Wesley M. Stevens

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Wesley M. Stevens is a historian and professor.

In 1951, he graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in mathematics with a bachelor's degree . In 1955 he graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with a Masters degree, and in 1959 received a Masters of Sacred Theology in Patristics from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and in 1968 he received his PhD from Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in history. From 1956 to 1960 he was Managing Editor of The Christian Scholars, a publication organ of the National Council of Churches (USA). From 1960 to 1967 he was assistant professor of history at Emory University and from 1985 to 1987 he was lecturer in Latin palaeology at the Consortium for Austro-Bavarian Studies. In 1968 he became a professor of history in Winnipeg. Since 1994 he has been Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Winnipeg , Canada . His main research interests are the history of science and technology in the Middle Ages . In 1992 he received the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Works

  • Hraban's Liber de Computo, Turnhout, 1979
  • Bede's Scientific Achievements, 1985
  • Cycles of Time and Scientific Learning in Medieval Europe, Aldershot, 1995

editor

  • Bibliographic access to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts: a survey of computerized data bases and information services; New York [u. a.]: Haworth Pr., 1992
  • The oldest Latin astrolabe: papers read at the XIX International Congress of History of Science which was held in Zaragoza, August 22-29 1993, during a symposium; Firenze: Olschki; 1996
  • Bede, the schools, and the "Computus" Jones, ed. With Charles Williams Aldershot, Hampshire [u. a.]: Variorum; 1994

Contributions

  • God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science. Edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986
  • Alkuin's influence on computistics at the time of Charlemagne: Stuttgart, Steiner, 2002 In: Francia, ISSN  0251-3609 , 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Stevens, Wesley M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century