Judith V. Field
Judith Veronica Field 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, former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.
Education and career
Field earned a PhD in 1981 at Imperial College of the University of London; her dissertation, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology, was supervised by A. Rupert Hall, and later became one of her books.She was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics for 1997–1999. She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1988, and a full member in 1998.
Books
Field is the author of books including:- The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues
- Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
- The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
- Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery That Illustrate the History of Science and Technology
- Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art
- Byzantine and Arabic Mathematical Gearing
- Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe
- 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
- Mathematics and Mathematicians.
- The Harmony of the World
- Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
- Ibn al-Haytham, New Spherical Geometry and Astronomy
- ''Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics''