Notes on the Contributors
Peter Anstey
is professor of early modern philosophy at the University of Sydney, and an Australian Research Council Future fellow. He is a specialist of early modern experimental philosophy (Boyle and Bacon) as well as of Newton and the French philosophes. He is the author of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013) and of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011).
Susan Broomhall
is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow attached to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research explores gender, emotions, knowledge practices and material culture of the early modern world. She has published extensively on early modern women, most recently with Jacqueline Van Gent, Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the early modern House of Orange Nassau (2016), and Gender, Power and Identity in the early modern House of Orange-Nassau (2016). She is the author of Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France (2005), and Women’s Medical Work in Early Modern France (2004). She is currently working on the archive of Catherine de Médicis.
Isabelle Charmantier
acquired a PhD in History of Science from the University of Sheffield (2008). Her post-doc at the University of Exeter (2009-2013) focused on the writing technologies of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). While retraining as an archivist, she was employed by the Linnean Society of London to catalogue Linnaeus’s manuscripts. After 18 months as Information Scientist at the Freshwater Biological Association in Windermere, she came back to the Linnean Society in March 2017 as Deputy Collections Manager. Her research interests include the history of ornithology, botany and natural history in general from the 16th to the 18th century, as well as the history of writing technologies.
Paul Gibbard
is senior lecturer in French at the University of Western Australia. He is a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and worked as an editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire at the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford and translated Emile Zola’s The Dream for Oxford World’s Classics. He has also been a chief investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, where he has explored the role of sensibility in the writings of the naturalists who visited Australia around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Arlette Girault-Fruet
is a member of the Centre de Recherches sur la Littérature de Voyage (CRLV, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand), where she is currently working on her third book dedicated to the sea in Chateaubriand’s Mémoires d’outre tombe. She is the author of La Non Trubada: la question des îles errantes dans les navigations d’autrefois (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (2014), which won the the Grand Prix de la mer, and of Les Voyageurs d’îles sur la route des Indes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (2010).
Dana Jalobeanu
is reader in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, member of the Research Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science CELFIS, co- founder and director of programs at the Research Centre Foundations of Early Modern Thought and Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest. A specialist of Francis Bacon, she is on the editorial board of the Oxford Francis Bacon, and the author of The Art of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. Francis Bacon in Context (2015).
Myriam Marrache-Gouraud
is lecturer in Renaissance French literature at the Université de Bretagne occidentale. She is the author of ‘Hors toute intimidation’: Panurge ou la parole singulière (2003) and the co-editor, with Pierre Martin, of Paul Contant’s Jardin, et cabinet poétique (2004). She publishes extensively on Rabelais, travel narrative, Renaissance natural history and its related cabinets of curiosity. She is currently preparing a book on catalogues of rarities and their rhetorical devices.
Stéphane Schmitt
is a senior research leader at the CNRS and a historian of biology. He is the author, among others, of Les Parties répétées: histoire d’une question anatomique (Paris, Éditions du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle: 2004), and of Aux origines de la biologie moderne: l’anatomie comparée d’Aristote à la théorie de l’évolution (2006). He is also the scientific editor of several classics in the history of biology, including Pliny’s Natural History for the Editions de La Pléiade (2013), and, since 2007, Buffon’s complete works for Honoré Champion, with twelve volumes completed so far.
Stéphane van Damme
is professor of History of Science and director of Graduate Studies at the European Institute in Florence. He is the author of numerous monographs spanning a vast area of research interests, from the archeology of early modern cities – Métropoles de papier. Naissance de l’archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (2012) – to a different take on the Enlightenment – A toutes voiles vers la vérité. Une autre histoire de la philosophie au temps des Lumières (2014) – or on Cartesianism – Descartes, Essai d’histoire culturelle sur une grandeur philosophique (2002).