Prof. Raffaele Pisano, PhD, HDR

IEMN, Lille University, France

Research Associate

Centre for History of Science and Philosophy - Archives Poincaré, CNRS, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

Honorary Associate (2015-2019)

Unit for History & Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia

Past President and Vice President (2011-2022)
Inter–divisional Teaching Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science

 

Email: raffaele.pisano@univ-lille.fr

 

Research Fields and Disciplines

History of Physics Mathematics

History of Science

Historical Epistemology of Science

Philosophy of Physics

History of Science and Science Education

Nature of Science / Teaching

History of Science & Society

Physics

Mathematics

Logics

 

Qualifications

2016 Qualification Full Professor for Philosophy–Sect. 17, French Education Minister

2016 Qualification Full Professor for Epistemology, history of science and technique–Sect. 72, French Education Minister

2015 HDR–Habilitation à diriger des recherches [Accreditation to Supervise Research], Archive Poincaré, University of Lorraine, France (Topics: History and Philosophy of science).

2013 Qualification for Theoretical Physics and Foundamental Interactions-Sect. A2/02, Italian Education Minister

2013  Qualification for History of Physics, didactic of Physics-Sect. B2/02-FIS/08, Italian Education Minister

2013  Qualification for Logics, History and Philosophy of Secience-Sect. 11/C2. Italian Education Minister

2012 Qualification for Philosophy–Sect. 17, French Education Minister

2011–2013 Head of the Research Centre for Theory and History of Science, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

2010 Qualification for Epistemology, history of science and technique–Sect. 72, French Education Minister

Ph.D., University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

Post–Lauream Physics Mathematics Education School, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

Lauream Physics, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

 

Publications (Selected)

Books (Selected)

1. 2025. A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms, 42, Springer International Publishing, pp.751-772. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-26174-9_31⟩
2. 2025. A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms, 42, Springer International Publishing, pp.185-263. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-26174-9_13⟩
3. 2024. Pisano R, Dhombres J, Radelet de Grave P, Bussotti P. Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024. Text, Transcription, Commentaries , Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/9783031069628
4. 2024. Pisano R (ed) A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms. Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino , Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/9783031261732
5. 2024. Opera Geometrica's Transcription: General Considerations. Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights, Springer, pp.281-282, 978-3-031-06962.
6. Lagrange’s Three Methods and Langrangean in Maxwell’s A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873). Pisano R. (ed). A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas & Mechanisms. Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino, Springer, 2024, 978-3-031-26173-2
7. 2021. Pisano R, Coopersmith J, Peacke M Essay on Machines in General (1786). Lazare Carnot's Mechanics. Vol.1, Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44385-6#aboutBook
8. 2017. Pisano R, Agassi J, Drozdova D (2017) (eds) Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science. Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964, Springer. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319617107
9. 2017. Pisano R, Fichant M, Bussotti P, Oliveira A (eds) The Dialogue between sciences, Philosophy and Engineering. Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646-1716. London College Publications http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/dialogues/?00005
10. 2016. Pisano R, Capecchi D Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century. Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII, Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-9710-8
11. 2014. Gillispie CC, Pisano R Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A Scientific and Filial Relationship. 2nd ed. Springer. Etc. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-8011-7

 

Articles (Selected)

1. 2024. Briefs on Symmetries in the History of Physics–Mathematics: Maxwell (1865–1873), Noether (1915–1918) and Einstein (1905–1926). Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2877 (012101), pp.1-18. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012101⟩
2. 2023. Report of the International Symposium Newton & Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Geneva Edition ([1739–1742]1822) University of Oxford, United Kingdom, September 22–23. British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 2024, 39 (2), pp.162-165. ⟨10.1080/26375451.2024.2381374
3. 2024. Briefs on Buonaiuto Lorini's Fortificationi (1609): Geometry, Machines & Mechanics into Engineering During the Renaissance. Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms, 47, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.257-270, History of Mechanism and Machine Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-54876-5_1
4. 2020. Historical Foundations of Physics & Applied Technology as Dynamic Frameworksin Pre-Service STEM.  (with Philippe Vincent, PhD Student, Lille University, France, Kosta Dolenc University of Maribor, Slovenia, Mateja Ploj-Virtič University of Maribor, Slovenia). Foundations of Science (Springer) doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09662-4
5. 2020. Introduction. Joule’s Bicentenary: History of Science, Foundations and Nature of Science. (with Paulo Mauricio, Lisbon School of Education, Lisbon Polytechnic Institution, Portugal and Philippe Vincent and Philippe Vincent, PhD Student, Lille University, France). Foundations of Science (Springer), in press.
6. 2019. A Tale of Tartaglia’s Libro Sesto & Gionta in Quesiti et Inventioni diverse (1546-1554). Exploring the Historical and Cultural Foundations. Foundations of Science (Springer), Accepted-Forthcoming.
7. 2018. Thermodynamic Foundations of Physical Chemistry. Reversible Processes and Thermal Equilibrium into History (with Abdelkader Anakkar, Lille University, France. Emilio Pellegrino, ISEPP, Portland University, USA. Maxime Nagels, Lille University, France) Foundations of Chemistry (Springer) 20:1-27 https://link.springer.com/journal/10698.
8. 2018. Introduction. In Pisano R (ed) Methods and Cognitive Modelling in the History and Philosophy of Science–&–Education Special Issue Transversal Historiography of Science 5:3-9 (with Philippe Vincent).
9. 2017. Reading Science, Technology and Education: A Tradition Dating back to Science into the History and Historiography. Transversal Historiography of Science 3:77-97 (with Abdelkader Anakkar).
10. 2017. A Development of the Principle of Virtual Laws and its Framework in Lazare Carnot’s Mechanics as Manifest Relationship between Physics and Mathematics. International Journal for Historiography of science 2:166-203.
11. 2017. 1564–2014. Homage to Galileo Galilei. Pisano R, Bussotti P (eds). Homage to Galileo Galilei 1564–2014. Reading Iuvenilia Galilean Works within History and Historical Epistemology of Science. Special Issue Philosophia Scientiae, 21/1.
12. 2016. The Fiction of the Infinitesimals in Newton’s Works: A note on the Metaphoric use of Infinitesimals in Newton (with Paolo Bussotti). Special Issue Isonomia 9:141-160
13. 2016. A Newtonian Tale Details on Notes and Proofs in Geneva Edition of Newton’s Principia (avec Paolo Bussotti). Bulletin–Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 31/3:160-178
14. 2016. What kind of Mathematics in Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli? Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 31:104–111
15. 2015. Historical and Philosophical Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: Machines, Machineries and Perpetual Motion. Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum 3/1:69-87 (with Paolo Bussotti).

 

Others

publications which now are 242 plus 10 in pre-print/forthcoming (international blind peer–reviewed) journal and books (plus pre-print) in History of Science (Physics, Mathematics), History of Applied Sciences and Technology, Nature of Science, History of Physics Mathematics, Intellectual History & Ideas, Western Civilization, Science in Society.

 

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Last updated: 2024-11-29