Nuno Castel-Branco

Book

The Traveling Anatomist

The University of Chicago Press

Public Writing

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Scientific American

Research Fellow

All Souls College, Oxford

Former Fellow at

I Tatti (Harvard Univeristy)

Max Planck Institute (Germany)

Who I Am

I am a historian of science at All Souls College, Oxford.

I did my PhD at Johns Hopkins University.

Before becoming a historian, I also studied Physics at Tecnico Lisbon, the leading STEM university in Portugal.

I now study science in the early modern period — when scientific inquiry intersected with religion, culture, and everyday life.

More broadly, I write about the human stories that underlie the emergence of modern science.

The Anatomy of a Conversion, Science & Religion Seminar, Oxford — March 2026

The Galileo Affair and Why It Still Matters, St. Michael’s Hall, Oxford — February 2026

A Discussion on The Traveling Anatomist, All Souls College, Oxford — November 2025

Problematizing Polymathy, Princeton University — October 2025

The Anatomy of a Conversion, Harvard University — September 2025