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Selected Publications

Monograph:

•   (Brill, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science book series, 2023).

Co-ed. Volume:

• Supernovae, Comets and Aristotelian Cosmology: A Collapse of Philosophical Paradigms and the Birth of the New Sciences, 1572鈥�1687, ed. with David McOmish (Turnhout: Brepols, under production)

Research Articles

• 鈥�La preuve par la Chine? Jesuit Networks, Academic Politics, and the Shape of the Earth in 1730s Paris鈥�, British Journal for The History of Science, in press, 2026.

• 鈥淐hallenging Newtonian Chronology: Nicolas Fr茅ret and his Contextualisation of Ancient Chinese Astronomy,鈥� History of European Ideas, in press, 2026.

• 鈥�: Armchair Geography and the Eurasian Makingof a Prolate Earth鈥�, Centaurus, 68.2 (2026), 393鈥�414.

• 鈥�: Chinese Learning, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment Eurasianised鈥�, Global Intellectual History 11.6 (2026), part of a special issue on Alexander Statman鈥檚 A Global Enlightenment (2023) [review article].

• 鈥�: The Divine in Jean Fernel鈥檚 and William Harvey鈥檚 Theories of Generation鈥�, Intellectual History Review 29, no. 3 (2019): 371-87. [Winner of the Charles Schmitt Prize for Intellectual History, 2018]
• 鈥�.鈥� Isis 107, no. 4 (2016): 707鈥�21.

Encyclopaedia entry:

• 鈥溾��, in Marco Sgarbi (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017).

Translation:

• Agassiz, The Continuing Revolution: A History of Physics from the Greeks to Einstein (McGraw-Hill, 1968), translated into Chinese, (Xiangtan: Hunan Science and Technology Press, 2015).

Book Review:

• William Poole, John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays, (Leiden: Brill, 2017), Annals of Science, Issue 03, (2018): 262-265.

 

Selected Conference and Seminar papers

• August 2023, "The Japanese Maupertuis? French and Chinese Sources for Ino虅 Tadataka's Geodetic Measurement", Consonances I: Mathematics, Language, and the Moral Sense of Nature Conference, Maynooth University, Dublin.
• July 2023, "Evidence Making, Jesuit Missionaries, and the Shape of the Earth in Early Modern China", Leverhulme Global History of Science Workshop, 糖心TV.
• November 2022, 鈥淎n English Disciple of Galileo: John Wallis鈥檚 Gravitational Theories鈥�, STVDIO Seminar Series, 糖心TV.
• June 2022, "Upon Closer Inspection: The Comets of 1664 and 1665", Susan Manning workshop, (co-organised with Dr David McOmish), Venice.
• September 2020, 鈥淒isciples, Disciplines and the Disseminations of Newtonian science in 18th century Scotland鈥�, IASH Work in Progress Talks, IASH, Edinburgh.
• January 2020, 鈥淔rancis Bacon on attractio and gravitas鈥�, the Society for Renaissance Studies Seminar, The Warburg Institute, London.
• October 2019, 鈥淥ccult science and Newton鈥檚 natural Philosophy鈥�, Intellectual History Research Group Work in Progress Seminar, IASH, Edinburgh.
• September 2019: 鈥淔rom Geometrical Optics to Light Metaphysics: John Dee and his Astrological Physics in Early Modern England鈥�, Thomas Harriot Seminar, Durham University.
• June 2019, 鈥淛ohn Dee鈥檚 Mathematical Natural Philosophy鈥�, Scientiae annual conference at Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast.
• May 2019, 鈥淗ooke and Newton on Vibrating Aether鈥�, invited talk in All Souls College, Oxford.

Teaching

Renaissance Europe I: Foundations and Forms, UG module, 2021-22, Convenor (with Dr Claudia Daniotti) and lecturer

Renaissance Europe II: Movement, Revolution and Conflict, UG module, 2021-22, Convenor (with Dr Claudia Daniotti) and lecturer

Methodology/Skills Sessions, PG module, 2021-2022, guest lecturer.