Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Room 4.05 Run Run Shaw Tower
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam
00000
Hong Kong
ABOUT
Scott Trigg is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He is a historian of science in Islamic societies, with particular interests in premodern astronomy, optics, "science and religion," and the transmission of knowledge. He received his degree from the Joint PhD program in History and the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and was previously a postdoc in the History and Philosophy of Science program at Notre Dame.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Classical
History Of Religion
History Of Science
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Medieval
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Central Asia
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
History Of Arabic-Islamic Science
Cross-cultural Transmission Of Knowledge
Science And Religion
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Latin (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| History and History of Science
| University of Wisconsin - Madison
MA
| 2004
| History of Science
| University of Wisconsin
MA
| 2002
| Mathematics
| University of Wisconsin
BA
| 1999
| Mathematics & Physics
| Lawrence University
Abstracts
Reading the Cosmos: Astronomy and Theology in the commentaries of Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī (d. 1486)
Visualizing the Configuration (hay'a): On the Role of Manuscript Images in two 15th c. Astronomical Commentaries
