An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance: Part I: Cultural & Fundamental Frameworks

Raffaele Pisano

Aug 2025 · Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science Book 65 · Springer Nature

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This first of a two-part volume (Book I) deals with a unit intellectual cultural history of science in the Renaissance within fundamental frameworks. An intellectual cultural history of science examines how human and their intellectual experiences have been expressed in, and emerged by scientific ideas. Taking into account the excellence of the essays – which cover several branches and disciplines in history and epistemology of science – this book also provides perspectives on the enduring influence of a historiographical tradition, e.g., the emergence of fundamental works on mathematics and geometry, household’s principal functions, food and culture, clock instrumentation, surgery as a practical branch of medicine. It describes the ways it differently accounted for variation in unlike countries and consequently how its results remain, still nowadays, a debated question, as well as due to constraints preventing an extensive exploration of its remarkable historiography. This volume gathers selected and double peer review contributions by historians of physics/mathematics/science as new fundamental perceptions in the history of science during the Renaissance, ranging across several fields of science within its intellectual and cultural history. The book is an accessible avenue to understanding cultural issues to develop scientific ideas by leading authorities who offer much-needed historical insights into the field of intellectual and fundamental history of science. It provides an absorbing and revealing read for historians, philosophers and scientists alike.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Pisano, MSc, SICSI, Ph.D, HDR-Habilis, is a physicist and historian of physics and mathematics. He is full professor, awarded-rank 1st Class, of the Physics, History of Physics/Mathematics, and other disciplines at the University of Lille, where he is: Head of History of Physics and Applied Science & Technologies Team (HOPAST), Elected Member of the several Steering Faculty Boards, such as Physics Department, Institute Eric Weil, Council Libraries & Learning Center, Digital Library Expert Committee, etc. Since 2000s, he was elected for many national and international officers responsibilities such as Italian Ministerial/Association for Physics Teaching (2005-2008), PR at the the European Society for the History of Science (2006-2012), V-President and then President (2011-2021) of the IDTC-Inter-divisional Teaching Commission (DLMPST/DHST/IUHPST), etc. Recently, elected Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (2024-), International Network-Member at Roma La Sapienza University (2022-), etc. He has been Visiting Professor at the HPS School, University of Sydney (Australia), Visiting Professor at the CPNSS, London School of Economics (UK), etc. His Works (monograph books, editor books, papers and invited talks) on the History of Mathematics and Physics, Science & technology etc. are numerous (400+). Publications (250+).

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