Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

the history of science, accompanied by valuable references and expert commentary,
e.g. Newton’s Opticks (1704). With regard to the digitised editions
of Bošković’s works, the project Edizione Nazionale delle opere e della corrispondenza
di Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich should be singled out, conducted
by Edoardo Proverbio. Meticulous approach and integrity of edition are the
guidelines of the European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), a European
project conducted by Max-Planck-Gessellschaft in Munich in close collaboration
with the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin and its
library, as well as e-rara.ch, the national collaborative project with copies from
the ETH-Bibliothek in Zürich, while Gallica and The Philological Museum lag
behind technologically. Further, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of
Culture the project Hrvatska kulturna baština (Croatian Cultural Heritage) for
the digitisation of archival, library and museum material is under way.
Considering the infrastrusture in both Croatia and wider, and also the experience
with the digitised material earlier mentioned, the approach to digitisation
of the printed works of Ruđer Bošković should be reconsidered. The
model selected for this purpose should be able to offer a complete edition of a
rare book, and its apparatus should meet all the needs of scientific research.
Given these methodological guidelines and the diversity of Bošković’s
work, here presented will be the model of digitisation for four genres:
1. dissertation publicly defended at the Collegium Romanum, on the examples
of Bošković’s early treatises De aurora borealis (1738), Disquisitio
in universam astronomiam (1742) and De viribus vivis (1745);
2. technical expertise, on the example of the static expertise Riflessioni
… sopra alcune difficoltà spettanti i danni, e risarcimenti della Cupola
di S. Pietro (1743), signed by three mathematicians Le Seur, Jacquier
and Bošković;
3. map, on the example of Maire’s Nuova carta geografica dello Stato Ecclesiastico
(1755), drawn on the basis of data collected during a survey
expedition carried out by Ruđer Bošković and Christopher Maire;
4. result of astronomical observation, on the example of the joint Maire-
Bošković’s astronomical observation of the eclipse of Sun on 30 December
1739 from the Collegium Romanum, published in Maire’s
article Observationes astronomicae… ab anno 1727 ad 1742 (Lucca,
1744).
Key words: models of digitization of rare book, Google Books, Octavo Digital Rare
Books, Edizione Nazionale R. G. Boscovich, ECHO, e-rara.ch, dissertation
at the Collegium Romanum, technical expertise, map, result of astronomical
observation
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