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By the Power of Her Word: Absence, Memory, and Speech in the Song of Songs and a Hindu Mystical Text
Authors: Clooney Francis X. 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Religious pluralism today surely poses an ongoing theological challenge, requiring us to think through the significance of the many religions of the world for Christians. But facing the challenge is more urgently the work of the imagination. Even the best theological solutions fall short if they block or ignore the deeper, required work of interreligious learning that occurs in the careful study of the poetry, dramas, and other literary productions of the various traditions. Using as a guide Hans Urs von Balthasar’s great trilogy — aesthetics, dramatics, and theologic — this essay is an exercise in reading together the Biblical Song of Songs along with the medieval Hindu Holy Word of Mouth (Tiruvaymoli) with special attention of the scenes of absence, wherein the human lover waits for the divine beloved to return. From both we learn that in waiting, there is anguish, but in anguish arise powerful memories about, and speech evocative of, the beloved. Each text is read also with attention to medieval religious interpretations. Practicing this dynamic across religious boundaries is an imaginative interreligious exercise that first causes a crisis for theology — where is the beloved? who are those other lovers and beloveds? what to do with the flood of new images and scenes? — yet then a new source for a Christian theology that redeems and deepens Christian particularity after and through, not despite, interreligious learning.
Fragmented Selves, Fragments of the New Story: Panikkar and Dalit Christology
Authors: Sebastian J. Jayakiran 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
The question regarding the interconnection between the writings of those considered to have focused on a ‘Brahmanical’ way of doing Indian-Christian theology and those who have taken seriously the reality of the marginalization of the vast majority of Indian-Christians who come from the Dalit background and contributed to the emergence of Dalit theology is an important one. In his voluminous writings, has Panikkar overlooked or ignored the pathos of Dalits and failed to acknowledge the contribution of Dalit experience to the theological enterprise? This article is an attempt to read both Panikkar and Dalit theologians and ask as to whether at least some recognition of convergence is at all possible.
UN MEDICO ALLA CORTE DI CARLO EMANUELE III: VITALIANO DONATI E IL SUO VIAGGIO IN LEVANTE (1759-1762)1
Authors: SCALVA GIUSE 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Vitaliano Donati, physician and naturalist, born in Padua in 1717, around the mid-eighteenth century played a significant role among the leading Italian philosophers, performing in Italy and in the Balkans some important naturalistic research that set the basis for the geographical map, the new theory of Carl Linn. In 1751, King Charles Emmanuel of Savoy called him to the chair of Botany in Turin University. During the permanence of Vitaliano Donati in the Kingdom of Sardinia he continued his important activities in botany, mineralogy and geology and made relevant observations about climate, earthquakes, and mining-sites in Piedmont always having the aim of increasing the knowledge of local resources and their potential for exploitation. In 1759 the king entrusted Vitaliano Donati with the direction of a scientific and commercial mission in Egypt and in the East Indies. This voyage had a double purpose: to collect samples for a Museum and for the Botany Garden, and to observe in those countries the processes of mineral extraction, of agricultural cultivation and of livestock breeding. The travel started in Venice in June 1759, and among critical events and diplomatic plots, continued to the Middle East and Egypt, from where it continued until wriving at the Indian Ocean. But this adventure ended in February 1762 when Donati died on a Turkish boat not far away the Indian coast near Mangalore. This article, which trace the complete transcription of the correspondence concerning the voyage, also reports the text of the "instructive memory", issued by the king to Vitaliano Donati, and summarises the scientific and political scopes of this unfortunate enterprise.
ISTITUZIONI E FONTI
Authors: BERETTA FRANCESCO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The recent opening of the Archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the heir of the archives of the Roman Holy Office, has permitted the discovery of certain documents concerning Galileo Galilei, including a letter relating to the trial of 1633. In addition to a transcription of the new document, we also situate it in context through a series of considerations, and demonstrate its utility in analysing the development and the logic of the course of the trial. In particular, the document sheds light on the important role in the instruction of the case played by the commissioner of the Inquisition, the Dominican inquisitor and military architect Vincenzo Maculano da Firenzuola, belonging to the patronage network of the Barberini and a key figure of the Roman Holy Office in that period.
