NICHOLAS A. JACOBSON PhD

PhD., History of Science and Medicine

Postdoctoral Researcher in the McKeon Center at the University of Chicago

Affiliate Researcher at Observatoire de Paris

Works

“Religion and Lawgiving in Astronomical Tables: Tables of Time and the Council of  Florence-Ferrara, 1431-1439,” in Orthodoxy Christianity and the Study of Nature: Histories of Interaction, eds. Ronald Numbers and Kostas Tampakis (Brepols, 2025).

“From the Court of Alfonso to the Court of John of Bourbon: ‘Alfonsine Astronomy’ as an Actor’s Category,” co-written with Eleonora Andriani in Alfonsine Astronomy: Expanding Historiographies (2025, Brepols, Forthcoming)

“Notice on the Arabes Maxime,’ in Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices, co-written with Eleonora Andriani and Samuel Gessner (Brepols, 2025, Forthcoming).

“Planetary Diagrams in Fourteenth-Century Canon Sets to the Alfonsine Tables,” in Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices (Brepols, 2025, Forthcoming).

“Conrad Heingarter’s Work on Planetary Latitude: An Introduction and Critical Edition,” in Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices, co-written with Eleonora Andriani and Camille Bui (Brepols, 2025, Forthcoming).

“Robert Grosseteste: Understanding God through Light and Tides,” in Church History Magazine 134, 2020.

Book ReviewS

Seb Falk, The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery, in the Journal of History of Science and Technology 15 no. 1, 2021.

Todd Timberlake and Paul Wallace, Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution, in Isis 111 no. 2, June 2020.

Book Review: Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger, eds., The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700: An Anthology of Sources, Dekab, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014, in the Journal of Politics, Religion, and Ideology 18 no. 1, March 2017.

Editing

Copy editing for Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2019

Index prepared for Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald Numbers, Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2014

Index prepared for Charles Cohen and Ronald Numbers, eds., Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013.

Index prepared for Efthymios Nicolaidis, Science and Eastern Orthodoxy. From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 2011.