Pietro Corsi
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20 July 1948 Trieste, Italy |
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Pietro Corsi (born 20 July 1948) is an Italian historian of science.
From 1967 Pietro Corsi studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, The University of Pisa, and was also a pupil of the Class of Letters, The Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Under the supervision of Francesco Barone and Gilberto Bernardini, he worked on selected issues in the history of science. In particular, he completed yearly theses on the works of Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, and the historiographic conceptions elaborated by Alexandre Koyré. His final thesis reconstructed the relationship between epistemology and the history of science in France, from Henri Poincaré to Alexandre Koyré. From 1971 to 1981, Corsi occupied research positions at the Faculty of Philosophy, The University of Pisa; the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, The University of Oxford; the King's College, The University of Cambridge (1981–1982). In 1981 Corsi obtained a D. Phil in the History of Science from the University of Oxford. From 1983 to 1987 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
In 1987 Corsi was appointed Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cassino, Italy, and full Professor in 1997. On special leave from 1997 to 2015, he has been in succession Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris (1997–2001); Professor of the History of Science at the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1999–2006); Directeur d'études cumulant at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2000–2018); Director of the Centre d'histoire des sciences et des techniques, La Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris (2001–2005). From 2006 to 2015 he has been Chair Professor of the History of Science, The University of Oxford.
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