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Back MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 150-154Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/232140 .
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Claude Albritton is a senior scientist and board member of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of Philosophy of Geohistory 1785- 1970 and author of The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth Century.
William Aspray is Assistant Professor of Mathe- matics at Williams College. His research involves the history of theoretical computer science, par- ticularly in its connection with mathematical logic.
Lanfranco Belloni is Ricercatore at the Milan University Istituto di Scienze Fisiche. He edited the Opere scelte of Evangelista Torricelli for the Collezione Classici della Scienza UTET (Turin, 1975). Currently he is interested in the history of modern physics, especially in Italy and the U.S.S.R.
Peter Buck is Associate Professor of the Social Study of Science and Assistant Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of American Science and Modern China (Cambridge, 1980). He is now working on applied social research and social policy in twen- tieth-century America.
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., is Associate Pro- fessor and Chairman of the Department of His- tory at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He is the author of The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology (1977) and is now studying the emergence of ethology as a scientific discipline in the twentieth century.
Armando Carbonell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Boston University. In addition to the history of geographic thought, his interests lie in urban and cultural geography, particularly in the interpretations of landscapes.
Tom D. Crouch is curator in the aeronautics department of the National Air and Space Mu- seum, Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of a number of articles and books on aerospace history, the latest of which, A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane 1875-1905, is re- viewed in this issue of Isis.
Joseph W. Dauben is Associate Professor of History and the History of Science at Herbert H.
Lehman College, City University of New York, a member of the Graduate Faculty of CUNY, and editor of Historia Mathematica. He is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University for 1981-1982.
Arthur Donovan is Professor of History and Sci- ence Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University, Blacks- burg, Virginia.
Paul Dufour is Research Associate for the Sci- ence Council of Canada, where he is undertaking a history of science education in Canada. His M.Sc. thesis documented the reaction of the sci- entific community to the Gouzenko affair.
Clark A. Elliott is Associate Curator of the Harvard University Archives. He is the author of Biographical Dictionary of American Science: The Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centu- ries (1979) and editor of the newsletter History of Science in America: News and Views.
Elizabeth Fee is Assistant Professor at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The author of articles on Victorian psychology and anthropology, she is writing a history of public health in Baltimore and a his- tory of the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Pub- lic Health, and editing a book on women and health care.
Maurice A. Finocchiaro is Professor of Philoso- phy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He continues to be interested in the subjects of his books History of Science as Explanation (1973) and Galileo and the Art of Reasoning (1980), and in pedagogy. At present he is working on Marx- ism and the social sciences.
David Gooding is Lecturer in History and Phi- losophy of Science at the University of Bath. The author of several articles on Faraday, he is interested in nineteenth-century natural science and, more generally, in exploring philosophical grounds for distinguishing the natural from the artificial.
Henry W. Gould, Professor of Mathematics at West Virginia University, is the author of Com- binational Identities (1972). His fields of interest are combinatorics, number theory, special func- tions, and the history of mathematics and as- tronomy.
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Marie Boas Hall recently retired as Reader of History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London. She has worked on Boyle, on the seventeenth-century Royal Society, and on theories of matter. She is currently working on the nineteenth-century Royal Society.
Richard Healey is Assistant Professor of Philos- ophy at the University of California, Los An- geles. His main research interests have been in the philosophy of physics, especially quantum theory. He has recently edited and contributed to Reduction, Time and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (1981).
William L. Hine, an Associate Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at York Uni- versity in Toronto, is working on a book on Marin Mersenne.
Richard F. Hirsh is Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His dissertation, several articles, and a projected book examine the influence of space technology and public policy on X-ray astronomy.
Frederic L. Holmes is Chairman of the Section of the History of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, President of the History of Science Society, and the author of Claude Ber- nard and Animal Chemistry (1979). His current projects are on Lavoisier and Hans Krebs.
Michael Hoskin lectures in history of science at Cambridge University, and he is general editor of the forthcoming four-volume General History of Astronomy. He was responsible for the build- ing of the Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Karl Hufbauer teaches the history of science at the University of California, Irvine. He recently completed The Formation of the German Chem- ical Community (1720-1795) (in press) and is now studying the stellar-energy problem be- tween the two world wars.
