Back Matter Source: Isis, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 187-189 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/230919 . Accessed: 08/05/2014 22:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The University of Chicago Press and The History of Science Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Isis. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Thu, 8 May 2014 22:33:54 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Back MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 187-189Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/230919 .
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Mark B. Adams is Julian S. Bers Assistant Profes- sor of Social Science, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylva- nia. His book on the Soviet scientific community, 1953-1965, will be published by the University of Chicago Press, and he is now tracing the develop- ment of Russian work in evolutionary theory and genetics, 1890-1935.
Kendall E. Bailes is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He has written extensively on Soviet technology and ap- plied science, and his book Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin was published by Princeton University Press in 1978.
Donald deB. Beaver, Associate Professor of the History of Science at Williams College, was Visit- ing Fellow in the History of Science at Yale Uni- versity, 1977-1978. He is currently working on the scientometrics of co-authorships of scientific papers.
Barbara G. Beddall is a private scholar who has written on Wallace, Darwin, Bates, Blyth, and Felix de Azara. Most recently she has contributed the introduction and anthology for a facsimile reprint of Josd de Acosta's Historia naturaly moral de las Indias (reviewed in this issue of Isis), the first volume in the new series Hispaniae Scientia.
Paul A. Bogaard is Associate Professor of Philoso- phy at Mount Allison University in New Bruns- wick, Canada. His interests range from ancient matter theory to a current study of the rise of quantum chemistry and its philosophical implica- tions.
Laurence A. Breiner is Assistant Professor of Eng- lish at Boston University and Associate Editor of Decade magazine.
Bernadette G. Callery has written on descriptive botanical bibliography and the ancient and modern conflict as shown in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century herbal title pages. She is now organizing an exhibition of both modern-design bindings and bindings reconstructed in the traditional styles to illustrate the work of the twentieth-century binder.
J. R. Christianson is Professor of History at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, where he has been head of the History Department since 1967. His main research interest is Scandinavian social and intel- lectual history. This is his third article in Isis.
Frank N. Egerton III is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. Assisted by two ecologists, he has com- piled a collection of fifty-two volumes relating to the history of ecology, which were republished by Arno Press in 1977.
Maurice A. Finocchiaro is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of a book on historiography, History of Science as Explanation (1973). He lately has been working on an analytical commentary to Galileo's Dialogue.
Paul Forman is Curator of Modern Physics at the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. Together with Paul Hanle he is preparing the most extensive of the Einstein centennial exhibits.
R. K. French is Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
Wilma George is Lecturer in Zoology in the Uni- versity of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her publications include Biologist Philosopher, a study of Alfred Russel Wallace. She is presently working on the significance of illustra- tions of animals in bestiaries and early natural histories.
Stanley M. Guralnick is Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, where he teaches American his- tory and history of science. He is the author of Science and the Ante-Bellum American College and is now at work on a biography of Edward Hitchcock.
Jozsef Illy is the head of the information group and library of the Institute of Isotopes, Budapest. He is the author of papers in Hungarian on the history of relativity and on the philosophy of Einstein.
Stanley L. Jaki is Distinguished University Profes- sor at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., where he teaches history and philosophy of science. The author of many books, he has also been Gif- ford Lecturer at Edinburgh and Fremantle Lec- turer at Balliol College, Oxford.
S. A. Jayawardene is on the staff of the Science Museum, London. His interests are the history of mathematics in Renaissance Italy and the bibliog- raphy of the history of science. He is at present compiling a bibliography of biographies of histori- ans of science.
George B. Kauffman, Professor of Chemistry, Cal- ifornia State University, Fresno, is the author of many publications on chemistry, chemical educa- tion, and history of science. His audiotape Coordi- nation Chemistry: Its History through the Time of Werner was released last year by the American Chemical Society.
Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History at Caltech and the author of The Physicists, is now working in the history of genetics and eugenics in the United
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States and England. During spring of 1979 he will be a visiting professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andreas Kleinert is Professor of Physics at the Library School of Stuttgart and Research Fellow in the Department for the History of Science and Technology at Stuttgart University. The author of Die allgemeinverstandlichen Physikbucher der franzosischen Aufilarung, he is now engaged in a study on Philipp Lenard.
