Bio

I have taught the early history of science and medicine for many years on the premise that one of the most important ways to understand how science, medicine and technology have become so central to contemporary society comes from examining the process by which scientific knowledge emerged. I also take enormous pleasure in examining a kind of scientific knowledge that did not have an autonomous existence from other kinds of creative endeavors, but emerged in the context of humanistic approaches to the world (in defiance of C.P. Snow's claim that the modern world is one of "two cultures" that share very little in common). More generally, I am profoundly attracted to individuals in the past who aspired to know everything. It still seems like a worthy goal.

My other principal interest lies in understanding the world of the Renaissance, with a particular focus on Italy. I continue to be fascinated by a society that made politics, economics and culture so important to its self-definition, and that obviously succeeded in all these endeavors for some time, as the legacy of such figures as Machiavelli and Leonardo suggests. Renaissance Italy, in short, is a historical laboratory for understanding the possibilities and the problems of an innovative society. As such, it provides an interesting point of comparison to Gilded Age America, where magnates such as J.P. Morgan often described themselves as the "new Medici," and to other historical moments when politics, art and society combined fruitfully.

Finally, I have a certain interest in the relations between gender, culture and knowledge. Virginia Woolf rightfully observed at the beginning of the twentieth century that one could go to a library and find a great deal about women but very little that celebrated or supported their accomplishments. This is no longer true a century later, in large part thanks to the efforts of many scholars, male and female, who have made the work of historical women available to modern readers and who have begun to look at relations between the sexes in more sophisticated ways. Our own debates and disagreements on such issues make this subject all the more important to understand.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor, History
  • Professor (By courtesy), French and Italian

Administrative Appointments

  • Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Stanford University (2002 - Present)
  • Professor of History (and Italian, by courtesy), Stanford University (1999 - 2002)
  • Associate Professor of History, Stanford University (1996 - 1999)
  • Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis (1993 - 1996)
  • Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Davis (1989 - 1993)
  • Director, SIMILE Freshman Program (2013 - 2016)
  • Director, Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science (2012 - 2015)
  • Chair, Department of History (2008 - 2011)
  • Co-Director and Co-Founder, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006 - 2010)
  • Associate Director, Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology (2004 - 2008)
  • Associate Director, Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology (2010 - 2011)
  • Co-Director, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science (2004 - 2007)
  • Co-Director, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science (2010 - 2011)
  • Co-Director, Science, Technology and Society Program, Stanford University (1999 - 2003)
  • Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Professor, University of Richmond (2005 - 2005)
  • Visiting Professor, Folger Shakespeare Library (2003 - 2003)
  • Professeur Associe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2002 - 2002)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Groningen (2000 - 2000)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (1994 - 1994)

