Contact Information
Email: biagioli@fas.harvard.edu
Texts available in our archive
- Documents of Documents: Scientists' Names and Scientific Claims (PDF)
- Patent Republic: Representing Inventions, Constructing Rights and Authors (PDF)
- Stress in the Book of Nature: The Supplemental Logic of Galileo's Realism (PDF)
Publications
Books
Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism , University Of Chicago Press, 1993
The Science Studies Reader , Routledge, 1999 (editor)
Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy , University Of Chicago, 2007
Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science , Routledge, 2002 (editor)
Recent Articles
“Rights or Rewards? Changing Contexts and Definitions of Scientific Authorship” in Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 27, No. 1 (2000), pp. 83-108.
“Replication or Monopoly? The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610” in Science in Context 13, 3-4 (2000), pp. 547-590.
“From Difference to Blackboxing: French Theory versus Science Studies' Metaphysics of Presence” in French Theory in America, edd. Lotringer and Cohen (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 271-287.
“Scientific Academies”, N.Smelser and P.Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (Oxford: Pergamon, 2001), Vol.20, pp. 13704-8.
“From Book Censorship to Academic Peer Review” in Emergences, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2002), pp. 11-45.
“Picturing Objects in the Making: Scheiner, Galileo and the Discovery of Sunspots” in Ideals and Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, edd. Detel and Zittel (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002), pp. 39-95.
“Luoghi e forme della conoscenza: Le accademie” in La Rivoluzione Scientifica, Vol. 5, (Rome: Enciclopedia Italiana, 2002), pp. 91-122.
“The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine”, Philip Mirowski and Mirjam Sent (eds), Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), pp.486-514.
“Courts and Salons” in John Heilbron (ed), The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 185-6.
“Peer Review” in John Heilbron (ed), The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 624-5.
“Stress in the Book of Nature: The Supplemental Logic of Galileo's Realism” in Modern Language Notes, 118 (2003): 557-585.
“Galileo e Derrida” in Rinascimento, 54 (2003): 1-26.
“Galileo's Travelling Circus of Science”, in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds), Making Things Public, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), pp.460-471. (Catalogue of exhibit held at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Summer 2005).
“L'autore della scienza: definizioni e paradossi” in Anna Santoni (ed), L'Autore Multiplo_ (Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2005), pp. 75-100.
“Documents of Documents: Scientists' Names and Scientific Claims”, in Annelise Riles (ed), Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 129-156.
“From Print to Patents: Living on Instruments in Early Modern Europe”, History of Science 44 (2006): 139-186.
“Artisans and Instruments: 1300-1800”, special issue of History of Science 44 (2006), Number 144, Part 2 (edited with Jean Francois Gauvin).
“Patent Republic: Specifying Inventions, Constructing Authors and Rights” Social Research, 73 (2006): 1129-1172.
“Bringing Peer Review to Patents,” First Monday 12 (2007), no.6, (Special issue on “Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation”)