The Mentor and Educator in the Persona of the Scholar

The purpose of this chapter is to share remembrances of Stephen Gaukroger as an educator and mentor. To achieve this goal, I will reflect on his contributions to higher education by examining the connections between his teaching at the University of Sydney and his better-known scholarly achievements. The theme of the persona was evergreen in Gaukroger’s scholarship, and in the second part of this chapter, I will examine the impact of this work on scholarship on the English experimental philosophy tradition and early modern mathematics.