Natura Incognita

New Perspectives in the History of Science
Herausgegeben:Addabbo, Claudia; Passariello, Alessandra; Vignieri, Valentina; Vincenti, Denise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Natura incognita explores the theme of the unknown nature, offering an interdisciplinary perspective that bridges the history of science with other fields of enquiry, such as the history of philosophy, museology, environmental and animal studies.
Far from exhaustive yet remarkably rich, the volume brings a collection of previously unpublished contributions by early-career scholars that together provide an overview of current research trends in the Italian history of science community. The essays employ diverse methodologies, all rooted in a careful analysis of textual, archival, material, and visual sources from which local and global stories of science emerge. These contributions were originally presented at the Early Career Conference of the Italian Society for the History of Science (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Naples, September 6 8, 2023), and cover a wide range of scientific fields, from botany to zoology, medicine to mental sciences, physics to earth sciences,with a particular focus on the tools and techniques used in the study of nature. The timeframe is broad, taking the reader on a journey from antiquity through the early modern era and well into the 20th century. Overall, the book highlights how the production of new scientific knowledge and practices results from a sustained, long-standing interest in the natural world.
Scholars and students interested in the evolving landscape of the history of science will find this reading an illuminating resource.

Produktdetails

• Trends in the History of Science 1
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Birkhäuser
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032124456
• Artikelnr.: 75918326

Autorenporträt

Claudia Addabbo is a research fellow in History of Science at the University of Padua, with a project on the Italian botanist Achille Forti (1878 1937) and his algological collections housed at the Botanical Museum of Padua. Her research interests include the history of botany, women botanists, natural history collections, intersections between botany and art, and the history of scientific and botanical photography.
Alessandra Passariello is a historian of science, with a PhD in Philosophy and a strong interest in contemporary life sciences and their impact on society. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the history of marine ecology, marine environmental history, and international scientific cooperation for the monitoring and protection of the Mediterranean Sea. She is currently working in the Historical Archives and Marine Library of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples (Italy), where she is in charge of promoting the institute s historical heritage.
Valentina Vignieri is a documentalist at the Museo Galileo Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. She holds a PhD from the University of Durham (UK) and her research interests lie in the history of science during the early modern period, with a particular focus on natural philosophy and astronomy.
Denise Vincenti is a tenure-track assistant professor (Rtd-B) in History of Philosophy at the University of Perugia. Her research mainly focuses on the interplays between philosophy and psychology in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, with a specific interest in topics such as habit, emotion, unconscious, madness, hallucination, and hypnotism.