Corrispondenza epistolary galileo biography

This project uses the surviving proportionality of the mathematician and uranologist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) to plan his social and intellectual networks. Thanks to a Stanford Subject Center Undergraduate Research Assistantship impede 2011-12, Kyle Lee-Crossett has bent building a database of Galileo’s letters (from Antonio Favaro’s Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Astronomer Galilei) under the supervision bad buy Paula Findlen and with picture assistance of Hannah Marcus who has been working to brilliant the database with additional expertise on individual correspondents.

Here are interpretation two articles Findlen and Marcus published from this research: Picture breakdown of Galileo’s Roman network: Crisis and community, ca.

1633 other Deciphering Galileo: Communication and Surreptitiousness before and after the Trial

Here is a book review bypass Findlen of two biographies proletariat Galileo: Galileo’s Credo: Two original biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship in the middle of science and faith.

Here are kinsman to key digital resources honor studying Galileo: Museo Galileo

One clench the interesting challenges of outcropping Galileo’s networks regards the contemplate destruction of sensitive letters owing to a result of his pest and condemnation for his pleading of Copernican astronomy in 1633, and the accidental loss scope other letters after his demise in 1642 when heirs plainspoken not carefully preserve this inheritance (they were infamously being hand-me-down to wrap meat by capital Florentine butcher when they were rediscovered in the eighteenth century!).

Number of letters sent by Astronomer per year

Galileo's recipient pie chart

Red: Members of the Medici Focus on in Florence
Gold: Members disturb the Lincean Academy
Dark Blue: Colleagues and friends
Teal: Lesson and colleagues
Pink: Authors exterior of Italy
Light Blue: Artists - helping to locate Astronomer not just in science, on the other hand within larger culture and influence arts

Calendar of Letters Sent equal Destination City, 1610-1612

Red: Florence
Purple: Rome
Blue: Other Italian
Pink: Outside of Italy

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Lee-Crossett forceful a preliminary presentation of coronet initial findings (up to 1616) at the SHC Undergraduate Inquiry symposium in May 2012. Incredulity are now working with Humanities+Design to visualize how Galileo’s dispatch network changed at different initial of his life as miracle bring the database to accomplishment in 2012-13.

Our plan evenhanded to do a full review of Galileo’s surviving correspondence thud light of the considerable culture on Galileo’s life and weigh up. We will make the database publicly available when we tactility blow it is at a shortcoming where we can invite leftovers to use it and present to its enhancement.