Elaine Koppelman is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College. Her major field of interest is nineteenth-century mathematics.
W. 0. Kupsch is Professor of Geology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He is a member of the Science Council of Canada and Vice-Chairman of the Science Advisory Board for the Northwest Territories. His special interest is the history of Canadian geology.
Nelson D. Lankford is assistant editor at the Amer- ican Historical Review. His current research in- cludes a study of the professional development of Victorian army surgeons.
Timothy Lenoir, a research associate in the Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, is interested in the life sciences in early-nineteenth-century Germany and the sociology of science. His present research fo- cuses on Johannes Muller and his school.
Michael S. Mahoney is an Associate Professor of History in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton. The author of The Mathe- matical Career of Pierre de Fermat, he has recently completed a translation, with introduction and notes, of Descartes's Le monde.
Russell C. 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.
Otto Mayr is Acting Director of the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. His interests include the history of mechanical engineering and mechanical technol- ogy, especially since the Renaissance, and the inLel- lectual history of technology. Among his publica- tions is The Origins of Feedback Control.
Edward A. Maziarz is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University and the author of The Philoso- phy of Mathematics and co-author of Greek Mathematical Philosophy.
Robert P. Multhauf, President of the History of Science Society, was Editor of Isis for the past
fifteen years. His history of common salt, Nep- tune's Gift, was published in 1978. He is Senior Scientific Scholar at the National Museum of His- tory and Technology.
Nathan Reingold is Editor of the Papers of Joseph Henry at the Smithsonian Institution. His Science in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History appeared in 1964, and a twentieth-century continuation is in press.
Stanley Joel Reiser is an Assistant Professor and Director of the History of Medicine program at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics. He is the author of Medicine and the Reign of Technology (1978).
Guenter B. Risse is Professor of History of Medi- cine and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin. He is presently working on a compara- tive study of late-eighteenth-century medical the- ory and practice in Europe and the United States.
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.
John Wm. Schiffeler is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. He holds two M.A. degrees, in East Asian studies and folk- lore, and is completing a third, in the history of health sciences, and a Ph.D. degree in medical sociology.
Susan Sheets-Pyenson is Assistant Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She is currently exploring how natural history information is disseminated both through correspondence and published sources in the nineteenth century.
N. Sivin is a professor in the departments of Orien- tal Studies and History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the new Graduate Group in East Asian Studies.
Michael M. Sokal is Associate Professor of His- tory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Affil- iate Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at Clark University. He has written extensively on the history of experimental psychol- ogy in the United States.
Bruce B. Solnick is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. He has written on sixteenth-century Latin America and on the Caribbean region and served for ten years as editor of Terrae Incognitae: The Annals of the Society for the History of Discoveries.
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Richard Stothers is an astronomer at the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York. His re- search deals primarily with the stars in our galaxy. His interests in the history of science are centered on problems of ancient and modern astronomy.
Martin Tamny is the Chairman of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science and Tech- nology at the City College of New York. He and J. E. McGuire are currently preparing the Newton Notebook of 1661-1665 for publication with exten- sive commentary.
Arnold Thackray teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, of which he was chairman from 1970 to 1977. This March issue is his first as
Editor of Isis. He has recently co-edited, and con- tributed to, Toward a Metric of Science: The Ad- vent of Science Indicators (1978).
Jean Theodorides, at the University of Paris, is Maitre de Recherche au C.N.R.S. A practicing biologist and historian of biology and medicine, he has been Secretary-General of the International Academy of the History of Medicine since 1976. He is presently preparing a book on the history of rabies.
Lincoln Wolfenstein is Professor of Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the author of a large number of research papers concerned with theoretical nuclear and elementary particle physics.
