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Ferdinando Abbri is Senior Research Officer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence. His main areas of interest include the history of chemistry and issues in the development of the history of science. His most recent publication is Le terre, l'acqua, le arie (I1 Mu- lino, 1984).

Toby A. Appel is Historian/Archivist of the American Physiological Society in Bethesda, Maryland. Her book on the Cuvier-Geoffroy debate and French biology is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Roger Ariew is Assistant Professor in the Depart- ment of Philosophy and the Program in Human- ities, Science, and Technology at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University. His latest research concerns the transition from late scho- lastic to early modern cosmology.

Simon Baatz is the Academy Historian at the New York Academy of Sciences. He recently completed his doctoral dissertation on pa- tronage, science, and ideology in Philadelphia, 1800-1850, at the University of Pennsylvania. His Venerate the Plough is reviewed in this issue of Isis.

Lawrence Badash is Professor of History of Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His interests lie in the prewar history of nuclear physics and in the postwar nuclear arms race. His recent work includes Kapitza, Ruther- ford, and the Kremlin (Yale, 1985).

Michael Barfoot is a Wellcome Fellow in the His- tory of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His current research focuses on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century medicine in Edinburgh.

Peter Barker is Director of the Graduate Pro- gram in Science and Technology Studies and As- sociate Professor in the Department of Philos- ophy and the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His latest research concerns early modern cosmology.

J. L. Berggren is a Professor of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. He has published numerous papers on the history of mathematics in ancient Greece and medieval Islam, and his book Episodes in Mathematics in Mediev,al Islam will soon be published by Springer-Verlag.

Geoffrey Cocks is Associate Professor of History at Albion College. He is the author of Psycho-

therapy in the Third Reich: The Goring Institute (Oxford, 1985).

Richard C. Dales, Professor of History at the University of Southern California, has written and edited a number of works on medieval thought and is now writing a book on medieval discussions of the eternity of the world.

Kurt Danziger is coordinator of the "History and Theory" option of the graduate program in psychology at York University, Toronto. He has published The Positivist Repudiation of Wundt (1979) and The Origins of the Psychological Ex- periment as a Social Institution (1985).

Joseph W. Dauben is Professor of History and the History of Science at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, and Assistant Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Pro- gram in History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His interests include the mathematics and philosophy of Charles S. Peirce.

Allen G. Debus, Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the Univer- sity of Chicago, is the author of The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenthl and Seventeenth Centluries (1977). His current research is on eighteenth- century French Paracelsism.

Tim Dejager-Seerveld is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of To- ronto. His thesis is on the organism-mechanism controversy and the beginning of a unified science of biology in early nineteenth-century Germany.

Luke Demaitre teaches history at Pace Univer- sity in Pleasantville, New York. His latest ar- ticle, on the medieval diagnosis of leprosy, was published in the Biulletin of the Histoty of Medi- cine. He is now working on the treatment of aging and old age in medieval and Renaissance medicine.

William Eamon is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University and a postdoc- toral fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. His research is on science and popular culture in early modern Europe.

Frank N. Egerton is Professor of History of Science and of Environmental History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He has pub-

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lished widely on the history of ecology and is now studying efforts to manage the Great Lakes fisheries.

Raymond E. Fancher is Professor of Psychology at York University, Downsview, Ontario, where he is acting coordinator of the graduate program in History and Theory of Psychology. His most recent book is The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controv'ers'.

Faye M. Getz is a fellow of the Department of the History of Medicine at the University of Wis- consin-Madison. She has written on late medieval medicine and pharmacy and is preparing a supplement to the catalogue of Western medieval manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

William Glen, research associate in the Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, is author of The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Rev olution in Earth Science (1982). He is now studying the current debates over impact theory and periodic mass extinctions.

Thomas F. Glick, Chairman of the History De- partment at Boston University, is the author of numerous monographs and articles on the history of science in Spain and Spanish America.

Gerald N. Grob is Professor of History at Rutgers University. He has published Mental In- stitutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (Free Press, 1973) and Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton, 1983), and is now working on the third volume (1940-1970) of this series.

Steve J. Heims is the author of John vlon Neu- mann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death. He is preparing a book on the interaction of concepts from information theory, automata theory, and cybernetics with psychology and social science, 1946-1953.

David K. Hill is Associate Professor of Philos- ophy at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illi- nois. He studies the development of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science, especially the evolution of Galileo's thought on the physics of motion. He also works in the philosophy of per- ception.

