ISSN 0739-4934 NEWSLETTER I {!STORY OFSOENCE VOLUME 28 NUMBER 3 July 1999 SOCIETY HSS in Pittsburgh

ittsburgh is called "the city with an entrance" and HSS members who have Pnot visited the area will soon understand the significance of this phrase. As you emerge from the Fort Pitt tunnel on the drive in from the airport, Pittsburgh's compact downtown will be spread before you, its gleaming 11-by­ l l block area dispelling persistent notions of a coal-smeared town. The downtown area, also called the "Golden Triangle," (pictued at right) marks the union of Pittsburgh's three rivers, the Monongahela, the Allegheny, and the Ohio, with the poimofintersection marked by Point State Park, which features jogging trails and a spectacular fountain, fed by a little-known fourth river. To the east ofPoint State Park is Oakland, Pittsburgh's academic center, where Andrew Carnegie and others used their fortunes to $20 and the ride to the hotel takes about 35 build a cultural district of world renown, minutes. You will use the Oliver Street stop including the Carnegie Museums and the for the shuttle, a short block from the hotel. A CONTENTS Cathedral of Learning. (All ofwhich are a short cab ride averages $28 to $38, depending on July 1999 bus ride from the conference hotel.) Located the traffic. Also, the port authority operates a just across from Oakland, in Schenley Park, is bus, Airport Flyer 28X, $1.95 one way, which the Phipps Conservatory and its two and one­ has two downtown stops. Check at the airport Cover Story 1 half acres of exotic flora. On the north side of for the schedule. The bus takes approximately town, are the Andy Warhol Museum and the 45 minutes. News of the Society 2-5 Carnegie Science Center and the "T", The weather can be unpredictable in Meeting Program 6-13 Pittsburgh's subway, which is free in the November, with days ranging from summer­ downtown area. like weather to snow storms. Typically, the last News & Inquiries 14-17, 19-20 Members will have a variety of options in colors of the fall foliage will still be visible and Awards, Honors, & reaching the Westin William Penn, the temperatures will be in the lower40s Fahrenheit, conference hotel, from the airport. Once you approximately 5 degree Celsius, and it is best to Appointments 18-19 deplane, proceed to Ground Transportation bring a jacket or sweater. Weather reports, Dibner News 21-24 and the Airport Express booth. (Look for the along with a wealth of information, such as $3 off coupon on the hotel registration page. cities served by Pittsburgh International Airport, Jobs, Fellowships, Credit cards are accepted.) The shuttle runs are available via links on the HSS Web site. Grants & Prizes 24-27 Monday through Friday 5a.m. to 7p.m. every For members who live in other countries, Future Meetings 27-32 30 minutes, and 7p.m. to 1Op.m. every hour. currency exchange outlets are available at the On Saturday and Sunday, it operates from Mellon Bank, the PNC Bank, and Mutual of ISIS Books Received 32-36 5a.m. to 1Op.m. every hour. A round-trip is Omaha, the latter located at the airport. 2 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

History of Science Society Executive Office HSS Looking Ahead University of Washington As we prepare to assemble for the 1999 annual meeting, the Box 351330 satisfaction of celebrating the semisesquicentennial is leavened by Seattle, Washington 98195-1330 the Society's forward-looking activities. These activities are Phone: 206/543-9366 nowhere more evident than the services offered through the HSS Fax: 206/685-9544 Web site (http://depts.uwashington.edu/hssexec) which has been maintained and expanded by Melissa Oliver and Rob Ferguson. e-mail: [email protected] One portion of the HSS site which was a resounding success this Web site: http:!!depts.washington.edu/hssexec! past spring, was the option to submit electronically paper or Physical address (Fed-Ex, UPS): session proposals for the 1999 meeting. Compared to last year, Johnson Hall, Room 226 the first year that electronic submissions were available, the University of Washington differences are dramatic. In 1998, 10 percent of session proposals Seattle, Washington 98195-1330 and 25 percent of paper proposals came through the Web. This Subscription Inquiries: ISIS and HSS Newsletter year, those numbers grew to 84 percent and 89 percent, respectively. Please contact the University of Chicago Press directly, at: Electronic submissions not only eased the submission process for [email protected], (fax) 773/753-0811, or write our members -27 percent more session proposals were received Universiry of Chicago Press, Subscription Fulfillment Manager, compared to last year-but a large difference was evident in the P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. office. Instead of laboriously typing in abstracts, many of which had been submitted via garbled faxes, a task that would take 30 Moving? minutes or longer for each proposal, electronic submissions were Please notify both the HSS Executive Office and the University processed in a tenth of the time, an average of 3 minutes for each of Chicago Press at the above addresses. proposal. These were then quickly loaded onto a unique Web site, HSS Newsletter Editorial Policies, Advertising, and Submissions designed specifically for the program co-chairs. Due to the The History ofScience Society Newsletter is published in January, increased electronic submission rate and the concerted effort of April, July, and October, and sent to all individual members of the the program chairs, this year's program was available much earlier Sociery; those who reside outside ofNorthAmerica pay an additional than anticipated $5 annually to cover a portion of first-class airmail charges. The Although session and paper proposals are vitally important, Newsletter is available to nonmembers and institutions for $25 a other services are offered through the Web site. Meeting registration year. and hotel reservation forms will be posted on the Web site, The Newsletter is edited and desktop published by Melissa precluding the need to request yet another July Newsletter to Oliver in the Executive Office on an Apple Power Macintosh system replace the one that never found its way to a member's address. using Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker.The format and Also, an updated online directory is now available, with a database editorial policies are determined by the Executive Director in that is searchable by name, institution, city, and, best of all, consultation with the HSS Executive Committee. All advertising research interests. This new electronic directory will complement copy must be submitted camera-ready. Advertisements are accepted the print directory, which was mailed to members in May, and on a space-available basis only, and the Society reserves the right not should facilitate contact among our membership-one of the to accept a submission. The rates are as follows: more important functions of a professional society. Full page (9 x 7.5"), $350; Half page (4.5 x 7.5"), $200; Quarter page (3 x 5"), $100. The deadline for insertion orders and * * * Memorabilia Wanted * * * camera-ready copy is six weeks prior to the month of publication (e. g., November 15 for the January Newsletter) and should be sent Please send us your photos, old meeting programs, or other print to the attention of the HSS Executive Office at the above address. memorabilia that we can display at the anniversary meeting. HSS recommends that all camera-ready ads be sent via overnight or 2-day mail to the physical address above. REMINDER-The Isis Bibliography from 1975 to the The deadline for news, announcements, and job/fellowship/ present is available online with the Research Libraries Group prize listings is firm: The first of the month prior to the month (RLG). Members of the Sociery may access the RLG website, ofpublication. Long items (feature stories) should be submitted six and the History of Science and Technology Database (Hsn weeks prior to the month of publication as e-mail file attachments through the HSS homepage http://depts.washington.edu/ or on a 3.5'' disk (along with a hard copy). Please send all material hssexec/. RLG has assigned us "Y6.Gl9" asa "User Name" and to the attention ofMelissa Oliver at the HSS address above (e-mail "HSSDEMO" as a "Password." or disk appreciated). News of the Society 3

New Travel Agent 1999 Election Results

We have recently secured the services of Sandra Courtney of Travel Concepts, Inc., for The following members have been chosen to represent Society travel. Sandra has extensive experience working with the education sector. When the interests of the Society. you contact her, she will look first for convenient flights on your preferred airline. Ifyou desire the least expensive flight available, please let her know. Also note that international For Vice-President: travelers are not eligible for the convention discount; international travelers can lower (President elect} John Servos, Amherst College their airfare by buying wholesale discount tickets (check with your travel agent). If you call, and Sandra is unable to take your call, just leave your travel preferences on her voice For Council: mail and she will respond within 24 hours. Or, you may wish to fax or e-mail her the Janet Browne, WellcomelnstitutefurrheHistoryofMedicine information. Irrespective of how you book your travel, please use the group identifier Rich Kremer, Dartmouth College number (United Air 5730D {800} 521-4041 or US Airways 39631137 (877) 874- Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University 7687) when you make your reservation. HSS will receive travel benefits as a result ofyour Alan E. Shapiro, University of Minnesota using this number, savings that accrue to the Society. Pamela Smith, Pomona College

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Reservations must be received by 1301 Beaver Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15233 4 October 1999 to receive the special rate. 6 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999 1999 9:00-11 :45 a.m. Debates Concerning Scientific Expert Testimony *indicates session organizer(s) Semisesquicentennial Claudia Clark, Central Michigan University, Program "Let Me Give You an Unbiased Opinion": A Roots of the History of Science Case Study ofCorporate-sponsored Industrial ToreFrangsmyr, Uppsal,a University, History Please note that this program is subject Health Researchers Deceiving Radium of Science as History of Civilization: George to change. For the most up-to-date Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Sarton's Program program, please visit our Web site at Technology, The Baltimore Case: Obligations, Maura C. Flannery, St. johns University, http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/ Judgment, and Data Science and Religion: Reconsidering the annual/program99.html Chair: *Paul Lucier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Work of Lynn White, Jr. Institute Adam J. Foster, University of Toronto, In Thursday, November 4 Dilthey's Shadow: Hermeneutics and the Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Modelling History and Philosophy of Science Executive Committee Meeting, 9:00 a.m.- and the Interactions Between Economics I.B. Cohen, Harvard University, Context 12:00 p.m. and the Sciences in the Twentieth Century and Construction: Allies of the History of Book Exhibit Set-up, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Marcel Boumans, University ofAmsterdam, Science Old and New HSS Council Meeting, 1:00-5:00 p.m. The Economic World in Which We Live Commentator & Chair: Ed Grant, Indiana Registration, 3:00-7:00 p.m. *Suman Seth, Princeton University, Bulls, University Opening Reception, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Bears and Brownian Motion: Physics and the Rationality of Stock-Market Pricing Experimental and Conceptual Tools in Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College, Plenary Session the Development of Organic Chemistry Controlling Gunfire: Inventory and 5:00-7:00 p.m. *Melvyn C. Usselman, University ofWestern Expectations with the Exponentially Ontario, Liebig's "Kaliapparat" and the Weighted Moving Average 75 years of HSS: Perspectives from Elemental Analysis of Organic Compounds: Phillip Mirowski, University ofNotre Dame, SHOT, PSA, SSSS, & BSHS A Reconstruction and Reevaluation From Quan cum Mechanics to Cyborgs: John TerryS. Reynolds, President, SHOT, 1998- *Alan J. Rocke, Case Western Reserve von Neumann and 20th Century Economics 2000, and Bruce E. Seely, Executive Secretary, University, Organic Analysis in France: Commentator & Chair: Mary Morgan, SHOT, 1990-1996, Parent or Older Sibling?: Apparatus, Method, Theory, and Style London School of Economics The History of Science Society and the Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute for the Founding of the Society for the History of History of Science, Paper-tools and the Theory and Practice in Early Modern Technology Formation of a New Experimental Culture Navigation Richard Jeffrey, President, PSA, The Career in 19th-century Chemistry Lesley B. Cormack, University ofAlberta, of Logical Empiricism Commentator & Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Edward Wright and Thomas Harriot: The Sheila J asanoff, President, SSSS, Oregon State University Case for Navigation as a Transformative Site Reconstructing the Past, Constructing the for the Scientific Revolution Present: Can Science Studies and History of Corruption, Fraud, and Misconduct in Alison D. Sandman, University ofWisconsin, Science Live Happily Ever After? American Science Madison, Who Marks the X?: Theoreticians Ludmilla Jordanova, President, BSHS, Is *Paul Lucier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, there an Anglo-American Historiography of The Great California Science? Oil Swindle: Silliman, Sesssion Organizers: Frederick Gregory, Whitney, and the Women's Caucus Annual Meeting University of Florida, and Edith Dudley Ethics of Scientific Sylla, North Carolina State University Consulting The Women's Caucus will hold its annual breakfast meeting T al Golan, Dibner on Friday, 5 November, from 7:30-9:00 a.m. at the HSS Friday, November 5 Institutefor the History Semisesquicentennial Meeting in Pittsburgh. The aims of the of Science and Caucus are to facilitate networking and other professional Registration, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Technology, The opportunities for women historians ofscience and to encourage Book Exhibit, 8:00 a.m-5:00 p.m. Common Liar, the teaching and research on historical studies of women and DVHSP Meeting, 7:30-9:00 a.m. Damned Liar, and the gender in science and technology. We cordially invite interested Women's Caucus Meeting, 7:30-9:00a.m. Scientific Expert: individuals (especially graduate students and young scholars) /sisEditorialBoardMeeting, 7:30-9:00a.m. Nineteenth Century to attend. We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh! News of the Society 7

