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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb is an assistant professor in the Programa de P6s-graduacao em Co- municacao e Semi6tica, a graduate program at the Pontificia Universidade Cat6lica de Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she chairs a center of interdiscipli- nary studies on history of science. Her publications include Da alquimia a quimica (1987), O que e hist6ria da ciencia (1994), and A magia das mdquinas: John Wilkins e a origem da mecinica moderna (1994). Forthcoming is a work on medieval Arabic science, as well as a collective volume on science in the age of the great voyages, of which she is the editor.

Wilbur Applebaum teaches history of science at Illinois Institute of Technology and is currently editing The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia.

Roger Ariew is Professor of Philosophy at Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is coeditor, with Peter Barker, of Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science (1991) and the forthcoming Descartes and His Contemporaries: Medita- tions, Objections, and Replies, with Marjorie Grene.

Mitchell G. Ash is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where he teaches modem German history and history of science. He is author of Gestalt Psychology in German Culture: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity (Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press), which will appear in 1995.

Howard Bernstein teaches in the Graduate Lib- eral Studies Program at Wesleyan University. He is writing on Albert Einstein's ruminations on education.

Stephen Bocking is Assistant Professor in the En- vironmental and Resource Studies Program at Trent University, Petersborough, Ontario. His forthcoming book, to be published by Yale University Press, is a comparative history of ecological science in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada.

Jane Camerini is an independent scholar living in Madison, Wisconsin. She has published several articles on the role of visual representations in the history of evolutionary thought and on nineteenth- century biogeography. She is writing a book on fieldwork and mapping in nineteenth-century biology.

Lawrence I. Conrad is Historian of Near Eastern Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and President of the International As-

sociation for the Study of Traditional Asian Med- icine. He is the author of numerous studies on the history of epidemic disease and other aspects of medieval Near Eastern medicine.

Maurice Crosland is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of two recent books, one on the French Academy of Sciences (Science under Con- trol [Cambridge, 1992]) and the other on the pe- riodical Annales de Chimie (In the Shadow of La- voisier [British Society for the History of Science, 1994]).

Edward B. Davis teaches the history of science at Messiah College (Grantham, Pennsylvania), not far from the home of the late Robert Paul, with whom he shared an interest in religion and science as well as astronomy. His most recent article, "The Anon- ymous Works of Robert Boyle and the Reasons Why a Protestant Should Not Turn Papist (1687)," appeared in the October 1994 issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Ronald E. Doel is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He is working on the rise of academic geophysics during the twentieth century, as well as on international science during the cold war; his study of solar system astronomy in America will be published by Cam- bridge University Press in 1995.

Jacalyn Duffin is a hematologist and historian who teaches history in medicine and philosophy. She is the author of Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life (University of Toronto Press, 1993) and is working on a biography of R. T. H. Laen- nec.

John Duffy, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Tulane University School of Medicine, is a past president of the American As- sociation for the History of Medicine. He is the author of twelve books, including a two-volume history of medicine in Louisiana and a two-volume history of public health in New York City.

Gerhard Endress has been Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Bochum since 1975. His research concentrates on the Hel- lenistic tradition in Islamic philosophy. Together with Dimitri Gutas, he is editor of the Greek and Arabic Lexicon (1992-).

Yaron Ezrahi is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the impact of modern science

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and technology on democratic governments and the conduct of public affairs, most notably The De- scent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy (1990) and Technol- ogy, Pessimism, and Postmodernism (1994), edited with Everett Mendelsohn and Howard Segal.

Gerard Fergerson, who recently received a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, teaches health policy and history at New York University. In 1993/94, he served as a Milbank Fellow in Health Policy/Senior Analyst with the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assess- ment.

Paula Findlen teaches in the History Department and the Program in History and Philosophy of Sci- ence at the University of California at Davis. She is working on a book entitled When Science Be- comes Serious.

Maurice A. Finocchiaro is Distinguished Profes- sor of Philosophy and Department Chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is interested in the history and philosophy of the natural and social sciences. He recently completed a guided study to Galileo's World Systems, including a new

abridged translation.

