Now playing · Mon Oct 26 · 4:30pm
STUDIO.nano Resonances Lecture: Paola Bertucci — Invented Pasts, Past Inventions
Paola Bertucci, a Yale historian of science, follows Flavio Gioia, the supposed medieval inventor of the navigational compass, who was born of a sixteenth-century mistranslation and never existed yet survived for centuries in histories of technology. Her In the Land of Marvels, on science and industrial espionage in the age of the Grand Tour, won the 2025 Paul Bunge Prize. MIT materials scientist Craig Carter joins her in conversation.