Michela Malpangotto

Michela Malpangotto is an Italian historian of science, specializing in the history of astronomy leading up to the Copernican Revolution, and its associated mathematics (especially spherical geometry and trigonometry).

She completed a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of Bari in 2006, with the dissertation Regiomontano e il rinnovamento del sapere matematico e astronomico nel Quattrocento directed by Carlo Maccagni.

[2] In 2018, she was named editor-in-chief of the journal Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences.

[3] Malpangotto is the editor of Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l'histoire de l'astronomie: sources, édition critique avec traduction française, commentaire technique, diffusion du XVe au XVIIe siècle (CNRS, 2020), a critical edition of Theoricae Novae Planetarum, a presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach.

[4] Her other books include Regiomontano e il rinnovamento del sapere matematico e astronomico nel Quattrocento (Caducci, 2008),[5] and L’homme au risque de l’infini: Mélanges d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences offerts à Michel Blay (edited with Vincent Jullien and Efthymios Nicolaïdis, Brepols, 2013).