vs. Practitioners in the Construction of Sea Physics From the 1930s Janet C. Olson, Northwestern University Charts in 16th-century Spain Dong-Won Kim, Korea Advanced Institute Library, 'A Fantasy of Magazine Science': *Eric H. Ash, Princeton University, Secants ofScience and Technology, Y. Nishina and the American Popular Magazines and the and Sailors: Mathematical Expertise and the Japanese Physics Community in the 1930s Eugenics Movement, 1900-1924 Art of Navigation in Elizabethan England Matthew Frank, University ofChicago, What Tanya Hart, Yale University, Black and Roxani E. Margariti, Princeton University, Mathematics owes to Quantum Mechanics: Italian Infant Mortality in New York City, Navigational Encounters: Theory and Practice The work of von Neumann, 1927-1932 1915-1924 of Indian Ocean Navigation by Arabs, Andris V. Krumins, Institute for the History Commentator: Heather Munro Prescott, Ottomans and Portuguese in the 16th Century and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Central Connecticut State University Commentator & Chair: Peter Dear, Cornell Symmetry, Conservation Laws, and Nuclear Chair: JoAnne Brown, The Johns Hopkins Universiry Interactions University Robert G. Arns, University ofVermont, The All God's Creatures: Religion and Neutrinos: Conjectures in Search ofEvidence Ecology and Environment Science in Natural History Kent W. Staley, Arkansas State University, Maureen A. McCormick, University of *Monique Bourque, University of Lost Origins of the Third Generation of Oklahoma, The Intersection ofEnvironmental Pennsylvania, The 'Fabrick of Insects' and Quarks: Philosophy, Theory, and Experiment Determinism and Reproductive Limits in Frank the 'Omnipotence of God': Nature as a Chair: TBA Fraser Darling's Ecology Reflection of Divine Intention in the Works Thomas Potthast, Max Planck Institute for of Thomas Moffett Forum for the History of Science in the History ofScience, Origins and Obstacles Clara Pinto-Correia, Universidade Lusofona America, 12:00-12:30 p.m. of Bioethics: Ecologists and Morals in de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Committee on Honors & Prizes Meeting, Germany as Compared to North America, Portugal), God Under the Lens 12:00-1:30 p.m. 1930-1960 LyndaS. Payne, University ofMissouri-Kansas Committee on Education Meeting, Gale E. Christianson, Indiana State City, Hysterical and Hypochondriac 12:00-1:30 p.m. University, From Benevolence to Menace: Creatures: God, Nature, and Science in the Committee on Finance, 12:00-1:30 p.m. The Scientific Biography ofGlobal Warming Medical Passions of Enlightenment Britain Jens Lachmund, Max Planck Institute for the Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago, 1:30-3:10 p.m. History of Science, Maps, Biotopes and the The God of the Origin: Darwin's Romantic *indicates session organizer(s) Ciry: Urban Bio-Ecological Mapping in Transformation of Nature Germany, 1970-1998 Commentator & Chair: Paula Findlen, The Politics of Cancellation: Recent Chair: TBA f'f'\ Stanford University Science, the Public Policy Process, and Organized Protest Images of Human Nature Scientific Texts, Political Texture: Post­ Diana P. Hoyt, National Aeronautics and KathleenM. Crowther-Heyck,]ohns Hopkins Cold War Perspectives on Soviet Science Space Administration, The Politics ofMonkey University, Fetal Positions: Embryology and Kirill 0. Rossianov, Institute for History of Business: How it Came to Be that NASA Eschatology in Sixteenth-Century Germany Science and Technology, Moscow, Traveling Abandoned the Bion Project Joseph M. Gabriel, Rutgers University, "The with Bolsheviks: Field Work, Expeditions, Victoria P. Friedensen, NationalAcademy of Cocaine Nigger Sure is Hard to Kill": Sex, and their Patrons Engineering, Translating Risk: Public Protest Medicine, and the Racial Politics of Cocaine, Karl Hall, Harvard University, Tests of of Technologies for Space Exploration 1880- 1914 Strength: Soviet Physics and Industry during Michael N.M.I. Riordan,lnstitutefor Particle Susan A. Miller, University ofPennsylvania, the First Five Year Plan Physics, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, 'She Knows She is Master': Eugenics and the *Alexei B. Kojevnikov,American Institute of The Termination of the Superconducting Camp Fire Girls Physics, Freedom, Collectivism, and Super Collider Greg J. Downey, johns Hopkins University, Quasiparricles: Social Metaphors in Commentator: Teresa L. Kraus, Federal Embodying Information: Telegraph Messenger Quantum Physics Aviation Authority Boys as both Technologies and Agents *Slava Gerovitch, Massachussetts Institute of Chair: *Roger D. Launius, National Chair: TBA Technology, Speaking Cybernetically: The Aeronautics and Space Administration Discourse of Objectiviry in the Post-Stalin Era Negotiating the Boundaries of Mind and Commentator: Peter Galison, Harvard Building a Better American: Eugenics and Machine University Middle-Class Culture in the Progressive Era Otniel E. Dror, Getty Research Institute for ( Chair: Loren Graham, Massachusetts *Matthew Pratt Guterl, Rutgers University, the History ofArt and the Humanities, The \ Institute of]: chnology 'Homo Albus': Science, War, Middle-Class Clog in the Machine: Emotion and Disorder ~~· Patriotism, and theEmergenceofOptic Whiteness in the Laboratory and Clinic 8 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

David E. Millett and Cornelius Borek, Scott G. Knowles,Johns Hopkins University, David C. Brock, Princeton University, University ofChicago andMax Planck Institute The Symbol of Safety: Underwriters' Neurasthenia and the Ruthless Discipline of for the History ofScience, Navigating the sea of Laboratories and the Rise of Consumer Measuring Physics: A.A. Michelson's brain waves: Electroencephalography in the Product-Testing in the United States, Confrontation with the Values of Precisi 1930s and 1940s 1903-1917 Ralph R. Hamerla, Case Western Reserve Tara H. Abraham, University of Toronto, Peter D. Reffell, University ofLeeds, Sciences University, Laboratory Practice and Edward Physio(logical) Circuits: The Origins and Legacy of Management, Technologies of Morley's Personal Identity, 1881-1895 of the Neural Networks of McCulloch and Pitts Organisation: Humans and Machines in the Carsten Reinhardt, University ofRegensburg, Katharine Wright, University of Toronto, Early Development of the Computer in the Reinventing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Cybernetics and the Politics of Knowledge us 1900-1930 for Chemistry: Herbert S. Gutowsky Between Chair: TBA Thomas C. Lassman, johns Hopkins Disciplines and Identities, 1948-1968 University, Universiry-Industry Relations in Chair: *Leo B Slater, Chemical Heritage Localization of Scientific Knowledge Pittsburgh: Edward Condon and the Rebirth Foundation Margaret Meredith, University ofCalifornia, of Industrial Research at Westinghouse, San Diego, How Knowledge Travels: 1937-1945 Reconsidering the Amateurs in Science Collaboration and Credit in Early American Chair: TBA John T. Spaight, Cornell University, Natural Historical Inquiry Redrawing the Boundaries: On the Usefulness Maria M. Lopes and Silvia Fernanda de 3:30-5:20 p.m. of the Terms Amateur and Professional in Mendonca Figueiroa, lnstituto Geociencias­ *indicates session organizer(s) Describing Eighteenth-Century Astronomy Universidade de Campinas- UN/CAMP, Samuel] .M.M. Alberti, Universities ofLeeds Natural Sciences in Brazil: Local Aspects of the The Late, Great Scientific Revolution and Sheffield, UK, A Varied Stable: The 'Mondialization' ofSciences in the 19th Century Andrew Cunningham, University of Multiplicity of Victorian Amateur Natural Andrew Zimmerman, Columbia University, Cambridge, The Success of the Scientific History Practices Nature and Knowledge-Power at the Revolution *Thomas R. Williams, Rice University, The Hamburg Coloniai Institute *Margaret J. Osler, University of Calgary, Evolution of Amateur Astronomy in the Mina Kleiche, Universite Paris7-CNRS The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the United States in the Twentieth Century (France), To Convert the Morocco into a Vast Scientific Revolution Commentator: Ronald L. Numbers, Orchard:TointroduceNewAgriculturalMethods J.E. McGuire, University ojPittsburgh, Capturing University of Wisconsin, Madison &om California to Morocco During the 1930's the Past to Seize the Future: Tradition and the Chair: Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Chair: TBA Emergence of the New Science Institution Commentator & Chair: Robert S. Westman, Interconnections in 18th-century Science University of California, San Diego Real Science Wars: New Approaches to a Alexandra V. Bekasova, Institute for the Classic Issue History of Science and Technology, Russian Gender and Science: Transnational and Brett D. Steele, University of California, Los Academy ofSciences, "In Search for Sciences": Cross-Cultural Perspectives Angeles, Why the Scientific Revolution was so Russian Students in European Universities at Ann Hibner Kolbitz, Arizona State Revolutionary: Mechanics and the Mechanization the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century University, Transnational Studies of Gender of Early Modern Military Culture CarlFrangsmyr, Uppsala University, Culture and & Science: Toward a Broader Perspective MaryJ. Henninger-Voss, Princeton University, Climate: A Swedish 18th-century Discussion Mary F. Singleton and Pnina G. Abie Am, The Arsenal as a House of Experiment Jeff Loveland, University ofCincinnati, Did University of California, Berkeley, Leadership *Michael A Dennis, ComeU University, Gone to Buffon Copy Price?: When Bayesian Results and Gender in Science from Margaret Thatcher War: Henry Guerlac at the Radiation Laboratory are not Necessarily Bayesian to Kalyani: British and Foreign Female Progeny Commentator: Pamela 0. Long, Independent Henk Kubbinga, University of Groningen, of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin Scholar Laplace and the Rise of Molecularism *Abha Sur, MIT, Ordinary/Extraordinay: Chair: Michael A. Dennis, Cornell University Chair: TBA ~"' K\c.,~~ India's First Women Physicists Commentator & Chair: Andrea Rusnock, On the Importance of Having Standards Science, Technology, Industry and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute *Amy Slaton, Drexel University, Materials Universities Standards for Industry and the Obstacle of J ean-FrancoisAuger, Centre interuniversitaire Personal Identity and Scientific Practice Scientific Fixity de recherche sur la science et la technologie, *Leo B. Slater, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania, Toward a History of University, Industry and A Career in Steroid Chemistry: Percy Lavon Squashed Spiders: The Standardization and Government Relations: Contractual Research Julian and the Intersections of Science, Medicalization ofthe Human Chromosomes, in Canadian Universities Business, and Identity 1959-1965 News of the Society 9

