Joyce van Leeuwen
Die Suchergebnisse bei Legimi sind auf die vom Nutzer angegebenen Suchkriterien zugeschnitten. Wir versuchen Titel, die für unsere Nutzer von besonderem Interesse sein könnten, durch die Bezeichnung "Bestseller" oder "Neuheit" hervorzuheben. Titel in der Liste der Suchergebnisse können auch sortiert werden - die Sortierauswahl hat Vorrang vor anderen Ergebnissen."

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Joyce van Leeuwen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She received a M.A. (Classics) from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a M.A. in German Literature from the same university. She pursued graduate studies at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Humboldt University Berlin) and Stanford University. In 2012, she defended successfully her doctoral thesis on the manuscript transmission of the Aristotelian Mechanics. Her analysis of the textual tradition of this treatise has been published in Classical Quarterly (2013). In the academic year 2012-2013 she held an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests lie in Greek paleography, diagrammatic reasoning, history of mechanics, and early modern science. She is currently working on visual practices in scientific texts from the early modern period, and analyzes these in the framework of transformation of knowledge.