Michael Wintroub's areas of research are the history of science, the "Scientific Revolution," museum studies, early modern cultural history, ritual, travel, social change, identity formation, alterity, cross-cultural contact, popular and court culture, state-building, religion, humanism, vernacular consciousness and literature, material and visual culture, sociology of science, history of anthropology and intellectual history.

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