Biography

Noam Andrews is an architect and doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He has degrees in architecture from Cornell University and the Architectural Association (London), and has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His dissertation centers on the prominence of polyhedral geometry within “mixed mathematics” during the long 16^th century, materialized in the form of drawings, lavishly executed graphic models, intarsia, and turned ivory.