Professor Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford) examines how the work of artisans, especially scientific instrument-makers, was represented by Samuel Hartlib and Robert Hooke in early modern London. He will look at the changing intellectual and social contexts for their accounts, as well as the ways in which their own interests and identities informed the way they wrote about craftsmen.

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Professor Robert Iliffe
Rob Iliffe, a Fellow at Linacre, is Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford. As director of the Newton Papers Project, he oversees the edition of Newton’s writings on the Newton Project website. He is the author of Newton: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007) and Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton (Oxford, 2015).