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Gottinger Universitatsreden aus zwei Jahrhunderten (1737-1934) Gottingen University addresses given to a non specialized auditory (1737-1934/from Haller to Heisenberg). Edited by Wilhelm Ebel. 1978. 651 p., cloth DM 110,- The authors: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (Medicine)/Konrad Beyerle (Rights)/Johann Friedrich Blumen- bach (Medicine)/Karl Brandi (History)/Ernst Curtius (Classics)/Karl Dilthey (Archaeology)/Ferdinand Frensdorff (Rights)/Carl Friedrich Gaug (Mathematics, Astronomy) /Jacob Grimm (Philology)/Albrecht von Haller (Medicine, Botany)/Wemer Heisenberg (Physics)/Christian Gottlob Heyne (Rhetoric)/Abra- ham Gotthelf Kaestner (Mathematics)/Friedrich Merkel (Medicine) /Herbert Meyer (History of Rights) / Johann David Michaelis (Philology)/Lorenz Morsbach (Philology)/Carl Otfried Muller (Classics, Archaeology)/Johann Andreas Murray (Medicine)/Friedrich Neumann (Philology)/Eduard Riecke (Physics, Mathematics)/Erhard Riecke (Medicine)/Albrecht Ritschl (Theology)/Johann Georg Roederer (Medicine)/Gustav Roethe (Philology)/Justus Friedrich Runde (Rights, Philology)/Max Runge (Medicine)/ Edward Schroder (Philology) /Moritz A. Stern (Mathematics) /Albert Stimming (Philology)/Arthur Titius (Theology)/Max Verworn (Physiology)/Waldemar Voigt (Physics)/Jakob Wackernagel (Linguistics)/ Ludwig Weiland (History)
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Besides semester lists which include George Bancroft, George Ticknor, William Emer- son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., and John Pierpont Morgan, the chronicle offers highly observant and reflective commentaries on the contemporary intellectual scene. Through the members of the American Colony we can trace the channels by which German ideas were diffused into the different spheres of American thought.
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On Wisdom and Philosophy Philosophical Disagreement Cartesian Optics and Geometrization of Nature Dispositions as Geometrical-Structural Properties Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology and Essentialism An Oxford Dialogue on Language and Metaphysics Second Day
PEASANTS AND GOVERNMENT IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION GRAEME J. GILL
Gill's work focuses on the effects of the Russian revolution in the long-neglected rural areas, analyzing how the achievements and failures of the Provisional Government were crucial factors in leading Russia to bolshevism. March 1979. 224pp. Preface. Glossary. Notes. Bibl. Index. $22.50.
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Vaughan outlines the development towards unity in Europe since World War I and shows how the idea and purpose of unity has survived amid the turmoil of European politics. February 1979. 288pp. $21.50.
A HISTORY OF THE ARAB STATE OF ZANZIBAR NORMAN BENNETT
Bennett traces the political development of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba from the early days of the independent Arab sultans through the formation of Tanzania under African rule in 1964. February 1979. 320pp. Notes. Bibl. Index. Studies in African History Series. $19.50.
QUEEN'S REBELS Ulster Loyalism in Historical Perspective DAVID MILLER
By exploring the anomalies that underlie the character of the Ulster Protestant community, this book delineates the nature
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the past made present: some new publications Science and Culture In Traditional Japan: A.D. 600-1854 by Masayoshi Sugimoto and David L. Swain Deliberately eschewing a merely scientific or technological focus, the two authors have undertaken to show the development of pre- modern science in Japan in the context of that country's social and intellectual milieu.
The book concentrates on the three traditional fields of Japanese science-astrology and calendrical astronomy, mathematics, and medicine- and Includes extensive tables and historical charts covering scientific activity over ten cen- turies.
