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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Garland E. Allen is Associate Professor of Biology at Washington University, St. Louis, and the au- thor of Life Science in the Twentieth Century and Thomas Hunt Morgan, the Man and His Science (which will be reviewed in the March 1980 issue of Isis). He is now engaged in a study of the American eugenics movement.

Julia Annas, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, has spent the past year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include a translation with introduction and commentary of Books M and N of Aristotle's Metaphysics, -and several arti- cles on philosophy of action and on Plato and Aristotle.

Lawrence Badash, who teaches history of science at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California, is particularly interested in the develop- ment of modern physics and the social problems surrounding contemporary science. His most re- cent book is Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decay of a Science.

David Bearman has served as administrator of the Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for the past four years. Currently at the Institute of Education, University of London, he is completing a dissertation on nutritional research in America, and undertaking a series of studies on the legal status of expertise in the nineteenth century.

J. A. Bennett was, until recently, Curator of As- tronomy at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is now Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge.

Lipman Bers is Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and former President of the American Mathematical Society. His research concerns partial differential equations and com- plex function theory.

Arthur L. Blumenthal, formerly of Harvard, now teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Bos- ton. He is the author of Language and Psychology: Historical Aspects of Psycho-linguistics and of The Process of Cognition.

M. F. Burnyeat is Lecturer in Classics at Cam- bridge University and Fellow and Lecturer in Phi- losophy, Robinson College, Cambridge. He has also held appointments at University College Lon- don, Princeton, Harvard, and Pittsburgh. His pa- pers in classical and philosophical journals have included several on Plato's Theaetetus.

W. F. Bynum is Lecturer and Head of the Unit of the History of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University College London. He is interested in the biomedical and human sciences since the seventeenth century.

Joan Cadden is an Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. Her areas of research include medieval theories of nutrition and growth and of the four elements, and the natural philosophy of Albertus Magnus.

John Cawood is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Unit for the History, Philosophy and Social Rela- tions of Science at the University of Kent, and a Lecturer at Manchester Polytechnic. His research interests lie in the history of nineteenth-century science and in particular the work of Francois Arago.

Linda Loeb Clark teaches European history at Millersville State College, Pennsylvania. She has recently completed a book-length manuscript, "So- cial Darwinism in France," and has published an article on that topic.

Pietro Corsi, a recent Florey European Student at Queen's College, Oxford, and Junior Research Ofli- cer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medi- cine, Oxford, is now Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is currently engaged in a study of Baden Powell and the species question.

David L. Cowen has recently stepped down as Chairman of the Council of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy after eight years at the post. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Rut- gers University and Lecturer in the History of Pharmacy at the Rutgers College of Pharmacy.

Gordon L. Herries Davies is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the staff of the university's Department of Geography. He is the author of The Earth in Decay: A History of British Geomorphology and from 1968 until this year served as editor of Irish Geography.

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius is a private scholar, with a teaching appointment at the University of Heidel- berg. She has published on the history of Arabic geometry and on Dutch mathematics in the seven- teenth century, and is currently working on Thabit ibn Qurra's Kitab al-Mafru.dat.

Stillman Drake is Emeritus Professor of History of Science at the University of Toronto. His most recent book, Galileo at Work. His Scientific Biog- raphy, was reviewed in the June 1979 issue of Isis.

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642 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Paul Lawrence Farber is Associate Professor of the History of Science at Oregon State University. His research is in the history of biology and he is completing a book on the emergence of ornithol- ogy as a scientific discipline in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Lyndsay Farrall is Senior Lecturer in Social Stud- ies of Science at Deakin University, Geelong, Aus- tralia. For the past two years he was Dyason tellow in the History of Australian Science at the University of Melbourne. He has taught at the University of Papua New Guinea and held visiting appointments at the universities of Pennsylvania and Leeds.

Maurice A. Finocchiaro is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of History of Science as Explanation. He is in the process of completing a commentary to Galileo's Dialogue.

Menso Folkerts is currently Professor of Mathe- matics at the University of Oldenburg, Federal Republic of Germany. His main interest lies in the history of mathematics in antiquity and the Middle Ages. He is leader of a scientific project to collect and analyze all medieval and Renaissance mathe- matical manuscripts which are available in Western languages.

Owen Gingerich, an astrophysicist at the Smithso- nian Astrophysical Observatory and a Professor at Harvard, is currently editing the twentieth-century volume of the General History of Astronomy, a project co-sponsored by the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and the International Astronomical Union.

J. B. Gough teaches early English history at Wash- ington State University and has published several articles on Lavoisier. His book The Foundations of Modern Chemistry: The Origin and Develop- ment of the Concept of the Gaseous State and Its Role in the Chemical Revolution of the Eighteenth Century is being published by Greenwood Press.

Stanley M. Guralnick is Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, and the author of Science and the Ante-Bellum American College. He is at work on a biography of Edward Hitchcock.

