Location:
Early Modern Europe, History of Science
Pamela Smith received a B.A. from the University of Wollongong (1979) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins (1990). Her books include:
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994);
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (ed. with P. Findlen, 2002); and
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004), which won the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association. A co-edited volume with Benjamin Schmidt,
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe : Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800 is forthcoming from Chicago UP. Her current research, which is supported by a Kress fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