*Arne Hessenbruch, Dibner Institute, James Ev.ans, University of Puget Sound, Hoax ofl 835: Science and Enlightenment in Biological, Physical, Technical Standards: Hands-On Projects in Pre-ModernAstronomy Antebellum America What do They Have in Common? Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University, Robert Hendrick, St. johns University, Commentator: Angela Creager, Princeton Science and Technology in the Making "Coating the Edge of the Cup": The Scientist University (STIM): Media-Intensive Tools for as Popularizer in Fin-de-Siecle France Chair: TBA Teaching and Research Wade E. Pickren, American Psychological Joseph N. Tatarewicz, University ofMaryland Association, APA Archives and the AP A Public The Same and Not the Same: Changing Baltimore County, Alternative Literary Forms of Information Campaign Since WWII Theory and Representational Inertia in History-Conceiving, Executing, and Evaluating Bruce V. Lewenstein, Cornell University, Chemical Models, 1857-1940 Chairs: *Lisa Rosner, Richard Stockton Have Books Mattered in American Science Christopher J. Ritter, University of College and Diane Lashinsky, Shorecrest H.S. Since 1945? California, Berkeley, The Impulse to Visualize Chair: TBA and Meaning-in-Practice: Chemical Models, Historicizing Intelligence: A Critical 1857-1874 Appraisal of Leila '.lenderland's Measuring Historical Writing on American Science *Peter J. Ramberg, Max Planck Institute for Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Revisited: The Current State of the the History ofScience, Representational and Origins of American Intelligence Testing Field-Part I Exemplary Models in Stereochemistry, Session sponsored by the Forum for the Session sponsored by the Forum for the 1874-1900 History of the Human Sciences History ofScience in America in celebration Eric Franceour, Max Planck Institute for the John Carson, University ofMichigan, From of its 15th anniversary: History ofScience, Fleshing Out Atoms: The the Pathological to the Normal: Zenderland Ronald R. Kline, Cornell University, Historical Writing on Business, Technology, Early History of Space-Filling Models on Goddard and the Meanings oflntelligence and Industrial Research Commentator & Chair: Stephen J. in America Weininger, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hans Pols, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Henry Writing and Reading a Scientific Classic: Herbert Goddard, Making Sense of Maxwell's "Treatise on Feeblemindedness, Electricity and Magnetism" and the Debate on Early Science Interest Group: Eat, *AndrewC. Warwick,!mperial College, From Citizenship Drink and Discuss Where the Field is Maxwell's "Treatise" to the Cambridge Garland E. Allen, Heading Maxwellians Washington University, Bruce J. Hunt, University of Texas, Taking Feeblemindedness Announcing a Symposium on the Measure of Maxwell's "Treatise" and the Biology of Ronald Anderson, Boston College, Exploring Criminality: The Sources and Resources: The Immediate Future the Mathematical Strategies of Maxwell's Wedding of of the Distant Past "Treatise" Goddard's Criminal Commentator & Chair: Jed Z. Buchwald, Imbecile and Eugenics Conversation Moderators: Dibner Institute for the History of Science in the Municipal (Ancient) Alex Jones and Jim Lennox and Technology Court of Chicago (Medieval) Joan Cadden and Jamil Ragep Commentator: Leila (Early Modern) Maggie Osler and Bill Newman HSS Reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Zenderland, Interest Group Meetings California State Everyone is welcome to join us. Details ofvenue and cost are I ~ History of Astronomy, U niversiry-Fullerton still to be determined. Deadline to sign up is 15 September History of Early Science Chair: *John P. 1999, bur early expressions of interest will help in planning. History of Chemistry Jackson, Universityof We have funds to help offset costs of the meal for graduate Colorado-Boulder students and those not employed; please let us know as soon 7 :30-9:00 p.m. as possible if you are eligible. *indicates session organizer(s) Workshop on Writing in Science: Please contact Liba Taub to sign up and be placed on the Beyond the Term Paper: Assigning and Its Past and Future mailinglist: [email protected] orbyfax 44-1223- Assessing Non-Traditional Projects in Alexander J. Boese, 334554. the History of Science University of Cathy Gorn, National History Day, California, SanDiego, This Symposium is organised in memory of Wilbur Knorr. Evaluating National History Day Projects The Great Moon 10 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

James R. Fleming, Colby College, The Jose Chabas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Cold War Politics and American Historiography of Science, Technology and Barcelona, The Diffusion of the Alfonsine Science, 1940s-1960s the Environment: An American Perspective Tables: The Case of the "Tabulae Resolutae" Jam es Strick,Arizona State University, NASA, Keith Wailoo, Harvard University, The Body Michael H. Shank, University ofWisconsin, the Cold War and the "Nucleic Acid in Parts: Recent Historiography on Disease Madison, Goldsteinian Themes m Monopoly": Sidney Fox, Stanley Miller and and the Biomedical Sciences Regiomontanus's Defense of Theon Origin of Life Research, 1953-1972 Commentator: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, *Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma, David K. van Keuren, Naval Research University of Minnesota Chair: *Clark A. Elliott, Harvard University Constructing Copernicus Laboratory, Cold War Science in Black and and Dibner Institute for the HistoryofScience Commentator: Bernard R. Goldstein, White: U.S. Intelligence Gathering and Its and Technology University of Pittsburgh Scientific Cover at the Naval Research Session also organized by Jessica Wang and Chair: Nancy Siraisi, Hunter College and the Laboratory, 1948-1962 Karen Rader Graduate School City University ofNew York Maura P. Mackowski, Arizona State University, Human Factors: Science, Off Color: The Science, Art, and Politics Technology, and Cold War Politics in the Saturday, November 6 of Seeing Beyond Black and White NASA Astronaut Selection Process Registration, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. *Theresa Levitt, Harvard University, Le rouge *Mark Solovey, Arizona State University, Book Exhibit, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. et le vert: Colors of Opposition in WEST, Social Science on the Cold War Committee on Diversity Meeting, 7 :30- Restoration France Battlefield: Project Camelot and the 1960s 9:00 a.m. Tim Lenoir, Stanford University, ''To Make Debate Over Scholarly Objectivity and the Committee on Independent Scholars, Sensuous Man Rational, You Must First Political Corruption of Research 7:30-9:00 a.m. Make Him Aesthetic:"-Physiological Commentator & Chair: Bart Hacker, Nominating Committee, 7:30-9:00 a.m. Aesthetics and the Normalization ofTaste in Smithsonian Institution Forum for the History ofScience in America Germany, 1860-1895 Coordinating Committee, 7:30-9:00 a.m. *Debbie Coen, Harvard University, The Readers and Publics for Early Modern "Irreplaceable Eye" and the "Irrecoverable I": Science 9:00-11 :45 a.m. Human and Mechanical Detectors in Alix Cooper, University ofPuget Sound, Death *indicates session organizer(s) Viennese Physics, 1918-1926 and the Naturalist: The Labor ofPosthumous Michael Lynch, Brunel University, The Publication in Early Modern Europe ·The History of the Discipline: ca 1930-1950 Composition of Objects: False Colour and Alice Walters, University ofMassachusetts at *DiederickRaven, Utrecht University, Zilsel's Digital Images Lowell, The Profits of Plagiarism: Henry Project on the Emergence ofModern Science Commentator: M. Norton Wise, Princeton Baker, George Adams, and "The Microscope *Anna K. Mayer, HPS, Cambridge (UK), University Made Easy" Setting up a Discipline: Disputes on the HS Chair: Erwin Hiebert, Harvard University *Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Committee, 1936-1951 Angeles, Fashionable Readers of atural Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University, Mendel: The First Dozen Years Philosophy Science at a ·Crossroads: Defining and (1900-1912+) Thomas H. Broman, The Segmentation of Prescribing an Uncertain Future Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne State the Literary Market and Periodical Publishing Roger Hahn, University of California, University, Richard Goldschmidt' s Epigenetic in the 18th Century Berkeley, History ofScience at Berkeley Before Interpretation of Mendelism Commentator & Chair: Ann Blair, Harvard and After World War II Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Max Planck University Commentator: Arnold Thackray, Chemical Institute for the History ofScience, Carl Correns: Heritage Foundation After Mendel and Beyond Astrological and (Al)Chemical Themes 7 Chair: David Lindberg, University of Ida H. Stamhuis, Vrije Universiteit in Early Science r Wisconsin, Madison Amsterdam, Mendelian Genetics and James A. Altena, University of Chicago, Probabilistic Reasoning: A Fruitful Elements, Mixis and Dynamis: Aristotelian The New History of Astronomy: A Combination Chemistry Reconsidered Session in Honor of Bernard R. *FrederickB. Churchill, Indiana University, Daryn R. Lehoux, University of Toronto, Goldstein August W eismann in a Mendelian World Causation in Ancient Astrological Weather Alan C. Bowen, Institute for Research in Classical Commentator: Robert Olby, University of Prediction Philosophy and Science, Simplicius and the Pittsburgh Steven R. V anden Broecke, KU Leuven, Early History of Greek Planetary Theory Chair: William Provine, Cornell University The Low Countries and the Expectation of a Second Flood in February 1524 News of the Society 11

MargaretD. Garber, UniversityofCalifornia, Chair: *Ryan D. Tweney, Bowling Green Fringes: Agricultural Sciences and the Culture San Diego, Naturalizing the Spectrum: State University and Language of International Science Observation, Alchemy, and the Physics of *Helen M. Rozwadowski, "Fish Know No the Rainbow Putting Fraud on Trial: Dishonest National Frontiers": Internationalism and H. Darrel Rutkin, Indiana University, Galileo Quacks, False Alchemists and Deceptive Environmental Pragmatism in European Astrologer: New Perspectives on his Early Career Painters in Early Modern Europe Marine Science Chair: TBA *Tara E. Nummedal, Stanford University, Sverker Sorlin, Umea University, 'Proper Bees' and 'Rotten Drones': True International Cooperation in Scandinavian Victorian Women Bridging Art and and False Alchemists in Early Modern Polar Geoscience, 1930-1960: Variations / Science Central Europe on Heroes and Nationalism Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware, Claudia Stein, University a/Stuttgart, Institute Commentator: Daniel Alexandrov, Of Fungi and Fables: Beatrix Potter's Science for the History of Medicine, Early Modern European University at St. Petersburg and Storytelling Medical Identity: Charlatans on Trial in Chair: *Helen M. Rozwadowski Ann B. Shteir, York University, Emma Sixteenth-Century Augsburg Peachey and Wax Flower Modeling Janice L. Neri, University ofCalifornia , Irvine, Museology and Medicine in the 19th Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, University of Truth, Deception and Illusion in Sixteenth­ and 20th Centuries Oklahoma, To Look at One Thing and See Century Images of Nature M. Rene Burmeister, Rutgers University, Another: Two Women Geologists, Ida Commentator & Chair: William Eamon, Public Instruction or 'Obscene Advertising'?: Ogilvie and Maria Ogilvie-Gordon New Mexico State University Popular Anatomical Museums in Nineteenth­ ~ Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, York University, century London Painting Outside the Lines: Marianne North's Science, Popular Literature, and *Constance A. Mal pas, Princeton University, Botanical Art Narrative Traditions Organizing Pathology: The Architecture of Commentator: Cynthia Russett, Yale Michael F. Robinson, University of Anatomy at Mid-Century University Wisconsin, Blonde Eskimos and Yell ow Erin H. McLeary, University ofPennsylvania, Chair:JenniferTucker, Wesleyan University Journalism: Reforming the Arctic Narrative Pathologists, Professionalism, and the Public: in Progressive America The Medical Museum Enters the Twentieth Committee on Meetings & Programs, Gary M. Kroll, University ofOklahoma, The Century 12:00-1:30 p.m. Self-Effacing Hero ofScience: William Beebe Commentator: John Harley Warner, Yale Committee on Research & the Profession, and his Literature ofOceanic Natural History University 12:00-1:30 p.m. *Craig S. McConnell, University ofWisconsin, Chair: Gretchen Worden, Milner Museum, Forum for the History of Human Science, Universal Myths: Narrative Expectations and College of Physicians of Philadelphia 12:00-1:30 p.m. the Origin of the Cosmos Committee on Publications, 12:00-3:00 p.m. Commentator: D. Graham Burnett, Personal Trajectories in Science and the University of Oklahoma Humanities 1:30-3:10 p.m. Chair: TBA Graham R. Shutt, University ofWashington, *indicates session organizer(s) Emerson and the Uses of Natural History Intersections of the Moral and the Joel S. Schwartz, College of Staten Island, Cognitive Understandings of Michael Natural in the Scottish Enlightenment CUNY, Out from Darwin's Shadow: George Faraday: New Tools and New Paul Wood, University of Victoria, Science, John Romane's Efforrs to Popularize Science Interpretations Politeness, and the Scottish Universities in Maria M. Farland, Columbia University, David C. Gooding, University of Bath, the Enlightenment Gertrude Stein's "Brain Work" Experimenting with an Experimentalist: the *Margaret Schabas, York University, David Charles R. Thorpe, Max Planck Institute for Computational Simulation of a Competent Hume and Experimental Science the History ofScience , The Cultivated Expert: Experimentalist Anita Guerrini, University of California, Self and Power in the Career of J. Robert Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie Mellon Santa Barbara, Virtuous Performance: Monro Oppenheimer University, The Discovery of Magnetic primus, Hutcheson, and Public Anatomy Chair: TBA Induction of Current:The Interplay of Commentator: Roger Emerson, University Phenomena and Concepts of Western Ontario Twentieth-Century War, Government, *RyanD. Tweney,BowlingGreenState University, Chair: Trevor Levere, UniversiryofToronto and Science Faraday and the "Golden Green": Metacognition Ann Johnson, Fordham University, and Discovery in Victorian Science Internationalism and Science Rebuilding the Engine: British Science Policy Commentator: TBA Mark R. Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State after World War I University, International Science on the 12 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Amy S. Bix, Iowa State University, Physics and Japan between Ideology and Economics Jessica Riskin, MIT, Moving Anatomies and Chemistry for Victory: America's Stuart Leslie, johns Hopkins University, Commentator: Lissa Roberts, San Diego Engineering, Science, and Management War Korean Science at the Crossroads State University Training Program, 1940-45 Chair: *Mark Walker, Union College Chair: Henry Krips, University ofPittsburgh Hunter A. Crowther-Heyck,]ohns Hopkins University, A Place at the Table: the Social Making Science Travel, Travel in the "Cbymistry" and "Chemistry''-Stability, Sciences and the Federal Patron Making of Science: The Role of 17th- & Transformation, and Rejection in the Edward Jones-Imhotep, Harvard University, 18th-century Corporate Networks Century Before Lavoisier Dispatches From the Border: Cold War Harold J. Cook, University of Wisconsin­ *William R. Newman, Indiana University, Military Culture and the Reliability of Madison, Introducing Asian Medicine to An Ungentlemanly Gentleman: Boyle's Scientific Satellites Europe: The Dutch East India Company Appropriation of Chymical Knowledge Chair: TBA and its Rivals Lawrence M. Principe, Johns Hopkins Gerald A. Ward, Dibner Institute and Boston University, Experiment in Chymistty and the 3:30-5:20 p.m. University, From Merchant Adventurers to Notebooks of George Starkey *indicates session organizer(s) Merchants of Light: The Advent of English John Powers, Indiana University, History Joint-Stock Trading Companies and the and Alchemy in the Chemical Work of Scientific Personae Making of Bacon's Great Instauration Herman Boerhaave Francesca M. Bordogna, University ofNotre Florence C. Hsia, Northwestern University, Kevin Chang, University ofChicago, In Search Dame, Three Rival Scientific Personae in Cherishing Observations from Afar: of True Sulphur: Georg Ernst Stahl's American Psychology, 1890-1920 European Contexts for Jesuit Astronomical "Zymotechnia Fundamentalis" Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University, Work in China Chair: Lawrence M. Principe,] ohns Hopkins Harmony and Camaraderie: The Persona of *Steven]. Harris, Wellesley College & Boston University the Naturforscher College, Cumulative Representations: How Andrew Mendelsohn, Max Planck Institute Corporate Networks Help Make Science Disease Entities in "Defined" for the History of Science, The Scientist as Globally Mobile & Locally Progressive Populations Within the Americas Technocrat Chair: *Steven J. Harris, Wellesley College Paul Kelton, Southern Connecticut State Commentator & Chair: *Lorraine Daston, & Boston College University, Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Max Planck Institute for the History ofScience Epidemics and Southeast Indian Survival to Philosophies of Social Science in the 1800 Refocusing the Spotlight: From Science French and American Traditions George Joseph, Yale University, "A Colony Stars to the Backstage Crew Daniela S. Barberis, University of Chicago, in the Homeland": Leprosy and Tropical DianaE. Long, UniversityofSouthernMaine, Durkheim, Duhem, and the Misfortunes of Medicine in Progressive Era Massachusetts Their Secret Gardens: Women and the Realism David Abernathy, University ofWashington, Pleasures of Endocrine Laboratory Life, *David L. Hoyt, University of California, Canal Cartographies: Disease, Territoriality, 1930-1960 Los Angeles, Sociology's Primitives and the and Scientific Evidence in the Panama­ Joy Harvey, Harvard University, The Mystery Empire's Associates: Greater France, 1890- Nicaragua Route Dispute ofthe Nobel laureate and the Vanishing Wife 1914 Commentator & Chair: *Michele *Mary Brown Parlee, MIT, Visible Bodies DaveMadden, UniversityofChicago, Culture, Thompson, Southern Connecticut State and Invisible Work: Gender, Scientific Personality, and the Philosophy of Social University Authority, and the Institutionalization of the Science in American Anthropology between Neurosciences at MIT the First and Second World Wars HSS Distinguished Commentator: TBA Commentator & Chair: John Gilkeson, Chair: Mary Brown Parlee, MIT Arizona State University Lecture 6:00-7:00 p.m. A Comparative Approach to Science and Bodies of Knowledge of Bodies in 18th- Charles Coulston Gillispie, Princeton Ideology century France University Walter Grunden, Bowling Green, andZuoyue Emma Spary, Max Planck Institute for the Introduction by: Theodore Porter, UCLA Wang, California State Polytechnic University History of Science, Berlin, Limiting Cases: at Ponoma, 'Ideologically Correct' Science Extraordinary Eaters as Surgical Bodies in Pre-Banquet Reception, 7:00-8:00 p.m. akov Rabkin, UniversityofMontreal Science 18th-century France HSS Banquet, 8:00-10:30 p.m. and Totalitarianism *Jonathan Simon, Centre de Recherche en Graduate Student Party, 10:30 p.m.-? Richard Beyler, Portland State University, Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany (CRHST), Skeletons in the Cabinet News of the Society 13