Mary E. Fissell teaches in the Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Johns Hopkins. She is the author of Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol and is currently working on a book about early modern popular health texts and constructions of gender relations.

Owen Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been exploring the different survival rates of early scientific books. He is associate editor for science for the forthcom-

ing Dictionary of American History supplementary volumes.

Jan Goldstein is a professor of moder European history and a member of the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the Univer- sity of Chicago. She is the author of Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (1987, 1990) and editor of Foucault and the Writing of History (1994).

Gennady Gorelik is research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. His most recent book, with V. Fren- kel, is Matvei Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties (1994). He is working on a book on Andrei Sakharov and the Soviet H-bomb.

Anita Guerrini teaches at the University of Cal- ifornia, Santa Barbara. Her biography of George Cheyne is under review, and she is writing a his-

tory of animal and human experimentation under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press. In 1994/ 95 she is a fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University.

Wm. Kent Hackmann is a professor of history at the University of Idaho. His teaching fields include the history of England and a survey of world civilizations. His current research in Georgian Britain concerns the West India interest in the House of Commons, 1788-1832.

Steven J. Harris is the Dibner Assistant Professor of History of Science at Brandeis University. He is writing a book on the emergence and growth of scientific activity in the Society of Jesus (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries).

Erwin N. Hiebert is Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University. His current research is on Lise Meitner's circle, the cath- ode ray controversy, and the reception of Helm- holtz's views on acoustics in music circles.

Sungook Hong is Visiting Lecturer at the Uni- versity of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University with the dissertation "Forging the Scientist-Engineer: A Professional Career of John Ambrose Fleming" (1994) and is working on the relationship of science and technology in power and early radio engineering.

Karl Hufbauer, who is at the University of Cal- ifornia, Irvine, has focused in his research on case studies that illuminate discipline building and in- terdisciplinarity. His publications include The For- mation of the German Chemical Community, 1720- 1795 (1982), and Exploring the Sun: Solar Science since Galileo (1991).

Volker Husberg is assistant at the chair of eco- nomic history and the history of technology (held by Professor Wolfhard Weber) at the Ruhr Univ- ersitat Bochum. He is coeditor of a compilation of technological travel accounts on Upper Silesia written between 1780 and 1876.

Rob Iliffe is Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London University. He has written a number of articles on science in early moder London.

Ian Inkster is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently Visiting Professor at the Achievement Project, Oxford. He is interested par- ticularly in the historical relations between scientific institutions and technological advance, technology transfer, and the location of technological creativity; his recent books include Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrial Development (Rutgers University Press, 1991) and The Clever City: Japan, Australia, and the Mul-



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tifunction Polis (Sydney University Press and Ox- ford University Press, 1991).

Alfred L. Ivry is Professor of Islamic and Jewish philosophy at New York University. His edition of the Arabic text of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De anima has just appeared in Cairo, and the English translation of his work is forthcoming.

Stephen Jacyna is Senior Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He is writing a monograph entitled Language and the Brain, 1825-1926.

Douglas M. Jesseph is Assistant Professor of Phi- losophy at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathemat- ics (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and several articles on the history and philosophy of mathematics. He is currently writing a book on the controversy between Hobbes and Wallis.

Adrian Johns is Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His interests include the social history of early modem natural philosophy, and he is completing a project on the history of natural philosophy books in En- gland.

Ronald Kline is Associate Professor of the His- tory of Technology at Cornell University and author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist (Balti- more: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

Lisbet Koerner is Assistant Professor in the De- partment of the History of Science at Harvard Uni- versity. Her forthcoming biography of Carl Lin- naeus, tentatively entitled Nature and Nation in Linnaeus's Science, will be published by Harvard University Press.

Ann La Berge is Associate Professor in the Sci- ence and Technology Studies program at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (1992) and the coeditor (with Morde- chai Feingold) of French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (1994).

James Larson is Professor Emeritus of Scandi- navian at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Interpreting Nature was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1994.

