2008 Thomas Harriot Lecture
"Thomas Harriot: New Worlds of an Elizabethan Scientist"
April 2, 2009 7PM |Science and Technology Building, OC-307
Professor Clucas is the co-editor, with Stephen Gaukroger, of the journal Intellectual History Review, and is a member of the Council of the International Society for Intellectual History. He has been Vice-Chairman of the Thomas Harriot Seminar devoted to the life and times of the Elizabethan scientist and mathematician Thomas Harriot since 1990. Professor Clucas is the organizer, with Peter J. Forshaw, of the EMPHASIS seminar, held in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, since 2003. He also serves on the Councils of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and the Society for Renaissance Studies.
Professor Clucas is the editor of John Dee: Interdisciplinary studies in English Renaissance Thought (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006); The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2003); A Princely Brave Woman: essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2003); and The Wizard Earl’s Advices to his Son (The Roxburghe Club, 2002). He has translated Paolo Rossi's Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language (London and Chicago: Athlone Press and Chicago University Press, 2000; paperback edition, New York: Continuum Books, 2006).
