PhD Research Series

Thomas Harriot studied the motion of falling objects independently of Galileo, discovered Snell’s law of refraction before Snell, pioneered interpolation before Newton, and invented binary before Leibniz. Stefano Farinella studies the notebooks of this remarkable and still remarkably unknown figure.

By Stefano Farinella

In West African manuscript cultures, written artefacts were produced to address all kinds of life problems, offering their owners relief if used correctly. PhD researcher Jannis Kostelnik investigates what these manuscripts can tell us today about the lives of their owners and colonial history.

By Jannis Kostelnik