Simon Schaffer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon J. Schaffer is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.
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Published Works
- Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (1987) (1528)
- Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation (1988) (215)
- The Uses of Experiment (1992) (173)
- The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence (2009) (154)
- Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton (1981) (150)
- Late Victorian metrology and its instrumentation: a manufactory of Ohms (1992) (138)
- Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System (1994) (128)
- On Experimentation. (Book Reviews: The Uses of Experiment. Studies in the Natural Sciences.) (1989) (123)
- Scientific Discoveries and the End of Natural Philosophy (1986) (98)
- The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (2000) (93)
- The eighteenth Brumaire of Bruno Latour. (1991) (87)
- Making up discovery. (1994) (72)
- Godly Men and Mechanical Philosophers: Souls and Spirits in Restoration Natural Philosophy (1987) (61)
- Halley’s Atheism and the end of the world (1977) (61)
- Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (2009) (50)
- Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century (2010) (48)
- Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House (1998) (45)
- Robert Hooke: new studies (1989) (44)
- Priestley's Questions: An Historiography Survey (1984) (42)
- William Whewell, a composite portrait (1991) (41)
- Easily Cracked: Scientific Instruments in States of Disrepair (2011) (41)
- “The Great Laboratories of the Universe”: William Herschel on Matter Theory and Planetary Life (1980) (39)
- Herschel in Bedlam: Natural History and Stellar Astronomy (1980) (33)
- Machine Philosophy: Demonstration Devices in Georgian Mechanics (1994) (32)
- The show that never ends: perpetual motion in the early eighteenth century (1995) (31)
- Communicating Climate Knowledge (2012) (31)
- Experimenters' Techniques, Dyers' Hands, and the Electric Planetarium (1997) (30)
- John Michell and Black Holes (1979) (27)
- How Disciplines Look (2013) (26)
- Uranus and the Establishment of Herschel's Astronomy (1981) (24)
- From physics to anthropology and back again (1994) (24)
- The pasteurization of France (1991) (23)
- Wallifaction: Thomas Hobbes on school divinity and experimental pneumatics (1988) (23)
- The astrological roots of mesmerism. (2010) (21)
- Rayleigh and the establishment of electrical standards (1994) (20)
- The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (2016) (19)
- "On Seeing Me Write": Inscription Devices in the South Seas (2007) (17)
- The Phoenix of Nature: Fire and Evolutionary Cosmology in Wright and Kant (1978) (14)
- CHAPTER FOUR. Fish and Ships: Models in the Age of Reason (2004) (14)
- Occultism and Reason (1985) (10)
- Enlightenment Brought down to Earth (2003) (10)
- Self Evidence (1992) (9)
- Transport phenomena: Space and visibility in Victorian physics (2012) (8)
- Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade (2006) (8)
- Nineteenth-century survey sciences: enterprises, expeditions and exhibitions (2019) (7)
- Opposition is True Friendship (2010) (7)
- Oriental Metrology and the Politics of Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Survey Sciences (2017) (7)
- Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment (1983) (7)
- ACCURATE MEASUREMENT IS AN ENGLISH SCIENCE (2020) (7)
- Titan's Shape, Radius and Landscape from Cassini Radar Altimetry (2007) (7)
- The ferment of knowledge: Natural philosophy (1980) (6)
- What is the History of Science (1988) (5)
- On Bad History: (1999) (5)
- Halley, Delisle, and the making of the comet. (1990) (5)
- Babbage's Calculating Engines and the Factory System (1996) (5)
- Swedenborg's Lunars (2014) (5)
- The Bombay Case: Astronomers, Instrument Makers and the East India Company (2012) (5)
- THE AGE OF THE AIR-PUMP (2008) (5)
- RADAR Imaging of Giant Longitudinal Dunes: Namib Desert (Earth) and the Belet Sand Sea (Titan) (2006) (5)
- Keeping the Books at Paramatta Observatory (2010) (5)
- Making Certain (1984) (5)
- Scientific Controversy as Moral/Political Discourse: From Restoration Science to Sociobiology@@@Storm over Biology: Essays on Science, Sentiment, and Public Policy.@@@The Obedience Experiments: A Case Study of a Controversy in Social Science.@@@Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Exper (1987) (5)
- Vigani and after: chemical enterprise in Cambridge 1680-1780 (2005) (4)
- Lovejoy's Series (2010) (3)
- Late Enlightenment Crises of Facts: Mesmerism and Meteorites (2018) (3)
- Essay Review: The Matter of Ether: Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories 1740–1900 (1982) (2)
- Response to Pinnick (1999) (2)
- Origins and Barriers: Reflections on Subrahmanyam (2016) (2)
- The laird of physics (2011) (2)
- Ceremonies of Measurement: Rethinking the World History of Science * (2015) (2)
- Book-Review - the View from Planet Earth - Man Looks at the Cosmos (1981) (2)
- Chronometers, charts, charisma: on histories of longitude (2017) (2)
- Traveling Machines and Colonial Times (2019) (2)
- Unconformity and entropy : greyman cries, shaman dies, billowing smoke, beauty evoked (2009) (1)
- Essay Review: The Newtonian Revolution Revisited: The Newtonian Revolution (1982) (1)
- Roy Sydney Porter (2002) (1)
- The Ark and the Archive (2019) (1)
- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 (2010) (1)
- Fontenelle’s Newton and the Uses of Genius (2015) (1)
- Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge (2017) (1)
- The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism (2009) (1)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- Richard S. Westfall, Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton , Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 908, illus., £25.00. (1981) (0)
- OBJECTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (2010) (0)
- James E. Force. William Whiston: Honest Newtonian . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii + 208. ISBN 0-521-26590-8. £25. (1986) (0)
- Lives and Works (1983) (0)
- VIII. The Polity of Science: Conclusions (2011) (0)
- âDame Nature Cares Nothing for Usâ (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Harrison's Rights and Wrongs: The Quest for Longitude (1999) (0)
- On with the motley? (2001) (0)
- National Traditions in Science (1984) (0)
- Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered (2019) (0)
- Henry Cavendish: an enlightened mind (2004) (0)
- The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis (2020) (0)
- ESSAY REVIEW: Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook by J. E. McGuire and Martin Tamny (1984) (0)
- A second chapter that I found quite engaging was Steven Shapin’s “Who Is an Industrial Scientist?” Shapin juxtaposes the mid-twentieth-century culture and practice of industrial science as portrayed by academic sociol- (2006) (0)
- From Nature to Precarious Lives (2020) (0)
- The Search for the Nebulae by Kenneth Glyn Jones (1977) (0)
- Celestial eccentric (1988) (0)
- Aleksandrov, AD, AN Kolmogorov, and MA Lavrent'ev. Mathemat-ics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning. 3 vols. in one. Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999.(First published in 1963). Pp xv+ 1120. $29.95 (paper). Beller, Mara. Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution. Chicago and (2000) (0)
- Research Review: Department of Science and Technology Studies (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Imperial Eclipse Expeditions: Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Clouds of Light: The Search for the Nebulae (1977) (0)
- A presiding influence (2015) (0)
- Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Society.Joseph AgassiThe Rationality of Science.W. H. Newton-Smith (1984) (0)
- Science and Puritanism (1988) (0)
- Book-Review - Robert Hooke - New Studies (1990) (0)
- Before Newton. The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow. Mordechai Feingold, Ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990. xii, 380 pp., illus. $49.50. (1990) (0)
- Afterthought: Of Maker’s Knowledge (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Astronomy in History: The View from Planet Earth: Man Looks at the Cosmos (1982) (0)
- Richard Yeo, Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800–1860 (2003) (0)
- The Polity of Science (2014) (0)
- Book Review:Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens Immanuel Kant, Stanley L. Jaki (1983) (0)
- The spring, pressure and weight of the air (2005) (0)
- Obeah in British Caribbean slave communities. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. By James Delbourgo. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- (2009) (0)
- Iain McCalman, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro. London: Century, 2003, xii plus 272 pages. ISBN 0712623485. (2004) (0)
- Dame Nature Cares Nothing for Us (2013) (0)
- Robert M. Brain;, Robert S. Cohen;, Ole Knudsen (Editors).Hans Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 241.) 444 pp., apps., index. Dordrecht:Springer, 2007. $199 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories 1740-l900 ed. by G.N. Cantor and M.J.S. Hodge (1982) (0)
- 光と真理 = The light of reason (2009) (0)
- Review. Science and Objectivity. Tiles, Mary, Bachelard (1986) (0)
- Essay Review (2007) (0)
- Laborious Nature: Simon Schaffer and the History of Science (2015) (0)
- Final Comment (2017) (0)
- Essay Review: Galilean Perspectives, Reinterpreting Galileo (1990) (0)
- 4. Keeping the Books at Paramatta Observatory (2020) (0)
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1981) (0)
- Mapping the Edges of the Abyss (1986) (0)
- Following restraining orders. (1998) (0)
- James R. Jacob, Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment , Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 222, £19.50. (1983) (0)
- Uranus and the Outer Planets. Garry Hunt (1983) (0)
- John Gascoigne. Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 358. ISBN 0-521-35139-1. £32.50, $49.50. (1990) (0)
- Matters of Fact (2013) (0)
- Astrophysics, Anthropology and Other Imperial Pursuits (2020) (0)
- Interview of Simon Schaffer (2008) (0)
- 光あれ = Let there be light (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Armagh Observatory, Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland: 200 Years of Armagh Observatory (1991) (0)
- Michael J. Crowe. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900: the Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xix + 680. ISBN 0-521-26305-0. £40.00. (1987) (0)
- Essay Review: Newton's Undergraduate Notebook (1984) (0)
- A Tour Round the Old Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (2007) (0)
- BOOKS, 1975–1987 (2005) (0)
- Ceremonies of Measurement (2015) (0)
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