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At the fringes of the Republic of Scientists: the East-West routes of scientific

This paper explores the routes of scientific communication between eastern and western Europe in the age of experimentation (1650-1680). It examines the sources, geography, and aims of this communication, as well as the data modeling tools used to structure and analyze historical correspondence. The paper also discusses the upcoming tools in the Pinakes project for cultural heritage analysis.

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At the fringes of the Republic of Scientists: the East-West routes of scientific

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  1. At the fringes of the Republic of Scientists: the East-West routes of scientific communication in Europe in the age of experiment (1650-1680) Federica Favino (University “La Sapienza” - Rome) 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010.

  2. Partecipating Institutions: University “La Sapienza” - Rome , Italy European Commssion Marie Curie Actions Museo Galileo – Florence, Italy Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale – Florence, Italy 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010.

  3. Editors & Data management: Federica Favino - Editor (University “La Sapienza” - Rome, Italy) Renata Ago - Editor (University “La Sapienza” - Rome, Italy) Andrea Scotti - Data Modelling, Pinakes Project director (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Florence, Italy) 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010.

  4. Summary: • EoS: aims • EoS: step by step • EoS: chronology • EoS: geography – the Empire periphery? • EoS: sources – Why these? • EoS through Pinakes 3.0: a data modelling and structuring tool for cultural heritage. • The model and its concepts • The input interface • The structure of data: some input samples • Structuring the historical correspondence in a map • Forthcoming tools within Pinakes 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010.

  5. EoS: aims • the prototype of a multitask data-base that takes into account evidence gathered from scientific correspondences so as to define and highlight the contents the networks and the ways of transmission of scientific information in the north-east periphery of early modern Europe. • map the network of scientific networks • pick-up from letters “quanta” of scientific information • Follow the information flows on the network 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

  6. EoS: step by step • 1. to build a “static” web collaborative infrastructure that will work as: • a repository of letters • an infrastructure with letters’ extrinsic information (sender, addressee, place of origin, place of destination, date); • an infrastructure with letters’ internal information (people, books, instruments, manuscripts, maps, related letters, observations etc.); • 2. to build a “dynamic” web collaborative infrastructure able to cross data so as to establish required relations between them; • 3. to transfer these relations on a geographical map 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

  7. EoS : chronology EoS focuses on the age when «the accumulation of individual matter of facts, socially checked and shared, became the only undoubted foundation of a reformed philosophical knowledge of nature» (S. Shapin, Thescientific revolution, 1996) 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

  8. EoS: geography As to space, it takes into account the geographical area included in the triangle Rome – Florence - Paris – Danzic, with special respect of the Mitteleuropa areas, that is Poland and the Habsburg Empire’s «periphery» (the yellow area).

  9. EoS: the Empire periphery? white space: “low intellectual density” (H. Bots) or lack of sources?

  10. EoS: sources Leopoldo de’ Medici (1617- 1675) Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

  11. EoS: why these?suitability; availability; exploitation Leopoldo@http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it Hevelius@http://www.obspm.fr/ 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

  12. Pinakes 3.0: The model and its concepts (1) 1. The root: abstract class without domain 2 . Object world reification: the four foundational classes 3. Relation world reification: all possible service classes 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010.

  13. Pinakes 3.0: The model and its concepts (2) 2 . Object world reification: the four foundational classes

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