David C. Lindberg
Hilldale Professor Emeritus, History of Science
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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, Prehistory to A.D. 1450 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). 2nd revised edition.
- 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: Oxford University Press, 1996).