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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJennifer Karns Alexander, an associate professor in the Program in History of Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, studies technology and modern industrial society.” She is the author of The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control (Johns Hopkins, 2008), awarded the 2010 Sidney Edelstein by the Society for the History of Technology.Katharine Anderson is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies at York University. She is the author of Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology (Chicago, 2005).Mitch Aso received his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and a teaching fellow at Tembusu College.Alexandra Bamji is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on death, disease, and religious reform in early modern society, especially in Italian and German cities. She is completing a monograph on “Health, Disease, and Society in Early Modern Venice.”Marco Beretta is Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna and Vice Director of the Museo Galileo in Florence, as well as Editor of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. His latest book is The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking (Science History Publications, 2009).Stephen Bocking is Professor of Environmental History and Policy and Chair of the Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program at Trent University. His research interests include the history of environmental science and the roles of expertise in environmental politics. His most recent book is Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers University Press, 2004).Patrick J. Boner is a visiting scholar in the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University. He has published several articles on the history of astrology and astronomy, and he recently edited the volume Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology (Springer, 2011).Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar in Folsom, California. In 2009 he published Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. He is now at work on a history of the Forteans.Robert Bud is Keeper of Science and Medicine at the Science Museum and, in 2012/2013, the Sarton Professor of the History of Science at the University of Ghent. He is currently researching the concept of applied science from the razing of the Bastille to the lifting of the Iron Curtain.John C. Burnham is Research Professor of History and Associated Scholar in the Medical Heritage Center at Ohio State University. His most recent book is Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age (University of Chicago Press, 2009).Geoffrey Cantor is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College, London. Much of his research has been directed to the historical interrelations between science and religion, leading to such publications as Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist (1991), Quakers, Jews, and Science (2005), and, with John Hedley Brooke, Reconstructing Nature (1998). He has coedited Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (2006) and Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (2010). With Sally Shuttleworth he codirected the Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical project. His long-term fascination with the Great Exhibition has resulted in the publication of Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (2011) and several papers.Fabio Cavalli, M.D., teaches history of medicine of antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Trieste and directs the Study Group on History of Medicine and Bioarchaeology of the Accademia “Jaufré Rudel” de Studi Medievali, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy.Christopher Crenner is the Hudson-Major Chair in History of Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. His book, Private Practice (Johns Hopkins, 2005), examines the influence of new diagnostic technology on doctor–patient interactions using medical practice records and patient correspondence from the Boston physician Richard Cabot. At the University of Kansas he also practices and teaches internal medicine and serves on the hospital ethics committee.Kathleen Crowther is an associate professor in the Department of History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. Her first book, Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2010), explores the importance of stories about Adam and Eve in sixteenth-century German Lutheran areas.Anna De Pace is Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the University of Milan. Her studies focus on Italian culture from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with special attention to the influence exerted by philosophical thought on the development of modern cosmology and physics. Her recent publications include Noetica e scetticismo:Mazzoni versus Castellani Lucca/Paris, 2006), Niccolò Copernico e la fondazione del cosmo eliocentrico (Milan, 2009), and the introduction to a modern edition of Iocabii Mazzoni's In universam Platonis et Aristotelis philosophiam Praeludia, sive de Comparatione Platonis et Aristotelis (Naples, 2010).”David DeVorkin is Senior Curator of the History of Astronomy and the Space Sciences at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. With support from the NASA history office, he is writing and researching the history of the transformation of the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory during the Cold War.Maria Pia Donato is an associate professor of early modern history at the University of Cagliari. Her latest publications are Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine, and Religion in Rome, 1550–1750, coedited with J. Kraye (2009), Morti improvise: Medicina e religione nel Settecento (2010), and Normale/Patologico, sano/malato dal medioevo al contemporaneo, coedited with L. Berlivet (2011).Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College, Cork, Ireland. His publications include Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (Princeton, 2002), Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy (Lexington Books, 2001), and the edited volume The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2010).James Evans is Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Puget Sound. His books include The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy (1998) and, with J. L. Berggren, Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena (2006). Most recently he has worked on the material culture of ancient science.Peter Forshaw is Assistant Professor for History of Western Esotericism in the Early Modern Period at the University of Amsterdam's Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy, specializing in the confluence of alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aries and webmaster for SHAC and ESSWE.Bernhard Fritscher is a professor of the history of science at the University of Munich. He is working, in particular, on the history and philosophy of earth sciences.André Goddu teaches early modern astronomy and physics at Stonehill College. In 2010 he published a study that focused on the logical foundations of Copernicus's views about hypotheses and his interpretation of Aristotle. He is currently translating Ludwik Birkenmajer's principal results from his major works on Copernicus.Graeme Gooday is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Leeds. He writes on the history of physics and electrical techno-science, his most recent book being Domesticating Electricity (Pickering & Chatto, 2008). His next book, Patently Contestable is coauthored with Stathis Arapostathis and will be published by MIT