Programme of the
Annual Study Conference, Museums and Collections
(Hamburg and Northern Germany,
including Bremen, Bremerhaven, Oldenburg, Kiel)
May 11-16, 2002
Saturday 11 May 2002 - Hamburg
Arrival in Hamburg
Afternoon Possibility for a visit in the
Altonaer Museum in Hamburg - Norddeutsches Landesmuseum,
Museumstraße 23 (two stops with S-Bahn S 31 from Dammtor to ''Bahnhof Altona''):
Navigation (''Schiffahrt'') and Old Pharmacy (''Rats-Apotheke Lauenburg'')
17 h Start at ''Altonaer Museum - Norddeutsches Landesmuseum'',
City Walk from Altona to Hamburg port along the river Elbe
(Gudrun Wolfschmidt)
Altona, Palmaille 9
(Altona observatory 1823-1874
(building destroyed in 1941),
first director Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780-1850)
meridian line (near S-Bahn stop ''Königsstraße'')
- by ship to Hamburg port - ''Landungsbrücken''
(Time ball, ''Baumhaus'')
- Johann Georg Repsold statue,
place of the ''old'' Hamburg
observatory 1825--1910,
today Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Jürgen Koch: Der Hamburger Spritzenmeister und Mechaniker Johann Georg Repsold (1770-1830), ein Beispiel für die Feinmechanik im norddeutschen Raum zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Norderstedt: Libri - Books on Demand (BoD) 2001.
Possibility for a dinner in Hamburg-Neustadt, e.g. near
Michaeliskirche or in a fish restaurant in St. Pauli
Look at the list of Restaurants
in Hamburg.
Sunday 12. May 2002 -
Kiel
09.30 h Departure in Hamburg,
Hotel Dammtorpalais, Moorweidenstrasse 34
11.00 h Kiel (History)
Guided tour by (Felix Lühning): (meeting point ''Himmelsleiter'')
- Astronomical Instruments from Altona and Kiel observatory
(19th and 20th century)
(Institute for Astrophysics, Kiel University)
Exhibition in the old observatory building, Sternwartenweg 5
- Ancient astronomical book collection
- 7.5m-Radiotelescope, 1956 (Kiel University)
13 h Lunch in the city centre
14-15.30 h
- Schiffahrtsmuseum - Maritime Museum
in the hall of the former fish market, Wall 65, 24103 Kiel
Navigational instruments, Anschütz compass (1920), Kaiserpanorama,
first German submarine ''Kieler Brandtaucher'' (1850)
made by Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875)
15.30-17 h
18.30 h Arrival in Hamburg
Monday 13. May 2002 - Hamburg
9.30 h Departure in Hamburg,
Hotel Dammtorpalais, Moorweidenstrasse 34
10.45-13 h
Lauenburg/Elbe (50 km east of Hamburg)
- Palmschleuse - oldest existing chamber lock (Kammerschleuse)
in Europe (1745) for the Stecknitz Canal (1390) which enabled the
transportation of salt from Lüneburg to Lübeck.
-
Elbschiffahrtsmuseum - Maritime Museum of Elbe shipping:
Models of locks: a ''Stau-Schleuse'' (one gate) and
the ''Palm-Schleuse'' (two gates);
oldest surviving machine of a paddle-steamer (''Raddampfer'')
from the river Elbe (1855)
- City walk and lunch in a restaurant along the Elbe
13.30 Departure to Hamburg-Bergedorf
14.30-16.30 h Bergedorf
16.30 h Bus to Hamburg
17.15 h Arrival in Hamburg
18.00 h IGN Hamburg (Geomatikum), Bundesstr. 55
(Metro-Bus 4 from Dammtor to Schlump)
colloquium lecture:
Peter Heering;
Prof. Dr. Falk Rieß
(Oldenburg):
''The replication method as an access to historical scientific practice:
Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light.''
