Lucio Russo

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Lucio Russo (1944) is an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science. He teaches at the Mathematics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Works

(in Italian unless noted otherwise)

  • La rivoluzione dimenticata. Il pensiero scientifico greco e la scienza moderna, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1996, 380 pp; 2nd ed., 2001, 487 pp, [1]; 3rd ed., exp., 2003. [2] Review: Graffi (1996, EN), Wilson (1998, EN).
    • The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn, trans. Silvio Levy, Springer, 2004, ix+487 pp, PDF. (English). [3] Rev. & exp. trans. of 2nd Italian ed. Reviews: Greene (2004), Cuomo (2005).
    • Die vergessene Revolution oder die Wiedergeburt des antiken Wissens, trans. Bärbel Deninger, Berlin: Springer, 2005, x+546 pp, PDF. [4] Review: Høyrup (2007).
  • Segmenti e bastoncini, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1998; 2000; 3rd ed., 2005, Scribd. [5]
  • with Massimo Bontempelli and Marino Badiale, Scienza, cultura, filosofia, CRT, 2002.
  • Flussi e riflussi: indagine sull'origine di una teoria scientifica, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2003. [6]
  • La cultura componibile, dalla frammentazione alla disgregazione del sapere, Naples: Liguori, 2008.
  • Archimede. Massimo genio dell'umanità, Canguro, 2009.
  • with Emanuela Santoni, Ingegni minuti. Una storia della scienza in Italia, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2010.
  • L'America dimenticata. I rapporti tra le civiltà e un errore di Tolomeo, Milan: Mondadori, 2013; 2nd ed., 2013.