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  1. Chapters in edited volumes: "Reckoning and Time Keeping in the Renaissance, 1450-1700" in The Cultural History of the Universe, forthcoming 2024 from Bloomsbury. “American Astrologers in the First Year of Covid-19” in William Burns, ed. Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to Covid-19. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

  2. William E. Burns got his Ph.D. in early modern European history from the University of California at Davis in 1994. The road young scholars travel took him to Kearney, Nebraska, Stillwater, Oklahoma and Los Angeles, California before he settled in the Washington DC area. He now divides his time teaching between GWU and other regional ...

  3. problematic, concept at the outset. Indeed, Burns opts for a rather “fat” Scientific Revolution that embraces an expanded timeline, geography, social context, and topical range. Burns surveys Greek and Arabic antecedents of Western science before reaching the book’s key chapter, “New Worlds of Science.” Here Burns sets the Scientific

  4. William E. Burns, The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-19998-933-1. £16.99 (paperback). - Volume 48 Issue 4

  5. Jun 1, 2004 · William E. Burns. An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657–1727.New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 228. $74.95

  6. William E. Burns Bloomsbury Publishing USA , Oct 23, 2001 - Science - 408 pages An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world.

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