• Renée Raphael
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
  
  rjraphael@bama.ua.edu
  

Research Interests:

• Early modern science and technology
• Science and visual culture
• History of the book
• Science and religion
• Renaissance and early modern Italy

Current or Forthcoming Courses:

• Honors Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 105)
• History of Science and Technology I (HY 200)
• Science in the Modern World (HY 300)
• Science and Religion (HY 400)

Current Projects:

• Philosophizing from the Arsenal of Venice to the Jesuit Collegio Romano: The genesis, production, and reception of Day 1 of Galileo’s Two New Sciences.
• Tycho’s dodgy diagram: Establishing conventions of visual representation in early modern parallax arguments, a monograph with Nicholas Jardine, Sachiko Kusukawa, Christopher Lewis, and Isabelle Pantin. 

Grants, Awards and Honors:

• Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK (2009-2010).
• Fulbright IIE Scholar to Italy (2006-7).
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2005-2009).

  Publications:

• "A Non-Astronomical Image in an Astronomical Text: Visualizing Motion in Riccioli’s Almagestum Novum," Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (February 2011): 73-90.
• With Nicholas Jardine, "Forms and Functions of Early Modern Celestial Imagery, Part 1," Journal for the History of Astronomy 41 (2010): 375-419.
• Adam Mosley, "Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's Atlante Veneto and the Diagrammatic Tradition of Cosmography," eds. Renée Raphael and Nicholas Jardine, Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (February 2011): 27-53.
• With Nicholas Jardine, "Forms and Functions of Early Modern Celestial Imagery, Part 2," Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (2011).
• "Galileo's Discorsi and Mersenne's Nouvelles Pensées: Mersenne as a Reader of Galilean 'Experience,'" Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science 23 (2008): 7-36.

Other:

• Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH, UK. 
  • Consultant and collaborator for the digital humanities AHRC-funded project, "Diagrams, Figures and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450-1650"
    (http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/).
• Book Reviews Editor, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Elsevier Press.