ISSN 0739-4934 Newsletter VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1 January 2006 SOCIETY WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Endowing Our Bibliographies: Campaign to Enter Phase II By s previous Newsletters have reported, late in hen Lenin posed that ques- 2003 the National Endowment for the tion a little over a century A W Humanities awarded one of its highly coveted Help us complete ago, he was worried about the Challenge Grants to the History of Science Marxist transformation of our Bibliographer Society. This grant established an HSS Russian Social Democracy. Bibliographer’s Fund, designed as an endow- Luckily, the concerns that face ment to secure the future of the Current me as incoming President of the Bibliography and of the Society’s continuing HSS are on a more modest scale. They are, however, the contributions to the on-line HSTM Research kind of challenges that can only be met collectively, Database. In making this award, NEH chal- hence I appeal to the solidarity of the membership in lenged the Society to match its offer (of up to two areas that might be labeled “theory” and “praxis.” $125,000) on a 4-to-1 basis so that, for HSS to Idealism: Contribute Your Ideas to Our receive the grant’s full amount, it has to raise Planning for the Future $500,000 in matching funds. As of the end of Only $375,000 What does HSS do now that it could be doing better? November 2005, over 200 members and friends to go! What do we not do that we would like to be doing? What of the Society, and several family foundations, do we do that has become useless or counterproductive? have contributed ca. $125,000 toward this The Executive Committee is assembling an ad hoc com- match. Although income from these donations mittee, under the leadership of Bruce Hunt, to open up (and from what NEH has paid of its grant to these and other questions. The result is not likely to resem- date) is already providing partial support for ble the Russian Revolution, but we hope that it will give our Bibliographer, HSS must still raise an addi- rise to specific ideas and a renewed sense of direction. The tional $375,000 by NEH’s deadline of July 2008 if it is to with the Society 40 or 50 years ago that had long results of this process will be passed on to Council and receive the full benefit of the award. since faded, and they have welcomed the chance to committees for discussion and (when they meet with favor, Our successes to date derive from the efforts of catch up with the Society’s current programs. energy, and resources) for implementation. Please help. (Continued on page 3) Send your thoughts to Bruce Hunt (bjhunt@ the members of the Council-appointed HSS Dev- mail.utexas.edu) or to me ([email protected]) elopment Committee (whom we acknowledge by and they will be incorporated into the conversation. name at the end of this note) and of the Society’s Contents Materialism: Contribute Your Dollars to Executive Committee. We all owe these individuals News and Inquiries 3 Endow the HSS Bibliographer much for their work on behalf of all of us. Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes 7 The production of the Current Bibliography and its To continue this campaign, the Society is about Jobs 9 incorporation into the on-line database “History of Science to launch Phase II of its effort to fully endow the Awards, Honors, and Appointments 9 Technology and ” are among the most ambitious HSS Bibliographer’s Fund. In doing so, it will both Workspace: Jamil Ragep 10 services HSS offers to its members. Through our NEH grant, continue and expand previous efforts that have met An Appropriate Life: A. I. Sabra 12 we hope to endow the position of Society Bibliographer, with some success. Notes from the Inside: Minneapolis 2005 14 both to insure its future and to free up funds to pursue other For example, HSS officers and Development Call for Papers 15 services and programs (see “Idealism” above). To receive Committee members continue to meet with potential Future Meetings 18 the full $125,000 offered by the NEH, we must raise match- major donors, including some who have had long- Dissertations 19 ing funds on a strict timetable. Please help. standing relationships with the Society, and others Isis Books Received 20 NEH Donors 23 You may donate online by going to http://hssonline.org. who are just now learning about the field, the Society, and the bibliographies. Several even had ties Who has Won the Reingold Prize? 24 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006

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at Bielefeld University beginning with the winter semester 2005/2006. This program is offered at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) and is carried out in cooperation with the Department of History, Philosophy and Theology and the Department of Sociology of Bielefeld University. http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/iwt/studi- engaenge/hpss/.

Help Clemson’s Developing Program in History of Science and Technology Clemson University went through a long struggle to develop revised general education requirements and the History of Science and Technology department now needs to move 3,000 students a year through courses that meet STS requirements. For more information on the developing STS program at Clemson, please see http://www.clem- son.edu/sts. Professor Pam Mack would be interested in any syllabi, case studies, or other material about teaching STS in general education courses. http://people.clem- 2005 HSS Honorees son.edu/~pammack/.

From left to right: Duncan Porter (accepting a special cita- Update of Dictionary of Scientific Biography tion on behalf of Frederick Burkhardt), William R. Newman The new DSB has added recent scientists; now it tackles updating old articles. Charles (Pfizer Prize), (distinguished lecture), Alan Scribner’s Sons plans to publish eight new volumes of the Dictionary of Scientific M. Kraut (Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Award), Biography. Also planned is an electronic version of the original DSB that will be inte- Pamela Mack (Joseph H. Hazen Prize in Education), A. I. grated with the e-version of the new volumes. The eight new print volumes and the Sabra (Sarton Medal), Lawrence M. Principe (Pfizer Prize). combined electronic version are scheduled to appear in 2007. More information can Not present: Marc J. Ratcliff (Derek Price/Rod Webster be found at the Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/. Prize), Kathleen Broome Williams (Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize) APS Library Map Guide Available Online Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society is now available online in its entirety at http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/ Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and mole/r/rog.htm. This project was made possible by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Biomedical Sciences Announces Special Issue Delmas Foundation. Please address feedback to Richard Shrake at Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences announces [email protected]. the June 2005 special issue dedicated to “Mechanisms in Biology,” with guest editors Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden. http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/journalcondi- A Summary of AAAS’s Aid to the Scientific Community tionsofsale.cws_home/600658/conditionsofsale#conditionsofsale. Affected by Katrina A summary of AAAS’s efforts to help the scientific community affected by hurricane New M.A. Program at Bielefeld University Katrina can be found at http://www.aaas.org/katrina/. We all extend our heartfelt sym- The Master’s Program “History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science” will be offered pathy to those whose lives have been so dreadfully disrupted.

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Talks with these prospects also reveal that the Society would benefit from being their commitments in this way and, as noted, even members without substantial named a legatee in their wills – a step that even those of us with modest means resources can take steps to name the Society in their wills. can take – and will begin to emphasize the advantages (for them and for the Even in the 21st century, the CB and the online HSTM Research Database Society) of Charitable Lead Trusts and Charitable Remainder Trusts. remain essential tools for historians of science, no matter where they might be Phase II of this campaign will also seek a greater involvement of all HSS located or what their institutional affiliations might or might not be. Even as members, based upon the broad dissemination (through personal contact) of other organizations propose other web-based resources, to date none offers the appeals designed to respond to individual members’ particular goals. Alumni of specific focus and other value-added features (such as attention to the periodical major graduate programs, for example, will be given the opportunity to pay trib- literature, careful editorial review and coverage of much non-English material) ute to their major professors through individual or pooled donations in their of the HSS bibliographies. And if Phase II of our campaign proves successful, we honor. These appeals will also highlight the importance of multi-year pledges – will have secured their continued effectiveness for the foreseeable future. such as those already made by several especially generous donors – and thus will Members of the HSS Development Committee include: Mary Louise Gleason, call on members to express their commitment to the bibliographies and the Frederick Gregory, Judith R. Goodstein, Richard L. Kremer, Edward J. Larson, Society and the field in a tangible form. Past donors will also be asked to renew Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Darwin H. Stapleton, and Spencer R. Weart. 3

History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Security Measures at the National Library of Medicine Abraham Wagner. The manuscripts are available at http://contentdm.collphyphil.org. Security has been increased at the National Library of Medicine and the entire National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. For details of current Susquehanna University Medical Humanities Initiative NIH security procedures, go to: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm. Susquehanna University is pleased to announce the launch of its Medical Humanities Initiative. For details, please see http://www.susqu.edu/mhi/. ‘Einstein’s Big Idea’ Available on DVD and VHS In time for the 100th anniversary of the formation of the world’s most famous equa- Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain tion, E=mc2 WGBH Video has just released NOVA’s newest docudrama, Pickering and Chatto announces a major new series of scholarly works on nine- “Einstein’s Big Idea.” To order any DVD or VHS release from WGBH Boston Video, teenth century British science and its cultural and social contexts. Proposals may including Einstein’s Big Idea, call 1.800.949.8670 or visit http://www.shop.wgbh.org/. address any aspect of nineteenth century British science, for example disciplines such as geology, biology, botany, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Manuscripts Available mathematics. The Editor and the Editorial Board invite proposals for new books for The Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia announces the availability of publication in the series. Although this will be primarily a monograph series, they two fully searchable 18th-century Pennsylvania manuscripts on its Web site: are also willing to consider edited collections. Send proposals to: Bernard Lightman, http://www.collphyphil.org. The texts are the Medicina Pensylvania of George de 309 Bethune College, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J Benneville and the Remediorum Specimina, the record of the practice and recipes of 1P3 ([email protected]).

