Flavia Marcacci is a Professor of History of Science at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy).
She has worked on the history and philosophy of science in the antiquity and on the history of science and astronomy with a particular focus on the debate about the competitive world systems before Isaac Newton. She has been bestowed the Del Monte Medal for the History of Science by the International Center Urbino e la Prospettiva. She was Professor of History of Scientific Thought at the Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University (Rome, Vatican City State). She also was Visiting Professor at the University of Lille (France) and Assistant Professor at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame (Italy/USA). She published several articles (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, Foundation of Science, Nuncius, European Journal of Science and Theology), edited books, and books among the following: Alle origini dell’assiomatica: gli Eleati, Aristotele, Euclide (Roma 2012); Magna longeque admirabilia. Astronomy and Cosmology at the Ancient Library Beato Pio IX (Vatican state 2009); (con W.R. Shea), Intervista a Galileo (Carocci, Roma 2015); Cieli in contraddizione. Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo (Perugia-Modena 2018); P. Allen, F. Marcacci, Divined explanation. The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600-2000). Brill, 2024 (August), 210-231, where she also contributed with the essay “Max Planck, Causality and the Necessity of God” written in collaboration with the philosopher of Quantum physics Gino Tarozzi.
