Edition critique et numérique de la correspondance de Giovanni Poleni avec les savants de l'Europe des Lumières

Europoleni is an international (Franco-Italian) and interdisciplinary (French language, linguistics, mathematics, physics, history of science) project which will create a digital publication of the letters and correspondence of Giovanni Poleni. A publication in book form is also foreseen). The correspondence of this Italian academic with learned persons and members of academies of his time (Bernoulli, Mead, Manfredi, Hermann, Euler, Delisle, De Thoms, Riccati, Bose…) has a European dimension (Padua, Venice, Paris, Saint-Petersburg, Berlin, Basel, London …). The collections are dispersed across Italy (Biblioteca civica of Verona, Marciana of Venice, archives of the University of Padua, Library of Forli…) and across Europe. A small number of letters are already available on-line (Observatoire de Paris, University of Basel) or published (correspondence Séguier, Riccati, Jurin). The letters concern astronomy (observations of the Aurora borealis), mathematics (tractive curve), physics (thermometer/barometer), navigation (winch, speed of vessel, anchor), architecture, and hydrography etc. Poleni ordered instruments for his experiments, published works (for the Commentary on Vitruvius), with craftsmen and Europeans publishers and printers. The publication of a collection of several thousand letters will give him the place he merits amongst the learned.