In Memoriam: David Dibner

avid Dibner died unexpectedly at his home in Wilton, Connecticut on Dibner Institute have sponsored the one-week seminar in the history and philosophy DSeptember 28, 2005. David, who was 78 years old, was the Chairman of the of biology held annually at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Dibner Fund, a philanthropic foundation, and former Chairman of the Burndy Massachusetts. Under David’s leadership, the Dibner Fund joined with the Alfred P. Corporation, a leading multinational manufacturer of electrical and electronic Sloan Foundation in 2000 to sponsor the Web-based project, the History of Recent connectors and tools. Science and Technology (hrst.mit.edu), aimed at drawing scientists into partner- David had a long, distinguished career. After serving in the navy during WWII, ships with historians to begin recording for posterity their own research. he trained as an engineer at and continued with post-graduate David left the daily management of the Institute and Library to their Directors. studies at the London School of Economics and, later, the Nevertheless, his presence was felt all the time, especially his preoc- Advanced Management Program at . In his cupation with excellence. His personal sense of excellence shows up more than 30-year career at the Burndy Corporation he rose from in countless details of the layout and furnishings of the Dibner engineer to Chairman of the Board. Building, the renovation of which he oversaw. At the door of the In 1989, following the death of his father, David assumed Institute is a bust of Dibner which David had personally responsibility for the Dibner Fund and the Burndy Library, one of sculpted. Most important of all, however, was his insistence that the the world’s outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, Institute represent a standard of excellence in the field of history of incunabula, and instruments in the history of science and tech- science and technology. The Dibner Institute, in a real sense, nology. Together with his wife Frances Kessler Dibner and with the became a direct extension of his personality. support of the Dibner Fund, David then established the Dibner In 2004, when the affiliation agreement with MIT neared its Institute for the History of Science and Technology, dedicated to end, David devoted considerable energy to finding a home for the advanced study in the field, and relocated the Burndy Library Burndy Library where it would be readily accessible to scholars and from Norwalk, Connecticut, to join the Institute in the newly ren- would never have to move again. Although he did not live to see ovated Dibner Building on the campus of MIT. Since then, with the Burndy in its new home at the Huntington Library in San David as President, the Burndy Library has more than doubled the Marino, California, David’s last day was spent at a meeting working number of volumes it houses, including the long-term deposit of the Grace K. out details of the move, reassuring everyone that the Dibner Fund would continue to Babson and the Vito Volterra collections. support the history of science and technology. David was Chairman of the Board of the Dibner Institute from its inception David leaves his wife of 55 years, Frances; his sons and daughters-in-law, Brent until 2002, when he turned that responsibility over to his son, Brent Dibner. David, and Relly (Wolfson) Dibner, Daniel and Victoria (Clark) Dibner, and Mark and however, remained an active member of the Board until his death. The Dibner Rachel (Zax) Dibner; and eight grandchildren, Gil, Tal, Carmel, Aurora, Avalon, Institute received its first group of Senior Fellows in the Fall of 1993. Since then Bern, Sage, and Skye. David’s late parents were Bern and Barbara Dibner also of more than 250 individuals from 27 different countries have been either Senior or Wilton, Connecticut. Bern, who founded the Dibner Fund, was himself a historian of Postdoctoral Fellows at the Institute, together with more than 90 Graduate Student science, and was the sole recipient of both the Society for the History of Technology’s Fellows from its three consortium schools, MIT, Harvard University, and Boston Leonardo da Vinci Medal (1974) and the History of Science Society’s George Sarton University – all through the support of the Dibner Fund. The Dibner Institute also Medal (1976). The Dibner family legacy in the history of science and technology, held workshops every year, out of which have come nine volumes in the Dibner which began with David’s father in the 1940s, will live on at the Huntington Library Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology, published by MIT Press, due in large part to David’s and Frances’ efforts and commitment. with several more in press or preparation. For 15 years the Dibner Fund and the – George Smith and Bonnie Edwards

4 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 National Science Foundation Changes students the opportunity to intellectually and physically explore the ways that In recent months the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology humans have shaped this region. Taking the eastern equatorial Pacific as a Studies Program (STS) has undergone some changes. That program has now regional case study, Sea Education Association’s Marine Environmental History merged with a separate, but closely related program, the Societal Dimensions Semester will explore the linkages between human activities, environmental of Engineering, Science and Technology, to form a new program called concerns, and changing understandings of nature. For more information, please Science and Society. The new program retains all components of the two previ- contact Matthew McKenzie, [email protected], or go to http://www.sea.edu/ ous programs, as well as the separate program officers and advisory panels. academics/programs.asp. The Web site address is http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id =5324&org=SES&from=home. Durham University Accepting Applications Durham University’s Department of Philosophy, Centre for the New Journal in the History of Science and Disease (CHMD), and School for Health are now accepting applications for The Yearbook for European Culture of Science (YECS) is a peer-reviewed internation- the 2006/07 class of their M.A. Program in the History and Philosophy of Science al journal which publishes original research on the processes forming the European and Medicine (HPSM). For further queries visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/hpsm.ma/ culture of science. The main focus is on developments from the 18th century onwards. or http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/. The next issue (vol. 2) concentrates on the history of evolutionary theory in the 20th century in all its aspects, including the impact of evolutionary theory on social sciences Catalan Museum of Medical History has New English- and interconnections between evolutionary theory and social-political history. Language Web Site An English version of the Catalan Museum of Medical History in Barcelona H-Adjunct: H-Net Network for Adjunct, Part-Time and (Spain) is now available at: http://www.museudelamedicina.org. Visit the Temporary Faculty Museum’s virtual exhibition at: http://www.museudelamedicina.org/ exposi- Announcing H-Adjunct: H-Net Network for Adjunct, part-time and temporary faculty cions/temporals.htm. at universities, colleges and community colleges. H-Adjunct is an open, inter-disci- plinary forum for issues. Logs and more information can also be located at: Funding for the Center for Nanotechnology at UCSB http://www.h-net.org/~adjunct. The National Science Foundation recently announced that the University of California, Santa Barbara, would receive funds for five years (renewable) to host New Program in History of Ocean Sciences a national Center for Nanotechnology in Society. News about the award is avail- Sea Education Association’s new Marine Environmental History Semester offers able at: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1348.

In Memoriam: arshall Clagett, one of the world’s leading historians of medieval science, University and taught history and history of science. Mpassed away in Princeton, N.J. on 21 October 2005. He was 89. Dr. Clagett He moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1947, and remained there until was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for 1964. From 1959 he was director of the university’s Institute for Research in the Advanced Study, his academic home for the past four decades. The author of Humanities, and played a critical role in making the University of Wisconsin a more than a dozen volumes on the history of science and mathematics, center for the history of science. Professor Clagett was one of the dominant scholars in the field From the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Clagett moved to the of medieval science in the 20th century. Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Most recently, he was pro- Dr. Clagett had a long association with the History of fessor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute. Science Society. In 1960 the Society presented him with the Dr. Clagett’s scholarship ranged from antiquity to the

Pfizer Award for his book The Science of Mechanics in the Study medieval and Renaissance West, and he received many awards ; he was president of the society in 1963 and for his work over the years, including the Alexandre Koyré 1964; and in 1980 he was awarded the Sarton Medal for life- Medal of the International Academy of the History of Science in Advanced time achievements in the history of science. Dr. Clagett was 1981 for Archimedes in the Middle Ages. He was also awarded for also involved in the Medieval Academy of America, the the John Frederick Lewis Prize of the American Philosophical American Philosophical Society, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Society for volumes II and IV of the same book. In 1995, he Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, and Institute was awarded the Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio European Prize the International Academy of the History of Science, where he in the History of Science, Technology, and Industry, also a life-

was vice-president from 1968-1971. courtesy time achievement award. In 1996 he won the International Dr. Clagett was born in 1916 in Washington D.C. He began Galileo Galilei Prize.

his undergraduate years at the California Institute of Technology, Photo At the time of his death Dr. Clagett was working on the Marshall Clagett at the ceremo- but then moved to George Washington University. In 1941 he ny for the International Galileo fourth and final volume of Ancient Egyptian Science, the first received his doctorate in history from Columbia University. During Galilei Prize for Contributions volume of which also won the John Frederick Lewis Prize of the World War II, he served in the navy, reaching the rank of lieu- to the History of Science in Italy American Philosophical Society. tenant commander. After military service he returned to Columbia (Pisa – October 6, 1996). He will be missed.

5 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 University of Leeds Accepting Applications Call for Proposals – History of the Canadian Space Agency The Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds wel- The CSA is undertaking a project to write the history of the space agency. The call comes applications for the 2006/07 class of their M.A. Program in the History and for tenders for the project has now appeared on the MERX Public Tenders Web Philosophy of Science. Apply either through the School of Philosophy, or online site. To see details, go to http://www.merx.com/Services/AboutMERX/ at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/students/apply.htm. To apply for studentships, contact: English/MK_SiteMap.asp. In the “Free Search” box, enter the tender # 115807. Katie Lanceley, Postgraduate Secretary, School of Philosophy. Phone: More information may be obtained by calling 1.800.964.6379. 44.11.3343.3263. E-mail: [email protected]. Two New Exhibits at the National Library of Medicine Founding of the Bulgarian Society for Chemistry “Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body” opens at the National Library of Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry Medicine on 16 February 2006. HMD historian Michael Sappol curates the exhi- On 29 September 2005, the Bulgarian Society for Chemistry Education and bition, which continues until February 2008. Also open is the mini-exhibit “The History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC) was formed with the objective of Horse, A Mirror of Man: Parallels in Early Human and Horse Medicine,” in the fostering interest both in chemistry education and history and philosophy of History of Medicine Division’s foyer. Curated by Michael North, the mini-exhibit chemistry with their social and cultural dimensions and influences. For informa- continues until 28 April 2006. tion on membership, please contact: Professor B.V. Toshev, University of Sofia 1 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria. Phone: 359.2.8629049; e-mail: In Memoriam: Kiran Van Rijn [email protected]. An athlete and scholar, Kiran died suddenly of cardiac arrhythmia while train- ing for the sport he loved most – rowing – on Burnaby Lake, B.C., on September Darwin at the American Museum of Natural History 21, 2005, at the age of 29. The American Museum of Natural History presents “Darwin,” the most exten- A doctoral candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of sive exhibit ever dedicated to the naturalist and his theory of . The Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Kiran was the only son of Carol exhibition is part of a continuing series on great thinkers and explorers; past and Dr. Theo van Rijn of Vancouver. He was a graduate of both the University of exhibits have been dedicated to Einstein, Da Vinci, and Shackleton. The exhibit British Columbia (B.Sc., 1998) and Victoria University (B.A., 2001). He also held will run until 29 May 2006. For more information, visit http://www.amnh.org/ an M.A. from the University of Toronto as part of his work toward his Ph.D. or http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/ darwin/?src=h_h. A student at the Institute since 2001, Kiran was deeply interested in the his- tory of medicine, and at the time of his death was engaged in thesis research con- Darwin Digital Library of Evolution cerning the growth and marketing of medical imaging technology, focusing on The American Museum of Natural History Research Library announces the a cluster of hospitals in British Columbia. His work had attracted interest from launch of the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution at http://darwinlibrary. several quarters and he had twice received fellowship support from the Canadian amnh.org. The goal is to make the full literature of evolution available online Institutes for Health Research. He had also been an Ontario Graduate Scholar. within a historically and topically coherent structure. The work of Darwin is the Popular and well-liked by both his student colleagues and the faculty, Kiran pivot, but the framework includes the 17th century to the present and encompass- was a member of Canada’s national rowing team and was a finalist in the sen- es the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultur- ior men’s singles sculls at the Canadian Henley Regatta in Port Dalhousie, Ont. al consequences. this past summer.

