Front Matter Source: Isis, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 459-465 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/233020 . Accessed: 08/05/2014 20:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The University of Chicago Press and The History of Science Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Isis. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Thu, 8 May 2014 20:19:36 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 459-465Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/233020 .
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ROBERT K. MERTON: George Sarton: Episodic Recollections by an Unruly Apprentice 470
THOMAS F. GLICK: George Sarton and the Spanish Arabists 487
JEFFREY A. JOHNSON: Academic Chemistry in Imperial Germany 500
ROBERT W. RYDELL: The Fan Dance of Science: American World's Fairs in the Great Depression 525
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
A. MARK SMITH: Galileo's Proof for the Earth's Motion from the Movement of Sunspots 543
PAUL R. JOSEPHSON: Soviet Historians and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 551
CHRISTINE BLONDEL: Ampe're and the Programming of Research; Reply by L. PEARCE WILLIAMS 559
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION
International Symposia: Colloque He'le'ne Metzger (Paris); Overlooking Asia (Istanbul); Spanish HS Society Congress (San Sebastian) 563
Eloges: WILLIAM A. WALLACE: James Athanasius Weisheipl, O.P., 1923-1984; EDUARDO L. ORTIZ; LEWIS PYENSON: Jose Babini, 1897- 1984 566
ESSAY REVIEWS
JAMES R. MOORE on A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882 and The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume I: 1821-1836, both edited by FREDERICK BURKHARDT;
SYDNEY SMITH; DAVID KOHN; and WILLIAM MONTGOMERY; NATHAN
REINGOLD on Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences: Essays in Honor of I. Bernard Cohen, edited by EVERETT MENDELSOHN;
CYRIL STANLEY SMITH on NORMA E. EMERTON'S The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form; and WILLIAM COLEMAN on ROBERT A.
NYE's Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline 570
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History of Science 591 Derek Gjertsen: The Classics of Science: A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works, rev. by JAMES E. McCLEILLAN; The Atomn, Thle Expanding Universe, and Evo- lution, all written and photographed by Bill Stonebarger; music by Michael Stone- barger, rev. by MICHAEL GREGORY.
Historiography 593 Dean K. Simonton: Genius, Creativity and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries, rev. by ROBERT M. GALATZER-LEVY.
Bibliographical Tools 594 James W. Cortada (comp.): An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Data Pro- cessing, rev. by MICHAEL S. MAHONEY; Joseph W. Dauben: The Histoiy of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography, rev. by CRAIG G. FRASER; A. S. G. Edwards (ed.): Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres, rev. by GEORGE OVITT, JR.; R. W. Home: The Histoiy of Classical Physics: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, rev. by P. M. HARMAN; Donald V. Osier; Robert H. Wozniak: A Century of Serial Publications in Psychology, 1850-1950: An International Bibliography, rev. by KURT DANZIGER; Burghard Weiss: Wie finde ich Literatur zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik?, rev. by ELLEN B. WELLS.
Scientific Institutions 598 Lester S. King: American Medicine Comes of Age 1840-1920: Essays to Commemorate the Founding of The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 14, 1883, rev. by RONALD L. NUMBERS; Chris Makepeace: Science and Technology in Manchester: Two Hundred Years of the Lit. and Phil., rev. by DAVID PHILIP MILLER; Giuliano Pan- caldi (ed.): I Congressi degli Scienziati Italiani nell'eta del positivismo, rev. by BARBARA J. REEVES; Prudence Leith-Ross: The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen, Arthur MacGregor (ed.): Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683; with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections, Michael Hunter (comp.): Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692: A Tercentenary Exhibition, and A. V. Simcock: The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science, 1683-1983, rev. by MOR- DECHAI FEINGOLD.
Social Relations of Science 602 Harvey A. Averch: A Strategic Analysis of Science and Technology Policy, rev. by DAVID W. NOBLE; James Robert Brown (ed.): Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, rev. by BERNARD BARBER; Lewis Coser: Refugee Scholars in America: Their Im- pact and Their Experiences, rev. by PAUL K. HOCH; Stanley Goldberg: Understanding Relativity: Origin and Impact of a Scientific Revolution, rev. by JUDITH R. GOODSTEIN; Howard P. Segal: Technological Utopianism in American Culture, rev. by ALEX RO- LAND; Rudolf Stichweh: Zur Entstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen: Physik in Deutschland, 1740-1890, rev. by KATHRYN OLESKO.
