Dr William Poole

I was educated at New College and Linacre College from 1995-2000, before taking up a Research Fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge, from 2000-2004, after which I returned in 2004 to New College as a Tutorial Fellow in English. I am also Senior Tutor and Fellow Librarian of my college, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 

My research lies in early-modern literary, intellectual, and scientific history. I also have strong interests in bibliography, palaeography, and the history of libraries, especially Oxford libraries. My most recent books and editions are Milton and the Making of 'Paradise Lost' (Harvard, 2017), John Fell’s New Year Books, 1666–1686 (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2018), John Milton's Manuscript Writings, being vol. 11 of The Oxford Milton (2019), and A Dundee Physician in the Republic of Letters: The Life, Letters, and Poems of Peter Goldman (1587/8-1628) (Boydell, 2024). I also publish and design my own imprint, Editiones Rariores, of which the two first editions are of Thomas Hyde's Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688) (2021) and Heliogenes De L’Epy's utopian A Voyage into Tartary (London, 1689) (2023). I have also recently produced a full edition of an academic play surviving in two versions by Richard Zouche, Fallacy / The Sophister (c. 1614) (2021).

My current editorial projects are: 1) the complete correspondence of John Aubrey, which I am editing with Jack Avery, a work of currently around 800,000 words; 2) the complete correspondence of Robert Hooke, for OUP; 3) an edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, with Nicholas McDowell of the University of Exeter, to replace the classic 'Fowler' edition for the Longman Annotated English Poets of 1968. 

Other long-term projects are 1) aspects of the scholarly reception of Chinese language and history in the early-modern period; 2) the shelf-lists and benefactors register of Oxford's Anatomy School Museum, c. 1630-1780; 3) a critical history of Oxford books and book economy from c. 1580 to c. 1720; and 4) a study of intersections of natural philosophy, astronomy, and fiction in the period, provisionally titled The Renaissance Space Age

With James Willoughby, I co-edit the Bibliographical Society’s quarterly journal, The Library, and for the college I founded the biennial electronic journal New College Notes. Willoughby and I also co-ordinate the ongoing New College manuscript cataloguing project. A full list of publications is available under the 'Other Information' tab.

All aspects of English literature c. 1500-c. 1830. I also supervise or co-supervise doctoral theses for the Faculties of English and of History.

Bigger Books:

A Dundee Physician in the Republic of Letters: The Life, Letters, and Poems of Peter Goldman (1587/8-1628). Woodbridge: Boydell/St Andrews Studies in Scottish History, 2024.

John Fell’s New Year Books, 1666–1686. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2018.

Milton and the Making of ‘Paradise Lost’. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2017.

John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010.

The World-Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. Paperback, 2017.                        

Milton and the Idea of the Fall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Paperback 2009.

 

Smaller Books:

Geometry and Astronomy in New College, Oxford: On the Quatercentenary of the Savilian Professorships, 1619–2019. With Christopher Skelton-Foord et al. Oxford: New College Library & Archives, 2019.

New College Library Through Time. Oxford: New College, 2017.

Wadham College Books in the Age of John Wilkins (1614–1672). Oxford: Wadham College, 2014.

 

Editions and Translations:

Heliogenes De L’Epy, A Voyage into Tartary (1689). Oxford: Editiones Rariores, 2023.

Richard Zouche, Fallacy / The Sophister (c. 1614): A Wykehamist Play. Oxford: New College Library & Archives, 2021.

Thomas Hyde, Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688): A forgotten chapter in the history of Sinology. Oxford: Editiones Rariores, 2021. Privately printed, but commercially available under ISBN 978-1-8382266-1-9.

Wykehamist Pattern Poems, 1573–1618 (Winchester, 2021), introduction and two poems from Greek and Latin.

John Milton, Manuscript Writings, vol. 11 of The Oxford Milton. Oxford: OUP, 2019.

New College Library Benefactors’ Book, an ongoing edition (1601-1610 completed so far by me, and continued by other hands). http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ncnotes

‘The Letters of Shen Fuzong to Thomas Hyde, 1687-88’, electronic British Library Journal (2015), article 9 (c. 20,000 words), from Latin and Chinese.

John Milton, Areopagitica and Other Writings. London: Penguin, 2014.

