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Research Interests <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ancient, medieval, and renaissance science, especially mechanics and the science of motion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015 Renaissance Society of America – Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Visiting Research Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto
\n2012 Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow and Affiliate Associate Professor, History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
\n2009 Dibner Research Fellow, The Huntington, San Marino, CA
\n2007-08 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
\n2005 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Award, Carleton University
\n2000-03 SSHRCC Research Grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Publications <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics.\u201d In The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden,<\/em> ed. Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer. Beitr\u00e4ge zur Altertumskunde 338. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 289-305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChange and Motion.\u201d  In The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2:  Medieval Science<\/i>, ed. David C. Lindberg and Michael Shank.  Cambridge:  Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGuidobaldo del Monte and Renaissance Mechanics.\u201d  In  Antonio Becchi, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, and Enrico Gamba (eds), Atti del convegno in occasione del 400\u00b0 anniversario della morte di Guidobaldo del Monte<\/i>.  Editions Open Access.  Berlin:  Max Planck Institute, 2013, 35-51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStillman Drake on Salviati\u2019s Proof.\u201d Centaurus<\/i> 54 (2012), 177-181.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Sources of Francesco Maurolico\u2019s Ex Heronis et aliorum spiritalibus<\/i>,\u201d Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze matematiche<\/i>  XXX, 1 (2010), 9-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Scholastic Mechanics of Blasius of Parma,\u201d in Sabine Rommevaux and Joel Biard (eds), Math\u00e9matiques et connaissance du monde r\u00e9el avant Galil\u00e9e<\/i>, CNRS-MESR.  Montreuil:  Omniscience, 2010, 221-242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walter Roy Laird and Sophie Roux (eds), Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution<\/em>.   Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.  Dordrecht\/Boston:  Kluwer\/Springer Verlag, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti’s Lectures on the Mechanical Problems<\/i>.\u201d  In Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution<\/i>.   Ed. W. R. Laird and Sophie Roux.  Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.  Dordrecht\/Boston:  Kluwer\/Springer Verlag, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRenaissance Mechanics and the New Science of Motion.\u201d  In Jos\u00e9 Montesinos and Carlos Sol\u00eds Santos, eds., Largo campo di filosofare<\/i>.  La Orotava:  Fundac\u00edon Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia, 2001,  255-267.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti: An Edition and English Translation of his “Dialogue on Mechanics”<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"W. R.","cu_people_last_name":"Laird","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[66],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-211","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-professors-emeritus"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor Emeritus","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"WRLaird@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2833","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20434,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/211\/revisions\/20434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}