HENRI MICHEL, A GENTLEMAN-SCHOLAR
Authors: VAN CLEEMPOEL KOENRAAD 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Henri Michel (1885-1981), collector and connoisseur maintained an extensive international correspondence concerning scientific instruments. His archive includes letters to and from all the leading specialists between c. 1933 and c. 1975. It is therefore an important source for a period that coincides with the formation of several major collections and the publication of important reference works. The archive of this pioneer student of instruments includes over 500 letters, four notebooks and a set of photographic plates.
NOVA MEDIA
Authors: LINO LUCIA ALVES , DA COSTA ALEXANDRE MAGNO , TOLMASQUIM ALFREDO TIOMNO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title In questo articolo viene presentata la Bibliografia Brasiliana di Storia della Scienza. Il database, che raccoglie una grande quantit di pubblicazioni, anche recenti, concernenti la storia della scienza, della tecnologia e della medicina, stato concepito non soltanto come strumento di aiuto bibliografico, ma intende offrire un contributo per una pi ampia conoscenza delle attivit di ricerca in questo settore in Brasile. Una prima base di 1200 voci gi disponibile per la consultazione in rete.
GALILEO AND OPTICAL ABERRATIONS
Authors: ZIK YAAKOV 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Un sistema di formazione dell'immagine complesso non solo perch costituito da elementi come tubi, lenti e diaframmi, ma anche perch ciascuno di questi elementi vi collocato per una funzione specifica. L'ingrandimento non il principale fattore per valutare le prestazioni del telescopio a rifrazione. Nella costruzione del telescopio rientrano troppe variabili non lineari come l'ampiezza di campo, la qualit delle lenti, l'assorbimento della luce, le correzioni per le varie aberrazioni, e la dispersione della luce lungo il sistema ottico. evidente che un telescopio astronomico in grado di produrre un'immagine sufficientemente ingrandita di un astro luminoso non poteva essere costruito arbitrariamente. Sotto questa luce interessante vedere come, mentre perfezionava il suo telescopio, Galileo descrisse, analizz e risolse gli effetti indesiderati prodotti dalle varie aberrazioni ottiche.
PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI
Authors: LUGLI MARIO UMBERTO , DEGANI FRANCA CATTELANI 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title We transcribe five letters of Geminiano Montanari to Gian Domenico Cassini, the first four written from Bologna (in 1669, 1670 and 1678), the fifth from Venice (1681). Here, several subjects are discussed, among which: objections raised by someone of Bologna against the S. Petronio sundial built by Cassini and also against Montanari's behaviour towards the same Cassini, the dissatisfaction of Montanari and his wish to go to Paris, the painting of a portrait of himself to be sent this town, the quarrel with Rossetti and Montanari's admission of the rotation of the earth around the sun.
IL DIFFICILE RICUPERO DELL'ANSCHAULICHKEIT DI GOETHE NELL'OPERA DI HELMHOLTZ
Authors: D'AGOSTINO SALVO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle ABSTRACT /title Thedifficult recoveryof Goethe's Anschaulichkeitinthe work ofHelmholtz - In the 1830s, Goethe's theory of light and colours represented a meeting point for the movement of ideas in the German romantic philosophy known as Naturphilosophie, fiercely opposed to Newtonian and mathematical science. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the great scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, as an official representative of German science, took a position on Goethe's ideas. Hemholtz initially reacted to Goethe's viewpoints, and especially to his optical theory, but his attitude changed in the conclusive years of his life, and he expressed a partial adhesion to the Goethian view of the relationship between the perceptual and the conceptual levels of scientific knowledge. The author argues that Helmholtz's adhesion was supported by his acceptance of Kirchhof's descriptive and phenomenological approach to mechanics.
