Luca Tonetti

Historian of science and medicine. Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the University of Padua.

[Luca Tonetti @LucaTonetti]

https://t.co/w1SobWCxcn

[Luca Tonetti @LucaTonetti]

Proud to have organized, together with Sietske Fransen and Elena Rizzi, this panel dedicated to early modern natural history!

Sponsored by @NunciusJournal, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

See you on Wednesday, July 15! #HSS26 #ESHS26

[Nuncius @NunciusJournal]

📖 #Nuncius 41.2 (2026): Writing the History of Scientific Instruments: Challenges and Perspectives, eds. Charlotte Bigg, Christoph Meinel & Helmuth Trischler

🔍New perspectives from recent recipients of the Paul Bunge Prize
https://t.co/ETdlhwnYdh

Read & share #nuncius!

[Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary]

🎉The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20!🎈
We’re starting celebrations with a special anniversary blog series featuring remarkable treasures from BHL chosen by the people who know them best: https://t.co/FOUsYzAJif #BHLat20 #ILoveBHL 🧪📚🌏

[Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA @Andy404040]

1. Christmas treasure gifted: a rare 1767 copy of ‘Systema Naturae’ by Linnaeus 🌿

This extraordinary copy has real 250+ year-old butterflies pasted onto pages, hand-drawn ink illustrations of bees/jellyfish/flies, & handwritten Latin/French notes/dissections.

🙏 Steph & Will

[Nuncius @NunciusJournal]

📖 #Nuncius 40.3 (2025)
Special Issue: Exploring the In-Between of Art and Science: Shared Structures and Languages, edited by Denis Ribouillault and Eva Struhal

🔍 Browse the TOC: https://t.co/EmRwmDwH2w
Read & share #nuncius!

[SISS-Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza @SISS_Outreach]

"Logica, Storia e Filosofia della Scienza. Dialoghi e prospettive"

Study Days organized by the Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza (SILFS) and the Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza (SISS)

January 21–22, 2026
University of Padua
https://t.co/UoxzxkKngF

[Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social @flannerm]

Art and science together: the best.

[Department of Biology – University of Padova @DiBio_UniPD]

Together with @UniFI and supported by @nbfc_italy we will have a public conversations around #herbaria and how they face the challenges of #digitization. Registration required. @ortobotanicopd
#museumcollections #plantbiodiversity #conservation

[MuseoStoriaNaturale @StoriaNaturale]

🌿 RAGGIUNTI 3 MILIONI DI CAMPIONI DIGITALIZZATI PER L'ERBARIO CENTRALE ITALIANO!

@UNI_FIRENZE e @UniPadova protagoniste del progetto @nbfc_italy per la digitalizzazione di 4,2 mln di campioni vegetali e la creazione di un database online.
Info progetto: https://t.co/QG5LsBzpq3

[SISS-Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza @SISS_Outreach]

📣 Pagine di Storia della Scienza!

"Storie naturali delle rovine: forme e oggetti del tempo nella Francia dei philosophes (1755-1812)" (Carocci, 2023) by Matteo Marcheschi

May 30, 5:30 PM
Museo Galileo Library, Florence

Streaming on YouTube (SISS & Museo Galileo channels)

[Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social @flannerm]

Post from Herbarium World on the human labor involved in maintaining herbarium specimens: https://t.co/jzt3U0Sa1T #herbarium

[Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary]

Change is in the air for BHL! In 2026, BHL hosting will transition away from the Smithsonian, opening doors to reimagine our future. Rest assured, our 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge remain secure and accessible. Learn what's next for BHL ➡️ https://t.co/A3Btxo7acO

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

Today #Kew_Gardens #humanities #PhD students visited Kew's #specimen mounting team to learn more about #botanical practices. We also learnt that specimens arrive on or in some very interesting papers!

[ANMS @ANMS_Italia]

📚Online sul sito ANMS il pdf con l'intero volume di Museologia Scientifica - Memorie n.24/2025, che raccoglie gli Atti del XXXII Congresso ANMS, svoltosi a Pavia nel 2023.
➡️ https://t.co/82nTt3SXOf
🤩Grazie a tutti coloro che hanno contributo alla realizzazione del volume!

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

Collected #OnThisDay in 1976 a beautiful Iris plant found in Porto Casareo, Italy. This is the type specimen for Iris revoluta, the example specimen for which the species was named. #Botany #Digitisation #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon https://t.co/oVeTM77Wpn

[SISS-Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza @SISS_Outreach]

Pagine di Storia della Scienza! 📢

"Il mondo in un'altra luce. Saggi newtoniani" (Carocci, 2024) by Franco Giudice

April 10, 5:30 PM
Museo Galileo Library, Florence

Streaming on YouTube (SISS & Museo Galileo channels)

[email protected]

https://t.co/4dJmXL2Lh8

[The Warburg Institute @Warburg_News]

🧠 Discover more about the life of Andreas Vesalius

In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the #Renaissance.

Watch now: https://t.co/EnizHedPNg @reaktionbooks

[ZSL Library @ZSLLibrary]

Mark Catesby was born #otd in 1683. We have his magnificent book "The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" (published between 1731-1743). Below is his engraving of the now extinct Carolina parakeet.
More about Catesby in our #blog: https://t.co/cJJAJot26n

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

One of the many wonderful illustrations to be found in an 1837 "caterpillar calendar", an entomological volume by the aptly named Christian Friedrich Vogel outlining which caterpillars appear each month. More here: https://t.co/YxGsyp4wJq (from @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries)