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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Mar., 1964), pp. 1-3Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/227749 .
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THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY * BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21218
Editorial Committee
CARL BOYER Brooklyn College
MARSHALL CLAGETr University of Wisconsin
I. E. DRABKIN City College, New York
OwsEI TEMKIN Johns Hopkins University
HARRY WOOLF, Chairman Johns Hopkins University
CONWAY ZIRKLE University of Pennsylvania
Board of Editorial Consultants
LUDWIG EDELSTEIN, The Rockefeller Institute, Greek Science WILLIAM H. STAHL, Brooklyn College, Latin Science LYNN THORNDIKE, Columbia University, Middle Ages GIORCIO DE SANTILLANA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Renaissance ALEXANDRE KOYRA, Institute for Advanced Study and the Sorbonne, 17th Century I. BERNARD COHEN, Harvard University, 18th Century CHARLES C. GILLISPIE, Princeton University, 19th Century
WILLY HARTNER, Goethe Universitat (Frankfurt), China and Islam LoREN EISELEY, University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology BENTLEY GLAss, Johns Hopkins University, Biology HENRY GUERLAc, Cornell University, Chemistry J. B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, University of California (San Francisco), Medicine
GLENN SONNEDECKER, University of Wisconsin, Pharmacy THOMAS KUHN, University of California (Berkeley), Physics LYNN WHITE, University of California (Los Angeles), Technology ERNEST NAGEL, Columbia University, Philosophy of Science D. C. ALLEN, Johns Hopkins University, Science and Literature
PUBLICATION OFFICE: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218. ISIS, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is published quarterly by the Johns Hopkins Press for the History of Science Society. Annual membership in the History of Science Society, which includes a subscription to ISIS, costs $10.00; U. S. students $5.00. (To compensate for inter- national postage differentials, remit $10.25 for Canadian membership; $10.50 for all other countries.) The price of a single issue is $3.00. Claims for replacement of missing numbers must be received within 3 months (6 months in the case of foreign subscriptions) following publication of the number. Inquiries concerning editorial matters should be addressed to Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, Editor, ISIS, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560; inquiries concerning all business matters should be addressed to the Periodicals Department, ISIS, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.
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The History of Science Society wishes to announce that Dr. Robert P. Multhauf has been appointed as the new editor of Isis, effective immediately. All editorial correspondence and associated materials should be addressed to him at the Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560.
THE HENRY SCHUMAN PRIZE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The annual award of $250.00 established by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schuman of New York City in 1955 will be continued by Mrs. Schuman in memory of her husband, Henry Schuman (1899- 1962). The award is given for an orginal prize essay in the history of science and its cultural influences. The competition 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 five thousand words in length, exclusive of footnotes, and thor- oughly documented. It is hoped that the prize-winning essay will be suitable for publication in Isis.
It is the wish of the donor that "history of science and its cultural influences" should be broadly interpreted. The papers may deal with the ideas and accomplishments of scientists in the past; they may trace the evolution of particular scientific con- cepts; 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 de- velopments upon society in the realms of philosophy, religion, social thought, art, and literature, economic progress, etc. Essays dealing with medical subjects are not acceptable, although papers dealing with relations between medicine and the natural sciences will be welcomed.
Papers submitted for the competition should be sent to the Chairman of the Prize Committee, Professor L. Pearce Williams, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Inquiries about the competition may also be addressed to Pro- fessor Williams. To be eligible for consideration papers (not more than one from each competitor) must be received on or before the first of August 1964. The announcement of the prize- winning essay will be made at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society.
