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.
Objective
This project will explore how educational culture from the Venetian Republic and Rome exported scientific knowledge to Britain in the 17th century. It has recently been discovered that an unpublished manuscript commentary on natural philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics written by the largely unknown writer and academic Adam King was the foundational text for instruction in those subjects from the early to mid 17th century at what would become the centre of Britain's Enlightenment culture, the University of Edinburgh. The text betrays an intimate familiarity with the ideas of key individuals (Patrizio, Telesio, Zabarella, Mirandola) and the formal teaching approaches of scholars (Galileo and Clavius) who operated within the Venetian Republic and the Collegio Romano. The project will present a detailed intellectual study that will trace the genealogy of the 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. It will offer a comprehensive textual comparison of the use educationalists in Edinburgh, Padua, and Rome made of Cristoph Clavius' educational texts as a hypertextual entry point for the new sciences in the academy in the wake of the collapse of Aristotelian cosmology. In addition to the formal text-based case study and philosophical survey, the project will provide a biographical (of key players) account that highlights how this process of knowledge exchange was enabled by the concerted actions of a network of scholars from across Europe.
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- natural sciences mathematics
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy physical cosmology
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy observational astronomy
- social sciences political sciences government systems
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion philosophy
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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30123 VENEZIA
Italy
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