Edvige Schettino. From the Rodi Hall to the Physics Museum: instruments tell stories

Salvatore Esposito; Ivana Stazio

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-161-1

Edvige Schettino. From the Rodi Hall to the Physics Museum: instruments tell stories

Authors

Salvatore Esposito

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-5574

Ivana Stazio

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7091-1561

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-161-1

Keywords:

Edvige Schettino, History of Physics, Scientific instruments, Physics Museum

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 684

Language: Italiano

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28950

Abstract: This volume remembers the figure and work of the first Director of the Physics Museum of the University of Naples Federico II, through her works on the scientific instruments of the Neapolitan collection. This is recognized to be among the most important in existence, both in terms of consistency and historical and scientific relevance. Here, in a digital anastatic reprint, the hard-to-find Le macchine del re. La collezione Reale nel Museo del Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche (The King’s machines: The Royal collection in the Museum of the Department of Physical Sciences), edited by E. Schettino and R. Spadaccini, and the series of booklets on La collezione degli antichi apparecchi dell’Istituto di Fisica (The collection of ancient instruments of the Institute of Physics) are re-proposed to the public, as well as an unpublished and valuable activity report on La collezione degli strumenti di Fisica (The collection of physics instruments) written in 1990 by E. Ragozzino, R. Rinzivillo and E. Schettino. Brief notes on the biographical, human and scientific profile of Edvige Schettino introduce and complete the volume.

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Author Biographies

Salvatore Esposito, University of Naples Federico II

Salvatore Esposito is Professor of History of Physics at the University of Naples Federico II and President of the Italian Society of the Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA). Considered as one of the world experts on the known and unpublished works by Ettore Majorana, he also focused his studies on important characters of the history of contemporary physics, as well as on relevant case studies in XVIII and XIX century Physics.

Ivana Stazio, University of Naples Federico II

Ivana Stazio has a Master degree in Modern Literature. She is a librarian, working at the “Roberto Stroffolini” library of the Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini” since 2008. Her activity mainly covers cataloguing, bibliographic reference service and web communication.