Lynceorum Historia. Le ‘Schede Lincee’ di Martin Fogel , by Michele Camerota, Alessandro Ottaviani, and Oreste Trabucco, eds.

• Autores: Isabelle Pantin
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 719-721
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the late 1660s, Martin Fogel (1634–1675), an erudite and polymath living in Hamburg, who was also a physician and botanist, was preparing a Historia generalis of the Accademia dei Lincei. Fogel had many contacts in the learned world; in particular, he had exchanges with Henri Justel (in Paris), Antonio Magliabecchi (in Florence), and Henry Oldenburg, the founding editor of the Philosophical Transactions. Thus, word of his project spread throughout the Republic of Letters. Fogel had gathered abundant material for his Historia, notably during a long stay in Italy (1663–1664). He had formed relationships there that gave him access to first-hand documentation. Carlo Roberto Dati, a member of several academies, became his friend and facilitated his investigation. In particular, Dati introduced him to Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo, brother and heir of Cassiano, the famous antiquarian and collector, who had acquired a significant part of Federico Cesi’s library in 1633. Fogel also befriended the librarian of the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Carlo Annibale Stelluti, nephew of Francesco Stelluti, one of the founders of the Accademia dei Lincei. His work was to start from the origins and describe Federico Cesi’s project, as well as the Lynceorum gesta from 1603 to 1623; many original documents were to be reproduced, such as the Lynceographum, where Prince Cesi, between 1605 and 1614, had recorded and explained the statutes and rules of the Lincei. A second part was planned with biographies of the Academy’s most illustrious members, first and foremost Galileo.