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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Josette Alexandre is librarian at the Paris Obser- vatory especially in charge of the archives.

Garland E. Allen teaches biology and history of science at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written T. H. Morgan: The Man and His Science (1978), Life Science in the Twentieth Century (1975; 1978), and numerous articles on the history of genetics, evolution, and embry- ology in post-Darwinian times.

Wilbur Applebaum is Associate Professor of His- tory at Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests are in post-Keplerian astronomy.

John J. Beer teaches history of science at the University of Delaware. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the chemical industry. Of late he has become interested in the history of appropriate technology.

Mara Beller is Lecturer in the History of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her main field of research is the history of quantum mechanics.

H. J. M. Bos is Extraordinary Professor of His- tory of Mathematics at the Institute for History of Science and the Mathematical Institute of the State University of Utrecht.

Ronald Calinger is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the Catholic University of America. He is editor of Classics of Mathe- matics (1982).

William J. Callahan works on the social history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spain. He is the author of La Santa y Real Hermandad del Refuqio y Piedad de Madrid (1980) and Church, Politics and Society in Spain, 1750-1874 (1984).

Paul E. Ceruzzi is Associate Curator of Aero- space Electronics and Computing in the Depart- ment of Space Science and Exploration, Na- tional Air and Space Museum. The author of Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Com- puter, 1935-1945, he is working on a forthcoming NASM exhibit on computers and aero- space.

Ralph Colp, Jr., is Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Columbia University Health Service, and Assis- tant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia Univer- sity. He has written To Be an Invalid. The Illness

of Charles Darwin (1977) and many articles on aspects of Darwin's life.

Maurice Crosland is Director of the Unit for the History of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury and recipient of the 1984 Dexter Award. Much of his research is related to science and medicine in France, 1750-1914, par- ticularly the Academy of Sciences.

Martin Curd teaches philosophy of science at Purdue University. He is completing a book on critical thinking with his colleague Lilly-Marlene Russow.

Gary Deason, Associate Professor of History and Religion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minne- sota, is on leave at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley, studying Catholic theology and the mechanical philosophy in early seventeenth-century France. He is working on a book on Francis Bacon.

Allen G. Debus, Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago, is the author of The Chemical Philos- ophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1977) and Science and History: A Chemist's Appraisal (1984). His current research is on eighteenth-century French Paracelsism.

Luke Demaitre teaches history at Pace Univer- sity, Pleasantville, New York. He has published a book and several articles on medieval medicine and serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Histoor of Medicine. He is now studying the treatment of old age in medical writings from the thirteenth through the sixteenth century.

Bruce Eastwood, Professor of History at the Uni- versity of Kentucky, teaches history of science and cultural history of medieval and early modern Europe. He is completing a monograph on the evolution of the idea of circumsolar planetary motion and its interactions with cosmo- logical ideas from late antiquity to the late twelfth century.

Lewis Elton is Professor of Science Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. His main research interests have been in nuclear physics and are now in university didactics and distance education. His article rose in part from his origins in the Germany of the 1920s.



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Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Professor of Philos- ophy, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, con- tinues to be interested in the topics of his past works (History of Science as Explanation, Ga- lileo and the Art of Reasoning, Gramsci and Marxism). He is now working on a documentary history of, as well as a philosophical reappraisal of, the Galileo affair.

Gad Freudenthal is charge de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His main research interest is the theory of matter from antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages.

Peter L. Galison, Associate Professor in the Phi- losophy and Physics Departments, Stanford Uni- versity, is the author of a forthcoming work on the interaction of experiment and theory in twentieth-century physics. His recent research is on the restructuring of the experimental work- place that has taken place in high-energy physics since World War II.

Clayton Gearhart is Associate Professor of Physics at St. John's University in Minnesota. His research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century astronomy and nineteenth-century physics, especially kinetic theory.

Neal C. Gillespie, Professor of History at Georgia State University, is the author of Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation (1979). He is studying the place of natural theology in the twentieth-century Anglo-American scientific community.

Owen Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is on sabbatical leave at Churchill College in Cambridge, England. As- teroid 2658 has been named after him in honor of his studies in astrophysics and the history of astronomy.

