Judith V. Field
{{short description|British historian of mathematics and art}}
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| thesis_title = Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
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| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = History of mathematics
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Judith Veronica Field (born 1943) is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London,{{r|cengage}} former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics,{{r|bshm}} and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.{{r|ldv}}
Education and career
Field earned a PhD in 1981 at Imperial College of the University of London; her dissertation, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology,{{r|mg}} was supervised by A. Rupert Hall,{{r|hall}} and later became one of her books.{{r|kgc}}
She was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics for 1997–1999.{{r|bshm}} She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1988, and a full member in 1998.{{r|iahs}}
Books
Field is the author of books including:
- The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues (with J. J. Gray, Springer, 1987){{r|gwgd}}
- Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (Athlone Press, 1988; Bloomsbury, 2013){{r|kgc}}
- The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford University Press and Princeton University Press, 1997){{r|ii}}
- Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery That Illustrate the History of Science and Technology (with Frank A. J. L. James, British Society for the History of Science, 1997){{r|sia}}
- Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art (Yale University Press, 2005){{r|pdf}}
- Byzantine and Arabic Mathematical Gearing (with D. R. Hill and M. T. Wright, Science Museum London, 1985)
She is the co-editor of:
- Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (with Frank A. J. L. James, Cambridge University Press, 1993){{r|rr}}
- Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (I. J. Good, D. Michie, and G. Timms (1945), edited by J. Reeds, W. Diffie, and J.V. Field, IEEE and Wiley, 2015){{r|btc}}
She is also a translator of:
- Mathematics and Mathematicians (P. Dedron and J. Itard, two vols., Transworld, 1974 and Open University Press, 1978).{{r|mm}}
- The Harmony of the World (Johannes Kepler, translated into English with an introduction and notes, by E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan and J. V. Field; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 209, Philadelphia, 1997)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry (A history of Arabic Science and mathematics, vol. 3, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2013)
- Ibn al-Haytham, New Spherical Geometry and Astronomy (A history of Arabic science and mathematics, vol. 4, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2014)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics (A history of Arabic science and mathematics, vol. 5, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2017)
References
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Review of Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park:
- {{citation|last=Christensen|first=Chris|date=September 2020|doi=10.1080/01611194.2020.1804484|journal=Cryptologia|pages=88–93|title=none|volume=45|s2cid=225207233 }}
Reviews of The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues:
- {{citation|last=Soare|first=N.|journal=zbMATH|language=German|title=none|zbl=0607.01026}}
- {{citation|last=Rosenfeld|first=B.|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=0869422|title=none|year=1988}}
- {{citation|last=Turner|first=A. J.|date=March 1988|doi=10.1017/S0007087400024444|issue=1|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4026868|pages=111–112|title=none|volume=21|s2cid=145419017 }}
Reviews of The Invention of Infinity:
- {{citation|last=Edgerton|first=Samuel Y.|date=November 1997|doi=10.1038/37041|issue=6658|journal=Nature|pages=356|title=Painting by numbers|volume=390|s2cid=4346650|doi-access=free}}
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- {{citation|last=White|first=John|date=October 1998|issue=1147|journal=The Burlington Magazine|jstor=888164|page=685|title=none|volume=140}}
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- {{citation|last=Raven|first=Diederick|date=June 1999|doi=10.1017/S0007087499253617|issue=2|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4028090|pages=243–245|title=none|volume=32}}
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- {{citation|last=Phillips|first=Anthony|date=January 2000|issue=1|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|pages=46–50|title=Review|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200001/rev-phillips.pdf|volume=47}}
- {{citation|last=Massey|first=Lyle|date=September 2001|doi=10.2307/3177245|issue=3|journal=The Art Bulletin|jstor=3177245|pages=564–566|title=none|volume=83}}
- {{citation|last=Benbow|first=Peter K.|date=September 2018|journal=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-invention-of-infinity-mathematics-and-art-in-the-renaissance}}
Reviews of Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology:
- {{citation|last=Wilson|first=Curtis|date=September 1988|issue=3|journal=Isis|jstor=234730|pages=539–540|title=none|volume=79|doi=10.1086/354831}}
