Pamela O. Long

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Pamela Olivia Long (* 1943 ) is an American science and technology historian.

Long studied history at the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1969 and the Catholic University of America (MSW 1971). She received her PhD in 1979 from the University of Maryland in College Park with Francis C. Haber (The Vitruvian commentary tradition and rational architecture in the sixteenth century: a study in the history of ideas).

It deals with the history of science and technology of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (particularly in Italy and Rome). She works as an independent historian and has held various visiting professorships (for example, she was a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute, at the University of Maryland and at Hunter College, New York University in 2000/2001).

In 2009 she was co-editor of the Records of Michael of Rhodes , a Venetian Renaissance sailor who started out as a rower on a Venetian galley. The book received the Eugene S. Ferguston Prize of the Society for the History of Technology and the J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association.

In 2014 she became a MacArthur Fellow and was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2014 she received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal .

Fonts (selection)

  • Technology, Society and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 , Washington DC 2000
  • Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries. Byzantium, Islam and the West 500-1300 , Washington DC 2003
  • (Editor): Science and technology in medieval society , New York Academy of Sciences, 1985
  • with Brian Curran, Anthony Grafton, Benjamin Weiss: Obelisk. A History , MIT Press, 2009
  • Openness, Secrecy, Authorship. Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance , Johns Hopkins University Press 2001 (received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize)
  • Artisan / Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600 , Oregon State University Press, 2011
  • with David McGee, Alan M. Stahl : The Book of Michael of Rhodes. A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript , 3 volumes, MIT Press, 2009

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SURNAME Long, Pamela O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Long, Pamela Olivia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science and technology
DATE OF BIRTH 1943