Dr Adam Mosley
University of Swansea
Adam Mosley is a Lecturer in the History Department of Swansea University. He is an historian of science, with particular interests in early modern astronomy and cosmology, instrumentation, epistolography, and the scientific book. His publications include: Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 2007); 'Spheres and texts on spheres: the book-instrument relationship and an armillary sphere in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science', in L. Taub & F. Willmoth, The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations (Cambridge, 2006); and 'Objects of Knowledge: Mathematics and Models in Sixteenth-Century Astronomy and Cosmology', in I. Maclean & S. Kusukawa (eds.), Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 2006).
During his time at CRASSH, Dr Mosley will be studying the history of cosmography, a subject implicated in the representation of cultures to one another in the early modern period, but one whose disciplinary status seems always to have been uncertain, and whose disappearance from learned culture has not been documented in depth.
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