Publications

Book:
Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

 

Edited Special Issues:

Vera Keller and Ted McCormick, eds. Science and the Shape of Things to Come, a special issue of Early Science and Medicine 21:5 (2016).

Alexander Marr and Vera Keller, eds., The Nature of Invention, a special issue of Intellectual History Review 24:3 (2014).

 

Articles:

Vera Keller and Ted McCormick, “Towards a History of Projects,” Early Science and Medicine 21:5 (2016), 423-444.

 

Art Lovers and Scientific Virtuosi? The Philomathia of Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) in Context,Nuncius 31:3 (2016), 523 – 548.

 

Vera Keller and Leigh Penman, “From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy: Science and the Shared Interests of Samuel Hartlib’s London and Frederick Clodius’s Gottorf,” Isis 106:1 (2015), 17-42.

 

Nero and the Last Stalk of Silphion: Collecting Extinct Nature in early modern Europe,” Early Science and Medicine 19:5 (2014), 424-447.

 

“Hermetic Atomism: Christian Adolph Balduin (1632-1682), Aurum Aurae and the 1674 Phosphor,” Ambix, Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 61:4 (2014), 366-384.

 

“Air-Conditioning Jahangir: the 1622 English Great Design, Climate and the Nature of Global Projects,”Configurations 21:3 (2013), 331-367.

 

Re-entangling the Thermometer: Cornelis Drebbel’s Description of his Self-regulating Oven, the Regiment of Fire, and the Early History of Temperature,” Nuncius 28 (2013) 243–275.

 

“The ‘framing of a new world’: Sir Balthazar Gerbier’s Project for Establishing a New State in America, ca. 1649,” William and Mary Quarterly 70:1 (January, 2013), 147-176.

 

“The ‘New World of Sciences’: The Temporality of the Research Agenda and the Unending Ambitions of Science,” (Focus Section), Isis 103:4 (December, 2012), 727-734.

 

“The Centre of Nature: Baron Johann Otto von Hellwig’s Alchemy between a Global Network and a Universal Republic,” Early Science and Medicine 17 (November, 2012), 570-588.

 

“The Authority of Practice in the Alchemy of Sir John Heydon (1588-1653),” Ambix, Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 59:3 (November, 2012), 197–217.

 

“Mining Tacitus: Secrets of Empire, Nature, and Art in the Reason of State,” British Journal for the History of Science 45:2 (June, 2012), 189-212.

 

“Accounting for Invention: Guido Pancirolli’s Lost and Found Things and the Development of Desiderata,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 73:2 (April, 2012), 223-245.

 

“Drebbel’s Living Instruments, Hartmann’s Microcosm and Libavius’ Thelesmos: Epistemic Machines before Descartes,” History of Science 48:1 (March, 2010), 39-74.

 

Book Chapters:

 “‘A Political Fiat Lux’. Wilhem von Schroeder (1640-1688) and the Co-production of Chymical and Political Oeconomy,” in ‘Eigennutz’ und ‘gute Ordnung’: Ökonomisierungen der Welt im 17. Jahrhundert, Sandra Richter and Guillaume Garner, eds. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016), 353-378.

 

“A More Perfect Union: Bacon’s Correspondence of Form and Policy,” in Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, G. Giglioni, J.A.T. Lancaster, S. Corneanu and D. Jalobeanu, eds. (Springer, 2016), 249-272.

 

“Forms of Internationality: The Album Amicorum and the Popularity of John Owen (1564-1622),” Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe, Paul Yachnin and Marlene Eberhart, eds.
(University of Massachussetts Press, 2015).

 

“How to Become a Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosopher: The Case of Cornelis Drebbel,” Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, Sven
Dupré and Christoph Lüthy, eds. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011), 125-151.

 

“Painted Friends: Political Interest and the Transformation of International Learned Sociability,” Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, Marilyn Sandidge and Albrecht Classen, eds.
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Press, 2011), 661-692.