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Prof. Raffaele
Pisano, Ph.D, HDR
Physicist, Full
Professor in History of Physics | History of Science
| Intellectual History of Science | History of
Physics/Mathematics | Electricity
Head of History
of Physics and Applied Science & Technologies
Team (HOPAST)
IEMN, Department
of Physics, Institute of Electronics,
Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
Lille University
| UMR CNRS 8520 | Room 149 | https://www.iemn.fr ]
Cité
scientifique | Avenue Poincaré CS 60069 | 59652
Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, FRANCE
Office: +33 3
20.19.7971 | raffaele.pisano @ univ-lille.fr |
Homepage: https://pro.univ-lille.fr/raffaele-pisano
2023- Elected
Member of the Steering Board of the Institute Eric
Weil, University of Lille, France
2022- Elected
Member/Representative of the Faculty of Science and
Technology at the Council Libraries & Learning
Center
2011-2023
Elected V-President and President of the
IDTC-Inter-divisional Teaching Commission
(DLMPST/DHST/IUHPST)
2019. Visiting
Professor, HPS School, University of Sydney,
Australia | 2018. Visiting Professor, CPNSS, London
School of Economics, UK
Past PR-Officer
(2006-2012) The European Society for the History of
Science
Linus Pauling
Memorial Lecture: "The Breaking of a Paradigm:
Mechanics to Thermodynamics" (2017, Portland
University, USA)
3rd
International Summer School for Sciences, HPS,
Applied Science & Technology, Education http://summerschoollille2019.historyofscience.it/en
Recent Books
2024.
Pisano R, Dhombres J, Radelet de Grave P, Bussotti
P. Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera
Geometrica 1644–2024. Text, Transcription,
Commentaries, Springer, forthcoming
2023.
Pisano R (ed) A History of Physics:
Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms. Essays in Honor
of Salvo D'Agostino, Springer, forthcoming
2021.
Pisano R, Coopersmith J, Peacke M Essay on
Machines in General (1786). Lazare Carnot's
Mechanics. Vol.1, Springer
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.
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
2014. Gillispie
CC, Pisano R Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A
Scientific and Filial Relationship. 2nd ed.
Springer.
"Thought does
not respect national frontiers. Yet scientific ideas
are far from stateless citizens". (Thackray, A.
1970. Atoms and Powers. Cambridge MA: The Harvard
Univ. Press, p. 4, line 4).
"Audentes
fortuna iuvat" (Vergilius, Æneis, X, 284) | "Per aspera ad
astra" (Cicero, De natura deorum III, 40; Vergilius,
Æneis, IX, 641; Seneca, Hercules furens, II,
437-441)