Professor Pietro Corsi
Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Online 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
- Preface in Des naturalists en Révolution: Les Procès-verbaux de la Sociètè d’histoire naturelle de Paris (1790-1798), Jean-Luc Chappey, CTHS Sciences, No 9. Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris, 2009.
Jacket and Preface - Preface in Bory de Saint-Vincent: L’évolution d’un voyageur naturaliste, Hervé Ferrière.
Jacket and Preface - La Scuola Geologica Pisana e i suoi rapporti con Pilla e Scarabelli
- Fossils and Reputations. A scientific correspondence, Pisa, Paris, London, 1854–1857, Pisa, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, 2008
Jacket and Introduction - Much Ado About Nothing: The Italian Geological Survey 1861–20
Published in P. Corsi (ed.), ‘Thematic set of papers on Geological Surveys’, Earth Sciences History, 26, 1 (2007), pp. 97–125 - Introduction to thematic sets of papers on geological surveys
- After the Revolution: scientific language
and French politics, 1795–1802
Chapter from M. Pelling and S. Mandelbrote, eds., The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) 223–245 - Before Darwin:
Transformist Concepts in European Natural History
Article published in Journal of the History of Biology 38 (2005), pp. 67–83 - The Italian Geological Survey: The early history of a divided community
Chapter from G. B. Vai and W. Cavazza (eds), Four centuries of the word ‘Geology’, Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 in Bologna (Bologna: Minerva Edizioni, 2003), pp. 255–279 - La scuola geologica Pisana
Published in Storia dell’Università di Pisa (Pisa: Giardini Editore
and Edizioni Plus, 2001), vol. 2, t. 3, pp. 889–927 - www.lamarck.net
Online edition of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theoretical works, relevant primary and secondary sources, manuscripts prosopographical database of 978 pupils attending Lamarck’s lectures, 1795–1823 (Paris, 2001) pp. 20.000c
- Celebrating Lamarck
Introductory speech for the colloquium on Lamarck held on 24 October 1994. Published in French in 1997: « Célébrer Lamarck », in G. Laurent (ed.), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Paris: Édition du CTHS), pp. 51–61 - Les élèves de Lamarck: un projet de recherche
Chapter from G. Laurent (ed.), Jean–Baptiste Lamarck 1744– 1829 (Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 1997), pp. 515–26 - The heritage of Dugald Stewart: Oxford philosophy and the method of political economy 1809–1832
Article published in Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza, new series 2, f. 2 (1987), pp. 89–144 - Julien Joseph Virey, Le premier critique de Lamarck (PDF)
Chapter from S. Atran et al., Histoire du concept d’espèce dans les sciences de la vie (Paris: Fondation Singer–Polignac, 1986), pp. 181–92 - Lamarck en Italie
Article published in Revue d’histoire des sciences 37 (1984), pp. 47–64.
- « Lamarckiens » et « Darwiniens »à Turin
(1812–1894) (PDF)
Chapter from Y. Conry, De Darwin au darwinisme. Science et idéologie (Paris: Vrin, 1983), pp. 50–67 - The importance of French Transformist ideas for the second volume of Lyell’s Principles of Geology
Article published in the British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 9
(1978), pp. 222–44
Research Interests and Activities
Selected Links to External Websites
- Buffon (1707–1788)
- histmap – the history of geological cartography
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)