Tara E. Nummedal is a professor of history and Italian studies at

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, where she holds the John Nickoll Provost’s Professorship in History. Nummedal is known for her works on Anna Maria Zieglerin and the history of

alchemy Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...

and

natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

early modern Europe Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century. Histori ...

Biography

Nummedal is originally from

Seal Beach, California Seal Beach is a coastal city in Orange County, California, United States. It was originally known as Bay City before it was incorporated into Orange County under its current on October 24, 1911. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,242 ...

, and is a 1992 graduate of

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

. After earning a master's degree at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

in 1996, she completed her Ph.D. at

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in 2001. She joined the Brown University faculty in 2002. Her husband, Seth Rockman, is also a historian at Brown University.

Publications

Books

*''Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire'' (University of Chicago Press, 2007) *''Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) *''John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in 19th-Century Natural History Illustration'' (with Janice Neri and John V. Calhoun, University of Alabama Press, 2019).

Editor

With Donna Bilak, she is also the editor of a

critical edition Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range i ...

of ''

Atalanta Fugiens ''Atalanta Fugiens'' or ''Atalanta Fleeing'' is an emblem book with an alchemical theme by Michael Maier (1568–1622), published by Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim in 1617 (2nd edition 1618). It consists of 50 discourses with illustrat ...

'' by

Michael Maier Michael Maier (; 1568–1622) was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II Habsburg. He was a learned Alchemy, alchemist, epigramist, and amateur composer. Early life Maier was born in Rendsburg, Duchy of ...

, ''Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens with Scholarly Commentary'' (University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Recognition

Nummedal was named a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

in 2009.

References

External links

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