Dr Nuno Castel-Branco is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He completed his PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after earning an MSc in Physics at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has spoken about Galileo, Copernicus, and science and religion to broad audiences in the United States, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy. His first book, The Traveling Anatomist, uses Nicolaus Steno as a tour guide for science, medicine, and religion in seventeenth-century Europe. His writing has appeared in places like the Wall Street Journal and cientific American, as well as in research journals such as Renaissance Quarterly, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, and Annals of Science.

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