Timeline

All the literature in order of (original) publication, with events for context.

4th century BCE

4th c. BCE

Aristotle, Physics

Week 1, Friday 18 September

Aristotle Source text

11th century

1088

University of Bologna founded (traditional date)

Medieval universities

12th century

c. 1120s

Hugh of St. Victor, The Didascalicon: A Medieval Guide to the Arts

Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

Medieval universities Source text

13th century

1210

Paris forbids lecturing on Aristotle’s natural philosophy

Aristotle Medieval universities
13th c.

Thomas Aquinas, Selections: on Aristotle’s Physics, Boethius’ De trinitate, and the Summa Theologiae

Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

Aristotle Medieval universities Source text
1277

Condemnation of 1277 in Paris

Bishop Tempier condemns 219 propositions, many Aristotelian.

Aristotle Medieval universities

15th century

c. 1455

Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz

Print & manuscript

16th century

1543

Copernicus’ De revolutionibus and Vesalius’ Fabrica

Images & copying
1568–1572

Antwerp Polyglot Bible printed by Plantin

Humanism Print & manuscript
1599

Menocchio burned by the Roman Inquisition

The Friulian miller at the centre of Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms.

Historiography Print & manuscript

17th century

1610

Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo
1632

Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Week 2, Friday 25 September

Aristotle Galileo Source text
1633

Trial of Galileo

Galileo
1662

Blaeu’s Atlas Maior

Images & copying

20th century

1950

E.J. Dijksterhuis, The Mechanization of the World Picture

Week 1, Friday 18 September

Aristotle esse per se esse per aliud movetur per se movetur per aliud substance as matter and form potential being and actual being doctrine of the elements natural and enforced motions motor conjunctus virtus movens
1962

Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Historiography
1969

Joseph Needham, Poverties and Triumphs of the Chinese Scientific Tradition

Week 6, Friday 23 October

Global history
1976

Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Further reading

Historiography Print & manuscript
1977

Thomas Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

Week 1, Friday 18 September

Aristotle Hermeneutics
1990

William B. Ashworth, Jr., Natural History and the Emblematic World View

Week 7, Friday 30 October

Humanism
1991

Anthony Grafton, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450–1800

Week 7, Friday 30 October

Humanism
1995

Claudia Swan, Ad vivum, naer het leven, From the Life: Defining a Mode of Representation

Week 4, Wednesday 7 October

Images & copying
1996

Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts

Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

Aristotle Medieval universities
1998

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

Week 5, Friday 16 October

Print & manuscript

21st century

2002

Adrian Johns, How to Acknowledge a Revolution

Week 5, Friday 16 October

Print & manuscript
2002

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited

Week 5, Friday 16 October

Print & manuscript
2009

Pamela Smith, Science on the Move: Recent Trends in the History of Early Modern Science

Week 5, Wednesday 14 October

Historiography
2010

Ann Blair, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age

Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

Print & manuscript
2010

John Heilbron, Galileo

Week 2, Friday 25 September

Aristotle Galileo
2011

Elizabeth Yale, Marginalia, Commonplaces, and Correspondence: Scribal Exchange in Early Modern Science

Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

Print & manuscript
2012

Floris Cohen, From West to East, from East to West? Early Science Between Civilizations

Week 6, Friday 23 October

Global history
2012

Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

Week 4, Wednesday 7 October

Images & copying
2013

Dirk van Miert, Philology and Empiricism: Observation and Description in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609)

Week 8, Wednesday 4 November

Humanism
2013

Michael H. Shank, Schools and Universities in Medieval Latin Science

Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

Aristotle Medieval universities
2016

Hjalmar Fors, Lawrence M. Principe & H. Otto Sibum, From the Library to the Laboratory and Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for Historians of Science

Week 3, Friday 2 October

Hands-on history
2017

Lorraine Daston, The history of science and the history of knowledge

Week 1, Wednesday 16 September

Historiography
2019

Elaine Leong, Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England

Week 6, Wednesday 21 October

Print & manuscript
2019

James Delbourgo, The knowing world: a new global history of science

Week 7, Wednesday 28 October

Global history
2019

Sietske Fransen & Katherine M. Reinhart, The practice of copying in making knowledge in Early Modern Europe: an introduction

Week 4, Wednesday 7 October

Images & copying
2022

Daniel Trambaiolo, Translating the Inner Landscape: Anatomical Bricolage in Early Modern Japan

Week 7, Wednesday 28 October

Global history
2022

James Poskett, Horizons: A Global History of Science

Week 6, Friday 23 October

Global history
2023

Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge

Week 1, Wednesday 16 September

Historiography
2024

James Secord, Against Revolutions

Week 1, Wednesday 16 September

Historiography
2025

Jiayi Chen, Remaking Sixteenth-Century Botanical Woodblocks: Embodied Artisanal Knowledge in Early Modern Woodcutting

Week 4, Wednesday 7 October

Hands-on history Images & copying
2025

Theodor Dunkelgrün, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

Week 8, Wednesday 4 November

Humanism

Undated

Nick Wilding, Video lecture on the Galileo forgery

Week 8, Friday 6 November

Galileo