| Post: | Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science |
| Location: | Arts A A030 |
| Email: | R.Iliffe@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers |
| Internal: | 2868 |
| UK: | (01273) 872868 |
| International: | +44 1273 872868 |
Research
Rob Iliffe is Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. He has published a number of articles on early modern history and the history of science, and has written the Very Short Introduction to Newton (Oxford University Press 2007). He has edited the Eighteenth Century Biographies of Newton (Pickering 2006). He is Editorial director of the online Newton Project, director of the AHRC Newton Theological Papers Project and is also editor of the journal History of Science.
Prof. Iliffe's main research interests include: the history of science 1550-1800; the role of science and technology in the 'Rise of the West'; techno-scientific and other roots of the current environmental crisis; historical interactions between science and religion; the theological and scientific work of Isaac Newton; and the implications for academic work posed by the increasing digitisation of the scholarly infrastructure.
Publications
Book-length works authored
*(with Peter Spargo and John Young), A Catalogue of Isaac Newton¿s non-Scientific Papers (2001), (http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/catalogue/newton.htm)
A Very Short Introduction to Newton, (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Edited collections
Science and Literature, 1660-1834, vol. 6: Astronomy (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004), 438pp
Science and Literature, 1660-1834, vol. 7: Natural philosophy (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004), 421pp
Newton Biographies, 1700-1900, vol. 1: the Eighteenth Century Texts (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006), approx. 400pp
Contributions to books
1. Iliffe, R., "'Making a Shew'; apocalyptic hermeneutics and anti-idolatry in the work of Isaac Newton and Henry More," in The Books of Nature and Scripture: Recent essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza's Time and the British Isles of Newton's Time, R. Popkin and J. Force eds., (Dordrecht) 1994; 55-88
2. Iliffe, R., "'Is He Like Other Men?' The meaning of the Principia and the author as idol," in Literature, Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration, G. Maclean ed., (Cambridge: CUP) 1995, 159-78
3. Iliffe, R., "Working Bodies: Protestantism, the productive individual and the politics of idleness," in Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan, P. Gouk ed., (Aldershot: Variorum) 1995, 135-58
5. Iliffe, R., "Jesus Nazarenus Legislator: Adam Boreel's defence of Christianity," in Heterodoxy, Spinozism and Free Thought in Early Eighteenth Century Europe, S. Berti, F. Charles-Daubert and R. Popkin, eds., (Kluwer: Amsterdam) 1996, 375-96
6. Iliffe, R., "'Author-Mongering': the 'editor' between the author and reader in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century," in Consumption and Culture in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 3, Word and Image, A. Bermingham and J. Brewer eds, (London: Routledge) 1996, 166-92
7. Iliffe, R. (and Willmoth, F.), ¿Domestic science: Margaret Flamsteed and Caroline Herschel as assistant-astronomers,¿ in Women, Science and Medicine, 1500-1700, L. Hutton and S. Hutton eds, (London: Alan Sutton) 1997, 335-65
8. Iliffe, R., "Mathematical Characters: Flamsteed and Christ¿s Hospital Royal Mathematical School," in `Flamsteed¿s Stars¿: New approaches to the work of the first Astronomer Royal, F. Willmoth ed., (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press) 1997, 115-44
9. Iliffe, R.,¿`A connected system¿: The snare of a beautiful hand and the unity of Newton¿s archive,¿ in Archives of the Scientific Revolution, M. Hunter ed., (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press) 1998, 137-57
10. Iliffe, R., "Isaac Newton. Lucatello Professor of Mathematics," in Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge, C. Lawrence and S. Shapin eds, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 1998, 121-155
*11. Iliffe, R.,¿Lying wonders and juggling tricks: nature and imposture in early modern England,¿ in `Everything Connects¿: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin. Essays in his Honor, J. Force and D. Katz eds., (Leiden: E.J. Brill,) 1998, 183-210
12. Iliffe, R., ¿`Those whose buisness it is to cavill¿: Newton¿s anti-Catholicism,¿ in Studies in Newton¿s Theology, J. Force and R.H. Popkin eds. (Kluwer: Amsterdam), 1999, 97-119
13 and 14. Iliffe, R., ¿Science and expeditions¿ and ¿Philosophies of science,¿ in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Science, R. Porter ed., (Cambridge: CUP,) 2003, 303-23 and 703-34
15. Iliffe, R., ¿`Butter for parsnips¿: authorship, audience and the incomprehensibility of the Principia,¿ in Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual property in Science, M. Biagioli and P. Galison, eds, (Routledge: London) 2003, 33-66
16 Iliffe, R., ¿Isaac Newton,¿ in Lucasian Professors, K. Knox and R. Noakes, eds (Cambridge: CUP,) 2003, 69-134
17 Iliffe, R., ¿Prosecuting Athanasius,¿ in J. Force and S. Hutton, eds, Recent Newtonian Research, (Kluwer), 2004, 167-211
18 Iliffe, R., ¿Digitizing Isaac,¿ in J. Force and S. Hutton, eds, Recent Newtonian Research, (Kluwer), 2004, 43-72
19. Iliffe, R., ¿Persecution complexes: the historiography of Newton¿s science and religion¿ in J. Brooke and E. Ihsanoglu, eds, Religious values and the Rise of Science in Europe, (Istanbul 2005), 167-84
20. Iliffe, R., ¿The powers of demonstration: Simon, Newton, Locke and the Johannine comma,¿ in A. Hessayon and N. Keene, eds, Radical Religion and Society in Early modern England, (Aldershot 2006), 77-110
Refereed Papers in Journals
1. Iliffe, R., "'In the Warehouse': Privacy, property and priority in the early Royal Society," History of Science, 30, (1992), 29-62
2 Iliffe, R., "'Aplatisseur de la Terre et des Cassini': Maupertuis, Precision-Measurement and the Expedition to Lapland in the 1730s," History of Science, 31, (1993); 335-375
3 Iliffe, R., "'Ce que Newton connut sans sortir de chez lui': la mesure de la figure de la terre en France,1700-1750," Histoire et Mesure, 4, (1995), 1-41
4 Iliffe, R., "Theory and experiment in Anglo-Saxon and French history of science," Revue Européene d¿histoire, 2, (1995), 65-80
5 Iliffe, R., "''Material doubts': Robert Hooke, artisanal culture and the exchange of information in 1670s London," British Journal for the History of Science, 28, (1995), 285-318
6 Iliffe, R., "Isaac Newton and the political physiology of self," Medical History, 39, (1995), 433-58
7 Iliffe, R., "Boyle's industry,¿ History of Science, 35 (1997), 455-84
8 Iliffe, R.,¿Rational artistry¿, History of Science, 36 (1998), 329-57
9 Iliffe, R.,¿`Foreign bodies¿, Part One: English natural philosophers in Europe,¿ Canadian Journal of History, 52 (1998), 467-490
10 Iliffe, R.,¿`Foreign bodies¿, Part Two: Foreigners and the making of the early Royal Society,¿ Canadian Journal of History, 53 (1999), 23-50
11 Iliffe, R., Essay review of G. Crossick, ed., The Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900, Electronic Reviews in History, March 1999
12 Iliffe, R, ¿The masculine birth of time: temporal frameworks of early modern natural philosophy,¿ British Journal for History of Science, 33, (2000), 427-453
13. Iliffe, R., ¿Abstract considerations: disciplines, audiences and the
incoherence of Newton¿s natural philosophy,¿ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, (2004), 21-48
