Notes on the Editors
Gianenrico Bernasconi
is associate professor and “directeur de recherche” in History of Technology at University of Neuchâtel. He has been principal investigator of the SNSF-project Mesure du temps, chimie et cuisine: formalisation des pratiques au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (2018–2023). His current work explores the history of technology, of timekeeping, of chronometrical observatories, and of cooking. He is the author of Objets portatifs au siècle des Lumières (Paris: 2015), the co-editor, with Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and Olivier Raveux, of Les Réparations dans l’Histoire. Cultures techniques et savoir-faire dans la longue durée (Paris: 2022), and the co-editor, with Susanne Thürigen, of Material Histories of Time: Objects and Practices, 14th–19th Centuries (Berlin – Boston: 2020).
Marco Storni
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. After completing his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris and the University of Bologna, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at the University of Neuchâtel. His research focuses on the history of science and of philosophy of science in the early modern period, particularly in the eighteenth century. He is the author of Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l’académicien, le polémiste (Paris: 2022; winner of the Prize of the Fondation Del Duca-Institut de France 2023).