North, John (David)
NORTH, John (David)
NORTH, John (David). British, b. 1934. Genres: Astronomy, History, Literary criticism and history, Philosophy. Career: Nuffield Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science, Oxford, England, 196368; Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, England, assistant curator, 1968-77; University of Groningen, Netherlands, professor of history of philosophy and the exact sciences, 1977-99, dean of philosophy faculty, 1981-84, 1991-94; writer. Publications: NONFICTION: The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology, 1965; Isaac Newton, 1967; Horoscopes and History, 1986; Chaucer's Universe, 1988; Stars, Minds, and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology, 1989; The Universal Frame: Historical Essays in Astronomy, Natural Philosophy and Scientific Method, 1989; The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology (in UK as The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology), 1994; Stonehenge and the Neolithic Origins of Astronomy, 1996; The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance, 2002. EDITOR: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Scientists, 1969; (ff English trans. and author of commentary) Richard of Wallingford: An Edition of His Writings, 3 vols., 1976; (with J.J. Roche) The Light of Nature: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science, Presented to A.C. Crombie, 1985. Address: 28 Chalfont Rd, Oxford OX2 6TH, England.