Janette Bright studied with the Open University before undertaking an MRes in Historical Research at the Institute of Historical Research, part of the University of London. Her dissertation for this was a study of the education and training of the foundling children during the eighteenth century. Continuing at the same institute she is now in the second year (part-time equivalent) of an MPhil/PhD researching a new institutional history of the London Foundling Hospital (1740-1820). She is looking at how it was created, maintained, and supported, and how this relates to ideas of reputation, trust and respectability.
Jenny Brückner studied art history, history and archival sciences at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She works as freelance editor and proofreader, among others for the Dresden State Art Collections and the German Lost Art Foundation. In 2018/19 she was also a research assistant at the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies, Halle/Saale. She is writing her dissertation at the Technical University of Dresden on the topic “Inventory, Character, Impact – Dresden Private Collections in the 18th Century”. Her research interests are History of Collecting, Collecting in Cities and Provenance Research.
Thony Christie is a freelance historian of science, who blogs as the Renaissance Mathematicus.
Jordan Goodman is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has published extensively in the fields of the history of science, history of medicine, cultural history and economic history, in articles and in books. His forthcoming book is Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors – An Adventurous History of Botany (William Collins, 2020). He is particularly interested in the intersection between the history of natural history and the history of medicine.
Emma-Louise Hill is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD candidate researching public engagement with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and with the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed (1646-1719) from its foundation in 1675 to c.1740. (University of Kent in collaboration with Royal Museums Greenwich)
Boris Jardine is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and has had a long association with the Whipple Museum. He is currently researching the trade in scientific instruments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to materials and economics, for example: the role of monopoly patents and priority disputes; the relation to the instrument trade to other industrial and commercial activities (mining, engraving, book-selling); and the circulation of materials and instruments.
Claus Jensen is an independent scholar based in Denmark. His interests focus on the history of mathematics and astronomy in Antiquity, the medieval Arab world, and medieval and early modern Europe, as well as scientific instruments, perspective theory and anamorphoses, and art history.
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin is a social and cultural historian of early modern England and lecturer at Cardiff University. She is particularly interested in the material cultures, spaces, and knowledge cultures of London’s diverse artisanal communities. Before joining the Metropolitan Science project at the University of Kent, she was a College Lecturer and Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. In 2014-15 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She has published on gifting cultures, memory and material cultures, and civic drinking rituals. Her monograph, Crafting identities: artisan culture in London, c.1550-1640 is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
Noah Moxham is a historian of early modern science and communication (and especially of the intersections between them) working on the Metropolitan Science project at the University of Kent. He has previously worked on the Leverhulme-funded international network ‘News Networks in early modern Europe’ at QMUL/UEA, and ‘Publishing the Philosophical Transactions’ (a project tracing the history of the world’s first scientific periodical from the seventeenth century to the present) at St Andrews. He has published widely on the history of scholarly communication, as well as on intellectual networks, scientific biography, and institutions of early modern science. He is the co-editor of News Networks in Early Modern Europe (2016).
Yelda Nasifoglu is a historian of early modern mathematics and architecture based at the University of Oxford. She was trained as an architect in New York, has studied history of science at Oxford, and received her doctorate in the history and theory of architecture from McGill University with her dissertation ‘Robert Hooke’s praxes: reading, drawing, building’ (2018). She has been a researcher with the AHRC-funded project ‘Reading Euclid’s Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain and Ireland’ based at Oxford, and is one of the editors of the ‘Robert Hooke’s Books’ database. Her research interests include mathematical diagrams, non-representational uses of drawing, cross-pollinations between mathematics and architecture, and different conceptions of praxis. She is currently working on a digital humanities project titled ‘Catalogue of Catalogues: A Database of British Book Catalogues, in Print and Manuscript, up to 1700’.
Torsten Roeder works in the area of Digital Humanities as scientific consultant at the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies in Halle, Germany. He studied musicology and Italian language and literature in Hamburg, Rome and Berlin, and received his doctorate at the University of Würzburg. Since his earlier career he is contributing to projects in the humanities as programmer, researcher and digital editor, recently focusing on project design, community building, digital scholarly editions and open science.
Edwin Rose is finishing a PhD. in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and from October 2020 will be Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Edwin has interests in the history of natural history and the history of the book from the late seventeenth to late
nineteenth centuries, including the use of books by naturalists, book production and the distribution of works of natural history.
Didi van Trijp is a PhD-candidate at Leiden University and writes her dissertation on early modern natural history, specifically ichthyology. Her main interests lie in visual, material, and artisanal cultures of knowledge, especially there where matters of expertise and authority come into play. The research presented here will appear, in extended form, as an article in a future issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society.
Umberto Veronesi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is specialised in the study of ancient technologies and materials and in the use of scientific archaeology as a means to inform historical research and questions. His dissertation explores the practice of early modern chymistry through the lenses of the material culture of laboratories. Before the current PhD, Umberto received his BA in Archaeology from Sapienza Università di Roma in 2013 before moving to UCL where he completed the MSc in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials in 2014.
Simon Werrett is Professor of the History of Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. Previously he taught in the History Department of the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of two books with the University of Chicago Press, Fireworks (2010) and Thrifty Science (2019), and co-edited, with Lissa Roberts, Compound Histories (Brill, 2018).
Huib Zuidervaart has been based at Huygens INH since 2007. He obtained his doctorate from Utrecht University in 1999, focusing on Dutch astronomy in the 18th century. He worked in various positions in secondary and university education and in the museum world, including at Museum Boerhaave, the VU and Leiden University. From 2007 -2016, he was editorial secretary responsible for the publication of Studium, a journal for Science and University History. He currently works as book reviews editor for Isis. His main field of research is the history of science of the early modern era, in particular the role of scientific instruments, institutions and collections.
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