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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJanet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. Her books include Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. Her current research investigates the historical emergence of computer science as an intellectual discipline, an academic institution, and a professional identity.Garland E. Allen is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches both biology and history of science. His research interests are in the area of history and philosophy of biology, particularly genetics, development, evolution, and eugenics. He is a member of the History of Science Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and former President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.Warwick Anderson is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (2008) and a coeditor of Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (2011).Peder Anker (www.pederanker.com) is an associate professor in the Gallatin School and the Environmental Studies Program at New York University. His works include Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895–1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), and From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).David Arnold is Professor Emeritus of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. He has written extensively on the history of science, technology, and medicine in colonial India. His most recent book is Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2013).Katherine Bankole-Medina is Professor of History, Distinguished Faculty Researcher, and Chair of the Department of History, Geography, and Global Studies at Coppin State University. She is the author of Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana (New York: Garland, 1998); since 2004 she has served as Editor of the scholarly journal Africalogical Perspectives.Antonio Barrera-Osorio is Associate Professor of History at Colgate University. His areas of interest are history of science and Atlantic world history. His book, Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2006), explores the emergence of empirical practices in the Spanish American empire. His current book manuscript, The Atlantic World and the Scientific Revolution, studies the interactions between Spain, England, and the Atlantic world and the emergence of modern science.Marco Beretta is Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna and Editor of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. He has published extensively on the history of early modern chemistry. His book The Alchemy of Glass (2009) was awarded the Paul Bunge Prize.Staffan Bergwik is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in History of Science and Ideas at Stockholm University. His research focuses on the gender and power structures of early twentieth-century Swedish science, the history of scientific emotions, and the cultural history of science and the media.Stephen Bocking is a professor of environmental history and policy in 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 (2004).Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Warwick, where he is also affiliated with the Centre for the History of Medicine and the Global History and Culture Centre. He is the editor of Transgender China (2012) and, with Ari Larissa Heinrich, Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013).H. Floris Cohen is professor of Comparative History of Science at Utrecht University. He is the author of The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry (1994) and of How Modern Science Came Into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough (2010). A short version of the latter book, aimed at a broad academic public, is to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2015.Jamie Cohen-Cole is Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. His book, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014.Maria Conforti is Associate Professor of History of Medicine at Sapienza, Universitá di Roma. Her research interests focus on early modern Italy, with a special interest in scientific communication (academies, learned journals) and medical practice (surgery, anatomy, women's medicine). She is currently writing a book on medicine in Naples in the seventeenth century.Ivano Dal Prete has taught and conducted research at Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. His interests include Earth history, astronomy, and generation in early modern Europe. He is the author of Scienza e società nel Settecento veneto [Science and Society in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Venice] (2008).Ian Dowbiggin teaches history at the University of Prince Edward Island. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he has published seven books on the history of medicine, including two on the history of eugenics. His history of marriage and family counseling will be published in 2014 by the University Press of Kansas.Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His most recent book is the primary-source reader From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization (Rutgers University Press, 2010).Patricia Fara is the Senior Tutor of Clare College, Cambridge, and lectures in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She has published extensively on the Enlightenment period; her most recent books are Science: A Four Thousand Year History and Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity (both from Oxford University Press).Gabriel Finkelstein works at the University of Colorado at Denver. His biography of the neuroscientist Emil du Bois-Reymond, the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century, is available from MIT Press.Craig Fraser is Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto and Chair of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. He authored the chapter on mathematics in The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (2003; online ed., 2008).Ofer Gal teaches history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Early Modern science. His recent book (with Raz Chen-Morris) Baroque Science was release by Chicago University Press in 2013.Jonardon Ganeri is Professor of Philosophy in New York University's global network. His work has focused primarily on a retrieval of the Sanskrit philosophical tradition in relation to contemporary Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and he has done work in this vein on theories of self, concepts of rationality, and the philosophy of language, as well as on the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He has worked extensively on the social and intellectual