Instruments and Methods for a Cultural Understanding of Physics

Providing a multidisciplinary vision, which simultaneously serves to frame physics in a cultural context that is important for today's man and, at the same time, elucidate some useful tools for the disciplinary appropriation of its contents
Ample space will be given to discussion and group work on the issues addressed. In the first module, as a monographic example, the huge cultural impact generated by the gradual and tormented birth of the three principles of dynamics will be discussed. In the second module, two emblematic case studies will be illustrated: the evolution of painting techniques linked to the introduction of new pigments and the theories of vision and light that led on the one hand to the birth of modern colorimetry and on the other to the divisionist and impressionist currents of the end of Nineteenth century.