Updated list of my publications:

Book

1. Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l’académicien, le polémiste. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022, pp. 306, ISBN 978-2-7453-5672-7.

Reviews: (1) Centaurus 64.3, 2022: 783-788; (2) Physis 57.2, 2022: 527-531; (3) Dix-huitième siècle 55.1, 2023: 658-60; (4) Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 46.3, 2023; (5) Acta Fabula 24.7, 2023 (online); (6) French Studies 77.4, 2023; (7) Journal of Early Modern Studies 12.1, 2023: 239-241.

Edited books and special issues

1. Early Modern Fire: Science, Technology, and the Urban Space. Edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2024, pp. 376, ISBN 978-90-04-52175-9.

2. Philosophy and Mathematics at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: New Perspectives. Edited by Marco Storni and Andrea Strazzoni. Special issue of Noctua. La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno 4.1-2, 2017, pp. 194.

3. Reassessing the “Scientific Revolution”: Key Concepts and New Case Studies. Edited by Simone Guidi, Ludovica Marinucci and Marco Storni (under contract).

4. Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry. Studies in Honor of Paolo Brenni. Edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi, Ileana Chinnici and Marco Storni. Cham: Springer (under contract).

Journal articles

1. “Time Thrift and Economic Science in the Eighteenth Century.” Science in Context 36.2 (forthcoming).

2. “Resisting Newton in Provincial France, 1750s-1770s: Opposition from the Margins to the Parisian Academic Community.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 109.1, 2025: 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.12.004

3. “Maupertuis and the Reshaping of Natural History in Eighteenth-Century France.” Perspectives on Science 32.5, 2024: 650-669. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00618

4. “Beyond Descartes: Noël Regnault and Eighteenth-Century French Cartesianism.” Perspectives on Science 32.2, 2024: 230-261. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00623

5. “New Manuscript Sources on Medical Knowledge and Practice in Early Modern Gotha.” Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 49.2, 2022: 177-195. https://doi.org/10.2143/LIAS.49.2.3292260

6. “Denis Papin’s Digester and Its Eighteenth-Century European Circulation.” The British Journal for the History of Science 54.4, 2021: 443-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087421000698

7. “La présence de Descartes dans la Vénus physique de Maupertuis: réappropriation et critique.” Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) 18, 2021: 275-298. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8.p.0275

8. “Cartography, Geodesy, and the Heliocentric Theory: Yves Simonin’s Unpublished Papers.” Centaurus 63.1, 2020: 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12351

9. “Maupertuis’s Principle of Least Action: Epistemology and Metaphysics.” Montesquieu.it 11, 2019: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-4124/9029

10. “Les preuves de l’existence de Dieu chez Samuel Formey.” Noctua. La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno 5.2, 2018: 161-199. https://doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaV6

11. “Systematic Thought and the Early French Enlightenment.” Rivista di storia della filosofia 4, 2017: 629-640. https://doi.org/10.3280/SF2017-004008

12. “Maupertuis et le mathématisme philosophique.” Noctua. La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno 4.1-2, 2017: 91-123. https://doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaIV4

13. “Maupertuis et la science de la musique.” Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest 123.1, 2016: 157-178. https://doi.org/10.4000/abpo.3211

14. “Scienza della vita e materialismo in Maupertuis (1745-1754).” Quaderni materialisti 11-12, 2013: 125-135. Volume ISBN 9788857536613

Book chapters

1. “The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on the Shape of the Earth: A Political-Epistemological Approach.” In Historical Cases of Political Epistemology, edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Senthil Babu. Leiden-Boston: Brill (forthcoming).

2. “Knowledge in Motion: The Circulation of Maupertuis’s Discours sur les différentes figures des astres (1732) between Switzerland and Germany.” In Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799), edited by Marco Sgarbi, 57-70. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0573-3.04

3. “Without a Thermometer: The Technical Knowledge of Heat in the Early Modern Age.” In Early Modern Fire: Science, Technology, and the Urban Space, edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Marco Storni, 90-116. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521766_005

4. “The Pulse Watch and the Physician’s Senses: John Floyer on the Quantification of the Body.” In The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy, edited by J. Braga and S. Guidi, 241-263. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15725-7_10

5. “Experience, Analogy and Mechanism in Maupertuis’s Theory of Generation.” In Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy, edited by Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere and Antonio Clericuzio, 155-174. Cham: Springer, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07036-5_10

6. “La stratégie rhétorique de Maupertuis dans la controverse sur la forme de la Terre.” In Désordres modernes. Contester, travailler, refonder l’ordre par les pratiques sociales et artistiques (XVe-XVIIIe siècles), edited by Simon Gosselin-Rodière and Aurore Schoenecker, 249-264. Paris: Hermann, 2021. ISBN 9791037007247 [link]

7. “Clocks and Timekeeping in Lavoisier’s Experiments on Animal Respiration: The Chemical Revolution, Its Material Culture and Taken-for-Granted Knowledge.” In Material Histories of Time. Objects and Practices, 14th-19th Centuries, edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Susanne Thürigen, 187-200. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110625035-013

Book reviews (selected) 

1. Dessiner la technique. Pensée et discours visuels (XVIe-XXe siècles). Edited by Jérôme Baudry and Valérie Nègre. Paris: Presses des Mines, 2024. In Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines 22, 2025 (in press).

2. Beretta, Marco, and Paolo Brenni. The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794). Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022. In Physis 59, 2024: 314-16.

3. Morel, Thomas. Underground Mathematics. Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In Nuncius 39.1, 2024: 228-231. https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10093

4. Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks. Edited by Lauren R. Cannady and Jennifer Ferng. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. In Technology and Culture 64.3, 2023: 970-972. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.a904001

5. Rotta, Salvatore. Geminiano Montanari e altri studi di storia della scienza nella prima età moderna. Milan: Mimesis, 2021. In Nuncius 38.1, 2023: 211-213. https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10056

6. Bert, Jean-François, and Jérôme Lamy. Voir les savoirs. Lieux, objets et gestes de la science. Paris: Anamosa, Paris, 2021. In Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines 16, 2022: 373-377. https://doi.org/10.4000/artefact.12614

7. Belhoste, Bruno. Paris Savant. Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Physis 56, 2021: 527-529. 

8. Shank, J. B. Before Voltaire. The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics, 1680-1715. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Centaurus 62.3, 2020: 581-583. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12281