Dr. Henry Zepeda

Research Associate

Short Curriculum Vitae

PhD University of Oklahoma (2013), MA University of Oklahoma (2008), B.A. Thomas Aquinas College (2006)

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Wyoming Catholic College (July 2018–present)
• Research Fellow, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO (summers of 2018 and 2019)
• Researcher, Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, BAdW (October 2013–June 2018)
• Online Seminar Moderator, Angelicum Academy Great Books Program, Colorado Springs, CO (Aug. 2017–May 2018)
• Instructor, College of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More (Jan. 2013–May 2014)
• Visiting Fellow, “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (June–Aug. 2013)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History of Science (2008–2013)
• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (May 2010–June 2012)
• Dibner Research Fellowship and Erika and Kenneth Riley Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (Feb.–April. 2012)
• University of Oklahoma Alumni Fellow (Aug. 2006–Apr. 2011)
• Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellow, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University (June 2010)

Selected Publications

1. The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (ca. 1200), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
2. “Glosses on the Almagest by Campanus of Novara and Others in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7256”, in D. Juste, B. van Dalen, D. N. Hasse, and C. Burnett (eds.), Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 225-244.
3. “Euclidization in the Almagestum parvum”, Early Science and Medicine 20.1 (April 2015): 48-76.
4. Dissertation: The Medieval Latin Transmission of the Menelaus Theorem (June 2013).
5. Thesis: “Jordanus de Nemore’s Conception of Compound Ratios” (April 2008).