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Dr Philip Beeley

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Senior Research Associate
philip.beeley@history.ox.ac.uk

I am a senior research associate currently working on the AHRC-funded project From the Schoolroom: Mathematics Education in England, 1650-1750.

 

Research interests:

My research focuses on the history of science, especially mathematics, during the long seventeenth century. I am the editor of the multi-volumed edition of the correspondence of the Oxford mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis (1616-1703) and general editor of the correspondence series (IV/A) of the Opera omnia of Leonhard Euler.

Featured Publications

cd featured publication beyond the learned academy

Beyond the Learned Academy: the practice of mathematics, 1600-1850 (co-edited with Christopher D. Hollings), OUP 2024

The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in early modern England was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants' accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. Mathematics in many ways shaped the knowledge culture of the age, extending through the Industrial Revolution to the nineteenth century.
Book Cover for: Interrelations between mathematics and philosophy

G. W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2015)

Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those produced by Gerhardt.  Through recent volumes of the scientific letters and mathematical papers series of the Academy Edition scholars have obtained a much richer textual basis on which to conduct their studies.

 

Current DPhil Students

Constance Hardesty

DPhil Student

Teaching

I would be willing to hear from potential DPhil students in the fields of history of early modern mathematics; history of scientific institutions; G W Leibniz.

I currently teach:

Prelims: FHS:
OS 7 Nature and Art in the Renaissance

SS 13 The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century

Projects

Research Centres

Publications

Period Early Modern
Region British Isles & Ireland Europe
Specialism History of Science, Medicine & Technology
Supervision DPhil Supervision Masters Supervision