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Sine ira et studio: Metodo e impegno civile per una razionalità illuministica. Scritti offerti a Dario Generali
No full textDario Generali is a unique case in the panorama of Italian historical and philosophical studies. A student of Mario Dal Pra and of the tradition of the Milan School, a scholar of absolute methodological rigor but, at the same time, free from disciplinary prejudices, able like few others to combine lightness of tone and argumentative effectiveness, a tireless promoter of knowledge and culture: in over four decades of activity he has been able to combine excellent research and teaching with a passionate and constant commitment to civil society. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this volume collects the studies and testimonies of many students, colleagues, collaborators and friends who have crossed Generali's human and professional path
Accettare lo stato mutevole dell’arte. Ecdotica, informatica e interdisciplinarità: inquietudini epistemologiche, metodologiche, accademiche
No full textQuesto contributo esamina alcune questioni metodologiche ed epistemologiche relative all'ecdotica, alle digital humanities e, più in generale, all'approccio interdisciplinare nella ricerca storico-scientifica, discutendo come questi strumenti abbiano influenzato l'evoluzione della storia della scienza in Italia e, a loro volta, come stiano venendo gravemente penalizzati dai criteri di valutazione della ricerca introdotti dall'ANVUR negi ultimi anni
Accettare lo stato mutevole dell’arte. Ecdotica, informatica e interdisciplinarità: inquietudini epistemologiche, metodologiche, accademiche
No full textQuesto contributo esamina alcune questioni metodologiche ed epistemologiche relative all'ecdotica, alle digital humanities e, più in generale, all'approccio interdisciplinare nella ricerca storico-scientifica, discutendo come questi strumenti abbiano influenzato l'evoluzione della storia della scienza in Italia e, a loro volta, come stiano venendo gravemente penalizzati dai criteri di valutazione della ricerca introdotti dall'ANVUR negi ultimi anni
Perché un maestro è raro
No full textDario Generali is a unique case in the panorama of Italian historical and philosophical studies. A student of Mario Dal Pra and of the tradition of the Milan School, a scholar of absolute methodological rigor but, at the same time, free from disciplinary prejudices, able like few others to combine lightness of tone and argumentative effectiveness, a tireless promoter of knowledge and culture: in over four decades of activity he has been able to combine excellent research and teaching with a passionate and constant commitment to civil society. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this volume collects the studies and testimonies of many students, colleagues, collaborators and friends who have crossed Generali's human and professional path
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Chimico, giammai meccanico. L’opera di Martino Poli tra medicina, filosofia naturale e pratica alchemica
Full text linkThis paper focuses on Martino Poli (1662-1714), a chymist and apothecary from Lucca who in his treatise of 1706 Il trionfo degli acidi (“The Triumph of Acids”)
launched a sharp attack against the mechanist-corpuscularian theories adopted by
many Italian physicians and natural philosophers of the time. As both a proud empiricist and a supporter of Spagyric medicine, the author criticized the corpuscular model (and the many moderns who upheld it) for not standing the test of practice. Poli’s case study offers an opportunity to shed more light on two important aspects of early modern science: the persistence of Neoplatonic and Hermetic knowledge well into the XVIII century, and the actual role played by these traditions in the evolution of the medical and natural philosophical debate
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Il miracolo inutile: Antonio Vallisneri e le scienze della Terra in Europa tra XVII e XVIII secolo
No full textThis book focuses on the studies performed by Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) in the field of the Earth sciences, also examining the impact that those investigations had on the European Republic of Letters. Relying on both scientific and historical methods, the author analyzes Vallisneri’s field research and theories: these concerned several crucial topics such as the genesis of mountains and fountains, the debate on the origin of fossils, and the discovery of deep-time
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