Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard
My project is focusing on Giovanni Vacca (1872–1953), Giuseppe Peano’s (1858–1932) longtime assistant in infinitesimal calculus at the University of Torino before turning to Sinology and becoming a professor at the University of Rome. It is in continuation of my article (Philo-) Logica-Mathematica” – Giovanni Vacca’s (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin published in 2019 and a paper delivered at the conference The China Experience and the Making of Sinology: Western Scholars Sojourning in China (École française d’Extrême-Orient, Max Weber Foundation and Beijing Foreign Studies University/Departmet of History, 20–21 September 2019).
I will focus mainly on Giovanni Vacca’s manuscript annotations of mathematical books which he bought during his two-year stay in China and which were part of the donation to the Vatican Library after his death by his wife Virginia Vacca. These annotations are interesting for several reasons: they reveal how Vacca read classical Chinese texts on mathematics, which aspects of logic and language he was interested in, and how he translated these texts. Further archival documents, often sketchy notes, complement the picture of his understanding of the content and methods of Chinese mathematics up to the late 19th century, and explain, why probably, in the end, Vacca did not pursue his original intention to study the history of Chinese mathematical science in detail.
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