Michele Camerota
Professore Ordinario
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Curriculum Vitae
Michele Camerota
Michele Camerota teaches History of Science at the University of Cagliari. His research interests are mainly focused on the history of mechanics and astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries, with special regard to Galilean science. He is the author of a large intellectual biography of Galileo, published by Salerno Editrice in 2004. Recently, he has been invited to write the entry “Galileo Galilei” for The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. From 1995 to 1996, Camerota was visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte) in Berlin. There, he worked on the electronic edition of a Galilean manuscript (Ms. Gal. 72), a codex holding drafts (texts, drawings and calculations) by the hand of Galileo or of his disciples, mostly pertaining to the theorems on motion published in the Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze. Michele Camerota transcribed the text and edited historical and bibliographical notes. The Electronic Edition of Galileo’s Manuscript 72 has been published on the internet under the title Galileo’s Notes on Motion (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/MAIN/CONTENTS.HTM), and in 1998 it was awarded the prestigious Pirelli International Award. In 1998-1999, Michele Camerota worked in Florence, at the Institute and Museum of History of Science, serving as coordinator of the project Galileo//thek@, a web resource that collects texts, documents, images, bibliographies, chronological and lexicographical indexes concerning Galileo. The project Galileo//thek@ was completed in 2003 (http://moro.imss.fi.it:9000/struts-aig/primoIngresso.do). Since 2004, Camerota has been editor (along with Massimo Bucciantini) of Galilaeana. Journal of Galilaean Studies. He is member of the Commission for the update of the National Edition of Galileo’s Works, and, at present, he is editing (in collaboration with Massimo Bucciantini) the volumes devoted to updating Galileo’s correspondence.
Research Interests
- History of mechanics and astronomy in the Early Modern period.
- Galileo.
- Theology and science in the 17th century.
- Historiography of science.