interwar Central Europe
Martin Rohde
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 775
Building Europe through physics during the Cold War
Roberto Lalli
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 917
They might be giants: lesser power and alternative channel efforts in science diplomacy - Part 2/2
Katrin Heilmann
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 684
American ‘Soft Power’ in France, 1801-1851
Andrew Butrica

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium (Part 6/6) Transportation History: Vehicles of mobility - feet off the ground (ICOHTEC) - ID 533
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 742
Lifts - A sign of wealth or the technical awareness development of the society?
Katarzyna Pietrzak
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 773
Technical development of air transport in Slovakia in the context of political changes in 20th century
Ludovít Hallon
Miroslav Sabol
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 739
The Luxury on Wheels: Tourist Trains in the Interbellum Poland
Anna Turza
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 859
Integrated railway modernization in inter-war Romania financed by international loans
Attila Gabor Hunyadi

Friday, July 30, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 12
Symposium A comprehensive study on Isaac Newton’s optical instruments - ID 106
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 575
Newton’s prisms in the Whipple Museum
Joshua Nall
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 446
Newton’s prism in the Royal College of Physicians
Lowri Jones
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 735
’s Gravesande’s prisms in the Boerhaave Museum
Tiemen Cocquyt
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 809
‘s-Gravesande’s prisms in the Utrecht University Museum
Paul Lambers

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:00 – 15:30

Virtual Hall 15
Chat with Wiley

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Energy and the environment: conflict or compatibility (ICOHTEC) - ID 313
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 313
Acid rain: causes, consequences, remedies, and regulations
anthony n stranges
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 685
Energy transition in 20th & 21st centuries: challenges and environmental impact
Elena Helerea
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 714
Climate change science - a paradigm and its opponents
Petter Wulff

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium Astronomical Handbooks, Tables, and Education in Islamic Societies - ID 669
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 794
Fazārī’s Role in the Formation of the Genre of the Arabic Zījes
Taro Mimura
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 831
Zij Yamini, a newly found Persian astronomical handbook from early 12th century
Mohammad BAGHERI
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 886
Students as agents in the development of ʿAlī al-Qūshjī’s al-Risāla al-Fatḥiyya: Astronomy education in Ottoman Constantinople
Hasan Umut
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 1293
Explanation Necessary: ‘Alī Qushjī’s Commentary on the Zīj of Ulugh Beg
Robert Morrison

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 3/5) Art, image, and astronomical knowledge (ICHA/CHAMA) - ID 187
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 497
Well then, who dug ‘them’ canals on Mars?
David DeVorkin
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 509
Re-discussion about the two celestial images unearth in Nara, Japan
Huichih Chuang
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 291
Art and astronomical knowledge at Dendera in the 1st century BCE
Rosalind Park

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 6
Commission on Science and Literature Business Meeting

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium (Part 3/3) Interactions and interchanges in the history of science, technology, and medicine - ID 163
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 587
Paper chains: nature, commerce, and mediation in archives in the Dutch East Indies
Genie Yoo
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 700
From hooker to cockayne, new zealand floras and handbooks, 1853-1934
Anton Sveding
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 918
Global trade in human organs: historical perspectives
Susan Lederer
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 826
From ethnoscience to ethnology - & back again: plant nomenclature, translation and territoriality in Aotearoa NZ
Geoff Bil

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 12/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 217
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 674
The jewishness of jewish artefacts—jewish mathematical instruments and their medieval and contemporary narratives
Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 361
Religion as a driving force for science: the knowledge of timekeeping
Taha Yasin Arslan
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 605
Toward diverse global histories of science and technology: new strategies for displaying and interpreting Islamic instruments for wider audiences
Glaire Anderson
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 395
Jesuit Observatories and Jesuit Science
Guy Consolmagno

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 9
Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy Meeting

