ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

(Mario Biagioli In Memoriam) Into the Mouth of the Wolf: Scientific Authorship, Self-Fashioning, and Other Tightrope Walks in the Works of Mario Biagioli

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

English Abstract

Mario Biagioli’s persistent, roving intellect led him across fields and disciplines, from the astronomical spectacles and the canny social strategies of early modern Italian courtiers to the world of twenty-first century intellectual property law. Mario had a knack for collapsing the distance between what may have seemed like disparate concepts, moments in time, and literatures, bringing them into relationship with each other, and illuminating something new about each one. Featuring reflections from students and colleagues, this roundtable offers historians of science an opportunity to celebrate the scholarship of Mario Biagioli and examine its impact on the field. Mario always asked the smartest question in any room he was in. In that spirit, we hope to ask a few good ones.

Sub Unit

• Roundtable

Participants

• Jimena Canales

• daniel margocsy, University of Cambridge

• Alex Csiszar, Harvard University

• Matthew L. Jones, Princeton University

Session Organizers

• Elizabeth Yale, University of Iowa

• Florin-Stefan Morar, National University of Singapore