Book review: Natacha Fabbri, Profili di donne sulla Luna. Riflessi di scienza, filosofia e letteratura, Pisa: Edizioni della Normale; Firenze: Museo Galileo, Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, 2022

Profili di donne sulla Luna (Profiles of Women on the Moon) by Natacha Fab- bri is an intelligent and refined work from both a historiographical perspective and in its use of sources. Yet, it remains intentionally communicative and is an extraordinarily enjoyable read. The volume sheds light on female scholars, writers, painters, and philoso- phers, often overlooked by the public and students. These women, active from the Renaissance to the early 20th century, offered alternative visions of the uni- verse through the metaphor of the Moon. With a deft touch, Fabbri restores those women’s skeptical views on the rhetoric of ‘modern science’ and its ‘revo- lutions,’ which still weigh down much of the history of science literature in Ital- ian. But her book also revisits that tired old tale of supposed affinities between women, the Moon, and water: stereotypes that continue to affect us all, men and women alike, through a variety of media