Richard Yeo
Emeritus Professor Richard Yeo
- Post Nominals: FAHA
- Fellow Type: Fellow
- Elected to the Academy: 2002
- Section(s): Philosophy And History Of Ideas, History
Biography
Richard Yeo has published on the history of science and intellectual history. His books include ‘Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science‘ (Chicago, 2014), ‘Defining Science‘ (Cambridge, 1993), ‘Encyclopaedic Visions‘ (Cambridge, 2001), and ‘Science in the Public Sphere‘ (Ashgate, 2001).
- Elected member of L’Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences, July 2019
Recent publications on two topics.
1. The History of Information
‘Media and Technology: Notes, Memory and Recollection’, A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age, circa. 1450-1700, edited by Alessandro Arcangeli and Marek Tamm (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 57-75.
‘Notebooks’, in Information: A Historical Companion, ed. Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021), pp. 636-640.
‘Editorial: Towards a History of the Questionnaire’, coauthored Daniel Midena, Intellectual History Review 32(3) (2022), pp. 503-529.
2. John Locke (1632-1704) and early modern scientific culture
‘Hippocrates’ Complaint and the Scientific Ethos in early Modern England’, Annals of Science, 75 (2018), pp. 73-96.
‘Thinking with Excerpts: John Locke (1632-1704) and his Notebooks’, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 43 (2020), pp. 180-202.
‘John Locke’s Note-Taking in France, 1675-1679: Between Commonplace books and Journals’, Studi Lockiani, 4 (2023), pp. 245-285.
A full list of publications can be downloaded HERE.
A list of published reviews and unpublished papers can be downloaded HERE.