Professor Coppola’s first book, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford 2016), is a critical study of the role of spectacle in the creation and verification of natural facts and the ways in which science was itself performed in both domestic and theatrical spaces. His current book project, Enlightenment Visibilities, explores the Enlightenment legacies that structure 21 st century modernity: strategies and technologies, first innovated in the long eighteenth century, that bring previously unimaginable or imperceptible phenomena into the domain of perception and knowledge.