1st School in Řevnice
From October 4th to 6th, 2023, the TOME team gathered in Řevnice for its first joint meeting. The aim of the meeting was to spark and nurture the project’s enthusiasm by working together to set and clarify the goals for this two-year project. Great care was also taken to ensure that each team member feels grounded and happy in their role, both in their individual research and as part of the group research.
It soon became clear that, to successfully fulfill the project within two years, the overall goals needed to be narrowed down. The team decided to prioritize the creation of a comprehensive catalog of Alchemy and Paracelsianism from the 16th and 17th centuries and to deepen their understanding of how these fields contributed to the emergence of encyclopaedism. Additionally, analyzing the existing NOSCEMUS digital corpus of Latin scientific prints (approximately 1,000 titles, 1450-1850) was also designated as a priority.
For analysis, the team is adopting current state-of-the-art computational methods, which were presented and explained at the meeting. They will leverage distributional semantics, machine learning, and metaphor detection to capture semantic trends in large corpora of text. We wish the team the best of luck in this endeavor and hope for exciting publications in the near future.
The meeting concluded with a trip to visit one of the Czech Republic’s largest Gothic castles, Karlštejn. It was a lovely time.
“TOME will be reconstructing the early modern world of the mind, modelled on Latin printed culture of the period.”
(Márton Szentpéteri, Řevnice, 4. 10. 2023)
Attendees of the meeting: Alessandro Nannini, Jan Tvrz, Jana Kodetová, Jana Švadlenková, Jo Hedesan, Lenka Řezníková, Lucie Storchová, Marcela Slavíková, Martin Žemla, Márton Szentpéteri, Ondřej Kříž, Petr Pavlas, Vojtěch Kaše
2nd School in Řevnice, 2-4 October 2024 (again from Wednesday to Friday). Dear team members, save the date.
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