Italian scientists in Congress before the unit , Italians were not the first pioneers of the Congress of Italian scientists who were held in various centers of the peninsula between 1839 and 1847. Before you buy over the years an increasing political, in a unified and national sense, the initiative arose and we had developed due to external forces, not exactly 'patriotic'. In proposals made by the English mathematician Charles Babbage and activism of Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, one can experience a remote inspiration Baconian, enciclopedistica, pan-European, perhaps an echo Masonic. Since 1828 Babbage, traveling in Italy and Germany, had several meetings with men of continental science. Noting the isolation, he started a complex project to construct a European College. He had contacts to this end with the only institution …show more content…
The seed sown by Babbage was destined to bear fruit only a decade later, thanks to the initiative of Charles Bonaparte, who managed to convince the same Grand Duke in Pisa in 1839 to host the first major meeting of Italian Scientists. Napoleon's nephew, Italian by adoption but polite as ornithologist in the United States, fresh from meetings and conferences held in France and Germany insisted on the need to fight "the state of torpor in which we have fallen" by starting permanent contacts between Italian scholars the various scientific disciplines and their foreign colleagues. It was the first step to ensure increased visibility and