Northern Networks: Astronomical and Medical Knowledge from the Baltic to East Central Europe, 1550-1750

北方网络：从波罗的海到中欧东部的天文和医学知识，1550-1750 年

• 批准号: AH/W002175/1
• 负责人: Cassandra Gorman
• 金额: $ 4.04万
• 依托单位: Anglia Ruskin University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW002175%2F1
• 关键词: Northern; Networks; Astronomical; Medical; Knowledge

Anglophone scholarship has overwhelmingly privileged the history of correspondence in early modern Europe at the expense of knowledge-making (and sharing) across Northern and Baltic locations. Our workshop series responds to this gap, with the primary aim of drawing a new map across Northern European centres of learning. The objective is twofold. Firstly, the network emphasises the impact of academic mobility through the early modern migration of people and ideas, identifying, for the first time, an epistemic unity from the Baltic to Central Europe which linked geographical areas that might otherwise seem separate. Secondly, this focus fosters closer, interdisciplinary work on collections of early modern knowledge that have been hitherto marginalised within Anglophone scholarship. The network transcends national and disciplinary boundaries by bringing together intellectual historians, historians of science, literary scholars, art historians, maritime historians, linguists, and curators, from the UK, continental Europe, and North America. Northern Networks provides a platform for these different academic communities - who rarely otherwise collaborate in research - to meet, share and expand knowledge of the understudied intellectual networks across early modern Northern Europe.The first workshop will be held at the University of Aberdeen in March 2022. The focus will be on sixteenth and seventeenth-century medical research and academic mobility between Scotland and continental Europe. Our aim, drawing on the rich collections at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, is to reconsider the foreign transactions in medical research that paved the way to Isaac Newton's era in the British Isles. This workshop will focus especially on the archive of the physician Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) and the work of the Edinburgh-born medical practitioner John Craig (died 1620), who was first physician to James VI, later James I of England, and a practicing astronomer. Both the geographical focus and the designated time period of this research have been overlooked by past scholarship, which has tended to focus on continental academic activity during the 'Republic of Letters', later in the seventeenth century.The second workshop takes place at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Our disciplinary focus for this gathering is the history of collecting, and the methodology is artisanal epistemology, or making as a way of knowing, which enables a brand new study of mathematical communities in Central Europe who negotiated with their Northern counterparts. We chose Prague because of the well-known presence of Kepler and Tycho Brahe, but also to complement Aberdeen and Uppsala with a major imperial court. Within this scheme, we will attempt to highlight the rich cosmological production of makers such as Erasmus Habermel (1538-1606), Joost Bürgi (1552-1632) and the Prague-born clockmaker Heinrich Stolle. Building on the existing expertise of local scholars, who will 'dissect' a few selected pieces, this object-based workshop makes full use of the digital dissemination we explain in our management section of this bid.The third workshop will be at Uppsala University in March 2023. The Carolina Rediviva Library houses a collection of early modern astronomical texts known as the Copernicana, thought to have been owned by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) - the largest number of texts with his provenance in the world. In addition to its invaluable contribution to Copernican studies, the library also provides rich resources for the history of early modern medical research in the Waller Collections, which hold over 50,000 natural philosophical works dating from the middle ages to the 1950s. With a focus on the contents of these extraordinary archives, this workshop will reconsider the substantial, yet significantly understudied, early modern Swedish contribution to Northern European intellectual networks.

英语学术在早期现代欧洲的通信历史上占据了压倒性的优势，代价是北欧和波罗的海地区的知识创造(和分享)。我们的系列研讨会回应了这一差距，主要目的是绘制一幅横跨北欧学习中心的新地图。目标是双重的。首先，该网络通过人员和思想的早期现代迁移强调了学术流动的影响，首次确定了从波罗的海到中欧的认识论统一，将原本可能看起来是独立的地理区域联系在一起。其次，这种关注促进了对早期现代知识收藏的更紧密、跨学科的工作，这些知识到目前为止在英语学术中一直处于边缘地位。该网络超越了国家和学科的界限，汇集了来自英国、欧洲大陆和北美的知识分子历史学家、科学史学家、文学学者、艺术历史学家、海洋历史学家、语言学家和策展人。北方网络为这些不同的学术团体提供了一个平台--他们很少在研究方面进行合作--来认识、分享和扩展早期现代北欧未被研究的智力网络的知识。第一次研讨会将于2022年3月在阿伯丁大学举行。重点将放在16世纪和17世纪的医学研究和苏格兰与欧洲大陆之间的学术流动上。我们的目标是利用邓肯·赖斯爵士图书馆的丰富藏品，重新考虑为不列颠群岛艾萨克·牛顿时代铺平道路的医学研究的海外交易。本次研讨会将特别关注医生邓肯·利德尔(Duncan Liddel，1561-1613)的档案，以及出生于爱丁堡的医生约翰·克雷格(John Craig，1620年去世)的工作，他是詹姆斯六世的第一位内科医生，后来是英格兰的詹姆斯一世，也是一名执业天文学家。这项研究的地理重点和指定的时间段都被过去的学术忽视了，过去的学术倾向于关注17世纪后期的欧洲大陆的学术活动。第二次研讨会在布拉格的捷克科学院举行。我们这次聚会的学科重点是收集的历史，方法论是手工认识论，或作为一种认识的方式，这使得对与北方同行谈判的中欧数学社区进行了全新的研究。我们选择布拉格，是因为开普勒和第谷·布拉赫的存在广为人知，但也是为了用一个重要的朝廷来补充阿伯丁和乌普萨拉。在这个计划中，我们将试图突出伊拉斯谟·哈伯梅尔(Erasmus Habermel，1538-1606)、Joost Bürgi(1552-1632)和布拉格出生的钟表匠Heinrich Stolle等制造者丰富的宇宙学成果。这个基于对象的研讨会充分利用了我们在本次招标的管理部分中解释的数字传播，建立在当地学者现有专业知识的基础上，他们将‘解剖’一些精选的作品。第三次研讨会将于2023年3月在乌普萨拉大学举行。卡罗莱纳再分区图书馆收藏了一批被称为哥白尼的早期现代天文文献，据信为波兰天文学家尼古拉斯·哥白尼(Nicolaus CopNicus，1473-1543)所有--这是世界上有他的出处的文献数量最多的文献。除了对哥白尼研究的宝贵贡献外，该图书馆还为沃勒收藏的早期现代医学研究史提供了丰富的资源，其中收藏了从中世纪到20世纪50年代的50,000多部自然哲学著作。以这些非凡档案的内容为重点，本次研讨会将重新考虑早期瑞典人对北欧知识网络的重大贡献，但这些贡献尚未得到充分的研究。

项目成果

Kepler's snow: the epistemic playfulness of geometry in seventeenth-century Europe

开普勒的雪：十七世纪欧洲几何学的认知乐趣

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: British Journal for the History of Mathematics
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Gulizia S