THE NEW ASTRONOMICAL ELDORADO: THE FRENCH UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN ASTROPHYSICS, 1900-1920
Authors: SAINT-MARTIN ARNAUD 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle ABSTRACT /title At the beginning of the twentieth century, as international competition in astronomy increased, French astronomers were having serious doubts about their international supremacy. Now challenged by the development of interdisciplinary specialties such as astrophysics or geophysics, celestial mechanics had traditionally conferred most of its prestigious status to French astronomy. Considering they were unable to make important contributions on the international scene, a marginal community of French astrophysicists publicly lamented their lack of instrumental resources or the inadequacy of existing ones, as well as poor institutional support. In this paper, I examine the way in which leading French astrophysicists looked at American astronomy. Leading expeditions to the U.S. in the first two decades of century, they wrote reports about the organization of U.S. observatories and shared a fascination for Californian ones. In particular, all believed that George Hale's Mount Wilson Observatory was the only place in the world where astrophysics could really develop: a new "astronomical Eldorado" (as Pulkovo and Greenwich had been before). Back home, they sought to import the U.S. research system to transform the French astronomical community as a whole. The invocation of American astrophysics was a pretext for local issues: a prism that coloured national claims.
L'OROLOGIO DEI PIANETI DI LORENZO DELLA VOLPAIA
Authors: BRUSA GIUSEPPE 
Published: November 2012

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>Lorenzo della Volpaia ranks among the most important clockmakers of the early Renaissance. He made in Florence two planetary clocks of revolutionary design, the first in 1484, the second, which was his masterpiece, in 1510. Both have disappeared. The notebooks of two sons and of a grandson of Lorenzo contain a wealth of data and information about his masterpiece. They have made possible the faithful and working reconstruction of the movement and of all the astronomical components of the original clock.
LE LOCALIZZAZIONI CEREBRALI DI DAVID FERRIER, FRA INDAGINI SPERIMENTALI E APPLICAZIONI ALLA CLINICA
Authors: MORABITO CARMELA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title This article starts with the description of a medical case: the removal of a brain tumor carried out in 1886 in London at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. This medical case is recorded in the Casebooks that today can be found in the archive of the hospital. Firstly, there is the description of the patient's state of health and of the intracranical surgery performed by Victor Horsley who referred himself to David Ferrier's cortical maps. Secondly, there is the reconstruction of the theoretical path that led Ferrier, in the 1870s, to prove on an experimental basis the existence of different localised cerebral functions in specific cortical areas. These cerebral localizations are then compared with the model that, at the beginning of the century, contained their first theoretical seed: the Organology of Franz Joseph Gall.
PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI
Authors: PALLADINO FRANCO , CARBONE LUCIANO , NASTASI PIETRO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title We present here the Torelli-Cesaro, Landau-Cesaro and Cipolla-Cesaro correspondence, in addition to other relevant material discovered in the Fondo Ernesto Cesaro. We then analyse some of the questions which arise from a study of this correspondence, such as those relating to Cesaro's invitation to Naples, Torelli's to Palermo, to teaching and mathematical culture in Palermo and so on.
PER UNA STORIA DELLE SCIENZE DELL'INFANZIA: LE FONTI DELL'ISTITUTO DEGLI INNOCENTI DI FIRENZE*
Authors: GUARNIERI PATRIZIA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title This text is the description of an investigation. At the same time it is an interpretative essay and detailed description of still unexplored archival material, currently being catalogued. It also describes photographs, scientific instruments and books, all belonging to one of the oldest and most important institutions for childhood. The focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a decisive and yet too little studied period at the origins of pediatrics. During this period the Istituto degli Innocenti experienced an extraordinary transformation from being a place of charity to being a centre for maternity and infant care in the modern sense, where pioneering activities took place relating to scientific research, sanitary care, medical experimentation and training, as well as to specialised nursing, prevention and divulgation.
