SGER: Light and Enlightenment, A Digital Variorum Edition of Newton's Opticks -- Workshop, June 15-16, 2001

SGER：光与启蒙，牛顿光学的数字变体版本 -- 研讨会，2001 年 6 月 15 日至 16 日

• 批准号: 0114452
• 负责人: Robert Kargon
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins 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: 2001-04-15 至 2002-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0114452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Light; Enlightenment; Digital; Variorum

ABSTRACT SGERKargon and Anderson, Light and Enlightenment, A Digital Variorum Edition of Newton's OpticksSES 01-14452This project supports a two-day workshop to bring together representatives of various disciplines. The goal is to lay a secure foundation for a multi-year effort to bring into existence a digital variorum edition of Newton's Opticks. Such an edition is intended to clearly represent the changes over time in Newton's work, for during Newton's lifetime, the Opticks appeared in three English, two Latin and two French editions. The evolution of this text is a key indicator of changes in Newton's thinking about important concepts such as the aether and force, and provides important clues to Newton's views on the rapidly changing experimental sciences of chemistry and electricity over the last quarter century of his life. Variorum editions are notoriously difficult to effect. Print versions that attempt to collate changes over several versions are complicated, sometimes confusing and always difficult to use.This workshop is intended to discuss avenues for solving some of these problems, so that a scholarly instrument can be developed. This instrument will make of use of digital techniques to enable researchers in the history of science and technology to perform analyses of Newton's Opticks hitherto not possible. Most digitization work in our area of concern either (1) transfers existing patterns of research to the screen and allows text searching, or (2) makes useful materials available at a distance. This work has been useful and worthy but does not tap the power and range of digital environments. The PIs wish to develop a software tool that will enable us, though digitization, to allow our research to go beyond the paper world and to ask and answer questions not now possible. This project will require the efforts of historians of science, language specialists, historians of publishing, and software designers. Putting together such a diverse team, asking the right questions, designing an instrument useful to its intended audience, and managing the dissemination of the product is a very complex task and entails large risks: risks of our time and effort, and substantial funds for the development of technical tools that do not now exist.

卡尔贡和安德森，《光与启蒙》，牛顿光学的数字集注版SES 01- 14452这个项目支持一个为期两天的研讨会，将不同学科的代表聚集在一起。 我们的目标是为多年的努力奠定一个安全的基础，以实现牛顿光学的数字集注版本。 这样一个版本的目的是清楚地代表随着时间的推移在牛顿的工作变化，在牛顿的一生中，光学出现了三个英文版，两个拉丁文版和两个法文版。这本书的演变是牛顿对以太和力等重要概念的思想变化的一个关键指标，并为牛顿在他生命的最后世纪对化学和电学实验科学的快速变化的看法提供了重要线索。《集注》的版本是出了名的难以实现。试图整理几个版本的印刷版本是复杂的，有时令人困惑，总是难以使用。这个研讨会旨在讨论解决这些问题的途径，以便可以开发一个学术工具。 该仪器将利用数字技术，使科学和技术史上的研究人员能够对牛顿光学进行迄今为止不可能的分析。在我们关注的领域中，大多数数字化工作要么（1）将现有的研究模式转移到屏幕上并允许文本搜索，要么（2）使有用的材料在远处可用。这项工作是有用的和有价值的，但没有利用数字环境的力量和范围。PI希望开发一种软件工具，使我们能够通过数字化，使我们的研究超越纸张世界，并提出和回答现在不可能的问题。这个项目需要科学史学家、语言专家、出版史学家和软件设计师的努力。组建这样一个多元化的团队，提出正确的问题，设计一个对其目标受众有用的工具，并管理产品的传播，是一项非常复杂的任务，需要承担很大的风险：我们的时间和努力的风险，以及用于开发现在不存在的技术工具的大量资金。