The 29th Baltic Conference on the History of Science, Vilnius
Abstracts
Editor of abstracts: Ramūnas Kondratas
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Plenary lectures
RAMŪNAS KONDRATAS (Vilnius University) Four Centuries of Science at Vilnius University
ASTA LIGNUGARIENĖ (Lithuanian University of the Health Sciences) The Establishment and Development of the University of Lithuania (Vytautas Magnus) in Kaunas 1922–1940
ANDRIS ŠNĒ (University of Latvia) The Formative Years of Latvian National Higher Education: Management, Research and Studies at the University of Latvia in the 1920s–1930s
ERKI TAMMIKSAAR and KEN KALLING (University of Tartu) To be National or International: That is the Question. One Hundred Years of the Estonian University in Tartu
Sections
AGNĖ ALIJAUSKAITĖ (Vilnius University, Faculty of Philosophy) Convergence as a Sign of Progress in Science and Philosophy
ZANE ALIKA and MĀRTIŅŠ VESPERIS (Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga) The Scientific Work and Private Practice of Professor Pāvils Mucenieks
VINCAS BŪDA and ALGIMANTAS JAKIMAVIČIUS (Nature Research Centre, Vilnius) Jurgis Elisonas (1889–1946): Fosterer of Lithuanian Natural and Educational Sciences and Culture
PIOTR BUDZYŃSKI (University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History) Stalinist Vision of Science at a Polish University: Theory and Reality
VINETA BLITSONE and MĀRTIŅŠ VESPERIS (Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga) Faculty Members of the Department of Medicine at the University of Latvia during World War I
RŪTA DUBAKIENĖ (Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Dermatovenerology and Allergology) History of Allergology at Lithuanian Universities
AUDRIUS DUBIETIS (Vilnius University, Laser Research Center) Laser Science at Vilnius University: Past, Present and Future
MAŁGORZATA DURBAS (Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa) Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Age of the Enlightenment: The Scientific Correspondence between Franciszek Bieliński (1683–1766) and Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782)
VALENTĪNA GORDJUŠINA, ĒRIKA LŪSE and ZANE ZALUŽINSKA (University of Latvia, Faculty of Medicine, Riga) Historical Review of the Development of Pathology at the University of Latvia’s Medical Faculty
ALGIMANTAS GRIGELIS (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius) and BIRUTĖ RAILIENĖ (Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Department of Scholarly Information, Vilnius) Carol Eduard von Eichwald (1795–1876): An Early Pre-Evolutionist at Vilnius University
VILMA GUDIENĖ (Lithuanian University of the Health Sciences, Lithuanian Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kaunas) Comparative Analysis of Pharmaceutical Recipes Registered at the Vilnius University Pharmacy in 1801–1802
EGLĖ SAKALAUSKAITĖ-JUODEIKIENĖ (Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery) Solidism Doctrine and the Perception of Nervous System Diseases in the First Half of the 19th Century at Vilnius University
MARTYNAS JAKULIS (Vilnius University, Faculty of History) Healing Sparks: Mickiewicz, Stubielewicz, and Medical Electricity in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Vilnius
LIBERTAS KLIMKA (Lithuanian Society of Regional Studies, Vilnius) Clocks by English Makers in the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory
EGLĖ PAŠKEVIČIŪTĖ-KUNDROTIENĖ (The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Department of Scholarly Information, Vilnius)
LILIAN LANGSEPP (University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, Department of Philosophy) The Monochord Experiment Considered within Rom Harré’s Typology of Scientific Experiments
LEA LEPPIK (University of Tartu, University of Tartu Museum) How Much Science Can a University Hold?