Future HSS Meetings

Vancouver, BC (Joint Meeting with PSA & 4S, 2-5 Nov. 2006)

Washington, DC (1-4 Nov. 2007)

Pittsburgh, PA (Joint Meeting with PSA, 6-9 Nov. 2008)

6 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes The following announcements have been edited for space. For full descriptions and for the latest announcements, please visit our Web site (http://hssonline.org). The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of any item, and potential applicants should verify all details, especially closing dates, with the organization or foundation of interest. Those who wish to publish a grant, fellowship, or prize announcement should send an electron- ic version of the posting to [email protected].

Bakken Library The Bakken Library and Museum offers Visiting Research Fellowships and Research Travel Grants for research in its collection relating to the history of elec- tricity and magnetism with a focus on their roles in the life sciences and medicine. For further information: Elizabeth Ihrig, Librarian, The Bakken Library and Museum, 3537 Zenith Avenue So., Minneapolis, MN., 55416, tel (612) 926-3878 ext. 227, fax (612) 927-7265, e-mail [email protected]. Web site: http://www.the- bakken.org; click on “Library” or “Research.”

The Victor and Joy Wouk Grant-in-Aid Program California Institute of Technology Grants-in-Aid offers research assistance of up to $2000 for work in the Papers of Victor Wouk in the Caltech Archives. The Maurice A. Biot Archives Fund and other designated funds offer research assistance up to $1500 to use the collections of the Caltech Archives. Applications will be accepted from students – working towards a graduate degree – or from established scholars. Please consult the Archives’ Web page: http://archives.-caltech.edu. Applications are reviewed quarterly: on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year.

The University of Oklahoma Travel Fellowship Program The Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship Program helps visitors to make use of the University’s History of Science Collections. Proposals from scholars at both predoc- toral and postdoctoral levels will be evaluated continuously upon receipt, and funds awarded shortly after the decision is made. For information, please contact: University of Oklahoma, The Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship Program, Bizzell Library, 401 West Brooks, Room 521, Norman, OK 73019-0528, e-mail: kmagrud- [email protected] or [email protected]. Web site: http://libraries.ou.edu/etc/histsci/mel- lon.asp. (Please see ad on page 2.)

Grants in Aid for History of Modern Physics The Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics has a program of grants-in-aid for research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences and their social interactions. Grants can be up to $2,000 each and will be given only to reimburse expenses for travel and subsis- tence to use the resources of the Center’s Niels Bohr Library in College Park, Maryland, or expenses including travel and subsistence to tape-record oral histo- ry interviews or microfilm archival materials, with a copy for deposit in the Library. Applicants should either be working toward a graduate degree in the history of science (please include a letter of reference from a thesis adviser), or show a record of publication in the field. To apply, send a vitae, a letter of no more than two pages describing your research project, and a brief budget show- ing the expenses for which support is requested to: Spencer Weart, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. E-mail: [email protected]. Phone: (301) 209-3174. Fax: (301) 209-0882. The deadlines for receipt of applications are 15 April and 15 November of each year. http://www.aip.org/history/.

7 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 INA Grant-in-Aid Program area medical students. Essays must be based on new original research in primary The International Neuropsychopharmacology Archives (INA) announces sources and are due 3 April 2006. First prize is $300. More than one prize will be the availability of grants of up to $1,500 to support research at the INA at the awarded at judges’ discretion. For further information contact: Sofie Sereda, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Applications Assistant to the Director, Division of Museum and Historical Services, The College of must include a hard copy of: a one-page description of the project, with specific refer- Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia PA 19103. E-mail: ence to the archival collections to be consulted; detailed budget; applicant’s c.v.; one [email protected]. letter of recommendation from a scholar familiar with the applicant’s work. Grants will be given four times a year. Deadlines are:1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowships December. Completed applications should be sent by the deadline to: INA Grant-in-Aid The American Meteorological Society is offering an array of graduate fel- Program, c/o CINP Central. Office, 1608 17th Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37212, U.S. lowships and undergraduate scholarships to help further the education of outstand- ing students pursuing a career in the atmospheric and related oceanic or hydrologic The Marc-Auguste Pictet Prize Student Essay Prize in the History of Medicine and Public Health sciences. For more information, please visit: http://www.ametsoc.org/amsstudentin- The New York Academy of Medicine invites entries for the second annual New fo/scholfeldocs/index.html#4. York Academy of Medicine Student Essay Prize for the best unpublished essay by a graduate student in a medical, public health, or nursing program in the U.S. The Student Essay Prize in the History of Medicine and Public Health winner will receive $500, and the winning essay will be reviewed for possible publica- The New York Academy of Medicine invites entries for the second annual tion in the Journal of Urban Health. Essays should be approximately 2,000 to 3,000 New York Academy of Medicine Student Essay Prize, awarded to the best unpublished words long, and should follow the guidelines in the journal’s instructions for authors essay by a graduate student in a medical, public health, or nursing program in the at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jurban/instauth. The postmark deadline is 4 April 2006. For United States. Essays should address topics in the history of public health or medi- more information, please visit http://www.nyam.org/grants/studentessay.shtml. cine as they relate to urban health issues. The winner will receive $500, and the winning essay will receive expedited review for possible publication in the Journal of Jerry Stannard Memorial Award Competition for 2006 Urban Health. The contest is open to students in accredited professional degree pro- The Department of History at the University of Kansas announces the grams in medicine, nursing and public health. Essays should be approximately 2006 competition for the annual award in honor of the late Professor Jerry Stannard. 2,000 to 3,000 words long, and should follow the guidelines in the Journal’s Each year a cash award will be made to the author of an outstanding published or instructions for authors at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jurban/instauth. The postmark unpublished scholarly study. In 2006 the award will be $1,000. The competition is deadline is 4 April 2006. For more information, please call 1.212.822.7314, write his- open to graduate students and to recent recipients of a doctoral degree (the Ph.D. [email protected], or visit http://www.nyam.org/grants/studentessay.shtml. degree or an equivalent), conferred not more than five years before the competition deadline. Entries must be received no later than 15 February 2006. The award will be Student Prize for an Essay in the History of Australian Science announced on or about 15 May 2006. All correspondence should be addressed to: The The National Museum of Australia, the Australian Academy of Stannard Award Committee, Att: Professor Victor Bailey, Department of History - University of Kansas, Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 3001, Lawrence, KS Science and its National Committee for History and Philosophy of 66045-7590, U.S.A. Science have established two essay prizes, to be known respectively as The National Museum of Australia Student Prize for the History of Australian Science and The Wellcome Trust’s Annual Master’s Award National Museum of Australia Student Prize for Australian Environmental History. and Doctoral Studentship Competitions Each prize will be a certificate and $2,500. The prizes will be awarded for original The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the unpublished research undertaken whilst enrolled as a student (postgraduate or (U.K.) invites applicants in any areas of history undergraduate) at any tertiary educational institution. Essays must be written in of medicine who would like to be nominated for the Wellcome Trust’s annual English and fully documented following the style specified for the Australian master’s award and doctoral studentship competitions. The Department also Academy of Science’s journal, Historical Records of Australian Science. The prizes invites applications for two doctoral studentships funded by a Wellcome en- will be awarded in alternate years in May. Deadline for the initial prize, a history of hancement award in history of medicine. Deadline: 15 February 2006. For science prize, is 30 April 2006. Entries should be sent to: Librarian, Australian information: http://www.hps. cam.ac.uk. For details of the studentships, Academy of Science, GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, to be received by http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/studying/funding.html. the closing date. Inquiries should be sent to: [email protected].