Press in 2013.Judith Goodstein is University Archivist Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. Her book The Volterra Chronicles has recently been translated into Italian.Geoffrey Gorham is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College and Resident Fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota. He has published numerous articles on early modern philosophy and science in journals such as Journal of the History of Philosophy and British Journal for the History of Philosophy.Pamela Gossin is Professor of History of Science and Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she directs the program in Medical and Scientific Humanities (MaSH). She is working on a large-scale digital humanities project concerning the interdisciplinary life and work of John G. Neihardt and has recently published book chapters on the “literature and science” of Loren Eiseley, Thomas Hardy, and Hayao Miyazaki.I. Grattan-Guinness is Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic at Middlesex University. He was Editor of Annals of Science from 1974 to 1981. In 1979 he founded the journal History and Philosophy of Logic, which he edited until 1992. His books include The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940 (2000). In July 2009 the International Commission for the History of Mathematics awarded him the Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize in the History of Mathematics for his contributions to the field.Richard P. Hallion is an aerospace historian, a former Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, and former Historian of the United States Air Force. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Royal Historical Society.Orit Halpern is Assistant Professor in History and in Art and Design History and Theory at the New School. Her research is on histories of cybernetics, design, and the social and human sciences. Her forthcoming book, The Eye of Time (Duke University Press), is a history of interactivity and the interface.David Harker is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at East Tennessee State University.Chris Haufe is an assistant professor of philosophy and a faculty member in the history and philosophy of science program at Case Western Reserve University. His work in HPS focuses on evolutionary biology, laws of nature, and the epistemology of science.Grégoire Holtz is Assistant Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. A specialist in Renaissance literature, he has recently published a book about ghostwriting and travel literature (L'ombre de l'auteur) and coedited books of essays about New France, the representation of the devil, and the reception of exotic fauna and flora in the Renaissance.Axel C. Hüntelmann is an academic assistant at the Institute for the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at Gutenberg University in Mainz, where he is now working on the cultural history of growth, 1770–1970. Most recently he has worked on the German Imperial Health Office and other biopolitical institutions between 1876 and 1933, laboratory animals, a biography of Paul Ehrlich, and serum and vaccine regulation in the German Empire and France.Frank A. J. L. James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, London. He has recently finished editing the correspondence of Michael Faraday, in six volumes; he is now studying, in its cultural and political contexts, Humphry Davy's work between 1818 and 1820 on unrolling the Herculaneum papyri.John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech and the author of American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (MIT Press, 2006). In 2011 he was a winner of the Doreen and Jim McElvany Non-proliferation Challenge, sponsored by the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies in Monterey, California.W. R. Laird is an associate professor of history in Ottawa, where he teaches medieval history and the history of science. He is the author of The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti and is now completing a history of mechanics in the sixteenth century titled The Renaissance of Mechanics.Matthew Lavine, who specializes in the cultural authority of science in twentieth-century America, teaches the history of science at Mississippi State University. He has written on early American nuclear culture and is now studying references to scientific expertise in marriage manuals and sex-advice columns.Paul Lucier studies the history of the earth and environmental sciences and their interplay with the technologies and business of mining. His first book was Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (Johns Hopkins, 2008). He recently won an NEH fellowship to complete his second book, “Exploration and Industry: Science and the History of Mining in the American West.”Catherine Gimelli Martin is known mainly for her work on Milton, Donne, and literary allegory, but she has also coauthored an essay collection commemorating the quadricentennial of Bacon's Advancement of Learning (Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought [2005]) and published numerous articles on early modern geography and cosmology, including a recent essay on Neoplatonic/astrological configurations in Spenser.Erika Lorraine Milam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).Sebastian Normandin is a visiting instructor in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University. His upcoming book, Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800–2010, coedited with Charles T. Wolfe, will be published by Springer in 2012.Lynn K. Nyhart is Vilas Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and President of the History of Science Society through 2013. She is working on a collaborative project with Scott Lidgard (Field Museum) on the history of ideas about biological individuality since the mid-eighteenth century.Benjamin B. Olshin is Associate Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science and Technology at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His research areas include the history of cartography and exploration, ancient science and engineering, the philosophy of contemporary physics, and traditional modes of knowledge transmission. Recent work has included an extensive study of mechanical drawings in the folios of Leonardo da Vinci and a look at models of temporality in digital physics.Neil Pemberton is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, where he is working on a collaborative AHRC-funded project on the history of Victorian dog breeding. He has published two coauthored books: Mad Dogs and and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830–2000 (Palgrave, 2007), and Leech (Reaktion, 2012). He has published on a wide variety of historical topics, including forensic pathology, animal diseases, police dogs, and the Victorian deaf community.Michael Pettit is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Science and Technology Studies at York University. He is completing a book, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, on deception as an object of study and a methodology in the human sciences.Riccardo Pozzo, a professor at the University of Verona from 2003 to 2009, is now Director of ILIESI-CNR. He has published monographs on the Renaissance (Schwabe, 2012), the Enlightenment (Frommann-Holzboog, 2000), Kant (Lang, 1989), and Hegel (La Nuova Italia, 1989).Susie Protschky is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. She specializes in Dutch colonial art and history. Her first book is Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011).Stefano Rapisarda teaches Romance philology at the University of Catania, Italy, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the