Massimo Mazzotti

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 2209 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: W 11-12
Phone: (510) 642-5690
Email: mazzotti@berkeley.edu

Education

Laurea, Università di Milano, 1994
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2000

Professional experience

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Exeter (2002, 2007)
Kenneth May Fellow in the History of Mathematics, University of Toronto (2001-2002)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (1999-2001)

Research

History of mathematics, 16th-20th century
Science and the Catholic Church
Enlightenment science and technology
Theoretical and historiographical issues in science and technology studies

Books

	Editor - Knowledge as Social Order. Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
	The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Research Articles

Engineering the Neapolitan state. In E. Robson and J. Stedall (eds.), /The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics/, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 253-272.

Madame du Châtelet, académicienne de Bologne. In U. Kölvig and O. Courcelle (eds.), /Émilie du Châtelet: éclairages et documents nouveaux/, Fernay-Voltaire: Centre internationale d’etudes du XVIIIme siecle, 2008, 127-132.

The Two Newtons and Beyond [Essay review]. /British Journal for the History of Science/, 2007, 40: 105-111.

Scienza, fede, e carità. Il cattolicesimo illuminato di Maria Gaetana Agnesi. In R. Simili (ed), /Scienza a due voci/, Florence: Olschki, 2006, 13-37.

I significati della precisione. Per una storia socioculturale dell'astrofisica italiana. In P. Govoni (ed), /Storia, scienza e società. Ricerche sulla scienza italiana di età moderna/, Bologna: University of Bologna, 2006, 143-173.

Enlightened Mills. Mechanizing Olive Oil Manufacture in Mediterranean Europe. /Technology and Culture/, 2004, 45: 277-304.

Newton for Ladies. Gentility, gender and radical culture. /British Journal for the History of Science/, 2004, 37: 119-146.

Le savoir de l’ingénieur: mathématiques et politique a Naples sous le Bourbons. /Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales/, 2002, 141-42: 86-97.

The making of the modern engineer: analytic rationality and social change. /History of Universities/, 2002, 17: 121-161.

The Neapolitan school: studying pure geometry in the period of revolutions. In E. Knobloch and J. Mawhin (eds.), /Studies in the history of mathematics dedicated to A.P. Youschkevitch/, Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 107-112

Maria Gaetana Agnesi: mathematics and the making of Catholic Enlightenment. /Isis/, 2001, 92: 657-683.

For science and for the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome. /British Journal for the History of Science/, 2000, 33: 257-282.

La professionalizzazione della matematica: dall’analisi settecentesca alla matematica pura. In M. Segala and F. Abbri (eds.), /Il ruolo sociale della scienza/, Florence: Olschki, 2000, 115-126.

L’immagine della scienza nel Bullettino di Baldassarre Boncompagni (1868-1887). /Ricerche Storiche/, 1999, 29: 495-521.

The geometers of God: mathematics and reaction in the Kingdom of Naples. /Isis/, 1998, 87: 678-701.

Courses:

History 100.06: History of Technology
History 280: Scientific Objectivity

Public Engagement:

	2009. Documentary on the history of the telescope for PBS, in the NOVA series, to be broadcasted in early 2010. Scientific consultant and contributor.
	2007-present. Member of the Scientific Committee of Observa-Science in Society, a institution that monitors public attitudes to science in Europe, and promotes public debate on the interaction of science and society. http://www.observa.it/Default.aspx?LAN=ENG
	2006. Radio France: program on Madame du Châtelet. Broadcasted as part of the series Les chemins de la conoissance. Author and contributor.
	2006. Exhibition: Madame du Châtelet. La femme des Lumières. March 6 - June 3. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Scientific consultant.
	2004. Documentary: Brunel: The Greatest Southerner, for BBC1. Produced by Grant Pollard. Scientific consultant and contributor.
	2004. Exhibition: The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture. October 8, 2004 - February 5, 2005. New York Public Library. Scientific consultant.
	2004. Online edition of Francesco Algarotti’s Il Newtonianesimo per le dame (1737), in the series Bologna Science Classics Online. Editor and author of the introductory essay. http://137.204.24.205/cis13b/bsco3/intro_opera.asp?id_opera=32