Recruitment towards the group formation has been intense in the early phase, however new positions have been opened and occupied throughout, also thanks to additional financial support from the HI and the FARE "EarlyGeoPraxis" project of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (aimed to strengthen the ERC project).
The core group includes one project manager and a varying number of scholars, non-tenured professors, post-doctoral researchers, pre-doctoral students, one editorial manager, visiting scholars, and associates.
For an overview of the group, visit:
https://www.unive.it/pag/35131/(si apre in una nuova finestra) Research activities have been conducted individually and collectively, through regular research exchanges (colloquia, laboratories, co-authored papers, editorial initiatives).
Group scholars attended regular meetings and conferences in Venice and disseminated the project results through conference attendance, setting up a broad network of collaborations.
Notwithstanding the pandemic, which relented the activities in person in 2020/22, a large number of online and hybrid workshops has been organized throughout. The Anthropocene Campus Venice in October 2021 has been fostered by the project, as well, as an occasion to make the relevance of science history for today's planetary debates and concerns. Beginning in late 2022, in presence meetings have been recovered. Two deepening and dissemination conferences deserve special mention: “Histories of Knowledge", in collaboration with the International Society of Intellectual History (Venice, 12-15/9/2022) and "Scientific Cosmopolitanism in the University Culture of Early Modern Padua" (Padua-Venice, 12-14/10/2022)
The project's research goals and outcomes of the DoA have been fully achieved:
• Conferences on key project's themes.
• Doctoral theses: 4 PhD theses.
• Publications on the contextual history of early-modern cosmology: including monographs, edited volumes and journal thematic issues.
• For the overarching comprehension of institutional astronomical discourses in the 17th century, we organized workshops which led to substantial outcomes, including a monograph by the PI (Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the 17th Century, 2022) and two journal special issues (Perspectives on Science and the British Journal for the History of Science, 2022/23).
• Completion and publication of essays on the epistemic networks of early-modern knowledge institutions by the PI and other group members.
• Important publications, including in peer-review journals.
• For the realization of a digital platform of the project presenting the results and the research materials to be linked to online publications, we realized an overarching webpage (unive.it/earlymoderncosmology) and launched two new open access series, "Early Modern Knowledge Hegemonies" (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice and Edition Open Access, Berlin) and "Verum Factum" (Edition Open Access framework).
For more details, see: www.unive.it/earlymoderncosmology
