250 years of Astronomy in Turin
Il torinese o il turista a Torino
che si travels via Po to enjoy an ice cream
Florio, and then visit the museum
Egyptian and takes two steps in Piazza Castello, in his
afternoon, past the historical points of
birth
and development of astronomy
in Turin.
The exhibition "stargazing"
Palace and Palazzo Lascaris
Bricherasio along this route
over time, making
see through pictures, movies
, instruments and documents as ancient, from the first
observations of Father Beccaria, carried out by a
tower over the roofs of Via Po, then the seat of
on the roofs of the Palace of the Academy of Sciences
and finally after a further move on the Senate,
has reached the present site of 'Astronomical Observatory of Pino Torinese
hills.
The exhibition, organized from the Astronomical Observatory of Turin,
in collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio
and with the support of the Regional Council of Piedmont and
the patronage of UNESCO, aims to celebrate 250 years of Astronomy in
Turin, starting from 1759 that in cui Beccaria, affermato fisico
sperimentale, fece le sue prime osservazioni astronomiche.
Queste celebrazioni cadono nell'Anno Internazionale
dell'Astronomia, proclamato dal'Unesco in occasione dei
400 anni dalle prime osservazioni astronomiche compiute
da Galileo, e a 40 anni dallo sbarco dell'uomo sulla luna.
Congiunzione di ricorrenze molto densa, dunque, quella del 2009.
Chi visita la mostra puo' seguire il percorso storico e scientifico
con i collegamenti alla storia torinese, intrecciata con le vicende
e la politica della casa Reale. They also highlighted the demands
and support from astronomers part of sovereigns,
interested and intrigued by the nascent modern astronomy, as well as
'requests (sometimes in the form of' prayer ')
of astronomers to the king. From authentic documents you can '
also discover the dialectic of the scientists who worked in Turin
with the academic and scientific life in other universities', in
particular with the French.
addition to sumptuous meridian circles, telescopes and theodolites,
there curiosities' such as the reconstruction of an ancient
study work tools or more 'special as
a barograph, an anemometer, or the chronograph dry, that whole'
as an instrument auxiliary to the old pendulum, which was
when used alone
astronomical observations were made "to eye and ear ", ie, associating the time of the observations to
beats punctuated by pendulum itself and counted
mentally ... (also on display some fine antique clocks
, one of them built by the same watchmaker which made Big Ben
London).
Palazzo Lascaris, in addition to the telescopes' great, they are
also exhibited models modern space probes provided by Thales Alenia
, to finish the walk
in history and in the streets of Turin with advanced astronomy, in which researchers
del'Osservatorio of Turin are heavily engaged.
Al Palazzo Bricherasio bookshop and 'also a greedy
exhibition catalog, edited by me,
accompanied by articles by historians, scholars
of the History of Science and astronomers, where the reader can' find a
mine of information, images and curiosities'.
Anna Curir
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