Honors & Awards

  • Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society (2004)
  • Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society (1996)
  • Howard Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association (1995)
  • Derek Price Prize, History of Science Society (1995)
  • Nelson Prize, Renaissance Society of America (1990)
  • Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2007 - 2008)
  • Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2003 - 2004)
  • Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society (2003 - 2004)
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2002 - 2005)
  • Invited Fellow, UCHRI Workshop on "Microcosms" (1998 - 1999)
  • Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (1998 - 1999)
  • Invited Scholar, Getty Center Senior Scholar-in-Residence (1995 - 1996)
  • Fellowship, American Council for Learned Societies (1992 - 1993)
  • Research Award, UC Faculty Development (1992 - 1993)
  • Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute (1992 - 1993)
  • Regents' Fellowship, UC Berkeley (1988 - 1989)
  • Graduate Fellowship, Wellesley College (1987 - 1988)
  • Fellowship, Sidney Ehrman History Department (1986 - 1987)
  • Ellen Andrews Wright Senior Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2011-2012)
  • Fellow, Guggenheim (1998-1999)
  • Heller Grant, UC Berkeley (1987, 1989)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Reviewer, American Historical Review
  • Reviewer, American Scholar
  • Reviewer, Catholic Historical Review
  • Reviewer, Journal of Modern History
  • Reviewer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  • Reviewer, Renaissance Quarterly
  • Reviewer, Renaissance Studies
  • Reviewer, Sixteenth Century Journal
  • Reviewer, Central European History
  • Reviewer, Isis
  • Reviewer, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
  • Reviewer, Archive of Natural History
  • Reviewer, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • Reviewer, Early Science and Medicine
  • Reviewer, Science
  • Reviewer, Studi Storici
  • Advisory Board, I Tatti Studies (2012)
  • Advisory Board, The Medici Archive Project (2012)
  • Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institut fUr Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2005 - 2010)
  • Advisory Board, The History of Scientific Thought (2005 - 2005)
  • Advisory Board, Eighteenth Century Studies (2000 - 2003)
  • Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Collections (1999 - Present)
  • Editorial Board, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (1999 - Present)
  • Editorial Board, Medicina e storia (1999 - Present)
  • Co-Editor, Configurations (1997 - 2002)
  • Editorial Board, Isis (1996 - 1999)
  • Bookshelf Board, Journal of the History of Biology (1990 - 1998)
  • Program Committee, American Historical Association (1998 - 1998)
  • Nominating Committee, American Historical Association (2003 - 2006)
  • Chair, Howard Marraro Prize Committee, American Historical Association (2010)
  • President, Renaissance Society of Northern California (1989 - 1990)
  • Advisory Board, Renaissance Society of Northern California (1990 - 1991)
  • Advisory Board, Renaissance Society of Northern California (1993 - 1994)
  • Council, Renaissance Society of America (1991 - 1993)
  • Council, Renaissance Society of America (2003 - 2005)
  • Local Arrangements Committee, Renaissance Society of America (1992 - 1992)
  • Member, Sixteenth Century Studies Council (1996 - 1998)
  • Program Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Council (1997 - 1998)
  • President, West Coast History of Science Society (1995 - 1996)
  • Council, West Coast History of Science Society (1991 - 1992)
  • Co-organizer, UC-Stanford History of Science Workshop (1997 - 1997)
  • Committee on Publications, History of Science Society (2006 - 2012)
  • Chair, History of Science Society (2011 - 2012)
  • Dibner Visiting Scholar, History of Science Society (1996 - 1998)
  • Pfizer Prize Committee, History of Science Society (1996 - 1999)
  • Chair, History of Science Society (1999 - 1999)
  • Council, History of Science Society (1998 - 2000)
  • Chair, Nominating Committee, History of Science Society (1998 - 1999)
  • Co-founder, Cross-Cultural Women's History Program, UC Davis (1991 - 1991)
  • Fellowship Reviewer, Guggenheim (2004 - 2006)
  • Fellowship Reviewer, Guggenheim (2008)
  • Chair, Fellowship Committee, Mabelle McLeod Lewis (2008)
  • Fellowship Committee, Huntington-Dibner History of Science (2007 - 2010)
  • Reviewer, Mellon Bibliography Fellowship (2013)
  • Nominator and occasional reviewer, MacArthur Foundation
  • Occasional reviewer, NSF
  • External department or program reviews, Harvard
  • External department or program reviews, Notre Dame
  • External department or program reviews, Wesleyan
  • External department or program reviews, University of New Mexico
  • External department or program reviews, Emory

Program Affiliations

  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Program in History & Philosophy of Science
  • Science, Technology and Society

Professional Education

  • B.A., Wellesley College, Medieval/Renaissance Studies (1984)
  • M.A., University of California, Berkeley, History (1985)
  • Exchange Scholar, The University of Chicago (1986)
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History (1989)

Contact

  • Academic
    pfindlen@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: History Department Position: Professor
    • BLDG. 200 rm 118
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2024 
    (650) 725-0597 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2024

Links

2025-26 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century (Book Review) JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2025

