Peter R. Dear
President Andrew D. White Professor of the History of Science
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: 435 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6752
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: prd3@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D Princeton University, 1984
M.A. University of Cambridge, 1983
B.A. University of Cambridge, 1979
Courses
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Recent Publications and Awards
Books
Revolutionary the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700, (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Articles
"Finite but Unbounded: The Sphere of the Spatial in History," in David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers, Geography and Revolution (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
“The Meanings of Experience," in Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park (eds.), The Cambridge History of Early Modern Science (Cambridge UP, in the press).
“Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Being an Authority in the Seventeenth Century," in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), States of Knowledge (Routledge; in the press).
“Experiment in Science and Technology Studies," in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), Science and Technology Studies, vol. 4.10 of International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Siences (Elsevier, 2002), pp. 277-293
"Religion, Science, and Natural Philosophy: Thoughts on Cunningham's Thesis," plus "reply to Andrew Cunningham," response to a reply, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32A (2001), pp. 386, 393-395 respectively.
"Science Studies as Epistemography," "Overdetermination and Contingency," "another Visit to Epistemography," all in Kay A. Labinger and Harry Collins (eds.), The One Culture? A Conversation About Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 128-141, 196-200, 261-262 respectively.
"Mathematics and Morality on the Cusp of Modernity," Revue de l'histoire des mathematigues 7 (2001), pp. 277-293.
Essay-review of Michael Hunter and Edward Davis (eds.), The Works of Robert Boyle, in British Journal for the History of Science.
"The Ideology of Modern Science," essay-review of Pamela Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, Baltimore and London, 2001), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32A (2003), pp. 821-823.
"Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony," in Paulo Gozza (ed.), Number to Sound: The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution (Dordrecht etc." Kluwer, 2000), pp. 267-288.
Five articles in Wilbur Applebaum (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution (New York: Garland, 2000).
"Circular Argument: Descartes's Vortices and Their Crafting as Explanations of Gravity," to appear in a volume edited by Peter Anstey and John Schuster (Kluwer).
"A Philosophical Duchess: Understanding Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society," to appear in a volume being prepared by David Burchell and Juliet Cummins.
The Intelligibility of Nature (book MS under review by University of Chicago Press).
"A Mechanical Microcosm: Bodily Passions, Good Manners, and Cartesian Mechanism," in Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin (eds.), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1998), pp. 51-82.
"Method in the Study of Nature," in Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 147-177.
"The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution," Configurations 1998, 6:173-193.
"Martin Mersenne," in Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge History of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).
Awards
Helen and Miles Watson Davis Prize 2002, from History of Science Society, for Revolutionizing the Sciences.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2000. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, Jan. 1 to Aug, 20, 2001.
Ludwik Fleck Prize 1998, from the Society for Social Studies of Science, for Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago, 1995).