Dr Philip Beeley

My research and publications are focused on the history of science and epistolarly cultures in early modern Europe. I am especially interested in the role played by correspondence networks in the emergence of modern scientific thought and in the ways in which mathematical ideas were disseminated and discussed both in scholarly communities and across different social milieus. A further area of my research is on early modern cryptographyand its importance in shaping political and military events in late seventeenth-century Europe.

Research interests:

• History of early modern science
• History of mathematics
• Correspondence networks and the growth of knowledge

I am currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics