Curriculum Vitae

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

Teaching
O1 'History of Mathematics' (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford): class series on mathematics 1650-1900; on Newton's Principia; and on the development of the binomial theorem; lectures on Newton and Descartes
General History III '1400-1650: Renaissance, Recovery and Reform' (History Faculty, University of Oxford): lecture on the impact of print

Conference organisation
Annual 'Research in Progress' day for graduate students in history of mathematics at the Queen's College, Oxford (2005-)
'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' research symposium, All Souls College, Oxford (December 2008)

Publications (a full list can be found here)
Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705 (Ashgate, 2008)
John Birchensha: Writings on Music (co-edited with Christopher Field) (Ashgate, 2009)
How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton, 2009)
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music (2 vols: forthcoming)
'Mathematics, music, and experiment' in Robson and Stedall (eds), Handbook of the History of Mathematics (O.U.P., 2008)
'The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli's mathematics of music', Annals of Science 64 (2007), 327-348
'Descartes, Mercator, Newton: Musical logarithms in the seventeenth century' Historia mathematica 35 (2008), 19Ð36
'Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: Mathematical humour in Restoration England' Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 22 (2007), 151-59

Recent and forthcoming conference and seminar papers (a full list, with some abstracts, can be found here)
'Methodologies of "harmonics", 1600-1700', EMPHASIS seminar, London, February 2006;
'Diagrams and mathematics in the French and English translations of Descartes' Compendium musicae', workshop on Anglo-French scientific interactions, Maison Française, Oxford, March 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;
'Formal causes and immediate causes: the analogy of the musical instrument in late-seventeenth-century natural philosophy', conference on 'Philosophies of Technology', Frankfurt, July 2006;
'Mathematical publications in seventeenth-century England', History of Mathematics seminar, Queen's College, November 2006;
'Mathematical and musical instruments in late seventeenth-century England', 'mathematization' seminar, Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Studies, Wuppertal University, January 2007
'Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: mathematical humour and mathematical metaphors in Restoration England', The Thomas Browne Seminar, Leeds, April 2007
'Mathematical authority in Restoration England', 'Scientific Revolution' seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, February 2008
'Lice-men and logarithms: mathematics and mathematicians in early modern utopias', British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Keele, March 2008
'"Geometry is improving daily": mathematics in the Royal Society polemic, 1667-1671', Three Societies Conference, Oxford, July 2008