Curricula

Commentators

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Massimo Bucciantini

Massimo Bucciantini is a professor of the History of Science at the University of Siena. He is the co-editor (with M. Camerota) of Galilaeana: Journal of Galilaeana Studies, the first issue of which was released in June 2004. He is the author of several essays on 17th-century astronomy and philosophy; among his recent publications: Celebration and Conservation: the Galilean Collection of the National Library of Florence, in M. Hunter (ed.), Archives of the Scientific Revolution, Rochester 1996; Nuova cosmologia e teologia, in J. Montesinos, C. Solis (eds.), Largo campo di filosofare. Eurosymposium Galileo 2001, La Orotava 2001; Contro Galileo: alle origini dell’"affaire", Florence 1995; Galileo e Keplero. Filosofia, cosmologia e teologia nell'Età della Controriforma, Turin 2003.

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Michele Camerota

Michele Camerota is a professor of the History of Science at the University of Cagliari. His research has focused on the history of mechanics and astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries, with special regard to Galilean science. He is the co-editor (with M. Bucciantini) of Galilaeana: Journal of Galilean Studies. Among his recent publications: Galileo and Pisan Aristotelianism, in "Early Science and Medicine", V, 2000, 4 (with M. Helbing); All'alba della scienza galileiana. Michel Varro e il suo "De motu tractatus", Cagliari 2000 (with M. Helbing); Galileo e il Parnaso Tychonico, Florence 2000 (with O. Besomi); Galileo Galilei e la cultura scientifica nell’età della Controriforma, Rome 2004.

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Ofer Gal

Ofer Gal received his Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, on “Producing Knowledge: Robert Hooke”. Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute (MIT) in 2003, he is a lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Sydney. He is the author of Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestial Motions of the Planets, Dordrecht 2002, and many articles and book chapters.

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Romano Gatto

Romano Gatto teaches History of Mathematics at the University of Basilicata. The subjects of his research are: Neapolitan mathematical Cartesianism; Jesuits and mathematics; Galileo and mechanics; and some aspects of 19th-century Italian mathematics. He is the author of about 50 publications, which include: Tra scienza e immaginazione. Le matematiche presso il Collegio gesuitico napoletano (1552-1670 ca.), Florence 1994; transcription, introduction and notes in P. Cossali, Storia del caso irriducibile, “Memorie dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti”, 1996; La meccanica a Napoli ai tempi di Galileo, appendix to De Gli Elementi Mechanici di Colantonio Stigliola e le inedite Mechaniche mie di Davide Imperiali, Napoli 1996; Storia di una “anomalia”. Le facoltà di Scienze dell’Università di Napoli tra l’unità d’Italia e la riforma Gentile. 1860-1923, Naples 2000; critical edition of G. Galilei, Le Mecaniche, Florence 2002.

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Christoph Lüthy

Christoph Lüthy has studied philosophy and literature at Oxford, physics in Basel, and history of science at Harvard. A research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and docent of the history of philosophy and of science at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), he works on Renaissance and early modern theories of matter, the history of microscopy and the evolution of scientific imagery. He is also the editor of Early Science and Medicine.

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Víctor Navarro-Brotóns

Víctor Navarro-Brotóns is a professor of the History of Science at the University of Valencia (Spain). He has published extensively on the history of scientific activity in Spain. His recent publications include Matemáticas, cosmologia y humanismo en la España del siglo XVI, Valencia 1988; Tradition and Scientific Change in Early Modern Spain: The Role of the Jesuits, in M. Feingold (ed.), Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters, Cambridge 2003; Jerónimo Muñoz: Introducción a la Astronomía y la Geografía (critical edition and manuscript study, 2004); Historia de la ciencia (in collaboration, 2004).

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Sophie Roux

Sophie Roux is maître de conférences of Modern Philosophy at the Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble II). Her research focuses on early modern natural philosophy and science. She has published papers on 17th-century mechanics, corpuscularian theories of matter, epistemology of physics and the reception of Cartesianism in France. She is currently working with Egidio Festa on a critical edition, French translation and commentary of Galileo’s Le Mecaniche.

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Geert Vanpaemel

Geert Vanpaemel is a professor of the History of Science at the University of Leuven (Belgium). His research interests concern the history of science in Belgium and the Netherlands since 1500, with particular emphasis on the 17th and 19th centuries. He has published works on the history of universities, Cartesianism, Jesuit scientists, Darwinism and race science. He is the editor of the two-volume Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen in België 815-2000, Brussels 2001.

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Christiane Vilain

Christiane Vilain has been a professor at the Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot since 1970, where she teaches Physics and History of Optics and Mechanics. First a physicist working on general relativity, she began to study history and epistemology of physics in 1985 and received her Ph.D. in 1993 with a thesis on “Christiaan Huygens and Relative Motion”, published in 1996 (Paris). Her research is now focused on the history of mechanics. She defended her habilitation in 2003 in Paris.