Printed publications
‘Wren, Hooke and graphical practice’, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 41 (2010), 381-92
Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, with Anthony Gerbino (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009)
European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750, edited with Giorgio Strano, Mara Miniati and Alison Morrison-Low (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009)
‘Reading rules: artefactual evidence for mathematics and craft in early-modern England’, in Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth (eds), The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
‘Like father, like son? John Dee, Thomas Digges and the identity of the mathematician’, in Stephen Clucas (ed.), John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought, International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées, vol. 193 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006) [preprint version]
‘Benjamin Martin, from beginning to end’ [in memoriam John R. Millburn], Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, 86 (2005), 12-13 [html version]
‘Thomas Bedwell’, ‘Leonard Digges’, ‘Thomas Digges’, ‘John Feild [Felde]’, ‘Paul Ive’, ‘Robert Recorde’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)
‘Theory, theoric, practice: Mathematics and magnetism in Elizabethan England’, Journal de la Renaissance, 2 (2004), 53-62
‘The Anton Mensing Scientific Instrument Project: Final Report’, with Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, Jan C. Deiman and Hans Hooijmaijers, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, 79 (2003), 28-32
Solomon’s House in Oxford: New Finds from the First Museum, with J.A. Bennett and A.V. Simcock (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 2000)
‘Le Spectacle du calcul’, La Revue. Musée des Arts et Métiers, 23 (1998), 23-32
Associate editor, Instruments of Science: an Historical Encyclopedia, eds Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998)
‘Making the arithmometer count’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, 52 (1997), 12-21 [html version]
‘The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England’ in Irmgard Hantsche (ed.), Der ‘mathematicus’: Zur Entwicklung und Bedeutung einer neuen Berufsgruppe in der Zeit Gerhard Mercators, Duisburger Mercator-Studien, volume 4 (Bochum, 1996) [html version]
The Geometry of War, 1500-1750, with Jim Bennett (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1996) [html version]
‘The carpenter’s rule: instruments, practitioners and artisans in 16th-century England’, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Scientific Instrument Symposium, edited by G. Dragoni, A. McConnell, G.L’E. Turner (Bologna, 1994), 39-45
‘Mathematical practitioners and instruments in Elizabethan England’, Annals of Science, 48 (1991), 319-344
The Grounde of Artes. Mathematical books of 16th-century England, with J.A. Bennett, F. Willmoth (Whipple Museum of the History of Science exhibition catalogue, Cambridge, 1985)