Professor Michael Hunter FBA

Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
History, Literature

Current post

Emeritus Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

Past appointments

Birkbeck College University of London Emeritus Professor of History

2011 -

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

1992 - 2011

Publications

Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale University Press) First published 2009; paperback 2010

Editions of the Works of Robert Boyle (with Edward B Davis, 14 vols.) 1999-2001

Editions of the Correpondence of Robert Boyle (with Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M Principe, 6 vols., 2001) 1999-2001

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in late 17th-century Britain 1995

The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: the Morphology o fan Early Scientific Institution (revised edition) 1994

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gerald Toomer FBA

The Republic of Letters in Europe in the 17th century, with especial reference to the history of scholarship

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Professor Javed Majeed FBA

Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature

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Dr Susan Brigden FBA

The English Renaissance and Reformation; literary coteries; Reformation diplomacy

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