Marshall Clagett

Marshall Clagett was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, his academic home for four decades. One of the world’s leading historians of medieval science, in particular the work and influence of Archimedes, Clagett was author of more than a dozen volumes on the history of science and mathematics and one of the dominant scholars in the field of medieval science in the twentieth century. His lifetime of work is marked by incisive, astute and rigorous research and scholarship on the continuity of the history of science from antiquity, through Byzantium and Islam, to the medieval and Renaissance West.