Isadora Monteiro

Biography

Isadora Monteiro is a PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science. In 2017, she completed her Bachelor's degree in General Studies (minor in Classics). And in 2022, she completed her Master's degree in HPS at the Faculty of Science (University of Lisbon) with the thesis "The forces that balance the universe: revisiting Robert Hooke", supervised by Professor Ricardo Coelho and she also published the paper "On Hooke's Rule of Nature", which focuses on the presentation of Hooke's Law (1678). In 2023 she co-authored the paper "From science communication to science education: the educational assessment of an outreach-oriented science centre" and she also published "The Blazing World or a woman's attempt to escape from her human condition". In 2024, she also published the first translation into Portuguese of a text by Robert Hooke, namely "Lições de Potentia Restitutiva ou da Mola", with an introduction about the author, complemented by a preface written by Professor Carlos Fiolhais and a note to the reader written by Professor Ricardo Lopes Coelho. Currently, she has been awarded a scholarship in partnership with the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to pursue a Ph.D. Her research will investigate the emergence of the first telescopes in early modern Europe. She is also determined to pursue an academic career.