Wellcome Trust M.Sc. and Ph.D. Studentships Lawrence Memorial Award The Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of The Award Committee of the Lawrence Memorial Fund invites nomi- Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) invites applications for nomina- nations for the 2006 Lawrence Memorial Award. The annual Award ($2,000) is tion for the annual Master’s award in the History of Medicine. The award is open to given to support travel for doctoral dissertation research in systematic botany or a student accepted for the M.Sc. in Public Health who agrees to follow an ‘historical horticulture, or the history of the plant sciences, including literature and explo- pathway’ through the M.Sc. Deadline: 31 March 2006. For further information: ration. Major professors are urged to nominate outstanding doctoral students http//www.lshtm.ac.uk/history. Details at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/howto. who have achieved official candidacy for their degrees and will be conducting Informal enquiries to Professor Berridge at [email protected]. pertinent dissertation research that would benefit significantly from travel enabled by the Award. The Committee will not entertain direct applications. Krumbhaar Award in Medical History Letters of nomination and supporting materials, including seconding letters, The Award, offered by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the should be received by the Committee no later than 1 May 2006 and should be Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, and the directed to: Dr. R. W. Kiger, Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Section on Medical History, is a medical history essay contest for Philadelphia Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA. Tel. 1.412. 268.2434. 8 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Awards, Honors, and Jobs

Appointments The following announcements have been edited for space. For full descrip- tions and for the latest announcements, please visit http://hsson- Susan Jones joined the Program in History of Science and Technology at the line.org. The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of any item, University of Minnesota in fall 2005 as an Associate Professor. and interested persons should verify all details. Those who wish to publish a job announcement should send an electronic version of the posting to The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is pleased to announce the appointment [email protected]. of Dr. Clayton D. Laurie to the position of NRO Historian and as Chief NRO History Staff within the Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (CSNR). Dr. Laurie brings 19 years of federal history experience to his new position, having previ- ously served at the U.S. Army Center of Military History with the CIA History Staff, and The faculty of humanities at the California Institute of as Deputy NRO Historian. Technology, in collaboration with the Huntington Library, invites applications for the annual Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor at Caltech in the Tom Misa has been appointed Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, effective 1 field of history of science. The position is for a full academic year (September July 2006. He will also serve as Engineering Research Associates Land-Grant Professor 2006 – June 2007). This is a half-time teaching position (two one quarter in History of Technology in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the courses) at Caltech and a half-time research position at the Huntington University of Minnesota. Library. All applicants must currently hold a Ph.D. and a full-time tenure track appointment at another university. In your application include details Ricarda Riina, a student of Professor Paul E. Berry at the University of Wisconsin- of the research you wish to carry out at the Huntington Library, c.v., a recent Madison, is the recipient of the 2005 Lawrence Memorial Award. For her dissertation sample of writing, copies of teaching evaluations, and a list of references. research, Ms. Riina has undertaken a study of Croton (Euphorbiaceae). The proceeds Review will begin 15 February 2006. Applications will be accepted until the of the Award will help support her travel to Brazil for field research. position is filled. Caltech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons are encouraged Ruth Rogaski has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her research on the role of to apply. Contact: Sanja Ilic, administrative assistant for the Eleanor Searle the biological sciences in the formation of Asian empires. The Fellowship will enable Visiting Professorship, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, MC Rogaski to complete her current book project, Cold Utopia: Nature, Science and 101-40, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. E-mail: Empire in Manchuria, 1700-2000. This project explores how Asians studied the [email protected]. flora and fauna of a contested northern frontier of China – Manchuria – in order to illuminate the role that nature, science, and the imagination played in the formation The Department of History at Carleton University invites applica- of non-Western regimes. tions for a tenure-track position in Medieval History at the Assistant Professor level commencing 1 July 2006. The university seeks an historian of Medieval Londa Schiebinger, Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Britain or Europe able to offer instruction and supervision aimed at expanding Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, won the graduate offerings in the Medieval and Early Modern eras. Applications, 2005 Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Society for her book, together with a c.v., graduate transcripts, teaching evaluations, and evidence of Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Cambridge, published work should be sent as paper copies (not electronic attachments) to: Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004). Prof. A.B. McKillop, Chair, Department of History, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. Candidates should arrange The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that to have three referees familiar with their work send supporting letters to the Dr. Sonu Shamdasani has been appointed to a Readership in Jung History, which above address. The deadline for receipt of all materials is 1 February 2006. For he will take up early in 2006. Sonu has edited several volumes, and is the author of more information, visit the university’s Web site at http://www.carleton.ca. Also, Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology. visit the Department of History’s site at http://www.carleton.ca/history.

Emily Thompson, of the University of California, San Diego, was named a The Department of History at the University of Southampton MacArthur Fellow for 2005. MacArthur Fellows are given $500,000 in “no strings would like to hear from potential applicants for a Wellcome Trust University attached” support over the next five years. Fellows are selected for their creativity, Award in the History of Medicine. We are looking for an energetic and com- originality, and potential. mitted scholar who will complement and expand the department’s current interests in the history of medicine, and who will contribute to its undergrad- Reminder: The Isis Bibliography from 1975 to the present is available uate and postgraduate courses and research degrees. Expressions of interest online with the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Members of the Society may are invited for any period or area, but a focus on the middle ages, the early access the RLG Web site and the History of Science and Technology Database modern periods, the U.S.A, or on Jewish history and culture would be particu- (HST) through the HSS homepage at http://hssonline.org. RLG has assigned larly welcome. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Department, us “Y6.G19” as a “User Name” and “HSSDEMO” as a “Password.” Professor Anne Curry ([email protected]) or Dr. Waltraud Ernst ([email protected]).

9 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 WWoorrkkssppaaccee:: Facets of Islamic Science Jamil Ragep to Deliver the George Sarton Memorial Lecture to the AAAS

By Michal Meyer

he month after 9/11, Jamil Ragep found himself on the national stage. The department. It is important to know such history, says Ragep, not only for Tmedieval historian, more used to old libraries and ancient manuscripts, was European early modern science but also to understand the scientific tradition in thrust onto the pages of and into National Public Radio’s its own right, one that will give people a more expansive view of science. It is an airwaves, not to mention the many speaking invitations from Kiwanians and uncharted world, one where less than five percent of original documents have Rotarians. Islamic scholars, used to small niches and great obscurity, found been read, where fractured infrastructure slows research, and where, says Ragep, themselves the object of interest. “Before September 11, hardly anyone ever want- historians of Islamic science have not done a good job in conveying their world ed our opinion on anything,” says Ragep. “All of a sudden we were put into the to a broader audience. spotlight and asked all kinds of things, some of which we knew about and some Ragep is taking Islamic science to the American Association for the of which we didn’t.” Advancement of Science meeting in February. For his 2006 George Sarton Over a two-year span, Ragep, who is a professor of the history of science at Memorial Lecture, Ragep carries the concept of big science back to the Middle the University of Oklahoma, gave dozens of talks to groups who wanted to know Ages. He wants to surprise the scientists with his talk “What Can the History of all about Islam. Over and over, he was asked, ‘How can Muslims today be doing Islamic Science Teach Us About Science,” where big science begins with the this sort of thing?’ ‘Why does science today seem at such a low ebb in Islamic grandchildren of Genghis Khan. After the Mongol conquest of Baghdad, the vic- countries, when in medieval times their scientific reputation was glorious?’ This tors began a massive building program of an enormous observatory in Iran. incompatibility between past and present struck many of the people Ragep spoke “The idea of gathering lots of people to do observations and scientific work under to. While questions of modernity, the creation of the scientific tradition in Islam the Mongols – maybe we should expand our notions of science and how it came and its transmission and transformation, had previously bubbled through the about.” Ragep would also like to broaden the idea of an experiment by taking community of Islamic scholars, few people outside that world showed interest. into account Alhazen’s work in optics. “In the last few years it has become a burning issue. What my audiences had half The story of scientific transmission, reception, and appropriation is one learned in college and high school didn’t jibe with the popular image of Islam that fascinates Ragep. The mixed origins of trigonometry is a perfect example. that seemed so unidimensional – a civilization that never really got out of the An Islamic invention whose origins date to the Babylonians, followed by the dark ages.” derivation of the chord by the Greeks, then taken up by the Indians who came He learned to speak to a general audience, to give a little complexity when his lis- up with the half-chord function, the jaya (transformed into Arabic as jayb, teners thought the situation simple, to give a little coherence if they were overcome which can also mean pocket or opening). Then comes the trip to the Latin- with incomprehension. His audiences, he says, were in the main relieved by his words. based world (where jayb was translated as sinus), which gave us sine. There is “The idea that there is a multiplicity of voices that can’t be reduced to simple answers, a wonderful intersection of culture, religion, and scientific traditions here, says that really resonates. It’s a funny dichotomy. On the one hand we as human beings Ragep. Only spherical triangles could deal with the directional problems of the like to reduce things; it allows us control, and if we can reduce other cultures then shortest distance on a sphere, a vital problem in finding Mecca’s direction, we feel in control. As historians we are all guilty of this at one time or another. and the tangent function comes into play for the afternoon prayer, On the other hand, we also rejoice in complexity and multiplicity.” which should occur when a person’s shadow is the same length as Ragep, who is president of the Commission of History of Science themselves. “We get our sine, cosine, and tangent from this mix of and Technology in Islamic Societies, says “That is the message – there Greek and Indian sources, and Islamic religion. It gives us a are different Islamic societies.” Spain in the 12th century was not the broader sense of what we take for granted. It enriches us to know same as Egypt in the 10th century, nor was 15th-century Iran the same these things.” as 16th-century Iran. The circumstances that create an Islamic society Originally, though, Ragep was far more interested in modern in the 21st century are very different from that which created a certain science. An undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan gave society in the 13th century. “We wouldn’t use Jerry Falwell to analyze him some exposure to history of science. But his historial read- . Yet there is a book out that tries to ana- ing developed a sense of kinship with the past that lyze medieval Islam through Khomeini.” could not be shaken. “When I heard about These days public demand for Ragep’s knowl- Claudius Ptolemy in Alexandria, he seemed edge has waned. “I think one of the nice things like someone I could have a conversation people have figured out is that a medievalist with. There is a part of being rational that might not be the best person to sort out our allows us to speak across centuries, despite present-day problems.” who we were or where we lived.” He was drawn to China’s history but defeated by lan- ven in the history of science, Islamic sci- guage difficulties. Arabic would be easier. Eence has endured a low profile. Ragep’s Ragep went to Harvard to study with A. I. position at the University of Oklahoma is the Sabra and found he couldn’t get through only history-of-science position in the U.S. for the first sentence of the first text that Sabra Islamic science within a history-of-science put before him. Time, good teaching, and 10 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006

