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American historian
Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at
Brown University , where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History.
[1] Nummedal is known for her works on
Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of
alchemy and
natural science in
early modern Europe .
[2]
[3]
Biography
Nummedal is originally from
Seal Beach, California ,
[2] and is a 1992 graduate of
Pomona College . After earning a master's degree at the
University of California, Davis in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at
Stanford University in 2001.
[2]
[4]
She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002.
[1] Her husband,
Seth Rockman , is also a historian at Brown University.
[5]
Publications
Books
Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
[6]
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
[7]
John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration (with Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, University of Alabama Press, 2019).
[8]
Editor
With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a
critical edition of
Atalanta Fugiens by
Michael Maier , Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020).
Recognition
Nummedal was named a
Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.
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References
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"Tara E. Nummedal" , Department of History: People , Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
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"Tara Nummedal" , All Fellows , Guggenheim Foundation, retrieved 2021-04-01
^ Wilford, John Noble (August 1, 2006),
"Transforming the Alchemists: Some historians are rethinking the role of trial-and-error alchemy in the development of chemistry as a science" , The New York Times
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"Tara E Nummedal: Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies" , Vivo , Brown University, retrieved 2021-04-01
^ Coe, Alexis (January 17, 2013),
"Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only If They're Male: A new study of history professors shows that married men get promoted faster than their single colleagues, while the opposite is true for women" , The Atlantic
^ Reviews of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire :
Bernardoni, Andrea (2009), Nuncius , 24 (2): 524–525,
doi :
10.1163/182539109X00796 {{
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link )
Brand, P. (April 2009), German History , 27 (2): 288–289,
doi :
10.1093/gerhis/ghp010 {{
citation }}
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link )
Dym, Warren Alexander (February 2010),
"Review" , H-German
Garber, Margaret D. (Fall 2009), "Untwisting the Greene Lyon's Tale", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences , 39 (4): 491–500,
doi :
10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.491 ,
JSTOR
10.1525/hsns.2009.39.4.491
Hayton, Darin (Winter 2008),
"Review" , Renaissance Quarterly , 61 (4): 1343–1344,
doi :
10.1353/ren.0.0364 ,
S2CID
191513190
Janacek, Bruce (Fall 2009), The Sixteenth Century Journal , 40 (3): 1001–1003,
JSTOR
40540917 {{
citation }}
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link )
Kusukawa, Sachiko (December 2009), The Journal of Modern History , 81 (4): 989–991,
doi :
10.1086/650676 ,
JSTOR
10.1086/650676 {{
citation }}
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link )
Long, Pamela O. (October 2009), The American Historical Review , 114 (4): 1141–1142,
doi :
10.1086/ahr.114.4.1141 ,
JSTOR
23883076 {{
citation }}
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link )
Michaud, Claude (July 2008), Revue Historique , 310 (3): 702–704,
JSTOR
40958256 {{
citation }}
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link )
Moran, Bruce T. (Winter 2008), Bulletin of the History of Medicine , 82 (4): 944–945,
JSTOR
44449648 {{
citation }}
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link )
Popper, N. (May 2009), Social History of Medicine , 22 (2): 396–398,
doi :
10.1093/shm/hkp018 {{
citation }}
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link )
Rampling, Jennifer (January 2011), Technology and Culture , 52 (1): 185–187,
doi :
10.1353/tech.2011.0041 ,
JSTOR
23020467 ,
S2CID
201759936 {{
citation }}
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link )
Remmert, Volker R. (2009), Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung , 36 (1): 144–146,
JSTOR
43571028 {{
citation }}
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link )
Rey Bueno, Mar (2009),
"Reseña" , Dynamis (in Spanish), 29 : 383–386
Roos, Anna Marie (December 2008), The British Journal for the History of Science , 41 (4): 608–610,
doi :
10.1017/S0007087408001647 ,
JSTOR
30165757 {{
citation }}
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link )
Shackelford, Jole (March 2009), Isis , 100 (1): 162–164,
doi :
10.1086/599664 ,
JSTOR
10.1086/599664 {{
citation }}
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link )
Shantz, Douglas H. (February 2010), German Studies Review , 33 (1): 164–165,
JSTOR
40574933 {{
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^ Reviews of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood :
Harrington, Joel F. (2020),
"Review" , Preternature , 9 (2): 336–339
Janacek, Bruce (September 2020), Ambix , 67 (4): 408–415,
doi :
10.1080/00026980.2020.1806518 {{
citation }}
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link )
Laube, Stefan (December 2020), Annals of Science , 78 (2): 250–252,
doi :
10.1080/00033790.2020.1850863 ,
S2CID
230587143 {{
citation }}
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link )
Voltmer, Rita (2020), Francia-Recensio : 2020/3,
doi :
10.11588/FRREC.2020.3.75516 {{
citation }}
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Zaytseva, Arina (Spring 2020),
"Review" , Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 15 (1)
^ Review of John Abbot and William Swainson :
External links
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