    View details for DOI 10.1093/jhc/fhaf040

    View details for Web of Science ID 001626857900001

  • The Past, Present and Future of the Study of Collecting: Remarks from a roundtable discussion hosted by the Journal of the History of Collections and the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, University College London, on 10 September 2024 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS Findlen, P., Gerritsen, A., Levy, M. P., Carine, M., Garnett, A., Marcal, H. 2025; 37 (1): 3-10

    View details for DOI 10.1093/jhc/fhaf004

    View details for Web of Science ID 001627413300001

  • Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media (Book Review) MATERIAL RELIGION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1080/17432200.2024.2345548

    View details for Web of Science ID 001225621400001

  • Giovanni's Story Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy REDREAMING THE RENAISSANCE Findlen, P. edited by Lindemann, M., Shemek, D. 2024: 117-145

    View details for Web of Science ID 001314460200006

  • The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before1700 (Book Review) SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P., Bushnell, R. 2023; 98 (4): 1224-1225

    View details for DOI 10.1086/726734

    View details for Web of Science ID 001163822900018

  • On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague (Book Review) ANNALS OF SCIENCE Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00033790.2022.2114547

    View details for Web of Science ID 000844122200001

  • Museum Celeberrimum (Book Review) JOURNAL OF JESUIT STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2022; 9 (1): 137-143

    View details for DOI 10.1163/22141332-09010008

    View details for Web of Science ID 000746190700008

  • From the Renaissance Studiolo to the Contemporary Museum (Book Review) QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2022; 43 (3): 160-162

    View details for Web of Science ID 001068665300016

  • Why put a museum in a book? Ferrante Imperato and the image of natural history in sixteenth-century Naples JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS Findlen, P. 2021; 33 (3): 419-433

    View details for DOI 10.1093/jhc/fhab004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000711704800004

  • The Birth of the Archive: A History of Knowledgeyy (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2020; 125 (5): 1952–53

    View details for Web of Science ID 000607862400154

  • OBJECTS OF HISTORY: THE PAST MATERIALIZED(1) HISTORY AND THEORY Findlen, P. 2020; 59 (2): 270–82

    View details for DOI 10.1111/hith.12158

    View details for Web of Science ID 000538905700006

  • Kircher's Bohemia: Jesuit Networks and Habsburg Patronage in the Seventeenth Century ERUDITION AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Lelkova, I., Findlen, P., Sutherland, S. 2020; 5 (2): 163-206

    View details for DOI 10.1163/24055069-00502002

    View details for Web of Science ID 000644803700002

  • Long After the Trial Galileo's Rediscovery, Florentine Nostalgia, and Enlightened Passions Findlen, P. edited by Tazzara, C., Findlen, P., Soll, J. ROUTLEDGE. 2020: 227–76

    View details for Web of Science ID 000560983900009

  • Introduction Tuscany and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Tazzara, C., Findlen, P. edited by Tazzara, C., Findlen, P., Soll, J. ROUTLEDGE. 2020: 1–37

    View details for Web of Science ID 000560983900001

  • The Museum's Renaissance Revisited: Histories, Objects, Exhibits I TATTI STUDIES Findlen, P. 2019; 22 (2): 295–310

    View details for DOI 10.1086/705517

    View details for Web of Science ID 000502265200008

  • Deciphering Galileo: Communication and Secrecy before and after the Trial RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY Marcus, H., Findlen, P. 2019; 72 (3): 953–95

    View details for DOI 10.1017/rqx.2019.253

    View details for Web of Science ID 000489605500005

  • Etruscan Dreams: Athanasius Kircher, Medici Patronage, and Tuscan Friendships, 1633-1680 I TATTI STUDIES Sutherland, S., Findlen, P., Lelkova, I. 2018; 21 (2): 299–349

    View details for Web of Science ID 000452786200005

  • Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present. Endeavour Priest, G., De Toffoli, S., Findlen, P. 2018

    View details for PubMedID 30143241

  • Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla's Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings. Endeavour Findlen, P. 2018

    Abstract

    In 1670 the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla (1629-1700) devised an entirely new way of depicting fossils when he wrote and illustrated his Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670-1671), which argued that fossils were the remains of once living creatures and not mimetic stones. This essay explores the nature of Scilla's graphic innovations, comparing his fossils drawings and Pietro Santi Bartoli's engravings of them to earlier and contemporary images of fossils. Scilla captured the effect of time on nature by infusing his style of drawing with his philosophical understanding of what it means to see and to know. He made his drawing less rich in detail to focus on those which served his purpose. In particular, he made the first use of dotted lines in paleontological illustration to render his images dynamic theoretical interpretations rather than static depictions.

