University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

Professor Pietro Corsi

D.Phil
Professor, History of Science

Research Interests

History of life and earth sciences; Science and religion, XVIII-XX Centuries; Science, politics and society; the history of science as a discipline; Internet for the history of science; the history of neurosciences; science and society in XIX Century Great Britain, France and Italy.

Supervision Interests

The history of the philosophy of science; science and religion XVIII-XX Centuries; the areas covered by research interests.

Selected Publications:

'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. 222-244
(ed.) C. Webster, La Grande Instaurazione. Scienza e riforma sociale nella Rivoluzione Puritana . (Milan, 1980)
(ed.) Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine . (London, 1983) 531pp.
'History of Science, History of Philosophy and the History of Theology' in Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine. (London, 1983) pp. 3-26
'Recent Studies on French and Italian Reactions to Darwin' in The Darwinian Heritage. (Princeton, 1985) pp. 698-729
'The Heritage of Dugald Stewart : Oxford Philosophy and the Method of Political Economy, 1809-1832', Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza. Vol 2 (1987) pp. 89-144
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.
(ed.) The Enchanted Loom. Chapters in the History of Neuroscience, Oxford University Press, Oxford et New York 1991 . (Oxford and New York, 1991) 383pp.
(ed.) Sciences et langues en Europe, 1500-2000. Actes du Congrès International, Paris 18-21 novembre 1994 . (Paris, 1996) 270pp.
'A Devils Chaplains Calling?', Journal of Victorian Culture. Vol 3 (1998) pp. 129-137
Lamarck. Il mondo naturale si affaccia all'evoluzione. (Milan, 2000) 111pp.
'How to Use Centres in the Periphery: Italian Geology in the Nineteenth Century' in Centre and Periphery Revisited. The Structure of European Science, 1750-1914. Vol 1 (Oxford, 2003) pp. 51-67
'The Italian Geological Survey: the Early History of a Divided Community' in Four centuries of the word 'Geology', Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 in Bologna. (Bologna, 2003) pp. 255-279
'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. Essays for Charles Webster. (Aldershot, 2005) pp. 223-245
(ed.) Lamarck, Philosophe de la Nature . (Paris, 2006) 1-7, 37-64pp.
'"Much Ado about Nothing: the Italian Geological Survey, 1861-2006"', Earth Sciences History. Journal\of the History of the Earth Sciences Society. Vol 26, 1 (2007) pp. 97-125
Fossils and Reputations. A scientific correspondence: Pisa, Paris, London, 1853-1857. (Pisa, 2008) 1-411pp.

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