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Jessica Riskin

Jessica Riskin is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches modern European history and the history of science. She is the author of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick (2016) and Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (2002) and is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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