Dr. Roberto Mantovani

Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA)

Physics Laboratory: Urbino Museum of Science and Technology

School of Philosophy of Knowledge

Section of Epistemology, History of Science and Restoration of Cultural Heritage

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Researcher Professor for the “History of scientific instruments”

Email: roberto.mantovani@uniurb.it

Qualifications

2006-2012 member of the board of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA)

2001 assistant professor at the “Physics Laboratory and Museum of Scientific Instruments” of Urbino University

1997 Visiting Scholar in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science, MIT (Cambridge), USA.

1994 Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Italy)

1991-1992 Academic visitor at the Dip. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University (U.K.).

Research Fields

History of Scientific instruments

History of Physics

Publications (Selected)

1. Mantovani R., 2015. Giambattista Pianciani. Dizionario Bibliografico degli Italiani, Vol. 83 (Piacentini-Pio V), pp. 44-47. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani.
2. Mantovani R., 2015. An Original Mid-Nineteenth Century Scientific Instrument in Italy: Vincenzo Vignola’s Induction Coil. Advances in Historical Studies, 4, April 2015, pp. 85-96.
3. Mantovani R., Bartolotta D., 2014. The collection of historical scientific instruments in “Bonaventura Secusio” High School in Caltagirone. Submitted to Proceedings of the 33nd National Congress of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy. Acireale 4-7 September 2013.
4. Mantovani R., 2014. Jacopo Bozza and the electric telegraph in Sicily. Submitted to Proceedings of the 33nd National Congress of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy. Acireale 4-7 September 2013.
5. Mantovani R., 2014. Il cavo Otranto-Valona e le origini della telegrafia sottomarina in Italia. Submitted to Proceedings of the 31nd National Congress of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy. Pavia 6-8 September 2011.
6. Mantovani R., 2014. Un originale apparato di metà ottocento: la bobina ad induzione di Vincenzo Vignola (in press). Proceedings of the 29nd National Congress of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy. Firenze 16-18 September 2009
7. Gamba, E., Mantovani, R., 2013. Gli strumenti scientifici di Guidobaldo dal Monte. Guidobaldo del Monte, 1545-1607: theory and practice of the mathematical disciplines from Urbino to Europe (edited by Becchi A., Bertoloni Meli D., Gamba E.), Max Planck research library for the history and development of knowledge, Proceedings, 4., Berlin: Edition Open Access, pp. 209-238. http://www.edition-open-access.de/proceedings/4/11/index.html
8. Mantovani R., 2013. Tito Alippi, fisico, meteorologo e sismologo. Maestri di Ateneo. I docenti dell'Università di Urbino nel Novecento (edited by Anna Tonelli), Urbino: Urbino University Press, pp. 23-28.