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Aims and Content
The database intends to provide an overview of the many ways in which the Latin language was used to keep the reading public informed about all kinds of scientific developments in early modern times. It has grown over the whole duration of the NOSCEMUS project (ERC Advanced Grant, no. 741374), and although the project has come to an end in March 2023, it is still being expanded and updated, albeit at a slower rate.
How to Use the Database
An alphabetical overview of the database’s content can be accessed by clicking on Works, Authors and Secondary literature in the Content section. One can search for any desired keyword by simply typing it into the Search field in the top-righthand corner.
For searches aimed at specific kinds of works (e.g. all mathematical monographs from the 17th century), please access the Semantic drilldown (via the Content section).
Team
This database has been collectively elaborated in the context of the ERC project NOSCEMUS by:
- Ovanes Akopyan (content)
- William Barton (content)
- Florian Baumgartner (content: history of mathematics)
- Dominik Berrens (content)
- Urban Kirchler (content)
- Martin Korenjak (PI, content)
- Johanna Luggin (content)
- Irina Tautschnig (content)
- Stefan Zathammer (IT)
Contact
The database is work in progress. Hints at errors and shortcomings as well as suggestions of new texts to be included and queries of any kind are always welcome. Please do not hesitate to address them to Stefan Zathammer (stefan.zathammer@uibk.ac.at).