Keith Hutchison is a research fellow in the De- partment of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne. He is at work on the influence of thermodynamics on the develop- ment of heat-engines in the nineteenth century, and his article on seventeenth-century philoso- phy and the natural magic of the sixteenth cen- tury will appear in Isis in June 1982.
Aaron J. Ihde is Emeritus Professor of Chem- istry and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At present he is working on a centennial history of the Wisconsin Chem- istry Department.
Lester S. King, M.D., is a member of the De- partment of History at the University of Chi-
cago. His most recent books are The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century (1978) and A Preface to Medicine (Princeton, 1982).
George Kish is Professor of Geography at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Imago Mundi and Chair- man of the Editorial Board of Terrae Incognitae.
James Lennox is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pitts- burgh. He is the author of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of biology and on Spinoza; his cur- rent research is focused on the history of the debate over the role of teleological explanations in science.
Jonathan Liebenau is a member of the Business History Unit at the University of London. He has written on the history of medicine and sci- ence in the American pharmaceutical industry and is further exploring science in industry in the twentieth century.
Wolf Lepenies is Professor of Sociology at the Free University, Berlin, and Directeur d'Etudes Associ6 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sci- ences Sociales, Paris. He is author of Melan- cholie und Gesellschaft (1969) and Das Ende der Naturgeschichte (1976).
Stephen C. McCluskey is Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology at West Vir- ginia University. He has conducted research in medieval science and is currently completing a study of Pueblo Indian astronomy.
Donald MacKenzie lectures in sociology at Edin- burgh University. His research work is mainly in the historical sociology of science and technol- ogy, and he is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh, 1981).
Edward Manier's most recent articles include studies of Darwin's language and logic, and of the strong program in sociology of science. He is beginning a long-term project comparing devel- opments in three research areas in cellular neurophysiology.
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 scientific and professional aspects of European and American medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
W. E. Knowles Middleton has devoted himself primarily to the history of science since his re- tirement from the National Research Council of Canada in 1963. He has written The History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology, and The Invention of the Meteorological Instruments.
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Carl Mitcham teaches philosophy and psychol- ogy at St. Catharine College in Kentucky. He is the author of the Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology (1973) and of a chapter in the Guide to the Culture of Science, Technology, and Medicine edited by Paul Durbin (Free Press, 1980). He is also president of the recently formed Society for Philosophy and Technology.
Robert Multhauf, a former president of the His- tory of Science Society and former editor of Isis, is Senior Scientific Scholar at the National Mu- seum of American History, Smithsonian Institu- tion. He is the author of Neptune's Gift: A His- tory of Common Salt (1978).
Mary Jo Nye is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Okla- homa. She has published articles on scientific work at Toulouse and Nancy, and she is writing a book on French provincial science.
Roy Porter is Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the His- tory of Medicine, London. His works include The Making of Geology (Cambridge, 1977) and an edition of William Hobbs's The Earth Gener- ated and Anatomized (Cornell, 1981). He is cur- rently researching psychiatry in Britain in the eighteenth century.
Jeffrey R. Powell is Associate Professor of Biol- ogy at Yale University. He was the last Ph.D. student of Theodosius Dobzhansky, receiving his degree in 1972 from the University of California, Davis. His major research interest is the ge- netics of Drosophila and mosquitoes.
Nathan Reingold is editor of The Papers of Joseph Henry at the Smithsonian Institution. His Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939 was recently published.
Joan L. Richards is Visiting Assistant Professor with the History Department at Cornell Uni- versity. She is revising her dissertation on the nineteenth-century reception of non-Euclidean geometry in England for publication, and she is preparing to write an intellectual biography of Augustus DeMorgan.
Robert J. Richards is Assistant Professor in His- tory of Science, Conceptual Foundations of Sci- ence, and Biopsychology at the University of Chicago, where he directs the B.A. program in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Sci- ence and Medicine. His current research is on evolutionary theories of mind and behavior in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Guenter B. Risse is Professor of History of Med- icine and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His translation of K. E. Rothschuh's History of Physiology has just ap- peared in paperback. He expects soon to com-
plete a study on patient care in the Royal In- firmary of Edinburgh 1770-1800.
