DigitXL

Abstract

The project promoted within the framework of the Scientific Collaboration Agreement between the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the CNR (DSU-CNR), and the National Academy of Sciences (Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze) known as the “dei XL” – consists of the census of scientific writings produced by the academic members throughout the history of the Academy. The collection and publication in digital critical edition of this heritage of writings represent an opportunity to offer to an extremely broad and diversified audience a collection of works and authors of the highest level for the history of science. On the Byterfly repository, 214 documents ranging from 1754 to 1805 have been inserted, interconnected in visualization with the Geca platform of the CNR of Genoa.