Thomas S. Hall is University Professor Emeritus of Biology and the History of Science at Washington University. His chief research interests are the his- tory of physiological psychology and the place of Rene Descartes in medical history.

Bert Hansen is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton. His essay on magic and science appeared in Science in the Middle Ages (edited by David C. Lindberg), and he serves on the editorial board of Mediae- valia. He continues his research on John Dee and sixteenth-century science.

S. A. Jayawardene is on the staff of the Science Museum, London. His "Checklist of Catalogues of Western Scientific MSS before 1600" was pub- lished in Annals of Science, and he and Jennifer Lawes have recently completed a bibliography of biographical notices of historians of science.

Charles V. Jones is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and at the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto. His present research interest is how the concept of number changed from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. He is Secretary of the Canadian Society for His- tory and Philosophy of Mathematics.

Wolfgang Kasack is Professor for Slavic Philology and Director of the Slavic Institute at the Univer- sity of Cologne. Among other works, he has pub- lished Die Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR, Die Akademien der Wissenschaften der sowjetischen Unionsrepublicken, and Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917.

George Kish is Professor of Geography, University of Michigan. His principal research interests are the regional geography of the Soviet Union and Europe, the geography of energy, and the history of geography, cartography, and exploration. He has been associated with Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography since 1948.

Wilbur Knorr, who has recently completed a year of research at the Institute for Advanced Study, is now engaged in studies on Archimedes under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. His appointment as Assistant Professor in the History of Science at Stanford will begin in 1980.

David Konstan is Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology and works on the poetry of Catullus and the Marxist histor- iography of antiquity. He is now at work on a book on Roman comedy and the ideology of the ancient city-state.

Josef Konvitz is spending this year studying the emergence of modern cartography in eighteenth- century France with a Fellowship from the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities. Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, he is the author of Cities and the Sea: Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe.

Edwin T. Layton, Jr., took his degrees in history, but is affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. His first book, The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Respon- sibility and the American Engineering Profession, won SHOT's 1971 Dexter Prize. He is now study- ing the historical evolution of the hydraulic tur- bine.

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 643

Henry M. Leicester is Emeritus Professor of Bio- chemistry at the University of the Pacific Dental School in San Francisco. His chief interest is the history of Russian science with special attention to the life and works of M. V. Lomonosov, whose main papers on the corpuscular theory he has translated.

John E. Lesch is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is work- ing on a book on the development of experimental physiology in France in the first half of the nine- teenth century.

Linda L. Lubrano is an Associate Professor at the School of International Service, the American Uni- versity, Washington, D.C. She is the author of Soviet Sociology of.Science and co-editor, with Susan Gross Solomon, of The Social Context of Soviet Science.

H. Lewis McKinney is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Kansas. His publica- tions include Wallace and Natural Selection and Lamarck to Darwin: Contributions to Evolution- ary Biology 1809-1859. Most recently he has co- authored Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma.

Edward Manier is the author of The Young Dar- win and His Cultural Circle and a member of the Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. He is currently implementing undergradu- ate curricula on "Evolutionary Images of Human- ity and Society" which he formulated while a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago.

Russell Maulitz teaches medical history in the Department of History and Sociology of Science and in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests relate to scien- tific and professional aspects of European and American medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jeffrey L. Meikle has just published Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939, a study of the interactions of art, busi- ness, and technology. He is currently serving as an NHPRC Fellow in Historical Editing with the Charles Willson Peale Papers at the National Por- trait Gallery.

Markwart Michler has retired as Professor and Director of the Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. His research fields are medicine and science in classical antiquity, eighteenth-century medicine and culture, the history of surgery and orthopedics, and medical terminology.

Michael Neve is a lecturer in the Unit of the His- tory of Medicine at University College London. He has written on the history of eighteenth-century geology and nineteenth-century provincial science

and medicine in Britain, and is now researching the social history of medicine in eighteenth-century London.

Arthur L. Norberg, Head of the Bancroft Library's History of Science and Technology Program at Berkeley, has been on leave during 1978-79 to the National Science Foundation's Division of Policy Research and Analysis, where he has been asso- ciated with the Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis Working Group.

Terry M. Parssinen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Phil- adelphia, and an Associate Professor of History at Temple University. He is interested in Victorian science and medicine, and his book (co-authored with Karen Kerner) Dope Fiends and Gentle- women: Opium and Society in Victorian Britain will be published late next year.

Margaret Pelling is Assistant to the Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Uni- versity of Oxford. She has recently published Chol- era, Fever and English Medicine 1825-1865, and is now working on medical practitioners in East Ang- lia in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries.

Robert B. Pippin is Assistant Professor of Philoso- phy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published articles on Kant and German philos- ophy, and is working on a book about Kant's theory of form.

