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Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJon Agar is a senior lecturer in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at University College, London. He is the author of The Government Machine (MIT Press, 2003) and Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity Press, forthcoming).Theodore Arabatzis teaches in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Athens. He has written on the history of the modern physical sciences and on philosophical issues concerning conceptual change and experimentation. He is the author of Representing Electrons (Chicago, 2006) and coeditor of Metascience.Ken Arnold currently runs Wellcome Collection, a public venue that explores the connections between medicine, art, and life. He regularly writes and lectures on museums and on interactions between the arts and sciences. His last monograph was Cabinets for the Curious (Ashgate, 2006), and he is writing a book on exhibitions and public knowledge.Richard Bellon teaches history of science and science policy at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on the reception of Darwin's Origin of Species. An article on this topic, “Inspiration in the Harness of Daily Labor: Darwin, Botany, and the Triumph of Evolution, 1859–1868,” appeared in the September 2011 issue of Isis.Jim Bennett is Director of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, with research interests in the history of astronomy, of scientific instruments, and of practical mathematics in general. Recent articles have been on the history of telescopes and the work of the Irish physicist James MacCullagh.Sylvia Berryman has written on ancient Greek natural philosophy from the Presocratics to the Aristotelian commentators. She recently completed a book on the impact of mechanics in antiquity, entitled The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy. Her more recent projects include the foundational role of naturalism in Aristotelian ethics.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).Robert Michael Brain teaches in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He is completing a study of science and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, entitled “The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Physiology and Artistic Avant-Gardes.”Karen Brown is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. She is working on a social history of veterinary medicine in South Africa.Robert Bud is Principal Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum, London, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary's University of London. His most recent book was Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2007). More recently he has been studying accounts of applied science. His historical and museological work is joined through an interest in the links between historical accounts and contemporary readings.Xavier Carteret, who holds a doctorate in history and philosophy of science, has studied the work of the naturalist Michel Adanson (1727–1806) and the history of botanical classifications up to the end of the eighteenth century. He is also known in the field of mycology and mycological illustration.Stephen Case is a graduate student in the Program for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is conducting research on John Herschel's double star astronomy. He has taught astronomy at Olivet Nazarene University and published in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences.Soraya de Chadarevian is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for Society and Genetics of the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely on the history of twentieth-century life sciences.Cristina Chimisso is Senior Lecturer in European Studies and Philosophy at the Open University. She is the author of Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s (Ashgate, 2008), Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination (Routledge, 2001), and articles on Bachelard, Canguilhem, Metzger, Lévy-Bruhl, and Aldo Mieli.Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. His latest book, Merchants of Doubt, was coauthored with Naomi Oreskes and was a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Michael J. Crowe is Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He is the editor of A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (1998). More recently, he has published Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein (2007) and The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book (2008).Christopher Cullen works on the history of astronomy and mathematics in ancient China. He is Director of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, Honorary Professor of the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine in the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Darwin College.Ivano Dal Prete is Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Science in the Program in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the history of astronomy, the history of the earth, and scientific culture in the early modern Republic of Venice.Andreas W. Daum is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert (2nd ed., 2002) and Kennedy in Berlin (2008). He is now working on a short biography of Alexander von Humboldt.Nicholas Dew is Associate Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Orientalism in Louis XIV's France (Oxford University Press, 2009) and the coeditor, with James Delbourgo, of Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008).Jacalyn Duffin physician (Toronto) and historian (Sorbonne), has occupied the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, since 1988. A former President of both the American Association and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, she has written seven books, including Medical Miracles; Doctors, Saints, and Healing, 1588–1999 (Oxford University Press, 2009).Jim Endersby is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and editor of the Cambridge University Press 150th anniversary edition of On the Origin of Species (2009).Yolanda Eraso is Associate Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University. She has researched and published on various topics in the history of medicine in Latin America. She is now working on a Wellcome Trust–funded project on South American medical contributions to the knowledge of female cancers.Nahyan Fancy is Assistant Professor of Middle East/Comparative History at DePauw University. His research interests are in the history of medicine and the interaction of science and religion in post-Mongol Islamic societies. He has recently completed a monograph on Ibn al-Nafīs's (d. 1288) discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood.Paul Lawrence Farber is Oregon State University Distinguished Professor of History of Science Emeritus. He has recently published Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas. He is now collaborating with Vreneli Farber on a biography of Theodosius Dobzhansky.Della D. Fenster is a professor of mathematics at the University of Richmond. She studies the history of mathematics, particularly algebra and number theory, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Craig Fraser is a professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto. He teaches courses on the history of mathematics and the history of astronomy. He and Sandro Caparinni have written an article on the history of eighteenth-century mechanics for the Oxford Handbook to the History of Physics (forthcoming).Michael N. Fried