Sunday, November 7 )"'\ Is "Literature and Science" Historical? *Lindley Darden, University of Maryland, Bernard Lightman, York University, The College Park, The Mechanism of Protein Book-Exhibit, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Synthesis in the l 950s-l 960s: Biochemists HSS Business Meeting, 8:00-9:00 a.m. Scientific Narrative vs. Molecular Biologists Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan, Carl Craver, Florida International University, 9:00-11 :45 a.m. Dearborn, "Darwin's CirripediaandDickens's Discovering Long Term Potentiation *indicates session organizer(s) Little Dorrit Commentator: Naomi Oreskes, University *Laura Darrow Walls, Lafayette College, of California, San Diego Historical Writing on American Science "Consilience Revisited: or, Why Should a Chair: Philip Pauly, Rutgers University Revisited: The Current State of the Thoreauvian Read Whewell?" Field-Part II Commentator: David Knight, University of Intersections and Contentions in 17th- Session sponsored by Forum for the Durham century Science ~ History of Science in America in Chair: George Levine, Rutgers University Nicole C. Howard, Indiana University, I celebration of its 15th anniversary: ~ Beyond Artificial Wings: A Reassessment of I *Jessica Wang, University ofCalifornia, Los b"'·~The Computer as a Scientific Instrument Hooke's Role in the History of Physiology I Angeles, Science, Technology, and U.S.,.o S h B J h n · · ,+ H h ~-, tep en . o nson, university o 1 vort Fokko jan Dijksterhuis, University of Political History: Current and Future 1 . . · h. al D. . • Dakota, Computers and the Pracuce of Twente, Once Snel breaks down: From H1stonograp 1c 1recuons ~· Katherine Pandora, University ofOklahoma, Psychology . . Geometrical to Physical Optics in the Varieties of Historiographic Experience: Joel Hagen, Radford University, Computers Seventeenth Century Writing Intellectual and Cultural Histories as Scientific Instruments in Structural and Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Gordon of American Science Evolutionary Biochemistry Brittan, Jr., Montana State University, Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University, *Robert W. Seidel, University ofMinnesota, Gingerich's Kepler: What is Wrong with his ForeignPursuits:LinkingDiplomaticHistory High Energy Physics and High Speed Historiography of Science? with the History of Science Computing Matthew L. Jones, Harvard University, Commentator: Margaret W. Rossiter, Commentator: & Chair TBA Accounting for Circle and Self: Leibniz and Cornell University his Arithmetical Quadrature of the Circle Chair: *Karen Rader, Sarah Lawrence College Cutting-Edge Chemistry: Some 19th- Alberto Guillermo Ranea, Universidad Session also organized by Clark A. Elliott century Russian Contributions TorcuatoDi Tel/a, Galileo'sAuthorityandlts Session sponsored by Mendeleev Interest role in 17th-century Natural Philosopy Astronomy, Humanism, and Group Chair: TBA the Literary Arts Nathan M. Brooks, New Mexico State Ralph Drayton, University ofWisconsin, "In University, N.N. Zinin and Synthetic Dyes: Alternative Approaches in the Biological the Heart ofany Incepting Student": Religion The Road Not Taken Sciences and Medical Astrology in Montpelier c. 1400 David E. Lewis, University ofWisconsin, Eau Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu, A Case of RichardL. Kremer, Dartmouth College, From Claire, Zinc Alkyls in Synthetic Organic Anancasm: Nomogenetic School in Biology Text to Trophy: Shifting Functions of Chemistry: Cutting-Edge Chemistry at Sabine Brauckmann, University ofMuenster, Regiomontanus' s Library Kazan' Fields and Open Systems, or Two Models of *Karl L. Galle, Imperial College, Was Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute ofTechnolog;y, Theoretical Biology Copernicus also a Poet? The "Septem Sidera" D.I. Mendeleev and the Concept ofChemical Elena A. Aronova, Institute for History of and the Astronomer-Poet Tradition in Elements Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Central Europe *Richard E. Rice, jam es Madison University, Sciences, Lamarckism, Neodarwinism, and Adam Mosley, Cambridge University, Truth Hydrating Ions in St. PetersburgandMoscow, Plant-lice: Interpreting Experiments in the and Correspondence: Some Comments on Ignoring Them in Leipzig and Baltimore Studies of Experimental Evolution the Epistolary Genre and Early-Modern Commentator: & Chair TBA Stephane Castonguay, Cornell University, Astronomical Writings Crop Protection, Agricultural Sciences and Kristine L. Haugen, Princeton University, The Enduring Search for Mechanisms the Fundamentalization of Applied Biology Varieties of Divination: Richard Bentley and Peter K. Machamer, UniversityofPittsburgh, Chair: TBA the Astrological Poem of Manilius Origins of Science as Mechanisms Chair: James Bono, State University of J. Jeffry L. Ranisey, Oregon State University, New York, Buffalo Interpreting the 'Mona Lisa' of Chemical Reactions: Explanation, Mechanism and Methodological Values 14 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Poster Competition Osiris: Call for Proposals

In response to the demand for pre-college-level teaching materials The Osiris Advisory Board will consider proposals for Volume 18, to in the History of Science, the HSS Committee on Education is appear in 2003, at the Society's annual meeting in November 1999. initiating an annual poster competition for undergraduate students. Volumes in progress, or to appear shortly, includ~: historical Undergraduates, singly or in teams, will design posters on history of commemorations and memory; science and technology in East Asia; science themes, suitable for classroom display in K-12 classrooms and science and colonialism; and science and religion. Proposals for broad as supplemental learning tools for teaching science. themes that integrate issues in the history of science into topics of Posters will be judged by a subcommittee of the CoE on "mainstream" history are especially encouraged, as are contributors originality of theme and expression and appropriateness for a K-12 from the historical discipline at large. Volume 17, to appear in 2002, audience. Winning entries will be produced professionally and will be on science and civil society and will be guest edited by Lynn distributed through the National Science Teachers Association. Nyhart and Thomas Broman ofthe University ofWisconsin. Prospective Entries for the 1999 competition are due December 31, 1999, guest editors should submit the following materials for consideration: with winners notified by January 30, 2000. Winners will be honored (1) a proposal of approximately 2000 words describing topic and its at the 2000 meeting ofHSS, and winning entries will be on display. relationship to the literature to date including, where appropriate, the There will be three prizes awarded, of $250, $150, and $100, with literature in mainstream history; (2) a list of 10-12 contributors with matching prizes for the winning instructors. the theme, topic, or title of contribution; and (3) publication c.v. of Professors are urged to incorporate the poster competition into guest editor(s). Guest editors and their contributors should be prepared their curricula for next fall's classes in the history of science. It could to conform to the Osiris publication schedule. Volume 18 (2003) will be an extra-credit assignment, an option to replace a written assignment, go to press-after refereeing, author's revisions, and copy editing-in a small-group project - there are many ways a poster project could the fall of2002. Guest editors must therefore choose contributors who be a rewarding learning experience for undergraduates. Only one are able to submit their essays by the late fall of 2001. Proposals are entry will be accepted from each institution, so an internal competition reviewed by the Osiris Advisory Board at the Society's annual meeting. to determine the entry is a prerequisite. Announcement of the next volume of Osiris is made around the New Questions? Detailed guidelines are available from Anita Guerrini, Year. Proposals and all supporting materials should be sent by 1 coordinator of the poster competition, Environmental Studies October 1999 to: Kathryn M. Olesko, Osiris Associate Editor, Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Department of History, Georgetown Universiry, Washington, DC guerrini@ humanitas. ucsb.edu. Guidelines will also be posted on the 20057-1035. Preliminary inquiries should be made to Kathy Olesko Committee on Education section of the HSS web site. at: [email protected].

History of Physics Syllabi on the New HSS Dibner Postdoctoral Fellow Internet. Call for Syllabi. my C. Crumpton has been appointed the 1999-2000 History of As an aid to teaching and studying the history of physics, and A Science Society Dibner Postdoctoral Fellow. Since March 1998, as an introduction to the vast literature in the field, the Center she has been a program associate and research archivist with the for History ofPhysics ofthe American Institute of Physics has American Association for the Advancement of Science, responsible for put together a collection of syllabi. With the kind permission the reorganization and maintenance of the association's archives. From of their authors, sample syllabi are exhibited on the internet September 1997 to February 1998, she was associate curator of a at http://www.aip.org/history/syllabi/. They feature courses retrospective history exhibit for the AAAS l 50th anniversary meeting. taught at a variety of universities, including "Scientific Prior to earning her PhD in science and technology studies from Revolution," "History of Modern Physics," "Nuclear Age," Virginia Tech, she was a project coordinator with the AAAS Scientific "Science after WW II," and "Historical Experimentation." If Freedom and Responsibility Program, from 1987 to 1992, and worked you are teaching a course on the history of physics or a related on issues concerning science and ethics as well as served as managing science, please visit our homepage and send us your comments. And please send a copy ofyour syllabus or reading list, in any editor of the program's newsletter, Professional Ethics Report. paper or electronic format. As a History of Science Society Dibner Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Crumpton will investigate AAAS' s role in defining and redefining the Alexei Kojevnikov and Spencer Weart concept of "science and society" that has influenced the association's Center for History of Physics educational and programmatic missions co advance science. Particularly, American Institute of Physics she will develop a brief critical history of the AAAS Committee on One Physics Ellipse Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare, chaired by notable College Park, MD 207 40 USA scientists such as Barry Commoner and Margaret Mead, and the [email protected] committee's attempt during the 1960s to infuse the association with more socially active policy positions. News & Inquiries 15

History of Science recommended extended reading for the student or teacher interested in pursuing the topic in more depth. Where appropriate, audio-visual in Non-Western Traditions materials are mentioned, along with suggested topics for further Douglas Allchin, University of Texas, El Paso research. The volume is not exhaustive, but aims to supplement widely n recent years all available resources. Hence, it highlights, for example, the astronomy disciplines and all I of the early Chinese, the navigational techniques of Pacific Islanders levels of education have recognized the increased and the ancient medical knowledge of sub-Saharan Africans. By significance of Non­ contrast, it omits Arabic science (though clearly non-European), W estern perspectives. HSS already integrated into most narratives ofWestern science. Similarly, has now published a brief the volume includes contemporary science in many other non­ volume that aims to European regions, such as Latin America and Japan, even though introduce the pursuit of science there may follow a "Western" model. In addition, the science in Non-Western adoption or integration of Western science in cultures where it did traditions through a series not originally develop often poses striking issues about power, of brief essays and reading culture, and how each of these affects how science is done. The reader lists, in the style of a richly will find plenty ofmaterial to debate the very definitions of"Wes tern," annotated course syllabus. "non-Western," and "science." It is an outline and guide to resources (not a text), in the spirit of Brush's Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution. Publications Now Available from the HSS Executive Office There are contriburions on China, India, Latin America, Native America, Australia and ORDER FORM Name.______the Pacific, and Japan. This small volume Address ______should prove useful to seasoned historians of City ______State ZIP______science, as well as to graduate or undergraduate E-mail: ______Phone: ______students in the history of science who want to expand their repertoire. In addition, it will serve ethnic/minority students who want to Current Publications deepen their knowledge of science in a NEW! __copy/copies of An Introduction to the History ofScience in Non­ particular tradition and science teachers at all Western Traditions ($8 U.S./ Canada; $10 other addresses). levels who want to engage students in the humanistic dimensions of science. Each __copy/copies of 1998 HSS/PSA Meeting Program, including chapter begins with an introduction that abstracts ($10 U.S./ Canada; $12 other addresses). addresses the scope, noteworthy scientific __copy/copies of The Magic Lantern: A Guide to Audiovisual Resources achievements and major figures in each for Teaching the History ofScience, Technology, and Medicine ($15 U.S./ .. particular tradition. Listed, too, are major Canada; $20 other addresses). references that might serve as recommended __copy/copies of Topical Essays for Teachers ($8 U.S./Canada; $10 other first purchases for those who plan to pursue addresses). I the topic in more depth. This list is coupled .. __copy/copies of History ofScience Syllabus Sampler ($10 U.S./Canada; with a list of major sources for addressing other addresses $15). current scholarship: significant journals, newsletters, Web sites, listservs, study centers, Total: $ ____ My payment in US funds is attached. _____ or professional organizations where someone can update the sources on the reading lists, Visa or MasterCard# ______exp. ______review the latest research, or contact persons in the field. Signature ------Each chapter then presents a six-day "syllabus" with a brief synopsis for each day's Please make check or money order payable (in U.S. dollars) to the History of Science theme or focus. Each day includes a list of Society, HSS Executive Office, Box 351330, University of Washington, Seattle, WA student readings: approximately 1.5 hours of 98195-1330. Phone (206) 543-9366; Fax (206) 685-9544. introductory material. There is also a listing of 16 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Increased Funding at NSF came at the "upper end of the quality distribution," so that the number Michael Sokal, NSF of otherwise fundable proposals that the Program could not support rose sharply. This major budget increase is designed to begin, at least, Recent budgetary decisions at the National Science Foundation to address this problem. will increase the FY99 base budget of the Science & Technology The Program's fiscal year includes two "review cycles," with Studies Program - which supports research and training in history, annual "target dares" of 1 February and 1 August. It thus hopes to philosophy, and social studies ofscience and technology- by 7.47% receive an even greater number of proposals later this summer. The over its FY98 base. (The modal increase experienced by other formal STS Program Announcement is most readily available on the programs within the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences, World Wide Web, arwww.nsf.gov/sbe/sber/sts. This Web sire provides in which the STS Program now finds itself, was under 2.0%.) Once direct links to NSF's "Grant Proposal Guide" and other resources for all internal NSF budgetary adjustments have been made, the STS potential applicants. Program will make grants totaling more than $3.4 million in this Since 1973, the STS Program and its predecessors have been fiscal year. overseen successively by The decision to raise the STS budget so significantly derived Ronald J. Overmann Thanks to those HSS from several considerations. First, in recent years the Program (1973-1995) and Edward members who have experienced a major increase in the number of proposals submitted by ]. Hackett (1995-1998). participated in the Sponsor­ STS researchers. Excluding dissertation and workshop proposals, The current STS Program a-Scholar Program in 1999! supplement requests, and similar matters, these numbers rose from 80 Officer (who will serve in FY96 and 68 in FY97 to 107 in FY98. This increase led to a through August 2000) is Michele L. Aldrich significant decline in the Program's "success rate," which went from Michael M. Sokal, who Lawrence Badash 44% inFY96 and 53% in FY97 to 35% inFY98. Second, all involved may be reached at Alan C. Bowen in the review of these proposals agreed that the increased number msokal@ns(govand (703) Stephen G. Brush 306-1742. David C. Cassidy Peggy Champlin Landon Clay HSS Sponsor-a-Scholar Program Jonathan Coopersmith Lorraine Daston Yes, I would like to sponsor the scholar I have listed below. Michael Aaron Dennis Yes, please choose a scholar for me. Ron Doel William Eamon __ Yes, please renew my sponsorship of the scholar named below. Bruce Eastwood Anne Fitzpatrick Elizabeth Garber Scholar's Name:------Loren Graham Address:------Frederick Gregory Benjamin Harris City: ______Country: ______Postal Code: ____ Erwin Hiebert Gerald Holton Sponsor's Name: ______Joel Howell HSS Executive Office Address: ------ISIS Editorial Office City: ______Country: ______Postal Code: ____ E.S. Kennedy Bruce Lobitz Telephone: ______Email: ______James E. McClellan, III Michael Meo John L. Michel Amount Enclosed: ______($35 annually for each scholar sponsored) Naomi Oreskes Nathan Reingold Please make check or money order payable in U.S. dollars to the History of Science Sylvan S. Schweber Society. Send to HSS Executive Office, University of Washington, Box 351330, Nancy Slack Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Keir Sterling For further information about this program, please contact the HSS Executive Office at Liba Taub 206-543-9366, or email: [email protected]. Neale Watson News & Inquiries 17

New History of Physics Exhibits Spring Semester Folger Institute Seminar on the Internet Pamela 0 . Long will be directing a seminar at the Folger "Werner Heisenberg I Quantum Uncertainty," and "Andrei Shakespeare Library next spring entitled "Mechanical Arts, Natural Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons and Human Rights," rwo Philosophy, and Visual Representation in Early Modern Europe." new historical exhibits on the World-Wide Web, have been announced This seminar will examine the visual construction of the "natural" by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of and the "real" through a study of such concepts as "illusionism," Physics. The exhibits are designed to be useful for educational "symbolism," and "representation" in the fourteenth through purposes to a wide spectrum of audiences including high-school and seventeenth centuries. Ways in which visual images function in college students, teachers, scientists and historians. Besides many relation to texts will be explored in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, outstanding photographs and other illustrations, both exhibits include Vesalius, Galileo, Helvetius, Robert Boyle, and Robert Hooke, supplementary documentation and clips of the physicists' voices. among others. Throughout, the central focus will be the cultural They add to the Center's existing award-winning exhibits "Albert status of visual representation and the changing ways in which it is Einstein, Image and Impact" and "The Discovery of the Electron," used to construct and legitimate knowledge about the world, but and can all be accessed from the Center's homepage: http:// seminar participants are encouraged to find their own connections to www.aip.org/history/. this topic. Scholars with backgrounds in history, history of science Heisenberg (1901-1976), one of the greatest physicists of the and technology, literature, and art history are especially welcome to twentieth century, is best known as a founder of quantum mechanics apply. and especially for the uncertainty principle in quantum theory. He This seminar is scheduled to meet on Friday afternoons from 1- also played a controversial role as a leader of Germany's nuclear fission 4:30 p.m., 28 January through 14April, except 24 March 2000 and research under the Nazi regime. After World War II he was active in one other date TBA. For more detailed information about this and elementary particle physics and West German science policy. All these other Folger Institute seminars for the 1999-2000 academic year, topics are covered in the exhibit written by professor David Cassidy and for a copy of the Folger application form, see http:// of Hofstra University, the author of the major biography Uncertainty: www.folger.edu/institute/nintro.cfm. The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (1992). Sakharov (1921-1989), the Soviet physicist who became, in the words of the Nobel Peace Committee, a "spokesman for the conscience of mankind," was fascinated by fundamental physics and cosmology. He came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, contributing perhaps more than anyone else to the military might of the USSR. But gradually Sakharov became one ofthe regime's Isis CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY most courageous critics, a defender of human 1986-1995 rights and democracy. He could not be ]OHN NEU, EDITOR silenced, and helped bring down one of The third supplement to the Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1965, edited by history's most powerful dictatorships. The Magda Whitrow cumulates the annual bibliographies published in the History of exhibit, which includes numerous photos Science Society's journal Isis in the years 1986 through 1995. The increase in the literature during the last decade necessitates publication in four volumes: Volume provided by Sakharov's family, is authored by One (496pp.), Persons : A- L; Volume Two (480pp.), Persons M-Z, Institutions; Dr. Gennady Gorelik, who is currently Volume Three (640pp.), Subjects, Time Periods: Antiquity-18th Century; Volume working on a scholarly biography ofSakharov. Four (739pp.), Time Periods: 19th -20th Centuries, Book Reviews. Several historical exhibits are in the planning stage, including ones on Marie Curie, 1997 •ISBN 0-88135-131-8 •LC 97-18452 • $249.95, the set. Max Planck and the quantum, and rwentieth­ A special prepaid/postpaid price of$199.95 is available to HSS members. century cosmology. The Center invites Science History Publications/USA comments on the existing exhibits and www.shpusa.com encourages historians to consider cooperating P.O. Box 493, Camon, MA 02021, U.S.A. and using our services for additional projects Tel. (781) 828-8450 •Fax. (781) 828-8915 •E-mail [email protected] in their areas ofexpertise. (See the Web site for MasterCard/Visa accepted. contact information.) 18 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Rachel A. Ankeny, Class of43, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Matthew Klingle's "Plying Atomic Waters: Lauren Donaldson and Science at Connecticut College, has received a year-long fellowship at the 'Fern Lake Concept' of Fisheries Management" won the 1997- the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton 1998 Alice Hamilton Award from the American Society for University. She will participate in their 1999-2000 seminar on Environmental History. This biennial award is given to the best article "Conversion: Sacred and Profane" and pursue research on the project, in environmental history published outside of the society's journal, "Conversion and the HistoriographyofLife Science: Practice, Theory, Environmental History. The article appeared in the Spring 1998 issue and Community with Laboratory Organisms" as part of her ongoing of the journal ofthe History ofBiology (v. 31, no. 1, pp. 1-32). historical and philosophical work on the choice and use of the nematode C. elegans as a model organism. William Royall Newman, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington has been awarded a Stephen G. Brush, Distinguished University Professor of the History Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his word on Daniel Sennert and of Science, University of Maryland, College Park has been awarded a early modern matter theory. Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his work on a comparative study of theory evaluation in different sciences. Michael A. Osborne andAnita Guerrini have been jointly appointed to be the first participants in a new exchange program berween the Jill E. Cooper has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Centre Nationale de Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in Recherche Scientifique in France. They will be resident at the Center New Brunswick, New Jersey. Cooper joined the Institute staff in the Alexandre Koyre in Paris during the 1999-2000 academic year. fall of 1998 after successfully defending her dissertation, "Of Microbes and Men: A Scientific Biography of Rene Jules Dubos," at Katharine Park, who is Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Doris Zemurray Rutgers University. Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and Women's Studies, Harvard University has been awarded a Guggenheim Menso Folkerts, Director of the Institut flir Geschichte der Fellowship for her work on the early history of human dissection. Naturwissenschaften, University of Munich in 1998 was elected Corresponding Member of the Saechsische Akademie der Robert N. Proctor has received a Fulbright Scholar award for 1999/ Wissenschaften in Leipzig and in 1999 Ordinary Member of the 2000; he will spend the year at the Max Planck Institut fur Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich. Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. His book, The Nazi War on Cancer

