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Brigham Young University
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Field:Graeco-Islamic/Science/astronomy/medicine/Byzantine
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 Professor Cooper studies the legacy and spread of Hellenism, especially in and through Islam and Byzantium, to Medieval Europe the Renaissance West. His specialty in graduate school was the history of science and medicine in the Hellenistic and Early Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East. Since then he has acquired expertise in the history of medical prognosis, astrology,and divination in the Greek and Greek-inspired traditions. He is currently completing a monumental two-volume edition and study of Galen's (d.216 AD) treatise on medical astrology in the Greek and Arabic traditions, the De diebus decretoriis (³Critical Days²). He is gearing up for another book, which will cover either medieval Latin medical astrology in the Galenic tradition, or the concept of natural harmony in Hellenistic and Arabic science.
Professor Cooper's education has included reading philosophy at Oxford as a visiting scholar and studying Persian at Dushambe University, Tajikistan. He was awarded a B.A. in mathematical physics from BYU, and an M.A., M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. At BYU he was a consultant to the Museum of Art Empire of the Sultans exhibit. He was Directing Editor of the Graeco-Arabic Sciences and Philosophy series at BYU, 1999-2003. |
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