is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His books include Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext (with Sabetai Unguru) (Brill, 2001); Apollonius of Perga, Conics IV (Green Lion Press, 2002); and Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics (Springer, in press).Gwyndaf Garbutt is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He studies natural philosophy in medieval Europe, focusing on the intersection between popular and learned culture and the uses of evidence in the construction of the natural world.Stefano Gattei works on the history of early modern astronomy and cosmology, especially Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. He has completed an annotated edition of Kepler's Strena seu de nive sexangula and is working on a book on the frontispiece of Tabulae Rudolphinae, as well as on the French edition of Tycho's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (with Alain Segonds).Cathy Gere is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero (London: Profile Books; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) came out in 2006; Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism came out in 2009.Graeme Gooday is Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Leeds. He has written on the history of laboratories, science in periodicals, measurement instruments, and electrical technology. Since publishing Domesticating Electricity (Pickering & Chatto, 2008) he has researched patent issues in early telecommunications.Paola Govoni (University of Bologna) has published on the relationships between scientists and the public, on women and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on the historiography of science. She is the author of Un pubblico per la scienza (Rome, 2002; rpt., 2010) and Che cos'è la storia della scienza (Rome, 2004; rpt., 2010), and she edited Storia, scienza e società (Bologna, 2006).Alexander A. Gurshtein is former Vice Director for the Vavilov Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). In 1995 he moved to the United States, where he taught in Colorado. From 2003 to 2006 he was the President of the Commission on History of Astronomy for the International Astronomical Union.Jacob Darwin Hamblin teaches the history of science at Oregon State University. He is the author of Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (2008) and Oceanographers and the Cold War (2005).Peter Harrison is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. His most recent book, coedited with Ronald L. Numbers and Michael H. Shank, is Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, 2011).Robert Alan Hatch is Professor of History of Science at the University of Florida. As sequel to The Collection Boulliau (1982), he recently completed Part 2 of the trilogy, The Boulliau Correspondence: A Calendar, and continues apace with Part 3, Boulliau's Europe: Science and Learning in Seventeenth-Century France. He recently finished work on the penultimate draft of the complete correspondence of Gassendi.Per Högselius is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. His research interests are in the field of European and international history of technology, with a particular focus on energy, water, transport, and communication.Brigitte Hoppe is a professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where her research and teaching focus on the history and philosophy of science from antiquity to early modern times and the history of biology and chemistry from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Joel Howell is the Victor Vaughan Professor of Medicine and Professor in the Departments of History, Internal Medicine, and Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He writes on the history of medicine and medical technology.Margaret C. Jacob is writing a book on the first knowledge economies, 1750–1850. Her most recent book, with Lynn Hunt and Wijnand Mijnhardt, is The Book That Changed Europe (Harvard University Press, 2010).Vladimir Jankovic is Lecturer in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester. He has published Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820 (2000), and Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (2010).Sharon Kingsland is a professor in the Department of History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins. Her latest contribution to history of the field sciences is “The Role of Place in the History of Ecology,” in Ian Billick and Mary V. Price's edited volume The Ecology of Place: Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).Ursula Klein is a senior scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 2003) and (with Wolfgang Lefèvre) Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (MIT Press, 2007).John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech. His most recent monograph is American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (MIT Press, 2006). He has just delivered for publication a manuscript dealing with fifty years of NASA's international relations in space science and technology.B. Harun Küçük is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. His current research focuses on intellectual exchange between late baroque Europe and the Ottoman Empire.Henrika Kuklick is a professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of studies of American sociology, British anthropology, British colonialism, and the field sciences. Her most recent book is an edited collection, A New History of Anthropology (2008).Sachiko Kusukawa is Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has recently completed a monograph on visual arguments in sixteenth-century Europe, Picturing the Book of Nature (University of Chicago Press).Wolfgang Lefèvre is a senior scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.Jordan D. Marché II is an independent scholar living in the Madison, Wisconsin, area. He is the author of Theaters of Time and Space: American Planetaria, 1930–1970, and an editor of the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. He has taught history of science and astronomy courses over many years.Massimo Mazzotti is an associate professor in the Department of History and the director of the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and the editor of Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes (Ashgate, 2008).James E. McClellan III is Professor of History of Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.Stuart McCook is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Guelph. He is the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Caribbean, 1760–1940. He is now working on the global history of coffee agriculture and botany.David Philip Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The author, most recently, of James Watt, Chemist (Ashgate, 2009), he is, working on The' Eureka! Myth, a history of concepts of discovery and invention.Annette Mülberger is Professor for the History of Psychology and Researcher in the Center for History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a former president of the ESHHS. She is now working on crisis declarations in psychology (organizing a special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science) and on the history of parapsychology in Spain.Greg Myers teaches language and media in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. He is the author, most recently, of The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis (Continuum, 2010) and Matters of Opinion: Talking about Public Issues (Cambridge, 2004).Elizabeth Neswald is Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at Brock