- {{citation|last=Shea|first=William R.|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=0929681|title=none|year=1989|zbl=1091.01500}}
- {{citation|last=Lindberg|first=David C.|authorlink=David C. Lindberg|date=March 1989|doi=10.1017/S0007087400025930|issue=1|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4026718|page=124|title=none|volume=22|s2cid=144528112 }}
- {{citation|last=Moran|first=Bruce T.|date=Spring 1989|doi=10.2307/2861927|issue=1|journal=Renaissance Quarterly|jstor=2861927|pages=112–114|title=none|volume=42|s2cid=163754160 }}
- {{citation|last1=Barker|first1=Peter|last2=Ariew|first2=Roger|date=June 1989|issue=4|journal=The Review of Metaphysics|jstor=20128808|pages=826–828|title=none|volume=42}}
- {{citation|last=Apt|first=Adam J.|bibcode=1989JHA....20..213A|date=October 1989|doi=10.1177/002182868902000305|issue=3|journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy|pages=213–215|title=Keplerian cosmology|volume=20|s2cid=125903971}}
- {{citation|last=Drake|first=Stillman|authorlink=Stillman Drake|date=December 1989|doi=10.2307/1906363|issue=5|journal=The American Historical Review|jstor=1906363|page=1339|title=none|volume=94}}
- {{citation|last=Harman|first=P. M.|doi=10.5840/intstudphil199022325|issue=3|journal=International Studies in Philosophy|pages=103|title=Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology|volume=22|year=1990}}
- {{citation|last=Keller|first=Alex|date=December 1990|issue=4|journal=Renaissance Studies|jstor=24412399|pages=441–444|title=none|volume=4}}
- {{citation|last=Rabin|first=Sheila J.|date=May 1991|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(91)90508-u|issue=2|journal=Historia Mathematica|page=188|title=none|volume=18|doi-access=free}}
Reviews of Mathematics and Mathematicians:
- {{citation|last=Lockwood|first=E. H.|date=June 1976|doi=10.2307/3616255|issue=412|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|jstor=3616255|pages=145–146|title=none|volume=60}}
- {{citation|last=Jones|first=Phillip S.|date=August 1976|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(76)90120-8|hdl=2027.42/21708|issue=3|journal=Historia Mathematica|pages=357–359|title=Mathematics and mathematicians|volume=3|doi-access=free|hdl-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Schlapp|first=R.|date=March 1977|doi=10.1017/s0013091500026390|issue=3|journal=Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society|pages=268|title=none|volume=20|doi-access=free}}
Reviews of Piero Della Francesca:
- {{citation|last=Dabell|first=Frank|date=November 2005|issue=1232|journal=The Burlington Magazine|jstor=20074191|pages=755–756|title=none|volume=147}}
- {{citation|last=Mann|first=Tony|date=December 2005|journal=Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society|pages=30–31|title=Review|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/files/343%20-%20December%202005.pdf|volume=343}}
- {{citation|last=Emmer|first=Michele|date=March 2007|issue=3|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|pages=372–379|title=Review|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200703/rev-emmer.pdf|volume=54}}
- {{citation|last1=Katz|first1=Dana E.|last2=Swanson|first2=Irena|author2-link=Irena Swanson|date=Spring 2007|doi=10.2307/20478356|issue=1|journal=Sixteenth Century Journal|jstor=20478356|pages=300–301|title=none|volume=38}}
Reviews of Renaissance and Revolution:
- {{citation|last=Chapman|first=A.|bibcode=1995Obs...115...49C|date=February 1995|edition=1124|page=49|title=The Observatory|volume=115|issue=1124 }}
- {{citation|last=Osler|first=Margaret J.|authorlink=Margaret J. Osler|date=June 1995|issue=2|journal=Isis|jstor=236356|pages=323–324|title=none|volume=86}}
- {{citation|last=Malet|first=Antoni|authorlink=Antoni Malet|date=June 1995|doi=10.1017/S0007087400033008|issue=2|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4027681|pages=235–236|title=none|volume=28|s2cid=145129106 }}
- {{citation|last=Long|first=Pamela O.|authorlink=Pamela O. Long|date=July 1995|doi=10.2307/3107279|issue=3|journal=Technology and Culture|jstor=3107279|pages=723–725|title=none|volume=36|s2cid=144823243 }}
- {{citation|last=Gouk|first=Penelope|date=November 1996|issue=444|journal=The English Historical Review|jstor=575916|page=1276|title=none|volume=111|doi=10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1276}}
- {{citation|last=Dixon|first=C. Scott|date=September 1997|issue=3|journal=The Historical Journal|jstor=2639890|pages=825–833|title=Urban culture and court culture in the European past|volume=40|doi=10.1017/S0018246X97007449|s2cid=159971790 }}
- {{citation|last=Rouvray|first=Dennis H.|date=January 1998|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)80014-3|issue=2|journal=Endeavour|page=89|title=none|volume=22}}
- {{citation|last=Donahue|first=William|bibcode=1998JHA....29...89F|date=February 1998|doi=10.1177/002182869802900110|issue=1|journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy|pages=89–91|title=The Hall Festschrift|volume=29|s2cid=125107300}}
- {{citation|last=Hill|first=C. R.|date=October 1998|doi=10.1080/00033799800200271|issue=4|journal=Annals of Science|pages=425–427|title=none|volume=55}}
- {{citation|last=Jordanova|first=Ludmilla|authorlink=Ludmilla Jordanova|date=September 2002|issue=3|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4028128|pages=341–345|title=And?|volume=35|doi=10.1017/S0007087402004740}}
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