Cartesian Physics and Their Receptions: Scientific and Learned Cultures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004761285)

Rodolfo Garau, PhD (2015), is a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Department of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at Technische Universität Nürnberg. His research focuses on the intellectual history of early modernity, with particular attention to the intersections of science, philosophy, scholarly production, and political, institutional, and religious agency. His publications include the special issue "Cultural Politics of Cosmology: Arguing about the Stars on the Southern Side of the Confessional Divide" (British Journal for the History of Science, 2024, co-edited with Pietro Omodeo) and the forthcoming volume Continental Empiricism (Routledge, with Arnaud Pelletier).

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is professor of historical epistemology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and the director of the UNESCO Chair in Water Heritage and Sustainable Development. He has published widely across the fields of early modern science and critical science studies. He is the author, among others, of Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century (2022) and co-editor of Science and Praxis: Historical Cases of Political Epistemology (2025).