| William
Eamon Regents Professor of History Dean, Honors College History
of Science and Medicine Department
of History Office
Hours, Fall 2004: T Th 2-3 p.m. Telephone:
575-646-2005 |
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University of Montana, B.A., 1968
(History)
University of Montana, M.A., 1970 (History)
University of Kansas, Ph.D., 1977 (History
of Science)
| Research Topics/ Interests:
Medieval and Early Modern Science
Courses Offered Honors
224G: God and Nature |
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Selected PublicationsBooks
Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994); paperback edition, 1996. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize; winner of the History Book Award, Association of American Publishers. Italian translation: La Scienza e i segreti della natura: I 'libri di segreti' nella cultura medievale e moderna, trans. by Renzo Repetti (Genova: ECIG, 1999)Selected Articles and EssaysCo-Editor (with Victor Navarro Brotons), Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution / Más alla de la Leyenda Negra: España y la Revolución Científica (Valencia: Soler, 2007)
“The Charlatan’s Trial: An Italian Surgeon in the Court of King Philip II, 1576-1577,” Cronos 8 (2005), 1-30Book Chapters“Pharmaceutical Self-Fashioning, or How to Get Rich and Famous in the Renaissance Medical Fashion Industry,” Pharmacy in History, 45 (2003), 123-29
“The Scientific Renaissance,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (London: Blackwells Publishing 2002), pp. 403-24
"Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone," Early Science and Medicine, 5 (2000), 196-213
"Unmannered Science: 'Natural Philosophy' and Medical Practice in the Piazza," Science and Power: The Historical Foundations of Research Policies in Europe, ed. Luca Guzzetti (Luxembourg: European Communities, 2000), pp. 63-8
"Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe," Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (1999), 474-86
"Cannibalism and Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy," Early Science and Medicine, 3 (1998), 1-31
"El 'Nou Asclepi': Leonardo Fioravanti i les modes mèdiques al Renaixement," Afers. Fulls de recerca i pensament, 31 (Valencia, 1998), 679-93
"Natural Magic and Utopia in the Cinquecento: Campanella, the Della Porta Circle, and the Revolt of Calabria," Memorie Domenicane, n.s., 26 (1995), 369-402
"Science as a Hunt," Physis, 31 (1994), 393-432
"Plebs amat empirica: Nicholas of Poland and His Critique of the Medieval Medical Establishment," (with Gundolf Keil), Sudhoffs Archiv 71 (1987), 180-96
"Inventing the World: Einstein and the Generation of 1905," Antioch Review 43 (Summer, 1985), 340-51
"Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science," Sudhoffs Archiv 69 (1985), 26-49
"Science and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy: The 'Professors of Secrets' and Their Books," The Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985), 471-85
"Arcana Disclosed: The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition, and the Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century," History of Science 22 (1984), 111-50
"The Accademia Segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli: A Sixteenth Century Italian Scientific Society," (with Françoise Paheau), Isis 75 (1984), 327-42
"Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Janus 70 (1983), 171-212
“The Canker Friar: Piety and Intrigue in an Era of New Diseases,” in Piety and Plague in Europe: From Byzantium to the Baroque, ed. Franco Mormando and Thomas W. Worcester, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (Kirksville, MO: Truman Statue University Press, 2007), 156-76Encyclopedia and Catalogue Entries“Spain and the Scientific Revolution: Historiographical Questions and Conjectures” (with Victor Navarro Brotòns), in Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, ed. Victor Navarro Brotòns and William Eamon (Valencia: Soler, 2007), pp. 21-32
“Markets, Piazzas, and Villages,” in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3, ed. K. Park and L. Daston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 206-23
“The Secrets of Nature and the Moral Economy of Early Modern Science,” in Il Segreto / The Secret, ed. A. Paravacini Bagliani, Micrologus, vol. XIV (Florence: SISMEL, 2006), pp. 215-35
"'With the Rules of Life and and Enema': Leonardo Fioravanti's Medical Primitivism," in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J.V. Field and F.A.J.L. James (London: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 29-44
"Court, Academy, and Printing House: Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late-Renaissance Italy," in Patronage and Institutions, ed. B. Moran (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991), pp. 25-50
"From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge," in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. S. Westman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 333-66
“Nicholas of Poland”; “Leonardo Fioravanti,” in Dictionary of Medical Biography, ed. W. Bynum and H. Bynum (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).Selected Forthcoming Publications“Libros de secretos” / “Books of Secrets,” in Alquimia. Ciencia y pensamiento a través de los libros (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005), 112-15
“Books of Secrets,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. J. DeWald (New York: Scribner’s, 2004), 5:365-6
“Natural Magic,” in Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. J. Heilbron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 479-81
"Magic and the Occult," in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, ed. G. B. Ferngren, E. J. Larson, and D. W. Amundsen (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000), pp. 533-40
"Secrets of Nature"; "Books of Secrets"; "Giambattista Della Porta"; "Vannoccio Biringuccio," in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, ed. Wilbur Applebaum (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000)
“Treatises on Technology,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, vol. 10 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), 640 50
The Charlatan's Tale: A Renaissance Surgeon's World (book manuscript in progress)Current Research Projects“The Secrets of Nature and the Moral Economy of Science,” in Il Segreto nel Medio Evo. Potere, scienza e cultura, ed. A. Paravacini Bagliani (Florence: SISMEL, scheduled for publication in 2004)
“The Charlatan's Trial: An Italian Surgeon in Philip II’s Court, 1576-1577,” Cronos (forthcoming in 2004)
"Sites of Natural Knowledge: Markets, Piazzas, and Villages," The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3, ed. K. Park and L. Daston (scheduled for publication in 2000)
Science and Everyday Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1750 (book manuscript in progress; click for details)Recent Master's ThesesJoe Denk, "'Everyone Sees What You Appear to Be, Few Feel What You Are': Machiavellianism through the Perspective of Morality and Religion, 1550-1999" (1999)Sheila Klopfer, "One of His Sheep: The Lives of Anabaptist Women from the Martyrs Mirror, 1525-1565" (1994)
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History of Renaissance Science and Medicine:
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