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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 1-3Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/230369 .
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
Committee on Isis of the History of Science Society
ROBERT E. KOHLER, JR., University of Pennsylvania
NATHAN SIVIN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LEONARD G. WILSON
University of Minnesota
RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN
State University of New York, Stony Brook
CAMILLE LIMOGES
University of Montreal
Former Editors of Isis GEORGE SARTON, I. BERNARD COHEN, HARRY WOOLF
Advisory Editors E. J. AITON, Didsbury College of Education, Manchester HAROLD L. BURSTYN, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia MAURICE P. CROSLAND, University of Kent LOREN R. GRAHAM, Columbia University THOMAS L. HANKINS, University of Washington AARON J. IHDE, University of Wisconsin S. A. JAYAWARDENE, Science Museum, London HANS KANGRO, Universitit Hamburg DAVID C. LINDBERG, University of Wusconsin OrrO M. MARX, Newton, Massachusetts ERNAN MCMULLIN, University of Notre Dame CHARLES ROSENBERG, University of Pennsylvania A. I. SABRA, Harvard University CECIL J. SCHNEER, University of New Hampshire G. J. TOOMER, Brown University
PUBLICATIONS OFFICE: Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 12th St. and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560. Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is published in March, May, June, September, and December by the History of Science Society; the May issue is the annual Critical Bibliography. Annual membership in the History of Science Society, which indudes a subscription to Isis, costs $18.00 for individual subscribers ($9.00 for students), and $21.00 for institutional subscriptions. The price of a current single issue is $4.00, a single Critical Bibliography, $7.00; back issues a year or more old add $1.00 each; plus postage ($. 10 per copy or $.25 per volume; foreign postage $.25 per copy or $.50 per volume). Inquiries concerning editorial matters should be addressed to Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, Editor, Isis, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560; inquiries concerning membership and subscriptions should be addressed to Isis Business Office, Science History Publications, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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DANIEL J. KEVLES: The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science-The Endless Frontier 5
NANCY G. SIRAISI: Taddeo Alderotti and Bartolomeo da Varignana on the Nature of Medical Learning 27
NEAL C. GILLESPIE: The Duke of Argyll, Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Art of Scientific Controversy 40
DESMOND M. CLARKE: The Impact Rules of Descartes' Physics 55
PETER BUCK: Seventeenth-Century Political Arithmetic: Civil Strife and Vital Statistics 67
FREDERIC R. ROSS: Phillip Gosse's Omphalos, Edmund Gosse's Father and Son, and Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection 85
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
RONALD NAYLOR: Galileo's Need for Precision: The "Point" of the Fourth Day Pendulum Experiment 97
ADIN STEINSALTZ: The Uses and the Refining of Petroleum as Mentioned in the Talmud 104
B. J. T. DOBBS: Newton Manuscripts at the Smithsonian Institution 105
STILLMAN DRAKE: Galileo on Sense Experience and Foundations of Physics 108
MICHAEL J. CROWE: Who Was H. J. Mozans? 111
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 1976 112
NEWS 114
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From his claw the Greene Lyon . . . 116 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs: The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy, or "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon," rev. by DEREK T. WHITESIDE.
History of Science 121 Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention and James M. Jay: Negroes in Science: Natural Science Doctorates, 1876-1969, rev. by MARGARET W. ROSSITER.
Bibliographical Tools 122 Union Catalogue of Scientific Libraries in the University of Cambridge. Scientific Conference Proceedings 1644-1972, rev. by ROBERT H. KARGON.
Scientific Institutions 123 Jozsef Antall (ed.): Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts, rev. by AUDREY B. DAVIS.
Mathematics 124 William J. Adams: The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem, rev. by OSCAR
B. SHEYNIN.
Physical Sciences 124 Ellen G. Gartrell (comp.): Electricity, Magnetism and Animal Magnetism. A Checklist of Printed Sources, 1600-1850, rev. by J. L. HEILBRON.
Earth Sciences 125 Albert V. Carozzi (ed.): Sedimentary Rocks: Concepts and History, rev. by KENNETH
L. TAYLOR; Bernice Judd: Voyages to Hawaii before 1860, rev. by JOSEPH EWAN.
Biological Sciences 126 Rejane Bernier: Aux sources de la biologie. Tome 1: Les vingt premiers siecles. La classification, rev. by ROLF SATTLER.
