Luca Tonetti
Luca Tonetti is Assistant Professor of History of Science (Rtda) at the University of Padua, and Book Review Editor of Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science (Brill).
In May 2020-February 2023 he was Research fellow at the University of Bologna.
In May-July 2019 he was Research fellow (Stipendiaten) at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. From October 2018 to March 2019 he joined the Centre d’études supérieurs de la Renaissance (CESR), University of Tours, as a postdoctoral researcher in History of medicine.
His PhD dissertation (Sapienza University of Rome, 2017) dealt with Giorgio Baglivi’s De praxi medica (1696) and the seventeenth-century debate on medical practice. He received his BA and MA degrees in History and Philosophy of science from Sapienza University of Rome.
His research interests concern: 17th and 18th century history of science and medicine, with a particular focus on Italy; the history of anatomy and physiology, and more generally philosophy of science.
He is member of the Italian Society for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Italian Society of the History of Science, and the European Society for the History of Science. In 2017, he has awarded the Santorio Fellowship in Medical Humanities and Science and he is now associate member of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
In 2018, he graduated in archival science at the Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration of the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, and in library science at the Vatican School of Library Science of the Vatican Library.
In May 2020-February 2023 he was Research fellow at the University of Bologna.
In May-July 2019 he was Research fellow (Stipendiaten) at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. From October 2018 to March 2019 he joined the Centre d’études supérieurs de la Renaissance (CESR), University of Tours, as a postdoctoral researcher in History of medicine.
His PhD dissertation (Sapienza University of Rome, 2017) dealt with Giorgio Baglivi’s De praxi medica (1696) and the seventeenth-century debate on medical practice. He received his BA and MA degrees in History and Philosophy of science from Sapienza University of Rome.
His research interests concern: 17th and 18th century history of science and medicine, with a particular focus on Italy; the history of anatomy and physiology, and more generally philosophy of science.
He is member of the Italian Society for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Italian Society of the History of Science, and the European Society for the History of Science. In 2017, he has awarded the Santorio Fellowship in Medical Humanities and Science and he is now associate member of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR).
In 2018, he graduated in archival science at the Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration of the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, and in library science at the Vatican School of Library Science of the Vatican Library.
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Wired Bodies. New Perspectives on the Machine-Organism Analogy provides the reader with some of the latest perspectives on this vast debate, addressing three major topics:1) the development of a ‘mechanistic’ framework in medicine and biology; 2) the methodological issues underlying the use of ‘simulation’ in cognitive science; 3) the interaction between humans and machines according to 20th-century epistemology.
Papers by Luca Tonetti
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/4/452
Wired Bodies. New Perspectives on the Machine-Organism Analogy provides the reader with some of the latest perspectives on this vast debate, addressing three major topics:1) the development of a ‘mechanistic’ framework in medicine and biology; 2) the methodological issues underlying the use of ‘simulation’ in cognitive science; 3) the interaction between humans and machines according to 20th-century epistemology.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/4/452
Le Jardin botanique de Padoue conserve une grande collection de galles (ou cécidies), rassemblées par le naturaliste Alessandro Trotter entre 1890 et 1940. Cet herbier reste aujourd'hui en attente de catalogage. Il est l'expression tangible du travail de recherche de Trotter, puisque les exemplaires ont servi de base à ses études, mais il est également la matérialisation d'un réseau scientifique interdisciplinaire (botanistes, mycologues et entomologistes) et international qui a contribué au développement de la « cécidiologie », la science des galles, entre le XIXe et le XXe siècle, grâce à la fondation de la revue Marcellia (1902-1976).
Nous présenterons la formation, les modes de conservation de la collection et sa valorisation actuelle.
2e partie: Luca Tonetti
L'acte de donation signé en 1954, par lequel la Collection de Trotter a été officiellement transférée à l'Institut botanique de l'Université de Padoue, comprenait non seulement l'herbier, mais aussi la « bibliothèque cécidiologique », un mélange spécialisé de publications scientifiques rassemblées au cours de décennies de recherche, pour que les deux, herbier et bibliothèque, favorisent l'essor des études de cécidologie à Padoue.
Pour Trotter, l'herbier et la bibliothèque faisaient partie d'un tout indissociable. Mais ce lien entre les deux a-t-il été respecté ? En quoi les transformations qui ont concerné l'Institut botanique ont-elles affecté l'unité de la collection ?
Kick-Off Meeting of the Italian National Research Project "Diet-Ethics. How Early Modern Ideas Shaped European Food Ethics"
In questo intervento, verrà brevemente illustrata la teoria fibrillare di Baglivi e la sua applicazione in ambito clinico, nel segno di questo tentativo di sintesi tra ippocratismo e meccanicismo.
In questo breve intervento avremo modo di ricostruire la proposta bagliviana e di contestualizzarla alla luce delle conoscenze e delle principali problematiche della medicina sei-settecentesca.
Discute con l’autore: David Salomoni
Modera: Claudia Addabbo
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Percorsi Evolutivi (2016) e Wired Bodies (2017) si muovono all’interno di questo itinerario con un excursus tra domande e risposte tra passato e presente. L’originalità dei due libri è data dalla scelta di far parlare tra loro ricerche di giovani studiosi. Una contaminazione tra settori solo apparentemente disomogenei e una libertà d’espressione rara nel panorama accademico italiano.
In un caso, siamo situati entro il processo di ampliamento dell’evoluzionismo darwiniano oggi in corso. E’ indispensabile infatti affrontare una trama di interrogativi biologici nuovi che implicano una revisione del concetto stesso di causalità, tra sviluppo, ecologia, medicina e neuroscienze.
Nell’altro, si riattraversano le potenti analogie all’opera tra macchina e organismo. Ancora oggi infatti l’interazione tra macchina e organismo pone interessanti sfide epistemologiche. Qual’è il reale oggetto dell’analogia? Gli organismi come un tutto, le loro parti o piuttosto le funzioni corporee oppure quelle mentali? Come si articola oggi l’interazione tra umani e macchine?
Dai due libri emerge la pervietà dei confini tra scienza e filosofia: per affrontare domande scientifiche abbiamo bisogno di adottare una prospettiva storico-filosofica, così come per riformulare problemi classici della filosofia non possiamo non dialogare con le scienze del presente.