Pietro Redondi

Pietro Redondi (born 1950) is an Italian historian of science, known for his work on Galileo Galilei.

Redondi obtained his doctorate in 1978 at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, in the History of Science. In 1981-1992 he did research for the CNRS at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris, and from 1985 to 1990 as deputy director. In 1983 he was at the Institute for Advanced Studies. From 1983 he was Assistant Professor (Professore Associato), then Full Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna. Redondi is a professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Milano-Bicocca.

In 2012 he was visiting professor of art history at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.

Redondi has four children: a boy and three girls (two are twins). Provided by Wikipedia