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Recent Select Publications
“Earth, Theories of the,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World [first author, jointly with Kenneth L. Taylor]. Ed. by Jonathan Dewald. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers, 2004 [appeared in 2003]. Vol. 2, pp. 222-226.
“Geology,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World [second author, jointly with Kenneth L. Taylor]. Ed. by Jonathan Dewald. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers, 2004 [appeared in 2003]. Vol. 3, 39-42.
“The Sphaera of Gabriele Beati: Jesuit Cosmology in the Mid-Seventeenth Century,” History of Science Department Colloquium, January 18, 2002.
“Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural Order and Historical Contingency in a Contested Textual Tradition,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 2000.
“Crossing Disciplinary Divides: Global Visions and Hexameral Idiom in Textual Traditions before Geology,” Presentation at the Geological Society of America 1999 annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 25-28.
Essay review of A. C. Crombie, Styles of Scientific Thinking in the Western Tradition. In The Sixteenth Century Journal, 26(1995) 406-410.
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