Sciences of Man 127 David Rapaport: The History of the Concept of Association of Ideas, rev. by SHELDON
ROTHBLATT; Max Schur: Freud: Living and Dying, rev. by JOHN C. BURNHAM; Malgorzata Terlecka (ed.): Historia Etnografii Polskiej, rev. by KONSTANTIN SYMMONS-SYMONOLEWICZ;
Leonard Zusne: Names in the History of Psychology: A Biographical Sourcebook, rev. by JOSEF BROZEK.
Medical Sciences 131 Chauncey Leake: An Historical Account of Pharmacology to the Twentieth Century, rev. by JOHN PARASCANDOLA; John D. Thompson; Grace Goldin: The Hospital: A Social and Architectural History, rev. by LOUIS S. GREENBAUM.
Technology 134 Otto Mayr (ed.): Philosophers and Machines, rev. by JAMES E. BRITTAIN; Arnold Pacey: The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology, rev. by ARTHEUR L. NORBERG.
Pseudo-Sciences 135 Charles Ponce: The Game of Wizards: Psyche, Science and Symbol in the Occult, rev. by GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN.
Ancillary Disciplines 136 Dell Hymes (ed.): Studies in the History of Linguistics: Traditions and Paradigms, rev. by MICHAEL M. SOKAL.
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Prehistory 137 Alexander Marshack: The Roots of Civilization. The Cognitive Beginnings of Man's First Art, Symbol, and Notation, rev. by R. J. GILLINGS.
Classical Antiquity 139 Olaf Pedersen: A Survey of the Almagest, rev. by VICTOR E. THOREN; E. D. Phillips: Aspects of Greek Medicine, rev. by EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH; Derek de Solla Price: Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism-A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C., rev. by J. D. NORI'H.
Middle Ages 143 Edward Grant (ed.): A Source Book in Medieval Science, rev. by CLAUDIA KREN; Ernest A. Moody: Studies in MWedieval Philosophy, Science, and Logic. Collected Papers, 1933-1969, rev. by DIERDRE LA PORTE; Nancy G. Siraisi: Arts and Sciences at Padua. The Studium of Padua Before 1350, rev. by WILLIAM A. WALLACE.
Islamic Cultures 147 Ibn al-Razziaz al-Jazari: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, rev. by T1HORKILD SCHI0LER; al-Uqlidisi: Al-Fusuil fil-Hisaib al-Hindi, ed. by A. S. Saidan, rev. by ADEL ANBOUBA.
Renaissance & Reformation 150 Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.: The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective, rev. by DAVID C. IlINDBERG; Owen Hannaway: The Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry, rev. by MARIE BOAS HALL.
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 153 Christopher Hill: Change and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century England, rev. by P. H.
NIDDITCH; Iudif' Khaimovna Kopelevich: Vozniknovenie nauchnykh akademii (seredina XVII-seredina XVIII v.), rev. by DAVID M. GRIFFITHS; Marisa Luisa Righini Bonelli; William R. Shea (eds.): Reason, Experiment, and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution, rev. by MELVYN KEINER; Walter Schatzberg: Scientific Thames in the Popular Literature a?ld the Poetry of the German Enlightenment, 1 720-i 760, rev. by JAMES L. LARSON.
Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries 158 Lawrence Badash: Rutherford Correspondence Catalog, rev. by THADDEUS J. -1-RENN;
Vernon K. Dibble: The Legacy of Albion Small, rev. by DOROTHY ROSS; 0. Bertrand Ramsay: Van't Hoff-Le Bel Centennial, rev. by GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN; Joseph Schiller; Tetty Schiller: Henri Dutrochet (Henri du Trochet 1776-1847). Le materialism mecaniste et la physiologie ginerale, rev. by PALL LAWRENCE FARBER; Bruce Sinclair: Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics: A History of the Franklin Inrstitute, 1824-1865, rev. by WINTON
U. SOLBERG; Thaddeus J. Trenn (ed.): Radioactivity and Atomic Theory, rev. by H. W.
KIRBY.
Contemporary Sciences 165 George L. Trigg: Landmark Experiments in Twentieth Century Physics, rev. by STEPHEN
G. BRUSH; Herbert York: The Advisors. Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb, rev. by LAWRENCE BADASH.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 168
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS 172
Cover: A page in Newton's handwriting from "Vegetation of metals," a draft in English of an incomplete treatise of about 4,500 words. Burndy MS 16, Smithsonian Institution, Dibner Library (see below, p. 105).
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