November 30, 2001
Facoltà di Architettura - Aula "Edoardo Benvenuto"
Stradone di Sant'Agostino, 37 - Genova

9.00: Presentation of the Symposium
9.30: JACQUES HEYMAN (Honorary President of "Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto")
Introduction: The history of the theory of structures
10.00: GLEB K. MIKHAILOV (Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Moscow) - Development of studies in the history of the theory of elasticity and structural mechanics (I. Todhunter, S. Timoshenko, C. A. Truesdell, E. Benvenuto)
10.45: Coffee break
11.00: LOUIS L. BUCCIARELLI (M.I.T. Cambridge)
Coping with error in the history of mechanics
11.45: KARL-EUGEN KURRER (Stahlbau, Berlin)
The development of the deformation method
12.30: Lunch
15.00: SANTIAGO HUERTA (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Structural analysis of timbrel vaults: a historical outline
15.45: PATRICIA RADELET (Université catholique de Louvain) - The use of a particular form of the

parallelogram law of forces for the building of vaults (1650-1750)
16.30: Coffee break
16.45: JACQUES HEYMAN (Cambridge University) - Rose windows
17.30: Discussion

December 1, 2001
Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere - Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Matteotti, 5 - Genova

9.00: JEAN DHOMBRES (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) - The theorem of the virtual powers clarified by E. Benvenuto and C.A. Truesdell
9.45: SANDRO CAPARRINI (Università di Torino)
The origin of vector calculus in geometry and mechanics
10.30: Coffee break
10.45: GIULIO MALTESE (Università di Roma) - The Ancients' Inferno: the slow and tortuous development of "Newtonian" principles of motion in the 18th century
11.30: PIERO VILLAGGIO (Università di Pisa) -
A historical survey on impact theories
12.15: DAVID SPEISER (Universität Basel) - What can Historians of Science learn from Historians of the Fine Arts?

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