Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous influential works in science and technology studies, the history of science, intellectual property law, and cultural studies, including Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Cultural of Absolutism (Chicago, 1993) and Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Chicago, 2006). He has also edited two of the standard textbooks in the field of science studies: The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1998), and Scientific Authorship (Routledge, 2003). His current research projects deal with scientific authorship and intellectual property, science and law, and the economics of technical knowledge production.
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