    View details for PubMedID 30121139

  • Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present ENDEAVOUR Priest, G., De Toffoli, S., Findlen, P. 2018; 42 (2-3): 49-59

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.endeavour.2018.07.001

    View details for Web of Science ID 000451918300001

  • Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla's Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings ENDEAVOUR Findlen, P. 2018; 42 (2-3): 99-132

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.endeavour.2018.07.004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000451918300004

  • SUSAN BELL'S CHRISTINE DE PIZAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY Findlen, P. 2017; 29 (3): 214-219

    View details for DOI 10.1353/jowh.2017.0045

    View details for Web of Science ID 000409397200024

  • Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Edelstein, D., Findlen, P., Ceserani, G., Winterer, C., Coleman, N. 2017; 122 (2): 400–424

    View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/122.2.400

    View details for Web of Science ID 000402901500005

  • The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Late Renaissance Italy PROFESSORS, PHYSICIANS AND PRACTICES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF NANCY SIRAISI Findlen, P. edited by Manning, G., Klestinec, C. 2017; 50: 155–95

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56514-9_9

    View details for Web of Science ID 000429056600009

  • The breakdown of Galileo's Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633. Social studies of science Findlen, P., Marcus, H. 2016: 306312716676657-?

    Abstract

    Rome has long been central to the story of Galileo's life and scientific work. Through an analysis of the metadata of Galileo's surviving letters, combined with a close reading of the letters themselves, we discuss how Galileo used correspondence to build a Roman network. Galileo initially assembled this network around the members of the Lincean Academy, a few carefully nurtured relationships with important ecclesiastics, and the expertise of well positioned Tuscan diplomats in the Eternal City. However, an analysis of Galileo's correspondence in the aftermath of the trial of 1633 provides us with a unique opportunity to interrogate how his altered circumstances transformed his social relations. Forced to confront the limitations on his activities imposed by Catholic censure and house arrest, Galileo experienced the effects of these restrictions in his relationships with others and especially in his plans for publication. In the years following 1633, Galileo turned his epistolary attention north to the Veneto and to Paris in order to publish his Two New Sciences. While Galileo's Lincean network and papal contacts in Rome were defunct after 1633, we see how Rome remained important to him as the site of a number of Roman disciples who would continue his intellectual project long after his own death.

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0306312716676657

    View details for PubMedID 28032525

  • Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets (Book Review) CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2016; 102 (3): 619-620

    View details for Web of Science ID 000381898200036

  • Chronicles and statutes of the First Academy of Lynxes: The Deeds of the Lynxes, "Ristretto" of the constitutions, Directives of the Academy of Lynxes (Book Review) ISIS Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2016; 107 (1): 170-171

    View details for DOI 10.1086/686186

    View details for Web of Science ID 000373991400041

  • The Celebrated Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus: A Facsimile of the 1678 Amsterdam Edition of Giorgio de Sepi's Description of Athanasius Kircher's Museum (Book Review) JOURNAL OF JESUIT STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2016; 3 (4): 728-729

    View details for DOI 10.1163/22141332-00304009-15

    View details for Web of Science ID 000391095100026

  • The Specimen and the Image: John Woodward, Agostino Scilla, and the Depiction of Fossils HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY Findlen, P. 2015; 78 (2): 217-261

    View details for DOI 10.1525/hlq.2015.78.2.217

    View details for Web of Science ID 000357841100004

  • The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo (Book Review) ISIS Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2014; 105 (3): 644-645

