Article ID: CBB234289719

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli’s Last Will (1679, December 31st): The Graph of an Ego-Network (2022)

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Abstract The paper provides an annotated edition of the original copy of the last will by the mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679), discovered among the papers of the Curia of the Cardinal Vicary, kept in the State Archives of Rome. Up until now, the document was known only through the incomplete copy guarded in the General Archives of the Piarists religious Order—Borelli’s sole heir—at the General House of San Pantaleo in Rome. The testament was found during the implementation of the Horizon 2020 Borelli Galaxy project (2018–2021, www.borgal.eu), aimed at editing a unified electronic catalogue of Borelli’s correspondence and to use his letters as a source of data suitable to map and chart Borelli’s overlapping intellectual, social, and political networks. The will is treated here as a “socio-text,” that is, as a freeze-frame of Borelli’s networks in his last years in Rome. By coding and processing—through the web infrastructure Nodegoat and the relational modes of analysis it provides—the interactions between Borelli and his heirs and legatees, as well as the interactions that occurred among his legatees outside this scope, the paper tries to reconstruct and visualize the social structure of this network, to single out Borelli’s place within that complex system, as well as to figure out its genesis. Compared with Borelli’s contemporary correspondence, this data also offers a glimpse into his later editorial choices.

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Authors & Contributors
Grell, Chantal
Tonetti, Luca
Yale, Elizabeth E.
Wilding, Nick
Vermij, Rienk H.
Trompf, G. W.
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Mathematicians
Communication within scientific contexts
Societies; institutions; academies
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Rome (Italy)
Netherlands
France
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Accademia del Cimento, Florence
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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