University. She has written on the cultural history of thermodynamics, Vilém Flusser, and science in nineteenth-century Ireland and is now researching the early history of nutrition physiology and the foreign laboratory visits of Francis Gano Benedict.Donald L. Opitz is an assistant professor in the School for New Learning of DePaul University. His research concerns the role of the aristocracy in Victorian science. He is a contributor to the collected volume Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, edited by David Livingstone and Charles Withers (University of Chicago Press, 2011).Dorinda Outram teaches history and history of science at the University of Rochester. Her publications include Georges Cuvier (1982), The Body and the French Revolution (1989), The Enlightenment (1995), and Panorama of the Enlightenment (2006). She is now working on the history of children's religious experience in the Enlightenment.Tacye Phillipson completed a Ph.D. in experimental physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is now Senior Curator of Modern Science and Computing at the National Museums Scotland.Lawrence M. Principe is Professor of History of Science and Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest (1998), coeditor of The Correspondence of William Boyle (2001), and coauthor, with William Newman, of Alchemy Tried in the Fire (2002), a study of alchemical laboratory practices.Lewis Pyenson is Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the coauthor, with Susan Sheets-Pyenson, of Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities (London: HarperCollins, 1999).Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. His books include The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (2007), which was awarded the History of Science Society's Suzanne J. Levinson Prize in 2010, and, as coeditor, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (2nd ed., 2009).Edmund Ramsden is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, working on a Wellcome Trust–funded project on the history of stress. His research explores the history of the social and biological sciences and their relations, with a particular focus on the population sciences.Michael S. Reidy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at Montana State University. He has interests in the history of ocean science and exploration, and he is now working on a history of British mountaineering and science in the nineteenth century.Terry S. Reynolds at Michigan Tech, is a former President of the Society for the History of Technology and the author of several books, including Stronger Than a Hundred Men (Johns Hopkins, 1983) and, most recently, with Virginia Dawson, Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006 (Wayne State, 2011).Alan Richardson is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Among his coedited books is The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge University Press, 2007). His current book project proceeds under the working title “Logical Positivism as Scientific Philosophy.”Eleanor Robson is Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science at the University of Cambridge and the author of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (Princeton, 2008).Julia Rodriguez teaches history at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and has published articles in the American Historical Review, Science in Context, and other journals. She is also editor of the open-source teaching website HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org).Nils Roll-Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and History of Ideas and Art at the University of Oslo. His research is focused on history and philosophy of biology, including its interaction with ideology and politics. He has written on eugenics and Lysenkoism—for example, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (2005).H. Darrel Rutkin is a visiting scholar at Stanford University, specializing in the history of astrology as a part of European science and culture, circa 1250–1800. He is now completing Reframing the Scientific Revolution: Astrology, Magic, and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250–1800, and a translation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem Disputations against Divinatory Astrology.Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science in the University of Cambridge. He coedited The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770—1820 (Science History Publications, 2009). From 2007 to 2011 he was a Trustee of the National Museum of Science and Industry.S. S. Schweber is the Koret Professor of the History of Ideas and Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Brandeis University and an associate of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He has recently completed a biography of the young Hans Bethe.Suman Seth is an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 (MIT, 2010), and the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies (2009, 12[4]) on “Science, Colonialism, Postcolonialism.”Thomas Söderqvist is Professor in History of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Medical Museion. His latest books include Science as Autobiography (2003; Japanese edition, 2007) and The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (ed.: 2007). He is currently exploring the aesthetics of biomedicine.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 has coedited Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht; Bild und Gestalt; and Denkstile und Tatsachen: Gesammelte Schriften und Zeugnisse von Ludwik Fleck (forthcoming).Thomas Steinhauser did his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Regensburg on the history of nuclear magnetic resonance. In 2008 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Since then he has worked for the Centennial Project of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.Liba Taub is Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. An Einstein Visiting Fellow (2011-2012) at TOPOI, Berlin, she is also a member of the Wissenschaftliche Beirat of the Deutsches Museum, Munich.A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an independent scholar whose research interests include changing conceptions of the prehistoric past, the history of aerospace technology, and images of science and technology in popular culture. His most recent book is A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television since 1930 (2011).Jeremy Vetter is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona. He works at the intersection of environmental history and the history of science in the American West. He is the editor of Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences (Rutgers University Press, 2010), as well as the author of numerous scholarly articles.Timothy Walker is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is an affiliated researcher of the Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon (1994–2003) and at Brown University (2010).Joeri Witteveen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis and his other writings explore issues at the interface of history and philosophy of biology.David Zimmerman is Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of Britain's Shield: Radar and the Defeat of the Luftwaffe, Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War, and The Great Naval Battle of Ottawa. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 102, Number 4December 2011 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/663619 © 2011 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.