‘The Captives: Three Fragments of an Early Seventeenth-Century Theatrical Adaptation of Plautus’ Captivi’, Malone Society Collections XVI. Manchester: MUP for the Malone Society, 2011.

Francis Lodwick, Writings on Language, Theology, and Utopia, ed. with Felicity Henderson. Oxford: OUP, 2011. Also published in Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO), 2013.

Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone (1638). An edition with ancillary texts. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2009.

Francis Lodwick, A Description of a Country Not Named. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007.

 

Edited Books:

John Wilkins (1614–1672): New Essays, edited by William Poole. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, edited with an introduction by William Poole and Richard Scholar. Oxford: Legenda, 2007.

 

Edited Journals:

The Library, from February 2013, with James Willoughby of New College.

New College Notes, 2012 to 2018. I founded this journal and have written around 60 articles for it so far, not listed here. For them see www.new.ox.ac.uk/new-college-notes

Guest-editor, with A. R. Linn, of an issue of Language and History (2013), in memory of Vivian Salmon; Linn and I co-authored an introduction for this too.

 

Web Resources:

Robert Hooke’s Books (http://www.hookesbooks.com/). Launched April 2015. With Yelda Nasifoglu and Felicity Henderson. Database of library, with extensive introduction and ancillary materials.

 

Chapters in Books:

‘Learning by Crib: Some Seventeenth-Century Oxford “Systems”’, in Collected Wisdom of

     the Early Modern Scholar (Dordrecht: Springer, 2023).

‘Sir Henry Savile and the Early Professors’, in Oxford’s Savilian Professors of Geometry: The

    First 400 Years, ed. by R. J. Wilson (Oxford: OUP, 2021).

‘“Friuolous Boyishe Grammer Schole Trickes”: Wykehamist Pattern Poetry, 1573–1618’,

    introduction to Wykehamist Pattern Poems, 1573–1618 (Winchester, 2021), pp. 1-14.

‘The Origin and Development of the Savilian Library’, in Reading Mathematics in the Early

    Modern Period, ed. by Benjamin Wardhaugh et al. (Routledge, 2020), pp. 167-91.

‘Collection by Donation: The Benefactors’ Registers of Oxford College Libraries in the

    Seventeenth Century’, in Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain 1650-1850, ed. by

    Elizabethanne Boran (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018), pp. 116-37.

‘Early English Sinology 1577-1688’, in Elizabeth Sauer, ed., Emergent Nation: Early Modern

    British Literature in Transition. 1660-1714 (Cambridge: CUP, 2018).

‘Richard Hakluyt: From Oxford to the Moon’, in Hakluyt & Oxford, ed. by Anthony

     Payne (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2017), pp. 53-66.

‘Wadham College Library: The First Century’, in John Wilkins (1614–1672): New Essays

    above, a revision of part two of Wadham College Books in the Age of John Wilkins (1614–

    1672).

‘Peter Goldman: A Dundee Poet and Physician in the Republic of Letters’, in Steven J.

    Reid and David McOmish, eds., Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern

    Scotland (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 100-25.

‘The Willughby Library in the time of Francis Willughby the Naturalist’, in Virtuoso by

    Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, ed. Tim Birkhead (Leiden: Brill, 2016),

    pp. 227-43.

‘Lucretius and Some Seventeenth-century Heterodox Theories of Human Origin’, in

    Lucretius and the Early Modern, ed. Stephen Harrison, Philip Hardie, and David

    Norbrook (Oxford: OUP, 2015), pp. 191-99.

‘Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelf-List attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.

    1624’, in A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of

    Early Modern Texts, ed. Edward Jones (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

‘Early Oxford Hebraism and the King James Translators (1586-1617): The View from

    New College’, The King James Bible: Scholarly Contexts, ed. Mordechai Feingold (Leiden:

    Brill, 2018), pp. 59-81.

‘Printing in Divinity, c. 1580-c. 1780’, History of Oxford University Press, vol. 1, ed. Ian Gadd

    (Oxford: OUP, 2013), pp. 359-76.

‘“The Armes of Studious Retirement”?’: Milton’s Scholarship, 1632-1641’, in Young

   Milton, ed. Edward Jones (Oxford: OUP, 2013). (The volume was awarded the Irene    

    Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society for 2013.)