19 h
Reception in the IGN
Paläontological Museum
8.00 h Departure from Hamburg,
Hotel Dammtorpalais, Moorweidenstrasse 34
10.30-12 h Wingst
13.30 h Bremerhaven: Lunch
14.30-17 h
19 h Arrival in Hamburg
9.00 h Departure in Hamburg,
Hotel Dammtorpalais, Moorweidenstrasse 34
10.00 h Bremen:
10.30-11.30 h
12.00-13.30 h Lilienthal
Guided tour by
Günther Oestmann:
- Heimatmuseum:
Model of Joh. Hieronymus Schröter's telescope
- Schrader-Telescope in the ''Sparkasse'' (Herr Leue)
- Lunch in Murkens Hof, Klosterstr. 25, 28865 Lilienthal
14.30-17.00 h Oldenburg
- Arbeitsgruppe Hochschuldidaktik und
Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg:
Replicas of instruments and hands-on experiments
(Falk Rieß,
Peter Heering
and co-workers)
- Unifilar-Magnetometer von M. Meyerstein zur Bestimmung der
Intensität der erdmagnetischen Kraft in absoluten
Maßeinheiten, nach C.F. Gauß und W. Weber (ca. 1835) - Moses Kärn
- Gerät zur Bestimmung des mechanischen Wärmeäquivalents (Schaufelrad-Experiment) von J.P. Joule (um 1849) - Falk Müller
- Apparatur von J.C. Maxwell zur Bestimmung der Viskosität (''Innere Reibung'') der Gase (1865/1866) - Christian Sichau
- Wilson'sche Nebelkammer - Wolfgang Engels
- Nicht überlieferte Geräte:
Perméomètre von J.P. Marat (ca. 1782),
Aufbau zur Bestimmung der elektrostatischen Kraft-Abstand-Beziehung nach J. Robison (um 1769) - Peter Heering
Coffee break 
- Lecture: Prof. Dr. Andre Koch Torres Assis (Campinas, SP, Brasilien -
Humboldt-Stipendiat in Hamburg):
Weber's Electrodynamics
19.30 h Arrival in Hamburg
Thursday 16. May 2002 - Hamburg
9.45 h Departure from hotel by S-Bahn
(1 stop: Dammtor - Hauptbahnhof)
10-14 h
Torquetum, Erasmus Habermel, 1585/90
-
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Steintorplatz 1
(near Central Railway Station):
(Direktor Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hornbostel)
Scientific instruments: astrolabes, many sun dials, etc., e.g.
astrolabe of emperor Rudolf II, made by
Tobias Volckmer (died 1624 or later), Salzburg, 1591.
Introduction lecture by
(Günther Oestmann)
Hands-on session: scientific instruments (special invitation)
Further possibilities in the museum, e.g.
''Raritäten- und Wunderkammer'',
famous Art Nouveau collection,
Collection of musical instruments.
Lunch in ''Destille'' (museum's restaurant).
14.00 h Planetarium by U 3 to Borgweg/Stadtpark or
by Bus 20 until ''Ohlsdorferstrasse''
14.30-15.30 h
16 h (by U 3 to St. Pauli/Holstentor)
20 h (Metro-Bus 5 from Dammtor to ''Rathaus'' - City hall)
Further possibilities for visits in Northern Germany:
- Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum:
- Model of the Gottorf Globe (in Frederiksborg: March - July 2002)
(Felix Lühning): Der Gottorfer Globus und das Globushaus
im ,,Newen Werck'' - Dokumentation und Rekonstruktion eines
frühbarocken Welttheaters. Schleswig (Katalog: Gottorf im Glanz des Barock, Band IV, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum) 1997.
- Baroque garden, where the Globe House was erected.
- Collection of tower clocks.
- Viking museum Haithabu
Participants of the excursion to Hamburg
- Mr H Ron Bristow UK
- Mrs Bristow UK
- Dr Garth A Taylor UK
- Gunnar Pipping SWEDEN
- Louise Muse USA
-
Peter Louwman NETHERLANDS
- Mike Cowham UK
- Charles Wilkes UK
- Claude Wilkes UK
- Arthur Middleton UK
- James Caplan FRANCE
- Peter de Clercq UK
- Simon Cheifetz UK
- Gloria Clifton UK
- Claus Jensen DENMARK
- Sylvia Sumira UK
- Robert de Pecker BELGIUM
-
Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hamburg)
- Günther Oestmann (Bremen)
- Felix Lühning (Kiel): 12.5.
- Barbara Dufner (Hamburg): 13.5.
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Andre Koch Torres Assis: 14.5., 13.5. evening, 15.5.
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Costas Canavas: 12.5., 13.5. evening, 16.5.
- Yang-Hyun Choi:
12.5., 13.5. evening, 14.5., 15.5., 16.5.
- Katrin Cura: 13.5. evening
- Karin Eckhardt: 16.5.
- Gottschalk, Jürgen: 13.5. evening, 15.5.
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Harald Schumacher: 12.5., 13.5., 16.5.
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Heidi Tauber: 12.5., 13.5. evening, 14.5.
- Manfred Tauber: 12.5., 13.5. evening
- Bernd Wolfram: 15.5., 13.5. evening
More information available:
Gudrun Wolfschmidt
E-Mail Wolfschmidt 
Peter de Clercq
Last modification of this page: May 8, 2002.
Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und
Technik
Fachbereich 11 - Mathematik
Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, 
Scientific Instrument Society
Bundesamt für
Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) 
Planetarium, Hindenburgstr. 1b 
scientific instruments