# Hannah Marcus Professor of the History of Science Faculty Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Ph.D. Stanford University ![Hannah Marcus photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/medievalstudies/files/hmarcus.jpg?itok=URjFgXlu) location\_on Science Center room 371 email laptop\_windows [Department of the History of Science website profile](https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/hannah-marcus) Hannah Marcus is an historian of science, whose research focuses on the scientific culture of early modern Europe between 1400 and 1700. She is the author of *Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy* (University of Chicago Press, 2020), winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History from the American Catholic Historical Association, and the translator of the sixteenth-century apothecary Camilla Erculiani’s *Letters on Natural Philosophy* (University of Chicago Press, 2020)*.* With her colleague Allan Brandt, Marcus directs the new online resource [History of Contagion in Harvard Library Collections](https://harvardlibrarybulletin.org/contagion-project), which solicits and publishes short commentaries on fully digitized primary source documents related to the history of contagious disease. Currently she is working on a historical study of attitudes towards aging (*Methuselah’s Children: The Renaissance Discovery of Old Age*) and a co-authored volume with Paula Findlen about Galileo's correspondence (*Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship*). - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Standing Committee](/committee-members)