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Simon Schaffer

Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.

Selected bibliography

  • Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer (1985)

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