The project has been supporte by the Museo Galileo and the Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques de la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Paris).

Scientific editor and director of the project: Marco Beretta
(Università di Bologna – m.beretta@museogalileo.it)

Data-base editor: Andrea Scotti

Interface editor: Daniele Nuzzo

Digitalization (OCR) editor: Pietro Corsi

French translations: Raphaël Bange

The project has benefited of the scientific support and collaboration of the following institutions:
Archives de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris); Center for History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Stockholm); Comité Lavoisier at the Académie des Sciences (Paris); Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Ithaca - New York); Institut Culturel Italien (Paris);Muséum d'histoire naturelle Henri-Lecoq (Clermont Ferrand); Musée National des arts et Métiers (Paris); Uppsala University Library.

The editor wishes to thank for their generous contributions Raphaël Bange, Patrice Bret, Stefano Casati, Annie Chassagne, Francesco Cocchi, Pietro Corsi, Cristiane Demeulenaere Douyère, Dominique Ferriot, Dominique Pierre Frasson-Cochet, Florence Greffe, Irina Gouzevitch, Bruno Jacomy, Frederic Jarrousse, Keiko Kawaschima, Thierry Lalande, Celia Lindern, Laura Linke, Eve Netchine, Margaret Nichols, Stéphane Pelucchi, Pierre Pénicaud, Elise Picard, Jean Pierre Poirier, Ken Saito, Monica Tassi.