Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Calendario esami sessione invernale (valido per tutti gli insegnamenti)

 

10 gennaio 2024

22 gennaio 2024

12 febbraio 2024

 

h. 9.30 Aula Brelich (Lettere e Filosofia, 3 piano)

 

 

 

Storia della Scienza

 

Il corso 2022-23 si è tenuto nel I semestre

Le slides delle lezioni e i materiali prodotti durante il corso sono disponibili sul gruppo classroom al seguente link: 

https://classroom.google.com/c/NTUxNzMwNDM2MTY0?cjc=lbv74hn

 

I prossimi esami si terranno nei seguenti giorni:

8 settembre 2023 - h. 11, Aula Nuova Buonaiuti 

19 settembre 2023

Sessione straordinaria:

8 novembre 2023

 

Testi di esame (tre in tutto: manuale + saggio + monografia):

Per tutti:

A. Clericuzio, Uomo e Natura, Roma 2023, da p. 187 alla fine

 

Un saggio a scelta tra i seguenti (disponibili sul gruppo Classroom):

  E. Andretta, F. Favino, 'Scientific and medical knowledge in early modern Roman society', in A companion to early modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, Simon Ditchfield, Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2019, pp. 515-529
oppure, in alternativa:
  A. Romano, Rome, un chantier pour les savoirs de la catholicité post-tridentine, in "Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine", 2008, 55, 2, 101-120
oppure, in alternativa:

  A. Romano, «Il mondo della scienza», in Giorgio CUCCIO (éd.), Storia di Roma, vol. 4, Rome, Laterza, 2002, p. 273-303

 

Uno a scelta tra i seguenti libri:

Athanasius Kircher: il museo del mondo, a cura di Eugenio Lo Sardo,  Roma,  De Luca,  c2001 (cap. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9).
  I. Baldriga, L'occhio della lince : i primi Lincei tra arte, scienza e collezionismo (1603-1630), Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei,  2002
  S. Brevaglieri, Natural desiderio di sapere : Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi, Roma, Viella 2019
  F. Favino, Donne e scienza nella Roma dell'Ottocento, Roma, Viella 2020
  P. Long, Ricostruire la città eterna. Infrastrutture, topografia e saperi nella Roma del Cinquecento, Viella, Roma 2021
  A. Romano, Impressioni di Cina. Saperi europei e inglobamento del mondo (secoli XVI-XVII), Roma, Viella 2020

 

 

 

Science and Knowledge in a Global Perspective [10595502] (for Global Humanities) 

 

The exam consists of 2 parts, a presentation and an interview. 

The presentation (PPT maximum 10 slides) wiil deal with a subject at your choice from those covered in class or in the readings (listed below). You can also choose one in the list that you find on this page, 
under the 'didactic materials' section.

The interview will concern topics treated in the course (as well as in the mandatory books!), apart from those covered in your presentation.

Mandatory lectures:

            James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and technology in world
history : an introduction,  Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015, part III, chapters 10-13.
            S. Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, UCP (many editions)

Besides text 1 & 2 – that are mandatory for everyone – you must choose 1 of the following sets of readings:

SET 1:

Colonial botany : science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world, edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005, pp. Introduction Plus chapters, 5, 6, 7.

SET 2:

Empires of knowledge : scientific networks in the early modern world, ed. P. Findlen, London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, Introduction + chapters: 2, 3, 4.

SET 3:

The great art of knowing : the baroque encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher edited by Daniel Stolzenberg, [Stanford, Calif.] : Stanford University Libraries, 2001, chapters

1, 5, 9.

SET 4.

            Antonella Romano, Staging Encounters. Rome and its Indies: A Global System of Knowledge at the End of the Sixteenth Century, in Sites of Mediation. Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450–1650, edited by Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, and Christine Gottler, Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016].

            Elisa Andretta and Antonella Romano, Roman urban epistemologies: global space and universal time in the rebuilding of a sixteenth-century city, in Knowledge and the early modern city : a history of entanglements, edited by Bert De Munck and Antonella Romano, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020, 197-222.

SET 5

            Giovanni Pizzorusso, From the Americas to Rome. Paths of knowledge among the Roman Curia during the seventeenth century, in Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2021, pp. 73-90. 

            Sabina Brevaglieri, The origins of the Vatican Ethnological Museum. Francisco Romero, Propaganda Fide and the «Aruacos idols» (16th-18th centuries), in Missionary collecting, «Quaderni Storici», 169, pp. 125-159.

SET 6

            David Freedberg, The eye of the Lynx : Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 145-300

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II Semester 

Tuesday, h. 13-15, Vetrerie Sciarra, via dei Volsci 122 - Aula LEVI

Friday, h. 11-13, Vetrerie Sciarra, via dei Volsci 122 - Aula B

The course will start on Friday, 3 March 

Students are kindly requested to enroll in the class group with the following code:

https://classroom.google.com/c/NTk2ODAyMTUwNTcz?cjc=mxiyyex

 

NB: per gli studenti di EnoGastronomia (L e LM): non è obbligatoria la frequenza. 

Programmi ad hoc in italiano verranno presto resi noti sulla bacheca del corso. 

 

Exams schedule for the academic year 2022-23 (NB: dates slightly changed)

Winter:

January 16, 2023

February 6, 2023

February 20, 2023

Spring extraordinary session: April 19th

Summer:

June 5, 2023

June 23, 2023 

July 10, 2023

Fall:

September 8, 2023 -  at aula nuova aula Bonaiuti, SARAS Department - h. 11.00

September 19, 2023

Fall extraordinary session

November 8, 2023