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Pietro Omodeo, Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution
Full text linkPietro Omodeo, who turned 100 last year, is among Italy’s preeminent historians of science. His grandson Pietro Daniel, who is precisely 60 years younger and teaches history and philosophy of science in Venice, has edited for publication this book, available at http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-402-8, that is in a way an appropriate homage to a lineage of great scholarship initiated by the Author’s father, historian Adolfo Omodeo. A portrait of Pietro Omodeo sketched by the renowned Chinese..
Scientific cosmopolitanism in the making. How Florentine republicans, religious exiles, and Padua University alumni joined English intelligence networks contributing to the development of a protocosmopolitan mindset in the second half of sixteenth-century Europe.
No full textThis essay considers the contribution of Florentine republican and religious exiles on one hand, and of Padua
University alumni on the other hand, to the development of a proto-cosmopolitan mindset in the second half
of sixteenth-century Europe. It focuses in particular on their services for English intelligence networks
through the analysis of the Corbinelli-Pinelli correspondence. This set of manuscripts has been considered so
far only as evidence about the Republic of Letters. In this essay, instead, it serves two purposes. First, it
brings to the fore the neglected political activities of Florentine republicans in Elizabethan England.
Secondly, it highlights the role of Padua University alumni in English intelligence operations which focussed
on the dissemination of anti-papal writings. The social and educational backgrounds of the people involved
in the network under consideration here demonstrate the connexion between education and support for antipapal
policies among individuals from the middle ranks of society regardless of their Protestant or Catholic
faiths. Whig insistence on characterising English anti-Catholic political attitudes as mainly directed against
the Pope as a head of state could equally describe the attitudes of the Italian men in this essay. Furthermore,
given the mobile dimension in which they operated, this essay warns against easily calling them ‘religious
emigres’, prefering to stress their agency in mobility rather than their victimhood. Lastly, this essay argues
that, while abroad, these men did their best to get political intelligence along with a wide variety of scholarly
works around Europe, crossing confessional and political boundaries. In doing so, they set something great
in motion: they got scholars of different religious and political beliefs accustomed to thinking that they will
be able to stay tuned to the latest news despite wars and the mounting confessional propaganda. This was
their contribution to the development of a cosmopolitan mindset in the second half of sixteenth century
Europe
FIGURE 1 in Description of a new Central African earthworm, Petroscolex centenarius gen et sp. nov. (Crassiclitellata, Eudrilidae), celebrating the 100th birthday of Pietro Omodeo
No full textFIGURE 1. Members of the international community of earthworm taxonomists, participants in the 2nd IOTM, Cluj, Romania, 2005. Persons left to right: Randall Wood, Csaba Csuzdi, Ana Moreno, Tarmo Timm, Danuta Plisko, Tomás Pavlíček, Pietro Omodeo, Sam James, Anna Rożen, Antonia A. Pop, Gábor Cech, Victor V. Pop (Photo: Patricia Cardet).Published as part of Csuzdi, Csaba, Rota, Emilia, Szederjesi, Tímea, Sherlock, Emma, Brown, George G., Chang, Chih-Han, Cosin, Dario Diaz, Fragoso, Carlos, Jamieson, Barrie G.M., Hong, Yong, James, Samuel W., Paoletti, Maurizio G., Pavlícek, Tomás, Plisko, Danuta, Pop, Victor V. & Shen, Huei-Ping, 2019, Description of a new Central African earthworm, Petroscolex centenarius gen et sp. nov. (Crassiclitellata, Eudrilidae), celebrating the 100th birthday of Pietro Omodeo, pp. 501-508 in Zootaxa 4674 (5) on page 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/346875
Pietro Omodeo senior, Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution
Full text linkioFORESToacasa #43: Augusto Zanella legge Charles Darwin. Da: Pagine 93-94 in: L’origine delle specie Charles Darwin, o la preservazione delle razze privilegiate nella lotta per la vita. Introduzione di Pietro Omodeo, 1973. Grandi Tascabili Economici Newton editori.
No full textVideo YouTube, registrato ed illustrato della lettura di una pagina di Charles Darwin, da L'origine delle specie, sulle conseguenze della recinzione per proteggere l'areo dal bestiame di una brughiera vicino a casa sua.
Da: Pagine 93-94 in: L’origine delle specie Charles Darwin, o la preservazione delle razze privilegiate nella lotta per la vita. Introduzione di Pietro Omodeo, 1973. Grandi Tascabili Economici Newton editori
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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