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MAIN ARTICLES BERNARD S. FINN: Laplace and the Speed of Sound 7 LOREN R. GRAHAM: A Soviet Marxist View of Structural Chemistry:
The Theory of Resonance Controversy 20 CHARLES SUSSKIND: Observations of Electromagnetic-Wave Radiation
Before Hertz 32
ALLEN G. DEBUS: The Paracelsian Aerial Niter 43
DOCUMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS ROY RAUSCHENBERG: A Letter of Sir Joseph Banks Describing the Life of
Daniel Solander 62
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE 68 CARL B. BOYER: Clairatut le Cadet and a Theoremt of Thdbit ibn Qurra- RICHARD C. DALES:
The Authorship of the Summa in Physica Attributted to Robert Grosseteste-MICHAEL KELLY: Robert Darwin's Splendid Character- RUFUS SUIER: Leonardo Ximnenes and the Gnonon at the Cathedral of Florence - josif BABINI: Valentin Balbin y la primnera revista Matemnatica Argentina- PAUL G. ROOFE: Th e Herrick Papers, an Unusual Scientific Archive - E. SCOTT BARR: Biographical Material in the Philosophical Magazine to 1900 -Reply to (Query No. 155
ISIS, an International Review devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences, is the official quarterly journal of the History of Science Society, Inc. The Editorial Committee of ISIS is composed of Carl Boyer (Brooklyn College), Marshall Clagett (University of Wis- consin), I. E. Drabkin (City College, New York), Owsei Temkin (The Johns Hopkins University), Harry Woolf (The Johns Hopkins University; Editor and Chairman), and Conway Zirkle (Uni- versity of Pennsylvania).
ISIS is published quarterly by the History of Science Society. Second-class postage paid at Baltimore, Maryland. Copyright 1964 by the History of Science Society, Inc.
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NEWS OF THE PROFESSION 92 The History of Science Society - American Council of Learned Societies - New Appoint- ments - American Chemical Society - Conference on the Bibliography of Natural History - Woods Hole Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science - International Academy of the History of Medicine - State Jewish Museum, Prague - Richard Prentice Ettinger Program for Creative Writing - History of Microbiology Conference - Prix Binoux -
New Department at The Johns Hopkins University
BOOK REVIEWS
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Joseph Agassi: Towards an Historiography of Science. Reviewed by CHARLES C. GILLISPIE. 97 J. Folta; Z. Horsky; L. Nov' (ed.); I. Seidlerova; J. Smolka; M. Teich: History of Exact Sciences in Bohemian Lands Up to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Reviewed by KAREL HUJER. 99 R. J. Forbes; E. J. Dijksterhuis: A History of Science and Technology. Vol. I: Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century. Vol. II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Reviewed by J. MORTON BRIGGS, JR. 101
Stephen Toulmin; June Goodfield: The Architecture of Matter. Reviewed by L. PEARCE WILLIAMS. 102
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND METHODS OF SCIENCE
G. Schlesinger: Method in the Physical Sciences. Reviewed by M. F. PARTRIDGE. 104
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
J. R. Partington: A History of Chemistry. Vol. III. Reviewed by HENRY M. LEICESTER. 106
MEDICINE AND THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
Catalogue of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. I. Books Printed Before 1641. Reviewed by WALTER PAGEL. 107 Leslie G. Matthews. History of Pharmacy in Britain. Reviewed by DAVID L. COWEN. 109
SCIENCE AND LEARNING IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Giorgio de Santillana. The Origins of Scientific Thought from Anaximander to Proclus, 600 B. C.-500 A. D. Reviewed by EDWARD GRANT. 110
William H. Stahl: Roman Science. Origins, Development, and Influence to the Later Middle Ages. Reviewed by S. SAMBURSKY.
MIDDLE AGES
John Fitchen: The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection. Reviewed by CARL W. CONDIT. 113
Wanda Wolska. La Topographie Chredtienne de Cosmas Indicopleustes. Thedologie et science au VIe siecle. Reviewed by PAUL J. ALEXANDER. 115
SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
[Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer.] The Lying Stones of Dr. Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer being his " Lithographiae Wirceburgensis." Reviewed by M. J. S. RUDWICK. 117 Aharon Lichtenstein. Henry More. The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Platonist. Reviewed by JACKSON I. COPE. 118 Frank E. Manuel. Isaac Newton, Historian. Reviewed by WILLIAM P. D. WIGHTMAN. 119 Jacques Roger. Les Sciences de la vie dans la pensee franpais du XVII1e siecle. La gene'ra- tion des animaux de Descartes a l'Encyclopedie. Reviewed by JANE OPPENHEIMER. 121
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