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Early Modern Europe, Science and Philosophy
, associate professor, specializes in the cultural history of science and philosophy in early modern Europe. He received degrees from Harvard and Cambridge.
With the support of the National Science Foundation, he is writing a
philosophical, technical and labor history of early-modern calculating
machines. He is also working on a book project,
Love, Inclination and Inertia,
about the intertwined history of natural and social cohesion, from the
late scholastics to Emilie Du Châtelet. His publications include
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2006); “Descartes’s Geometry as Spiritual Exercise,”
Critical Inquiry 28 (2001); and “Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum and Sentiment,”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32 (2001).
