Prof Vera Keller

Assistant Professor of History at the Robert D Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Cornelis Drebbel (1572--1633): Fame and the making of modernity Ph.D. Thesis, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 2008, 587 pages Re-entangling the Thermometer: Cornelis Drebbel’s Description of his Self-regulating Oven, the Regiment of Fire, and the Early History of Temperature,” Nuncius 28 (2013) 243–275. “Drebbel’s Living Instruments, Hartmann’s Microcosm and Libavius’ Thelesmos: Epistemic Machines before Descartes,” History of Science 48:1 (March, 2010), 39-74. “How to Become a Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosopher: The Case of Cornelis Drebbel,”Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy, eds. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011), 125-151.

Situating Thermometers: The Instrumentum Drebilianum, Paper delivered at 'Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700', an international conference held at the University of Oxford on 5-7 September 2011 (history.ox.ac.uk/intellectualgeography/)

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