Dr Richard Oosterhoff

Richard is currently a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Edinburgh, where he also serves as director of undergraduate teaching for history.

Richard is the author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and print in the circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples, where he explores how, in the early 1500s, the rise of the printed book contributed to the growing profile of mathematics. He has previously held fellowships at the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, the Huntington Library and the Houghton Library (Harvard University). Since 2014, he has been a member of the European Research Council’s project Genius Before Romanticism: Genius in early modern art and science.