IEVA LĪBIETE and DIANA KLEŠNIKA (Rīga Stradiņš University, Anatomy Museum) Publish or Perish: Traces of Undocumented Medical Studies of the 1920s Captured in the Anatomical Collection of the Rīga Stradiņš University
ASTA LIGNUGARIENĖ (Lithuanian University of the Health Sciences, Kaunas) Problems with Medical Studies at the University of Lithuania (Vytautas Magnus University) in 1922–1940
ENDLA LÕHKIVI (University of Tartu, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics) Interdisciplinary Research at Contemporary Universities
GIEDRĖ MIKNIENĖ and BIRUTĖ RAILIENĖ (Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Department of Scholarly Information) Retrospective Bibliographical Data in Periodicals: Development of the Bibliography of Lithuania, Series C
DAIVA MILINKEVIČIŪTĖ (Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius) Astronomer Piotr Sławiński (1795–1881) and his Scientific Journey to London in 1819
PEETER MÜÜRSEPP (Tallinn University of Technology) One Hundred Years of Technical Education in Tallinn
EVELI NEEMRE (University of Tartu, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, Department of Philosophy) Value Recognition through Value Conflicts
ARVYDAS PACEVIČIUS (Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication) and VINCAS BŪDA (Nature Research Centre, Vilnius) Autobiography of Mykolas Girdvainis as a Document of Scholarly Communication in Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century
ARNAUD PARENT (Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius) From Vitalism to Animal Magnetism: the Mesmerist Experiments of Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert
LAIMA PETRAUSKIENĖ and VINCAS BŪDA (Nature Research Centre, Vilnius) The Documentary Film Recordings by Biologist Pranciškus Baltrus Šivickis
MAIJA POZEMKOVSKA (Rīga Stradiņš University, Institute for the History of Medicine) Elizabete Jakovleva: The First Female Latvian Medical Professor in Latvia
ANU RAE (University of Tartu, University of Tartu Museum) and YAROSLAV STADNICHENKO (University of Poitiers) Treatment of the 1897 Puka Train Accident Victims at the University of Tartu Hospital
BIRUTĖ RAILIENĖ (Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Department of Scholarly Information, Vilnius) Disseminating the Scholarly Heritage of Vilnius University Professor Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838)
MONIKA RAMONAITĖ (Vilnius University, Vilnius University Museum) The Beginnings of Medical Education at the University of Vilnius: Vision and Challenges of the Commission of National Education
AURIKA RIČKIENĖ (Nature Research Centre, Vilnius), PIOTR DASZKIEWICZ (National Museum of Natural History, Paris), TOMASZ SAMOJLIK (The Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża Primeval Forest) and ANASTASIA FEDOTOVA (Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Contribution of Vilnius University to the Flora Studies of the 19th-Century Białowieża Primeval Forest
ALEXANDRA RIZHINASHVILI (St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Ernst Haeckel and the Modern Perception of Ecology in Russia
SVITLANA RUDA and VIRA GAMALIIA (Kyiv State University of Infrastructure and Technology, Department of Philosophy and the History of Science and Technology, Kiev) On the Question of the Institutionalization of the History of Technology in Ukraine
EUGENIJA RUDNICKAITĖ (Vilnius University, Museum of Geology) Witnesses to University History: Collections at the Vilnius University Museum of Geology
JURIS SALAKS (Rīga Stradiņš University, Institute of the History of Medicine) and KRISTINE ZIRNE (Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga) An Evaluation of Rare Medical Book Collections in Latvia According to the Grolier Club List One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine
GRITA SKUJIENĖ, DOVILĖ SKĖRAITYTĖ and VIKTORIJA KUZNECOVA (Vilnius University, Life Sciences Center, Institute of Biosciences, Zoology Museum) Growth of Collections at the Vilnius University’s Zoology Museum during 1803–1842
NADEZHDA SLEPKOVA (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) History of Taxonomy and the Principles of Exhibition of the Collection in the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg: 300 Years of Change
ROMUALDAS ŠVIEDRYS (New York University (retired), New York) A Study of Individuals Associated with the 17th-Century Military Engineer Casimir Siemienowicz
VYTAUTAS TRIPONIS and DALIA TRIPONIENĖ (Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine) Vascular Medicine at the Old Vilnius University
ADAM TYSZKIEWICZ (The Medical University of Warsaw) On the Border between Science, Art and Politics: The Traditions of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Warsaw during 1915–1939
KOSTIANTYN VASYLIEV (Odessa National Medicine University) Inspector of the Imperial Vilnius Medical-Surgical Academy Karl Göhling (1805–1886)
YURIY VASYLIEV (Sumy State University, Sumy) University of Tartu Graduate E.M. Kagan (1887–1948) and his Role in the Development of Occupational Health as a Science and Academic Discipline in Ukraine
MĀRTIŅŠ VESPERIS (Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga) Kārlis Barons’ Service in the Russian Empire Army in Šiauliai in 1892
ALĪDA ZIGMUNDE (Riga Technical University, Institute of Humanities) University Staff without Diplomas: Exceptional Cases in the History of the University of Latvia
AISTIS ŽALNORA (Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of the Health Sciences, Centre for Medical Ethics, Law and History) Physical Health and Pronatalism in Jędrzej Śniadecki’s On the Physical Education of Children
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Vilniaus universitetas 
Thermo Fisher Scientific 
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