1. Research for this chapter was made possible with the support of OTKA NK 81948 postdoctoral grant at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). I also wholeheartedly thank the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien (Innsbruck) for its backing. On Toaldo, see Giampiero Bozzolato, Giuseppe Toaldo. Uno scienziato europeo nel settecento veneto (Padua: Ed. 1+1, 1984);
2. and Luisa Pigatto, ed., Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo tempo nel bicentenario della morte: Scienze e lumi tra Veneto e Europa. Atti del convegno (Padova, 10–13 novembre 1997) (Cittadella: Bertoncello, 2000).
3. On Bailly (with a bibliography of his works), see Edwin Burrows Smith, “Jean-Sylvain Bailly: Astronomer, Mystic, Revolutionary, 1736–1793,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s., 44 (1954): 427–538.
4. Cf. the case of the botanist Prospero Alpino, mentioned as an example by Toaldo. Prospero Alpino, Medicina Aegyptiorum (Leiden, 1745), *2r–4v. Giuseppe Ongaro, “Contributi alla biografia di Prospero Alpini,” Acta Medicae Historiae Patavina 8–9 (1961–62/1962–63): 79–168.
5. See Luisa Pigatto, “Tycho Brahe and the Republic of Venice: A Failed Project,” in Tycho Brahe and Prague: Crossroads of European Science: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the History of Science in the Rudolphine Period, Prague, 22–25 October 2001, ed. John Robert Christianson, Alena Hadravová, Petr Hadrava, and Martin Šolc (Frankfurt: H. Deutsch, 2002), 187–202.