Curriculum Vitae

Teaching
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
'History of Mathematics', third-year optional paper. Class series (2005-9: Mathematics 1650-1900; Newton's Principia mathematica; Development of the binomial theorem), lectures (2007: Newton; Descartes).
History Faculty, University of Oxford
>'The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century', third-year Special Subject. Classes and general assistance.
'Cultures and practices of mathematics in the Early Modern period', advanced paper for the MSc and MPhil in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Course developent and classes (HT 2009).
General History III '1400-1650: Renaissance, Recovery and Reform'. One lecture (HT 2009: 'The roles of print').
British History IV. Four lectures on 'Mathematics at Work and Play in early modern Britain'.
Visiting student programme, University of Oxford
Tutorial series (2009: Ancient and medieval mathematics).

Committees and boards
Advisory Board and Steering Committee, John Wallis Project (AHRC-funded) (2008-)
Reviews editor for the Bulletin of the British Society for History of Mathematics (2008-)
Secretary, BSHM (2007-8)
Editorial Board, Bulletin of the BSHM (2006-)

Conference organisation
Research in Progress: annual event for graduate students in history of mathematics at the Queen's College, Oxford, 2005-. Co-organiser.
Musical instruments and mathematical instruments: study day for the general public at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, December 2007.
"Unreasonable Effectiveness"? Philosophical problems and historical origins for applied mathematics: international research symposium, All Souls College, Oxford, December 2008.
Numeracy: historical, philosophical and educational perspectives: academic conference, St Anne's College, Oxford, December 2009.
The history of the history of mathematics: research symposium, All Souls College, Oxford, December 2010.

Publications
Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705 (Ashgate, 2008) (errata)
John Birchensha: Writings on Music (co-edited with Christopher Field) (Ashgate, 2009)
How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton, 2010)
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music (2 vols: Ashgate, forthcoming)
John Wallis: Writings on Music (co-edited with David Cram) (forthcoming)

'The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli's mathematics of music', Annals of Science 64 (2007), 327-348
'Musical logarithms in the seventeenth century: Descartes, Mercator, Newton' Historia mathematica 35 (2008), 19-36
'Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: Mathematical humour in Restoration England' Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 22 (2007), 151-59
'Mathematics in English printed books, 1473-1800: a bibliometric analysis', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 63 (2009), 325-338.
'"Let us put on the shade of Newton": Isaac Newton on Stage, 1826-2006' (review essay), Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (forthcoming).

'Mathematics, music, and experiment' in Robson and Stedall (eds), Handbook of the History of Mathematics (O.U.P., 2008)
'Formal causes and immediate causes: the analogy of the musical instrument in late seventeenth-century natural philosophy', in Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries, ed. Zittel, Engel, Nanni and Karafyllis (2 vols, Brill, 2008) II, 411-28.
'Diagrams and mathematics in the French and English translations of Descartes' Compendium musicae in Fox (ed.), Franco-British interactions in the sciences (College Publications, forthcoming).

Invited papers
'Methodologies of "harmonics", 1600-1700', EMPHASIS seminar, London, February 2006
'John Birchensha's "Compendious Discourse"', Early Music Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, May 2006
'The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century', Cabinet of Natural History, Cambridge, May 2006
'Mathematical publications in seventeenth-century England', History of Mathematics seminar, Queen's College, Oxford, November 2006
'Mathematical and musical instruments in late seventeenth-century England', 'mathematization' seminar, Wuppertal University, January 2007
'Mathematical authority in Restoration England', 'Scientific Revolution' seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, March 2008
'"Analogy" and mathematical models: from Bacon to the Newtonians', 'Unreasonable Effectiveness' symposium, All Souls College, December 2008.
'Numbers, lines, instruments, sounds: Thomas Salmon (1648-1706) and the representation of musical sound', Histoire et philosophie de la physique seminar, Paris-7, April 2009.
'Wallis contra Meibom', conference on Marcus Meibom, Stockholm, January 2010.
'Contemporary science and the Peterhouse musical manuscripts', conference on the Peterhouse musical manuscripts, Peterhouse, Cambridge, September 2010.