David L. Hull, Professor of Philosophy at North- western University, is the author of Darwvin 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.

James R. Jacob teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of

Robert Boyle and the English Revolution and Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantisni and the Early Enlightenment, and is now writing about natural philosophy, moral authority, and social order in seventeenth-century England.

James Jones is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston-University Park. He is the author of Bad Blood: The Tluskegee Syph- ilis Experiment (Free Press, 1981) and Let Me Count The Ways: Alfred C. Kinsey and the Rise of Scientific Research on Hutman Sexiuality (Norton, forthcoming).

Robert Kargon is Willis K. Shepard Professor and Chairman of the Department of History of Science at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent contribution to Isis, with Elizabeth Hodes, was "Karl Compton, Isaiah Bowman, and the Politics of Science in the Great Depres- sion" for the September 1985 issue.

George B. Kauffman, Professor of Chemistry at California State University, Fresno, is the author of numerous books and articles on chemistry, history of science, and chemical education. His latest book is Frederick Soddy (1877-1956): Early Pioneer in Radiochemistry (D. Reidel, 1986).

E. S. Kennedy, emeritus professor of mathematics at the American University of Beirut, but now resident at the Frankfurt Institut fur Ge- schichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissen- schaften, is a student of the medieval exact sciences.

Milton Kerker, Thomas S. Clarkson Professor at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, has been coeditor of the Jolurnal of Colloid and In- tetface Science since 1965. In addition to numerous scientific papers, he has published in Isis on Boerhaave, Carnot, and Svedberg.

Daniel Kevles: see p. 307.

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt teaches in the Syracuse University Department of History. She has recently published on natural history museums in various journals. She is joint editor, with Mar- garet Rossiter, of the first volume of the revived Osiris (1985).

Claudia Kren is Professor of History at the Uni- versity of Missouri, Columbia, with interests in medieval astronomy and mechanics. Her Medi- eval Science and Technology is reviewed in this issue of Isis.

Robert S. Leventhal teaches eighteenth-century German literature and thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written numerous articles and reviews, and is now finishing a book on the emergence of hermeneutics in the eighteenth century.



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Bruce V. Lewenstein alternates between being a science writer and a graduate student at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He is working on a dissertation about public communication of science in America after World War II. He also coordi- nates a public education program for the Center for History of Chemistry.

R. C. Lewontin: see p. 307.

David Lowenthal, formerly at the American Geo- graphical Society, is Professor of Geography at University College, London. He has written a biography of George Perkins Marsh (1958) and The Past is a Foreign Coluntry (1985) and edited Marsh's Man and Natlure (1864; 1965) and Geo- graphies of the Mind (1976).

Edward Manier, Program for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, has published widely on Darwin, T. H. Morgan, and a variety of other subjects. He is now examining the links between current work in molecular neurobiology, neo-Pavlovian animal learning theory, and theories of animal communication.

Ernst Mayr is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He has published in ornithology, systematics, evolution, and history of biology. At present he is working on a critical survey of dominant concepts in biology, a follow-up of his Growilth of Biological Thouglht (1982).

Michael McVaugh is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His edition of Arnald of Villanova's De amore lier- oici and De dosi tvriacalilum medicitnaruin was published in 1985.

Evan M. Melhado is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include the physical sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and medicine and health policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Peter Messeri is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health (Sociomedical Sci- ences), Columbia University. He has recently completed a study of the acceptance of continental drift and plate tectonics during the 1960s.

J. G. Morawski, Assistant Professor of Psy- chology at Wesleyan University, has written on the history of social policy, utopias, and gender in psychology. She is editing Exploring Inner Space (Yale, forthcoming), a book on the history of human experimentation in psychology during the twentieth century.

Albert E. Moyer is Associate Professor of His- tory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and an ad-

junct member of the university's Center for the Studyof Science in Society.

Robert Multhauf, a former president of the His- tory of Science Society and former editor of Isis, is Senior Historian of Science at the Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institu- tion. He is the author of Neptuine's Gift: A His- toly of Common Salt (1978).

Robert Olby: see p. 307.

Dorinda Outram, of the Department of Modern History, University College, Cork, Eire, is working on the political culture of the French Revolution. Her extensive work on the history of French science includes Georges Cun ier: Science, Vocation and Authoritv in Post-Rei'olu- tionaryN France, reviewed in this issue of Isis.