‘Vossius, Hooke, and the early Royal Society’s Use of Sinology’, in The Intellectual

    Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy 1600-1750, ed. John Robertson and Sarah Mortimer

    (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 135-53.

‘Johannes Kepler’s Somnium and Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone: Births of

    Science-Fiction 1593-1638’, in New Worlds Reflected, ed. Chloë Houston (Aldershot:

    Ashgate, 2010), pp. 57-69. A variant text also published in French in La figure du

    philosophe, ed. Alexis Tadie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2010), pp. 73-

    86.

‘Milton’s Theology’, in John Milton in Context, ed. Stephen B. Dobranski (Cambridge:

    CUP, 2010; paperback 2015), pp. 475-86. (The volume was awarded the Irene Samuel

    Memorial Award from the Milton Society for 2011.)

‘The Genres of Milton’s Commonplace Book’, in The Oxford Handbook of Milton, eds.

    Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith (Oxford: OUP, 2009), pp. 367-81.

‘The Vices of Style’, in Renaissance Figures of Speech, ed. Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander,

    and Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), pp. 353-77.

‘The Genesis Narrative in the Circle of Robert Hooke and Francis Lodwick’, in Scripture

    and Scholarship in Early Modern England, ed. A. Hessayon and N. Keene (Aldershot:

    Ashgate, 2006), pp. 41-57.

 

Articles:

‘John Aubrey (1626-1697): An exemplary editorial challenge’, Bodleian Library Record,

    forthcoming.

‘“Villainously curtail’d”: John Milton, Joseph Jacob, and the 1689 Pro populo adversus

    tyrannos’, Milton Quarterly 55 (2021), pp. 92–95. With Alexandra Plane.

‘Some Unusual Bodleian Coin Donations 1648–1650’, Bodleian Library Record 30 (2021 for

    2017), pp. 88-94. With Andrew Burnett.

‘Peter Goldman and the Earlier History of the Pont Maps’, Cairt: Newsletter of the Scottish

    Maps Forum 37 (2020), pp. 4-5.

‘A lost Chinese inscribed stone, some Old Hungarian script, two notable copies of

    Angelo Rocca’s Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (1591), and an addition to John Donne’s

    library’, The Seventeenth Century 36 (2021), pp. 287-305.

‘Edward Bernard’s Chinese Map’, The Seventeenth Century 35 (2020), pp. 363–88.

‘More Light on the Literary Remains of Alexander Gil the Younger (1596/7-1644)’,

    Milton Quarterly 53 (2019), pp. 215-21.

‘From China to John Donne via some Exotic Alphabets: A Provenance Odyssey from

Queen’s College Library’, Insight 9 (2019), pp. 9-15. (http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/library/publications)

‘New Light on a Forgotten Astronomer of Queen’s College’, Insight

     (http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/library/publications) (2018), pp. 3-9.

‘Three Versions of a Restoration Ghost Story’, Notes & Queries 65 (2018), pp. 213-19.

‘Barton’s Coins: Eighteenth-Century Numismatics in New College, Oxford’, Journal of the

     History of Collections 30 (2018), pp. 385-93.

‘The Literary Remains of Alexander Gil the Elder (1565-1635) and Younger (1596/7-

     1642?)’, Milton Quarterly 51 (2018), pp. 163-91.

‘Seventeenth-century ‘Double Writing’ schemes, and a 1676 Letter in the Phonetic Script

    and Real Character of John Wilkins’, Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London 72

    (2018), pp. 7-24.

‘A Royalist Mathematical Practitioner in Interregnum Oxford: The Exploits of Richard

     Rawlinson (1616–1668)’, The Seventeenth Century 32 (2018).

‘“All Mr Boyl’s pieces”: Robert Boyle and the Bodleian Library’, The Boyle Project

(http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/media/pdf/Boyle_and_the_Bodleian_Final.pdf), 2018, pp. 1-25.

‘Skeletons, crocodiles, human skin: The first British Museum – origins and oddities’, The

     Times Literary Supplement (9 June 2017), pp. 14-15.

‘Robert Hooke’s copy of John Aubrey’s Miscellanies (London, 1696)’, Bodleian Library

    Record 30 (2017), pp. 94-101.

