Inscriptions in Texts Epistemic Encounters in Giovanni Vacca’s Sinological Library
Epistemic Encounters in Giovanni Vacca’s Sinological Library
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6415076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Bréard (0000-0002-0496-5059, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie orientale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1125-3789 • E-ISSN: 2385-3042 |
| Publisher | Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.30687/annor/2385-3042/2025/02/006 |
| OpenAlex | W4410875350 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article considers texts in G. Vacca’s (1872‐1953) library as vertices in a sinological network. I analyse his annotations inscribed into books, offprints, maps, brochures, which he mainly collected during his sojourn in China (1907‐08). Focusing on mathematical books, I argue that inscriptions and printed texts together not only materialise Vacca’s turn from mathematics to sinology but also produce new forms of knowledge that resulted from translations between languages spoken in his network: Chinese, universal languages, and the languages of logic and algebra. Far from being an isolated stronghold of piles of paper transported from China to Europe and extended thereafter in scale and content, Vacca’s documentary legacy is a continuous space of circulation in itself
Linguistics · Computer Science · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Psychology · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Renaissance Literature and Culture · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |