Marshall Clagett
Marshall Clagett (January 23, 1916,
Career
Clagett began his undergraduate education in 1933 at the
After one year at Columbia University as an instructor in history and the history of science, Clagett joined the
Clagett held two visiting appointments (1958–59 and 1963) at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and in 1964 he was appointed permanently to the faculty of the School of Historical Studies.
He wrote more than a dozen volumes on the history of science, many of them focusing on the role of mathematics in natural philosophy and
on pure mathematics.
Honors
He was honored with the following prizes:
- 1960, the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for his Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages;
- 1969, the Charles Homer Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America;
- 1980, the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society;
- 1981, the John Frederick Lewis Prize of the American Philosophical Society, and the Alexandre Koyré Medal of the International Academy of the History of Science, for his Archimedes in the Middle Ages;
- 1989, the Lewis Prize again for Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. I;
- 1995, one of two newly created Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio European Prizes in the History of Science, Technology, and Industry, given in recognition of a lifetime of scholarship in the history of science;
- 1996, the 35th annual International Galileo Galilei Prize, given by the Award Foundation of the Italian Rotary for outstanding contributions by a foreign scholar to the study and diffusion of Italian culture.
A fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and past president of the History of Science Society, he was a member and former vice president of the American Philosophical Society. He was also a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, and the International Academy of the History of Science, which he served as vice president from 1968 to 1971.
Selected publications
- 1952 - (ed.) The Medieval Science of Weights (Scienta De Ponderibus): Treatises Acribied to Euclid, Archimedes, Thabit Ibn Qurra, Jordanus De Nemore and Blasius of Parma. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
- 1953 - "Medieval Latin Translations from the Arabic of the Elements of Euclid, with Special Emphasis on the Versions of Adelard of Bath," Isis 44: 16–42.
- 1955 - Greek Science in Antiquity. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1955, Revised edition, New York: Collier Books, 1963.
- 1959 - The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
- 1959 - (ed.) Critical Problems in the History of Science. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
- 1959 - "The Impact of Archimedes on Medieval Science," Isis 50: 419–429. Reprinted in The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Michael H. Shank, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 337–347.
- 1961 - (ed. with Gaines Post and Robert Reynolds) Twelfth-Century Europe and the Foundations of Modern Society. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
- 1964-84 - Archimedes in the Middle Ages, 5 vols in 10 tomes. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967–1984.
- 1968 - Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
- 1989-99 - Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Notes
References
- "Marshall Clagett [Obituary]". Town Topics. Vol. 59, no. 44. Princeton, NJ. November 2, 2005.
- Murdoch, John (2006). "In memoriam Marshall Clagett (1916-2005)". Aestimatio. 3. Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science: 14–18.
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- Murdoch, John E. (2007). "In Memoriam Marshall Clagett (1916–2005)". Historia Mathematica. 34: 261–265. .
- JSTOR 25478473.