Julia Ellinghaus
studied history of art, with a focus on iconography and Northern European art of the 17th and 18th century. After her PhD she was research fellow at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel and worked at various museums afterwards. Since 2018 she has been research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (izwt) at the University of Wuppertal, where she works on the project “Iconography of the imagery on scientific instruments of the early modern period.”
Henrique Leitão
is Senior Researcher (Investigator Principal) at the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (ciuhct) at the University of Lisbon, and head of the Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. His research interests are in the history of the exact sciences in the 15th to 17th centuries (mathematics, astronomy, navigation science, physics, etc.), with a special, but not exclusive, focus on Portugal.
Evonne Levy
an art historian, is Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Toronto.
Walter Melion
is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He is author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than twenty-five volumes, and has published more than eighty articles. Melion is series editor of Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History and Lund Humphries’ Northern Lights. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
Andrew Morrall
is professor of early modern art and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. He has written widely on the arts of early modern Northern Europe, the Reformation and the arts, early modern collecting, craft and Kunstkammer, intersections of art and science, theories of ornament, and the
Brent Purkaple
is a historian of science who is currently a visiting professor of history at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His research interests are in the area of early modern science, book history, and the history of science and religion.
Volker Remmert
has been trained as mathematician and historian. He teaches history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. His research interests are in the history of early modern science and in the history of mathematics in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Denis Ribouillault
is a historian of early modern art, landscape and gardens, and a professor at the Université de Montréal. He received prestigious fellowships (Villa Médicis, Villa I Tatti, Dumbarton Oaks) and is the author of numerous articles, edited volumes and a monograph on the villas and gardens of Renaissance Rome (Rome en ses jardins. Paysage et pouvoir au xvie siècle, Paris, inha-cths, 2013). His new monograph The Villa Barbaro at Maser. Science, Philosophy, and the Family in Venetian Renaissance Art is forthcoming with Harvey Miller Publishers, London.