Helena M. Pycior is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches history of science and history of women. She is currently studying the development of abstract algebra in nineteenth-century England and Ireland.

Lewis Pyenson teaches and writes in Montreal.

F. K. C. Rankin holds a Junior Research Fellow- ship at the Warburg Institute, London. She is working on a doctoral thesis on the arithmetic of Luca Pacioli contained in his Summa de Arithme- tica, Geometria, Proportioni, et Proportionalita (Venice, 1494).

Philip F. Rehbock is Assistant Professor of Gen- eral Science at the University of Hawaii. He is currently researching the mid-Victorian origins of private and public aquaria, and finishing a book on early-nineteenth-century ecology.

John M. Riddle is a Professor of Ancient-Medieval History at North Carolina State University and specializes in the history of early medicine. He has just completed a work on Dioscorides and his book Marbode of Rennes' De Lapidibus received this year's Kremers Award from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy.

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644 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Alan J. Rocke is Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology at Case Western Reserve University. His interests include the history of modern technology and the development of atomic theories in the nineteenth century.

Charles Rosenberg is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His field is the history of medicine and science, with special reference to the United States. He is presently working on a history of medical care in the U.S., 1790-1914.

George Saliba is now at the Department of Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia Univer- sity. His research interests are the transmission of Greek science into Syriac and Arabic and the exact sciences in Islam. He is working on an edition of the astronomical text of Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urd! of Damascus.

John Scarborough is Professor of Ancient History and the History of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the author of Roman Medicine and Facets of Hellenic Life, and is pres- ently engaged in the preparation of monographs on Hellenistic medicine, Greek and Roman pharmacy, and the history of early entomology.

Alan E. Shapiro is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. He is currently preparing a critical edition and translation of Newton's Optical Lec- tures.

William Shea teaches in the History and Philoso- phy of Science Program at McGill University. He is the author of Galileo's Intellectual Revolution and has recently edited, with Mario Bunge, Ruth- erford and Physics at the Turn of the Century.

John Staudenmaier, S. J., is currently a lecturer in the history of technology at the University of Penn- sylvania while completing a dissertation on the intellectual characteristics of the history of technol- ogy as a discipline.

Rosemary Stevens is Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsyl- vania. Her primary research interests lie in twentieth-century history of American and British medicine, federal policy making in medical care, and the evolving roles of professional associations in developing health manpower policies. Her books include The Alien Doctors.

Edith D. Sylla is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Her research has centered on the physical and logico- mathematical traditions at Oxford in the four- teenth century.

Kenneth L. Taylor is Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. His main research is in the development of geologi- cal science in the eighteenth century.

Sabetai Unguru is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Okla- homa. His edition of Book I of Witelo's Perspec- tiva has been published, and he is currently working on a critical edition of Books II and III. He is also writing a book tentatively entitled "His- torical Studies in Greek Mathematics."

Charles Webster is the Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford. His publications include The Great Instauration and, as co-editor, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century. A former biologist, he has held academic posts in Leeds and Oxford.

Dora B. Weiner is Professor of History at Manhat- tanville College, where she teaches European cultu- ral and intellectual history. The author of Raspail: Scientist and Reformer and editor of From Parnas- sus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun, she is currently completing a book on "The Politics of Health in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France."

Richard S. Westfall, Past President of the History of Science Society and a Professor of the History of Science at Indiana University, has made seventeenth-century science his area of study, espe- cially Newton, about whom he is completing a biography.

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ISIS VOLUME 70 NUMBER 254 DECEMBER 1979

ARTICLES

JOHN CAWOOD: The Magnetic Crusade: Science and Politics in Early Victorian Britain 493

ALAN J. ROCKE: The Reception of Chemical Atomism in Germany 519

HELENA M. PYCIOR: Benjamin Peirce's Linear Associative Algebra 537

ELOGE

STILLMAN DRAKE: Guglielmo Righini, 1908-1978 552

CRITIQUES & CONTENTIONS

History of Ancient Mathematics: SABETAI UNGURU'S Reflections on the State of the Art and WILBUR KNORR and M. F. BURNYEAT on Methodology, Philology, and Philosophy 555

NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE

GEORGE SALIBA: The First Non-Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Maraghah School 571

J. B. GOUGH: Charles the Obscure 576

NEWS OF THE PROFESSION 580

ESSAY REVIEWS

Sciences in Cultures: LYNDSAY A. FARRALL on Chinese Science: An Irregular Journal and Journalfor the History of Arabic Science; CHARLES WEBSTER on ALLEN G. DEBUS' The Chemical Philosophy and Man and Nature in the Renaissance and RUDOLPH ZAUNICK'S Der sachsische Paracelsist Georg Forgerger; PIETRO CORSI on SUSAN FAYE

CANNON'S Science in Culture 584

BOOK REVIEWS

54 Reviews 596

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 641

BRIEF INDEX TO VOLUME 70 645

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