IV Centenario della morte di Ulisse Aldrovandi

Edizione delle opere; censimento delle xilografie, pubblicazione di volumi di ricerca, mostre, cicli di conferenze, seminari, convegni Le celebrazioni si sviluppano negli anni 2005-200

Un'istituzione scientifica dell'Illuminismo:l'Istituto delle Scienze

Il contributo \ue8 dedicato alla cultura scientifica elaborata nell'Istituto e nell'Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna nel Settecento

All Knowledge in a Circle. From the Republic of Letters to Cosmopolitanism

The article evaluates the encyclopaedic adventure of the second half of the XVIII century, and the circulation of knowledge that occurred throughout Europe, driven by the success \u2013 ideological and commercial \u2013 that the old Encyclop\ue9die had obtained. Was it only a matter of the working hypothesis of interpreters, printers or publishers in search of economic and/or cultural success or did the interpreters, publishers and printers realise more acutely than the savants that it was time, or in any event, so it seemed, to relaunch the most advanced and effective forms of a patrimony of knowledge and orientations which, also due to their structure or to the difficulty in decoding interpretative criteria proposed thirty years prior, had lost effectiveness and topicality? Once again, the truth most likely lay somewhere in the middle or perhaps somewhere, as in the introduction to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, trends emerged anticipating a new order for knowledge and disciplines, necessary also for society. Or yet again, and this is especially true for France, perhaps the vacancy left in schools by the suppression of the Jesuit colleges and the growing attention for public education urged for instruments intended for an ordered and systematic diffusion of disciplinary knowledge. In many respects, the Britannica and the M\ue9thodique served to re-establish the relationship between the encyclopaedia and the implementation of the educational curricula of schools and universities that the Encyclop\ue9die had abruptly interrupted. Beyond any other type of consideration, however, we must admit that the polarities introduced by Diderot and d\u2019Alembert as to the question of the expansion and growth of knowledge, its natural ordering and the matter of its promulgation were to become prolegomena to all later discussion of philosophy as encyclopaedia, or as conception and general and scientific representation of the world. All those who thereafter confronted the problem under the philosophical profile, for one reason or another rejected the alphabetical arrangement of data, as well as trees of knowledge with their implications. And yet, none of them would renege the need to consider the encyclopaedia as a theoretical place where strategies of unification and cooperation of the sciences coexist with lines of expansion, accumulation and communication of knowledge. At least until the end of the XX century, the dictionary as apparent chaos and the encyclopaedia as provisional order would continue to be inalienable categories of reference for all scientific representations of the world and would take on the shape of fundamental vehicles in the circulation of knowledge

Filologie e filosofie simboliche nella prima et\ue0 moderna

Il contributo approfondisce il tema del rapporto tra simbolo, realt\ue0 empirica e idee; ci si sofferma inoltre sul motivo del sole tra teologie solari umanistiche ed eliocentrismo astronomic

La "ragione" dei moderni. Illuminismi e neoilluminismi nella filosofia della crisi (1930-1950)

Influenza delle filosofie della crisi, delle scienze sociali e delle correnti neokantiane nella filosofia italiana tra il 1930-1950

Per il Centenario di Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)

Il contributo esamina i caratteri del museo naturalistico di Ulisse Aldrovandi e li colloca nel quadro della cultura scientifica europea tardo-rinascimental