Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Ann Blair (Professor of History)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Early Modern Europe (France)
• Ph.D.: Princeton (History), 1990
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
• current research: encyclopedias (classifications of knowledge, reference works...) In early modern Europe (1450 - 1750)
• broader fields: French history and literature, especially early modern (i.e., 1450-1800); history of the book and of reading (printing, book trade, etc.); history of science; science and religion
• Recent publications include: The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton University Press, 1997); "Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the late Renaissance" Isis (2000); "Authorship in the Popular ‘Problemata Aristotels'" Early Science and Medicine (1999).
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: amblair@fas
• OFFICE: Robinson Hall 216
• OFFICE HOURS: Mondays, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
• OFFICE PHONE: 495-0752

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