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium Amateurs and vocational scientists: places of encounters, networks and scientific practices - ID 559
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 614
The pilot's house and the local pilots's collaboration in the scientific-naval expeditions in the Patagonian coast
Susana Valeria Garcia
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 740
The messengers of science from paso de Cortés: measurements and experiments in high altitude mountains in Mexico, 19th century
Laura Chazaro
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 866
The Salvador collection in Barcelona at the beginning of the 19th century: between the "curious public" and the "positive science"
Xavier Ulled
17:00 - 17:30
ID: 976
Archaeology at the Hotel, Paleontology at the Café: scientific encounters in unexpected places
Nathalie Richard
Irina Podgorny

Friday, July 30, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 12
Session XXIII (Part 1/2) - Science Theory and Praxis
15:30 - 16:00
ID: 1280
Confucian scholars’ attempts to complement the Chinese scientific tradition with western science
Yung Sik Kim
16:00 - 16:30
ID: 1267
Creating a national time, adopting an international meridian: science in Brazil in the early 20th century.
Sabina Luz
16:30 - 17:00
ID: 1193
Celebrity, media, and the construction of the environment under Franco’s dictatorship in 1960s and 1970s Spain
Carlos Tabernero

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 18:55

Virtual Hall 6
Sergey Demidov: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev and the mathematical community of his time. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth (IAHS)
18:00 - 18:55
ID: 1332
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev and the mathematical community of his time. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth (IAHS)
S.S. Demidov

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium Red Giants, White Dwarfs: Twentieth-century astronomy and astrophysics (History of Physics)- ID 228
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 251
The Socio-Epistemic Networks of General Relativity, 1925-1970: The low-water mark, the renaissance, and the astrophysical turn
Roberto Lalli
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 462
International astronomy in Chile. Scientists, politicians and the public in the 1960s
Barbara Silva
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 381
Imaginings and icons: imaging the cosmic first light, 1974-2014
Connemara Doran
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 391
Curved space on a flat surface: the Event Horizon Telescope and visual representations of black holes
Emilie Skulberg

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium Creating, maintaining and using technological systems: non-western actors - (ICOHTEC) - ID 159
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 267
Showing the way: maritime illumination in Japan, 1600-1900
Laura Nenzi
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 528
A struggle between external aid and self-support: the financing of Puji Hospital in Dongguan, China
Yuping Zhou

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium Knowledge and practice across borders: science in Islamic societies (CHOSTIS) - ID 550
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 642
The Arabic Translation of Marwazī’s Kayhān Shinākht
kaveh niazi
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 676
Eearly-modern European astronomy and Iranian religious elites
Amir-Mohammad Gamini
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 747
If the thumb is twitching … Palmomantic practices in Arabic sources
Petra G. Schmidl
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 903
Science across the borders: al-Andalus and Byzantium in the 10th century
Miquel Forcada
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 939
Andalusī pharmacognostical Ǧāmiʕ-texts: reflections on the evolution and dispersal of a local literary species
Theo Loinaz

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium (Part 4/5) Art, image, and astronomical knowledge (ICHA/CHAMA) - ID 188
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 510
An early representation of a star pattern on an ancient Egyptian coffin of the first intermediate period (2181-2040 BCE)
Elizabeth Minor
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 519
Iconography and the cross-cultural transformation of zodiacal astral science in antiquity
Mathieu Ossendrijver
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 298
Images in Babylonian astronomical and astrological texts
John Steele

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium (Part 2/2) Pedagogy beyond giants and dwarfs: using the history of science to enhance education and promote inclusiveness - ID 551
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 749
Changing pedagogical landscapes of the history of science and ‘Two Cultures’
Karen Rader
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 748
Reconstructing Early Modern Artisanal Epistemologies and an “Undisciplined” Mode of Inquiry
Tianna Uchacz
Pamela Smith
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 786
History in the education of scientists: Encouraging judgment and social action
Vivien Hamilton
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 790
Co-teaching Botany and History: An Interdisciplinary Model for a More Inclusive Curriculum
Frederica Bowcutt
Tamara Caulkins

