Robert Fox is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and an honorary fellow of Oriel College. His main research interests are in European science, technology, and medicine since the eighteenth century. His recent books include The Savant and the State. Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (2012) and Science without Frontiers. Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870-1940 (2016).

• Introduction: Thomas Harriot. Science, Mathematics, Exploration in the English Renaissance / The Certain and Full Discovery of the World. Thomas Harriot and Richard Hakluyt / Thomas Harriot in the Twenty-First Century. Twenty-Five Years of the Harriot Lecture / "Our Learned Countryman". Thomas Harriot and the Emergence of Mathematical Community in Seventeenth-Century England / Thomas Harriot. The World’s First Ethnographer? / Harriot, Hakluyt, and the Briefe and true report…of Virginia / "Both to Love and Fear us". How to Found an Empire in Harriot’s Day / Thomas Harriot’s Magnificent Book. Creating Europe’s First Illustrated Exploration Narrative / Writing about Thomas Harriot / A Bibliography of Secondary Sources Relating to the Life and Work of Thomas Harriot Published since 2010