Matthew Eddy
Visiting Scholar (2016)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Durham University
Matthew Eddy trained in England, the USA, and Germany. He is a cultural historian of the Enlightenment with additional interests in the history of science, art, and gender in modern Europe. Based in Durham University’s Department of Philosophy, he is the university's Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science and a member of its Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.
Matthew has held fellowships at Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Caltech, and Durham’s Institute for Advanced Study. His research has been supported through grants or fellowships awarded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Royal Society of London, the Wellcome Trust, the Mellon Foundation and Durham’s Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to serving on the executive councils for the British Society for the History of Science and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Matthew has given evidence for a number of British government organizations (including the Department of Work and Pensions) and served as an assessor for the National Research Exercise coordinated for the Greek Ministry of Education. He is currently completing a project that investigates how students learned to be rational observers during the Scottish Enlightenment.
Projekte
Notebooks, Natural Knowledge, and the Scribal Foundations of Gender
Selected Publications
Eddy, Matthew D. (2022). “Society and Environment: Chemistry and Daily Life during the Eighteenth Century.” In A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century, ed. M. D. Eddy and U. Klein, 113–135. London: Bloomsbury.
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Klein, Ursula and Matthew D. Eddy (2022). “Introduction: The Core Concepts and Cultural Context of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry.” In A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century, ed. M. D. Eddy and U. Klein, 1–21. London: Bloomsbury.
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Eddy, Matthew D. and Ursula Klein, eds. (2022). A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century. A Cultural History of Chemistry 4. London: Bloomsbury.
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Eddy, Matthew D. (2019). “Family Notebooks, Mnemotechnics, and the Rational Education of Margaret Monro.” In Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge, ed. C. von Oertzen, C. Bittel, and E. Leong, 160–176. Pittsburgh, PA:…
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