This volume is the sixth in the MIT East Asian Science Series, under the editorship of Nathan Sivin. $39.95
The Britannia Bridge: The Generation and Diffusion of Technological Knowledge by Nathan Rosenberg and Walter G. Vincenti Economic historian Nathan Rosenberg and engineer Walter Vincenti reconstruct the problem-solving process involved in building the tubular railway Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in Northwest Wales, showing that the dynamic "spin- off" process, so widely discussed in the space age, was already at work during the Industrial Revolution. Despite its low visi- bility from a modern point of view and the fact that it was quickly superceded by other bridge designs, the technology involved in this daring feat spread to such diverse industries as shipbuild- ing and the construction of cranes, machine tools, and com- mercial buildings. The book comes with a reproduction of an 1851 British railway map in its own envelope.
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The competition for the annual award of $500, established in 1955 by Ida and Henry Schuman of New York City for an original prize essay in the history of science and its cultural influences, is open to graduate and undergraduate students in any American or Canadian college, university, or institute of technology. Papers submitted for the prize competition should be approximately 5,000 words in length, exclusive of footnotes, and thoroughly documented. It is hoped that the prize-winning essay will merit publication in Isis.
It was the wish of the donors that "history of science and its cultural influences" be interpreted very broadly. The papers may deal with the ideas and accomplishments of scientists in the past; they may trace the evolution of particular scientific concepts; or study the historical influences of one branch of science upon another. The phrase "cultural influences" is taken to include studies of the social and historical conditions that have influenced the growth of science, or the effects of scientific development upon society in the realms of philosophy, religion, social thought, economic progress, art and literature. Essays dealing with medical subjects are not acceptable, although papers dealing with the relations between medicine and the natural sciences will be welcome.
The Schuman Prize Committee, which is appointed by the President of the History of Science Society, is this year chaired by Professor Mary Jo Nye, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019. To be eligible for considera- tion, papers (not more than one from each competitor) should be sent to Professor Nye on or before July 1, 1979. Entries with later postmarks will be returned. It is requested that three copies of each essay be sent and that the names and institutions of the contributors be placed on a separate title page so that they may be removed before being read by members of the committee. The announcement of the prize-winning essay will be made at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, in December.
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Black-Body Radiation: A review symposium on Thomas S. Kuhn's long-awaited book.
Articles accepted for early publication include:
Timothy Lenoir on The Sources of Scientific Neglect: A Case Study
Richard F. Hirsh on The Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae
Adrian J. Desmond on Owen and the Dinosaur
Gary C. Hatfield and William Epstein on Early Modern Perceptual Theory
Our June issue will carry some seventy-five book reviews dealing with works on every aspect of the history of science and its cultural influences.
NEW ISIS PRIZE ANNOUNCED
The History of Science Society announces the establishment of a new prize to encourage the publication in Isis of original research of the highest standard. Consisting of $200 and a certificate, this prize will be given annually, on the recommendation of the Committee on Isis, to the author of the best article in Isis in the three years prior to the year of award.
The first award will take place in 1981. Articles published in Isis between March 1978 and December 1980, inclusive, will be eligible for the first annual prize.
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PAUL A. BOGAARD: Heaps or Wholes: Aristotle's Explanation of Compound Bodies 11
LAURENCE A. BREINER: The Career of the Cockatrice 30
MARTIN TAMNY: Newton, Creation, and Perception 48
STANLEY M. GURALNICK: The Context of Faraday's Electrochemical Laws 59
JOZSEF ILLY: Albert Einstein in Prague 76
RICHARD STOTHERS: Ancient Aurorae 85
DOCUMENTS & TRANSLATIONS
R. K. FRENCH: De juvamentis membrorum and the Reception of Galenic Physiological Anatomy 96
J. R. CHRISTIANSON: Tycho Brahe's German Treatise on the Comet of 1577 110
ELOGE
GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN: Ralph E. Oesper, 1886-1977 141
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
JOHN WM. SCHIFFELER: Query: Chinese Brass Water-Spouting Bowl 144
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION 146
BOOK REVIEWS
Essay Review by TIMOTHY LENOIR: Science, Technology, and Society: Twentieth-Century Style 152
Reviews by PAUL FORMAN, ANDREAS KLEINERT, DANIEL J. KEVLES, and KENDALL E. BAILES: The Politics of Modern Science: Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union 154
28 Other Reviews 160
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 187
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