Notes on the Editors
Senthil Babu D.
is a historian of mathematics based at the French Institute of Pondicherry, in south India, where he is involved in studies concerning Nature, Knowledge and Labour [https://ifpindia.org/research/social-sciences/knowledge]. His research in history of science and mathematics is focused on the nature of practices in particular political economies as a way to understand the relationship between abstraction and alienation in different cultures. He completed his Ph.D. from the Centre for Historial Studies, Jawaharlala Nehru University in New Delhi. He is coordinating a research programme in the Social History of Vernacular Mathematical Practices in Medieval South India in collaboration with Chair, History and Philosophy of Mathematics at ETH, Zurich. His book, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in early modern South India, is recently published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He is a member of the editorial board of the series, Verum Factum: Studies in Political Epistemology [https://verumfactum.it/]. He is a member of the Politically Mathematics Collective in India [https://www.politicallymath.in/].
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
is professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and the director of the UNESCO Chair Water Heritage and Sustainable Development at the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities. Moreover, he is affiliated to the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and is head of the Max Planck Partner Group The Water City (Berlin – Jena – Venice). He has published widely across the fields of early modern science, political epistemology and critical science studies. His current research explores the political epistemology of the Anthropocene and historical hydrosociology. He is the author, among others, of Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019), (with J. Renn) Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (2019), and Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century (2022). He is the director of the series Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World: Sources and Interpretations and a member of the editorial board of the series Verum Factum: Studies in Political Epistemology.
Claus Zittel
is Professor of German literature at the University of Stuttgart and since 2019 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is deputy director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and Co-Director of the Ca’ Foscari Bembo-Lab. He is inter alia the author of Filosofia da Forma. Estudos sobre estética e poética em Nietzsche (2024), Theatrum philosophicum. Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft (2009), Das ästhetische Kalkül von Friedrich Nietzsches ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ (2000, 2012), and Selbstaufhebungsfiguren bei Nietzsche (1995), editor of René Descartes, Les Météores/Die Meteore (2006), Paul Adler, Absolute Prosa (2018); Max Brod/Felix Weltsch: Anschauung und Begriff (2018). He has co-edited some 40 volumes, including, most recently, (with G. Bertram, N. Büttner) Gateways to the Book. Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe, Intersections (2021).