He has coedited States of Secrecy, a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science, and has published articles on the development of taxonomy, the visual culture of early modern anatomy, and the aesthetics of curiosities. He has held fellowships at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and at the Descartes Center for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. His book, Commercial Visions: Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014.