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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 327-329Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/231038 .
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
Committee on Isis of the History of Science Society
LEONARD G. WILSON, University of Minnesota
NATHAN SIVIN
University of Pennsylvania
RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN
State University of New York, Stony Brook
CAMILLE LIMOGES
University of Montreal
MICHAEL S. MAHONEY
Princeton University
Former Editors of Isis GEORGE SARTON, I. BERNARD COHEN, HARRY WOOLF
Advisory Editors E. J. AITON, Manchester Polytechnic, Didsbury Faculty HAROLD L. BURSTYN, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia MAURICE P. CROSLAND University of Kent LOREN R. GRAHAM Massachusetts Institute of Technology THOMAS L. HANKINS, University of Washington S. A. JAYAWARDENE, Science Museum, London DAVID C. LINDBERG, University of Wisconsin 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 includes 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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ROBERT E. KOHLER: Walter Fletcher, F. G. Hopkins, and the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry: A Case Study in the Patronage of Science 331
FRANK M. TURNER: The Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion: A Professional Dimension 356
PETER K. MACHAMER: Aristotle on Natural Place and Natural Motion 377
IAN CAMPBELL; DAVID HUTCHISON: A Question of Priorities: Forbes, Agassiz, and Their Disputes on Glacier Observations 388
WILLIAM A. WALLACE: Causes and Forces in Sixteenth-Century Physics 400
STEPHEN J. PYNE : Methodologiesfor Geology: G. K Gilbert and T. C. Chamberlin 413
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
Letters to the Editor from SIR GEORGE PICKERING, JAMES LONGRIGG, and 425 MICHAEL L. WALTON
NEWS 427
BOOK REVIEWS
Bruno brightly bruited 429 Giordano Bruno: The Ash Wednesday Supper-La Cena de le Ceneri, rev. by W. H. DONAHUE.
Prolific Peirce published 431 Charles Sanders Peirce: Complete Published Works, microfiche ed., with A Comprehensive Bibliography and Index of the Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce with a Bibliography, of Secondary Studies, and Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions to The Nation. Part One: 1869-1893, ed. by Kenneth Laine Ketner and James Edward Cook, rev. by CAROLYN EISELE.
Biographical Collections 434 Z. K. Sokolovskaia: 200 Nauchnykh Biografli: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik, rev. by LOREN R. GRAHAM.
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Encyclopedias and Compendia 435 Joachim Richter and Karlfried Grunder (eds.): Historisches W8rterbuch der Philosophie, 4 vols., and Gerhard Strube (ed.): Die Psychol6gie des 20. Jahrhunderts, 4 vols., rev. by JOSEF BROZEK.
Philosophy of Science 437 Joseph Agassi: Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology, rev. by MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO; Arthur W. Burks: Chance, Cause, Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Scientific Evidence, rev. by DAVID HEMMENDINGER; Mary Hesse: The Structure of Scientific Inference, rev. by NORETTA KOERTGE.
Social Relations of Science 439 Ina Spiegel-Rosing and Derek de Solla Price (eds.): Science, Technology and Society, rev. by JOSHUA MENKES and EVAN VLACHOS.
Physical Sciences 441 David H. Clark and F. Richard Stephenson: The Historical Supernovae, rev. by RICHARD BERENDZEN; 0. Neugebauer: A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, rev, by ASGER AABOE.
Earth Sciences 445 Peter J. Bowler: Fossils and Progress. Paleontology and the Idea of Progressive Evolution in the Nineteenth Century, and D. H. Hall: History of the Earth Sciences during the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, with Special Emphasis on the Physical Geosciences, rev. by JOHN LYON.
Biological Sciences 446 J. R. Busvine: Insects, Hygiene, and History, rev. by JEAN THEODORIDiS; Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists, including Plant Collectors and Botanical Artists, rev. by FRANK N. EGERTON III; Joseph Hutchinson, et al.: The Early History of Agriculture, rev. by AARON J. IHDE; Franklin H. Portugal and Jack S. Cohen: A Century of DNA: A History of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance, rev. by PNINA ABIR- AM.
Medicine and Medical Sciences 451 Julius H. Comroe, Jr.: Retrospectroscope: Insights into Medical Discovery, rev. by CHESTER R. BURNS; Saul Jarcho (ed.): Essays on the History of Medicine, Selectedfrom the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, rev. by RUSSELL C. MAULITZ.
Technology 452 Henry J. Cowan: The Masterbuilders: A History of Structural and Environmental Designfrom Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century, rev. by JOHN W. ABRAMS; A. Rupert Hall and Norman Smith (eds.): History of Technology. First Annual Volume, 1976, rev. by ARTHUR L. NORBERG.
Pseudo-Sciences 454 Johannes Fabricius: Alchemy: The Medieval Alchemists and Their Royal Art, rev. by HEINRICH SCHIPPERGES.
Classical Antiquity 455 Gert Preiser: Allgemeine Krankheitsbezeichnungen im Corpus Hippocraticum. Gebrauch und Bedeutung von Nousos und Nosema, rev. by PAUL POTTER.
Middle Ages 455 Marjorie Nice Boyer: Medieval French Bridges, A History, rev. by ALBERT C. LEIGHTON; Jean Gimpel: The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages, rev. by BARBARA M. KREUTZ.
Islamic Cultures 457 Seyyed Hossein Nasr (comp.); An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science, Vol. I, rev. by ROBERT E. HALL.
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Renaissance 461 Folie et dcraison a la Renaissance, rev. by MARY ELLEN BOWDEN.
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 462 Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli, Band III, rev. by D. J. STRUIK; Elias Trabluse: Ciencia y religi6n en el siglo XVII, rev. by MICHAEL S. MAHONEY.
Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries 465 Theodore Dwight Bozeman: Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought, rev. by RONALD L. NUMBERS; Andre' Chappert: Etienne Louis Malus (1775-1812) et la theorie corpusculaire de la lumiere, rev. by ALAN E.
SHAPIRO; Yvette Conry: Correspondance entre Charles Darwin et Gaston de Saporta, rev. by CAMILLE LIMOGES; Conrad Grau: Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften in der Zeit des Imperialismus, Teil I: Von den neunziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Grossen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution, rev. by ERICH R. PAUL; R. J. Morris: Cholera 1832: The Social Response to an Epidemic, rev. by DONALD G. BATES; Nancy Stepan: Beginnings of Brazilian Science. Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890-1920, rev. by SIMAO
MATHIAS.
Contemporary Sciences 473 William Sims Bainbridge: The Spaceflight Revolution: A Sociological Study, rev. by ROBERT E. FILNER; Harry F. Dowling: Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century, rev. by SHELDON J. KOPPERL; Ren6 J. Dubos: The Professor, the Institute, and DNA. Oswald T. Avery, His Life and Scientific Achievements, rev. by ROBERT OLBY; Jagdish Mehra: The Solvay Conferences on Physics: Aspects of the Development of Physics since 1911, rev. by ERNAN MC MULLIN.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 478
Cover: From Giordano Bruno, De monade (Frankfurt, 1591). Courtesy Dibner Library. (See p. 429.)
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