Pamela H. Smith

Pamela H. Smith is a historian of science. She is the Seth Low Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Science and Society, both at Columbia University.^[1]

Smith received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, in 1979, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, in 1991.^[1]

In 1995, Smith received the Pfizer Award for her book The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire.^[2]

Selected publications

Books

• The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250-1750, co-edited with Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop, Manchester University Press, 2014.
• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge, co-edited with Amy Meyers and Harold J. Cook, Bard Graduate Center/University of Michigan Press, 2014.
• Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800
• The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004, University of Chicago Press)
• Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (2002, Routledge)
• The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994, Princeton University Press

References