Conference papers

• 'The decline of harmonics', paper given at the History of Mathematics seminar in the Queen's College, Oxford, July 2004
  
  
• 'Pitch pictured: visual representations of musical pitch in the seventeenth century', British Society for History of Science postgraduate conference, Cambridge, January 2005, and British Society for History of Mathematics 'Research in Progress' day conference, Oxford, February 2005
  
  
• 'On proportions of proportions: one aspect of the application of mathematics to music in the seventeenth century', BSHS summer conference, Leeds, July 2005, and Novembertagung conference on history of mathematics, Paris, November 2005 (the full text is available as a PDF on the Novembertagung site)
  
  
• 'Frets and compasses: instruments in late-seventeenth-century harmonics', BSHS postgraduate conference, Brighton, January 2006
  
  
• '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', paper given at the History of Mathematics seminar in the Queen's College, Oxford, November 2006
  
  
• 'Harmonics and acoustics: thoughts on the musical work of Brook Taylor (1685-1731)', BSHS postgraduate conference, Durham, January 2007
  
  
• 'Mathematical and musical instruments in late seventeenth-century England', paper at 'mathematization' seminar, Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Studies, Wuppertal University, January 2007
  
  
• 'Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: mathematical humour in Restoration England', paper at the British Mathematics Colloquium, Swansea, April 2007
  
  
• 'Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: mathematical humour and mathematical metaphors in Restoration England', paper at The Thomas Browne Seminar, Leeds, April 2007
  
  
• 'Musical experiments in Restoration England', paper at 'Musical Instruments and Mathematical Instruments' study day, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, December 2007
  
  
• 'Mathematical authority in Restoration England', paper at 'Scientific Revolution' seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, March 2008
  
  
• 'Lice-men and logarithms: mathematics and mathematicians in early modern utopias', paper at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Keele, March 2008
  
  
• '"Geometry is improving daily": mathematics in the Royal Society polemic, 1667-1671', paper at 3 Societies Conference, Oxford, July 2008
  
  
• 'Mathematical presentation in the French and English versions of Descartes' Compendium musicae', 'L'histoire des sciences en France et en Grande-Bretagne. Regards croisés', Maison Française d'Oxford, July 2008