Ph.D. History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May 1989. Minor in History.
M.A. History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May 1983.
B.S. History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison. December 1980.

Publications in progress

A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602), accepted for publication as volume 45 of the Acta historica scientiarum naturalium et medicinalium series, Copenhagen: The Danish National Library of Science and Medicine. Expected late 2002 or early 2003.

A book on William Harvey, to be published by Oxford University Press as part of a series aimed at the secondary school market. Manuscript submitted; in proof stage.

“Science in Scandinavia,” in Ron Numbers, ed., The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 8: Modern Science in Natuional and International Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

“Vital philosophy: Lutheran orthodoxy and the rejection of Paracelsian theory in early seventeenth-century Denmark,” Early Science and Medicine, projected August 2003.

“To be or not to be a Paracelsian: Something Spagyric in the State of Denmark,”in Gerhild Williams and Charles Gunnoe, Jr. (eds.), The Paracelsian Moment: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 64 (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2002), pp. 35-69.

“Providence, Power, and Cosmic Causality in Early Modern Astronomy: The Case of Tycho Brahe and Petrus Severinus,” in Tycho Brahe and Prague: Crossroads of European Science, ed. J. R. Christianson, Alena Hadravova, Petr Hadrava, and Martin Šolc, Acta Historica Astronomiae 16 (Frankfurt am Main: Harri Deutch Verlag, 2002), pp. 46-69.

“The Chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic Theory in Petrus Severinus' Medical Philosophy,” in David Cantor, ed., Reinventing Hippocrates. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 59-88.

“Documenting the Factual and the Artifactual: Ole Worm and Public Knowledge,” Endeavour 23 (1999), pp. 65-71.

“Unification and the Chemistry of the Reformation,” in Max Reinhart (ed.), Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder, and Reorder in Early Modern German Culture, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 40. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., 1998, pp. 291-312.

“Seeds with a Mechanical Purpose: Severinus' Semina and Seventeenth-Century Matter Theory,” in Allen G. Debus and Michael T. Walton (eds.), Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 41. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., 1998, pp. 15-44.

“Rosicrucianism, Lutheran Orthodoxy, and the Rejection of Paracelsianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Denmark,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70 (1996), pp. 181-204.

“Early Reception of Paracelsian Theory: Severinus and Erastus,” Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995), pp. 123-35.

Nordic Science in Historical Perspective. No. 1 in a series of pamphlets on Nordic history and culture sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Madison, Wisconsin: Nordic Council Curriculum Project, 1994.

“A Reappraisal of Anna Rhodius: Religious Enthusiasm and Social Unrest in Seventeenth-Century Christiania, Norway,” Scandinavian Studies 65 (1993), pp. 349-89.

“Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science: Reading Plans in Context,” Isis 84 (1993), pp. 211-230.

“Paracelsianism and Patronage in Early Modern Denmark,” in Bruce Moran (ed.), Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine at the European Court 1500-1750. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1991, pp. 85-109.

“The Apple/Candle Illustration in The King's Mirror and the South English Legendary,” Maal og Minne 1&2 (1984), pp. 72-84.