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 7
Symposium Scientific and Cultural Influences of Ptolemy in China - ID 517
18:00 - 18:20
ID: 814
Data analysis of the historical records of Sun, Moon and planets in Ming Shilu
Liping MA
18:20 - 18:40
ID: 856
Ptolemaic Planetary Theory in Qizheng Tuibu (1477)
LU Dalong
18:40 - 19:00
ID: 857
Studies of MYTWS Versions: Communication of Ptolemaic astrology from Islam
HAN Dongyang
19:00 - 19:20
ID: 1077
A study on Ferdinand Verbiest ’ s star catalogue
Fan YANG
19:20 - 19:40
ID: 919
From Nestorians to Matteo Ricci: Ptolemaic Influences in China
Kam Wing FUNG
19:40 - 20:00
ID: 1170
Preliminary study on the inner planets observations of Ptolemy in Chongzhen Lishu
Changwei Zhu

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 13/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 218
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 409
The ‘Physikalisches Kabinett’ of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg – A Roman-Catholic Collection?
Raphael Beuing
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 417
Instruments to measure character – religious practitioners and psychological testing in the United States, 1920-1940
Peggy Kidwell
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 571
What’s in a label?: ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’ in a museum context.
Mathilde DAUSSY-RENAUDIN
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 379
Science and religion – knowledge and faith. A practical museum approach
Silke Ackermann

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 9
Symposium Constructing interfaces between mathematical and physical conceptions and methods, c.1850–1930 - (ICHM) (with IMU) ID - 97
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 800
Repeating the words of power: Hamiltonian dynamics and physical speculation in late nineteenth century Britain
Isobel Falconer
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 801
(No) Love at first sight - group theory and quantum mechanics
Martina Schneider
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 808
High dimensional spaces and mechanical systems
Jesper Lützen

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 10
Symposium (Part 2/2) Symposium_Gender and technological systems (ICOHTEC) - ID 120
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 138
Women making noise: sound, power and gender from stage to studio
Susan Schmidt Horning
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 292
Finding reproductive freedom in biologistic thinking
Jiemin Tina Wei
19:30 - 20:00
ID: 306
“Boys will be boys”: gender, plug sockets, and electrical safety in the interwar British home
Alona Bach

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 11
Symposium Technological Teams (ICOHTEC) - ID 616
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 959
From big science to team science
Glenda Turner
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 984
Vicente Marcano (1848-1891), polymath chemist, discoverer of the Bromelain enzyme, and father of experimental science in Venezuela
José Álvarez-Cornett
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 995
Invention or Business? Pioneers of the television technology and industry -Vladimir Zworykin and David Sarnoff.
Vasily Borisov

Friday, July 30, 2021 18:00 – 20:00

Virtual Hall 12
Session XXIII (Part 2/2) - Science Theory and Praxis
18:00 - 18:30
ID: 1027
Denialism in Brazil: a review of the dispute between post-thuth and science
Vagner Ramalho
18:30 - 19:00
ID: 1152
Hierarchy within the Soviet scientific community: filters and positions of the 1920s
Evegeniya Dolgova
19:00 - 19:30
ID: 1275
Scientific fakery: from the early modern to contemporary times
Marlis Hinckley

Friday, July 30, 2021 20:00 – 21:00

Virtual Hall 3
Business Meeting of CHOSTIS

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium (Part 4/4) Mathematical proofs and styles of reasoning: East vs. West - ID 226
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 373
Abū al-Barakāt's diagram method in logic
Wilfrid Hodges
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 476
Geometry and Arithmetic-Analysis and Synthesis in Ancient Greek Mathematical Tradition
Kostas Nikolantonakis
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 858
Understanding computer-assisted proofs
Yiannis Kiouvrekis
Petros Stefaneas

