Current Projects

Book project:

The Rise of the Scientific Journal in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain


Articles in Progress:

"Science by Numbers: How Knowledge went to Press"

"The Birth of the 'Offprint'"

"Henri Poincaré and the Organization of Knowledge"

"'When men and things and thoughts also would be catalogued': Imagining Categories at the Fin de Siècle."


Academic Publications

Objectivities in Print
    In Objectivity in Science, ed. F. Padovani, A. Richardson, and J. Tsou [under consideration]

From Anthropometry to Bibliography in the 1890s
    Library Trends [forthcoming]

Seriality and the Search for Order: Scientific Print and its Problems during the Late Nineteenth Century
    History of Science 48.3/4 (September/December 2010): 399-434.

    Featured as "Journals Galore" in the magazine Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2011).

    German translation in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 7 (October 2012).

    [full-text preprint]

The Stylistics of Rigor (Or Why Mathematicians Write So Well)
    Configurations 11.2 (Spring 2003): 239-268.




Reviews

Review of Robert Fox, The Savant and the State, in Journal of Modern History [forthcoming]

Review of Adrian Johns, Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates, in Metascience [forthcoming]