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Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJon Agar is a senior lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College, London. He is the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity Press, 2012).Kennard B. Bork is Alumni Professor of Geology Emeritus at Denison University. He is a paleontologist whose research now focuses on the history of geology. His teaching included courses on the evolution/creation controversy. Since retiring he served (2004–2008) as Secretary-General of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO).Joan Lisa Bromberg is Visiting Scholar in the Department of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. Her current research is on the history of the concepts of electrical and optical noise and coherence in the 1950s and 1960s.Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Roehampton. He is the author of Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760–1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011), as well as a range of articles on the social, cultural, and political history of nineteenth-century British medicine.Robert Bud is Keeper of Science and Medicine at the Science Museum and the author of, among other books, The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology (Cambridge, 1994). He is now researching the concept of applied science from the razing of the Bastille to the lifting of the Iron Curtain.Tatjana Buklijas is a historian of science and a research fellow at Liggins Institute of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her interests include history of modern medicine, especially anatomy and sciences of human development, evolution, and science and nationalism.Richard Burian, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Science Studies at Virginia Tech and a historian and philosophy of biology, is the author of The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and numerous journal articles. He works (inter alia) on the impact of molecularization on biology.Andrea Candela is Research Fellow in History of Science at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy), where he also teaches the course “Science Communication.”Joshua W. Clegg is an assistant professor of psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His empirical research focuses on social alienation and the social psychology of environmental sustainability, and his theoretical and historical work focuses on research methodology and the philosophy of social science.Silvia De Renzi ([email protected]) teaches history of medicine in the Department of History at the Open University. She works on the production and uses of medical knowledge in the early modern period, including the history of legal medicine. She is completing a book on medical authority in Counter Reformation Rome. “Tales from Cardinals' Deathbeds” has recently appeared in Micrologus.William Deringer is a Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, where his research focuses on the history of economic and financial calculation. His first article is “Finding the Money: Public Accounting, Political Arithmetic, and Probability in the 1690s” (Journal of British Studies, July 2013).David H. DeVorkin is Senior Curator of History of Astronomy and the Space Sciences at the National Air and Space Museum. His work contributes to understanding the origins and development of modern astrophysics during the twentieth century and the origins and development of the space sciences.Paula S. De Vos is an associate professor in the history department at San Diego State University. Her research interests lie in both colonial Mexico and early modern history of science and medicine. She has published articles on the relationship of science and politics in the Spanish Empire and the development of pharmacology from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Spain. Professor She is also coeditor of Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (Stanford, 2009).Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College, Cork. He previously taught at Harvard and at Jacobs University. His publications include Science, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Taylor & Francis, 1991), Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy (Lexington, 2001), Morandi's Last Prophecy (Princeton, 2002), Italy in the Baroque (Garland, 1995), and the edited volume Energy and Culture (Ashgate, 2006).Warren Alexander Dym is the author of Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany (Brill, 2011) and works on Saxon mining and metallurgical history. He has taught at Bucknell University, the University of Miami, and American University and is Secretary and webmaster for the History of Earth Sciences Society.Patricia Easton is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the history of modern philosophy and science, particularly the philosophy of René Descartes and the Cartesians of the seventeenth century. She is the author or editor of three books and several articles and chapters.Chris Elcock ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Saskatchewan under the supervision of Erika Dyck. His dissertation will explore the history of LSD and psychedelics in New York City from the 1950s onward. His research is supported by Dyck's Canada Research Chair funds.Mariola Espinosa is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her research interests lie in the study of medicine and public health in the Caribbean. She is now working on a book project that looks into medical understandings of fever in the British, French, Spanish, and U.S. Caribbean empires.Xiaoping Fang is Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests focus on the history of medicine and health in twentieth-century China. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (University of Rochester Press, 2012).Paul Lawrence Farber is Oregon State University Distinguished Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus. His most recent book is Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas, (Johns Hopkins, 2011). He is currently collaborating with Vreneli Farber on a biographical study of Theodosius Dobzhansky.Leida Fernández Prieto is a Research Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. She is the author of two books—Cuba Agrícola: Mito y tradición, 1878–1920 (2005), and Espacio de poder, ciencia y agricultura: El Círculo de Hacendados (2008)—as well several book chapters and articles on subjects pertaining to Cuban agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the production and circulation of scientific knowledge. Her current research focuses on the knowledge, practices, and agents involved in the construction and circulation of global and local scientific tropical agriculture.David Gentilcore's most recent books include Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (Oxford, 2006), which was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Jason A. Hannah Medal, Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy (New York, 2010), and Italy and the Potato: A History (London, 2012).Nils Güttler is a scientific staff member at the Gotha Research Center for Social and Cultural Studies of the University of Erfurt. He received his doctorate in the history of science at Humboldt University in 2012; his dissertation treated mapping practices in nineteenth-century botany. He is now studying the history of geographical publishing and local knowledge production in the life sciences.Bert S. Hall is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he taught for many years at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. His specialties include medieval and Renaissance technology. His Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) dealt with the changing ways gunpowder was produced during the Renaissance and the correlation with shifts in military tactics. He is now working on the reaction to environmental damage wrought by the silver mining boom of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Kristine C. Harper is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. She is the author of Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (MIT Press, 2008) and focuses on the history of atmospheric and water sciences and on natural resources as they are related to the state.Peter Harrison is Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford. His 2011 Gifford Lectures will be published in early 2014 by the University of Chicago Press under the title Science, Religion, and Modernity.Axel Helmstädter is a pharmacist and pharmaceutical historian. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg and qualified as a university teacher at the University of Marburg. He is working as a scientific editor and part-time lecturer and researcher at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.Klaus Hentschel is currently Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Stuttgart University and Chair of the Department of History. He is the editor of Physics and National Socialism (1996; 2nd ed., 2011) and of Mental Aftermath, a study on the mentality of German physicists after World War II (Oxford, 2007).Ann Herring is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Her research centers on the anthropology of infectious disease, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and historic epidemics among Aboriginal people in Canada. Her recent publications include Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present (edited with A. C. Swedlund) (2010).Matthew H. Hersch is a lecturer in science, technology, and society at the University of Pennsylvania. He held the 2009–2010 HSS-NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Science and is the author of Inventing the American Astronaut (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Marie Hicks is an assistant professor of history at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is Associate Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and is now completing a book manuscript on gender, labor, and technocracy in twentieth-century Britain. See www.mariehicks.net for more.Regina Horta Duarte is Professor of Brazilian History at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is the author of A biologia militante (2010), a book on the history of biology in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. Her research has also been published in journals such as Latin American Research Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, and Luso-Brazilian Review.Stephen Jacyna is Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. His research interests include the history of neuroscience.Allison Kavey is Associate Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She has written Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550–1600 (2007), and edited World Building in the Renaissance (2011); she is now working on a book about Agrippa's De occulta philosophia libri tres.Sally Gregory Kohlstedt teaches in the Program in History of Science and Technology and is now Acting Vice-Provost and Dean for Graduate Education at the University of Minnesota. She has published, most recently, on women in science education in schools and museums and coedited, with David Kaiser, Science and the American Century (Chicago, 2013).Suzanne Marchand is Professor of European Intellectual History at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She has written several books and articles on the history of the humanities, arts, and social sciences in Germany and Austria, including, most recently, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship (2009).Stuart McCook is an associate professor of history at the University of Guelph. He is the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1780–1940. His current research explores the history of tropical botany and agriculture, in the context of the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee.Lynn K. Nyhart is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2009). She is now working on ideas about the history of biological individuality.Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University. She is the author of Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2014).Marco Panza is Research Director at the CNRS (IHPST, Paris). He is the author of several books and articles on history and philosophy of mathematics, including Newton and the Origins of Analysis (1664–1666) (Blanchard, 2005) and, with A. Sereni, Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism (Palgrave, 2013).Michael Pettit is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Science and Technology Studies at York University. His first book is The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Sociology at Cornell University. He has authored many books and numerous articles on aspects of the sociology of science, the sociology of technology, the sociology of economics, and sound studies. He is coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies.Michael S. Reidy is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University. He is the author of Tides of History (Chicago, 2008) and a coauthor of Communicating Science (Oxford, 2000). His current research focuses on the relationship between mountaineering and science in the nineteenth century.Joan Richards is a professor in the Department of History at Brown University. Her first book—Mathematical Visions: Non-Euclidean Geometry in Victorian England—focused on the reception of geometrical theory in the wider culture of nineteenth-century England. Her second book—Angles of Reflection—was at once a memoir and an exploration of the logical work and family life of Augustus De Morgan.Alan Rocke is Bourne Professor of History and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. His most recent major publication is an annotated English translation of a book by the German chemist and historian of science Hermann Kopp: From the Molecular World: A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy (Heidelberg: Springer, 2012).Julia Rodriguez teaches history at the University of New Hampshire and is the author of Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, Science in Context, and the Hispanic American Historical Review. She is also Editor of the open-source teaching website HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org).H. Darrel Rutkin, currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, is completing Volume 1 of his monograph on the history of astrology and his translation into English of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem.Sigrid Schmalzer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the social, cultural, and political significance of science in post-1949 China; she is now working on her second book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with “Scientific Farming” in Socialist China.Ann Shteir is Professor Emerita at York University. She is the author of Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England (1996), as well as essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century botanical culture, and the editor, with Bernard Lightman, of Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (2006).Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely in the field of Victorian science and literature, including Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge, 1996) and The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840–1900 (Oxford, 2010).James Spiller is Associate Professor and Dean of the Graduate School at the College at Brockport, SUNY. He teaches courses on modern America as well as the histories of U.S. science, technology, economics, and environment. His research has focused on U.S. space and Antarctic exploration during the Cold War.Chikako Takeshita is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructed Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies (MIT Press, 2012). Her research focuses on feminist science and technology studies of reproductive medicine and childbirth.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.Glen Van Brummelen, a historian of ancient and medieval mathematical astronomy at Quest University, is President of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. His recent books include The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth (Princeton, 2009) and Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry (Princeton, 2013).Alex Wellerstein is Associate Historian at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. He is now completing a book on the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States. His blog, Restricted Data, is at http://nuclearsecrecy.com/.Louise Whiteley is Assistant Professor at the Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen (see her website at http://www.museion.ku.dk/about-museion/staff/louise-whiteley/). She researches media representations of and public engagement with neuroscience, with a particular focus on aspects of the mind traditionally the domain of social science and humanistic inquiry. She is also working on meetings between art/science and public engagement activities, in terms of differing motives and the handling of material and affective dimensions. In addition to her research, she produces events at the Medical Museion.Ian Wilks is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Acadia University; his research specialty is the philosophy of Peter Abelard. His recent publications include a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy.Frances Willmoth is a historian of science and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She has worked on John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, and on his patron Jonas Moore, completing a three-volume edition of Flamsteed's Correspondence (Bristol/Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995–2001).Matthew Wisnioski is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (MIT Press, 2012).Karl Wulff is a retired chemist and now studies Sinology, history, and philosophy of science. His publications include Gibt es einen naturwissenschaftlichen Universalismus? (Ein Kulturvergleich zwischen China, Europa und den Islam) (1998), and Naturwissenschaften im Kulturvurgleich: Europa, Islam, China (2006).Leila Zenderland is CHAIR of the American Studies DEPARTMENT at California State University, Fullerton. She writes on the history of the social sciences and is the author of Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing (Cambridge, 1998). She is currently writing a book about the transnational influence of “culture and personality” research in the 1930s.Huib J. Zuidervaart is employed as a senior historian of science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague. His main field of research is the history of physics and astronomy in early modern Europe, with a focus on the history of scientific instruments and collections. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 104, Number 4December 2013 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/674950 © 2013 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.