    View details for DOI 10.1086/679148

    View details for Web of Science ID 000343011900036

  • The Pseudoscience Wars Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2014; 298 (15): 33-36

    View details for Web of Science ID 000333861600014

  • Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance (Book Review) BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2014; 88 (1): 195-196

    View details for DOI 10.1353/bhm.2014.0008

    View details for Web of Science ID 000334566500007

  • Untitled GALILAEANA-JOURNAL OF GALILEAN STUDIES Findlen, P. 2014; 11: 11-16

    View details for Web of Science ID 000349739400003

  • Laura Bassi and the city of learning PHYSICS WORLD Findlen, P. 2013; 26 (9): 30-34

    View details for Web of Science ID 000328063800028

  • FROM BOOKS TO BEZOARS Sir Hans Sloane and his collections (Book Review) TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2013: 27

    View details for Web of Science ID 000323240700037

  • A Man of Misconceptions The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2013; 296 (16): 32-35

    View details for Web of Science ID 000317457500019

  • The 2012 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Renaissance: Lessons from the Uffizi RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY Findlen, P. 2013; 66 (1): 1-34

    View details for Web of Science ID 000315930700001

  • Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories Findlen, P. London: Routledge. 2013
  • Laura Bassi: A Passion for Physics Physics World Findlen, P. 2013
  • Early Modern Romans and Their Things The Taste for Things: A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome Findlen, P. University of Chicago Press. 2013: ix-xxxiii
  • Kircher's Cosmos The Nation Findlen, P. 2013
  • What Counts: Books, Articles, and Productivity Perspectives Findlen, P. 2013
  • Man of the Museum Times Literary Supplement Findlen, P. 2013
  • The Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Renaissance: Lessons from the Uffizi Renaissance Quarterly Findlen, P. 2013
  • Early Modern Things: Objects in Motion, 1500-1800 Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500 - 1800 Findlen, P. London: Routledge. 2013: 1–27
  • How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century The Chronicle of Higher Education Findlen, P. 2013
  • The Taste for Things: A History of Ofbjects in Seventeenth-Century Rome Findlen, P. University of Chicago Press. 2013
  • A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, "Germanus incredibilis": With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography (Book Review) RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2012; 65 (4): 1234-1235

    View details for DOI 10.1086/669390

    View details for Web of Science ID 000312041100048

  • The Unintended Reformation How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2012; 295 (12): 34-37

    View details for Web of Science ID 000308512700013

  • Science under inquisition: heresy and knowledge in Catholic reformation Rome. Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences Findlen, P., Marcus, H. 2012; 103 (2): 376-382

    View details for PubMedID 22908427

  • The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 (Book Review) RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2012; 65 (2): 566-567

    View details for DOI 10.1086/667304

    View details for Web of Science ID 000305340400054

  • Tra uomini. Laura Bassi all'Istituto delle Scienze (1732-78) Laura Bassi. Emblema e primate nella scienza del Settecento edited by Cifarelli, L., Simili, R. 2012: 71–88
  • Rethinking 1633: Writing about Galileo after the Trial NATURE ENGAGED: SCIENCE IN PRACTICE FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT Findlen, P. edited by Biagioli, M., Riskin, J. 2012: 205-226

    View details for Web of Science ID 000387678900011

  • Rethinking 1633: Writing the Life of Galileo after the Trial Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present edited by Biagioli, M., Riskin, J. London: Palgrave. 2012
  • The Books on the (Medieval and Renaissance) Shelf Stanford CMEMS Blog Findlen, P. 2012
  • Galileo's Credo The Nation Findlen, P. 2012
  • Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science Science in the Age of the Baroque edited by Gal, O., Morris, R. C. Dordrecht: Springer. 2012: 119–159
  • The Rebirth of a Gallery: The Uffizi in the Eighteenth Century The First Modern Museums of Art: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Formation of an Institution edited by Paul, C. 2012
  • Scissor Work The Nation Findlen, P. 2012
  • Too Much to Know Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2011; 292 (18): 34-37

