Rob Iliffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Iliffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Iliffe |
| SIGNATURE | ILIFFE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Imperial College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature
I am grateful to the contributors of this forum for offering their responses to Priest of Nature. Steffen Ducheyne's remarks on the degree of interconnectedness between Newton's various activities concern a topic that lies at the heart of the book and underpins most of my other writings on Newton. As I showed in the book, Newton made a number of distinctions between the types of procedures that were applicable to his scientific-mathematical and r…
Technicians
Notes and Documents
Report. Newton on the Net
Report of The Newton Project
Abstract considerations
Geography Unbound
Exploring European Frontiers
Generall Learning
The masculine birth of time
This paper sets out to examine the various temporal frameworks that made up the discourse of early modern natural philosophy. It takes into account a range of views and debates such as the comparison between the achievements of ancients and moderns, belief in the gradual decay of the earth and/or the cyclical nature of time, appreciation of recent improvements in the material conditions of life (especially technology), and projections of future t…
Essay Review
Telling Time
Essay Review
Newton's Optical Writings
All Was Light
Theory, experiment and society in French and Anglo‐Saxon history of science
This paper examines the analyses of the role of scientific experiment by three French scholars. It claims that while Anglo‐Saxons were slow to embrace French anti‐empiricism, French historians of science have been unwilling to consider that the content of science might itself be linked to the various social and cultural contexts that surround its production. Bachelard exalted modern scientific thought as epitomising creative thinking and he argue…
Material doubts
In this paper I analyse some resources for the history of manipulative skill and the acquisition of knowledge. I focus on a decade in the life of the ‘ingenious’ Robert Hooke, whose social identity epitomized the mechanically minded individual existing on the interface between gentleman natural philosophers, instrument makers and skilled craftsmen in late seventeenth-century London. The argument here is not concerned with the notion that Hooke ha…
Ce que Newton connut sans sortir de chez lui
Rob Iliffe. What Newton knew without having to go out : Maupertuis and the shape of the Earth in the 1730's. The expeditions organised by the Academy in Peru and Lapland were designed to provide a better measure of the meridian than that of the Cassinis, showing that the Earth was an oblate spheroid and not a prolate one. The Lapland expedition lead by Maupertuis (who had established fruitful contacts with Bernouilli and Celsius) was carefully pr…
Aplatisseur DU Monde ET DE Cassini
Dans les annees 1730, l'Academie Royale des Sciences a organise des expe- ditions pour determiner la forme de la terre et pour mesurer les degres terrestres en allant de l'equateur vers les poles. Les resultats de ces expeditions sont discutes
Essay Review
In the Warehouse
Henry More (1614-1687)
In the Warehouse
Material doubts
In this paper I analyse some resources for the history of manipulative skill and the acquisition of knowledge. I focus on a decade in the life of the ‘ingenious’ Robert Hooke, whose social identity epitomized the mechanically minded individual existing on the interface between gentleman natural philosophers, instrument makers and skilled craftsmen in late seventeenth-century London. The argument here is not concerned with the notion that Hooke ha…
Abstract considerations
Aplatisseur DU Monde ET DE Cassini
Dans les annees 1730, l'Academie Royale des Sciences a organise des expe- ditions pour determiner la forme de la terre et pour mesurer les degres terrestres en allant de l'equateur vers les poles. Les resultats de ces expeditions sont discutes
The masculine birth of time
This paper sets out to examine the various temporal frameworks that made up the discourse of early modern natural philosophy. It takes into account a range of views and debates such as the comparison between the achievements of ancients and moderns, belief in the gradual decay of the earth and/or the cyclical nature of time, appreciation of recent improvements in the material conditions of life (especially technology), and projections of future t…
Essay Review
Theory, experiment and society in French and Anglo‐Saxon history of science
This paper examines the analyses of the role of scientific experiment by three French scholars. It claims that while Anglo‐Saxons were slow to embrace French anti‐empiricism, French historians of science have been unwilling to consider that the content of science might itself be linked to the various social and cultural contexts that surround its production. Bachelard exalted modern scientific thought as epitomising creative thinking and he argue…
Essay Review
In the Warehouse
Henry More (1614-1687)
Ce que Newton connut sans sortir de chez lui
Rob Iliffe. What Newton knew without having to go out : Maupertuis and the shape of the Earth in the 1730's. The expeditions organised by the Academy in Peru and Lapland were designed to provide a better measure of the meridian than that of the Cassinis, showing that the Earth was an oblate spheroid and not a prolate one. The Lapland expedition lead by Maupertuis (who had established fruitful contacts with Bernouilli and Celsius) was carefully pr…
Aplatisseur DU Monde ET DE Cassini
Dans les annees 1730, l'Academie Royale des Sciences a organise des expe- ditions pour determiner la forme de la terre et pour mesurer les degres terrestres en allant de l'equateur vers les poles. Les resultats de ces expeditions sont discutes
All Was Light
Theory, experiment and society in French and Anglo‐Saxon history of science
This paper examines the analyses of the role of scientific experiment by three French scholars. It claims that while Anglo‐Saxons were slow to embrace French anti‐empiricism, French historians of science have been unwilling to consider that the content of science might itself be linked to the various social and cultural contexts that surround its production. Bachelard exalted modern scientific thought as epitomising creative thinking and he argue…
Material doubts
In this paper I analyse some resources for the history of manipulative skill and the acquisition of knowledge. I focus on a decade in the life of the ‘ingenious’ Robert Hooke, whose social identity epitomized the mechanically minded individual existing on the interface between gentleman natural philosophers, instrument makers and skilled craftsmen in late seventeenth-century London. The argument here is not concerned with the notion that Hooke ha…
Essay Review
Newton's Optical Writings
Essay Review
Telling Time
The masculine birth of time
This paper sets out to examine the various temporal frameworks that made up the discourse of early modern natural philosophy. It takes into account a range of views and debates such as the comparison between the achievements of ancients and moderns, belief in the gradual decay of the earth and/or the cyclical nature of time, appreciation of recent improvements in the material conditions of life (especially technology), and projections of future t…
Geography Unbound
Exploring European Frontiers
Generall Learning
Report. Newton on the Net
Report of The Newton Project
Abstract considerations
Notes and Documents
Technicians
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature
I am grateful to the contributors of this forum for offering their responses to Priest of Nature. Steffen Ducheyne's remarks on the degree of interconnectedness between Newton's various activities concern a topic that lies at the heart of the book and underpins most of my other writings on Newton. As I showed in the book, Newton made a number of distinctions between the types of procedures that were applicable to his scientific-mathematical and r…
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