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January 14 - January 17, 2008

Harry Camp memorial lecturer

Simon Schaffer

Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge

About the Speaker

Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge. He was trained in natural sciences and history of science at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught at Imperial College London.
He is the co-author, with Steven Shapin, of Leviathan and the Air Pump (Princeton 1985) and joint winner of the 2005 Erasmus Prize. His more recent publications include edited collections The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago 1999) and The Mindful Hand (Chicago 2007) on industry and inquiry in early modern Europe

Lectures:
Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica
Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy

 

Monday, January 14, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica

Tuesday, January 15, 4:00 p.m.
Seminar
"The Charter'd Thames": Naval Architecture
and Experimental Spaces in Georgian Britain
Reading available at http://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/pdf/20041102_15.pdf and in hard copy at the Humanities Center

Wednesday, January 16, 5:00 p.m.
Lecture
Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy


Thursday, January 17, 4:00 p.m.
Seminar
"On Seeing Me Write": Inscription Devices in the South Seas
Reading available at http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdfplus/10.1525/rep and in hard copy at the Humanities Center

 

Location
All events take place at the
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA

 

All events are free and open to the public