Curriculum

My research focuses on the history of science and scientific popularisation, with particular reference to the 18th and 19th centuries. I am above all interested in investigating how the moment of communication (from expert to expert and from expert to ‘layman’) is ceaselessly intertwined with the process of the constitution of knowledge itself. I attach great importance to the use of different types of sources, starting with the more classical ones (edited and manuscript texts, correspondence, gazettes, scientific periodicals and journals, prints) and ending with others that are more unusual and mostly ignored so far by the historiography of science, such as card games and board games with a scientific theme.
My research topics are developed along three main nuclei, which have emerged over the years, also in relation to the international projects I have been part of:
1.Cometary motions, communication of risk and probability in 18th century France. This topic was also at the heart of my PhD Dissertation (University of Trento, 2016) and of my first monograph (Roma, Carocci, 2019).
2.Science-themed educational games in Georgian and Victorian London. This research was funded by the Labex Hastec Post-doc Scholarship (IHMC, Paris).
3.Immersive techniques and the circulation of knowledge (Britain and France, 1650-1900). The topic was at first developed within the ERC Project AN-ICON (Department of Philosophy - University of Milan; PI prof. Andrea Pinotti).