Making & Knowing Project

Dec 27, 2020 · 1 min read
Workshop of Ubaldo Vitali, with Anthony Cavaleri, 2014. © Making and Knowing Project (CC BY-NC-SA).
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The Making & Knowing Project, founded in 2014 by Pamela H. Smith, and involving hundreds of collaborators, is a research and pedagogical initiative in the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.

As a postdoctoral fellow, I took part in the project working, among other things, on the digital critical edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640. This unique 16th-century French manuscript offers first-hand insight into making and materials from a time when artists were scientists.

The digital edition makes an abundance of data freely available on its GitHub repository. Over the next year, I intend to publish a series of blog posts related to the edition and its data. I will show how easily one can download and analyze the text using Python or R. Stay tuned!

Making & Knowing Project Digital Humanities Past Research BnF Ms. Fr. 640
Clément Godbarge
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Clément Godbarge
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Clément Godbarge is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of St Andrews. His research revolves around science and statecraft in early modern Europe. In his forthcoming book, he examines how doctors embedded at the courts of sixteenth-century France and Italy promoted themselves as political experts of a new genre. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Renaissance Society of America, and Harvard University.