A DIFFICULT LEGACY: GALILEO AND THE GALILEAN COLLECTION BETWEEN MYTH AND HISTORY *
Authors: BUCCIANTINI MASSIMO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Scopo principale di questo saggio e quello di mettere a fuoco il significato politico e culturale che il progressivo costituirsi della Collezione Galileiana venne assumendo nella battaglia a favore della riabilitazione di Galileo come scienziato e filosofo copernicano. All'indomani della morte il progetto di costituzione e di arricchimento della Collezione Galileiana si venne subito a fondere in un unico grande progetto di riscatto e riabilitazione dello scienziato eretico, per poi, nei secoli successivi, saldarsi ai tanti miti di Galileo che scandirono la vita civile e culturale del nostro paese, giungendo, alla fine dell"800, alla costruzione di quel 'monumento' perenne della cultura italiana rappresentanto dalla pubblicazione dell'Edizione Nazionale curata da Antonio Favaro.
THE VERTICAL STACKFREED. MECHANICAL EVIDENCE AND EARLY EYE-WITNESSES
Authors: LEOPOLD JOHN H. , BRUSA GIUSEPPE 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Vengono qui descritti due orologi Italiani del Rinascimento in cui utilizzato un rarissimo congegno equalizzatore della forza della molla motrice, il cosiddetto 'stackfreed verticale', fratello maggiore del ben noto stackfreed orizzontale, comune negli orologi da persona tedeschi dopo il 1540 circa. L'invenzione di entrambi risale al XV secolo. Sorprendentemente chiara e concorde la documentazione, che qui viene messa in luce, di eminenti testimoni oculari quali Leonardo da Vinci, Girolamo Cardano e Taqi al Din a proposito di questo poco noto ma significativo sviluppo.
STORIE DI FOLGORI: IL DIBATTITO ITALIANO SUI CONDUTTORI ELETTRICI NEL SETTECENTO
Authors: CASATI STEFANO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title In the second half of the Eighteenth century a heated debate on the use of the lightning conductor took place in Europe. Franklin's ingenious discovery did not gain general approval among the European philosophers and raised fears and doubts in most part of the public opinion. In Italy the use of the lightning conductor gained large acceptance although it also aroused criticism and controversies that required the intervention of famous scientists, such as G. Toaldo. M. Landriani, and F. Fontana. Thanks to their efforts and dedication the idea that science could master a powerful and destructive natural phenomenon such as lightning was finally accepted. The cultural struggle for the use of the electric bars not only contributed to the achievement of a scientific innovation, but also to a change of mentality.
THE RECEPTION OF ELECTRIC THEORIES DURING THE DAWN OF NEOHELLENIC SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT
Authors: VLAHAKIS GEORGE N. 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Questo lavoro analizza il graduale sviluppo degli studi elettrologici in Grecia durante il XVIII secolo. Bench le ricerche sui fenomeni elettrici non avessero lo stesso grado di dignit di quelle sulla meccanica, documentabile come nei loro confronti ci sia stato un crescente interesse in ambito scientifico. L'articolo espone le diverse interpretazioni sulla natura dell'elettricit proposte dagli studiosi greci, cercando di metterne in evidenza il carattere marcatamente sperimentale, carattere ben riscontrabile anche nei testi del primo periodo del Rinascimento neoellenico (ovvero fino al 1800). Diversamente in altri ambiti di ricerca, come la meccanica, l'ottica e lo studio dei fenomeni termici, furono sviluppate trattazioni sia teoriche che sperimentali.
ISTITUZIONI E FONTI ADATTAR LA VOLGAR LINGUA AI FILOSOFICI DISCORSI. UNA INEDITA ORAZIONE DI NICCOL AGGIUNTI CONTRO ARISTOTELE E PER L'USO DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA NELLE DISSERTAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE
Authors: CAMEROTA MICHELE 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The manuscript Palatino 1137 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence contains an unknown text of Niccolo Aggiunti, disciple of Galileo and successor of Castelli to the chair of mathematics at the university of Pisa. The document develops a strong criticism of Aristotle's undisputed authority in philosophy, and, at the same time, advocates the use of the vernacular in scientific dissertations, holding that the Italian language is a more powerful and direct means of expression than scholastic Latin. Aggiunti's linguistic arguments seem closely related to the views of Sperone Speroni (1500-1588), whose linguistic perspective was very influential in late Renaissance Italy. The following work present the transcription of Aggiunti's text, preceded by a preface that attempts to reconstruct the intellectual context in which the document was formulated.