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The American Academy, from the results of reading her work so far. But I must mention during its more than two at least a few facts about our honoree. centuries ofexistence, has not She began to show discriminating taste by being born in been overly zealous-unlike Perugia, Italy; in due course getting her PhD, three years ago, at other professional the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on the philosophy of organizations-to distribute Gaston Bachelard and the intellectual milieu of France in the an abundance of different inter-war years-all while making ends meet by supervising awards. We seem to have on students at Cambridge on Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Then she our books just four types of converted her thesis into a book, now in press, while a Fellow at these. But tonight, at a time the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She is now associated with the when on the whole there is London School of Economics Center for Philosophy of Science, not all that much to be joyful working on her new book. about, let us celebrate the inauguration by the Academy of a new At this point we come upon an almost uncanny part of this and quite special award, the George and May Sanon Fellowship. brief account. Her new book is on the work of the French This has been made possible by the action of May Sanon, the historian and philosopher of science, Helene Metzger. If George widely beloved poet, author of about fifty books, and one of our Sanon was a father of the modern history of science, Helene own Fellows, who died four years ago. In a codicil to her Will, she Metzger was a mother of that same field; and of course she knew set up The Sanon Fund, endowing it with her whole Estate. She the Sanon family well. also specified that the Academy, being equally devoted to the Arts Born in 1889, she lived to publish eight books, starting with and Sciences, administer the generous proceeds given to it by the her 1918 PhD thesis on the origins of crystallography; she wrote Fund to assure the distinguished Fellowship in perpetuity. After also on Newton's chemistry, on the chemical doctrine in France a rigorous selection process, the Fellowship is given every few years from the 14th century to Lavoisier, a book that won the Binoux to a young historian of science, starting now; and between those Prize of the Academie des Sciences. Yet, in recent decades her years, an equivalent award is made to a young poet. important contributions have somehow been rather neglected. May Sanon's desire to support historians of science of course I have found only one photography of Dr. Metzger. It show reflected her intention to honor the memory of her father George, her smiling, but there is a darkness in the picture which almost whom we all know also as the father of the whole field of history presages the tragedy to come. In February 1944, while in Lyon, of science in its modern form. she was arrested, and transported in Convoy #69, together with With the name of two such stars on the new Fellowship, the about 1500 women, men and children, to Auschwitz. There, organizing group which the Academy called together just a year almost all of them were immediately killed. We do not even know ago knew it had the unique opportunity, nay duty, to make this whether Metzger survived the long journey. award become the premier occasion for recognizing new stars and One of the places where Helene Metzger' s spirit still lives is in new future leaders of the respective fields. her large correspondence with George Sanon, which is kept at the After the announcement last year, the Academy received Houghton Library at Harvard University, where Dr. Chimisso eighteen serious applications, with all the usual documentation. will spend much of the summer doing research. She will find there Yet, the Selection Committee, which included the historian of that one of the last letters written by Metzger to George Sanon, science Mary Jo Nye (also a past President of the History of not long before her death, ends with a very special greeting to his Science Society) and Professor Rosemary Stevens of the University daughter, May. of Pennsylvania, found it had a relatively easy task. There were So it may come about that Dr. Chimisso's work under this many strong candidates, but one clear and unanimous first award not only will give us a scholarly study on a long-neglected choice-Dr. Cristina Chimisso. pioneer of the history of science, but also may throw new light on I was told I must be very brief, so I have to forgo quoting all those towering figures who, together, are enshrined in the very the enthusiastic commendations in her supporting letters and name of the new Fellowship. •lllSCO\'E'RY• DIBNER

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DIBNER The Dibner Institute for the History of Science through May 31, with full activitiesbeginning on INSTITUTE and Technology invites applications to its two February 1. At the time of application, Term 1 candidates FELLOWS fellowship programs for the academic year 2000- may request an arrival date in August; Term 2 candidates PROGRAMS 2001: the Senior Fellows program and the may request an extension into June. The Institute 2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellows program. There will be some prefers, if possible, that senior fellows apply for a two­ twenty Fellows at the Institute each term. term residency. The Dibner Institute is an international center Postdoctoral Fellows Program- for advanced research in the history of science and Fellowships are awarded to outstanding scholars of technology, established in 1992. It draws on the diverse countries of origin who have received the Ph.D. resources of the Burntly Library, a major collection or equivalent within the previous five years. Postdoctoral of both primary and secondary material in the Fellowships run for one year, from September 1 through history of science and technology, and enjoys the August 31, and may be extended for a second and final participation in its programs of faculty members year at the discretion of the Dibner Institute. and students from the universities that make up the Terms and Conditions Dibner Institute's consortium: the Massachusetts All Dibner Fellows are expected to reside in the Institute of Technology, the host institution; Boston Cambridge/Boston area during the terms of their grants, University; Brandeis University; and Harvard to participate in the activities of the Dibner Institute University. community, and to present their current work once The Institute's primary mission is to support during their fellowship appointments. advanced research in the history of science and Fellowships provide office space, support facilities technology, across a wide variety of areas and a and full privileges at the Burndy Library and at the broad spectrum of topics and methodologies. The libraries of consortium universities. Fellows will have Institute favors projects that address events dating access to the entire spectrum of activities that take place back thirty years or more; and, while recognizing at the Dibner Institute, where they will be able to find the that overlap between the history of medicine and resources and appropriate settings to carry on their work. the history of biology makes strict distinctions Funds are available for housing, living expenses and impossible, the Institute generally does not support one round-trip fare for international Fellows. Estimates projects in the history of clinical medicine. of costs, as well as the average stipend awarded in 1999- Senior Fellows Program 2000, are provided with the application forms. The Candidates for Senior Fellowships should have deadline for receipt of applications for 2000-2001 is advanced degrees in disciplines relevant to their December 31, 1999. Fellowship recipients will be research and show evidence of substantial scholarly announced in March, 2000. Please send requests for accomplishment and professional experience. further information to: Senior fellows may apply for a second fellowship appointment five years after their first successful Trudy Kontoff, Program Coordinator application. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Scholars may apply to the Senior Fellows MIT E56-100, 38 Memorial Drive program for the Fall (Term 1), the Spring (Term 2) Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 or both. Term 1 extends from August 1 through December 31, with full activities beginning on Telephone: 617. 253.6989 Facsimile: 617. 253.9858 September 1; Term 2 extends from January 1 E-mail: [email protected] 22 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

DIBNER INSTITUTE NAMES RESIDENT, VISITING and Claudine Cohen is Associate Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS for 1999-2000 Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her dissertation, "La Genese de Telliamed: Theorie de la Terre et Historie naturelle a l'aube des Lumieres," is being published The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology is pleased in 1999. She is also the author of Le Destin du Mammouth (1994). Her to announcex the appointments of the Dibner Institute Fellows for 1999- research project at the Dibner Institute will explore the interactions betwen 2000. The Institute has appointed nineteen Senior and eleven Postdoctoral French and American paleontological sciences from 1830-1950. Fellows. They come from several nations and pursue many different aspects of the history of science and technology. Jack Copeland, Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, is the author ofArtificialf ntelligence (1993) and the forthcoming The following nineteen persons have been appointed as Dibner Institute volume, "Turing's Machines." For his work at the Dibner Institute he plans Senior Fellows: to continue a work-in-progress, tided "Synopsis of'Turing's Machines,' A Work in the History and Philosophy of Computation." Davis Baird, Associate Professor in the Department oEPhilosophy, University of South Carolina, is the author of Inductive Logic: Probability and Statistics Mordechai Feingold, Professor of Science Studies at Virginia Polytechnic (1992) and the 1998 article, "Encapsulating Knowledge: The Direct Reading Institute, is the author of 'The Oxford Curriculum in Seventeenth-Century Spectrometer." At the Dibner Institute he plans to complete a manuscript, Oxford," pp. 211-503 ofvolume four of The History ofthe University ofOxford "Instrument Knowledge: A Philosophy ofScientific Instruments" and begin (1997) and The Mathematiciam 'Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society research on Baird Associates, a company that developed and manufactured in England, 1560--1640 (1984). At the Dibner Institute he will continue work scientific instruments, founded by his father in 1936. on his book, "Cast a Giant Shadow: A History of the Royal Society, 1660- 1850, Vol. I: A House Divided, A House Besieged 1660-1727." Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Professor at Universite Paris X, is the author of Elogie du Mixte. Materiaux Nouveaux et Philosophie Ancienne Yves Gingras, Professeur Titulaire in the Department ofHistory, University (1998) and Lavoisier, Memoires d'une Revolution (1993). In 1997 she of Quebec at Montreal, is the author with Peter Keating and Camille received the Dexter Award for outstanding achievement in the history of Limoges, of Du scribe au savant. Les porteurs du savoir de l'Antiquite d la chemistry. The project she will be working on at the Dibner Institute is Revolution industrielle ( 1998) and Pour l'avancement des sciences. Histoire de titled "Nature and Artifact in Chemical Industries, 1900-2000." l'ACFAS 1923-1993. (1994). At the Dibner Institute he will continue research for his project on the relationship between the mathematization of Christine Blondel is Charge de Recherche at the Centre National de la physics and the transformation of the notion of substance. Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. She is the author of Histoire de l'electricite (1994) and, with A. C. Vauge, Repertoire de l'histoire des sciences Ruth Glasner is a Senior Lecturer at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is et des techniques en France (1994).AttheDibner Institute she will be working the author of the book, A Fourteenth-Century Scientific-Philosophical on a project about the history of electricity in Franee from the l 770s-l 9 l 4 Controversy: jedaiah ha-Penini's 'Treatise on Opposite Motions' and 'Book of titled "French Amateurs in Electricity at the End ofthe Eighteenth Century." Confutation' (1998), as well as the article, "Gersonides' Lost Commentary on the Metaphysics." Her project at the Dibner Institute is tided "The David Bloor, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hebrew Supercommentaries on Aristotle's Physics." Director of its Science Studies Unit, is the aurhor of Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (1997) and Knowledge and Social Imagery (1991). During his Helen Lang is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Trinity visit at the Dibner Institute he plans to test Sir Frederic Bartlett's 1932 case College, Hartford, CT. She is the author of The Order ofNature in Aristotle's study, "Remembering", in which Bartlett claims that different national Physics: Place and the Elements (199 8) and Aristotle's Physics and its Medieval groups produce culturally and nationally specific forms of technological Varieties (1992). She will be doing research at the Dibner Institute for a devices. He will concentrate on sound-locator equipment as developed by project tided "Place and Extension: The Problems and Language ofAncient the Germans, the British, the French, and the Americans. Physics."