Bruce V. Lewenstein is Associate Professor in the Departments of Communication and Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, North American Editor of Public Understanding of Sci- ence, and Managing Editor of Osiris. He co- founded the Cornell Cold Fusion Archive (funded by NSF, Cornell, and the Chemical Heritage

Foundation) with Thomas F. Gieryn and William Dougan and has directed it since 1989.

Alison Li is Asssistant Professor in the Depart- ment of Science Studies, Atkinson College, York University. Her current research is in the history of endocrine therapy. She is working on a biography of the biochemist J. B. Collip (1892-1965).

G. E. R. Lloyd is Professor of Ancient Philoso- phy and Science in the University of Cambridge and Master of Darwin College. His recent publications include Demystifying Mentalities (1990) and Methods and Problems in Greek Science (1991).

Charles H. Lohr was a professor at Fordham Uni- versity until 1972, when he moved to Universitat, Freiburg i. Br. From 1976 until 1990 he was Di- rector of the Raimundus-Lullus-Institut there. His publications include Latin Aristotle Commentaries (I. Traditio 1967-74; II. Florence 1988) and Rai- mundi Lulli Opera latina XI (1983).

Michael S. Mahoney teaches history of science and technology in the Program in History of Sci- ence at Princeton University. The author of a variety of studies on mathematics from antiquity through the seventeenth century, including The Mathematical Career of Pierre Fermat and articles on Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Barrow, he has turned recently to the history of computing and is completing a book on the formation of theoretical computer science as a mathematical discipline.

Otto M. Marx is a historian of psychiatry and a practicing psychiatrist.

Sara Joan Miles is Associate Professor of History and Biology at Eastern College, St. Davids, Penn- sylvania, where she is developing a Science, Tech- nology, and Values core. She has long been interested in women's issues and has served as cochair of the Women's Committee for HSS. Her own research has focused on feminism and Darwin.

George Molland is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ab- erdeen. His present scholarly work is much con- cerned with Roger Bacon, of whose Opus tertium he is preparing a new edition.

Albert E. Moyer is a professor of history at Vir- ginia Tech and an affiliate of the university's Cen- ter for the Study of Science in Society. Having spent two years as a Smithsonian Research associate, he is completing a critical biography of the physicist Joseph Henry with support from NEH and NSF.

Victor Navarro Brotons is Professor of History of Science at the University of Valencia. He was coeditor of the Diccionario hist6rico de la ciencia moderna en Espatna (1983) and recently published an anthology and Spanish translation of Galilean



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texts. His research is on physics and astronomy in early modem Spain in comparative perspective.

William R. Newman is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His books include The Summa perfec- tionis of pseudo-Geber (Leiden, 1991) and Geh- ennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (Harvard, 1994).

Margaret J. Osler teaches the history of science at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. She has recently published Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Maria Papathanassiou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Athens Univer- sity. Her doctorates were in the history of astronomy (Athens) and in Greek alchemy (Berlin). She lectures on the history of mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and science.

John J. Paul is Assistant Professor of Social Sci- ence at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He is currently researching the development of the modem medical profession in South India and working on a television documentary about Ida Scudder, an American medical missionary in India between 1900 and 1960.

Philip J. Pauly is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The author of Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology, he is completing a history of the place of biology in the development of the United States.

John Pickstone directs the Wellcome Unit and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester. He has published on the nineteenth-century biomedical sciences, on the social history of medicine in industrial England, and on ways of knowing in science, technology, and medicine.

Theodore M. Porter is Professor in the Depart- ment of History and the Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine at UCLA. He is author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986) and of Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995).

Lewis Pyenson is Professor of History at Univ- ersit6 de Montreal. He has recently completed a novel about the Second World War.

Herman Reichenbach is a science journalist with the Gruner & Jahr group of magazines in Ham- burg.

Terry Reynolds is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Most recently he edited The Engineer in America, and he has published several articles on the history of engineering education.

Graznya Rosinska of the Polish Academy of Sci- ences, Warsaw, and the Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, works on the history of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy. She is preparing an edition of Giocvanni Bianchini's Flores Almagesti (Italy, ca. 1450) and working on Giulio Cesare Lu- chini's astronomical summa (Bologna, ca. 1580).

