Hunter, Michael (Cyril William)

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HUNTER, Michael (Cyril William)

HUNTER, Michael (Cyril William). British, b. 1949. Genres: Intellectual history, Biography, Archaeology/Antiquities. Career: Birkbeck College, University of London, lecturer, 1976-84, reader, 1984-92, professor of History, 1992-; Research Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford, 1972-75, and University of Reading, 1975-76. Publications: John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, 1975; Science and Society in Restoration England, 1981; The Royal Society and Its Fellows 1660-1700, 1982, rev. ed., 1994; (with A. Gregory) An Astrological Diary of the 17th Century, 1988; Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society, 1989; (with S. Schaffer) Robert Hooke: New Studies, 1989; (with R. Thorne) Change at King's Cross, 1990; (co-author) Avebury Reconsidered: From the 1600s to the 1990s, 1991; Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle, 1992; (with D. Wootton) Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, 1992; Robert Boyle Reconsidered, 1994; Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, 1994; Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy, 1995; Preserving the Past: The Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain, 1996; (with E.B. Davis) R. Boyle, ed.: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, 1996; Archives of the Scientific Revolution, 1998; (co-author) A Radical's Books, 1999; (with E.B. Davis) The Works of Robert Boyle, 14 vols., 1999-2000; Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science, 2000; (coauthor) The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 6 vols., 2001; The Occult Laboratory: Magic Science and Second Sight in Late 17th-Century Scotland, 2001; (co-author) London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke, 2003. Address: Birkbeck College, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, England. Online address: m.hunter@bbk.ac.uk

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