William Brock, Emeritus Professor of History ofScience, the University of Wenlin Li is Research Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Leicester, UK, is the author ofJustus von Liebig. The Chemical Gatekeeper Sinica, Beijing, China. He is the author of Highlights of Classics of (1997) and The Fontana History ofChemistry (London 1992), issued as The Mathematics (a source book in Mathematics) (1998) and, with Li Xixian, et Norton History ofChemistry (New York 1993). At the Dibner Institute he al. On Science as System (1995), and the article, "Gottingen's Influence on will continue his research for a book with the working tide, "Sir William the Development of Mathematics in East Asia." At the Dibner Institute he Crookes (1832-1919) and the Business of Science." will continue his investigations into mathematical exchanges between China and western countries by exploring the transmission of mathematical Kenneth Caneva, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina knowledge between the United States and China. at Greensboro, is the author of the volume, Robert Mayer and the Comervation ofEnergy (1993) and the 1998 article, "Colding, Orsted, and the Meanings Nancy Nersessian, Professor, Program in Cognitive Science at Georgia of Force." Professor Caneva's project while at the Dibner Institute is Institute of Technology, is author of the book in press, "Creating Science: tentatively tided "The Reconstruction of Scientific Knowledge: From A Cognitive-historical Approach to Conceptual Change" and Faraday to Personal Conviction to Collective Acceptance." Einstein: Comtructing Meaning in Scientific Theories (1984, reprint 1990). DibnerNews 23

At the Dibner Institute she will continue to work on her NSF-sponsored in Alberto Fortis (1741-1803) (1997). His project at the Dibner Institute research project, "Culture in Cognition: Toward a Integrative Analysis of is titled "Interpreting the Temple ofSerapis. A Case-study in the Relationship Representation in Science." between Geology and Antiquarianism (1750-1830)."

William Newman, Professor at Indiana University, is the authorof Gehennical Slava Gerovitch, received his Ph.D. from MIT's Program in Science, Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Technology and Society Program. He has translated Loren Graham's book, Revolution (1994) and The Summa Peifectionis ofPseudo-Geber. A Critical Science in Russia and the Soviet Union, into Russian. He contributed "Striving Edition, Translation and Study (1991). During the fall term he will continue for 'Optimal Control': Soviet Cybernetics as a 'Science of Government'" to his collaboration with Lawrence Principe, working on the laboratory Cultures ofControl in the Machine Age, in press. At the Dibner Institute he will notebooks of George Starkey and Robert Boyle. Professor Newman will also complete a book on the history ofSoviet cybernetics, based on his dissertation. undertake a reconsideration of early modern matter-theory, exploring the relationship between the re-emergence of atomism in early modern science Michael Gorman completed the work for his Ph.D. at the European and medieval Aristotelian theories of matter. University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has written several articles, now in press, including "Mathematics and Modesty in the Society of Jesus: The Lawrence Principe, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, is the Problems of Christoph Grienberger," to appear in Archimedes and "From author of The Asp iring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest( 1998) and the 'Eyes of All' to Usefull Quarries in Philosophy and Good Literature': the forthcoming article, "The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: Consuming Jesuit Science 1600-1665 ," to appear in the book, The Jesuits: AlrernareApproaches and Divergent Deployments" in thevolume, In Canonical Culture, Learning and Arts. For his research proposal at the Dibner Institute Imperatives: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, edited by Margaret Osler. At he plans to conduct a reappraisal of the origins of Jesuit science practice the Dibner Institute he will continue his collaboration with William Newman against the background of the 'science policy' of the Jesuit order. exploring the importance of experiment in seventeenth-century alchemy and the influence of George Starkey on Robert Boyle. Christophe Lecuyer, a recipient of the Ph.D. from Stanford University, is the authorof the articles "University-Industry Relations duringthe Progressive Gregor Schiemann is Assistant Professor at Humboldt Unversitat, Institut Era: The Case of MIT" and "Instrument Makers and Discipline Builders: for Philosophie, Berlin. He is the author of Wahrheitsgewissheitsverlust. The Case ofNMR." The title of his research project at the Dibner Institute Hermann von Helmholtz' Mechanismus imAnbruch der Moderne. Eine Studie is "From the Lab to the Fab: Physics Research, Manufacturing Practice, and zum Ubergang von Klassicher zu moderner Naturphilosophie ( 1997) and the Ion Implantation at High Voltage Engineering Corporation and Fairchild editor, with Michael Hauskeller and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, of Semiconductor, 1962-1978." NaturerkenntnisundNatursein (1997). The ride ofhis research project while at the Dibner Institute is "Aristotle and Descartes' Concept of Nature and Massimo Mazzotti, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, the Transformation of Psychology in the 16th and 17th Centuries." Scotland. He is the author of the following forthcoming articles: "The Geometers of God. Mathematics and Reaction in the Kingdom of Naples" Ana Simoes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, University and "L'immagine della scienza nel 'Bullettino' di Baldassarre Boncompagni of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author, with Ana Carneiro and Maria Paula (1868-1887)." His research project at the Dibner Institute is titled Diogo, of"Constructing Knowledge, Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the "Conservative Thought and Scientific Knowledge: A Socio-Historical New Sciences" and, with Kostas Gavroglu, of "Different Legacies and Perspective." Common Aims: Robert Mulliken, Linus Pauling and the Origins of Quantum Chemistry." At the Dibner Institute she will be working on two Jutta Schickore, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin, projects. The first is the completion of a history of quantum chemistry, is the author ofthe articles, "Sehen, Sichtbarkeit und empirische Forschung" written with Kostas Gavroglu, tracing the development of the field of and ''Theoriebeladenheit der Beobachtung: Neubesichtigung eines alten quantum chemistry from the 1920s-early 1950s and the communities of Problems." She will work at the Dibner Institute on a project titled quantum chemists in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. "Constructive Constraints: Exploring Errors and Pitfalls in Microscopy." The second project is a biography of Jose Correia da Serra (1750-1823), a Portuguese man ofletters, diplomat, Freemason, and botanist. Brett Steele, Lecturer in the Department of History at UCLA, is the author of the articles, "Symmetry and Symbiosis: The Science ofMechanics and the John Stillwell, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Monash University, Art of War" and "Rational Mechanics as Military Technology: Leonard Victoria, Australia, is the author of Numbers and Geometry (1998) and Euler and Interior Ballistics." His work at the Dibner Institute will use recent Elements ofAlgebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations (1994). At the Dibner archival research to develop further his dissertation, "The Ballistics Revolution: Institute he plans to write a book on "Exceptional Objects" and their role in Military and Scientific Change from Robins to Napoleon." the history of mathematics. R. Andre Wakefield, currently an exchange scholar at Harvard University, The Dibner Institute has made the following eight Postdoctoral is the authorof the forthcoming article, "Das Vermachrnis einer Verbindung: Fellowship appointments: Freiberg und die Bergbauwissenschaften in den Bestanden der Gottingen Universitarsbibliothek" and "Police Chemistry," based on a paper presented Luca Ciancio received his Ph.D. at the University of Florence. He is the at the 1998 Annual History of Science Society Meeting. He plans to work editor of A Calendar of the Correspondence ofjohn Strange F.R.S. (1732- on a project titled "An Early Modern Chemistry of the Mines, 1710-1800" 1799) (1998) and the author ofAutopsie delta Terra. Illuminismo e geologia while at the Dibner Institute. 24 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

The Dibner Institute has reappointed the following persons to a second Rolling Copper," is a study of Paul Revere's lifelong technological education year as Postdoctoral Fellows: and his development, at the age of 65, ofAmerica 's first copper rolling mill.

Arne Hessenbruch is the editor of the forthcoming "Reader's Guide to the Benjamin Pinney, MIT, has received an M.A. in Architecture from History of Science," and author of"The Spread of Precision Measurement Princeton University and the B.A. magna cum laude in Political Economy in Scandinavia 1660-1800." At the Dibner Institute, his project is a book from Williams College. His dissertation is titled "Organizing Engineering titled "Scientific Quantification and Money. " Labor: A History of Project Management to 1970."

Klaus Staubermann completed his dissertation, "Controlling Vision-The Gerald A. Ward, Boston University, received a B.A. and an ALM, summa Photometry ofK.F. Zoellner" at Cambridge University, UK. For his work cum laude in History ofScience, Harvard Extension School. His dissertation at the Dibner Institute, he will analyze the scientific practice of three leading is titled "From Merchant Adventurers to Merchants of Light: The astrophotometrists, G. Millier at Potsdam, E. Pickering at Harvard, and C. Development ofEnglish Oceanic Commerce and New World Colonies and Pritchard at Oxford. the Making of Bacon's Great Instauration."

Benno van Dalen was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at Timothy Wolters, MIT, received an M.A. at the University of Maryland, the Institut fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Frankfurt. He is the and the B.A. magna cum laude in History/Computer Applications at the author of "A Statistical Method for Recovering Unknown Parameters from University of Notre Dame. The working title of his dissertation is "Carrier Medieval Astronomical Tables" and "On Ptolemy's Table for the Equation Aviation Policy and Procurement in the US Navy, 1936-1955." of Time." At the Dibner Institute, he has started work on a manuscript tentatively titled 'The Activities of Muslim Astronomers in China During the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368)." Jobs DIBNER INSTITUTE NAMES SEVEN GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS FOR 1999-2000 We invite you to peruse our electronic site for listings ofhistory ofscience-related job opportunites, fellowships and grants, and prizes. The following The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology is pleased annoucements have been edited for space. For a full description consult the to announce that fellowship awards have been made to eleven Ph.D. HSS Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec. Notices are brought candidates enrolled in programs at three Dibner Institute consortium­ to the History ofScience Society's attention between quarterly publication of member institutions: the Dibner Institute' s host institution, the Massachusetts the HSS Newsletter and some items are drawn (and often condensed) from Institute of Technology; Boston University; and Harvard University. The a variety ofsources. The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy Dibner Graduate Fellowship program is open to srudenrs writing their ofany item, andpotential applicants should verify all details, especially closing doctoral dissertations. Selection is based on excellence and scholarly promise, dates, with the organization or foundation ofinterest. without regard for need. For those who wish to publish ajob, fellowship/grant, or prize, please send an electronic version ofthe posting via e-mail. Our mailing address is History Babak Ashrafi, MIT, received an S.B. in Physics and Mathematics from ofScience Society Executive Office, Box 351330, University ofWashington, MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University ofNew York at Stony Seattle, WA 98195-1330. Our e-mail address is [email protected]. Brook. He is studying the efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to write a relativistic Our fax is (206) 685-9544 and our telephone number is (206) 543-9366. version of quantum mechanics for his thesis, "From Relativistic Electrons to Quantum Fields." University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of the History of Science, anticipates openings for one or more tenure-track assistant David Kaiser, Harvard University, has been working in a "double" Ph.D. professorships, contingent upon funding. Areas of specialization: (1) program. In 1997 he defended his dissertation, "Post-Inflation Reheating in History of the physical sciences since 1800, duties to begin in August an Expanding Universe," for the Department of Physics, and he is preparing 2000; (2) History of early modern science to 1750, duties to begin in a second dissertation for the Department of the History of Science. This January 2001 or August 2001. We seek candidates eager to participate in work is tided "Making Theory: Training American Theoretical Physicists in an active graduate program, a small bur strong undergraduate major, and an Age of Big Science, 1948-1969." He graduated summa cum laude from interdisciplinary general education courses that help fulfill the University's Dartmouth College with a major in Physics. liberal education requirements. Possibilities also exist for involvement in a proposed science-studies program. We will be looking for evidence of Matthew Jones, Harvard University, received an M. Phil. from Cambridge outstanding promise in both teaching and research. Send letter of UniversityandanA.B. magna cumlaudefrom Harvard College with majors application describing teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae, in History and Science. His dissertation is titled "The Aesthetics oflnference: a writing sample, and three or four letters of recommendation as follows: The Mathematics of Descartes and Leibniz and the Dream of Systematic for position ( 1) to Professor David Lindberg, Department of the History Public Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century." of Science, University of Wisconsin, 7143 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1393; for position (2) to Professor Robert Martello, MIT, received a B.S. from MIT with a major in Earth, Thomas Broman at the same address. Inquiries may be addressed to Atmospheric, and Planetary Science and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Lindberg at [email protected]; or to Broman at Engineering. His dissertation, "Paul Revere's Last Ride: The Road to [email protected]. Deadline for application: 4 October 1999. Jobs, Fellowships, Grants & Prizes 25