Nicolaas A. Rupke is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Gottingen. His latest book is entitled Richard Owen: Victorian Natu- ralist (Yale University Press, 1994). He is currently working on a scientific biography of Alex- ander von Humboldt.

George Saliba, a professor at Columbia Univer- sity, is interested in the development of planetary theories in medieval Islam. He published an edition of the work of Mu'ayyad al-Din al-cUrdi (d. 1266); prepared for press an edition of Ibn al-Shatir's (d. 1375) work; and, most recently, published a survey, with a new historical intro- duction, of such planetary theories in A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories during the Golden Age of Islam (New York University Press, 1994).

Julio Samso is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Barcelona. His publications include Estudios sobre Abu Nasr Mansur b. CAll b. CIrdq (Barcelona, 1969); Tratado de astrologia atribuido a Enrique de Villena, with Pedro M. Catedra (Barcelona, 1983); Las ciencias de los antiguos en al-Andalus (Madrid, 1992); and Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain (Alder- shot, 1994).

Eric Schatzberg teaches history of modern science and technology in the Department of the His- tory of Science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He recently published "Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945," Tech- nology and Culture, 1994, 35.

Robert E. Schofield is Professor (emeritus) in the Program in History of Technology and Science, Department of History, Iowa State University. He has retired to Princeton, N.J., where he is editing a study of the life and work of Joseph Priestley, from 1733 to 1773. He expects to follow with the years 1773 to 1803 in overdue time.

Michael H. Shank was book review editor of this journal (1989-1993) and now chairs the Depart-



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ment of the History of Science at the University of Jay Tribby is an assistant professor of history at Wisconsin-Madison. the University of Florida.

Jon Sigurdson is Professor of Research Policy at Lund University in Sweden, with expertise in technology management. He has made extensive stays in China, Hong Kong, and Japan. His recent work considers the character of globalizing companies and global structures for research and development.

Nancy G. Siraisi is Distinguished Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is interested in the history of medieval and Renaissance medicine and related fields.

N. A. F. Smith is Reader Emeritus in History of Technology, Imperial College of Science, Tech- nology, and Medicine, London.

Mark Solms is Hon. Lecturer at the London Hos- pital Medical College and Hon. Research Fellow at University College, London. He is the editor and translator of A Moment of Transition: Two Neu- roscientific Works by Sigmund Freud and of the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Institute of Psycho-Anal- ysis and Karnac Books).

Philip Stehle is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. His principal research interest is quantum optics and the history of physics in the early twentieth century. He is the author of Order, Chaos, Order: The Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Nicholas Steneck is Professor of History, Director of the Historical Center for the Health Sciences, and Codirector of the Inteflex Program at the Uni- versity of Michigan. His current research interests focus on the origins and development of the modern research university and policy issues relating to research funding and integrity.

Mark Walker teaches history at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and is the author of Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atom Bomb (New York: Plenum Press, 1995).

C. Kenneth Waters is a member of the Philoso- phy Department and the Minnesota Center for Phi- losophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. He is writing a book on the molecularization of genetics. Recent publications include Julian Hux- ley: Biologist and Statesman of Science, coedited with Albert Van Helden (Rice University Press, 1992), and "Genes Made Molecular" (Philosophy of Science, 1994).

Elizabeth A. Williams is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Oklahoma State Uni- versity. She recently published The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philo- sophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850 (Cam- bridge, 1994) and is now working on a history of Montpellier vitalism.

Jan Wojcik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, is currently working on a book on the relationship between Robert Boyle's views on reason's role in the context of theology and in the context of natural philosophy.

Steven Yearley is Professor of Sociology at the Queen's University of Belfast. He works mainly on the sociology of environmentalism and on scientific constructions of the environment. His recent publications include The Green Case: A So- ciology of Environmental Arguments, Issues, and Politics (Routledge, 1992).

Richard Yeo teaches history and philosophy of science at Griffith University, Brisbane. He has published articles on the cultural history of science, and his Defining Science (Cambridge) appeared in 1993. He is now working on encyclo- pedias and science-as projected in his 1991 Isis article.



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