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− | + | <div style="text-align:justify">The [https://www.archiviopug.org Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University] (henceforth APUG) preserve 14 volumes of letters sent by and to Athanasius Kircher and other five manuscripts, mostly unpublished. Years ago, Stanford University digitized all the letters and made them available through the LunaImaging software, enriching them with detailed metadata<ref>http://kircher.stanford.edu/</ref>. Today, metadata of the letters are also available at [http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=athanasius-kircher Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO)]<ref>Created by the [http://www.culturesofknowledge.org/ Cultures of Knowledge Project] with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, EMLO is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence.</ref>. <br /> | |
− | + | Recalling the tradition of [[Monumenta|''Monumenta'']], within ''Monumenta Kircheri'' we want to continue and complete this work. Each letter will be transcribed, commented and annotated with the help of GATE contributors; a selection of Kircher's published works will be also transcribed. In addition, we have set up the ''Bibliographia Kircheriana'', a useful tool for Kircher scholars that today records {{PAGESINCATEGORY:AKC Bibliography}} bibliographic entries.<br /> | |
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+ | ! style="width: 250px; padding: 10px; text-align: center" | <big>'''Correspondence'''</big> | ||
+ | ! style="width: 250px; padding: 10px; text-align: center" | <big>'''Works'''</big> | ||
+ | ! style="width: 250px; padding: 10px; text-align: center" | <big>'''''Bibliographia Kircheriana'''''</big> | ||
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+ | [[File:AKC 1666 s.d. 555-115-1.jpg|100px|link=Athanasius_Kircher_Correspondence_(AKC)]] | ||
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+ | [[File:Obelisci_Aegyptiaci_1666_Engraved_tp-1.jpg|100px|link=Monumenta_Kircheri_Works]] | ||
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+ | [[File:Kircher Portrait.jpg|90px|link=Bibliographia_Kircheriana]] | ||
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+ | |[[Athanasius Kircher Correspondence (AKC)|Explore]] || [[Monumenta_Kircheri_Works|Explore]] || [[Bibliographia_Kircheriana|Explore]] | ||
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+ | | <sup>[[File:New.svg|50px|left]]</sup> || '''More information about ''Kircherian Museum'' are available on this [[Kircherian_Museum|page]].''' | ||
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+ | | || '''The project ''Athanasius Kircher’s Organum mathematicum. On the Evolutionary Improbability of an Information Processing Innovation'' has been launched. [[Athanasius Kircher’s Organum mathematicum. On the Evolutionary Improbability of an Information Processing Innovation|Find out more here]]!''' | ||
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+ | == Athanasius Kircher, a case study == | ||
+ | Umberto Eco famously defined the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) as ‘the most contemporary among our ancestors, and the most outdated among our contemporaries’. We propose to focus on Kircher's Correspondence and on his works. Athanasius Kircher is as a case study to explore the complexities and paradoxes of a ‘long’ modernity, starting from the seventeenth century up to our own world. [[File:Monumenta Kircheri Image.jpg|thumb|<small>Illustration from Kircher's ''Polygraphia nova et universalis ex combinatoria arte detecta'' title-page (Romæ, ex typographia Varesii, 1663).</small>]]In fact, the fundamental aim of this project is to articulate more clearly what is often hidden in every historical research: what matters to us is not in the past, but in the present. From a methodological point of view, we want this project to be not simply inter-disciplinary, but indeed trans-disciplinary. We start from Kircher’s crucial role in the early modern Republic of Letters and we insert Kircher’s case within a larger context involving the question of the nature of knowledge as both a kind of ''savoir faire'' and a kind of ''savoir vivre''. From this perspective, we propose to reconsider Kircher’s vast bibliographical production and the methods of its dissemination, highlighting how Kircher grappled with, and contributed to develop, the concept of ''[[novitas]]'' or ''[[curiositas]]''. Our project is also concerned with the material aspect of culture, and more specifically with the early modern changes in the modes and methods of communicating and disseminating knowledge. The way in which Kircher managed, reproduced, and created knowledge is a lens through which we can understand several fundamental aspects of both the early modern and the modern world, which have been the object of a recent surge of scholarly interest, such as the exponential growth of information and consequently the development of new and more effective techniques to digest, store, and select this new amount of knowledge.<br /> | ||
+ | Thanks to last years’ activities, which have been carried out with high schools students<ref>https://archiviopug.org/tag/scuola-lavoro/</ref>, APUG decided to involve about 70 boys and girls in working on this project. In addition to transcription tasks, they also have to annotate the texts, finding entities such as Names, Works, Places, Terms and Objects. | ||
− | == [[Athanasius Kircher | + | == Acknowledgements == |
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+ | * [[User:IovineWiki|Fiammetta Iovine]] for her valuable and unique contribution to this project | ||
+ | * prof. [http://www.history.didaktik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/vollrath/ Hans-Joachim Vollrath] (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Mathematisches Institut) and dr. Thomas Conlon for their kindness in sharing transcriptions and translations of the Athanasius Kircher correspondence [[File:LogofondazioneITA pantone.jpg|thumb|right]] | ||
+ | * prof. Sven Knebel (Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie Department) for the transcription of several letters from the Athanasius Kircher correspondence | ||
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+ | ''Monumenta Kircheri'' is generously supported by [http://www.fondazionesorgentegroup.com/english_home.html Fondazione Sorgente Group].<br /> | ||
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+ | == Copyrights == | ||
+ | '''Unless otherwise indicated''', all files and contributions (transcriptions, pages, comments) uploaded and submitted to GATE by administrators and users are considered to be released under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ '''Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License''']. All the rights on the images of the manuscripts or other documentation are property of the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University ([[User:ArchivesPUG]]). If you need high resolution images for your publications or for other usages, please contact us [[Special:Contact|using this form]]. [[File:Cc_by-nc-nd_euro_icon.svg|right]]<br /> | ||
− | + | Your contributions to GATE must be original or, at most, copied from public domain or similar free sources. Remember to always cite your sources and, more important, '''do not submit copyrighted work without permission'''.<br /> | |
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− | + | Report any abuses to the project administrators, [[Special:Contact|using this form]]. | |
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Latest revision as of 12:31, 29 September 2023
Recalling the tradition of Monumenta, within Monumenta Kircheri we want to continue and complete this work. Each letter will be transcribed, commented and annotated with the help of GATE contributors; a selection of Kircher's published works will be also transcribed. In addition, we have set up the Bibliographia Kircheriana, a useful tool for Kircher scholars that today records 676 bibliographic entries.
Correspondence | Works | Bibliographia Kircheriana |
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Explore | Explore | Explore |
More information about Kircherian Museum are available on this page. | |
The project Athanasius Kircher’s Organum mathematicum. On the Evolutionary Improbability of an Information Processing Innovation has been launched. Find out more here! |
Athanasius Kircher, a case study
Umberto Eco famously defined the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) as ‘the most contemporary among our ancestors, and the most outdated among our contemporaries’. We propose to focus on Kircher's Correspondence and on his works. Athanasius Kircher is as a case study to explore the complexities and paradoxes of a ‘long’ modernity, starting from the seventeenth century up to our own world.Thanks to last years’ activities, which have been carried out with high schools students[3], APUG decided to involve about 70 boys and girls in working on this project. In addition to transcription tasks, they also have to annotate the texts, finding entities such as Names, Works, Places, Terms and Objects.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank:
- Fiammetta Iovine for her valuable and unique contribution to this project
- prof. Hans-Joachim Vollrath (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Mathematisches Institut) and dr. Thomas Conlon for their kindness in sharing transcriptions and translations of the Athanasius Kircher correspondence
- prof. Sven Knebel (Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie Department) for the transcription of several letters from the Athanasius Kircher correspondence
Monumenta Kircheri is generously supported by Fondazione Sorgente Group.
Copyrights
Unless otherwise indicated, all files and contributions (transcriptions, pages, comments) uploaded and submitted to GATE by administrators and users are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. All the rights on the images of the manuscripts or other documentation are property of the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (User:ArchivesPUG). If you need high resolution images for your publications or for other usages, please contact us using this form.Your contributions to GATE must be original or, at most, copied from public domain or similar free sources. Remember to always cite your sources and, more important, do not submit copyrighted work without permission.
Report any abuses to the project administrators, using this form.
References
- ↑ http://kircher.stanford.edu/
- ↑ Created by the Cultures of Knowledge Project with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, EMLO is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence.
- ↑ https://archiviopug.org/tag/scuola-lavoro/