Thomas F. Glick is Chairman of the History De- partment at Boston University and the author of Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (1979).

Edward Grant is Distinguished Professor of His- tory and Philosophy of Science at Indiana Uni- versity, Bloomington. He is the author and editor of a number of books on medieval science and is working on a study of medieval cosmology from 1200 to 1700.

John L. Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the Centre de Recherches Alexandre Koyre in Paris. He is working on the problems raised in his article in this issue.

Frederick Gregory, Associate Professor of His- tory of Science at the University of Florida, is at

work on two studies of German science and thought in the nineteenth century.

Ian Hacking teaches at the Institute for the His- tory and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.

A. Rupert Hall, recently concerned with the Pro- gram in History of Medicine of the Wellcome Trust (London), is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology, University of London.

Gary Hatfield is Assistant Professor of Philos- ophy at the Johns Hopkins University. He works in the history of philosophy, including the relation of philosophy to science, and in the philosophy of psychology.

Mary Hesse teaches in the Department of His- tory and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book is Revolutions and Reconstructions in Philosophy of Science (1980).

Martha L. Hildreth is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has written on medical unionism, medical assis- tance, and public health bureaucracy in late nineteenth-century France, and on the education of American women physicians. She is working on a study of medical politics in the Department of the Haute-Garonne.

Richard F. Hirsh is Associate Professor of His- tory of Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute and State University. He has published Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy (Cambridge, 1983) and is now working on the recent history of the electric power industry.

Don Howard is Associate Professor of Philos- ophy, University of Kentucky, and a Research Associate of the Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University. Specializing in the history and philosophical foundations of twentieth-century physics, he is working on a book, Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science.

David L. Hull, Professor of Philosophy at North- western University, is the author of Darwin and His Critics (1973) and The Philosophy of Biolog- ical Thought (1974). He is working on a book setting out mechanisms of conceptual change in science.

Don Ihde is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Technics and Praxis (Reidel, 1979), Existential Technics (SUNY Press, 1983), and From Garden to Earth: Technology and the Lifeworld (Indiana, forthcoming).

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Sharon Kingsland is Assistant Professor in His- tory of Science at the Johns Hopkins University. She has written Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology (1985).

Patricia Kitcher is Associate Professor of Philos- ophy at the University of Minnesota. She has published many articles in the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of Kant.

Ronald R. Kline is Director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Center for the History of Electrical Engineering. He is completing a biography of the electrical engi- neer, educator, and socialist Charles Proteus Steinmetz.

Arnold Koslow is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, CUNY. His chief interests lie in the history and philosophy of science, and he is completing a monograph on the relation between quantitative and qualitative concepts in the physical sciences and in measurement.

John Lankford teaches in the Department of His- tory at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He specializes in the social history of astronomy and astrophysics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Judith Walzer Leavitt is Associate Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies at the University of Wis- consin, Madison. She is the author of The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (1982) and Brought to Bed: Birthing Women and Their Physicians in America, 1750-1950 (forthcoming).

John Lyon taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1967 to 1983, and was a Wilbur Fellow in 1984-1985. He is the translator of E. Gilson's D'Aristote a Darwin et retour (1984), and, among other works, of Pierre Duhem's La science allemande, for which he is anxiously seeking a publisher.

Edward MacKinnon is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Hayward. His most recent works are Scientific Explanation and Atomic Physics, Basic Reasoning, and a contribution to the Niels Bohr Centennial Volume. He is struggling with philosophical problems of quantum physics.

Roy MacLeod is Professor of History at the Uni- versity of Sydney.

Michael S. Mahoney is Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University. He is the author of several studies on the development of algebra and analysis during the seventeenth century, as well as on ancient and medi-

eval mathematics in general. He is now also embarking on a history of computer software during the 1950s and 1960s.

Robert N. McCauley, Assistant Professor of Phi- losophy at Emory University, works in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of psychology.

Ernan McMullin is Director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the editor of Evolution and Creation (1985) and is working on scientific method in the seventeenth century.

