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MS-78: Science meets art: X-ray spectrometry and X-ray diffraction in art and archaeology
Invited: Katrien Keune (Netherlands), Christoph Berthold (Germany) | ||
Session Abstract | ||
The observation of symmetries is common in nature as in the scientific and artistic world. These are found in physics in multiple contexts, in mechanics (Kepler’s laws) in biology, geology and crystallography as well as in architectural and artistic human constructions. Originally the word symmetry is derived from the Latin ‘symmetria’, in turn derived from the Greek summetria ‘just measure, proportion’. It includes the meaning ‘regularity and harmony in the parts of an object’ when speaking of a work of art. For many years, the concept of symmetry was reduced to bilateral symmetry but later evolved to include the symmetry that maintains an invariant centre (point group symmetry), as well as the spatial symmetries that repeat a building motif in two- and three-dimensional space by translation (plane and space group symmetries, respectively). The study of symmetry has been an important part of the human endeavor in its perennial search for higher levels of appreciation and understanding of the physical world around us. In recent times, particularly among mathematicians, solid state scientists and artists, it has also inspired a myriad of attempts to interpret and recreate cultural manifestations based on mathematical concepts. The aim of this transdisciplinary microsymposium, which coincidently takes place in the city where Johannes Kepler wrote his Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula, is to provide a forum for the different perspectives interconnecting science and cultural heritage centered around Mathematics and Crystallography. | ||
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Presentations | ||
10:20am - 10:25am
Introduction to session 11:25am - 11:45am
XRPD as a tool for the study of pigment-binder interactions: from metal formates to long-chain carboxylates 1Institute of Inorganic chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež 1001, 250 68 Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic; 2Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovského nám. 2, 162 06, Praha 6, Czech Republic 12:05pm - 12:25pm
A multidisciplinary study unveils the nature of a Roman ink of the I century AD 1CERIC-ERIC, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy; 2Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy; 3Nuclear Science and Instrumentation Laboratory, Physics section, IAEA, Seibersdorf, Austria; 4Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; 5Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; 6Museo Nazionale Atestino, Este, Padova, Italy 12:25pm - 12:45pm
A new tool for ancient artefact conservation studies: Electron Diffraction Tomography to study blue corrosion product in Chinese Bronze sample 1NanoMEGAS SPRL, Rue Émile Claus 49 bte 9, 1050, Brussels, Belgium; 2Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127, Pisa, Italy; 3Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, 72 Jimo Binhailu, Qingdao 266237, China |