Teaching Officers

Simon Schaffer

Professor
Part II Manager

Research interests: History of physical science; social history of science

Selected publications

• Leviathan and the air pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the experimental life (with Steven Shapin) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)
• The Uses of Experiment: studies in the natural sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), coeditor and contributor of 'Glass works: Newton's prisms and the uses of experiment', 67-104
• William Whewell: a composite portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), coeditor and contributor of 'The history and geography of the intellectual world: Whewell's politics of language', 201-31
• 'Babbage's intelligence: calculating engines and the factory system', Critical Inquiry 21 (1994), 203-27
• 'The Leviathan of Parsonstown: literary technology and scientific representation', in Timothy Lenoir, ed., Inscribing science: scientific texts and the materiality of communication (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 182-222
• The sciences in enlightened Europe (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999), coeditor and contributor of 'Enlightened automata', 126-65