Dr Sachiko Kusukawa

Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science

Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 (3)39930 Fax: 01223 (3)39209 sk111@cam.ac.uk

I have a research interest in natural philosophy (particularly the De anima commentaries) and in the uses of images and figures (especially the relationship between text, image and object in books) in the period between 1450 and 1630. I am currently engaged in a co-translation (with Dr A. R. Cunningham) of the natural philosophy section in Gregory Reisch, Margarita philosophica (1503). I am also completing a monograph on scientific illustrations in the sixteenth century.

Teaching

In Part I, I lecture on 'Nature, Science and Society' (lecture handouts may be found at: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sk111/), and in Part II, I teach in Dr U. Rublack's 'Early Reformation and the Making of Luther'. I occasionally supervise undergraduate dissertations in history of science or medicine.

Areas of research supervision

I am happy to supervise MPhil essays in the area of natural philosophy or scientific illustrations.

Publications

• 'The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge: the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius.' In Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe, edited by S. Kusukawa and I. Maclean, 73-96. Oxford, 2006.
• 'From Counterfeit to Canon: Picturing the human body, especially by Andreas Vesalius', Preprint 281 from the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science. Berlin, 2004.
• 'Melanchthon's life of Erasmus (1557).' Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 23 (2003): 1-24.
• 'The Reception of Melanchthon's textbooks in sixteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford.' In Melanchthon und Europa, 2. Teilband. WestEuropa, edited by G. Frank, 233-54. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 2002.
• 'Mediations of Zabarella in Northern Europe: The preface of Johann Ludwig Hawenreuter.' In La presenza dell'Aristotelismo Padovano nella filosofia della prima modernità, edited by G. Piaia, 199-213. Rome and Padua: Editrice Antenore, 2002.
• 'The Historia Piscium (1686).' Notes and Records of the Royal Society 54, no. 2 (2000): 179-97.
• 'A manual computer for reckoning time." In Writing on hands: memory and knowledge in early modern Europe, edited by Claire Richter Sherman, 28-34; 162-73. Seattle: Washington University Press, 2000.
• A Wittenberg University Library Catalogue of 1536, Cambridge: LP Publications, 1995.
• The transformation of natural philosophy: the case of Philip Melanchthon, Ideas in context series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (paperback 2006)