    View details for Web of Science ID 000289826100020

  • Calculations of faith: mathematics, philosophy, and sanctity in 18th-century Italy (new work on Maria Gaetana Agnesi) HISTORIA MATHEMATICA Findlen, P. 2011; 38 (2): 248-291

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.hm.2010.05.003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000289137700004

  • Jobs at the End of the (Academic) Road Stanford CMEMS Blog Findlen, P. 2011
  • Vatican documents of the trial of Galileo Galilei (1611-1741) (Book Review) CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2011; 97 (1): 151-153

    View details for Web of Science ID 000286351000046

  • The Museum: It's Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts Findlen, P. John Wiley & Sons. 2011
  • Before the Flood The Nation Findlen, P. 2011
  • The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript (Book Review) BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2010; 43 (158): 481-482

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0007087410001056

    View details for Web of Science ID 000283958200013

  • The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2010; 290 (21): 33-36

    View details for Web of Science ID 000277876100020

  • Mio filosofo caro: Clelia Grillo Borromeo, Antonio Vallisneri and The Nature of Philosophical Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Italy Clelia Grillo Borromeo edited by Generali, D. 2010
  • The Enhancement of the Senses The Nation Findlen, P. 2010
  • Regress and Rhetoric at the Tuscan Court Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento Beretta, M., Feingold, M., Boschiero, L., Findlen, P. 2010; 19: 1 - 24
  • Academies, Networks, and Projects: The Accademia del Cimento and Its Legacy Galileiana Findlen, P. 2010; 7: 277 - 298
  • Ludic Afterthoughts Ludi naturae- Spiele der Natur in Kunst und Wisssenschaft edited by Adamowsky, N., Boehme, H., Felfe, R. 2010
  • "Museums" and "Collecting" The Classical Tradition Grafton, A., Most, G., Settis, S. Harvard University Press. 2010
  • Calculations of Faith: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Sanctity in Eighteenth-Century Italy Historia mathematica Findlen, P. 2010
  • Living in the Shadow of Galileo: Antonio Baldigiani (1647-1711), a Jesuit Scientist in Seventeenth-Century Rome Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine, and Religion in Rome edited by Donato, M. P., Kraye, J. 2010: 1550–1750
  • The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2009; 81 (3): 702-704

    View details for DOI 10.1086/649102

    View details for Web of Science ID 000271030000040

  • Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2009; 81 (2): 379-381

    View details for DOI 10.1086/605138

    View details for Web of Science ID 000266766200009

  • Journey to the Wonderous Country. Science and the Curiosity of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Book Review) BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2009; 42 (152): 135-136

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0007087409002039

    View details for Web of Science ID 000264512500021

  • A Tulip for a Cup of Tea? Commerce and Nature in the Dutch Golden Age ANNALS OF SCIENCE Findlen, P. 2009; 66 (2): 267-276

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00033790802136439

    View details for Web of Science ID 000268876000006

    View details for PubMedID 19831263

  • Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour edited by Sama, C., Roworth, W. Stanford University Press. 2009
  • Founding an Academy: Gender, Patronage, and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century Milan Republics of Letters Findlen, P. 2009
  • The Anatomy of a Lesbian: Medicine, Pornography, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour edited by Findlen, P., Roworth, W., Sama, C. Stanford University Press. 2009
  • Gender and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour edited by Findlen, P., Roworth, W., Sama, C. Stanford University Press. 2009
  • Giordano Bruno - Philosopher/heretic (Book Review) NATION Book Review Authored by: Findlen, P. 2008; 287 (9): 28-+

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    Abstract

    This essay examines different approaches to writing the history of science in light of the increased importance of microhistorical studies in the past two decades. It specifically examines the role of microhistory within the history of science and the importance of Thomas Kuhn's concept of the "normal exception" in early methodological statements about the function of microhistory. It also considers the possibilities for writing archivally based history of science for a general readership as a means of bridging the divide between specialized research within the subfields of the history of science and more general accounts of the nature and growth of science.

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