K. David Patterson is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written extensively on disease and medical care in African history and is working on a worldwide study of the historical epidemiology of pandemic influenza during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Charlotte M. Porter is an assistant curator at the Florida State Museum, University of Florida, and teaches in the history department. She is completing a three-volume work on natural history and American ideas and writes documenta- ries for public television.

Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He has written The Making of Geology and En- glish Society in the Eighteenth Century. He is now working on the early history of psychiatry in Britain, on quackery, and on the lay experi- ence of illness and doctors.

Theodore M. Porter is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His book The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 was just published by Princeton University Press. He is now working on the development of mathematical economics and its context, 1870-1914.

Lewis Pyenson teaches in the Departement d'his- toire at l'Universite de Montreal. His most recent book is Cuiltuiral Imnperialism and Exact Sciences: German Expansion Overseas, 1900- 1930. His Yolung Einstein is reviewed in this issue of Isis.

Helmut R. Rechenberg is a member of the theory division, Max-Planck-Institut fulr Physik und As- trophysik, Munich. He has written (with J. Mehra) four volumes of The Historical Develop- ment of Quiantum Theory (Springer-Verlag) and has been editing Werner Heisenberg's Collected Works.



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A. J. Rocke, Associate Professor in the Program for History of Science and Technology at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century (1984). His most recent work is a study of the early development of Kekule's benzene theory.

Paolo Rossi is Professor of History of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence. His latest book is The Dark Abyss of Time, reviewed in this issue of Isis. In August 1985 he was awarded the George Sarton Medal for the History of Science (see News of the Pro- fession in this issue).

Margaret Rossiter was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California at Riverside during the winter quarter of 1986.

David E. Rowe teaches mathematics and history of science at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York. His research interests center on the institutional and intellectual development of mathematics in the modern era; he is writing on the mathematical and personal relationship of Felix Klein and Sophus Lie.

George Saliba, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Columbia University, has a special interest in the thirteenth-century Islamic astronomers who reformed Ptolemaic astronomical models. He has completed an edition of MuDayyad al-Din al-cUrdl's Kita bal-HavDah and is preparing an annotated English translation.

John Scarborough is Professor of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Amer- ican Institute of the History of Pharmacy. He has edited Symposilum on Byzantine Medicine (1985) and written extensively on ancient and Byzantine medicine and pharmacy.

Simon Schaffer, Lecturer in History and Philos- ophy of Science at Cambridge University, works on the relation between astronomy, natural philosophy, and theology in the eighteenth century. He is coauthor (with Steven Shapin) of Le- viathan and the Air-Plunp: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (Princeton, 1985).

John T. Schlebecker, former Curator of Agricul- ture at the Smithsonian Institution, is Secretary- Treasurer of the Association for Living Histor- ical Farms and Agricultural Museums.

William R. Shea is Professor of History and Phi- losophy of Science at McGill University in Mon- treal, 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 Rev,ollution and editor of books on Rutherford and Otto Hahn.

Nancy G. Siraisi teaches in the department of history of Hunter College of the City University of New York. She works on medicine in the milieu of the Italian universities, 1300-1600.

Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches courses in the depart- ments of Anthropology, History, History and Sociology of Science, Landscape Planning, Ori- ental Studies, Religious Studies, and Sociology.

Barbara Maria Stafford is Professor of Art His- tory at the University of Maryland. Her Voyage Into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Trav,el Account, 1760-1840 is reviewed in this issue of Isis. She is working on a book on the interrelationship of art and medical theory in the eighteenth century.

Nancy Leys Stepan is Associate Professor of His- tory at Columbia University. She has published The Idea of Race in Science (1982) and Begin- nings of Brazilian Science (1976). She is now working on genetics and eugenics in Latin America.

George W. Stocking, Jr., is Professor of Anthro- pology and Director of the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. His most recent publication is Razza, cultiura, e ev,oluzione: Saggi di storia dell'antropologia, an Italian translation of essays first published in 1968.

Robert H. Terry is Professor of International Re- lations and Director of the Oral History Center at York College of Pennsylvania. His publications include Light in the Valley (Sunstone, 1984) and Comparativ,e Readings on Latin America (McCuthan, 1969). He specializes in the history and foreign policies of Latin America.

Paul Theerman is Assistant Editor with the Jo- seph Henry Papers, Smithsonian Institution. His research interests are in Victorian British physics, and he is working on topics in science and religion.

Paul Thompson is Associate Professor of Philos- ophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous articles on the structure of evolutionary theory, sociobiology, and current controversies surrounding Darwinian evolution. He is working on a book on the structure of evolutionary theory.

