David C. Lindberg

David C. Lindberg (* November 15, 1935 in Minneapolis ) is an American historian of science, which deals in particular with the Middle Ages and the early modern period, especially with the history of physics (optics) and the relationship of science and religion.

Lindberg studied physics at Northwestern University and received his doctorate in 1965 in history of science and philosophy at Indiana University. He was Evjue - Bascom and later Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Director of the Institute for Research in Humanities ( of which he was a member since 1975) at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, where he is Professor Emeritus today. 1970/71 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He published several works of Roger Bacon and wrote monographs on the history of optics in the Middle Ages and early modern times.

It was 1977/78 Guggenheim Fellow and President of the History of Science Society. He is a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America, and corresponding member of the Academie Internationale d' Histoire des Sciences.

In 1999 he received the George Sarton Medal.

Writings

  • The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to AD 1450, University of Chicago Press, 1992, 2nd edition 2008
  • John Pecham and the Science of Optics: Perspectiva Communis, University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 ( Latin edition and translation of the work of Pecham with introduction and commentary )
  • Theories of Vision from al -Kindi to Kepler, University of Chicago Press 1976; German eye and light in the middle ages. The development of the optics of Alkindi to Kepler, translated by Mathias Althoff, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3518578359
  • Studies in the history of medieval optics, London, Variorum Reprints 1983
  • Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature: a critical edition, Oxford University Press 1983, St. Augustine 's Press, South Bend, Indiana, 1998 ( Latin edition and translation of De multiplicatione specierum and De speculis comburentibus of Bacon with comment )
  • Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Bacon's Perspectiva, with Introduction and Notes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996
  • A catalog of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts optical, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1975
  • The genesis of Kepler 's theory of light: Light Metaphysics from Plotinus to Kepler, Osiris, NS, Volume 2, 1986, pp. 5-46
  • The theory of pinhole images from Antiquity to the 13th century, Archive Hist. Exact Sciences, Volume 5, 1968, p 154-176
  • Al -Kindi 's Critique of Euclid 's Theory of Vision, Isis, Volume 62, 1971, p 469-489
  • Margaret Ruth Williams: An introduction to the profession of medical technology, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1975, 1979
  • In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2010 (editor Robert E. Bjork ), he is responsible for items in the field of science history and wrote among other things the article eyeglasses and lenses.

As the editor:

  • Science in the Middle Ages, University of Chicago Press 1978
  • Lindberg is with Ronald L. Numbers, Roy Porter, Katharine Park, Mary Jo Nye, Lorraine Daston, Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross one of the editors of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge University Press, from 2009
  • With Ronald Numbers: God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounters in between Christianity and Science, University of California Press, 1986 ( in Lindberg of Science and the early church, p.19 -48 )
  • With Robert S. Westman: Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 1990 ( in Lindberg Westman with the introduction and the Post: Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution from Bacon to Butterfield: a preliminary sketch, pp. 1-26)
  • With Ronald Numbers: When Science and Christianity Meet, University of Chicago Press 2003
  • With Geoffrey Cantor: The discourse of light from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Los Angeles, William Andrew Clark Memorial Library, 1985 ( in Lindberg: Laying the foundations of geometrical optics: Maurolio, Kepler and the Medieval Tradition )
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