1. At the fringes of the Republic of Scientists:
the East-West routes of scientific
communication in Europe in the age of experiment
( )
Federica Favino
(University “La Sapienza” - Rome)
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2. Partecipating Institutions:
University “La Sapienza” - Rome , Italy
European Commssion
Marie Curie Actions
Museo Galileo – Florence, Italy
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale – Florence, Italy
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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, The scientific revolution, 1996)
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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. Leopoldo de’ Medici (1617- 1675)
EoS: sources
Leopoldo de’ Medici ( )
Johannes Hevelius ( )
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11. EoS: why these? suitability; availability; exploitation
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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
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13. Pinakes 3.0: The model and its concepts (2)
2 . Object world reification: the four foundational classes