Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

2022 “Who Was Borelli Responding To? Nicolaus Steno in De motu animalium (Rome, 1680-1)” Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza; forthcoming, invited contribution.

2022 “Physico-Mathematics and the Life Sciences: Experiencing the Mechanism of Venous Return, 1650s-1680s.” Annals of Science 79:4 (2022), 442-467.

2022 “Drawing Muscles with Diagrams: How Novel Dissection Cuts Inspired Nicolaus Steno’s Myology (1667).” Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2022). (co-authored with Troels Kardel, MD). (doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2022.0005)

2022 “Friendship Fostered by Poisons: The Collaboration of Nicolaus Steno and Francesco Redi” in Poison. Knowledge, Uses, Practices – Micrologus Library 112, eds. C. Mordeglia and Agostino Paravicini (Florence: SISMEL–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022), 325-346.

2021 “Dissecting with Numbers: Mathematics in Nicolaus Steno’s Early Anatomical Writings, 1661-64” Substantia: An International Journal on the History of Chemistry 5.1 (2021), 29-42

2021 “Material Piety: Science and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Portugal” Renaissance Quarterly 74.4 (2021), 1162-1209.

Winner of the A. H. Oliveiras Marques Prize for Best Article in Portuguese History of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

2020 “From Flanders to Lisbon to the Mughal Empire: Hendrick Uwens and the Mathematical Backstage of a Jesuit Missionary’s Life” Early Science and Medicine 25 (2020), 224-249

2020 “Beyond Stevin and Galileo: Seventeenth-century Hydrostatics in the Class of the Sphere” in History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula between the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries: A comparative approach, eds. Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Carmen Toribio (Springer Nature, 2020), 351-368

2015 “Início da Mecânica em Portugal e o Tratado da Estática de Hendrick Uwens” (1645); Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática 71.2 (2014), 73-76

2014 “Perturbation of the metric around a spherical body;” Physics Letters B 735 (2014), 25-32 (co-authors J. Páramos and R. March); arXiv:1403.7251

General audience

2022 “Nicolaus Steno und die Anfänge der Geologie.” Interviewed by Dagmar Röhrlich. Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, Deutschlandfunk, May 2022.

2021 “Galileo and the Pandemic” Wall Street Journal, 31 December 2021

2021 “Galileo and the Pope Who Loved Cicadas” Scientific American, 9 July 2021

2019 “O jesuíta que mudou a física e a engenharia em Portugal” in A redondeza da Terra e outras histórias da Ciência e da Cartografia, eds. Teresa Firmino and Alexandrina Carvalho (Lisbon: Gradiva, 2019), originally published in Público newspaper, 17 September 2018