‘Barlow’s Books: Prolegomena for the study of the library of Thomas Barlow

     (1608/9-91)’, Bodleian Library Record 30 (2017), pp. 13-46.

‘John Milton and the Beard-Hater: Encounters with Julian the Apostate’, The

     Seventeenth Century 31 (2016), pp. 161-89, republished in Tania Demetriou and

     Tanya Pollard, eds., Milton, Drama, and Greek Texts (Routledge, 2017).

‘An Unnoticed Seventeenth-Century Commonplace Book: Exeter University Library

     MS 40’, Notes & Queries 63 (2016), pp. 550-56.

‘Reading Chaucer in New College, Oxford, in the 1630s’, co-authored with Philip

     Knox and Mark Griffith, Medium Ævum 85 (2016), pp. 33-58.

‘Robert Hooke’s Books’, introduction (c. 25,000 words) to web resource Robert

     Hooke’s Books (http://www.hookesbooks.com/), with Felicity Henderson and    

     Yelda Nasifoglu. 2015.

‘John Aubrey, the two George Ents, and the “Paduan” Laureae Apollinari’, Bodleian

     Library Record 27 (2014), pp. 88-104.

‘John Milton and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Vita di Dante’, Milton Quarterly 48 (2014),

     pp. 139-70. Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award for a distinguished essay on Milton

    (2014).

‘A Burning Issue: Boccaccio’s Life of Dante in the Bodleian, and its original owner’,

     The Times Literary Supplement (23 May 2014), pp. 14-15.

‘Two-Handed Milton’, introduction to Milton, Areopagitica and Other Writings

     (Penguin, 2014), pp. vii-xxvi.

‘Thomas Barlow’s Books at The Queen’s College’, Insight

     (http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/library/publications), 2013.

‘Praise and Plagiarism: Charleton/Posthius on Milton/Falconetus’, Milton Quarterly

     47 (2013), pp. 230-34.

‘Milton, Dinah, and Theodotus’, Milton Quarterly 47 (2013), pp. 65-71.

‘Down and Out in Leiden and London: The Later Careers of Venceslaus Clemens

     (1589-1637), and Jan Sictor (1593-1652), Bohemian Exiles and Failing Poets’, The

     Seventeenth Century 28 (2013), pp. 163-85.

‘Loans from the Library of Sir Edward Sherburne and the 1685 English Translation of

     Xenophon’, The Library 7th Series, 14 (2013), pp. 80-87.

‘A Feather in his Cap: Edmund Gibson, maker of Scots macaroni [On William

     Drummond’s Polemo-Middinia], The Times Literary Supplement (9 January 2013),

     pp. 12-13.

‘The First Intravenous Anaesthetic: How well was it managed and its potential

     realized?’, British Journal of Anaesthesia 2012, expanded version published as

     ‘Robert Boyle, the first intravenous anaesthetic, and the site of the Shelley

     Memorial’, both with Keith Dorrington, University College Record 2012, pp. 128-

     42.

‘Gloster and Bladud’, Notes & Queries 59 (2012), pp. 536-38.

‘A Swede in Restoration Oxford: Gothic Patriots, Swedish Books, English Scholars’,

     with Kelsey Jackson Williams, Lias 39 (2012), pp. 1-66.

‘A Comparative Account of Fount Composition from 1598’, The Library, 7th Series,

     12 (2011), pp. 281-85.

‘A Late Sixteenth-Century Cryptographical Treatise: Jacobus Colius’s ‘Tractatus de

     fictis characteribus’ (1584-6)’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 64

     (2011), pp. 213-39. Paired with ‘An Edition of Jacobus Colius, ‘Tractatus de fictis

     characteribus’ or ‘Tractate on Ciphers’ (1584-6), with an English Translation’,

     Oxford University Research Archive (2010) (http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk).

‘The Duplicates of Hans Sloane in the Bodleian Library: A detective story, with some

     comments on library organisation’, Bodleian Library Record (2011), pp. 192-213.

‘Early-Modern Eclecticism’, Critical Quarterly 52, no. 4 (2010), pp. 12-22.

‘The Evolution of George Hakewill’s Apologie or Declaration of the Power and

     Providence of God, 1627-1637: Academic Contexts, and Some New Angles from

     Manuscripts’, electronic British Library Journal (2010), article 10 [16,500 words].

