W. R. Laird
Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
W. R. Laird Professor Degrees: B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interest
Ancient, medieval, and renaissance science, especially mechanics and the science of motion
Publications
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“Guidobaldo del Monte and Renaissance Mechanics.†In Antonio Becchi, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, and Enrico Gamba (eds), Atti del convegno in occasione del 400° anniversario della morte di Guidobaldo del Monte. Editions Open Access. Berlin: Max Planck Institute, 2013, 35-51.
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“Change and Motion.†In The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2: Medieval Science, ed. David C. Lindberg and Michael Shank. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.
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“Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics.†In The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden, ed. Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 338. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 289-305.
