"This is the first English-language collection of Simon Schaffers essays, a representative selection that mixes well-known pieces with newer writings deserving of a larger readership. As an author, Schaffer is known for seminal essays on a variety of topics including Newton and the cultures of popular spectacle, nineteenth-century physics and its practices of labor discipline and standardization, the history of anthropology and collecting, and the globe-spanning cultural interactions that have shaped modern science. While Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Boyle, Hobbes, and the Experimental Life, which he co-authored with Steven Shapin, is rightly acknowledged as a classic, discipline-transforming book, the present collection should be seen as the other Schaffer book, and one which has been equally influential. The heart of it was written over several decades and, up until now, has only been available to those who tracked down Schaffers work in a wide variety of international journals. With this collection, the huge scope and impact of Schaffers writing becomes visible and accessible for the first time in a single place. Divided into five thematic sections, the Reader includes sixteen of Schaffers articles, along with eight newly commissioned analytic essays that introduce Schaffers pieces and highlight their lasting impact by bringing them into discussion with current scholarship. Each section takes up a timely issue, including the orientation toward global histories of science, the intersection of science and capitalism, the interaction between bodies and machines, and the connection between science, politics, and the environment. The book also includes several images and commentaries drawn from Schaffers years-long collaborations with the artist Adam Lowe"-- Provided by publisher.