Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a historian of science and philosophy and a professor of philosophy of science at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe, a comparative inquiry of early-modern cosmologies in their institutional, political, and confessional-ideological settings.. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology. He is the author of Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Leiden, 2014).