Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

Elected 2012

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2012
Sections: Early Modern History to 1850, Modern History from 1850
Website: https://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/teaching-officers/schaffer

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

La fabrique des sciences modernes

Simon Schaffer - Published in 2014 by Le Seuil

Español

Trabajos de cristal: ensayos de historia de la ciencia 1650-1900

Simon Schaffer - Published in 2011 by Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A.

Español

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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Professor Lucy Riall FBA

Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA

World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires

Professor Alison Light FBA

Modern British cultural and literary history; life-writing, feminism, and the ‘I” in history; Englishness and the idea of class in Britain; writing history across the disciplinary boundaries

Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of History of Science

Darwin College, Cambridge Emeritus Fellow