Ludo Rocher, Professor of Sanskrit at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, edits and translates San- skrit legal texts. He is the author of books and articles on Hindu law and other aspects of Indology.
Shirley A. Roe is Assistant Professor of the His- tory of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of Matter, Life, and Generation: Eight- eenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate and editor of The Natural Philosophy of Albrecht von Haller.
G. S. Rousseau is Professor of Eighteenth- Century Studies at UCLA; his most recent book is The Letters and Papers of Sir John Hill (1981). For 1981/82 he is a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, working on Newton's pa- pers for a book on Newton's literary milieu.
Ivo Schneider is Professor for the History of Sciences at the University of Munich and author of Archimedes: Ingenieur, Naturwissenschaftler, und Mathematiker (1979). He edited Carl Frie- drich Gauss (1777-1855) (1981) and has now begun a history of the mathematical theory of probability.
Spyros Sakellariadis earned his doctorate in the history and philosophy of science from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh (1980) and taught at Boston University. He now works in the marketing di- vision of Frank E. Basil, Inc., a consulting engi- neering firm, and does research on seventeenth- century science.
Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus is Director of the Institut d'Histoire et de Sociopolitique des Sci- ences of the University of Montreal. The author of Les scientifiques et la paix, she works on problems of political history of science and sci- ence policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Silvan S. Schweber is Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. He is currently at work on a history of quantum field theory from 1940 to 1950 and on some projects in the history of Victorian science.
William R. Shea is a member of the Department of Philosophy and of the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is the author of Galileo's Intellectual Revolution, and his latest book, coauthored with M. L. Ri- ghini Bonelli, is Galileo's Florentine Residences.
Nathan Sivin is Chairman of the Graduate Group in East Asian Studies at the University of Penn- sylvania. His interests lie in Far Eastern science and in the critical issues reflected in astronomy, alchemy, and medicine.
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Michael M. Sokal is Professor of History at Wor- cester Polytechnic Institute. The author of An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cat- tell's Journal and Letters from Germany and Eng- land, 1880-1888 (MIT Press, 1981), he is now preparing a biography of Cattell with full support from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.
Arnold Thackray is Editor of Isis. His latest work, written with Jack Morrell, Gentlemen of Science: The Early Years of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, was pub- lished by Oxford in 1981.
William F. Trimble is editor at the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh. He has published articles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and other journals. His book High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
David Turnbull is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He has contributed to the fields of atomic transport and of nucleation and growth of crystals, and to the theory of the glass state. He coedits, with Henry Ehrenreich and Frederic Seitz, the Solid State Physics series.
Barbara L. Welther is a historian of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro- physics. She is coauthor, with Owen Gingerich, of Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805 (forthcoming from the American Philosophical Society). She
is now preparing a biography of Antonia Maury.
Walter D. Wetzels is Associate Professor of Ger- man at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published on German literature of the eight- eenth century through Romanticism and on sci- ence and literature, most recently on the literary genre of popularized science from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Derek T. Whiteside is Reader in the History of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He has a wide spectrum of research interests, especially in European exact sciences 1500-1800. The eighth (and final) volume of his edition of The Mathe- matical Papers of Isaac Newton is about to be published.
Magda Whitrow has edited five volumes of the Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1965, of which the first volume appeared in 1971.
Curtis Wilson is a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. His most recent article, on perturbations and solar tables from Lacaille to Delambre, appeared in Archive for History of Exact Sciences in 1980.
Edward Yoxen works in the Department of Lib- eral Studies in Science at the University of Man- chester, where he teaches in the philosophy of science, science policy, and the history and social relations of contemporary biology. He has writ- ten a number of papers on molecular biology and biotechnology.
Illustration on page 95 from George Sarton's first Critical Bibliography ("Bibliographie analy- tique .... ," Isis, 1913, 1:143).
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DEREK WHITESIDE on RICHARD S. WESTFALL'S Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton and SILVAN SCHWEBER on THOMAS HANKIN'S Sir William Rowan Hamilton 100
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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