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SUMMARY:Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo - Nuno Castel-Branco 
 (Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:In 1610\, shortly before moving to Florence\, Galileo Galilei 
 (1564–1642) told his new patrons at the Medici court that he had finishe
 d a new book on the motions of animals. Unfortunately\, Galileo’s text d
 id not survive the hurdles of history. Still\, his reference to this monog
 raph reveals the liveliness of animal motion research almost a century bef
 ore the publication of Giovanni Borelli’s De motu animalium (Rome\, 1680
 –81)—the most famous early modern work on the topic. As it turns out\,
  Galileo was not the only one interested in these questions. The anatomist
  Fabricius d’Acquapendente (1533–1619)\, Galileo’s senior colleague 
 at the University of Padua and the mentor of William Harvey\, had also bee
 n writing on the topic. At around the same time\, a significant book on th
 e architecture of the Temple of Solomon was published by the Jesuit mathem
 atician Juan Bautista Villalpando in Rome. Strikingly\, it also contained 
 new ideas about animal motion. Using printed and manuscript sources from e
 arly modern anatomy\, mathematics\, and architecture\, this talk will map 
 the knowledge and networks behind the interest in animal motion in the tim
 e of Galileo. By intersecting the worlds of art\, science\, and medicine\,
  this talk will show that the early interest in animal motion played a fou
 ndational role in the mathematization of nature well before Descartes.\n\n
 *Dr Nuno Castel-Branco* is a Research Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford
 . He completed his PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins Universi
 ty in 2021 after earning a Master’s in theoretical physics at the Univer
 sity of Lisbon. Previously\, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard Universit
 y’s Villa I Tatti in Florence and at the Max Planck Institute for the Hi
 story of Science in Berlin. His first book\, _The Traveling Anatomist: Nic
 olaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science_\,
  is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in the summer of 2025
 . He is currently working the ideas and networks behind early modern inter
 est in animal motion. His research has appeared in journals like _Isis_\, 
 _Notes and Records of the Royal Society_\, _Annals of Science_\, and _Rena
 issance Quarterly_.\nSpeakers:\nNuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
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