Michael Hunter (historian)

Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter at the Neville Awards in 2009
Born Michael Cyril William Hunter
1949 (age 6667)
Harting, West Sussex[1]
Residence Hastings, East Sussex
Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge, Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation Historian
Employer Birkbeck, University of London
Parent(s) Frank and Olive Hunter
Awards Roy G. Neville Prize

Michael Cyril William Hunter (born 1949) is Emeritus Professor of History in the department of history, classics and archaeology[2] and a Fellow[1] of Birkbeck, University of London. Hunter is interested in the culture of early modern England. He specialises in the history of science in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England, particularly the work of Robert Boyle.[2] In Noel Malcolm's judgement, Hunter "has done more for Boyle studies than anyone before him (or, one might almost say, than all previous Boyle scholars put together)".[3]

Education

Hunter read history at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, England from 1968 to 1972. He then attended Worcester College, Oxford, receiving a DPhil.[1]

Career

After a brief stay at the University of Reading Hunter joined Birkbeck, University of London in 1976.[1]

Hunter's first monograph focused on English antiquary and natural philosopher John Aubrey.[4] Since then he has written extensively on the history of science and intellectual thought in England during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Royal Society.[5]

His most substantial scholarly achievement is his edition of Boyle's Works (with Edward Davis, 14 vols, 1999–2000)[6] and Correspondence (with Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence Principe, 6 vols, 2001).[6]

From 2006 to 2009 Hunter directed the creation of a digital library focusing on British printed images before 1700.[2]

He received the 2011 Roy G. Neville Prize from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for his biographical work Boyle: Between God and Science.[7] He also received the 2011 Robert Latham medal from the Samuel Pepys Club.[8][9] In his honour, when he retired in 2013, the Birkbeck Early Modern Society held a conference on "Science, Magic and Religion in the Early Modern Period".[2]

Hunter is a motorcycle enthusiast who likes two-stroke racing bikes.[2] He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.[1]

Works

Other academic books include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Michael Hunter, College oration" (PDF). Birkbeck College. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Professor Michael Hunter". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  3. Noel Malcolm, 'Of Air and Alchemy', Times Literary Supplement, 22 August 2002
  4. Hunter, Michael (1975). John Aubrey and the realm of learning. New York: Science History Publications. ISBN 978-0-88202-039-6.
  5. "Chemical Heritage Foundation to Present Roy G. Neville Prize to Michael Hunter". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 Reviewed by Roy Porter, 'To Justify the Works of Boyle to Man', History of Science 39 (2001), pp. 241-48
  7. "Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 28 Nov 2016.
  8. Allen, Katie (October 26, 2011). "Samuel Pepys Award to Michael Hunter". The Bookseller. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  9. "The Robert Latham medal". Samuel Pepys Club. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  10. Thorson, James L.; Hunter, Michael (1983). "Science and Society in Restoration England.". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 17 (2): 214. doi:10.2307/2738292. JSTOR 2738292.
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