BOOKS
The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Reviews include: American Historical Review 104, 1 (1999): 239-240, by Julian H. Franklin; Sixteenth-Century Journal 29 (1998): 1178-80, by Constantin Fasolt; Isis 89, 3 (1998): 536-537, by Peter McDermott; Renaissance Quarterly 52, 1 (1999): 249-250, by April Shelford.
Co-editor (with Anthony Grafton), The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990; paperback 1998): collected essays from the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.
ARTICLES
"Learning in the Life of a French Nobleman: Nicolas de Livre, Friend of Jean Bodin," in Historians and Ideologues: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Kelley, ed. Anthony Grafton and John H. M. Salmon (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001), pp. 3-39.
"The Practices of Erudition according to Morhof," in Mapping the World of Learning: The Polyhistor of Daniel Georg Morhof, ed. Françoise Waquet (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), pp. 59-74.
"Annotating and indexing natural philosophy," in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 69-89.
"Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance," Isis 91 (2000), pp. 32-58.
"The problemata as a natural philosophical genre," in Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Early Modern Europe, ed. Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi (Cambridge, Mass. and London: the MIT Press, 1999), pp. 171-204.
"Authorship in the popular 'Problemata Aristotelis,'" Early Science and Medicine 4, 1 (1999), pp. 1-39.
"Natural Philosophy and the 'New Science,'" in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 3: The Renaissance, ed. Glyn Norton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 449-57.
"The Foundations of Bodin's Natural Philosophy," in Bodinus Polymeres. Neue Studien zu Jean Bodins Spätwerk, ed. Ralph Häfner (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999), pp. 57-78.
"Bodin, Montaigne and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries," in History and the Disciplines: the Reclassification in Early Modern Europe, ed. Donald R. Kelley (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997), pp. 29-40.
"Bibliothèques portables: les recueils de lieux communs dans la Renaissance tardive," in Le pouvoir des bibliothèques: La mémoire des livres en Occident, ed. Marc Baratin and Christian Jacob (Paris: Albin Michel, 1996), pp. 84-106.
"La persistance du latin comme langue de science à la fin de la Renaissance," in Sciences et langues en Europe, ed. Roger Chartier and Pietro Corsi (Paris: Centre Alexandre Koyré, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1996), pp. 21-42.
"Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Jean Bodin and Jean-Cecile Frey," Perspectives on Science, Historical, Philosophical, Social 2 (1994), 428-54.
"The Languages of Natural Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth Century: Bodin's Universae naturae theatrum and its French translation," Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Hafniensis, ed. Rhoda Schnur et al. (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994), pp. 311-21.
"The Teaching of Natural Philosophy in Early Seventeenth-Century Paris: the Case of Jean-Cecile Frey," History of Universities 12 (1993), 95-158.
"Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: the Commonplace Book," Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992), 541-551 and co-author (with Anthony Grafton), "Reassessing Humanism and Science," ibid., 535-40.
"Un poème inconnu de Jean Bodin," Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 54 (1992), 175-81.
"Tycho Brahe's Critique of Copernicus and the Copernican System," Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1990), 355-77.
"Ovidius Methodizatus: the Metamorphoses of Ovid in a Sixteenth-Century Paris Collège," History of Universities 9 (1990), 73-118.
Co-editor (with Anthony Grafton), The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990; paperback 1998): collected essays from the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.
"La nature théâtre de Dieu, selon Jean Bodin," Nouvelle revue du seizième siècle 7 (1989), 73-91.
"Lectures on Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Class Notes of a 16th-Century Paris Schoolboy," Princeton University Library Chronicle 50 (1989), 117-44.
Forthcoming:
."Natural Philosophy" in The Cambridge History of Early Modern Science, ed. Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, to appear with Cambridge University Press.
"Jean Bodin et les ambitions encyclopédiques de la Renaissance tardive," to appear in a volume edited by Yves Charles Zarka (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France).
(co-authored with Isabelle Pantin) "Le sens de l'Ecriture et le déchiffrement du monde," in Histoire de la France littéraire, tome I: Naissances-Renaissances, ed. Frank Lestringant.
"La philosophie naturelle dans l'oeuvre de Jean Bodin," forthcoming in Actes du colloque Jean Bodin, Lyon, 1996, ed. Gabriel-André Pérouse, pp. 359-69.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Co-authored with Anthony Grafton, article on "Encyclopedias" for the Encyclopedia Britannica, in progress.
Artes on Jean Bodin and Pierre de La Ramée for the Dictionnaire Le Robert de littérature francaise, ed. Jean Card (forthcoming).
"Encyclopedias" and "Translations" in Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, ed. Wilbur Applebaum (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 209-10, 649-51.
"Bodin" in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler (New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1999), pp. 240-42.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Neil Kenny, Curiosity in Early Modern Europe. Word Histories (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998) in History of Universities (2001)
Lucien Febvre et Henri-Jean Martin, L'apparition du livre (reissue of 1999), Bulletin du bibliophile, forthcoming.
T. C. Price Zimmerman, Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy (1995) in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2000), pp. 465-66. [reviews in this journal are grouped by field over a 10-year period]
Beginnings and Discoveries. Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum (1997), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (1999), pp. 226-27.
Yves Charles Zarka, ed., Jean Bodin. Nature, Histoire, Droit et Politique (1996), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (1998), pp. 268-69.
Isabelle Pantin, La poésie du ciel en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle (1995), Isis (1997), pp. 707-8.
William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (1994), Renaissance Quarterly (1996), pp. 178-79.
Annibale Fantoli, Galileo. For Copernicanism and for the Church (1994), The Observatory Magazine
Jean Dietz Moss, Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy (1993), Neo-Latin News
Victor Thoren, The Lord of Uraniborg. A Biography of Tycho Brahe (1990), Journal of the History of Astronomy
Peter Dear, Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools (1988), Revue d'histoire littéraire de France.