Publications

[ed., with Frances Harris], John Evelyn and his Milieu (2003)
'Scientific change: its setting and stimuli', in Barry Coward (ed.), A Companion to Stuart Britain (2003), 214-29
Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in late 17th-century Britain (1995)
Science and Society in Restoration England (1981; reprinted 1992)
John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning (1975)

[ed., with Michael Cooper], Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies (2006)
'The Founder Members of the Royal Society', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2006)
[with Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper and Lisa Jardine], London's Leonardo: the Life and Work of Robert Hooke (2003)
The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700: the Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution (enlarged ed., 1994; originally published 1982)
Establishing the New Science: the Experience of the Early Royal Society (1989)
[ed., with Simon Schaffer] Robert Hooke: New Studies (1989)

Boyle: Between God and Science (2009)
'Robert Boyle and the Early Royal Society: a Reciprocal Exchange in the Making of Baconian Science', British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (2007), 1-23.
The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (2007)
Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science (2000)
[guest editor], 'Psychoanalysing Robert Boyle', Special issue of British Journal for the History of Science, 32 (1999), 257-324
[ed., with Edward B. Davis], Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (1996)
[ed.] Robert Boyle Reconsidered (1994; reprinted 2003)
[For details of the editions of Boyle’s Works, Correspondence, Workdiaries and early biographical texts, and for the Occasional Papers of the Robert Boyle Project, see www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle]

Editing Early Modern Texts: an Introduction to Principles and Practice (2007)
'Whither editing?' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 (2003), 805-20
[ed., with Giles Mandelbrote, Richard Ovenden and Nigel Smith], A Radical's Books: the Library Catalogue of Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1623-90 (1999)
[ed.] Archives of the Scientific Revolution: the Formation and Exchange of Ideas in 17th-century Europe (1998)
'How to edit a 17th-century manuscript: principles and practice', The 17th Century, 10 (1995), 277-310

'New Light on the "Drummer of Tedworth": Conflicting Narratives of Witchcraft in Restoration England', Historical Research, 78 (2005), 311-353 [also available on Birkbeck e-Prints]
[ed.] The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in late 17th-century Scotland (2001)
'Witchcraft and the decline of belief', 18th-century Life, 22 (1998), 139-47
[ed., with Annabel Gregory] An Astrological Diary of the 17th Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1652-1699 (1988)

[ed., with David Wootton] Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (1992; reprinted 2003)
'The problem of "atheism" in early modern England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series 35 (1985), 135-57

[ed.] Preserving the Past: the Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain (1996)
[with Peter J. Ucko, Alan J. Clark and Andrew David] Avebury Reconsidered: from the 1660s to the 1990s (1991)
'The preconditions of preservation: a historical perspective', in David Lowenthal and Marcus Binney (eds.), Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? (1981), 22-32
The Victorian Villas of Hackney (1981)