
Matteo Valleriani
Research Group Leader (Since 1998)
Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor for Special Appointment, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Matteo Valleriani is Research Group Leader in Department I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, honorary professor at the Technische Universität of Berlin, and Professor by Special Appointments at the University of Tel Aviv. He investigates the relation between diffusion processes of scientific, practical, and technological knowledge and their economic and political preconditions. His research focuses on the Hellenistic period, the late Middle Ages, and the early modern period. Among his principal research endeavors, he leads the project “The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe,” which investigates the evolution of the cosmological knowledge system and the establishment of a shared scientific identity in Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. A further focus of his research is on the epistemic function of visual material in the framework of knowledge transformation.
Matteo Valleriani is an expert in the framework of Digital Humanities and his current research embeds approaches and techniques of Complex System Theory as well as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence technology within the historical studies.
Projects
Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
BIFOLD - BZML
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 Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity in Europe
Leonardos intellektueller Kosmos in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 11. Mai bis 17. Juli 2021
Convivencia. Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)
Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, May 11 to July 17, 2021
Pratolino: The History of Science in a Garden
The Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
The Matrix and Structures of Practical Knowledge
Selected Publications
Valleriani, Matteo, Giulia Giannini, and Enrico Giannetto, eds. (2023). Scientific Visual Representations in History. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11317-8.
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Valleriani, Matteo, Florian Kräutli, Daan Lockhorst, and Noga Shlomi (2023). “Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology.” In Scientific Visual Representations in History, ed. M. Valleriani, G. Giannini,…
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Valleriani, Matteo, Malte Vogl, Hassan El-Hajj, and Kim Pham (2022). “The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships.” Histories 2 (4): 466–503. https:/…
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Büttner, Jochen, Julius Martinetz, Hassan El-Hajj, and Matteo Valleriani (2022). “CorDeep and the Sacrobosco Dataset: Detection of Visual Elements in Historical Documents.” Journal of Imaging 8 (10, Article 285). https://doi.org/10.3390…
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