Heliocentrism, A Forbidden Idea? | Nuno Castel-Branco

Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Next fall, he will start a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University. He has an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Lisbon and completed a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University in May 2021. He is writing a book on the intersection of mathematics, the life sciences, and theology in the work of the seventeenth-century anatomist Nicolaus Steno. His research has been sponsored by various institutions in Europe and the United States, such as the Fulbright Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Nuno has written for academic and popular audiences in journals like Renaissance Quarterly, Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American.