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The Archimedes Project
The Archimedes Project
The Archimedes Project of the MAx Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin has created a testbed for developing and exploring model
interactive environments for the history of mechanics.
It also serves as a proof-of-concept project for open digital libraries
for topics in the history of science designed to integrate
research and knowledge dissemination in new ways.
The project was funded by the "Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2"
program of the National Science Foundation
and was a joint endeavor of
- the Classics Department at Harvard University,
- the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science ( MPIWG) in Berlin,
- the English Department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and
- the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
It also engaged a wider network of scholars supported in particular by
the "Programme International de Coopération Scientifique" (PICS).
Numerous treatises on mechanics as well as other forms of documentation
of mechanical knowledge and practices
constitute the project corpus.
Ongoing research at the MPIWG on the long-term development of mental models
of mechanical thinking and their manifestation in technical terminologies, inferences of practitioners, engineers,
and scientists plays an important role in the testbed design. The testbed also requires a powerful,
linguistically based information technology for handling the variety of languages occurring in the source materials.
Source documents are being prepared with tools such as automatic morphological analysis of Latin, Greek and Italian, and
semantic linking of sources to general and technical, modern and historical dictionaries and reference works
Collection of the Archimedes project
Cardano, Girolamo, Opvs
novvm de proportionibvs nvmerorvm, motvvm, pondervm, sonorvm,
aliarvmqv'e rervm [Opus novum de proportionibus numerorum, motuum,
ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum] mensurandarum, non solùm geometrico
more stabilitum, sed etiam uarijs [variis] experimentis &
observationibus rerum in natura, solerti demonstratione illustratum, ad
multiplices usus accommodatum, & in V libros digestum. Praeterea
Artis Magnae, sive de regvlis [regulis] algebraicis, liber vnvs [unus]
abstrvsissimvs [abstrusissimus] & inexhaustus planetotius
Ariothmeticae thesaurus ... Item De Aliza Regvla [Regula] Liber, hoc
est, algebraicae logisticae suae, numeros recondita numerandi
subtilitate, secundum Geometricas quantitates inquirentis ..., 1570
Source information
Permanent URI:http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:05ZM72MK
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