The Bullettino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche (1868-1887), an example of the internationalisation of research
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- 作者：Alessandra Fiocca Alessandra.fiocca@unife.it
- 关键词：01
- 刊名：Historia Mathematica
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：44
- 期：1
- 页码：1-30
- 全文大小：658 K
- 卷排序：44
文摘
Around the beginning of the year 1868, the first issue of the Bullettino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, edited by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni, was published. The Bullettino, which was the first European journal exclusively dedicated to the history of mathematics and physics, continued to be published for a total of twenty years in monthly issues. Officially only one-fourth of the two hundred copies of the journal were distributed in Italy, whilst the remaining copies reached the other main European countries. The Bullettino – which was in two parts, one for original papers, reviews and translations of memoirs published abroad, and one for bibliographical notices – had a range of aims: to establish links between historians of science all over Europe, to quickly spread Italian research in the field, and to provide the means to keep Italian scholars up to date with the latest developments abroad.The Bullettino was not just an academic journal to which researchers submitted their works for publication, but also the result of information, relationships, partnerships and debates, with Boncompagni as its chief editor at the centre. This paper has two aims: to describe some of the dynamics that led to the articles included in the Bullettino, and to provide an overview of the Bullettino's content, focussing on historical contributions on Galileo, Copernicus, Domenico Maria Novara, on Lagrange's correspondence, on the correspondence between Sophie Germain and Gauss, and on contributions on astronomy and optics in Arab and Hebrew cultures by authors such Antonio Favaro, Gilberto Govi, Angelo Genocchi, Maximilian Curtze, Moritz Steinschneider and Enrico Narducci.