Evan M. Melhado is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is active in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and in the Faculty Seminar on Medicine and Society. The author of Jacob Berzelius: The Emergence of His Chem- ical System, he is working on a collection of essays on recent American health policy.

David Philip Miller is Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales. He is writing a book on the institutional history of British science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His article on the revival of the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1840, will appear in Osiris, 1986, 2.

John Nicholas is Associate Professor of Philos- ophy and Chairman of the Department of His- tory of Medicine and Science at the University of Western Ontario. He is interested in Bayesian models of scientific rationality and the historical development of scientific inference procedures.

J. D. North, Professor of the History of Philos- ophy and the Exact Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, is Permanent Sec- retary of the International Academy of the His- tory of Science. He is writing a book on Chaucer's use of astronomy.

Ronald L. Numbers is Professor of History of Medicine and History of Science at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He has recently edited God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (with David C. Lindberg) and To Care and To Cure: Essays on Health, Medicine, and the Western Faith Traditions (with Darrel W. Amundsen).

Hugh Ormsby-Lennon teaches English at Villa- nova University. He is preparing Nature's Mys- tick Book: Magical Linguistics, Modern Science, and English Literature From Maxwell to Cole- ridge for publication.

H. W. Paul teaches European history at the Uni- versity of Florida.

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Philip J. Pauly is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. He is the author of Con- trolling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Ideal of Bio- logical Engineering (Oxford, 1986) and has written about the origins of the National Geo- graphic Society.

John Pickles is Assistant Professor of Geography and Assistant Research Professor of Regional Research, West Virginia University. He is interested in the history and philosophy of science, hermeneutics, geographic theory, and southern Africa. He is author of Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences (Cambridge, 1985).

Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He is the author of The Making of Geology (1977) and coeditor of the Dictionary of the History of Science (1981). He is working on early psychiatry in England and the history of quack medicine.

Karen Reeds, Science Editor at Rutgers Univer- sity Press, is a historian of botany with particular interest in sixteenth-century botany and medicine. She is eager to expand the press's list in history of science, technology, and medicine and invites submission of manuscripts and book pro- posals.

Barbara J. Reeves is a University Postdoctoral Fellow in history at Ohio State University, where she is completing a book on the Italian physics community, 1861-1915. With the aid of an NSF grant, she will return to Italy in 1986 to continue research on the Italian reception of Einstein's theories of relativity.

Nathan Reingold is Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution. He is working on a history of the United States research community, 1940-1975.

Neil M. Ribe is Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University.

Robin E. Rider heads the History of Science and Technology Program at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Her research deals with the development of applied mathematics and operations research in the United States.

Alan J. Rocke, Associate Professor in the Pro- gram for History of Science and Technology at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio State, 1984). His research concerns the development of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century.

Robert Rosenberg is an editorial associate at the Edison Papers at Rutgers University. He is com-

pleting his dissertation at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity on the origins of American electrical engineering.

Robert Rynasiewicz, a member of the Depart- ment of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, is interested in the philosophy of science and the history of theoretical physics. He is investigating the empirical content of late nineteenth-century optics and electrodynamics.

George Saliba, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at Columbia University, is a visiting fellow in history of science at Princeton University during 1985-86. He has edited the Ar- abic astronomical text of Mu'ayyad al-Din al-cUrdi's Kitab al-Hay'ah and is preparing an annotated English translation for his edition of Ibn al-Shatir's Nihdyat al-Sul.

Franz Samelson is Professor of Psychology at Kansas State University. His work in the history of twentieth-century American psychology has dealt with early intelligence testing, behaviorism, and social psychology.

Warren Schmaus is Associate Professor of Phi- losophy in the Department of Humanities and Faculty Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois In- stitute of Technology.

John A. Schumacher is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the interface of science and philosophy; he is working on a book entitled Human Posture: The Nature of In- quiry.

Michael H. Shank is Assistant Professor and As- sistant Head Tutor in the Department of the His- tory of Science at Harvard. His current research focuses on natural philosophy in late medieval Vienna.

William R. Shea is Professor of History and Phi- losophy of Science at McGill University and the Secretary General of the Division of History of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Galileo's Intellectual Revolution and editor of books on Rutherford and Otto Hahn.

