W. R. Laird
Professor Emeritus
- B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)
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Research Interests
Ancient, medieval, and renaissance science, especially mechanics and the science of motion
Honours and Awards
2015 Renaissance Society of America – Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Visiting Research Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto
2012 Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow and Affiliate Associate Professor, History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2009 Dibner Research Fellow, The Huntington, San Marino, CA
2007-08 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2005 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Award, 杏吧原创 University
2000-03 SSHRCC Research Grant
Select Publications
鈥淗eron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics.鈥 In The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden, ed. Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer. Beitr盲ge zur Altertumskunde 338. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 289-305.
鈥淐hange and Motion.鈥 In The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2: Medieval Science, ed. David C. Lindberg and Michael Shank. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.
鈥淕uidobaldo del Monte and Renaissance Mechanics.鈥 In Antonio Becchi, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, and Enrico Gamba (eds), Atti del convegno in occasione del 400掳 anniversario della morte di Guidobaldo del Monte. Editions Open Access. Berlin: Max Planck Institute, 2013, 35-51.
鈥淪tillman Drake on Salviati鈥檚 Proof.鈥 Centaurus 54 (2012), 177-181.
鈥淭he Sources of Francesco Maurolico鈥檚 Ex Heronis et aliorum spiritalibus,鈥 Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze matematiche XXX, 1 (2010), 9-21.
鈥淭he Scholastic Mechanics of Blasius of Parma,鈥 in Sabine Rommevaux and Joel Biard (eds), Math茅matiques et connaissance du monde r茅el avant Galil茅e, CNRS-MESR. Montreuil: Omniscience, 2010, 221-242.
Walter Roy Laird and Sophie Roux (eds), Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer/Springer Verlag, 2008.
鈥淣ature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti’s Lectures on the Mechanical Problems.鈥 In Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution. Ed. W. R. Laird and Sophie Roux. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer/Springer Verlag, 2008.
鈥淩enaissance Mechanics and the New Science of Motion.鈥 In Jos茅 Montesinos and Carlos Sol铆s Santos, eds., Largo campo di filosofare. La Orotava: Fundac铆on Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia, 2001, 255-267.
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti: An Edition and English Translation of his “Dialogue on Mechanics”. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.