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 2
Symposium (Part 5/5) Art, image, and astronomical knowledge (ICHA/CHAMA) - ID 190
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 500
Knowledge, art and politics in copies of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of the Star Constellations
Sonja Brentjes
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 297
Charting the Chinese Sky with Western Observations: The Star Maps Made by Jesuit Astronomers in the Late Ming Dynasty Revisited
Yunli Shi

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium The politics of radiation protection - ID 234
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 253
Technologies and atomic knowledge for a history of radiation in Spain in the 1960s
Ana Romero de Pablos
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 785
The Eastern bloc countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency: knowledge transfer and radiation protection
Irina Fedorova
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 787
How the United Nations conceived nuclear rights
Linda Marie Richards
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 940
The introduction of radiation protection rules in postwar Greece through IAEA fellowships
LOUKAS FRERIS

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 4
Session XVI (Part 5/5) - Medicine
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1243
The 1954 Flood, Sanitation Campaign, and the Re-Making of Medical Infrastructure in Early Communist China
Yue Liang
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1255
Histories of Healing: Traditional and Local Medicine in Times of Pandemic
Andrea Núñez Casal
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1268
100 years since the discovery of insulin – giants and dwarfs who made it possible
Iuliana Popescu
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1071
Calculating prodigies as evidence for phrenology in Europe
Andrea Graus

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 5
Symposium Institutions and science and technology in modern China ----new approaches (ISHEASTM)- ID 28
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 57
The Comité scientifique du Kiang-nan and the Catholic Critique of Evolutionism in Modern China
Joachim Kurtz

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 6
Session XIX (Part 3/4) - History of Physics
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1134
Name, identity, and discipline formation: the development of Busseiron in Japan
Hiroto Kono
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1174
Physics in the field: expeditions and field stations in the 20th century
Adriana Minor
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1260
Where Nobel Laureates and Nameless meet. The significance of “science for all” events to CERN’s mission in the 1970s
Barbara Hof

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 7
Session XVII (Part 2/2) - Science and Philosophy
10:00 - 10:30
ID: 1158
Chien-Shiung Wu in Experimental Philosophy
Indianara Silva
10:30 - 11:00
ID: 1217
About the history of the development of quality methods: from the local approach to the global one
Egor Bogatov
11:00 - 11:30
ID: 1225
The turning points in the history of science of science
Michal Kokowski
11:30 - 12:00
ID: 1114
Cooperation between dwarves and science giants to overcoming conceptual borders and build a scientific philosophy of sustainability
Victor Hugo Oliveira Pinto

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 12:00

Virtual Hall 8
ICOHTEC Prize Session

Maurice Daumas Prize

Winners:

Dominique Berry
Stefan Esselborn
Sara Caputo

Turriano ICOHTEC Prize

Winners:

Hyeok Hweon Kang 
Martin Meiske
Philippe Bruyèrre

Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 16
Visit Virtual Lounges

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 14:00

Virtual Hall 7
INHIGEO Meeting

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 1
Symposium They Might Be Giants: Histories of Failed Science Diplomacy Initiatives (Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) - ID 486
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 675
Digging in the dirt: uranium diplomacy, development, and the IAEA
Matthew Adamson
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 745
European technoscientific diplomacy and the Fukushima nuclear emergency. A diplomatic meltdown?
Maria Paula Diogo
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 811
A “paper tiger” in science diplomacy? Scientific initiatives through SEATO, 1954-1977
Simone Turchetti
14:30 - 15:00
ID: 863
On the Road to Stockholm: Prague Symposium on Problems Relating to Environment, 1971
Doubravka Olšáková

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 2
ICHA Meeting

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 3
Symposium Environmental change and energy systems - (ICOHTEC) - ID 123
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 140
"The latent heat of vaporization is totally lost”: can solar energy be a risk for sustainability?
Nelson Arellano

