His most recent book, Collecting the World (2017), explores global natural history collecting through the career of Hans Sloane, which culminated in the foundation of the British Museum in 1753. He previously taught at McGill in Montreal, where he directed the program in History and Philosophy of Science was Visiting Professor of History of Science at Harvard in 2016 and is an associate of that department. ĭelbourgo was born in England to Italian parents and educated at the University of East Anglia, Cambridge (Christ's College), Penn and Columbia. For Delbourgo's keynote lecture on "the knowing world" for the 2020 BSHS Global Digital Festival, see here. Divers Things on the cultural history of underwater exploration, the body and swimming and The Knowing World, a new global approach to the history of science. He is currently working on several projects including a history of collectors called The Dark Side of Collecting, under contract with W.W. James Delbourgo is a historian and writer who works on collecting and museums both past and present, the history of science, global history and the history of the Atlantic World.
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