European Networks and the New Sciences in Edinburgh

Project description

Scientific manuscript from 17th-century Britain testifies to Italian influences

A largely unknown fact is that in the mid-17th century, writer and scholar Adam King drafted the foundational text for instruction in the subjects of natural philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. The Edinburgh native’s recently discovered manuscript was the centre of Britain’s Enlightenment culture. The EU-funded ENNSE project will study how scientific knowledge from the Venetian Republic and Rome was exported to Britain in the 17th century. To that end, it will present a detailed intellectual study that will trace the genealogy of mechanical observational astronomy, Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy and proto-empirical scientific methods contained in the Edinburgh manuscript (and the student dictates and theses spread over 50 years that quote it verbatim) back to their Italian sources.

Fields of science

• social sciences › political science › government systems
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › philosophy
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › observational astronomy

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA

Address

Dorsoduro 3246
30123 Venezia
Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 183 473,28