Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Research Fellows

Rob Ralley

Rob Ralley

Research interests: Social history of natural philosophy, medicine, magic, astrology and alchemy; history of time

Selected publications

  • 'Alchemical Artisans, Artisanal Alchemy', essay review of Bruce Moran, Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006), 344-352.
  • 'Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England', in Patrick Wallis and Mark Jenner (eds.), Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450–c.1850 (Palgrave, 2007).

Conferences