Elizabeth Cavicchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1214305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Cavicchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavicchi |
| SIGNATURE | CAVICCHI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT , Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA E-mail |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4265-1296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others
What potentials does curiosity bear for education? Some characterizations portray curiosity as self-motivated search for answers, a drive conformable with conventional education’s imperative for correct answers. For participants in this study, curiosity engages them with their relationships to the world. This article examines curiosity from along my developing in learning and teaching. While school settings limited or excluded curiosity, both for…
Split and Splice
Exploring Mirrors, Recreating Science and History, Becoming a Class Community
A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing their dependence on answers as the format of school knowledge. Inadequacies in how participants supposed light works emerged in the context of reinventing historical discoveries, including Ptolemy's second century AD account of how…
Introductory Paper on Critical Explorations in Teaching Art, Science, and Teacher Education
The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying “critical exploration,” a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. Eleanor Duckworth developed critical exploration as a method of teaching by involving students so actively and reflectively with a subject that they have “wonderful ideas” that arise from their own questioning. Teachers who enco…
Berlin Electropolis
Reviewed by: Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity Elizabeth Cavicchi (bio) Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity. By Andreas Killen . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 Pp. viii+295. $49.95. Modernity now seems inseparable from electricity, but in the past these two jolted in unsteady, often renegotiated rhythm. Andreas Killen tracks that rough ride's effect on the bodies and psyches of Germans t…
A witness account of solar microscope projections
The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his research on the solar microscope. A rectangular mirror, the length of a hand, mounted outside a museum window caught the sunlight and directed it indoors into the microscope's optical tube with its specimen. Astonishing detail …
Charles Grafton Page's Experiment with a Spiral Conductor
In the 1830s, American experimenter Charles Grafton Page pioneered electromagnetism, developing instruments, experimental practice, and understandings that were foundational for nineteenth-century technologies such as the telegraph and induction coil. While a student, Page detected electricity in a spiral conductor where direct current had not passed and no one expected current to be. He felt bodily shock and saw sparks. This paper explores that …
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831 using an iron ring wound with two wire coils; on interrupting battery current in one coil, momentary currents arose in the other. Between Faraday's ring and the induction coil, coiled instruments developed via meandering paths. This paper explores the opening phase of that work in the late 1830s, as the iron core, primary wire coil, and secondary wire coil were researched and differentiated. …
Thing Knowledge
Reviewed by: Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments Elizabeth Cavicchi (bio) Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. By Davis Baird. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi+273. $65. An eighteenth-century orrery, the first cyclotron, and a grating spectrometer are unlikely to occupy a lab shelf together. Yet each involves physical understanding—not only of planetary motion, particle beams, or spec…
Introductory Paper on Critical Explorations in Teaching Art, Science, and Teacher Education
The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying “critical exploration,” a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. Eleanor Duckworth developed critical exploration as a method of teaching by involving students so actively and reflectively with a subject that they have “wonderful ideas” that arise from their own questioning. Teachers who enco…
A witness account of solar microscope projections
The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his research on the solar microscope. A rectangular mirror, the length of a hand, mounted outside a museum window caught the sunlight and directed it indoors into the microscope's optical tube with its specimen. Astonishing detail …
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831 using an iron ring wound with two wire coils; on interrupting battery current in one coil, momentary currents arose in the other. Between Faraday's ring and the induction coil, coiled instruments developed via meandering paths. This paper explores the opening phase of that work in the late 1830s, as the iron core, primary wire coil, and secondary wire coil were researched and differentiated. …
Thing Knowledge
Reviewed by: Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments Elizabeth Cavicchi (bio) Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. By Davis Baird. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi+273. $65. An eighteenth-century orrery, the first cyclotron, and a grating spectrometer are unlikely to occupy a lab shelf together. Yet each involves physical understanding—not only of planetary motion, particle beams, or spec…
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831 using an iron ring wound with two wire coils; on interrupting battery current in one coil, momentary currents arose in the other. Between Faraday's ring and the induction coil, coiled instruments developed via meandering paths. This paper explores the opening phase of that work in the late 1830s, as the iron core, primary wire coil, and secondary wire coil were researched and differentiated. …
Berlin Electropolis
Reviewed by: Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity Elizabeth Cavicchi (bio) Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity. By Andreas Killen . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 Pp. viii+295. $49.95. Modernity now seems inseparable from electricity, but in the past these two jolted in unsteady, often renegotiated rhythm. Andreas Killen tracks that rough ride's effect on the bodies and psyches of Germans t…
A witness account of solar microscope projections
The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his research on the solar microscope. A rectangular mirror, the length of a hand, mounted outside a museum window caught the sunlight and directed it indoors into the microscope's optical tube with its specimen. Astonishing detail …
Charles Grafton Page's Experiment with a Spiral Conductor
In the 1830s, American experimenter Charles Grafton Page pioneered electromagnetism, developing instruments, experimental practice, and understandings that were foundational for nineteenth-century technologies such as the telegraph and induction coil. While a student, Page detected electricity in a spiral conductor where direct current had not passed and no one expected current to be. He felt bodily shock and saw sparks. This paper explores that …
Exploring Mirrors, Recreating Science and History, Becoming a Class Community
A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing their dependence on answers as the format of school knowledge. Inadequacies in how participants supposed light works emerged in the context of reinventing historical discoveries, including Ptolemy's second century AD account of how…
Introductory Paper on Critical Explorations in Teaching Art, Science, and Teacher Education
The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying “critical exploration,” a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. Eleanor Duckworth developed critical exploration as a method of teaching by involving students so actively and reflectively with a subject that they have “wonderful ideas” that arise from their own questioning. Teachers who enco…
Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others
What potentials does curiosity bear for education? Some characterizations portray curiosity as self-motivated search for answers, a drive conformable with conventional education’s imperative for correct answers. For participants in this study, curiosity engages them with their relationships to the world. This article examines curiosity from along my developing in learning and teaching. While school settings limited or excluded curiosity, both for…
Split and Splice
Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Curiosity (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)