On Wednesday 30 November, from 18:00, the presentation of the exhibition "The eye of science: a century of scientific photography in Italy (1839-1939)" organized by the Museum will be held at the Graphics Museum of Pisa - Palazzo Lanfranchi of Graphics and the Galileo Museum.
The exhibition itinerary, which aims to illustrate the fundamental cultural and scientific turning point resulting from the birth of photography in 1839, is the subject of the dedicated catalogue, 'The eye of science', in which the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) is present in three contributions:
- Photography and the eruptions of Etna. From the first images of 1865 to scientific photography. Gaetano Ponte and Stefano Branca.
- Photography in the study and monitoring of volcanic activity at the Vesuvius Observatory. Sandro de Vita, Tullia Uzzo, Giovanni P. Ricciardi, Mauro A. Di Vito.
- The photograph of earthquakes in Italy. 1857-1930. Giovanni Fanelli and Graziano Ferrari.
Furthermore, during the inauguration of the exhibition, the Atlas of the visual sources of Italian earthquakes will be presented, edited by the Working Group of the Catalog of Strong Earthquakes in Italy (INGV-CFTI). In over three decades of study of historical Italian earthquakes, the working group has found thousands of visual sources of the most varied types such as engravings, paintings, photographs and cinematographic documents, useful for scholars of various disciplines to integrate information on extent and estimate of the damage, the response of the institutions and scientific observations. The sources have been organized in the Atlas, which, in this preview version, covers a period of time from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century and is aimed at citizens as well as insiders.
For more information: https://museodellagrafica.sma.unipi.it/2022/11/presentazione-della-mostra-locchio-della-scienza-un-secolo-di-fotografia-scientifica-in-italia/
Image - Poster of the event.