Professor Pietro Corsi
Professor of the History of Science
Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Email: pietro.corsi@history.ox.ac.uk
CV and full list of publications (PDF)
Research Interests
- History of life and earth sciences
- Science and religion (18th–20th centuries)
- Science, politics and society
- History of science as a discipline
- Internet for the history of science
- History of neurosciences
- Science and society in the 19th century in Great Britain, France and Italy
Supervision Interests
The history of the philosophy of science; science and religion (17th–20th centuries); and the areas covered by research interests
Selected Publications:
- 'The revolutions of evolution: Geoffroy and Lamarck, 1825-1840', Bulletin du Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco, May 2012, 36 pp.
- 'Idola Tribus: Lamarck, Politics and Religion in the Early Nineteenth Century', in A. Fasolo (ed.), The Theory of Evolution and Its Impact, Springer-Verlag Italia, Milan, 2012, pp.11-36
- 'The Politics of Theory in the History of Science', in F. Ardigó, (ed.), Histórias de Uma Ciência Regional: Cientistas e suas instituições no Paraná (1940-1960), Ed. Contexto São Paulo, 2011, pp. 355-363
- ‘Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. From Myth to History’, in E. Jablonka and S. Gissis, Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011, pp. 12-28
- Fossils and Reputations. A scientific correspondence, Pisa, Paris, London, 1854–1857, Pisa, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, 2008
- 'Before Darwin: Transformist Concepts in European Natural History’, Journal of the History of Biology, Vol 38 (2005), pp. 67–83
- ’After the Revolution: scientific language and French politics, 1795–1802’ in The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000 (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 223–45
- ’The Italian Geological Survey: the Early History of a Divided Community’ in G. B. Vai and W. Cavazza (eds.), Four centuries of the word ‘Geology’, Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 in Bologna (Bologna, 2003), pp. 255–79
- (ed.), The Enchanted Loom. Chapters in the History of Neuroscience (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). 383pp.
- Science and Religion. Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800–1860 (Cambridge, 1988). 337pp.
- The Age of Lamarck. Evolutionary Theories in France, 1790–1830 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1988). 360pp.
- ’The Importance of French Transformist Ideas for the Second Volume of Lyell’s Principles of Geology’, The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol 9 (1978), pp. 222–44