IKGF, “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität,” Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. In the field of medicine and divination he has published Il “Thesaurus pauperum” in volgare siciliano (Palermo, 2002), Manuali medievali di chiromanzia (Rome, 2005), and Nicole Oresme, Contro la divinazione (Rome, 2010).Dominique Raynaud, initially trained as an architect, is an associate professor of sociology and history of science at Grenoble University and a member of the GEMASS CNRS UMR 8598 (Paris). He is the author of sixty articles and books on perspective, optics, and geometry.Eileen Reeves is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and her area of specialization is early modern scientific literature. Her recent books include Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror (2008) and Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots, 1611–1613 (2010), coauthored with Albert Van Helden.Maria Rentetzi moved to Science and Technology Studies from physics. She is an assistant professor at the National Technical University of Athens and the author of Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices (Columbia University Press, 2007). Her research interests include science and technology studies, history of nuclear science, and gender and science.Mar Rey-Bueno is an independent scholar who specializes in medicine and alchemy in Spain in the modern age. Her most recent publication is the collected work El inquiridor de maravillas: Prodigios, curiosidades y secretos de la naturaleza en la España de Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (Huesca, 2011), coedited with Miguel López-Pérez.Lukas Rieppel is a Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is completing a dissertation entitled “Articulating the Past: The Commercial Culture of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1870–1930,” which examines the collection, study, and display of dinosaurs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.Dagmar Schaefer is a professor at the University of Manchester, where she works on the Chinese history of science and technology. Recently she published The Crafting of the Ten Thousand Things: Knowledge and Technology in China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Cultures of Knowledge in China (Leiden: Brill, 2011).Eric Schatzberg is Professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Director of the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. He is writing a book on the history of the concept of technology.William R. Shea teaches history of science at the University of Padua. His latest publication is Galileo: Selected Writings: New Translations by William R. Shea and Mark Davie (Oxford World's Classics) (Oxford University Press, 2012), and he is now working on a short biography of Galileo.Reiko Shinno is an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She is writing a book tentatively entitled “Medical Culture in Yuan China (1206–1368): Aspects of Mongol Rule and Daoxue Activism.” She has written about Chinese women's history, Chinese medical history, and Sino-Japanese cultural relationships.Nancy Siraisi is Professor Emeritus of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interests are focused on the history of early modern medicine. Her most recent book is History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning (University of Michigan Press, 2007).E. C. Spary is a lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of eighteenth-century French science and medicine. Among her publications are Utopia's Garden (Chicago, 2000) and Eating the Enlightenment (Chicago, forthcoming).Joke Spruyt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She has written numerous articles on medieval philosophy of language and has published several critical editions of medieval texts on logic.Wesley M. Stevens writes about mathematics, astronomy, and computus in Carolingian schools and is preparing Lexica Latina, a new lexicon on “The Forms of Latin Mathematical and Scientific Expressions.” He is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Winnipeg, and Professor of Classics, University of Manitoba.Ian Stewart is Director of the History of Science Program at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He publishes in the field of the history of early modern science and philosophy, with emphasis on the works of Francis Bacon and William Gilbert.Gerald Sullivan is Professor of Anthropology at Collin College and a Fellow of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. He is the author of Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Field Work Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936–1939. He is working on a book about Mead and Bateson's scientific project between 1932 and 1949, tentatively entitled “The Making of Balinese Character.”William Thomas is a junior research fellow at Imperial College, London. He has written a forthcoming book on operations research, systems analysis, and related sciences. He also created the Array of Contemporary American Physicists web resource for the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.Phillip Thurtle is Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program and Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology, 1870–1920 (University of Washington Press, 2008), and the coauthor, with Robert Mitchell (English, Duke University) and Helen Burgess (English, University of Maryland), of the interactive DVD-ROM BioFutures: Owning Information and Body Parts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).E. R. Truitt is an assistant professor of medieval history at Bryn Mawr College. She has published several articles on natural and artificial marvels and is now finishing a book on medieval automata.Matteo Valleriani is permanent research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research focuses on the history of ancient and early modern mechanics and on the interaction between practical and theoretical knowledge in the history of science.Fernando Vidal is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His most recent book is The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology (2006; English ed., University of Chicago Press, 2011). His current work includes a book in preparation, entitled Being Brains.Peter Weingart is Professor Emeritus (sociology of science and science policy) at Bielefeld University. He was Director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) until December 2008. He is Editor of Minerva and has published numerous articles and books in the sociology of science.Bruce R. Wheaton ([email protected]), principal of Technology and Physical Science History Associates, is the author of The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism (Cambridge, 1983) and the author/compiler of Inventory of Sources for History of Twentieth-Century Physics: Report and Microfiche Index to 700,000 Letters (Stuttgart, 1993).Rosalind Williams is the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The working title of her forthcoming book (from the University of Chicago Press) is Human Empire: Confronting the End of the World.Joseph Zepeda is a member of the Integral Program of Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of California. He took his doctorate in history and philosophy of science at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship is on science and philosophy in the early modern period.Rafael Ziegler coordinates the research group GETIDOS at the Institutes of Philosophy and Landscape Ecology at the University of Greifswald. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 103, Number 3September 2012 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/667982 © 2012 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.