BorGal · Borelli Galaxy. Visualizing Galileo's Heritage (1635-1700 ca.)
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2018-09-01 → 2021-10-16
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- 262 269 €
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- MSCA-IF-GF
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Кореспонденцията на Джовани Алфонсо Борели, включваща стотици писма и книги, е систематизирана в цифров каталог. Това помага да се разбере как идеите на Галилей са се разпространявали чрез социални и интелектуални мрежи в Италия и Сицилия през XVII век.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
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Borelli Galaxy. Visualizing Galileo's Heritage (1635-1700 ca.)
BorGal results from a collaboration between La Sapienza the University of Rome and Stanford University, with the research support of CESTA, the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. BorGal succeeded in drawing a complete digital catalogue of the scattered correspondence of the Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) and in reconstructing his overlapping social, intellectual, and political networks. A total amount of 668 letters, 641 persons, 229 books have been catalogued and coded. This data will be open accessible and reusable on the project website (www.borgal.eu), where scholars will be able to visualize the correspondence’s flows on Borelli’s network of networks, as well as to address specific topics applying digital humanities and historical network research tools. Borelli was a leading figure among the natural philosophers belonging to the 'Galileo's school' and the preeminent figure of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. He was the only one of his generation to adapt Galileo’s methodology – that is experimental practice along with a mechanistic and geometrical epistemic model – to the different branches of scientific research; like Galileo’s, his experimentalism was based on a strong theoretical and even ‘ideological’ approach. His life and work show that Galileo’s (disputed) legacy was not only a Tuscan heritage and that the 17th century Italian scientific ‘Republic of Letters’ was a whole, complex and intertwined community, that included also the alleged ’peripheral’ Spanish Sicily. Moreover, Borelli’s freedom of thought about Nature coupled with his standing for political dissent (he was among the ideologues of the Messina Revolt of 1674-78). This coincidence makes him a unique case to investigate the relation between science, religion, and politics in the Catholic South of Early Modern Europe. Assuming a relational perspective and taking advantage of digital tools, we provided scholars and the public with the data and the digital tools to map, chart, 'heuristically' visualize the multi-layered and spatial dimensions of 'Borelli's galaxy' (places, people, works, letters, instruments, objects, information…), as well as to experience the way 'Galileo's heritage' took shape while circulating across the ‘Republic of Letters’.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
BorGal orbits around the figure of the italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679). He was the only one among the Galileo’s disciples to cross the disciplinary boundaries and to apply the master’s teaching to the different branches of scientific research. Like Galileo’s, his sperimentalism mantained a strong theoretical and ‘ideological’ committment; he pursued with extraordinary energy and method an overall strategy to spread the credo of the new philosophy in all fields of scientific investigation, in all Italian Universities (especially in the Mediterranean area) and even in the ‘public sphere’. Despite his unquestionable value, this figure has not yet been the object of a monographic project. BorGal will accomplish this necessary task to make clear to everybody the importance of B.’s in the making of European scientific thought and community. I aim to achieve these goals by employing and enhancing Borelli’s still neglected correspondence, and in particular: to recover it by merging published, unpublished and still-to-be-discovered letters; to process the correspondance-data through the methodology proposed by the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project sited at Stanford History Department. Once in the US with the support of the GF, thanks to the powerful desktop application and programming languages for data visualization developed by the MRofL team with the support of the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, I will be able to map, chart ‘heuristically’ visualize and make visible to others the spatial multifaceted dimentions of ‘B.’s galaxy’ (places, people, works, letters, instruments, objects, information…), as well as the way ‘Galileo’s heritage’ took shape circulating across it. Last but not least, this B’s epistolary – by means of BorGal - will allow us to connect to the European ‘Republic of Letters’ an alleged marginal area like Spanish Sicily.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · RomaКоординаторИталия
- BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDСъединени щати
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз