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
Current DPhil Students
Teaching
I would be willing to hear from potential DPhil students in the fields of History of Science and the History of Modern Thought.
I currently teach:
Prelims: | FHS: |
OS 7 Nature and Art in the Renaissance |
SS 13 The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century |
Publications
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Physical Arguments and Moral Inducements. John Wallis on Questions of Antiquarianism and Natural Philosophy
October 2018|Journal article|Notes and Records of the Royal Society -
Early Physics
August 2018|Chapter|The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz -
‘To the publike advancement’ John Collins and the promotion of mathematical knowledge in Restoration England
January 2017|Journal article|BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics -
From Quadratures to Cryptography. On the Quatercentenary of the Birth of the Oxford Mathematician John Wallis
December 2016|Journal article|Mathematics Today -Southend on Sea- -
Carcavi, Pierre de
January 2016|Chapter|The Cambridge Descartes LexiconThe Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, "the father of modern philosophy" and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time.History of Science