Humanistic Relations of Science 608 Charles van Ravenswaay: Drawn from Nature: The Botanical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons, rev. by KAREN REEDS; William Schupbach: The Paradox of Rembr-andt's Anatomy of Dr. Tulp, rev. by JEROME J. BYLEBYL.
Physical Sciences 610 Guy Hartcup; T. E. Allibone: Cockroft and the Atom, rev. by DAVID GOODING; Brian McCusker: The Quest for Quarks, rev. by ANDY PICKERING; Ludwig Rank: Die Theorie des Segelns in ihrer Entwicklung: Geschichte eines Problems der nautischen Mechanik, rev. by RICHARD W. UNGER; William R. Shea (ed.): Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics, rev. by LAURIE M. BROWN; Nicholas J. Wade (ed.): Brewster and Wheatstone on Vision, rev. by GEOFFREY CANTOR.
Earth Sciences 614 E. Dudich (ed.): Contributions to the Histoty of Geological Mapping, rev. by GORDON L. HERRIES DAVIES; Wolf von Engelhardt; Jorg Zimmermann: Theorie der Geowissen- schaft, rev. by ALLAN JANIK; Franz Kirchheimer: Die Einfiihrung des Naturselbst- druckes und der Photographie in die erdwissenschaftliche Dokumentation, rev. by MOTT T. GREENE.
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Biological Sciences 617 Lawrence Busch; William B. Lacy: Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research, rev. by MARGARET W. ROSSITER; Isabel Shipley Cunningham: Frank N. Meyer: Plant Hunter in Asia, rev. by C. RITCHIE BELL.
Social Sciences 619 Toby E. Huff: Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences, rev. by MARTIN ALBROW; George W. Stocking, Jr. (ed.): Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology, rev. by J. D. Y. PEEL.
Medicine 620 William Ray Arney; Bernard J. Bergen: Medicine and the Management of Living: Taming the Last Great Beast, rev. by GERT H. BRIEGER; John C. Burnham: Jelliffe: American Psychoanalyst and Physician, and His Correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, ed. by William McGuire, rev. by CHARLES ROSENBERG; John E. Lesch: Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology, 1790- 1855, rev. by CAROLINE HANNAWAY; Giambattista Morgagni: The Clinical Consultations of Giambattista Morgagni: The Edition of Enrico Benassi (1935), trans. and ed. by Saul Jarcho, rev. by TOBY GELFAND.
Technology 624 Mary Biggs (ed.): Publishers and Librarians: A Foundation for Dialogue, rev. by JANE MORLEY; Robert Friedel: Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Selling of Celluloid, rev. by W. DAVID LEWIS; Margaret Latimer; Brooke Hindle; Melvin Kranzberg (eds.): Bridge to the Future: A Centennial Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge, rev. by EDA FOWLKS KRANAKIS.
Near Eastern and Classical Antiquity 627 Helmuth Gericke: Mathematik in Antike und Orient, rev. by J. L. BERGGREN; Frede- rique von Kanel: Les pretres-oudb de Sekhmet et les conjurateurs de Serket, rev. by MARSHALL CLAGETT; John Peter Oleson: Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-Lifting Devices: The History of a Technology, rev. by J. G. LANDELS.
Middle Ages 630 Jole Agrimi (ed.): Le "Quaestiones de sensu" attribuite a Oresme e Alberto de Sas- sonia, rev. by BERT HANSEN; "Livre des simples medecines," Codex Bruxellensis IV 1024: A 15th-century French Herbal, ed. by Carmelia Opsomer, trans. by Enid Roberts and William T. Stearn, rev. by EMILIE PATTON DELUCA.
Islamic Cultures 632 Paul Kunitzsch: Uber eine anwCa-Tradition mit bisher unbekannten Sternnamen, rev. by DANIEL MARTIN VARISCO; Mahmoud M. Sadek: The Arabic Materia Medica of Dios- corides, rev. by JOHN M. RIDDLE.
Far East 634 Joseph Needham: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume VI: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 2: Agriculture, by Francesca Bray, rev. by JOHN S. MAJOR.
Renaissance 635 Kenneth D. Keele: Leonardo da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man, rev. by SA- BETAI UNGURU; Jer6nimo Munioz: Libro del nuevo cometa; Littera ad Bartholomaeum Reisacherum; Summa del prognostico del cometa, ed. by Victor Navarro Brot6ns, trans. by Elizabeth Ladd, rev. by ROBERT A. HATCH; Tiziana Pesenti: Professori e prom- otori di medicina nello Studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico, rev. by RICHARD PALMER; Charles B. Schmitt: John Case and Aristotelianism in Re- naissance England, rev. by HUGH ORMSBY-LENNON.
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 639 James E. Force: William Whiston: Honest Newtonian, rev. by LYNN S. JOY; Paolo Gal- luzzi (ed.): Novita celesti e crisi del sapere: Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi galileiani, rev. by MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO; Johannes Kepler: Gesammelte Werke, Volume XI, Part 1: Ephemerides novae motuum coelestiumn, ed. by Volker Bialas, rev.
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by OWEN GINGERICH; Dorothy A. Stansfield: Thomas Beddoes, M.D., 1760-1808: Chemist, Physician, Democrat, rev. by A. V. SIMCOCK; William A. Wallace: Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science, rev. by WIN- IFRED LOVELL WISAN.
Nineteenth Century 643 Robert F. Bud; Gerrylynn K. Roberts: Science Versus Practice: Chemistry in Victo- rian Britain, rev. by A. J. ROCKE; James H. Cassedy: American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860, rev. by VICTOR L. HILTS; Ann Hibner Koblitz: A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia; Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary, rev. by JUDITH V. GRA- BINER; Donald E. Osterbrock: James E. Keeler, Pioneer American Astrophysicist, and the Early Development of American Astrophysics, rev. by STEPHEN G. BRUSH.
Twentieth Century 648
Edward Clinton Ezell; Linda Neuman Ezell: On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978, rev. by RICHARD F. HIRSH; George Mazuzan; J. Samuel Walker: Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1962, rev. by RICHARD H. K. VIETOR.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 650
INDEX TO VOLUME 76 655
Cover: Diagram of the "contours of the correspondence" of Charles Darwin for 1852-1882, showing the annual quantities of those surviving letters to and from Darwin that have been dated to within a year, superimposed on Darwin himself. For the full graph, 1821-1882, see page 575. Picture of Darwin courtesy the Center for History of Chemistry.
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The History of Science Society announces the sponsorship, through the generosity of Jacob Zeitlin and Josephine Ver Brugge of Los Angeles, of its prize to encourage the publication in Isis of original research of the highest standard. Consisting of $250 and a certificate, this prize is given annually, on the recommendation of the Committee on Isis, to the author of the best article in Isis in three years prior to the award.
Prize winners: 1979 Robert Nye, "Heredity or Milieu: The Foundations of European
Criminological Theory," Isis, 1976, 67:335-355 1980 Thomas L. Hankins, "Triplets and Triads: Sir William Rowan Ham-
ilton on the Metaphysics of Mathematics," Isis, 1977, 68:175-193 1981 Linda E. Voigts, "Anglo-Saxon Plant Remedies and the Anglo-
Saxons," Isis, 1979, 70:250-268 1982 Timothy Lenoir, "Kant, Blumenbach, and Vital Materialism in
German Biology," Isis, 1980, 71:77-108. 1983 Alexander Vucinich, "Soviet Physicists and Philosophers in the
1930s: Dynamics of a Conflict," Isis, 1980, 71:236-250. 1984 James Secord, "Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding
of Pigeons," Isis, 1981, 72:163-186. 1985 Keith Hutchison, "What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Sci-
entific Revolution?" Isis, 1982, 73:233-253.
The next award will take place in October 1986, and articles published in Isis between March 1983 and Decem'ber 1985, inclusive, will be eligible.
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