The XXIII Scientific Instrument Symposium will
be held in Dresden, capital of the State of Saxony.
Registration will take place in the Mathematisch-Physikalischen
Salon (MPS) in the Baroque Zwinger, and the conference
sessions will be held nearby and in the city's Technical
Collections (www.tsd.de).
The symposium hotel is located within a ten-minutes'
walk from the Zwinger, the Palace, and the historic
city center. Coffee and tea as well as arrangements
for lunch will be provided.
The symposium is open for all studies touching
on historic scientific instruments. SIC members are
invited to organize sessions on particular themes.
The following proposals for sessions have been
received:
- Suzanne Débarbat: Instruments
for Weights and Measures. [suzanne.debarbat@obspm.fr]
- Roland Wittje, Acoustics: On the Threshhold
Between Scientific and Musical Instruments [working
title]. [roland.wittje@phys.ntnu.no]
- Peter Plaßmeyer, Central European
Instruments of the 16th-18th Centuries. [peterplassmeyer@web.de]
- Sven Dupré and Michael Korey,
Scientific Instruments in Kunstkammer and Court Collections.
[m.korey@web.de
and sven.dupre@ugent.be]
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