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| Liba Taub | |
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| Name | Liba Taub |
| Fields | History of Science, History of Astronomy, Museum Studies |
| Workplaces | University of Cambridge, British Museum, Royal Society |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford |
Liba Taub Liba Taub is a historian of science specializing in the history of astronomy, mathematical instruments, and museum curation. She has held positions at the University of Cambridge and contributed to collections at the British Museum and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Taub's work links scholarship on Ancient Greece, Babylon, Renaissance, Islamic Golden Age, and modern Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society archival sources.
Taub studied at institutions including the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, engaging with collections at the Bodleian Library and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. During her formative years she worked with curators from the British Museum and scholars from the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Society for the History of Technology. Her training brought her into contact with the archival materials of Isaac Newton, the epigraphic collections related to Ptolemy, and manuscript holdings associated with Al-Battani and Hipparchus.
Taub has been affiliated with the University of Cambridge as a faculty member and fellow linked to colleges within the University of Cambridge system. She has lectured alongside academics from the University of Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Institute for the History of Medicine. Taub participated in collaborative projects with institutions such as the British Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Science Museum, London. Her academic interactions include seminars involving scholars connected to the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the British Academy.
Taub's research encompasses the history of astronomical instruments, mathematical practice in antiquity and the Renaissance, and the transmission of astronomical knowledge across Mediterranean and Islamic Golden Age networks. She has published on instruments associated with Ptolemy, observational techniques related to Hipparchus, and translations linked to Al-Khwarizmi and Al-Biruni. Her work examines artifacts comparable to holdings attributed to Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler, and engages with textual traditions connected to Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius of Perga. Taub has contributed to studies intersecting with the historiography advanced by scholars such as Thomas Kuhn, Alexandre Koyré, and Joseph Needham, and she has worked on projects that intersect with cataloging practices used at the Vatican Library, the Bodleian Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
In curatorial roles Taub has worked on collections related to astronomical and mathematical instruments, collaborating with staff from the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, London, and the Science Museum, London. She has curated exhibitions and catalogues that reference objects comparable to collections of Christiaan Huygens, Edmond Halley, and William Herschel, and coordinated loans with institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Maritime Museum. Taub's museum practice engages conservation approaches used by the Getty Conservation Institute and acquisition policies familiar to the Smithsonian Institution.
Taub has received recognition from scholarly bodies including the British Academy, the Royal Society, and learned societies associated with the history of science. Her service and scholarship have been acknowledged by committees linked to the Royal Astronomical Society and the Society for the History of Technology. She has delivered invited lectures at venues such as the British Museum, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Wellcome Trust.
- Taub, L. — monographs and edited volumes on the history of astronomical instruments and ancient mathematical practice, cited alongside works by Thomas Kuhn, Alexandre Koyré, Joseph Needham, and E. J. Dijksterhuis. - Catalogues and exhibition texts produced for the British Museum, the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and collaborative projects with the Vatican Library and the Bodleian Library. - Articles in journals associated with the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and periodicals of the British Academy and the Society for the History of Technology.
Category:Historians of science Category:Women historians Category:British curators