Massimo Mazzotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimo Mazzotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzotti |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZOTTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of the History of Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Algorithmic Modernity: Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000
Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason , by Charles W.J. Withers
"Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason, by Charles W.J. Withers." Canadian Journal of History, 45(1), pp. 193–194
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes
Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology (review)
Reviewed by: Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology Massimo Mazzotti (bio) Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology. By Adam Lucas . Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xx+439. $197. Watermills and windmills were often the most sophisticated technological artifacts to be found in premodern communities. They were also at the center of most communities' social and economic life. Until quite recently, these two aspects of …
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (review)
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. By Giuliano Pancaldi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+381. $35
Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, reformers in southern Europe sought to revitalize the political economy of the region. As Massimo Mazzotti puts it in "Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe," they believed that "political and social advancement . . . would follow naturally from economic liberalization and the introduction of new technologies." Olive oil production dominated commercial activity ar…
Newton for ladies: Gentility, gender and radical culture
Francesco Algarotti's Newtonianism for Ladies (1737), a series of lively dialogues on optics, was a landmark in the popularization of Newtonian philosophy. In this essay I shall explore Algarotti's sociocultural world, his aims and ambitions, and the meaning he attached to his own work. In particular I shall focus on Algarotti's self-promotional strategies, his deployment of gendered images and his use of popular philosophy within the broader cul…
Le savoir de l'ingénieur: Mathématiques et politique à Naples sous les Bourbons
Mazzotti Massimo. Le savoir de l'ingénieur . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 141-142, mars 2002. Science. pp. 86-97
Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Mathematics and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment
© The History of Science Society
For science and for the Pope-king: Writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome
This paper analyses the contents and the style of the Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche (1868–1887), the first journal entirely devoted to the history of mathematics. It is argued that its innovative and controversial methodological approach cannot be properly understood without considering the cultural conditions in which the journal was conceived and realized. The style of the Bullettino was far from bei…
The Geometers of God: Mathematics and Reaction in the Kingdom of Naples
© The History of Science Society
The Geometers of God: Mathematics and Reaction in the Kingdom of Naples
© The History of Science Society
Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Mathematics and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment
© The History of Science Society
Newton for ladies: Gentility, gender and radical culture
Francesco Algarotti's Newtonianism for Ladies (1737), a series of lively dialogues on optics, was a landmark in the popularization of Newtonian philosophy. In this essay I shall explore Algarotti's sociocultural world, his aims and ambitions, and the meaning he attached to his own work. In particular I shall focus on Algarotti's self-promotional strategies, his deployment of gendered images and his use of popular philosophy within the broader cul…
Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, reformers in southern Europe sought to revitalize the political economy of the region. As Massimo Mazzotti puts it in "Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe," they believed that "political and social advancement . . . would follow naturally from economic liberalization and the introduction of new technologies." Olive oil production dominated commercial activity ar…
Le savoir de l'ingénieur: Mathématiques et politique à Naples sous les Bourbons
Mazzotti Massimo. Le savoir de l'ingénieur . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 141-142, mars 2002. Science. pp. 86-97
The Geometers of God: Mathematics and Reaction in the Kingdom of Naples
© The History of Science Society
For science and for the Pope-king: Writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome
This paper analyses the contents and the style of the Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche (1868–1887), the first journal entirely devoted to the history of mathematics. It is argued that its innovative and controversial methodological approach cannot be properly understood without considering the cultural conditions in which the journal was conceived and realized. The style of the Bullettino was far from bei…
Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Mathematics and the Making of the Catholic Enlightenment
© The History of Science Society
Le savoir de l'ingénieur: Mathématiques et politique à Naples sous les Bourbons
Mazzotti Massimo. Le savoir de l'ingénieur . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 141-142, mars 2002. Science. pp. 86-97
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (review)
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. By Giuliano Pancaldi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+381. $35
Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, reformers in southern Europe sought to revitalize the political economy of the region. As Massimo Mazzotti puts it in "Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe," they believed that "political and social advancement . . . would follow naturally from economic liberalization and the introduction of new technologies." Olive oil production dominated commercial activity ar…
Newton for ladies: Gentility, gender and radical culture
Francesco Algarotti's Newtonianism for Ladies (1737), a series of lively dialogues on optics, was a landmark in the popularization of Newtonian philosophy. In this essay I shall explore Algarotti's sociocultural world, his aims and ambitions, and the meaning he attached to his own work. In particular I shall focus on Algarotti's self-promotional strategies, his deployment of gendered images and his use of popular philosophy within the broader cul…
Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology (review)
Reviewed by: Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology Massimo Mazzotti (bio) Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology. By Adam Lucas . Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xx+439. $197. Watermills and windmills were often the most sophisticated technological artifacts to be found in premodern communities. They were also at the center of most communities' social and economic life. Until quite recently, these two aspects of …
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes
Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason , by Charles W.J. Withers
"Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason, by Charles W.J. Withers." Canadian Journal of History, 45(1), pp. 193–194
Algorithmic Modernity: Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Enlightenment (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works)