Joella Yoder
Joella Gerstmeyer Yoder is a historian of science. She is an expert in the work of Christiaan Huygens.
Life
Yoder gained her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin. In 1986 she embarked on the project of cataloguing the manuscripts and letters of Huygens, many of them collected at the University of Leiden. It would take her over a quarter of a century to complete this cataloguing project.Yoder was married to Bill Yoder, in memory of whom she donated to Village Theatre.
Works
Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 1989..- , Tractrix 3, pp. 1–13
- 'The Archives of Christiaan Huygens and his Editors', in Michael Hunter, ed., Archives of the Scientific Revolution. Woodbridge, 1998.
- , Revue d'histoire des sciences Année, 56, 2003, pp. 135–143.A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens including a concordance with his Oeuvres Complètes. BRILL, 2013..