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Paola Bertucci's work focuses on the intersection of science, technology, and medicine during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. She has published extensively on artisanal cultures, the politics of display, and the social history of experimental physics in Italy and England, particularly in the context of the silk industry and industrial espionage in Europe. Her recent monograph, 'Land Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour', explores how experimenters and academicians manipulated facts to create fabricated realities that had real-life effects. This book has been awarded the 2025 Paul Bunge Prize. Additionally, her book 'Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France' highlights the importance of mechanical arts in shaping the French Enlightenment and was awarded the 2019 Louis Gottschalk Prize. She has also co-curated exhibitions addressing the connections between science, art, and European colonialism.
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