Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of

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at Pompeu Fabra University,

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. His research interests are mostly in the history of

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and

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in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Malet earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from

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as a student of Charles Gillispie, with the thesis ''Studies on James Gregorie (1638–1675)''. Malet served as president of the European Society for the History of Science 2016–2018.

Selected publications

*"From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals. Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities". Barcelona 1996. *"Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967)". Barcelona 1995. * with J. Paradís: "Els orígens i l'ensenyament de l'àlgebra simbòlica" (in Catalan). Barcelona 1984. *"James Gregorie on Tangents and the "Taylor" Rule of Series Expansions". ''

Archive for History of Exact Sciences ''Archive for History of Exact Sciences'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal currently published bimonthly by Springer Science+Business Media, covering the history of mathematics and of astronomy observations and techniques, epistemology of scien ...

'', Volume 46, 1993, 97–137. *"Mil años de matematicas en Iberia". In: A. Duran (Herausgeber): ''El legado de las matematicas''. Universität Sevilla 2000, S. 193–224. *"Kepler and the Telescope". ''

Annals of Science ''Annals of Science'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of science and technology. It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1936. The founding editor-in-chief was the Canadian historian of science Harcourt ...

'', 60, 2003, 107–36. *"Isaac Barrow on the Mathematization of Nature: Theological Voluntarism and the Rise of Geometrical Optics". ''

Journal of the History of Ideas The ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering intellectual history, conceptual history, and the history of ideas, including the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and soci ...

'', 58, 1997, 265–287. *"Gregorie, Descartes, Kepler, and the Law of Refraction". ''Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences'', 40, 1990, 278–304.

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