two years spent in Syria and Egypt in the Seventies working with manuscripts first Special NSF Employment Opportunity hand helped. “In those days it was like going to a medieval school. There were orange trees, a reading room, manuscripts that would be brought to me. It was a Program Director for Science love affair. There is something about being with a manuscript that is almost like and Society Program a transcendent experience. When I go into a manuscript library I have this incredible sense of wellbeing and contentment – a sense of being as close as I can ever get to these people.” The National Science Foundation invites applications for a two-year tempo- rary appointment to the position of Program Director, to begin by July 2006. he duties of the modern world do drag Ragep back to the present. Until This is a research administration position. Trecently, his co-directorship of the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) made him The Program Director represents the program to colleagues in NSF and responsible for mediating among groups of Iraqis, Syrians and Turks and their other Federal science agencies and to the Administration. The director would arguments over the quality and ownership of water flowing through their coun- be in charge of two of the four components of the Science and Society tries. “I had to be a good listener and try to figure out why people are saying what Program: History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology, they’re saying.” Historical training helped, he says, as did keeping the conversa- and Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology. Those compo- tion going through the frustrations and failures. nents support research and educational projects pertaining to the historical, Water woes and Turkish environmentalists offered a lesson in change, says philosophical and social dimensions of science, technology and engineering. Ragep. In the Eighties, Turkish environmental groups formed in response to The Program Director provides intellectual leadership and is responsible large-scale dam building and the dislocation of towns and villages. The human for all aspects of program administration and development. He or she man- equation, everything from raising the standard of living to the role of women, ages the proposal review process and active NSF grants, maintains regular slowly began to change in the least developed part of Turkey as these groups grad- contact with the relevant research communities, and provides advice and con- ually became strong enough to take on government. “You multiply this through sultation about the fields. The program budget is about $3.0 million. Turkish society and you realize change happens through little steps put in place a Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, and be active in a generation ago, rather than simply through the European Union pressuring relevant research area. They should show evidence of initiative, administra- Turkey. It taught me small steps are important and sometimes they are invisible. tive skill, and ability to work well with others. While the Foundation is inter- It’s a good lesson for us historians that to understand dramatic change we have ested in individuals with research interests in history, philosophy, and social to understand what came before.” studies of science, program areas, such interest is not essential. Six or more Though he has now swapped water worries for the position of acting chair of years of research experience beyond the Ph.D. is desirable. Salary is nego- his department, his experiences with CPS are proving valuable in his current tiable, and is comparable with academic salaries at major US institutions. work with Rivka Feldhay and Lorraine Daston on the 15th-century background to The National Science Foundation is located in Arlington, Virginia, imme- the Copernican Revolution and the religious and social changes that made diately across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. The metropolitan Copernicus possible. Other projects include the Islamic Science Manuscript Washington area, besides being the seat of the U.S. Government, is noted as a Initiative, which involves putting all available information on the Islamic exact cultural center and as a growing center of high-tech industry. A wide variety sciences into a database with the collaboration of his partner, Sally P. Ragep. of types of housing is available within close proximity to the NSF offices. Jamil Ragep has also been working with Tzvi Langermann and, before his death, David Pingree on editing the Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew text of The Planetary Hypotheses of Claudius Ptolemy. Please direct inquiries and expressions of interest to Dr. Richard In November 2001 Ragep was interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation for Lempert, Director of the Division of Social and Economic Sciences “The Role of Religion in the Current Conflict.” In October of that year The New (SES), phone: (703) 292-7391: [email protected]; Dr. Ronald York Times’ Dennis Overbye interviewed him as part of a long article, “How Rainger, phone: (703) 292-7283; email: [email protected]; or Dr. Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science.” The question was always ‘What hap- John Perhonis, at (703) 292-7279: [email protected]. They are pened to Islamic science.’ Overbye ended his article with a unifying and universal located in Suite 995, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson vision of science, and a quotation denying the existence of such a thing as Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. The fax number is: (703) 292-9068. Islamic science. Ragep has a different message for an audience interested in a broader view of science. While there is no essence of Islamic science and civiliza- Qualified persons who are women, ethnic/racial minorities, and tion, there are varieties. That message, says Ragep, came in a talk given by A. I. persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. The Sabra at the HSS meeting in Minneapolis 10 years ago. “We don’t have that National Science Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer many examples of science to think about, and this is a thousand-year-old tradi- committed to employing highly qualified staff that reflects the tion. As historians of science we should know something about as many of these diversity of our nation. traditions as possible, because our goal should be to understand science in its many varieties.”

11 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 An Appropriate Life A. I. Sabra Wins Society’s Highest Honor By Michal Meyer

uring the recent HSS meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota A. I. Sabra took the Dtime to hear some of the papers. The quality of the younger speakers impressed him, but what, he wondered, will become of such people taking their first steps into an uncertain academic future. “There is no shortage of intelligence and enthusi- asm,” he said, “but the question is what do we do so that they don’t go astray? I’ve come to the conclusion that luck is often what allows people to get what they like; personally I was very lucky.” Sabra was in Minneapolis to receive the Sarton Medal. The award, established fifty years ago, recognizes superior scholarship in the history of science. The confer- ence also provided a time to see colleagues and friends, and in the hallways Sabra was often surrounded by people. He easily remembers the debts to others – his teachers in Alexandria and Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute. Others remember his kindness to them, such as the professor who spent his graduate years at Harvard and was once taken out to lunch by Sabra, who kindly inquired into the studies and interests of a student not even his own. Sabra’s acceptance speech at the awards presentation was peppered with rec- that he apply for an advertised three-year fellowship at the Warburg Institute. He ognition of those – both known and unknown – who directed and helped him applied after a meeting with the institute’s director, Ernst Gombrich, and was suc- through his student years and after. His career has spanned two continents and an cessful. There was only one fellowship, says Sabra, and if he had been in London a island – Africa, England, and North America. In 1996 he retired as Professor of the year earlier or later the fellowship would not have been available, and his future History of Arabic Science at Harvard University’s History of Science Department, in would have been different. order to focus more on his research work. It had been difficult to leave Egypt in 1961, says Sabra, and as time went on a Sabra’s career, beginning in the fifties, intersects with many of the great return looked less and less inviting. After two years at the Warburg, Sabra was offered names of history of science. In 1952, while studying for a Ph.D. on 17th-century a one-year visiting associate professorship at Princeton. When he asked for leave, optics, Sabra met Alexandre Koyré in London and they spoke about Newton and Gombrich told him he would have to give up the fellowship, but the Warburg was the Scientific Revolution. Since then, Sabra has spent much of his working career willing to offer him a permanent position. After the Princeton year, Sabra quickly set- proving Koyré wrong in his prediction that the student fascinated by the Scientific tled back into the Warburg. It was a love affair, says Sabra of his relationship with the Revolution would “always remain in the 17th century.” It was the Middle Ages and Institute, which allowed him much time for research. There he learned new perspec- Islamic Science that soon grabbed the young scholar’s attention. Of course, he tives from conducting a constant seminar regularly attended by some of the says, chance played a major part. Institute’s senior faculty, such as Frances Yates and P.D. Walker, as well as others from outside, such as Richard Walzer. “I have never forgotten that ten-year experience,” ineteen fifty-two was a significant year; it was the year Gamal Abdel Nasser came says Sabra, “and the longer I live the more I feel connected to it. The Warburg is a to power in Egypt. Egypt was changing, and the old dispensation under which N unique place, and when I say I have been lucky I mean it literally.” It was at the Sabra had studied was fading away. In the forties, as an undergraduate at the Warburg, where Sabra ended up as Reader in the History of the Classical Tradition in University of Alexandria, Sabra heard lectures in Arabic, English, and French, and Science and Philosophy, that he finally learned to do history. The shift from philoso- wrote his papers in all three languages. Professors from Egypt and Europe taught at phy to philosophy of science and then to history of science made sense, says Sabra. the university and, like many other early historians of science, Sabra studied philoso- “One gave way to the other because it added something; it did not delete.” phy. After graduation in 1947, the Egyptian Government offered him a scholarship to One thing the Warburg could not give Sabra was graduate students. In 1972 study under Karl Popper at the London School of Economics. He was lucky, he says. Harvard University, interested in a man who combined the skills of an Arabist, a Philosophy quickly changed to philosophy of science after Sabra heard Popper philosopher and a historian with strong interests in Islamic science, offered Sabra a lecture on Einstein. A greater change came when Sabra met his future wife, Nancy, a permanent position, and gifted graduate students. Fulbright scholar from the U.S. who also studied with Popper. In 1955, PhD in hand, Sabra returned to Alexandria to teach. Having left the research facilities of the abra’s philosophical background gives him a commitment to scientific reasoning British Library behind, he cast about for an area of study that would fit his current and to rationalism. His main field is optics, an interest that has continued since circumstances. As luck would have it again, a retired professor of physics at Cairo S his first published paper in 1954, written on Newton for the British Journal for the University, Mustafa Nazif, had developed a deep interest in history of science and Philosophy of Science. He is passionately interested in the transmission of knowledge, published a two-volume book on Alhazen’s optical works in Arabic. Sabra found though ‘transmission’ is too neutral a word for Sabra. ‘Appropriation’ is far better, a himself drawn back into history and the movement of scientific knowledge across word that allows the movement of scientific knowledge and the taking of that knowl- cultures, especially the flow from Hellenistic cultures into the Islamic world. edge by other peoples for their own intellectual ambitions. “This is what the Muslim In 1961, the resources of the British Museum beckoned and Sabra returned to Arabs and Persians did when they took over Greek science and philosophy, and what England, with plans to stay for just a year, followed perhaps by another year in the Europeans did later, a creative process of making their own something originally America. But then fate in the shape of a friend intervened by suggesting to Sabra 12 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006

not theirs.” Greek doesn’t automatically turn itself into Arabic nor Arabic into Latin, says Sabra. The process requires resources and work and deep reasons. Pockets of Greek learning within the Muslim empire, including scattered Christian monastic schools and pagan Sabians with interest in Hellenistic astronomy, astrol- ogy, and mathematics, provided a rich source on which scholars supported by the Abbasid rulers in Baghdad could base their first massive translations in the eighth and ninth centuries. “Greek thought was invited into Islamic civilization as a welcome friend, not an imposed burden,” says Sabra. “The acquired Greek legacy not only lingered but quickly permeated all forms of Islamic intellectualism.” That avidly imported learning, says Sabra, was appropriated by individuals acting at the intersection of three cultural influences: Arabism, Hellenism, and Islam. Sabra entertains a tempered optimism about the increasing sophistication of the field. There is more and more attention to Arabic/Islamic science, and the subject is growing; in Europe (Germany, England and Spain) there are now three journals completely devoted to the subject, and others in the Islamic world (Syria and Iran), but nowhere enough, he says. Teachers must be trained and students exposed to the field and to Arabic. There is a lot to be done; “sometimes I feel we haven’t yet begun,” says Sabra. Many of those who work on Islamic science, are absorbed in the seemingly “mechanical” task of editing and translating. Getting texts out in scientific editions and exact translations is difficult and time consuming, he says, but it is the basis for everything else. “Without it we don’t really know what we are doing.” Sabra has been heavily involved in that project, including a critical edition and English translation of Alhazen’s large Optics. However, he does warn repeatedly against neglecting historical research and interpretation, and has pub- lished attempts in this direction himself. Editing and interpret- ing, he says, must go hand in hand. Though returning to Egypt only infrequently over the years, in 2004 Sabra was in Alexandria to participant in a con- ference at the new Library of Alexandria. He was impressed by the many activities of the library and its institutional independ- ence, but there can be no meaningful comparison between the burgeoning institution and his current home: “I have a study and a place in Harvard’s Widener Library, which is the best research library in the world.” But Sabra’s heart and many of his memories remain at the Warburg. When the invitation from Harvard arrived, one of his Warburg friends told him that if the chance came to do what he wanted in America, he should not hesitate. Sabra has of course made close friends in the U.S., some of whom he knew before leaving England, but he never lost touch with that earlier generation of the Warburg. They might perhaps be considered “old fashioned” in the minds of some younger people today. “But I like being old fashioned,” he says. 13 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Notes from the Inside: The 2005 Minneapolis Meeting

Jay Malone, Executive Director

just sent payment to the Hyatt Regency tions, child care, airline discounts, and many other functions. Since many of Iin Minneapolis for our annual meeting. these planners have worked in the hospitality industry, they could help us find When I mentioned to the grad students the best value for our money. Groups in the ACLS that employ planners report that the coffee bill alone was almost meeting in nicer hotels, improved banquet services, and more professional $6,000, they were aghast and encouraged meetings. And since planners provide hotels the lion’s share of their business me to share this and other tidbits with the and many planners have contracts that guarantee they will receive the lowest membership. room rates, attendees should be able to save on accommodations. Conference hotels do a fabulous job of But the principal reason for using a planning company is that they have handling our meetings, but there is a price clout with hotels. The annual meeting represents HSS’s greatest financial risk, for that service. Food is expensive. A gallon and in these days of terrorism, hotel and transportation strikes, and natural of coffee (3,785 ml) costs $46 ($2.88 per 8 disasters, having a large company assist you when you are trying to mitigate ounce cup, 34% less coffee than the small- losses makes sense. est size at Starbucks) and when you add I hope that those who attended the 2005 meeting enjoyed themselves. the service charge and sales tax, a $2.88 cup of coffee actually costs $3.77. Thank you for coming. Such prices are typical at conference hotels, so I try to be careful with these expenses, recognizing that not everyone who registers for the meeting drinks coffee. But the urge to order more coffee can be overwhelming when there is a long line of caffeine-deprived delegates holding empty cups in front of empty urns. But replenishing the coffee urns meant that our five coffee breaks in Minneapolis came to $5,873 US (4,913 EUR). As you would expect, alcohol is even more expensive than coffee, one rea- The HSS would like to thank the following son why we decided to go with a cash bar for the two receptions at the 2005 donors for their generous support of gradu- meeting. This seems a fair way to keep registration costs down, but there is an ate students at the 2005 annual meeting. even more important reason: litigation. Meeting experts tell us that hosting an open bar at our conference is begging for trouble. Over $1,000 was raised to provide extra dis- Of course, the biggest expense associated with the annual meeting is counted rooms for students at the host hotel, labor costs. At least 25% of the Executive Office’s efforts are devoted to the as well as refreshments for the graduate-stu- annual meeting. That means that for the meeting to break even, we need to clear $31,000 after covering all other expenses. That means, $31,000 after dent lounge. Thank you! paying the $29,000 hotel bill, the $4,000 bill for printing the program, the $3,000 fee for processing credit cards, as well as charges for transportation, xeroxing, meeting packets, program planning, and myriad supplies. When Garland E. Allen Bernadette McCauley you add all of these expenses together you get over $80,000; if we relied solely Adam J. Apt Lynn K. Nyhart on registration fees, everyone (including graduate students) would have to Patrick J. Boner Brian W. Ogilvie pay over $120 to cover costs (based on an attendance of 600, which was close Mark Borrello Marilyn B. Ogilvie to the Minneapolis numbers). So how were we able to offer regular members Richard Burkhardt Robert J. Richards and graduate student members early meeting registration rates of $85 and Fabien Chareix Michael H. Shank $45 respectively? Gary Fouty Nancy G. Slack Well, we employ several strategies. Income from the book exhibit and pro- Graeme J.N. Gooday Scott Spear gram ads help. Another tactic is to enlist sponsors for the meeting. This past Elizabeth Green Musselman Ida H. Stamhuis year we drew on the support of The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity Mott T. Greene Donald Edward Stanley in Life, The University of Chicago Press, The University of Minnesota (Office of Jon M. Harkness James E. Strick the Dean, Institute of Technology and Program in History of Science and Pamela M. Henson Liba Taub Technology), The American Council of Learned Societies, the California Bruce Hevly John Tresch Institute of Technology and the Francis Bacon Foundation, the Gambrinus Margaret C. Jacob Neale Watson Company, and Summit Brewing Company. Altogether, these sponsors account- Jeff Johnson Bob Weinstock ed for over $9,200 in donations, and we are grateful for their support. Yet another cost-savings strategy is to use professional planners to help Susan D. Jones Stephen P. Weldon with the meeting. Many of our fellow societies in the American Council of Gwen Kay Robert S. Westman Learned Societies, including SHOT, draw on such planners to assist them with Susan Lindee Lambert Williams their conferences. These planners offer advice on site selection, hotel negotia- 14 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 The International History of Science Society

As the graph to the right shows, the HSS includes members from around the globe. Almost a third of our membership is comprised of scholars residing outside the borders of the United States. Part of our international presence can be attributed to our Sponsor A Scholar program, and we are grateful for these scholars and for those members who sponsor them. If you know of individuals working outside of the U.S. who would benefit from HSS member- ship, please ask them to contact Jay Malone at the Executive Office at [email protected].

The History of Science Society would like to HSS 2006 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers thank the following for their support of the Sponsor A Scholar program Vancouver, B.C., Canada 2-5 November 2006 Anonymous Katherine Haramundanis Lawrence Badash Benjamin L. Harris (joint meeting with PSA & 4S) Angelika Boenker-Vallou John Heilbron Patrick Boner Erwin Hiebert The History of Science Society will hold its 2006 Annual Meeting in Alan C. Bowen Vancouver, British Columbia. Proposals for sessions and contributed papers must Stephen Brush Joel Howell be submitted by 1 April 2006 to the History of Science Society’s Executive Jimena Canales Gwen E. Kay Office, PO Box 117360, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7360; phone: David Cassidy E. S. Kennedy 352-392-1677; fax: 352-392-2795; e-mail: [email protected]. Peggy Champlin Shigehisa Kuriyama Submissions on all topics are requested. All proposals must be submitted on Landon Clay Shoshi Lavinghouse the HSS Web site (http://www.hssonline.org) or on the annual meeting proposal H. Floris Cohen Kenneth Ludmerer forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. We strongly encourage Jonathan Coopersmith James McClellan, III electronic submissions from the link provided on the HSS Web site. HSS mem- Angela Creager John L. Michel bers are asked to circulate this announcement to colleagues who are not mem- Lorraine Daston Sally E. Newcomb bers of the HSS but who may be interested in presenting a paper at the Annual Michael Aaron Dennis Naomi Oreskes Meeting. Particularly encouraged are session proposals that include: a mix of Fokko Dijksterhuis John L. Parascandola men and women; diversity of institutional affiliations; and/or a balance of pro- Ronald Doel Stuart S. Peterfreund fessional ranks (e.g. mixing senior scholars with graduate students). Only one William Eamon Robert J. Richards proposal per person may be submitted. For additional information con- M. D. Eddy Silvan S. Schweber cerning the 2006 meeting, contact the HSS Executive Office. Eliseo A. Fernandez Robert Silliman Before sending a proposal to the HSS Office, we ask that everyone read Elizabeth Garber Nancy Slack the Committee on Meetings and Programs’ “Guidelines for Marie Glitz Scott Spear Selecting Papers and Sessions” (on the HSS Web site); these will be used Judith & David Goodstein Keir Sterling in determining the acceptability of session and paper proposals. The 2006 pro- Loren Graham Liba Taub gram co-chairs are William Newman ([email protected]) and Keith Mott T. Greene Virginia Trimble Benson ([email protected]). Frederick Gregory Sallie Watkins Stanley M. Guralnick Frederick G. Weinstein 15

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2005 Prize Winners The HSS would like to thank the following vol- unteers for their service to the Society. Without Pamela Mack (Hazen Prize) their work, their talent, and their dedication, the HSS would simply not exist. Thank you.

