Professor Rob Iliffe

I work on the history of science 1550-1850 and my current research interests include the digital history of science; the history of scientific instrumentation; historical interactions between theology and natural philosophy; the life and work of Isaac Newton, especially his religious views; science and exploration; eighteenth century conceptions of the relationship between otium and the pursuit of knowledge; the emergence of the scientific ‘genius’ and early modern/ Enlightenment accounts of the imagination.  I am currently a General Editor of the online Newton Project, a co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Newton (2016), and my book Priest of Nature: the Religious Life of Isaac Newton is appearing from Oxford in 2017.