The Advisory Board of the Oxford Francis Bacon comprises seven leading scholars with expertise in the many fields of Bacon studies:
J. W. Binns, FBA, FSA (University of York, emeritus)
J. W. Binns was formerly Reader in Latin Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The Latin Writers of the Age (Leeds, 1990) and the editor, with Shelagh Banks, of Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia. Recreation for an Emperor (Oxford, 2002). He was elected to the British Academy in 2004, and is currently a General Editor of Oxford Medieval Texts.
Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology)
Mordechai Feingold is an intellectual and institutional historian of science, from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. His research focuses on how the rise of modern science has transformed Western culture from a humanistic, religious, and unified culture during the sixteenth century into a scientific, technological, secular, and fragmented one by the nineteenth century. Feingold has authored four monographs, including Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization (Princeton UP, 2013), written with Jed Buchwald; The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (Oxford UP, 2004); and The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (Cambridge UP,1984), and edited ten volumes on the history of science and related subjects.
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Daniel Garber is the A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. His principal interests are the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the period of the Scientific Revolution. Garber is the author of Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (1992), Descartes Embodied (2001), and Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2009), and is co-editor with Michael Ayers of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). He is currently working on a variety of topics, including Francis Bacon’s views on experiment, scientific communication and the development of journal culture, and Spinoza’s views on religion and rationality. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of a new edition of the works of the seminal seventheenth-century thinker, Jacobus Fontialis.
Jill Kraye (The Warburg Institute, emeritus)
Jill Kraye is Emeritus Professor of the University of London and Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute. She is the author of Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy (Ashgate, 2002). She is also the editor of numerous books, including The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge UP, 1996) and the two-volume Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts (Cambridge UP, 1997).
Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki, emeritus)
Markku Peltonen is a historian whose writings focus on early modern England. He is author of multiple monographs, including Classical humanism and republicanism in English political thought 1570-1640 (Cambridge UP, 1995), The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge UP, 2006), and The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Professor Peltonen also edited the Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge UP, 1996) and wrote the entry on Bacon for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London, emeritus)
Claire Preston taught English Renaissance literature at Oxford, Birmingham, Cambridge, and Queen Mary. Her books include monographs on Edith Wharton (2000), Sir Thomas Browne (2005), the cultural history of bees (2006), and the poetics of seventeenth-century science (2015). She won a major AHRC grant to support Oxford University Press’s Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne, of which she is the general editor. She was awarded the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2005, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, and the British Society for Literature and Science Prize in 2015.
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts and Associate Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her first book, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters (2000) received the first annual Josephine Roberts Scholarly Edition Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has written widely on the intersections between manuscript and print culture in early modern England, and edited The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 (2007), The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary (2007), and Letterwriting in Renaissance England (2004) (with Alan Stewart). Her essay “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England,” co-written with Peter Stallybrass, received the 2019 Archival History Article Award from the Society of American Archivists. She is currently working on a book on writing paper in early modern England. She received her BA from Amherst College, her M.L.I.S. from UCLA, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
We are also grateful to those who have previously served on the Advisory Board over the past three decades:
† Peter Beal, FBA
† Jonquil Bevan
† Marta Fattori
Quentin Skinner
Sir Keith Thomas FBA
† J. B. Trapp
Sir Brian Vickers FBA
Charles Webster
The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings 1584-1596, ed. by Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1,136. ISBN: 978-0-19-818313-6.