Anna Marie Roos

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Anna Marie Roos is a historian of early modern English science, noted for her research on the early Royal Society. She is an emeritus professor in the School of Humanities and Heritage at the University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records .

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Career

Anna Marie Roos obtained a PhD in history from the University of Colorado in 1997. [1] She was an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth from 1999 to 2006, The Lister Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2012, and a research associate at the Museum for the History of Science in Oxford from 2009 to 2013. Roos was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Huntington Fellow and Beinecke Fellow (declined) in 2017.

In 2013, Roos began work at the University of Lincoln and retired in July 2024 and is now an Emeritus Professor. She became the Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records in 2018. [2] Under her editorship, the first in a series of video interviews was published and the number of entries to the Essay prize significantly increased. [3]

Roos was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2013. [4] She is also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Research

Roos' work concerns early modern English science and the early history of the Royal Society. She studied the naturalist Martin Lister and his daughters Anna and Susanna, who created the images for the book Historiae Conchyliorum and were some of the first women to use a microscope. [5] [6] Roos detailed how Anna and Susanna became artists from their teenage years and that their work was used by their father because he considered that even the best professional illustrators were not sufficiently reliable. [7] Her book, Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters, was published by the Bodleian Library in 2018. [8] The book was published in Pinyin in 2024. [9]

Roos' book Goldfish, one of Reaktion Books' Animal series, was published in September 2019. [10] The book was dedicated to a pet goldfish she owned as a child, named Speedy.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roos was interviewed by National Geographic on the effect of pandemics on ancient cities. She discussed plague outbreaks and quarantine in Venice in the early modern era. [11]

Her other books are:

Edited with Gideon Manning, Collecting Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold. Springer, 2023.

Edited with Vera Keller, Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy. Brepols, 2022.

Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur. Oxford University Press, 2021 [12]

Edited with Vera Keller and Elizabeth Yale, Archival afterlives: life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives. Brill, 2018.

The correspondence of Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712) [Volume one 1662-1677]. Brill, 2015. Winner of the John Thackray Medal, Society of the History of Natural History.

Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the first arachnologist. Brill, 2011.

The salt of the earth: natural philosophy, medicine and chymistry in England, 1650-1750. Brill, 2007.

Luminaries in the natural world: the sun and moon in England, 1400-1720. Peter Lang, 2001.

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References

  1. ↑ Roos, Anna Marie (2011-07-12). Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist. BRILL. ISBN   978-90-04-20703-5.
  2. ↑ "Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science". Royal Society Publishing. Archived from the original on 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. ↑ Kren, Jennifer (21 June 2019). "On the record with Anna Marie Roos". The Royal Society Publishing blog. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24.
  4. ↑ "Anna Marie Eleanor Roos". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  5. ↑ Ravilious, Kate (2 August 2015). "Terrawatch: The lost art of specimen illustration". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  6. ↑ Newman, Cathy (22 January 2019). "Art and science interweave in a tale of two talented sisters and their polymath father". Science. Archived from the original on 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  7. ↑ Grahame, John (5 June 2019). "Coming out of one's shell: new book explores overlooked mollusc art by naturalist's daughters". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  8. ↑ Murphy, Kathryn (25 March 2019). "The making of a 17th-century book of shells". Apollo Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  9. ↑ "自然学家与他两位杰出的女儿：十七世纪的科学艺术 Peony Literary Agency".
  10. ↑ Newman, Cathy (10 October 2019). "The epic history of the humble goldfish". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  11. ↑ Newman, Cathy (16 March 2020). "What happens when a new pandemic hits an ancient city?". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  12. ↑ Roos, Anna Marie (26 December 2022). "Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur". English Historical Review. 137 (589): 1845–1847.
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