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Fc07/François Charette

François Charette (born 1970) is a French Canadian historian of science.

Education and career

He obtained his doctorate in 2001 under the supervision of David A. King at the Institute for History of Science of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute, MIT, from 2002 to 2004. In 2010, he left academia to work in the software industry.

His research focused on the history of oriental studies in Europe, on astronomy in medieval Islam, especially astronomical instruments and their role in the didactics of astronomy and mathematics. He has been active in Open Source software projects since the early 2000s and has in particular initiated the projects ArabXeTeX and Biber.

Publications

Charette, François. Mathematical Instrumentation in Fourteenth-Century Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated Treatise of Najm al-Dīn al-Miṣrī. Vol. 51. Brill, 2003. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=C4xFEAAAQBAJ Charette, François. "A monumental medieval table for solving the problems of spherical astronomy for all latitudes." Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 48, no. 140 (1998): 11-64. Charette, François. "The locales of islamic astronomical instrumentation." History of science 44, no. 2 (2006): 123-138. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/007327530604400201 Charette, François. "The logical Greek versus the imaginative oriental: On the historiography of ‘non-western’ mathematics during the period 1820–1920." in: The history of mathematical proof in ancient traditions (2012): 274-293. Koenraad van Cleempoel (ed.), Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum." ### Charette, François. "High tech from ancient Greece." Nature 444, no. 7119 (2006): 551-552. https://www.nature.com/articles/444551a Charette, François, and Petra G. Schmidl. "al-Khwarizmi and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad. The Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments." SCIAMVS 5 (2004): 101. https://www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_05_101-198_Charette_Schmidl.pdf Charette, François, and Petra G. Schmidl. "A universal plate for timekeeping by the stars by Habash al-Hāsib: Text, translation and preliminary commentary." Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation (2001): 107-159. Charette, François. "Ibn al‐Majdī: Shihāb al‐Dīn Abū al‐ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al‐Majdī al‐Shāfiʿī." The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers, Springer reference (2007): 561-562. Charette, François. "Mizzī: Zayn al‐Dīn [Shams al‐Din] Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al‐Raḥīm al‐Mizzī al‐Ḥanafī." Charette, François. "Orientalisme et histoire des sciences." L’historiographie européenne des sciences islamiques et hindoues 1900 (1784). Charette, François. "Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al‐Marwazī". Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2014): 861. Charette, François. "Marrākushī: Sharaf al‐Dīn Abū ʿAlī al‐Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al‐Marrākushī."

Recognition

In 2005 he was awarded the dissertation prize of the Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPS) in 2005. Charette became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 2007.