JB Shank

Publications

• "'There was no such thing as the 'Newtonian Revolution,' and the French initiated it:' Eighteenth-century Mechanics in France Before Maupertuis". Shank, JB, 2004.
• "Fontenelle's Calculus: The Cultural Politics of Mathematics in Louis XIV’s France". in David Glimp and Michelle Warren eds, Arts of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave/McMillan, Shank, JB, 2004.
• "On the Alleged Cartesianism of Fontenelle". Shank, JB, 2004.
• Review: "J.A. English-Lueck, Cultures@Silicon Valley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).. Shank, JB, November, 2003.
• Review Essay: "Descartes in the Age of Jurassic Technology: A Review of Recent Scholarship,". H-France http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/shank2.html, Shank, JB, May, 2003.
• Before Voltaire: Newton, "Newtonianism," and the Beginning of the Enlightenment in France. University of Chicago Press, Shank, JB, 2005.
• Neither Natural Philosophy, Nor Science, Nor Literature: Gender and the Pursuit of Nature in Fontenelle' s Entretiens: Shank, JB, Judith Zinsser ed., Birthing Modern Science, 2005.

Activities

Awards

• Fullbright Fellow, France, 1995 - 1996
• Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1999 - 2000
• McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2004 - 2006

Courses Taught

• Hist 5649 - Ideas in Context: Making Early Modern Knowledge, 1500-1800
• Hist 3281 - Modern European Intellectual History I, 1500-1750
• History 5650 - The European Enlightenment
• Humanities 1003/3003 - Thought and Culture in the West 1400-1600
• History 3900 - The Origins of Global Revolution, 1660-1848
• History 3842 - The History of Silicon Valley
• History 3709 - Science and Enlightenment: European Thought and Culture 1550-1750
• History 1032 - "Western Civilization:" 1500 to the Present
• Hist 8960/ArtHist 8956 - Arts of Discovery: Science and Visual Culture in the Age of of Exploration, 1500-1800
• Humanities 1004/3004 - Thought and Culture in the West 1600-1800
• Hist 3282 - Modern European Intellectual History II, 1750-Present