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David C. Lindberg

Hilldale Professor Emeritus, History of Science

Office: 7143 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
Phone: 608-238-0422 (Home)
608-262-1406 (Hist. Sci. Dept.)
Fax: 608-262-3984
Email: dclindbe@wisc.edu
Photograph of David C. Lindberg

Special interests and current research:

Specialty: the history of medieval and early modern science, especially physical science and the relationship between science and religion. Currently editing (jointly with Ronald Numbers) the 8-volume Cambridge History of Science. Editorial board member of the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, responsible for science entries.

Selected Recent publications:

  • The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Also available in German, Dutch, and Greek translations; Italian, Chinese, and Japanese translation in process.
  • Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Bacon's Perspectiva, with Introduction and Notes (Oxford University Press, 1996).