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.

In the LRB Archive:

• Flowery Regions of Algebra: Pierre Simon Laplace · 14 December 2006

  • Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist by Roger Hahn

• Dozing at His Desk: the Genius of the Periodic Table · 7 July 2005

  • A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table by Michael Gordin

• Exactly like a Stingray: the evolution of the battery · 3 June 2004

  • Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi

• Learned Insane: The Lunar Men · 17 April 2003

  • The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow

• With Great Stomack on Christopher Wren · 21 February 2002

  • His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood

• Somewhat Divine on Issac Newton · 16 November 2000

  • Isaac Newton: The ‘Principia’ Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy translated by I. Bernard Cohen

• Heat Death: Entropists v. Energeticists · 13 April 2000

  • Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms by Carlo Cercignani

• Entranced by the Factory: Maxwell’s Demon · 29 April 1999

  • The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P.M. Harman

• Evil Man on Joseph Priestley · 21 May 1998

  • The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert Schofield

• Our Trusty Friend the Watch · 31 October 1996

  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel

• Knick-Knackatory · 6 April 1995

  • Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum edited by Arthur Macgregor

• In the Know · 10 November 1994

  • Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by William Eamon
  • The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela Smith

• In place of fairies · 2 December 1982

  • Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel O’Keefe
  • Scienze, Credenze Occulti, Livelli di Cultura edited by Paola Zambelli

• Cleaning up · 1 July 1982

  • Explaining the Unexplained: Mysteries of the Paranormal by Hans Eysenck and Carl Sargent
  • Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts by R. C. Finucane
  • Hauntings and Apparitions by Andrew Mackenzie
  • Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences by Susan Blackmore

• Comet Mania · 19 February 1981

  • The comet is coming! by Nigel Calder

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