Arianna Borrelli

Arianna Borrelli is a historian and philosopher of natural philosophy and modern science working at the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Cultures of Research,” RWTH Aachen, where her research focuses on reconstructing the variety of cultures of computer-aided research. She has a special interest for the interplay of scientific knowing and the tools mediating it and has worked on medieval mathematical cosmology, early modern meteorology and mechanics, as well as quantum theories from their early days up to the present. She is currently President of the DHST/DLMPST Commission for History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and her recent publications include: A. Hocquet, F. Wieber, G. Gramelsberger, A. Borrelli et al. 2024. Software in science is ubiquitous yet overlooked. Nature Computational Science 4: 465–8; A. Borrelli. 2023. Aristotelianism, Chymistry and Mechanics in Early Seventeenth-century Europe. In: D. Verardi (ed.). Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe, Bloomsbury, 105–44.