Simon Werrett
Assistant Professor: History of Science, Technology
werrett@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. Cambridge University, King's College, 2000.
Selected Bibliography
‘The techniques of innovation: historical configurations of art, science, and invention, from Galileo to GPS,’ in Artists as Inventors, ed. Dieter Daniels (forthcoming, 2008)
'Explosive Affinities: Pyrotechny, Knowledge, and the Sciences in Early
Modern Europe'
due to appear in Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 – 1800,
Benjamin Schmidt and Pamela Smith, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 2008)
‘“The Finest Fireworks in the World”: Chinese Pyrotechnics in Early Modern Europe,’ Variantology 3, ed. Siegfried Zielinski (forthcoming, Cologne: Walther Konig, 2007)
‘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, N. C.: Duke University Press, 2007)
‘From the Grand Whim to the Gasworks: Philosophical Fireworks in Georgian England,’ to appear 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, Autumn 2007)
‘Transit and Transition: Astronomy, Topography, and Politics in Russian Expeditions to View the Transit of Venus in 1874,’ Cahiers François Viète, 2007, 11-12: 147-176.
'Russian Responses to the Voyages of Captain Cook' in Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments,
Glyn Williams, ed. (New York: Boydell & Brewer Press, November 2004)
"Potemkin and the Panopticon: Samuel Bentham and the Architecture
of Absolutism in Eighteenth-Century Russia." In The Philosophical
Age, 2002.
http://ideashistory.org.ru/almanacs/alm09/12Werrett.htm
"Wonders Never Cease: Descartes' Meteores and the Rainbow Fountain."
British Journal for the History of Science, 34, June 2001.
"Fire at the Renaissance Court," in , Feuer. Bernd Busch,
ed.Bonn: 2001.
'Das Feuer und die Höfe der Spätrenaissance' in Feuer,
Bernd Busch, ed., Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
Bonn, 2001, pp. 121-132.
"Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy
in Restoration England." History of Science, 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 2 (1999),
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/nlwerret.htm
Research in Progress
Monograph: Philosophical Fireworks: Science, Art, and Pyrotechnics in Early Modern Europe (under review)
‘Better than a Samoyed: Newton in the Russian Empire,’ for The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe, eds. Scott Mandelbrote and Helmut Pulte (London: Continuum, 2008)
‘Enlightenment, Illuminations, and the Early History of Electric Lighting,’ (article)
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