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 4
Symposium The little people of “big science”: the image of the ordinary scientist in late soviet culture - ID 537
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 838
Materialistic wizards: scientists in soviet science fiction
Aleksandr Fokin
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 842
American Images of the Soviet science in the Cold war (1950-1980s)
Dmitry Nechiporuk
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 869
Soviet Women and Big Science: Gender in Siberian Academy (1957-1980s).
Mikhail Piskunov

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 6
Session XIX (Part 4/4) - History of Physics
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 1183
Diamilla Muller's early simultaneous magnetic observation efforts
Vitor Bonifácio
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 1004
Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy towards Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship”, 1939-1959
Kenzo Okuda
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 1264
How Europe chose not or wasn't able to become a Giant in human spaceflight
Piero Messina

Saturday, July 31, 2021 13:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 8
Symposium (Part 14/14) XL Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) - ID 219
13:00 - 13:30
ID: 423
The vatican observatory historical collections: a different perspective on the connection between science and religion
Ileana Chinnici
13:30 - 14:00
ID: 366
The great meridian circle of Reichenbach and Ertel in Tartu Observatory
Lea Leppik
14:00 - 14:30
ID: 247
Instruments of the short-lived Tallinn Naval Observatory
Janet Laidla
14:30 - 14:45
ID: 1105
E-POSTER Jacquard controversial invention between science and technology
Emma Angelini

Saturday, July 31, 2021 14:00 – 15:00

Virtual Hall 7
IASCUD Business Meeting

Saturday, July 31, 2021 15:30 – 17:30

Virtual Hall 1
Dissertation Prize Winners

DHST President hosts a session in honor of DHST Dissertation Prize laureates from the 2019 and the 2021 prize competitions. Laureates will present a 10-minute appreciation of their research followed by up to 5 minutes of questions. The laureates and the titles of their dissertations in projected order of appearance are:  

Sandra Elena GUEVARA FLORES, “The sociocultural construction of Cocoliztli in the epidemic of 1545 to 1548 in New Spain,” [La construcción sociocultural del cocoliztli en la epidemia de 1545 a 1548 en la Nueva España] (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2017. Director: Dr. José Pardo. 

Marcin KRASNODĘBSKI, “The Pine Institute and Resin Chemistry in Aquitaine (1900-1970),” [L’Institut du Pin et la Chimie des Résines en Aquitaine (1900-1970)] (University of Bordeaux, 2016. Director: Pascal Duris). 

Charles A. KOLLMER, “From Elephant to Bacterium: Microbial Culture Techniques and Chemical Orders of Nature, 1875 – 1946,” (Princeton University, 2020. Director: Angela Creager). 

Fateme SAVADI, “The Historical and Cosmographical Context of Hayʾat al-arḍ with a Focus on Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Nihāyat al-Idrāk,” (McGill University, 2018. Director: F. Jamil Ragep). Dr. Savadi is also the recipient of the İhsanoğlu Prize for the best dissertation on science and Islamic civilization funded by the Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR). The Turkish Society of History of Science has graciously funded the İhsanoğlu Prize for the Congress following Prague 2021.

Sooyoung AN, “Cross-cultural Transfers of Chinese Materia Medica Knowledge in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Toward a Global History of Natural Knowledge,” [十八、十九世纪中国药材知识的跨文化互动研究 ——以知识的多样与连接为视角] (National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, 2019. Director: Shaoxin Dong).  

Circumstances prevent these laureates from presenting today: 

Johan GÄRDEBO, “Environing Technology: Swedish satellite remote sensing in the making of environment, 1969–2001,” (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2019. Director: Nina Wormbs).  

Emily Margaret KERN, “Out of Asia: a global history of the scientific search for the origins of humankind, 1800- 1965,” (Princeton University, 2018. Directors: Erika Lorraine Milam and Michael Gordon). 

Saturday, July 31, 2021 18:00 – 20:45

Virtual Hall 1
General Assembly