The history of the collection of scientific instruments, today preserved in the Physics Museum of the Liceo “Bonaventura Secusio” in Caltagirone, will be here briefly reconstructed. The Liceo was founded in 1864, after the closure of the Liceo Ferdinando” in 1862, which had been created in 1858 within the Reale Accademia degli Studi. While the latter arose from the ashes of a Jesuit college in the late eighteenth century. The historical collection preserves an important unit of scientific instruments, bought in Paris in the years 1844-1846 from the French instrument maker Louis-Joseph Deleuil. This unit was part of the Physics Laboratory of the Reale Accademia degli Studi. The instrumental collection of the Liceo dates back to 1864. Thereafter it was enriched by new scientific instruments from Italy and abroad. In particular, in the years 1885-1886, as many as one hundred and forty-two scientific instruments were purchased in Florence, at the “Società Tecnica di Ingegneria ed Industria”, managed by Vimercati.
The collection of historical scientific instruments of the Liceo “Bonaventura Secusio” in Caltagirone
MANTOVANI, ROBERTO;
2016
Abstract
The history of the collection of scientific instruments, today preserved in the Physics Museum of the Liceo “Bonaventura Secusio” in Caltagirone, will be here briefly reconstructed. The Liceo was founded in 1864, after the closure of the Liceo Ferdinando” in 1862, which had been created in 1858 within the Reale Accademia degli Studi. While the latter arose from the ashes of a Jesuit college in the late eighteenth century. The historical collection preserves an important unit of scientific instruments, bought in Paris in the years 1844-1846 from the French instrument maker Louis-Joseph Deleuil. This unit was part of the Physics Laboratory of the Reale Accademia degli Studi. The instrumental collection of the Liceo dates back to 1864. Thereafter it was enriched by new scientific instruments from Italy and abroad. In particular, in the years 1885-1886, as many as one hundred and forty-two scientific instruments were purchased in Florence, at the “Società Tecnica di Ingegneria ed Industria”, managed by Vimercati.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
