- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2012)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
- Undergraduate at St John’s College, Oxford (from 1987 to 1990)
- Early modern intellectual history, particularly the history of scholarship and the history of science
- (ed. with J. van der Meer), Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions, 4 vols. (Leiden, 2008)
- ‘All Souls from Civil War to Glorious Revolution’ and ‘The Vision of Christopher Codrington’, both in S.J.D. Green and J.N.P.B. Horden (eds.), All Souls under the Ancien Régime (Oxford, 2007), pp. 55-75, 132-74
- ‘English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament, 1620-1720: The Impact of Codex Alexandrinus’, in A. Hessayon and N. Keene (eds.), Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 74-93
- (ed. with M. Pelling), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine and Science, 1500-2000 (Aldershot, 2005)
- Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work (Cambridge, 2001)
- (with J. Bennett), The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple. Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1998)
- Editorial director, The Newton Project, currently based at the University of Sussex
- General Editor, publications of the Oxford Bibliographical Society
- Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, October 2007-March 2009.