Michael Bycroft
is Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick. He is co-editor, with Sven Dupré, of Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Knowledge, and Global Trade, 1450–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is writing a monograph on the role of precious stones in the physical sciences in early modern Europe. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2013 before taking up postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the University of Warwick.
Luís Miguel Carolino
is an assistant professor of history at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), where he is also a researcher affiliated with CIES. His main research interests concern history of science and its institutions, history of astronomy and cosmology, and social, political, and cultural relations of science, areas in which he has published extensively.
Dalia Deias
received her training in astronomy and history of science at the University of Bologna and the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris. Her doctoral thesis ‘Inventer l’Observatoire: sciences et politique sous Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712)’ reexamines the foundation of the Paris Observatory during the Grand Siècle as the result of Louis XIV’s imperialistic ambitions and the transfer of observational practices from Bologna by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Her research topics, which have led to several publications in French and in English, include early modern correspondances, the first generation of royal academicians during the Grand Siècle, catholic astronomers, places and practices of observation of the sky in 16th to 18th century Europe and women in observatories.
Mordechai Feingold
is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.
is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). She is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research project TACITROOTS – The Accademia del Cimento in Florence: tracing the roots of the European scientific enterprise (2019–2024). She worked at the Centre Koyré in Paris and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her research interests focus on the history of experimentation, and on cultural, political and social studies of science in Early Modern Europe.
Vera Keller
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. In Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725 (Cambridge, 2015), she reconsidered the Scientific Revolution from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Her second book, now under review, is The Interlopers: Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633) and early Stuart Science on the World Stage. Her current book project explores Johann Daniel Major’s transformation of the Kunstkammer into an academic research institution.
Francois Mallet
is a lecturer in English literature in Nice (French CPGE). Previous work includes research into the discourse of natural history in the first half of the seventeenth century, with particular focus on the redefinition of genre and rhetoric in botanical writing as a reflection of changing identities and social dynamics.
Noah Moxham
is a postdoctoral researcher in the history of science at the University of Kent. His recent research focuses on the histories of scientific institutions and cultures of communication in early modern Britain and Europe. He has published widely on these topics, and is the co-author of a forthcoming study of the Philosophical Transactions, the world’s first scientific periodical, and the editor, with Joad Raymond, of News Networks in Early Modern Europe (2016). He is currently part of a Leverhulme Trust project exploring the sites, spaces, and cultures of science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London (Metropolitan Science).
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research endeavour ‘Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe’ (Horizon
Jürgen Renn
is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and currently serves as Chair of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society. His research projects focus on long-term developments of knowledge while taking into account processes of globalization. His research projects have dealt with the historical development of mechanics from antiquity until the 20th century. In this context he also investigates the origins of mechanics in China, the transformation of ancient knowledge and the exchange of knowledge between Europe and China in the early modern period. A main focus of Renn’s research is the history of modern physics, investigating the origin and development of general theory of relativity, and of quantum theory in particular. Recently, he has taken on the challenges of the Anthropocene in investigating the history of knowledge and science.
Aurélien Ruellet
is lecturer in early-modern History at Le Mans Université. He is the author of La Maison de Salomon: histoire du patronage scientifique et technique en France et en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016). His current research focuses on the cultural and social history of ‘short memories’ from the Renaissance until the modern age, on the way they were medicalized or triggered attempts at educational reform.
Florian Schmaltz
is the Research Program Coordinator of the Research Program History of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institut for the History of Science (Berlin). He is historian of contemporary history and history of science. In his research he focuses on the historical epistemology of scientific institutions. He investigates the history of the relations between science, the military, and industry in case studies on chemical warfare research and aeronautical research. Recent publications include Sören Flachowsky, Rüdiger Hachtmann, and Florian Schmaltz (eds.): Ressourcenmobilisierung. Wissenschaftspolitik
Stéphane Van Damme
is professor in history of science at the European University Institute. Specialist of early modern French History of science, his recent publications include A toutes voiles vers la vérité. Une autre histoire de la philosophie au temps des Lumières (Le Seuil, 2014) and he co-edited L’histoire des sciences et des savoirs de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Le Seuil, 2015); with Hanna Hodacs and Kenneth Nyberg, eds., Linnaeus, Natural History and the circulation of Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018).