President (2004-2005) Vice President (2004-2005) Michael M. Sokal Joan Cadden

Past President (2004-2005) Lawrence Principe (Pfizer Award) Council (2003-2005) Angela N. H. Creager, Lynn K. Nyhart, Michael A. Osborne, Diane Paul, Jole R. Shackelford

Standing Committees Brian Dolan, Comm on Education, 2002-2005, Chair, 2004-2005 Janet Browne James Secord, Comm on Honors and Prizes, 2002-2005, Chair, 2003-2005 (Distinguished Lecture) Karen Rader, Comm on Meetings and Programs, 2001-2004, Chair, 2003-2004 Mike Shank, Comm on Meetings and Programs, 2002-2005 Angela N. H. Creager, Comm on Meetings and Programs, 2003-2005 (2004 Program CoChair) Adrian Johns, Comm on Meetings and Programs, 2003-2005 (2004 Program CoChair) Bruce Hunt, Comm on Meetings and Programs, 2003-2005 (2004 Local Program Chair) Spencer Weart, Comm on Publications, 2000-2005, Chair 2004-2005 , Comm on Research and the Profession, Chair 2004-2005 A. I. Sabra (Sarton Medal) Nadine Weidman, Comm on Research and the Profession, 2002-2005 Constance Malpas, Comm on Research and the Profession, 2002-2005

Prize Committees Judith Grabiner, Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize 2002-2005, Chair 04-05 James Bono, Nathan Reingold Prize 2002-2005, Chair 04-05 Londa Schiebinger, Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize 2002-2005, Chair 04-05 Lisbet Koerner, Pfizer Prize, 2002-2004 Alan Shapiro, Pfizer Prize, Chair, 2004-2005 Alan Kraut (Davis Prize) Nathan Brooks, Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, 2002-2005, Chair 04-05 Lisa Rosner, Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize, 2001-2005, Chair 03-05 Liba Taub, Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize, 2002-2004

2005 Nominating Committee Anita Guerrini, Chair Cathryn Carson James Fleming Lynn Nyhart James Secord

William Newman (Pfizer Award) Pamela Henson, Women's Caucus CoChair 2003-2005 Pamela Mack, NASA/AHA Fellowship Committee, 2000-2005 Paul Farber, AAAS/Section L Delegate, 2002-2005

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Request for Prize Nominations (Nominations are due 1 April and can be made online at http://hssonline.org – click on Society Awards) Nathan Reingold Prize (formerly known as the Schuman Prize) for the best graduate-student essay (deadline 1 June) Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize for the best article on women in the history of science (Articles published from 2002 to 2005 are eligible) New Suzanne J. Levinson Prize (biennial) for the best book in the history of the life sciences or natural history, published 2002-2005 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for exceptional educational activities in the history of science Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prizefor the best book in history of science intended for a broad audience, published 2003-2005 Pfizer Award for the best book aimed at a scholarly audience in history of science, published 2003-2005 Sarton Medal for exceptional scholarship over a lifetime 17 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Future Meetings The following announcements have been edited for space. For full descriptions and the latest announcements, please visit our Web site (http://www.hssonline.org). The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of any item; interested persons should verify all details. Those who wish to publish a future meeting announcement should send an electronic version of the posting to [email protected].

Calls for Papers Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology will be held at Johns Hopkins Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, 7-8 April 2006. University on 24-25 March 2006. Abstracts should be 300 words or less and must include a title and author name and affiliation. E-mail (pdf, rtf, or Word format) should be addressed Call for Participation: ‘Toward a History and Philosophy of Expertise’ The to all three of the following: Nathaniel Comfort ([email protected]), Sharon Kingsland Chemical Heritage Foundation will host a workshop, “Toward a History and Philosophy ([email protected]), Daniel Todes ([email protected]). Deadline 1 February 2006. of Expertise” on 7-8 April 2006, as part of the 2006 Cain Conference.

49th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto of the History of Science Mephistos 2006. The 24th international graduate student conference in the history, Society. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 28-30 April 2006. The Junto welcomes short philosophy, and sociology of science, technology and medicine, University of Chicago 7-9 papers (20 minutes) on any topic in the history of science, technology, and medicine, or April 2006; http://mephistos.uchicago.edu. the philosophy of science and technology. Submit your abstract (300 word max.) elec- tronically by 1 March 2006, to [email protected]; http://www.histsci.wisc.edu/junto. Con/texts of Invention: A Working Conference of the Society for Critical Exchange. Case Western Reserve University, , Ohio, 20-22 April 2006. The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art. Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada 17-20 May 2006; Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Annual http://www.sfu.ca/conferences/infinite_genealogy. Contact Laura Marks, [email protected]. Meeting will be held 3 May 2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia; http://www.hssonline.org.

The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 33rd Remaking Boston. The Massachusetts Historical Society conference on the environ- Symposium in Leicester, U.K., 15 - 20 August 2006, welcomes proposals for individual mental history of Boston to be held 4-6 May 2006. papers and sessions. Deadline: 1 February 2006. Send proposals by e-mail to James Williams, Program Committee Chair at [email protected]; http://www.icohtec.org. American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting. Halifax. Nova Scotia, Canada, 4-7 May 2006; http://histmed.org. History of Science Society, 2-5 November 2006. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (See the call on p. 15.) Historical Perspectives on “Erklären” and “Verstehen.” Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 9-11 June 2006. Food Chains: Provisioning, Technology, and Science, 3-4 November 2006. The Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society invites paper proposals on the Sixth Annual HOPOS Congress. The International Society for the History of provisioning systems that supply our world with food. Deadline 31 March 2006. Contact Philosophy of Science will hold its sixth international congress in , France, in Carol Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807. cooperation with the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS), 14-18 June 2006 at Phone: 302.658.2400, ext. 243; Fax: 302.655.3188; e-mail: [email protected]. the École Normale Supérieure, Paris; http://www.sps.ens.fr/activites/hopos2006/ indexhopos.html.

Upcoming Conferences The Society for the Social History of Medicine: “Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives.” University of Warwick, 28-30 June 2006. First Conference on History of Medicine in Southeast Asia. Siem Reap, Cambodia, 9-10 January 2006; http://www.khmerstudies.org/. Philosophies of Technology: Bacon and His Contemporaries. Frankfurt am Main, 7-8 July 2006. Eighth Annual Meeting: Southern Association for History of Medicine and Science. San Antonio, 24-25 February 2006. International Conference on the History of Alchemy and Chymistry. Philadelphia, 19-22 July 2006. http://www.chemheritage.org/events/alchemy/index.html. APS: History of Physics and Astronomy, 13-17 March 2006, , MD; 25 April 2006, Dallas, TX; http://www.aps.org/ meet/MAR06/ and http://www.aps.org/meet/APR06/. Society for the History of Natural History. 21-24 September, 2006, McGill University, Montreal Canada; http://www.mcgill.ca/redpath. Empire, Borderlands and Border Cultures. California State University Stanislaus, 16-18 March 2006. Second European Society for the History of Science International Conference. Cracow, 6-9 September 2006; http://www.eshs.org. The European Social Science History Association Conference will be held in Amsterdam, 22-25 March 2006; http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/. Health and Medicine in History: East-West Exchange. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2-4 November 2006. International Symposium on Franco-British Interactions in Science Since the 17th Century. Maison Française, Norham Road, Oxford, 24-25 Philosophy of Science Association. 2-5 November, 2006, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. March 2006; http://www.eshs.org. Joint meeting with HSS and 4S.

