NICHOLAS A. JACOBSON PhD

PhD., History of Science and Medicine

Postdoctoral Researcher in the McKeon Center at the University of Chicago

https://college.uchicago.edu/programs/mckeoncenter

Affiliate Researcher at Observatoire de Paris

https://alfa.hypotheses.org/

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.