Dr Brentjes is a historian of science in Islamicate societies and Christian Europe; she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She is member at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton. Her research includes the history of the mathematical sciences, mapmaking, institutions, cross-cultural exchange of knowledge and the involvement of the arts in the sciences. Among her recent publications are Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies 800–1700 (2018) and she was the editor for The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies which provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century (2022)

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