Stewart, Ian - History/ Philosophy

Personal Information
First Name: 
Ian
Nom: 
Stewart
Département / Programme: 
History of Science and Technology
Autre: 
King's College
Affiliation universitaire: 
University of King's College
Phone: 
9024221271
Extension: 
134
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History/ Philosophy
Objet: 
Physics
Région géographique: 
England
Europe
Champ d'études: 
Renaissance and early-modern natural philosophies; history of the universities; public understanding of science—past and present
Academics
PHD Program: 
History and Philosophy of Science
PHD University: 
Cambridge University
PHD Date: 
1999
Major Publications: 
(In progress, with Stephen Pumfrey) William Gilbert’s ‘A New philosophy concerning our sublunary world’: critical edition and translation (Brill Academic, forthcoming). “The new Novum Organum”, (review article of Graham Rees, ed., The Oxford Francis Bacon, vol. XI), History of Science xliii (2005), 457–466. “The Lucasian Statutes: translation and introduction,” in From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2004): 461–474. “‘Books and how to use them’” History of Science xl (2002): 233–245. “Fleshy Books: Isaac Barrow’s Oratorical Critique of Cartesian Natural Philosophy,” History of Universities 16 (2000): 35–102. “Mathematics as Philosophy: Proclus and Barrow,” Dionysius 18 (2000): 151–81.
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
CSHPS, ISIH
Courses Taught: 
HSTC 1200 Introduction to the History of Science HSTC 2000 Ancient and Medieval Science HSTC 3205/EMSP 3340 Nature, Natural Knowledge and Power: Francis Bacon and the Renaissance