FIG History Workshop

4-5 May 2012, Fondazione dei Geometri Italiani, Via Cavour 179/A,  Rome

Workshop announcement as a .pdf file.
Register: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=89

Thursday 3 May 2012 Optional visits to Museums of Florence

Friday 4 May 2012 - Fondazione dei Geometri Italiani, Via Cavour 179/A, Rome

8.45 Introduction - John Brock, Full Day Chairman
8.50 Jan De Graeve, Chairman International Institution for the History of Surveying &
Measurement - Official Welcome and Opening of the Workshop
9.00-10.30

9.00

9.45

 SESSION ONE

Alec McEwen (Canada) - The Ownership of Machias Seal Island

Walt Robillard (USA) - Four Presidents of Rushmore
10.30-10.50 Morning tea

10.50-12.20

10.50

11.20

11.50

 SESSION TWO

Michael Cooper (UK) - Gods, Geometry and Land Surveyors 3000 Years Before Euclid !

Walt Robillard (USA) - Surveying Real Property and Common Law in the 1600's

Bjorn Ragnvald Pettersen (Norway) - The Introduction of Geodesy and Astronomy as
Academic Disciplines in Norway 1814
12.20-13.30 Lunch - self catering by BYO or at a nearby cafe
13:30-15.15

13.30

13.45

14.15

14.45

 SESSION THREE

Welcome to Guests at the FIG History Workshop - Teo CheeHai, FIG President

Jan De Greave (Belgium) - Gerhard Mercator After 500 Years

Brian Warner (South Africa) - Nicolas Louis de la Caille, 1713-1762

Jim Smith (UK) - Struve Geodetic Arc World Heritage Monument - Possible Extension
15.15.15.35 Afternoon tea
15.35.17.30

15.35

16.05

16.30

17.20

17.30

 SESSION FOUR

Michael Ferrar (France) - The Roman World Survey: Before, After & Its Legacy

John Brock (Australia) - Four Surveyors of Caesar: Mapping The World !!!

Brian Blevins (USA) - Leonardo Da Vinci - The Great Geometer

Conclusion and Summing Up

Closing

  Dinner - optional (tba)

Saturday 5 May 2012 - Visits to The Vatican Gallery of Maps and Library (information to be given at the workshop about the visit, prices etc. Meet outside the museum 10:00 am).