Lynceorum historia: le 'schede lincee' di Martin Fogel, edited by Michele Camerota, Alessandro Ottaviani, and Oreste Trabucco, Roma, Bardi edizioni editore commerciale, 2021

Lynceorum Historia: Le ‘Schede Lincee’ di Martin Fogel is a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of the Lyncean Academy (Accademia dei Lincei) and its reception in Europe during the second half of the seventeenth century. Compiled between 1663 and 1675 by the German scholar and physician Martin Fogel (1632–1675), it was intended to be a comprehensive history of the renowned Roman scientific institution, which boasted among its members personalities such as Giambattista Della Porta and Galileo Galilei. Fogel’s efforts were deeply influenced by his mentor, Joachim Jungius, a prominent Lutheran reformer of knowledge, who had shown interest in the Roman academy during his studies in Padua, where, in 1619, he graduated in medicine. Despite Fogel’s other publications, including a biography of his teacher titled Historia Vitae et Mortis Joachimi Jungi (1658), Fogel never sent his Lynceorum historia to the press. Tragedy struck in 1675 when Fogel died at the young age of 41. Consequently, his carefully prepared work remained unpublished. What endures is the wealth of information gathered by Fogel, presented here in the form of extensive excerpts. The publication is a part of the PRIN 2015 project, titled ‘Galileo’s Science and Myth in Europe between the 17th and 19th Centuries’, and is published by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in a series dedicated to the history of the academy.