User:Footlessmouse/Rob Iliffe
Robert Iliffe | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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| Title | Professor |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | 'The idols of the temple' : Isaac Newton and the private life of anti-idolatry (1989) |
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| Discipline | Science historian |
| Sub-discipline | Early modern science history |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
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| Notable works | Priest of Nature |
| Website | www |
Robert Charles Iliffe is a science historian who is Professor of History of Science, the chair of the department, at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Linacre College.[1] Iliffe is the author of the 2017 book Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton and served as co-editor of Annals of Science from 2011 to 2019,[2] after serving on the editorial board for nine years.[3] Iliffe has also previously served, from 2001 to 2008, as the editor of the journal History of Science.[1] In addition, Iliffe is the author of the book Newton: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2007 by Oxford University Press, and has edited several others, including the second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton, published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.[1] Iliffe has also served as a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study for a one-year membership in residence from August 2019 to July 2020.[4] Iliffe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in 1989.[4]
Bibliography[edit]
Books authored[edit]
- Iliffe, Rob (10 July 2017). Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-999535-6. OCLC 855909939.
- Iliffe, Rob (2007-01-01). Newton: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780199298037.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-929803-7. OCLC 938292710.
Edited[edit]
- Science and Literature, 1660-1834, vol. 6: Astronomy (London: Pickering, 2004), 438pp
- Science and Literature, 1660-1834, vol. 7: Natural philosophy (London: Pickering, 2004), 421pp
- Iliffe, Rob; Keynes, Milo; Higgitt, Rebekah, eds. (2006). Early biographies of Isaac Newton: 1660-1885. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 978-1-85196-778-0. OCLC 58043437.
- (with A. Hadfield and B. Cummings), Newton and Milton: The Two Cultures in Seventeenth century England, (Cambridge, CUP 2013)
- Iliffe, Rob; Smith, George E., eds. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cco9781139058568.001. ISBN 978-1-139-05856-8. OCLC 953416547.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Professor Robert Iliffe". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ^ "Annals of Science Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ^ Levere, Trevor H. (2014-01-02). "A new editorial team". Annals of Science. 71 (1): 1–1. doi:10.1080/00033790.2013.860275. ISSN 0003-3790.
- ^ a b "Rob Iliffe - Scholars". Institute for Advanced Study. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
- ^ Osler, Margaret J. (2006). Iliffe, Rob; Keynes, Milo; Higgitt, Rebekah (eds.). "A Hero for Their Times: Early Biographies of Newton". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 60 (3): 291–305. ISSN 0035-9149.
- ^ Mazzotti, Massimo (2007). Force, J. E.; Hutton, S.; Iliffe, Rob; Keynes, Milo; Higgitt, Rebekah; Henry, John; Feingold, Mordechai; Jacob, Margaret C.; Stewart, Larry (eds.). "The Two Newtons and Beyond". The British Journal for the History of Science. 40 (1): 105–111. ISSN 0007-0874.
- ^ Snobelen, Stephen D.; Iliffe, Rob; Keynes, Milo; Higgitt, Rebekah (2008). "Review of The Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660–1885, Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes, Rebekah Higgitt". Isis. 99 (2): 409–411. doi:10.1086/591352. ISSN 0021-1753.
{{cite journal}}: no-break space character in|first=at position 8 (help) - ^ Guha, Martin (2017-01-01). "The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2nd edition)". Reference Reviews. 31 (5): 23–24. doi:10.1108/RR-01-2017-0023. ISSN 0950-4125.
- ^ Ducheyne, Steffen (2017-03-01). "The state of the art on Newton". Metascience. 26 (1): 37–40. doi:10.1007/s11016-016-0137-y. ISSN 1467-9981.