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He has taught History of Climate at the European University of Rome within the
Master in Environmental Sciences. He has worked at the Research Centre for
Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA) as the referent of the Historical
Meteorological Network and the Observatory of the Roman College. Among his
various published works, the books Dalla meteorologia antica alle origini italiane
della meteorologia moderna (Roma, 2002) and Fede e scienza: un incontro proficuo. Origini e sviluppo della meteorologia fino agli inizi del ‘900 (Roma, 2008)
are worth mentioning. He is the coauthor of the volumes Il mistero del tempo e del
clima (Napoli, 2000) and L’atlante italiano del clima e dei cambiamenti climatici
(Roma, 2015).
He is currently working on the coordination of the library and archival Services of
the Italian Council for Agriculture.
Kevin Johnson Historian, Independent scholar
Formerly an associate curator of astronomy at the Science Museum, London, he is
both an amateur observational astronomer and historian of amateur astronomy. He
has published on scientific instruments and is active in the Society for the History of
Astronomy, a former editor of its journal and coordinator of its survey of astronomy
for the UK and Ireland.
Lorenzo Mancini Researcher at the Historical Archives
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Vatican City)
Since 2017 he has been working at the Historical Archives of the Pontifical
Gregorian University, where he is the main administrator of the collaborative web
platform Gregorian Archives Texts Editing (GATE). During 2013–2017, he was a
research fellow at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli”
(National Research Council of Italy). He has a Ph.D. in Library History (“Sapienza”
University of Rome) with a dissertation focused on the history of the Roman College
libraries. His research topics deal with the history of printing, book, and libraries
during the early modern time. He published papers about the eighteenth-century
book trade, the Manuzio family, and about the origin of Jesuit pedagogy and
typography.
Agnese Mandrino Librarian
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy
She is in charge of the Library and Historical Archives of the Brera Astronomical
Observatory and author of many papers related to the history of astronomy.
About the Contributors
He has taught History of Climate at the European University of Rome within the
Master in Environmental Sciences. He has worked at the Research Centre for
Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA) as the referent of the Historical
Meteorological Network and the Observatory of the Roman College. Among his
various published works, the books Dalla meteorologia antica alle origini italiane
della meteorologia moderna (Roma, 2002) and Fede e scienza: un incontro proficuo. Origini e sviluppo della meteorologia fino agli inizi del ‘900 (Roma, 2008)
are worth mentioning. He is the coauthor of the volumes Il mistero del tempo e del
clima (Napoli, 2000) and L’atlante italiano del clima e dei cambiamenti climatici
(Roma, 2015).
He is currently working on the coordination of the library and archival Services of
the Italian Council for Agriculture.
Kevin Johnson Historian, Independent scholar
Formerly an associate curator of astronomy at the Science Museum, London, he is
both an amateur observational astronomer and historian of amateur astronomy. He
has published on scientific instruments and is active in the Society for the History of
Astronomy, a former editor of its journal and coordinator of its survey of astronomy
for the UK and Ireland.
Lorenzo Mancini Researcher at the Historical Archives
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Vatican City)
Since 2017 he has been working at the Historical Archives of the Pontifical
Gregorian University, where he is the main administrator of the collaborative web
platform Gregorian Archives Texts Editing (GATE). During 2013–2017, he was a
research fellow at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli”
(National Research Council of Italy). He has a Ph.D. in Library History (“Sapienza”
University of Rome) with a dissertation focused on the history of the Roman College
libraries. His research topics deal with the history of printing, book, and libraries
during the early modern time. He published papers about the eighteenth-century
book trade, the Manuzio family, and about the origin of Jesuit pedagogy and
typography.
Agnese Mandrino Librarian
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy
She is in charge of the Library and Historical Archives of the Brera Astronomical
Observatory and author of many papers related to the history of astronomy.
About the Contributors