Serafina Cuomo (born May 21, 1966) is an Italian historian and professor at Durham University. Cuomo specialises in ancient mathematics and the history of technology.[1]
Cuomo has published on topics in ancient mathematics, including computing practices in ancient Rome and the mathematician Pappos, and the history of technology.[2]
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000)[5]
Ancient Mathematics (Sciences of Antiquity, Routledge, 2001)[6]
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 2007)[7]
Articles and chapters
“Skills and virtues in Vitruvius’ book 10”, in M. Formisano (ed.), War in Words, Leiden: Brill 2011, 309-32
“All the proconsul’s men: Cicero, Verres and account-keeping”, Annali dell’Università degli studi di Napoli ‘L’ Orientale’. Sezione filologico-letteraria. Quaderni 15, Naples 2011, 165-85
“A Roman engineer’s tales”, Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011), 143-65
“Measures for an emperor: Volusius Maecianus’ monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius”, in J. König & T. Whitmarsh (eds.), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press 2007, 206-228
“The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica”, in C.J. Tuplin & T.E. Rihll (eds.), Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, 165-77
“Divide and rule: Frontinus and Roman land-surveying”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31 (2000), 189-202
“Shooting by the book: Notes on Tartaglia's ‘Scientia Nova’”, History of Science 35 (1997), 155-88
Guicciardini, Niccolò (2001), Early Science and Medicine, 6 (1): 48–50, JSTOR4130282{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Federspiel, Michel (2001), "Review", Revue des Études Anciennes, 103 (3–4): 557–559
Hogendijk, Jan P. (April 2001), Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, 54 (2): 233–235, JSTOR4433205{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Høyrup, Jens (June 2001), The British Journal for the History of Science, 34 (2): 240–242, JSTOR4028015{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)