Notes on the Contributors
Alberto Bardi
is an Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy.
Mourtaza Chopra
currently a post-doctoral fellow attached to Cohn Institute, in Tel Aviv University. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the mathematization of Assyro- Babylonian astronomy. His research focuses on history of mathematics in their relation to other activities and practices, in particular in antiquity.
Philippe Debroise
currently teacher of Philosophy in High School (Reims) and associate member of SPHERE – Université Paris Cité since 2019. His area of expertise is the medieval mathematical science of the latitudes of forms, in particular the geometric model Nicole Oresme developed for it. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he studied more specifically the relation between this new mathematical science and the marvels of art and nature it was supposed to explain. His research interests are mainly the history of the mathematization of intensive phenomena, in relation with the cultural and practical context of these theorizations. Author of Mathématiques des intensités, Merveilles de la Nature – Etude sur le le Tractatus de configurationibus de Nicole Oresme (Garnier Classiques, to be published).
Giulio Gisondi
is a researcher in history of philosophy at the University Federico II of Naples. He has a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University and of the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). Already Fellow of the Italian Institute for Historical Studies and of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, he has also been postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Udine. His research interests concern political philosophy, history of philosophy of Humanism, and of Renaissance, and Early Modern philosophies. He has published articles and monographs on Niccolò Machiavelli, Giordano Bruno and Giambattista Vico.
Gerardo Ienna
is tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at the department of Communication and Social Research at Sapienza University of Rome. He was recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (MISHA, Horizon 2020; GA: 101026146) at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Verona, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and collaborated with the Free University of Bolzano. He spent various periods of study and research abroad at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Maryland at College Park (Washington, D.C.) and the University of Manchester. He published various articles and essays devoted to Marxist historiography of science, Science and Technology Studies, history of science diplomacy, radical science movements etc. He also recently published two monographs devoted to reconstructing debates in the field of historical epistemology.
Jonathan Molinari
received his Ph.D. in ‘History of Ideas. Philosophy and Science’ at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences. From 2017 to 2023 he was Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Brazil. Currently he is adjunct professor of philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University Venice and professor of “Humanism in the Digital Age” at H-Farm College, Treviso, Italy. He has published two monographs (Libertà e Discordia. Pletone, Bessarione, Pico della Mirandola, Il Mulino, Bologna 2015 and L’eroismo tragico di Adamo. L’umanesimo di Pico della Mirandola, 1088 University Press, Bologna 2018). He translated and edited the Italian edition of Vladimir Safatle’s book Il circuito degli affetti. Corpi politici, abbandono e il fine dell’individuo (Ed. Aracne, 2021). His research focuses on philosophical and anthropological themes between the 15th and 16th centuries and their outcomes in the constitution of a modern conception of man and societies, with particular attention to the subject of freedom and discretion of action. Since 2020 he has participated in the organization of contemporary art exhibitions, collaborating with the Marignana Arte gallery and Spazio Berlendis in Venice. In 2022 he was awarded the National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of history of philosophy.
Damian Moosbrugger
has gained a master’s degree both in History and Philosophy of Knowledge as well as Interdisciplinary Sciences from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He is now working there as a Ph.D. student. His doctoral project is committed to the analysis of the impact that German-speaking technical practitioners, such as clock- and instrument-makers, goldsmiths or architects, exerted on mathematics in Early Modernity. His academic research interests are centred around the interactions between science, technology and society.
Razieh S. Mousavi
is a historian of science, affiliated as a postdoctoral fellow with the ERC Consolidator Grant SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE (GA: 101044437) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She is also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. in 2023 from Humboldt University with a dissertation on the history of astronomy in the context of the literary and intellectual dynamics of the ninth-century Islamicate world.
Marco Storni
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. After completing his Ph.D. at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris and the University of Bologna, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at the University of Neuchâtel. He is the author of Maupertuis: Le philosophe, l’académicien, le polémiste (Paris: 2022; Prize of the Fondation Del Duca-Institut de France 2023) and the co-editor of Early Modern Fire: Science, Technology, and the Urban Space (with G. Bernasconi; Leiden – Boston: 2024).
Sebastiano Trevisani
holds a Ph.D. in Applied Earth Sciences, and since July 2018 is Associate Professor in Applied Geology at the University Iuav of Venice, where his teaching activity is related to the courses of “Environmental Geology” and “Applied Geology”. His main research activities are related to geocomputational approaches for the analysis of geoenvironmental systems, with a special focus on geosphere-anthroposphere interlinked dynamics (such as hydrogeology, natural hazards, geoengineering issues in urbanized contexts, geomorphometry, and sustainability). His expertise is in geostatistics and geomorphometry applied to geoenvironmental analysis. From November 2010 to June 2018, he was a researcher in Applied Geology at the Department of Architecture Construction and Conservation (DACC) of the University Iuav of Venice (Venice, Italy). He has also worked for various research institutes, including (from 2007 to 2010) the Research Institute for the Hydrogeological Protection (IRPI) of Padova (Italy), the National Council of Research (CNR), and (from 2006 to 2007) the National Institutes of Applied Oceanography and Geophysics of Trieste (Italy) (OGS)