Dal tramonto all'alba. Breve ricognizione sulla fisica italiana nel primo trentennio del XIX secolo

TL;DR

This paper reviews the development of physics research in Italy during the early 19th century, focusing on regional scientific communities and their growth, excluding major historical figures to highlight local contributions.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative analysis of Italian physics communities in the early 1800s using graph theory, emphasizing regional development over individual personalities.

Findings

Growth of scientific communities in Sardinia and Lombardo-Veneto regions

Quantitative network analysis of physicists in early 19th century Italy

Highlighting regional contributions to Italian physics development

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the state of scientific research in physics in the Italian peninsula for the first thirty years of XIX century. In doing so, we focus geographically on the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Lombardo - Veneto territories, because of the role played in the development of Italian physics and the political future of the peninsula; we line out a quantitative analysis of the scientific community using basic tool of graph theory; we somehow try to avoid the major personalities of the century (e.g. Volta, Avogadro, Lagrange) to highlight the development of the local communities. The language of the paper is Italian.