Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin is professor emeritus of the history of science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, The Scientific Revolution, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority.