Rivista di Storia della Scienza

Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Title	Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Discipline	History of Science
Language	Italian
Publisher	Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Country	Italy
History	19xx–present
Frequency	Quarterly
Issn	0000-0000

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Rivista di Storia della Scienza is an Italian scholarly journal devoted to the history of science, technology, and medicine, founded in the 20th century and published by an Italian cultural institution. It has served as a forum connecting scholars associated with the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, the Università di Firenze, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and international research networks including the History of Science Society, the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, and the European Society for the History of Science. The journal has featured contributions engaging with figures and institutions such as Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Alessandro Volta, Lavoisier, and Charles Darwin, alongside archival studies drawing on collections from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, the Vatican Library, the Royal Society, and the Smithsonian Institution.

History

The journal emerged in a period shaped by the intellectual legacies of Carlo Rubbia, Enrico Fermi, Giuseppe Cocconi, Ludovico Geymonat, and the institutional momentum of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Early editorial boards included scholars trained at the Università degli Studi di Milano, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Università di Bologna, and engaged with historiographical debates triggered by works associated with Thomas Kuhn, Pierre Duhem, Alexandre Koyré, and Augusto Del Noce. Over successive decades the journal responded to methodological shifts spearheaded by members affiliated with the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, expanding from Italian archival studies toward comparative histories involving Napoleon Bonaparte, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

Articles cover the histories of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering, and instrument making, often centring on actors such as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Marcello Malpighi, Amedeo Avogadro, Alessandro Volta, Camillo Golgi, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. The journal publishes archival research utilising records from the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, the Archivio Segreto Vaticano, the Royal Society Archives, and the Archives nationales de France, as well as historiographical essays responding to the work of Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, Bradford Skow, and Lorraine Daston. Special issues have focused on topics involving the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Risorgimento, and the transnational circuits linking the Medici family, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. The journal also includes review essays of monographs by publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Il Mulino, and Einaudi.

Editorial governance typically comprises an editor-in-chief drawn from faculties of the Università di Pisa, the Università di Torino, or the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, an international advisory board with members from the University of Cambridge, the Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Chicago, and managing editors liaising with the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza and national funding bodies such as the Fondazione per la Scuola and the CNR. The journal issues quarterly volumes and occasional thematic supplements coordinated with conferences held at venues like the Museo Galileo, the Accademia dei Lincei, and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Peer review follows double-blind procedures modeled on practices endorsed by the Committee on Publication Ethics and comparable editorial guidelines used by the Isis editorial board and the British Society for the History of Science.

Contributors have included scholars affiliated with the University of Cambridge, the Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, as well as Italian historians linked to the Università di Siena, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and the Università della Calabria. Prominent articles have examined manuscripts by Galileo Galilei, correspondence of Galvani family members, instrument collections connected to Giovanni Battista Amici, surgical practices associated with Gaspare Tagliacozzi, and epidemiological responses tied to Giovanni Gorgoni and Francesco Redi. The journal has published archival discoveries involving the papers of Vittorio Emanuele II, debates about pedagogy associated with Maria Montessori, and cultural histories intersecting with the careers of Guglielmo Marconi, Enrico Fermi, and Rita Levi-Montalcini.

Scholars in institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Wellcome Trust, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Royal Institution have cited the journal in discussions of object biography, provenance, and circulation of instruments tied to collections like the Museo Galileo and the Science Museum London. The journal has influenced curricula at the Università di Firenze, the Università di Padova, and the Università di Milano-Bicocca and informed museum exhibitions coordinated with the Vatican Museums, the Palazzo Pitti, and the Uffizi Gallery. Its role in consolidating Italian contributions has been noted by reviewers associated with Isis, The British Journal for the History of Science, and Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences.

The journal is indexed in bibliographic services and catalogues including the Scopus, the Web of Science, the Library of Congress, and national catalogues such as the SBN and the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale. Back issues are available in print through institutional subscriptions at libraries like the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma and in digitised form held by university repositories at the Università di Firenze and the Università di Bologna. Selected articles appear in bibliographies compiled for conferences hosted by the History of Science Society and thematic projects funded by the European Research Council.

Category:Italian academic journals Category:History of science journals