Michael S. Mahoney Professor of History Program in History of Science Department of History

Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544

Courses

• History 211: The Emergence of Europe, 400-1700
• History 291: The Origins of Modern Science, 1500-1700
• Readings for Graduate Precept
• History 392 (now 290): The Scientific World View of Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Fall, 1980)
• Readings for Graduate Precept
• History 398: Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives
• Extended Syllabus prepared for the Sloan Foundation's New Liberal Arts Program
• Freshman Seminar:
  • FRS 159 (Fall 2007) Creating the Computer: From ENIAC to the Internet
  • FRS 122 (Spring 1997, 1998) The World of the Computer
• History 591:
• Spring 2004: Galileo and Descartes (with Prof. Daniel E. Garber, also Philosophy 515)
• Fall 2001: The Scientific World of Christiaan Huygens
• Spring 1997: Engineering Culture: Mechanical Arts, Mathematics, and Mechanical Philosophy (with Prof. Mary Henninger-Voss)
• History 593
• Spring 2008: Models and Modeling: From the Armillary Sphere to the Computer
  
• Fall 2000:The Sciences of the Artificial
• History 598:
• Fall 2006: Thinking Through Things and Thinking Things Through: The Material Epistemology of Science
• Fall 2004,  Fall 1997: Computers and Organisms (with Prof. Angela Creager)
• Spring 2003: The World of Software
• Fall 1994: The Career of Engineering
• Teachers as Scholars Seminar:
  • Spring 2008 The Origins of Modern Science, 1500-1700
  • Spring 2006 Technology in American Life
  • Summer 2006 Technology and the Human Experience

Recent Articles and Preprints

• The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665. 2nd revised edition, Princeton University Press, 1994
• Articles on 17th-Century Science
• Articles on the History of Computing

Texts

• " Reading a Machine" (Updated and enhanced, 6/21/03)
• Readings in 17th-Century Mechanics(New text added 9/10/00)
• Descartes' The World or Treatise on Light (NEW 6/3/00)
• Commencement Address at Brevard College
• 'Engineering Plus': Technical Education and the Liberal Arts at Princeton, 250th Anniversary Lecture (1996)
• Reading a Machine: Projects by and for Teachers prepared by members of my 1984 and 1985 NEH Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers on "Technology and the Human Experience"
• "The World of Descartes"Plenary address to the 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, University of Notre Dame, 5-8 April 2001; published in The Wider World of Core Texts and Courses (ACTC, 2004), 73-83
• "The Web of Learning: Staying Real in a Virtual World", Lecture at the University of South Carolina in Celebration of the College of Arts and Sciences, 6 April 2005.

Current Research