history of early modern South Asia and on the political idea of identity. His two most recent books are The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India, 1450–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2011), and The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance (Oxford University Press, 2012). He has published in Mind, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Isis, Synthese, Analysis, Philosophy and Literature, New Literary History, Philosophy, and the major Indological journals.Stephen Gaukroger is Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His recent books include The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (Oxford University Press, 2010).Gennady Gorelik is a visiting researcher at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. He is the author of biographies of Andrei Sakharov, Lev Landau, and Matvei Bronstein. His most recent book is Who Invented Modern Physics? From Galileo's Pendulum to Quantum Gravity (Corpus, 2013).Ole Peter Grell is Reader in History at the Open University. He has published widely on the history of the Reformation and on early modern history of medicine. He is the editor of the Ashgate series “History of Medicine in Context” and the author of Brethren in Christ: A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2011).Niccolò Guicciardini teaches history of science at the University of Bergamo. He has been researching Isaac Newton for several years. His most recent book is Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (MIT, 2009). He is co–Editor-in-Chief of Historia Mathematica.Piers J. Hale is an assistant professor of the history of modern science at the University of Oklahoma.Tony Hallam is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Birmingham. Although his primary concerns are in aspects of stratigraphy and paleobiology, including mass extinctions, he has had a long-standing interest in the history of geological thought, and a short book in 1973 on the continental drift controversy served, by his own admission, as a primary stimulus for Henry Frankel to get involved with the subject.Jacob Darwin Hamblin is an associate professor of history at Oregon State University. His books include Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Oxford, 2013), Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Rutgers, 2008), and Oceanographers and the Cold War (Washington, 2005).Vanessa Heggie is a University Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. She has published on a range of topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medicine and life sciences, and her first book, A History of British Sports Medicine, came out with Manchester University Press in 2011 (paperback in 2013).Geir Hestmark is a professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Oslo. He has degrees in philosophy and natural science and has published papers and books on the history of the Earth and environmental sciences. His nine-hundred-page biography of the geologist and science politician W. Brøgger (1999) earned him the Freedom of Speech Honors Prize. In 2002 he was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, where he chairs the Committee for the Theory and History of Science.Jennifer Hubbard is Associate Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Ryerson University and specializes in the political, environmental, institutional, and economic history of fisheries science. Her published works include A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898–1939 (University of Toronto Press, 2006); she coedited the forthcoming A Century of Maritime Science: The St. Andrews Biological Station, 1908–2008, in which scientists, technologists, and historians of science review the history of fisheries and aquatic research programs at this important Canadian scientific institution.David Hyder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He studied philosophy and computer science at Yale, worked in mathematical modeling on Wall Street, and did his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (1997) with Ian Hacking and Alasdair Urquhart. In his free time he learns natural languages.Jane Jenkins is an associate professor in Science and Technology Studies at St. Thomas University. Her current research explores shifting notions of risk and purity in early twentieth-century food production systems and how perceptions of milk's purity was a co-productionist consequence of increasingly interventionist technoscientific fixes.Eric Jorink is Teylers' Professor at Leiden University and a researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age. In 2012/2013 he was Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.Diane Greco Josefowicz is the author, with Jed Z. Buchwald, of The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton, 2010). She teaches in the undergraduate writing program at Boston University.Deborah Kent is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drake University. She teaches mathematics and history of mathematics. Her research in history of mathematics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries currently focuses on the circulation and transmission of mathematics in nineteenth-century American periodicals. She also participates in an international research group on Mathematics and World War 1.Alexei Kojevnikov, an associate professor of history of science and Russian/Soviet history at the University of British Columbia, is the author of Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (2004) and a coeditor, with Cathryn Carson and Helmuth Trischler, of Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis (2011).José Ramón Marcaida is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His postdoctoral research focuses on early modern Hispanic natural history and its connection with Baroque visual and material cultures.Richard Moore is Visiting Research Fellow in War Studies at King's College London, where he is working on British nuclear history. He has published several articles and two books, The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons (2001) and Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality: Britain, the United States, and Nuclear Weapons, 1958–64 (2010).Simone Müller-Pohl is Assistant Professor for North American History at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She received her Ph.D. from the Freie Universität in Berlin in 2012 with a study on global telegraph networks. Her fields of research include global history, history of science and technology, and communication studies.David Oldroyd is a historian of science, now retired from the University of New South Wales, with a particular interest in the history of geology. He was Editor of Earth Sciences History from 2008 to 2013. His recent work has focused on the early history of geological maps.Benjamin B. Olshin is Associate Professor of Philosophy, History of Science and Technology, and Design 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 modern physics, and traditional modes of knowledge transmission.Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is completing Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.Michael A. Osborne is Professor of History of Science at Oregon State University and Senior Fellow at the Aix-Marseille Institute for Advanced Studies. He is currently working on an alpine environment project; his most recent book is The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France (University of Chicago Press, 2014).Sumiko Otsubo teaches history at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her research interests include history of eugenics in Japan and the Spanish influenza in northeast Asia.Simon Pepper is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. His publications include Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena (with Nicholas Adams) (Chicago, 1986). He publishes widely on early modern fortification and military history.Luc Peterschmitt (UMR “Savoirs, textes, langage,” CNRS/Université Lille 3) holds a Ph.D. in history of science and history of philosophy. His work focuses on the relation between sciences, and especially chemistry and philosophy, during the early modern period.Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His publications include Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999) and Mumbai Fables (2010).Jessica Ratcliff is an assistant professor at Yale-NUS College and the 2012–2014 Sackler-Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, London.Michael S. Reidy is the author of Tides of History (Chicago, 2008) and coauthor of Exploration and Science (ABC-Clio, 2007) and Communicating Science (Oxford, 2000; Parlor Press, 2009). He recently coedited The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries (Pickering & Chatto, 2014), and he is the co–general editor of The Correspondence of John Tyndall (16 vols.). His current research focuses on how the sport of mountaineering changed the practice of science in the nineteenth century.Leon Antonio Rocha ([email protected]) is Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and Affiliated Researcher at the Needham Research Institute.Helen M. Rozwadowski is Associate Professor of History and Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her award-winning book, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, investigates mid-nineteenth-century scientific and cultural interest in the ocean. Her current research focuses on undersea exploration in the 1960s, when ocean boosters had optimistic dreams for working and living in the sea.Andrea Rusnock is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island and the Editor of Osiris. She is the author of Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge, 2002) and is completing a book on the early history of smallpox vaccination.Lutz Sauerteig, Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at Durham University, has worked on the history of sex education and childhood sexuality and now researches the history of puberty. His publications include Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth-Century Europe, edited with Roger Davidson (Routledge, 2009; paperback ed., 2012).Michael Schüring is a research scholar at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. He has published Minervas verstoβene Kinder: Vertriebene Wissenschaftler und die Vergangengheitspolitik der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Wallstein, 2006) and is now working on several projects concerning the history of the antinuclear movement in Germany.John A. Schuster is Senior Research Fellow in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney. His recent publications include Descartes-Agonistes: Physico-Mathematics, Method, and Corpuscular-Mechanism, 1618–33 (Springer, 2013), and “Cartesian Physics,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics (2013).Grace Yen Shen is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. She works on the history of modern science in China and is interested in national identity, scientific exchange, and spirituality. The University of Chicago Press has just published her book, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China.Pamela H. Smith, a professor of history at Columbia University, teaches early modern European history and history of science. She has published widely on artisanal knowledge, science, and culture in early modern Europe. She is now attempting to reconstruct the vernacular knowledge of early modern European metalworkers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.Frank W. Stahnisch holds the AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Ideas in Action and Medicine, Life, and Function, as well as a coeditor of Denkstile und Tatsachen: Gesammelte Schriften und Zeugnisse von Ludwik Fleck.Elizabeth Stephens is an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland and the author of Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present.Matteo Valleriani ([email protected]) 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.Frank van der Horst is a lecturer at Leiden University and a clinical psychologist at De Waag Rotterdam, an outpatient clinic for forensic psychiatry. His research aims at describing the history of ideas in the behavioral sciences. He is the author of John Bowlby: From Psychoanalysis to Ethology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).Koen Vermeir is an associate research professor at the CNRS (UMR 7219), Paris. As a historian and philosopher, he has contributed to a wide array of fields, including early modern machines and automata. His work has been published in six different languages.Mark A. Waddell is an assistant professor in both the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History at Michigan State University. A scholar of early modern intellectual history, he has just completed his first book, Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets.Mary Pickard Winsor is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. She wrote the article on Jan Swammerdam in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Her most recent publication is “Darwin and Taxonomy,” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, edited by Michael Ruse. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 105, Number 2June 2014 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/676579 Views: 7 © 2014 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.