Degree:
Ph.D., Harvard University

Biography:

Craig Martin researches Renaissance natural philosophy and early modern intellectual history. He has published on the history of Aristotelianism and the reception of Averroes during the Renaissance. He teaches a variety of courses on the Italian Renaissance and the history of science from antiquity to modern times. His research has been supported by fellowships from Villa I Tatti, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Dibner Institute and the Huntington Library. The American Academy in Rome has awarded him the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for 2011-12. His new project looks at the influence of Renaissance humanism on religious polemics against Aristotelianism during the seventeenth century.

Publications:

Books

Subverting Aristotle: History, Philosophy, and Religion in Early Modern Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).

Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Humanism and the Assessment of Averroes in the Renaissance," in Averroism and Its Aftermath, eds. Anna Akasoy and Guido Giglioni (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 65-80.

"Causation in Descartes' Les Météores and Late Renaissance Meteorology," in The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, eds. Sophie Roux and Daniel Garber (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 217-36.

"Meteorology for Courtiers and Ladies: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy," Philosophical Readings 4:2 (2012): 3-14.

"The Ends of Weather: Teleology in Renaissance Meteorology," Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2010): 259-82.

"Conjecture, Probabilism, and Provisional Knowledge in Renaissance Meteorology," Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009): 265-289.

"Scientific Terminology and the Effects of Humanism: Renaissance Translations of Meteorologica IV and the Commentary Tradition" in M. Goyens, P. De Leemans, and A. Smets, eds., Science Translated: Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2008).

“Rethinking Renaissance Averroism,” Intellectual History Review 17 (2007): 3-19.

“With Aristotelians Like These, Who Needs Anti-Aristotelians?: Corpuscular Chemistry in Niccolò Cabeo’s Meteorology,” Early Science and Medicine 11 (2006): 135-161.

“Alchemy and the Renaissance Commentary Tradition on Meteorologica IV,” Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 51 (2004): 245-262.

“The Authentic Hippocrates in the Renaissance: The Case of the ‘De alimento,’” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 90, no.4 (2004): 17-28.

“Francisco Vallés and the Renaissance Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Meteorologica IV as a Medical Text,” Early Science and Medicine 7 (2002): 1-30.