Dissertation Research: Christiaan Huygens: The Construction of Texts and Audiences

论文研究：克里斯蒂安·惠更斯：文本和受众的构建

• 批准号: 0094472
• 负责人: Domenico Meli
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0094472&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Christiaan; Huygens; Construction

There are two primary goals for this dissertation research project. The first is to provide a close examination of the career of Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) by looking at his publication practices. Huygens was a central figure in the seventeenth century; therefore, a better understanding of his career, and how it developed across intellectual, social and political lines, would significantly add to the history of science in this period. By looking at the individuals with whom he shared his work through the circulation of presentation copies, this project will follow the transitions and movements Huygens made from one peer group to another, including the Royal Society of London, and the French Royal Academy. Not only will this elucidate Huygens' intellectual and social migrations, but more generally it will reveal a great deal about how natural philosophy functioned in this period. The second aim of this project is to use Huygens' career as a case study for understanding how dedicatory copies of texts could be distributed, and what strategies were involved in the presentation of such gifts. Correspondence exists which records the recipients Huygens selected for most of his works, and letters from many recipients are extant as well. These lists will be examined for each of Huygens' works, and the recipients evaluated and compared in an attempt to understand what audiences he was targeting. Huygens was not alone in his efforts to construct audiences for his books through careful distribution patterns. Thus, his efforts will be compared to others from the period, including Tycho Brahe, Galileo and Newton. From this a more complete picture of the various roles of dedicatory texts will emerge.

本论文的研究项目有两个主要目标。首先是提供一个仔细检查的职业生涯克里斯蒂安惠更斯（1629年至1695年），看看他的出版实践。惠更斯是一个中心人物在十七世纪，因此，更好地了解他的职业生涯，以及它如何发展跨越智力，社会和政治路线，将大大增加科学史在这一时期。通过观察与他分享他的工作的个人通过演示副本的流通，这个项目将遵循从一个同龄人群体到另一个，包括伦敦皇家学会和法国皇家学院惠更斯的过渡和运动。这不仅将阐明惠更斯的智力和社会迁移，但更普遍的是，它将揭示大量关于自然哲学如何在这一时期发挥作用。这个项目的第二个目的是使用惠更斯的职业生涯作为一个案例研究，了解如何奉献副本的文本可以分发，以及什么样的战略参与了这种礼物的介绍。通信存在记录收件人惠更斯选择了他的大部分作品，并从许多收件人的信件是现存的。这些名单将被检查惠更斯的每一个作品，和收件人评估和比较，试图了解他的目标受众。惠更斯并不是唯一一个努力通过谨慎的发行模式为他的书构建受众的人。因此，他的努力将被比作其他人从该时期，包括第谷布拉赫，伽利略和牛顿。从这一点，一个更完整的图片的各种作用的奉献文本将出现。