A. Mark Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the Unversity of California, Riverside. His research for the moment centers on the development of premodern optics, and he is engaged in an English translation of Ptolemy's Optics and a monograph on Descartes's derivation of the sine-law of refraction.

Larry Stewart is Associate Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. He is writing a book on the significance of the Newtonians in early eighteenth-century England.

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Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Houston-University Park, is a former Senior Contract-Historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The author of This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (1966) and Chariots For Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft (1979), he is now working on comparative spaceflight history.

N. M. Swerdlow is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Univer- sity of Chicago. He has written, with O. Neuge- bauer, Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus (Springer, 1984), which won the 1985 Pfizer Award.

Philip M. Teigen, Deputy Chief of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medi- cine, was the Osler Librarian at McGill Univer- sity, Montreal, until 1985. His research interests include the structure of late Galenic pharma- cology and the history of veterinary education in North America.

Arnold Thackray's most recent books are two volumes of Gentlemen of Science (with Jack Morrell) and Chemistry in America (with Jeffrey L. Sturchio, P. Thomas Carroll, and Robert F. Bud). He is working on the social sciences in the very recent past.

Margaret S. Thompson received her Ph.D. in history from Boston University in 1984. She is working on a social history of mental illness in Scotland in the nineteenth century that includes a profile of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, an analysis of the asylum patients, and a biography of Dr. Thomas Smith Clouston.

James G. Traynham is Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Organic Nomenclature: A Programmed Intro- duction as well as many research publications, and he organized and chaired the ACS-HIST Symposium on History of Chemical Nomencla- ture (Spring 1985).

Alexander Vucinich is Emeritus Professor of His- tory of Science at the University of Pennsyl- vania. The author of Science in Russian Culture, Social Thought in Tsarist Russia and Empire of Knowledge, he is preparing a book on Darwin and Russian thought (1849-1917).

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden is a retired professor from the University of Zurich. He is the author of Science Awakening (Oxford, 1961; 1974), Die Pythagoreer (Artemis, 1978), Geom- etry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations (Springer, 1983), and A History of Algebra (Springer, 1985).

William A. Wallace is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Catholic University. The author of Prelude to Galileo (1981) and Ga- lileo and His Sources (1984), he has been studying the contributions of early Jesuits to the Scientific Revolution.

John Harley Warner, a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medi- cine, is studying nineteenth-century American and British attitudes toward Parisian medicine. His The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Prac- tice, Knowledge, and Professional Identity in America, 1820-1885 is forthcoming from Har- vard.

Sheila Faith Weiss is Assistant Professor of His- tory and History of Science at Clarkson Univer- sity. Her revised dissertation on Wilhelm Schall- mayer and origins of German eugenics is forthcoming from University of California Press. She is now working on secondary school biology education during the Third Reich.

Richard S. Westfall, a student of seventeenth- century science, is working on a social history of the seventeenth-century scientific community and on the role of patronage in the support of science during that period.

Bernard O. Williams is research director of The Report Store, an information clearinghouse on the ergonomics of computing. His dissertation (Kansas), "Computing with Electricity, 1935-1945," examined the interplay between an- alog and digital computing techniques in the mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, and elec- tronic devices built during World War II.

Michael R. Williams is a professor in the Depart- ment of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He has, at last count, had some part in the authorship of seven books and eighty-one other publications of various types.

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RALPH COLP, JR.: Confessing a Murder: Darwin's First Revelations about Transmutation 9

SHEILA FAITH WEISS: Wilhelm Schallmayer and the Logic of German Eugenics 33

LARRY STEWART: Public Lectures and Private Patronage in Newtonian England 47

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JOHN L. GREENBERG: Mathematical Physics in Eighteenth-Century France 59

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JOSETTE ALEXANDRE: La comete de Halley a travers les ouvrages et manuscrits de l'Observatoire de Paris 79

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ERNAN McMULLIN: Giordano Bruno at Oxford 85

LEWIS ELTON: Einstein, General Relativity, and the German Press 1919-1920 95

B. L. VAN DER WAERDEN: Aristarchos's Observation of the Summer Solstice 103

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 201



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