Papers by Fabio Bevilacqua
Clavis Scientiarum Catalogo del Fondo Storico di Fisica della Biblioteca Universitaria e della Biblioteca A. Volta di Pavia
OPAC Ateneo Pavia, 2012
Como Conferences - Science as Culture
Conference for the Bicentenary of the Invention of the Battery - Volta and the History of Electricity
Albert Einstein Ingegnere dell'Universo. Museo della Tecnica elettrica 1 novembre 2005 - 31 gennaio 2006
Eger's contribution towards a rapprochement of Hermeneutics, Science and Science Education i... more Eger's contribution towards a rapprochement of Hermeneutics, Science and Science Education is very welcome. His focus on the problem of misconceptions is relevant. All the same in our opinion some not minor points need a clarification. We will try to argue that: a) Hermeneutics cannot be reduced to a semantical interpretation of science texts; its phenomenological aspects have to be taken in account. b) Science has an unavoidable historical dimension; original papers and advanced textbooks are the real depositaries of scientific research. Standard textbooks are a caricature not worth it of a hermeneutical analysis. c) A parallelism can be traced between two couples of dycothomies: the lifeworld of hermeneutics and the scienceworld of a neo-positivist epistemology on one side and the extraordinary and the normal science on the other. d) For an overcoming of the misconceptions ' problem we propose that the previous dycothomies be bridged through a hermeneutical phenomenologi...
From Physiology to Physics (1845-46).................................................. 11 The Erh... more From Physiology to Physics (1845-46).................................................. 11 The Erhaltung and its two different conceptual roots: the impossibility of perpetual motion and the Newtonian forces
40 years of history of physics in Italy
Centaurus
7. Helmholtz's Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft: The Emergence of a Theoretical Physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science
Electromagnetic induction: symmetries and interpretations
Alessandro Volta, edizione nazionale delle Opere e dell'Epistolario. CD-ROM
Theoretical and Mathematical Interpretations of Energy Conservation: The Helmholtz-Clausius Debate on Central Forces 1852-54
Storia della Fisica e Didattica. Materiali del Corso di aggiornamento tenuto al Deutsches Museum di Monaco 4-8 maggio 1987
marzo 1984 "But in no way can a direct proof of these equations be deduced from experience" Hertz... more marzo 1984 "But in no way can a direct proof of these equations be deduced from experience" Hertz 1888 The history of C.E.T. (Classical Electromagnetic Theory) deserves great attention. A basic problem is still open: why in Lorentz's synthesis, the model of contiguous propagation of electromagnetic interactions was preferred to delayed action-at-adistance. Both approaches in fact explained the time delay and, as is widely known, gave results that were formally equivalent. But at the beginning of the nineties a number of leading Continental scientists had shifted towards contiguous propagation, including Helmholtz, Hertz, Planck, Lorentz and Poincarè. They did not accept the whole of Maxwell's theory: Maxwell's electromagnetic continuum was rejected, but contiguous action was kept. The usual answer to this problem is that Hertz's experiments (1888-1890) played a crucial role in favour of contiguous propagation. The aim of this paper is to show that Hertz's experiment were not crucial at all: evidence is given that Hertz himself did not shift towards contiguous propagation from his previous action-at-adistance approach for experimental reasons and that Poincarè asserted the cruciality of the experiments only from 1894, but changed his judgement again in 1902. Evidence for my interpretation is found in the well-known second volume of Hertz's collected papers: "Electric Waves". This book consists of an experimental and a theoretical introduction, written in 1892, and of a collection of electromagnetic papers
Il business plan del Sistema Museale d’Ateneo dell’Università di Pavia
Galileo Galilei e Alessandro Volta, in An Italian History of Innovation,Ginevra, 23 maggio - 3 giugno 2011
Storia della fisica e didattica. Atti del III Convegno, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, 11-15 settembre 1989
Energia, questa trasformista. Laboratorio storico interattivo. Pavia, Palazzo Botta 1 dicembre 2010 - 20 febbraio 2011
7. Helmholtz's Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft: The Emergence of a Theoretical Physicist
La Facoltà di Scienze. La Fisica
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