Caterina Agostini Book Talk: La sfera: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean

In partnership with Love Data Week, please join us for an author talk from one of the editors of the recently published work, La sfera: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean. The volume is a new edition and English translation of a widely read late medieval cosmological treatise, accompanied by a commentary that highlights the text's transmission, reception, and historical contexts across the Mediterranean through digital humanities methods.

Presenter:

Caterina Agostini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington. She specializes in the history of science, material book history, digital humanities, and Italian studies. Her research interests range from examining Galileo Galilei and early modern science, to deciphering ancient texts and designing digital editions and exhibits. At HPSC, Caterina works with Professor William R. Newman to decipher and transcribe Newton’s unpublished manuscripts on alchemy into a digital scholarly edition.