PhD Professor Breno Arsioli Moura

Breno Arsioli Moura has a degree in Physics from Unicamp (2005) and a Master’s and Doctorate in Science Education from USP (2008; 2012), emphasizing History of Science. Since 2013, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), located in Santo André-SP. He performed postdoctoral internships at the Department of History at the University of California (Berkeley-USA) and the SPHÈre laboratory (Université Paris 7 – Diderot / CNRS, Paris-France) with FAPESP support. Between 2017 and 2020, he coordinated the project “The nature of light from Newton to Young: a study on optics between the 17th and 18th centuries”, funded by CNPq (Edital Universal 2016). He is currently one of the editors of the Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência.
Personal website: https://www.brenoam.com/

PUBLICATIONS

 

    • MOURA, B.A. The first French translation of Book II of Newton’s Opticks: omissions, abridgements and the quest for authorship. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, v. 76, n. 1, p. 85-106, 2022.
    • MOURA, B.A. The problem of reflection in eighteenth-century projectile theories of light. Physics in Perspective, v. 22, n. 3, p. 191-214, 2020.
    • MOURA, B.A. A filosofia natural de Benjamin Franklin: traduções de cartas e ensaios sobre a eletricidade e a luz. São Bernardo do Campo: EdUFABC, 2019.
    • MOURA, B.A. Newton versus Huygens: como (não) ocorreu a disputa entre suas teorias para a luz. Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física, v. 33, n. 1, p. 111-141, 2016.
  • MOURA, B.A. O que é natureza da ciência e qual sua relação com a história e a filosofia da ciência. Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência, v. 7, n. 1, p. 32-46, 2014.

Full list of publications:
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