Thaddeus J. Trenn has written several articles and books on science history. He is now working with a group of farm business consultants in Southern Ontario.

Sabetai Unguru is on the senior staff of the Insti- tute for History and Philosophy of Science and



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Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He has published on ancient and medieval mathematics, medieval optics, and historiography. The salubrious act of review writing, he thinks, is not for making friends or enriching one's private library.

George E. Webb is Associate Professor of His- tory at Tennessee Technological University, where he teaches history of science and Amer-

ican history. His current research project is a survey of the evolution controversy in the United States from 1859 to the present.

George Wise is a historian at the General Electric Research and Development Center and the author of Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of Americ an Indiustrial Research (Columbia, 1985).

Illustrations in the book review section are from the following sources: on page 336 from Mapping the Cosmos; on page 342 courtesy of the E. F. Smith Collection, Center for History of Chemistry, also from Science and Social Change; on page 347 courtesy of the Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics, also from The Young Einstein; on page 350 from History of Geophysics; on page 352 from Just Before the Origin; on page 361 from "So Much That Is New"; on page 363 from No Magic Bullet; on page 366 from Ibn al-Haythain's Completion of the Conics; on page 372 from Thze Astron- omy of Levi ben Gerson; on page 374 from Johannes de Ketcham, Fasciculus medicinae (Venice, 1495), courtesy of Historical Collections of the Library, College of Physicians of Philadelphia; on page 378 from Under Newton's Shadow; on page 380 from Historia de la ciencia en Mexico; on page 382 from The Cultutral Meaning of Popular Science; on page 386 from All the World's a Fair; and on page 391 from The Geography of Peace and War.

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SELECTED WORKS OF H.A. LORENTZ

NANCY J. NERSESSIAN, Editor H. FLORIS COHEN, Associate Editor

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J. C. Kapteyn and the Early Twentieth-Century Universe E Robert Paul

Halley's Comet and the General Conflagration Craig B. Waff

Halley, Delisle and the Making of the Comet Simon Schaffer

The Greenwich List of Observatories Derek Howse

The Cosmology of John Herschel Michael Hoskin

The Star Table Commonly Appended to the Alfonsine Tables Paul Kunitzsch

Scepticism and French Interest in Copernicanism to 1630 Frederick J. Baumgartner

On the Precision of Interpolation in Early Planetary Tables Noel M. Swerdlow

A Neglected Galilean Letter Stillman Drake

John of London and his Unknown Arabic Source Paul Kunitzsch

Presentation of New Solar and Planetary Tables P. Bretagnon, J. L. Simon and J. Laskar

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CRITIQUES & CONTENTIONS Winifred Wisan "Galileo and God's Creation"

NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE Zhang Yunming "Sulfur in Ancient China" G. A. Kertesz "Notes on Isis von Oken"

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ISIS JUNE 1986 VOLUME 77 NUMBER 287

GUEST EDITORIAL

FERDINANDO ABBRI; PAOLO ROSSI: History of Science in Italy 213

ARTICLES

J. G. MORAWSKI: Organizing Knowledge and Behavior at Yale s Institute of Human Relations 219

ROBERT S. LEVENTHAL: The Emergence of Philological Discourse in the German States, 1770-1810 243

CRITIQUES & CONTENTIONS

NANCY LEYS STEPAN: Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science 261

DOCUMENTS & TRANSLATIONS

MILTON KERKER: The Svedberg and Molecular Reality: An Autobiographical Postscript 278

NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE

DAVID K. HILL: Galileo's Work on 116v: A New Analysis 283

GEORGE E. WEBB: The Origins of Dendrochronology 291

NEWS OF THE PROFESSION

Annual Meeting, Sarton Medals, Donors to and Supporters of the Fund Drive, and The Edelstein Center 302

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

ROBERT OLBY and R. C. LEWONTIN on In the Name of Eugenics, by DANIEL J. KEVLES 311

ESSAY REVIEW

SIMON SCHAFFER on The Dark Abyss of Time, by PAOLO ROSSI 320

SPECIAL REVIEW SECTIONS

DAVID LOWENTHAL on BARBARA M. STAFFORD'S Voyage into Substance, plus two other works on science and art; and GEORGE KAUFFMAN on PRIMO LEVI'S Periodic Table, plus two other autobiographical works 324

BOOK REVIEWS

Fifty-seven reviews 335

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 392



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