email: jv.field@hist-art.bbk.ac.uk
Dr Field is a member of the International Academy of the History of Science; Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Institution; President, Leonardo da Vinci Society.
Selected publications
Books
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Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005)
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Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery that illustrate the History of Science and Technology, co-authored with F. A. J. L. James, British Society for the History of Science Monograph, no 11(Stanford in the Vale, 1997, ISBN 0-906450-13-6). Distribution by Lavis Marketing (73 Lime Walk, Headington, Oxford OX3 7AD, UK, tel: +44.1865.767575; email: lavismarkt@aol.com).
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The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Johannes Kepler, The Harmony of the World, translated into English with an introduction and notes, co-authored with E. J. Aiton and A. M. Duncan, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 209 (Philadelphia, 1997, ISBN 0-87169-209-0, US ISSN 0065-9738).
- L. B. Alberti, De la pintura, introduction and notes by J. V. Field, preliminary study and translation by J. Rafael Martínez, (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996. ISBN 968-36-4344-2 and 968-36-1887-1).
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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (London and Chicago, 1988).
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The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues, with J. J. Gray (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987).
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Early Gearing: Geared Mechanisms in the Ancient and Mediaeval World [exhibition catalogue], with M. T. Wright (London, 1985).
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Byzantine and Arabic mathematical gearing, with D. R. Hill and M. T. Wright ( London, 1985).
Edited books and journals
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Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. with F. A. J. L. James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) (Reprint in paperback 1997).
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16/10/2009.