‘Book Economy in New College, Oxford, in the Later Seventeenth Century’, History

     of Universities 25 (2010), pp. 56-137.

‘Theodoricus Gravius (fl. 1600-1661): Some biographical notes on a German chymist

     and scribe working in seventeenth-century England’, Ambix 56 (2009): 239-52.

‘The Library of Francis Lodwick: The Two Shelf-lists (Sloane MSS 855, 859)’,

     electronic British Library Journal (2009), article 1. 162 pp. searchable transcript

     with introduction and appendices. [With Felicity Henderson]

‘Milton’s Two Poems to be Fixed on Objects’, Notes & Queries 56 (2009): 213-15.

‘Sir Robert Southwell’s Dialogue on Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth: “C & S

     discourse of Mr Burnetts Theory of the Earth” (1684)’, The Seventeenth Century

     23 (2008): 72-104.

‘A Fragment of the Library of Theodore Haak (1605-1690)’, electronic British

      Library Journal (2007), Article 6 [17,500 words].

‘Antoine-François Payen, the 1666 Selenelion, and an unnoticed letter to Robert

      Hooke’, Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London 61 (2007): 251-63.

‘Francis Lodwick’s annotations to John Webster’s Academiarum Examen (1654) and

      John Dury’s Considerations concerning the Present Engagement (1649)’,

      Bodleian Library Record 19 (2006): 129-38.

‘Francis Lodwick, Hans Sloane, and the Bodleian Library’, The Library, 7th Series, 7

     (2006): 377-418.

‘Nuncius Inanimatus: Telegraphy and Paradox in the Seventeenth Century: the

     Schemes of Francis Godwin and Henry Reynolds’, The Seventeenth Century 21

     (2006): 45-71.

‘Seductive Forms: Unanswering Rational Shore [by J. H. Prynne]’, Quid 17 (2006):

     76-8.

‘Marvell’s ‘Ganza’s’: an emendation’, Notes and Queries 53 (2006): 49-50.

‘The Origins of Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone (1638)’, Philological

     Quarterly 84 (2005): 189-210.

‘Women among the prisoners: New College fragments of a new Jacobean play’,

     Times Literary Supplement 5356 (25 November 2005): 12-13. [with Jennifer

     Thorp]

‘Francis Lodwick’s Creation: Theology and Natural Philosophy in the Early Royal

     Society’, Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005): 245-63.

‘New College in 1633’, New College Record (2005): 68-74.

‘The Early Reception of Paradise Lost’, Literature Compass 1 (2004) 17C 111: 1-13.

     (http://www.literature-compass.com).

‘A Rare Early-Modern Utopia: Francis Lodwick’s A Country Not Named (c. 1675)’,

     Utopian Studies 15 (2004): 115-37.

‘Seventeenth-century Preadamism, and an Anonymous English Preadamist’

     (contexts, edition, and commentary), The Seventeenth Century 19 (2004): 1-35.

‘Two Early Readers of Milton: John Beale and Abraham Hill’, Milton Quarterly 38

     (2004): 76-99.

‘Milton and Science: A Caveat’, Milton Quarterly 38 (2004): 18-34.

‘Polonius’ “Effect Defective”’, Notes and Queries 51 (2004): 286-87.

‘False Play: Shakespeare and the Chess Tradition’, Shakespeare Quarterly 55 (2004):

     50-70.

‘The Divine and the Grammarian in the 17th-Century Universal Language

     Movement’, Historiographia Linguistica 30 (2003): 273-300.

‘‘Unpointed Words’: Shakespearean Syntax in Action’, Cambridge Quarterly 32

     (2003): 27-48.

‘Francis Godwin, Henry Neville, Margaret Cavendish, H.G. Wells: Some Utopian

     Debts’, American Notes and Queries 16 (2003): 12-17.

‘Milton and Calamy’, Notes and Queries 50 (2003): 180-83.

‘A Baboon in the Garden of Eden: The Private Heresies of Francis Lodwick’, Times

     Literary Supplement 5204 (27 December 2002): 10-11.

‘Julius Caesar and Caesars Revenge Again’, Notes and Queries 49 (2002): 227-8.

‘All at Sea: water, syntax, and character dissolution in Shakespeare’, Shakespeare

     Survey 54 (2001): 201-12.

