| David
C. Lindberg
Acting Director, Institute
for Research in the Humanities
Hilldale Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Science
Institute for Research
in the Humanities
Washburn Observatory
1401 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-8151
dclindbe@facstaff.wisc.edu
Specialty:
The history of
medieval and early modern science, especially physical and mathematical
science and the relationship between science and religion.
Current research:
Roger Bacon and
the interaction between science and theology in his work and that
of other medieval scholars.
Current editorial efforts:
General editor
(with Ronald L. Numbers) of the forthcoming 8-volume Cambridge History
of Science; also (again with Numbers) of a book for undergraduate
course use: Science and the Christian Tradition: Twelve Case Histories
(forthcoming, University of Chicago Press).
Selected Publications:
- Theories
of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler (University
of Chicago Press, 1976).
- Science
in the Middle Ages, editor (University of Chicago Press, 1978).
- Roger Bacon's
Philosophy of Nature (Clarendon Press, 1983).
- God and
Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Science and Religion,
ed. with Ronald L. Numbers (University of California Press, 1986).
- 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).
- Roger Bacon
and the Origin of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages (Clarendon Press,
1996).
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