Silke Ackermann

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Silke Ackermann is affiliated with the following schools: Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Silke M. Ackermann is a German-born cultural historian and museum professional. She became a British Citizen in 2009 and has since held dual German-British citizenship. Ackermann currently serves as Director of the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford, having been appointed in 2014 as the first female museum director at Oxford University. She is also co-founding director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Linacre College. In 2013 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, a post she held until 2017. Ackermann is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

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Silke Ackermann's Published Works

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Globes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (1999) (6)
Richard II, John Holland and three medieval quadrants (1999) (4)
Astrolabes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2006) (3)
‘The Lord of the smoking mirror’: Objects associated with John Dee in the British Museum (2012) (2)
Scientific instruments on display (2014) (1)
Light on Byzantium – a universal sundial in the British Museum (2016) (1)
Bartolomew of Parma, Michael Scot and the set of new constellations in Bartolomew's Breviluquium de fructu tocius astronomie (2001) (1)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Scientific Instruments between East and West (2020) (0)
Introduction Hic Sunt Dracones—Astrolabe Research Revisited (2017) (0)
Book Review: Islamic Mathematical Instruments: Mathematical Instrumentation in Fourteenth-Century Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated Treatise of Najm al-Dīn al-Mīşrī (2005) (0)
Heaven and Earth United (2018) (0)
4 “Of Sufficient Interest . . ., but not of Such Value . . .”: 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum (2014) (0)
From Globes to Celestial Maps (2018) (0)
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (2019) (0)
Antiquity and Middle Ages (2006) (0)
Humfrey Cole Revisited (2021) (0)
Book Review: Eastern Astrolabes at the Adler: Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, ii: Eastern Astrolabes (2010) (0)
DORMANT TREASURES THE ZINNER-ARCHIVE AT FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY1 (2001) (0)
George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance . Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xi+315. ISBN 978-0-262-19557-7. £24.95 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Instruments and Measurement-Humphrey Cole: Mint, Measurement and Maps in Elizabethan England (1999) (0)
Hic Sunt Dracones—Astrolabe Research Revisited (2018) (0)
A 17th-century Pikeman's Armour from Antwerp (2010) (0)

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