Simon Werrett
Assistant Professor: History of Science, Technology
werrett@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. Cambridge University, King's College, 2000.
Selected Bibliography
Forthcoming
‘William Congreve’s Rational Rockets,’ Notes & Records of the Royal Society 2009.
‘Enlightenment in Russian Hands: The Inventions and Identity of Ivan Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg,’ History of Technology 2009.
‘Sparks of Life: Fireworks and Physiology,’ Cabinet, 2009.
‘The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia,’ Ab Imperio, 2008.
‘The Astronomical Capital of the World: Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I,’ in The Heavens on Earth: Observatory Techniques in Nineteenth-century Science, Charlotte Bigg, Otto Sibum, and David Aubin, eds. Forthcoming, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
‘Better than a Samoyed: Newton in the Russian Empire,’ in The Reception of IsaacNewton in Europe, eds. Scott Mandelbrote and Helmut Pulte. London: Continuum.
Published
‘The Techniques of Innovation: Historical Configurations of Art, Science, and Invention, from Galileo to GPS,’ in Artists as Inventors: Inventors as Artists, eds. Dieter Daniels, Barbara U. Schmidt. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2008.
‘Explosive Affinities: Pyrotechny, Knowledge, and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe,’ in Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 – 1800, Benjamin Schmidt and Pamela Smith, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
‘The Finest Fireworks in the World’: Chinese Pyrotechnics in Early Modern Europe,’ in Variantology 3: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in China and Elsewhere, eds. Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fuerlus. Cologne: Walther Koenig, 2008.
‘Making Fire Work: Pyrotechnics and Natural Philosophy,’ Endeavour, vol. 32, no. 1 (2008).
‘From the Grand Whim to the Gasworks: Philosophical Fireworks in Georgian England,’ in Peter Dear, Lissa Roberts, and Simon Schaffer, eds., The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation. Amsterdam and Chicago: Edita; University of Chicago Press, May 2007.
‘Transit and Transition: Astronomy, Topography, and Politics in Russian Expeditions to View the Transit of Venus in 1874,’ Cahiers François Viète, 2007, vol. 11-12.
'Russian Responses to the Voyages of Captain Cook' in Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments, Glyn Williams, ed. New York: Boydell & Brewer Press, November 2004.
‘Wonders Never Cease: Descartes' Meteores and the Rainbow Fountain,’ British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 34 (June 2001).
'Das Feuer und die Höfe der Spätrenaissance' in Feuer, Bernd Busch, ed. Bonn: Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2001.
‘Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England,’ History of Science, vol. 38 (December 2000).
‘The Russian Academy of Sciences,’ Arne Hessenbruch, ed., Reader's Guide to the History of Science. London, Dearborn, 2000.
'Potemkin and the Panopticon: Samuel Bentham and the Architecture of Absolutism in Eighteenth-Century Russia,’ The Bentham Newsletter, vol. 2 (1999) (online)
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