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Robin Rider

Curator of Special Collections, Memorial Library;
Senior Lecturer, History of Science

Office: Department of Special Collections
990 Memorial Library
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-262-2809 (office)
608-262-3243 (Special Collections)
Fax: 608-265-2754
Email: rrider@library.wisc.edu
Robin Rider

Special interests and recent research:

Early modern science; printing and publishing of science; history of mathematics.

Recent courses:

  • HS 350: Special Topics: History of the Printed Scientific Book and Journal (spring 2003, spring 2001, spring 1998)
  • Special Collections in the Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (summer 2003)
  • HS 324: Science in the Enlightenment (spring 2000)
  • HS 350: Special Topics: The Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences over Three Centuries (spring 2000)
  • SLIS 839: Special Collections (summer 2001)