Sonja Brentjes

Sonja Brentjes is a historian of science focusing on the histories of mathematics, mapmaking, institutions, translations, travels, and astral imagery in Islamicate societies, the medieval Mediterranean, and early modern Occidental Europe. She co-funded and developped the research project “Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, which she headed from 2016 to 2021. Her latest publications include edited volumes in cooperation with other colleagues on Narratives on Translation across Eurasian and Africa (2022) and the Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (2023), as well as articles on the Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986).