Member: karlgalle

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About my libraryMy graduate training is in history & philosophy of science, but my professional arc has been a mix of teaching, international development, and science & health policy. My library collections are thus not always so much a coherent set of stable categories as a reflection of successive work areas and locations, including most recently over 10 years of living and working in Egypt. At the moment I'm researching and writing a book about the life & times of Nicholas Copernicus, which accounts for the large number of volumes in the history of astronomy & mathematics. The fact that the largest number of book entries (and a handful of old reviews) all date from March 2020 is just a reflection that this is the date when I migrated everything from an older GoodReads account.

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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Andrea Barrett, Karel Čapek, Atul Gawande, Anthony Grafton, Stanisław Lem, Amin Maalouf, Alberto Manguel, José Saramago, Elif Shafak, Tom Stoppard, Colson Whitehead (Shared favorites)

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Real nameKarl Galle

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Member sinceMar 23, 2020

Currently readingPtolemy's universe : the natural philosophical and ethical foundations of Ptolemy's astronomy by Liba Chaia Taub
Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Galileo affair : a documentary history by Maurice A. Finocchiaro
The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order by Robert S. Westman
Gutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity by Frédéric Barbier
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Martin Luther : renegade and prophet by Lyndal Roper
Machiavelli, Islam and the East by
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World by María M. Portuondo
Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy ; with a new preface by the author by Susan Neiman
The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
The education of an idealist : a memoir by Samantha Power
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science by Philip Ball
The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War by Harold J. Cook
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe by Ayesha Ramachandran
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543): Revolutionär wider Willen (German Edition) by Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language by Esther Schor
The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age by Gino Segrè
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Science in the Monastery: Texts, Manuscripts and Learning at Saint-Bertin (Bibliologia) (English and Latin Edition) by Steven J Livesey
Le livre du ciel et du monde by Nicole Oresme
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Science by K. Killeen
Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World by L. S. Fauber
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel
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