18 History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 Dissertations List The list below reflects information provided by Dr. Jonathon Erlen (only dissertation titles placed in Dissertation Abstracts are included) and others and was current as of 1 August 2005. Please send any missing titles to [email protected]. Armstrong, Sean. “Superstition and the Idols of the McCormick, Maureen A. “Of Birds, Guano, and Man: Apothecaries, 1822 to 1922.” Open University, 2004. Mind: How the Witch-hunt Helped Shape the Scientific William Vogt’s ‘Road to Survival.’” The University of C817525. Revolution in England.” York University, Canada, 2004, Oklahoma, 2005, 242 pages. 3159283. 332 pages. NQ99139. Thomas, Catherine E. “Deadly Discourse: The Miles Board, Steffan. “The Concept of Historical Cultural Politics of Poisoning in Early Modern England.” Austin, Stephanie. “The Influence of the Feminist Individuality in G. W. F. Hegel’s ‘Science of Logic’ and The Pennsylvania State University, 2004, 227 pages. Movement in/on the History of Psychology.” York ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History.’” McMaster 3157583. University (Canada), 2003, 280 pages. NQ99142. University (Canada), 2003, 186 pages. NQ97785. Tunlid, Anna. “Boundary of Genetics: Individuals and Bay, Stephen M. “Toward a New Edition of Themistius’ Miron, Janet. “‘As in Menagerie’: The Custodial Institutions in the Development of Swedish Genetics.” Paraphrase of ’s ‘de Anima.’” University of Illinois Institution as Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century.” York Lunds Universitet, 2004, 380 pages. C818229. at Urbana-Champaign, 2004, 122 pages. 3160863. University (Canada), 2004, 270 pages. NQ99211. Vackimes, Sophia. “Of Science in Museums: A Study Collins-Cavanaugh, Daniel J. “Bergson’s Aristotelian Moezzi, Mithra Mah. “Technology in a World of of Contemporary Museology.” New School University, Theory of Duration and the History of Temporality.” Folklore.” University of California, Berkeley, 2004, 560 2005, 350 pages. 3161886. Duquesne University, 2005, 214 pages. 3162520. pages. 3146955. Vossoughian, Nader.“Facts and Artifacts: Otto Neurath Dufresne, Todd Raymond. “Beyond ‘Beyond’: Tales Morgan, Gregory J. “The Beauty of Symmetrical and the Social Science of Socialization.” Columbia from the Freudian Crypt.” York University (Canada), 1997, Design: The Alleged Epistemic Role of Aesthetic Value in University, 2004, 393 pages. 3147287. 418 pages. NQ99163. Theoretical Science.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2005, 272 pages. 3157792. Ward, Susan Mechele. “Rhetorically Constructing a Eaton, William Rolla. “Boyle on Fire: The Mechanical ‘Cure’: FDR’s Dynamic Spectacle of Normalcy.” Regent Revolution in Scientific Explanation.” Southern Illinois Morris, Norma. “Scientists Responding to Science University, 2005, 175 pages. 3159818. University at Carbondale, 2004, 259 pages. 3163058. Policy: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Situation of Life Scientists in the UK.” Universiteit Twente, 2004. Wedge, John. “The United States, Radio Architecture, Edwards, Michael. “Geometric Theology and the and Global Space, 1933-1951.” University of Illinois at Meaning of Clannesse in the Poems of the Pearl Murray, Narisara. “Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Urbana-Champaign, 2004, 331 pages. 3160970. Manuscript.” University of California, Davis, 2004, 277 Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of pages. 3161418. London, 1850-1897.” Indiana University, 2004, 338 pages. Widders, Evan. “Science, Medicine, and Criollo Culture 3162254. in Late-Colonial New Spain.” University of California, Hausdoerffer, John. “George Catlin and the Politics of Santa Barbara, 2005, 247 pages. 3161540. Nature.” Washington State University, 2004, 226 pages. Nieves, Ervin. “Beyond : Chicana/o 3160474. Literature and Modern Scientific Literary Analysis: Wolfenstein, Gabriel Karl. “Public Numbers and the Rereading Josefina (Josephina) Niggli and Oscar Zeta Victorian State: The General Register Office, the Census, Heidarzadeh, Tofigh. “Theories of Comets to the Age Acosta.” The University of Iowa, 2004, 303 pages. 3158008. and Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” University of of Laplace.” The University of Oklahoma, 2004, 362 pages. California, Los Angeles, 2004, 309 pages. 3146600. 3149289. Newton, Julianne Lutz. “The Commonweal of Life: Aldo Leopold and Land Health.” University of Illinois at Xu, Yibao. “Concepts of Infinity in Chinese Jones, Mark Peter. “Biotech’s Perfect Climate: The Urbana-Champaign, 2004, 485 pages. 3160932. Mathematics.” The City University of New York, 2005, xiv Hybritech Story.” University of California, San Diego,2005, + 344 pages. 899 pages. 3160338. Roland, Jeffrey Wells. “Toward an Epistemology of Mathematics: Naturalism. Cornell University, 2005, 202 Yoon, Ho Sang. “Existentialism with Regard to Science Katz, Rebecca Lynn. “Yellow Rain Revisited: Lessons pages. 3162500. in Twentieth-Century Argentinean Literature”(Spanish Learned for the Investigation of Chemical and Biological text). Washington University, 2004, 278 pages. 3147469. Weapons Allegations.” Princeton University, 2005, 350 Ryan, Vanessa. “The Material Mind: Early Psychology pages. 3161897. and the Victorian Novel.” , 2004, 300pages, Yeung, Yang. “Cyborg and Human: When a Postmodern ISBN 0496134140. Myth Meets Humanism.” The Chinese University of Hong Kavey, Allison B. “Worlds of Secrets: Books of Secrets Kong, 2004, 321 pages.3162599. and Popular Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600.” Semorile, Trina.“Exposure to the Light: ‘The American The Johns Hopkins University, 2005, 295 pages. 3155628. Amateur Photographer’ and the Dialogue with Zulli, Jerilyn. “Puritans, Patriots, and Proto-Science Technology, Social Structures and Cultural Change.” New Fiction: The Influence of Early American Culture on the Masear, Teresa E. “Measuring Heads and Calibrating York University, 2004, 455 pages. 3147169. Production and Consumption of Science Fiction and Minds: The Dark Legacy of Eugenics in American Utopian Fiction in American Literature.” The George Intelligence Testing.” University of California, Los Angeles, Simmons, Anna Elizabeth. “The Chemical and Washington University, 2004, 285 pages. 3148016. 2004, 168 pages. 3146609. Pharmaceutical Trading Activities of the Society of 19

History of Science Society Newsletter January 2006 ISIS BOOKS RECEIVED Prior to the publication of each Newsletter, the HSS Executive Office receives from the Isis Editorial Office a list of books received by that office for potential review. This list appears here quarterly; it is not compiled from the annual Current Bibliography. You may also view this list and prior lists online at http://www.hssonline.org/society/isis/mf_isis.html.

Aaboe, Asger. Episodes from the Early History of Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and Eisner, Thomas. For the Love of Insects. Foreword by Astronomy. xiv + 172 pp. bibl., figs. New York: Springer-Verlag, the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture Edward O. Wilson. Xi + 448 pp.illus., figs., bibl., index. 2001. $59.95 (paper). 0387951369. 1884-1929. (Studies in Industry and Society.) viii + 334 pp., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 0674018273. figs., apps., bibl., index. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Andreasen, Nancy C. The Creating Brain. The University Press, 2005. $49.95 (cloth). 0801880998. Eisner, Thomas; Eisner, Maria; Siegler, Melody. Neuroscience of Genius. xii + 197 pp. illus., figs., bibl., index. Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and New York/Washington: Dana Press, 2005. $23.95 (cloth). Brown, Louis. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Other Many-Legged Creatures. x + 372 pp., illus., figs., apps., 1932594078. (Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of index. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Washington, Volume II.) xviii + 295 pp., figs., apps., index. Press, 2005. 29.95 (cloth). 0674018826. Baker, Gregory L.; Blackburn, James A. The Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $107.95 (cloth). Pendulum: A Case Study in Physics. xii + 300 pp.,figs., bibl., 0521830796. Feuerle, Mark. Bilde - Mange - Trebuchet: Technik, index. United Kingdom: , 2005. $89.50 Entwicklung und Wirkung des Wurfgeschützes im (cloth). 0198567545. Brunner, Bernd. The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated Mittelalter. 193 pp., illus., bibl. Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2005. History of the Aquarium. 144 pp. illus., app., bibl. New York: 28.50(cloth). 3928186787. Beason, Doug. The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. $24.95 (cloth). Energy Weapons will Change the way Future Wars will be 1568985029. Fitas, Augusto J.S.; Videira, António A.P. (Editors). 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n celebration of the 50th anniversary of the HSS graduate-student essay prize, the Iformerly named Schuman Prize, the HSS Executive Office researched past winners and came up with some interesting facts. Given the preponderance of graduate pro- grams in the U.S., it was not surprising that most winners have come from schools in the United States, but what did surprise us is that, judged by region, the northeastern U.S. has dominated the competition with a full 81% of winners coming from that area. Princeton has been the lion (or tiger, if you will), with 13 winners; followed by Harvard and Penn, with 5 winners each; and Johns Hopkins with 4. A total of 4 prize- Note: Graph only represents years the prize was awarded. winning students came from schools in the Midwest (University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago with 2 prizes each). Only 2 western schools (UCLA and Cal) have hosted winners. No school in the South has won and only two international Interestingly, the number of submitted articles has fluctuated widely. In the early schools (University of Toronto and Cambridge University) have claimed the prize. 1990s, 16 and 17 entries per year were common. These numbers fell dramatically in Part of the explanation for the northeast influence could be the pattern of estab- the mid-90s with as few as 4 submissions and no more than 8 received each year. lishment of the graduate programs in the U.S., although a Princetonian was the last Heavy promotion of the prize among graduate students increased submissions signifi- to win the prize. What is more important is the number of submissions. cantly (22 in 2003), but this past year only 7 students entered essays, and none of these papers were judged as meeting the high standards of the Reingold Prize. So, what is to be done? There are many things we can do. We have extended the prize deadline (from April 1st to June 1st) to give students extra time to polish their essays. Department chairs and dissertation advisers should send reminders to their stu- dents to take a chance on the prize (many chapters from dissertations have landed the prize). Delegates who attended the HSS meeting in Minneapolis should send an e-mail to students whose papers they considered especially interesting, encouraging those stu- dents to submit their paper for the competition. Finally, students need to submit their work, to be bold, and to make a bid for the prize. Such efforts elevate the intellectual field, paying dividends for the entire profession.

The Reingold Prize guidelines can be found on the HSS Web site at http://www.hsson- line.org/society/awards/mf_awards.html.

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