Professor Simon Schaffer FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- History
Summary
Simon Schaffer is an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College Cambridge. In 2005, he was co-winner of the Erasmus prize. In 2013, he was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and in 2015, the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum. He was awarded the Dan David Prize in 2018 and the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal of the Royal Society in 2019. His research concentrates on the history of natural philosophy and the physical sciences in European and colonial settings between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. From 2019, he was a member of the Leverhulme research project on 'Making Climate History'.
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of History of Science
Darwin College, Cambridge Emeritus Fellow
Publications
Trabajos de cristal: ensayos de historia de la ciencia 1650-1900
Simon Schaffer - Published in 2011 by Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A.
The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820
Edited by Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj, and James Delbourgo - Published in 2009 by Science History Publications Ltd
The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation
Edited by Lissa L. Roberts, Simon Schaffer, and Peter Dear - Published in 2007 by Edita KNAW
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
Edited by William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer - Published in 1999 by University of Chicago Press
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer - Published in 1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 2011 by Princeton University Press
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