PhD Opportunity Science Museum/Swansea University (readvertisement)
The Department of History & Classics, Swansea
University, in partnership with the Science Museum, London, invites
applications from suitably qualified UK/EU candidates for a full-time 3-year
Collaborative Doctoral Award, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research
Council, to conduct research on the topic of ‘Calculating value: using and
collecting the tools of early modern mathematics’.
The project seeks to understand, through study of the
Science Museum’s early modern printed books relating to mathematics and the
mathematical sciences (e.g. astronomy, mechanics, navigation), both the
appetite for such publications in the era in which they were produced and
the processes by which they were accidentally or intentionally preserved and
entered the Museum’s collections. Thus the project’s aim is to shed light on the
full range of values ascribed to these tools of mathematics over the course of
their existence. The student will be able to shape the project in accordance
with their particular interests – by, for example, focusing on particular texts
or genres of text, or by exploring connections between the Science Museum’s
books and its holdings of instruments.
For full details, including information on how to
apply, see:
The application deadline is 3 June 2015. Informal
enquiries may be directed to Dr Adam Mosley: a.j.mosley@swansea.ac.uk.
Dr Adam Mosley
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Department of History and Classics| Yr Adran Hanes a Chlasuron
Department of History and Classics| Yr Adran Hanes a Chlasuron
College of Arts and
Humanities | Coleg y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau
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Singleton
Swansea | Abertawe
Wales | Cymru
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Wales | Cymru
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Email | Ebost a.j.mosley@swansea.ac.uk
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