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Daniele Cozzoli (Ph.D. University of Rome "La Sapienza") is research fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. He works on 16th and 17th century philosophy of science, on 17th century history of optics and on the history and the philosophy of bio-medical sciences.

Miguel Angel Granada teaches History of Renaissance Philosophy in the University of Barcelona. His main areas of interest are Giordano Bruno and the cosmological revolution from Copernicus to Kepler and Galilei with its theological import. He has published several books and many essays on these topics.

Antoni Malet is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. He works on seventeenth-century natural philosophy and on the scientific institutions and science policies of 20th-century Spain.

Carla Rita Palmerino (Ph.D. University of Florence, 1998) is a research fellow at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on 17th-century theories of matter and motion. She has published articles about Galileo, Gassendi, Descartes, Mersenne, and Fabri, and she is co-editor of the book The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe (2004). She is currently involved in a research project entitled "Visualizing the Invisible. Representations of Matter and Motions since the Renaissance." [End Page 116]

Carlos Calderón Urreiztieta is a Ph.D. candidate at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research interests include the relationship between aesthetic experience and scientific discourse, especially in 17th century music. He is currently researching on the monochord as a scientific instrument and on the pedagogical capacities of multimedia in history of science.

Douglas Jesseph is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics (1993), Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis (1999), co-author of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy (2003), and coeditor of Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (2008). At present he is editing three volumes of Hobbes's mathematical publications for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. [End Page 117]

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