LA FISICA DELLA MUSICA
Authors: BENSA ELISA , ZANARINI GIANNI 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The scientific revolution of XVII century concerned also the domain of music theory, deeply investigating the nature of musical sounds and the physics of their production. Also the classical explanations of musical consonance were questioned, looking for its hidden causes through physics experiments and mathematical models. The passionating history of musical acoustics from Galileo to the end of XVIII century is revisited, with a particular emphasis on consonance theories.
Preserving Tradition that is Necessary to Exercising Essential Rights: Some Reflections on the ICJ Decision on Navigational Rights on the San Juan River
Authors: Stirling-Zanda Simonetta 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
In 2009 the ICJ delivered a decision on the interpretation of the 1858 Treaty of Limits between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. While the main issue concerned commercial navigation on the San Juan River, a small part of the Court’s decision dealt with private navigational rights that benefit the few riparian inhabitants of the Costa Rican bank. On the basis of humanitarian concerns, the Court decided that the treaty implicitly guarantees also private navigational rights, originating in a tradition predating the Treaty of Limits, and necessary nowadays to access schools and medical practices. The article takes the Court’s interpretation as the starting point for a reflection on the importance of human rights law in the preservation of communal traditions that cannot rely on international rules protecting groups according to their identity.
Chasing the European Court of Justice: On Some (Political) Attempts to Hijack the European Integration Process
Authors: Martinico Giuseppe 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
This article gives some examples of State interference in the interpretative activity of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), looking at the 1990s, at the more recent past and, finally, at the clauses introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, which represents the latest link in the “semi-permanent Treaty revision process” (de Witte). The article is divided into three parts: the first part will introduce the peculiarities of the ECJ’s interpretative activity, briefly recalling the debate on the specificity of the interpretation of EU law. The second part will be devoted to some recent and less recent attempts to hijack of the acquis communautaire (“the past”), while the third part will focus on the recent novelties introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (EUCFR) and its explanations (“the future”). Finally, some concluding remarks will be presented at the end of the article.
‘True Love’ and Rousseau’s Philosophy of History
Authors: Armenteros Carolina 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Rousseau, a philosopher of history? The suggestion may startle those who know him as an enemy of history, the founder of Counter-Enlightenment who rejected his century’s hope in progress and conjured quasi-utopias devoid of time. Alone, the political texts seem to justify this interpretation. Side by side with the Emile and Julie sagas, however, they disclose a new Rousseau, the weaver of a master plot that governs private and public history. This essay describes Jean-Jacques’ overarching narrative and the two main subnarratives that compose it by juxtaposing his political and fictional works. In doing so, it contests current conventions about his ideas on women, challenges assumptions about his educational ideals, retrieves new aspects of his debt to Fénelon, and foregrounds the pivotal role that the idea of ‘true love’ plays in his philosophy as the foundation of political community.
Hebrew Studies in Wittenberg (1502–1813): From Lingua Sacra to Semitic Studies
Authors: Miletto Gianfranco , Veltri Giuseppe 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
The beginnings of the study of the Hebrew language in Wittenberg go back to the very first years of the university’s establishment and are associated with the initiatives of several scholars dealing with humanistic studies at the time. Through developing the study in three ancient languages, in keeping with the ideal of a complete humanistic erudition, Wittenberg perceived an opportunity to carve a niche of excellence for itself vis-à-vis the older universities. By introducing instruction in Hebrew along with Greek and Latin, the newly founded Leucorea sought to distinguish itself as a model for all other universities in Germany. The article traces the important steps of the history of the study of Hebrew language in Wittenberg among and outside of the theological faculty mentioning the curricula of its most famous teachers and professors.