Matteo Valleriani
Research Group Leader (Since 1998)
Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor by Special Appointment at the Tel Aviv University
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Matteo Valleriani is Research Group Leader in Dept. I, Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Professor for Special Appointments at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and Principal Investigator of the Project “Images and Configurations in Corpora of University Textbooks” at the Berlin Center for Machine Learning.
In his research, he investigates processes of 1) emergence of scientific knowledge in relation to its practical, social, and institutional dimensions, and 2) homogenization of scientific knowledge in the framework of Cultural Heritage Studies.
Centering on cosmological knowledge, Matteo Valleriani’s current major research project is concerned with the evolution of the scientific knowledge system and with the establishment of a shared scientific identity in Europe in the period between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the frame of this project he also co-develops and implements multi-layered network models (sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
A further focus of his research is on the epistemic function of visual material in scientific research and in the framework of processes of knowledge transformation. Within this context he co-develops and applies machine learning technologies.
As leader of the working group “The Structures of Practical Knowledge” he investigated the epistemic mechanisms that integrated practical knowledge and its codification into abstract structures of scientific knowledge during the early modern period (The Structures of Practical Knowledge, Springer Nature, 2017).
His major projects have been dedicated to Galileo’s science (Galileo Engineer, Springer, 2010) and to Nicolò Tartaglia’s ballistics (Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The “Nova Scientia” of Nicolò Tartaglia. A New Edition, Edition Open Access, 2013). Affiliated to the Excellence Cluster Topoi, he investigated the emergence of hydromechanics in classical antiquity (Hydrostatics and Pneumatics in Antiquity, in G. L. Irby (ed.), A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Matteo Valleriani worked on the processes of the appropriation of ancient science during the early modern period. He edited an issue of Nuncius (Appropriation and Transformation of Ancient Science, Nuncius, 29, 2014), which contains his final contribution to the study of the appropriation of ancient pneumatics through early modern garden technology (Ancient Pneumatics Transformed During the Early Modern Period, Nuncius, 29, 2014, 127–174: also http://pratolino.mpiwg- berlin.mpg.de).
Projects
Berlin Center for Machine Learning (BZML)
Convivencia. Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)
Modeling Data and Analyzing Diffusion Using Early Modern Cosmological Treatises
Networks, Network Science, and Knowledge Graphs
Open Access to Publications, Sources, and Research Data
The Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity in Europe
Selected Publications
Feldhay, R., Renn, J., Schemmel, M., & Valleriani, M. (Eds.). (2018). Emergence and expansion of preclassical mechanics. Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90345-3.
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Feldhay, R., Renn, J., Schemmel, M., & Valleriani, M. (2018). Introduction. In R. Feldhay, J. Renn, M. Schemmel, & M. Valleriani (Eds.), Emergence and expansion of preclassical mechanics (pp. IX-XIII). Dordrecht: Springer.
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Valleriani, M. (2017). Israel and Europe: building bridges via the history of science. Centaurus, 59(1-2), 160-165. doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12145.
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Valleriani, M. (2018). Review of: Tomory, Leslie: The history of the London water industry, 1580–1820. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2017. Isis, 109(4), 838-839. doi:10.1086/701283.
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Digital Resources
Bookshelf
Events
Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Institute’s Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
3rd International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy - Grenoble
Annual Meeting of the American History of Science Society, San Diego
Gardening and Knowledge. Landscape Design and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period - University of Hannover
Tintenfass und Teleskop - Villa Vigoni, Italy
My Anthropocene - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin. Forschungscolloquium
Mathematical Life in the Dutch Republic - The Lorentz Center. Leiden, The Netherlands
Fabrique et usage du jardin du XIVe au XVIIe siècle. Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France
Research Colloquium organized by Klaus Hentschel - Universität Stuttgart, Dept. for History of Sicnce and Technology
Research Colloquium organized by Friedrich Steinle - Technische Universität, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Berlin
Annual Meeting of the German Society for the History of Science (Ursula Klein's Panel) - Hannover
BB Lecture organized by Kristie Macrakis - Dept. of History of Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Evening lecture organized by Mario Biagioli - Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University
"Garden Panel" organized by K. Park - Dept. of History of Science of Harvard University
Colloquium Dept. II (Lorraine Daston) - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
La cultura delle acque dal Medioevo al Rinascimento - Centro Leon Battista Alberti, Mantova (Italy)
Ludi Naturae. Transformations of an Ancient Topos in Science and Art - Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
War in Words - Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Place: Technische Universität, Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni, 135
Place: Technische Universität, Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni, 135
Internationa Summer School for the History of Science, Vinci (Italy)
Place: Technische Universität, Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni, 135