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Mike A. Zuber explores environmental knowledge in the context of early-modern mining in central Europe between 1550 and 1750, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He obtained his doctorate with distinction from the University of Amsterdam in 2017, and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Short fellowships brought him to Leiden and Gotha/Erfurt. Mike has published on the history of science and religious dissent in the early-modern period.
RCC Research Project: Mining in the Little Ice Age: An Environmental History of Knowledge, 1550–1750
Selected Publications:
- Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- “Alchemical Promise, the Fraud Narrative, and the History of Science from Below: A German Adept’s Encounter with Robert Boyle and Ambrose Godfrey.” Ambix 68. no. 1 (2021): 28–48. (Winner of the Partington Prize 2020.)