‘Milton, Ausonius and Denham: Two Reworkings’, Notes and Queries 48 (2001): 23-

     5.

 

Electronic bibliographies:

William Poole, ‘Bodleian Adversaria’, http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/libraries.shtml, 2008- The details from this list have now been incorporated into the copy-specific notes of the Bodleian Library’s main catalogue, SOLO.

 

More significant blog posts:

‘Katherine Blount’s copy of the second edition of Samuel Garth’s The Dispensary (1699)’ (2023), at https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/

‘Tartarians and Heliopolitans in a Little-Known Book at the James Ford Bell Library’

(2022), at https://libnews.umn.edu/2022/07/tartarians-and-heliopolitans-in-a-little-known-book-at-the-james-ford-bell-library/

 

News, Broadcasts:

‘Migrations’ [on Thomas Hyde and Shen Fuzong] at https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/chinese-collections

‘William Poole reads from Book IV of Milton’s Paradise Lost’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzPepBmyxA

‘Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost’, an interview for New Books Network (2019): https://newbooksnetwork.com/william-poole-milton-and-the-making-of-paradise-lost-harvard-up-2017/

‘Language-Planning and Free-Thinking in Late Seventeenth-Century England: An 

     AHRC-funded Project 2004-7’, Intellectual History Review 17 (2007): 331-35.

Broadcasting: BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday Sequence, ‘John Milton’, 30 March 2008; BBC

     Radio 4, ‘Milton’s Music’, 9 February 2010.

Podcast on Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) for the Bodleian Treasures Exhibition, 2011

     (http://treasures.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/interact).

Podcast on Francis Lodwick for the Royal Society, 2011

     (http://downloads.royalsociety.org/audio/lodwick.mp3).

Podcast on ‘The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution’, 2012

     (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk)

(I was also a columnist for The Oxford Times from 2012 to 2018.)

 

Exhibitions and Musical Events:

‘Paradise Lost’. With viol consort Fretwork. Holywell Music Room, 6 June 2021. I scripted this project, and appear in the resulting films:

Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuTnaWiEQLc

Film: https://www.fretwork.co.uk/paradise

‘John Wilkins, Wadham College, and the Scientific Revolution’. Oxford, Wadham College, September 2014. Accompanied by booklet above.

‘My wit was always working’: John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science. Oxford, The Bodleian Library, 28th May - 31st October 2010. 45,460 visitors. Accompanied by illustrated monograph John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning above.

Virtual gallery at: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/exhibitions/online/aubrey/

 

Reference Works:

[Encyclopedia of Shakespeare]. Moscow, 2017. Articles (in Russian): Grammar Schools,

     Education, Timon of Athens.

The Milton Encyclopedia, ed. T. N. Corns, Yale University Press, 2012. 35 articles.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. Articles: Francis

     Godwin, Francis Lodwick.

   

Collaborative books and booklets:

Eight Perspectives from the Fellows’ Library. Winchester College, 2017. With Richard Foster.

New College. London: Third Millennium, 2011. Seven chapters: on Teaching, Learning,

     Religion, Books, Wardens, Rogues and Eccentrics, Authors.

Instruments of Mystification. Cambridge: The Whipple Museum/Cambridge Latin Therapy  

     Group, 2004. Booklet of Neo-Latin translations and commentaries. Nicholas Jardine,

     Katherine Harloe, William Poole, and Karin Tybjerg, ‘Darkness Visible: Obscurity

     and Openness in three mysterious instrument texts’, in idem., 5-13. William Poole,

     Nicholas Jardine, and Katherine Harloe, ‘Sending secret messages: Henry Reynolds’

     Macrolexis’, in idem., 42-65.

 

Work in Progress:

The Oxford Anatomy School: The First British Museum, study with catalogue.

John Aubrey, The Correspondence, c. 4-5 vols., with Jack Avery.

Robert Hooke, The Correspondence, c. 1-2 vols., contracted for OUP.

Five Restoration Travel Hoaxes, for Editiones Rariores.

Edmund Chilmead, The Musical Writings, for Editiones Rariores.

Thomas Hyde: A Bibliography.

John Milton, Paradise Lost, under contract for the Longman English Poets.

 

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