Review of applications will begin 4 October, to identify candidates to be have begun their tenured contracts on or after October 1, 1995; and a interviewed at the History ofScience meeting in Pirrsburgh, 4-7 November. summer's support (usually estimated at 2/9 salary) and/or equivalent Unless confidentialiry is requested in writing, information regarding the reduction of teaching and administrative duries at some point in the post­ applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed Fellowship stage, funded by the home institution. You may request confidentialiry. UW-Madison is an AA/EOE. application forms for Burkhardt fellowships by any one of the following means: Mail: Office ofFellowships and Grants, ACLS, 228 East 45th Street, The UniversityofMinnesota, Twin Cities campus, invites applications New York, NY 10017-3398; Fax: (212) 949-8058 for an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor position beginning E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.acls.org/ex-burk.htm. September 2000, with specialry in the history ofmodern physics. Principal In the administration and awarding ofits fellowships and grants, the duties involve research and teaching, including the introductory survey in ACLS does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race or ethnicity, the history of science. Candidates should be able to teach and supervise physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, or political research in both 19th-and 20th-century physics, to interact well with both affiliation. Applications are particularly invited from women and members scientists and historians, and must have completed all requirements for of minority groups. Membership in a constituent society of the ACLS is the Ph.D. by August 1, 2000. Applications must be received by October not a requirement. 15, 1999. Applicants should submit a vitae, publications or samples of writing, and arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be sent Institute for Advanced Study, announces Visiting Member awards for to: Chair, Search Committee, Program in History of Science and 2000-2001 in the School of Social Science. The School of Social Science Technology, 148 Physics Building, U niversiry ofMinnesota, 116 Church each year invites as Members some fifteen to eighteen visiting scholars Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 5 545 5. The University ofMinnesota who constitute a genuinely interdisciplinary and international group. A is an equal opportunity educator and employer. completed doctorate or equivalent is required by the application deadline, and memberships are awarded at the junior and senior levels. Visiting Members are expected to pursue only their own research, but the School Fellowships organizes a weekly seminar at which Members as well as invited guests present their on-going work. Although the School is not wedded to any particular approach, it encourages social science with an historical and The American Council of Learned Societies announces the availability humanistic bent and entertains applications in history, philosophy, of a small number ofnew Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for literary criticism, literature, and language, as well as in the traditional Recently Tenured Scholars engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious fields of social science. projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ACLS will The following focus is neither an exclusive nor excluding theme and award approximately 9 Burkhardt Fellowships per year in this and the will serve only as a limited part of the program. Scholars whose work is next two years to recently tenured humanists at institutions in the US and relevant to any aspect of the human sciences are urged to apply. In recent Canada; each fellowship carries a stipend of $65,000. (These new decades new technologies ofinformation, communication, reproduction, Fellowships are in addition to the 60 offered through the central ACLS and representation have been developed and introduced at an ever­ Fellowship Program.) increasing pace. New languages and visual practices have emerged for Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year communicating with and among machines, as well as people, spawning, (normally nine months) ofresidence at any one ofnine national residential amongst other things, new techniques of control, forms of violence, research centers. This year's successful applicants may take up the fellowship warfare and entertainment, problems of regulation, and possibilities of in 2000-2001 or in either of the succeeding two academic years. resistance. The Internet has burgeoned at an unprecedented pace as a zone Proposals should show evidence of significant preliminary work ofeconomic activity, political action, and cultural transaction. There have already completed, and a plan of work, typically in the five-year range, to been enormous claims, as well as great skepticism, about the revolutionary be carried out. Assurance will be required from the administrative impact of these technologies. During 2000-01 we will be exploring the leadership of the scholar's home institution (Dean, Provost, or President) following sorts of questions: How far-reaching are the changes associated that the applicant is an especially promising member of its humanities with new technologies? What challenges do they pose to established faculty, and that the institution is prepared to make its own contributions­ modes of thinking and acting? Are metaphors drawn from the worlds of beyond providing normal fringe benefits during the fellowship year-to computers and the logics of networks gaining explanatory weight in the assist the scholar in bringing the project to completion. social sciences and becoming models guiding practice? Generally: What The overall structure of support would thus include: An academic is at stake for human societies in the changes associated with new year's leave funded by ACLS under the new Burkhardt Fellowship technologies? And what is at stake for social science? We are especially program, with a stipend of $65,000 and residence at a major interested in research that focuses on specific instances of technological interdisciplinary center for advanced study, or national research library, change and its impact. with distinguished records of fostering significant scholarly Fellowship support is provided by funds from private donors and accomplishment. To accommodate Fellows' personal schedules, the foundations, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the participating residential centers and libraries have agreed to permit Institute for Advanced Study. Distribution of the grants among successful successful applicants to specify one of the succeeding three years for applicants is made by the School of Social Science. Applications from residency and to hold a place for them; applicants will be required to scholars with relevant concerns who have support of their own, in adhere to that schedule. (If the $65,000 stipend exceeds the Fellow's whatever form, are equally welcome. For information and application normal academic year salary, the excess will be available for research and materials, write to the Administrative Officer, School of Social Science, travel expenses.) Applicants to the current competition must normally 26 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540; send e-mail to University of Pennsylvania Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the [email protected] or download applications in PDF format at http:// Humanities 2000-2001. Five Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are www2.admin.ias.edu/ss/home/applications.html. Completed applications available for untenured scholars whose Ph.D .s were awarded between 12/ must be received by 15 November 1999. 1991 and 12/ 1999. Research proposals are invited in all areas ofhumanistic study except educational curriculum-building and the performing arts, National Humanities Center, Fellowships in the Humanities. Up to and should relate to the Penn Humanities Forum's topic for the year: forty fellowships are available for advanced study at the National STYLE. Preference will be given to candidates whose proposals are Humanities Center. In addition to unrestricted fellowships in all fields of interdisciplinary, who have not previously used the resources of the the humanities, the Center will offer: (I) three or four fellowships University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and specifically for the study of religion by humanistic scholars, and (2) one contribute to its intellectual life. The Fellowship carries an annual stipend fellowship for the histoty of modern medicine or biomedical science. The of$32,000. Completed applications and supporting materials must reach Center also invites applications from scholars whose research focuses on the Forum by OCTOBER 15, 1999. For further information and important literary works to form a Fellows' seminar on issues of applications, visit the Forum online at http://www.english.upenn.edu/ interpretation. Scholars from all fields ofthe humanities and humanistically ~human or write to Wendy Steiner, Director, Penn Humanities Forum, inclined individuals from the arts, the natural and social sciences, and the 116 Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. professions may apply. Scholars from all nations may apply. All should hold a doctorate or equivalent credentials and have record of scholarly publication. Tenure offellowship is September 2000 through May 2001. Prizes Stipends are individually determined, depending on the needs of the Fellows and the Center's ability to meet them. The average stipend is AIP Center for History of Physics. The Center for History of Physics $35,000. Round-trip travel for Fellows and their immediate families is of the American Institute of Physics has a program of grants-in-aid for also provided. The Center's funding derives from private foundation research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences (such as grants, income from the Center's endowment, and the National astronomy, geophysics, and optics) and their social interactions. Grants Endowment for the Humanities. Application deadline for 2000-2001 can be up to $2500 each. They can be used only to reimburse direct fellowships is October 15, 1999. For an application, write to Fellowship expenses connected with the work. Preference will be given to those who Program, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research need funds for travel and subsistence to use the resources of the Center's Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080. Niels Bohr Library (near Washington, DC), or to microfilm papers or to tape-record oral history interviews with a copy deposited in the Library. Smithsonian Institution Libraries Resident Scholar program is Applicants should name the persons they would interview or papers they accepting applications for 2000. The SIL Resident Scholar Programs would microfilm, or the collections at the Library they need to see; you can offer short-term study grants with stipends of$1,800/ month for durations consult the online catalog at our Web site, http://www.aip.org/history, of one to three months. Three awards are in the SIL Dibner Library and please feel free to make inquiries about the Library's holdings. Resident Scholar Program sponsored by The Dibner Fund for research Applicants should either be working toward a graduate degree in the in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. A history of science (in which case they should include a letter of reference fourth is in the SIL Resident Scholar Program for research in the from their thesis adviser), or show a record of publication in the field. To Department of Special Collections. Historians, librarians, doctoral apply, send a vitae, a letter of no more than two pages describing your students and other scholars are invited to apply. Scholars are expected research project, and a brief budget showing the expenses for which to be in residence at the Smithsonian Institution. The Dibner Library support is requested to: Spencer Wean, Center for History of Physics, collections, with books and manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th American Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD centuries, specialize in the physical and applied sciences and technologies. 20740; phone: 301-209-317 4, Fax: 301-209-0882 e-mail: [email protected]. Strengths include electronics, civil and mechanical engineering, chemical Deadlines for receipt of applications are June 30 and December 31 of each year. industries, textiles and ceramics, military history, instrumentation, and also microscopy, pharmacy, and modern physics. In addition to those The Millennium Award. The American Philosophical Society announces collections in the Dibner Library, the SIL Special Collections Department its first annual Millennium Award to be awarded November, 2000 for the has extensive materials on World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1950, best monograph accepted by the Society for publication in its Transactions and air and space (ballooning, rocketry, and aviation). The Libraries' series. The award amount is $5,000. Authors must have a doctorate. collection of285,000 manufacturers commercial trade catalogs, which Subjects include all areas of history (history of science and medicine document progress in American agriculture, industry, and manufacture, included), archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, classics, contain much primary source material for the history of technology, paleontology. Deadline is December l, 1999. Manuscripts should be no economic, labor and women's history, and consumer and social history. more than 250 pages, double-spaced and printed on one side and should Deadline for applications: December 1, 1999. Application materials be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and abstract. All manuscripts are will be available after June 15, 1999, at http://www.sil.si.edu/ subject to review by the Committee on Publications, Alexander G. Beam, Information-Files/dibner-fellowship.htm, or write to Smithsonian Chairman. Inquiries should be sent by e-mail to: Carole LeFaivre­ Institution Libraries Resident Scholar Programs, Smithsonian Institution Rochester, Editor, [email protected]. Send manuscripts to: Carole Libraries, NHB 24mz, MRC154, Washington, D.C. 20560-0154. Tel: LeFaivre-Rochester, Editor, American Philosophical Sociery, I 04 South (202) 357-2240, or send e-mail to [email protected]. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Jobs, Fellowships, Grants & Prizes 27

Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development The texts may be written in French, German, Italian or English. In the last Award in 20th Century History ofMedicine or Science. The award is for three instances, the summary should be translated into French and be outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical approximately 12 pages in length, i.e. 4,000 words or about 20,000 sciences as demonstrated by the completion of a Ph.D. and a proposal to characters. Theme for the 2000 Prize: "History of electricity and turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph. The Ph.D. must have electromagnetism in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries." been completed and the degree granted within the last three years (1996- 1999). The application must include a one-page summary of the proposed The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. The Society book; an account (not exceeding two pages) of the work required to make invites entries for the Partington Prize, awarded to an original and the dissertation publishable, and why; information on interest in publishing unpublished essay on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry. it from a specific press, together with any relevant letters from the press; a The competition is open to anyone who has not reached 35 years of age current c. v.; a letterofsupport from the candidate's dissertation advisor, and by the closing date, 31 December 1999. For further details, please contact one additional letter of support. These materials should be submitted by John Hudson, Hon. Secretary, Society for the History of Alchemy and October 15, 1999, to the Chair of the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Chemistry, [email protected]. Committee, Prof. Gerald N. Grob, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers Universiry, P.O. Box 5070, 30 College Society for the Social History of Medicine Prize Essay Competition Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5070. A decision will be announced 1999 . The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites by April 1, 2000. The stipend will be $2,500. In keeping with the policy submissions for its 1999 prize essay competition. This prize is awarded to of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, indirect charges or fringe benefits may the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine as not be charged against the award. judged by the SSHM' s assessment panel. The winner will be awarded 200 pounds, and his or her entry may also be published in the journal, Social The Jerry Stannard Memorial Award. The Department of History, at the History ofMedicine. The competition is open to students and recently University of Kansas, announces the 2000 competition for the annual qualified postdoctoral scholars. The deadline for submissions is 31 award in honor of the late Professor Jerry Stannard. The purpose of the December 1999. Further details and an entry form can be obtained from award is to encourage research by young scholars in the fields that Professor the membership secretary, David Cantor, Department of History and Stannard made his own: namely, the history of materia medica, medicinal Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey botany, pharmacy, and folklore of drug therapy before the 1700s. Each year Mamon Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester Ml5 6LL. a cash award will be made to the author of an outstanding published or England. ([email protected] or [email protected]) SSHM unpublished scholarly study in those fields. In 2000 the award will be $600. Web site: http://www.nottingham.ac. uk/ ~ahzwww/homesshm.htm. The competition is open to graduate students and to recent recipients of a doctoral degree (the Ph.D. degree or an equivalent), conferred not more than three years before the competition deadline. Manuscripts must be in Future Meetings English, French, or German. Only one paper by any author may be submitted in any given year. Each entry should be typewritten, double­ We invite you to peruse our Web site for listings ofhistory-of science-related spaced, and no longer than 50 pages, including notes, bibliography, and meeting annoucements and calls for papers. The following annoucements appendices. Entrants should keep copies of their manuscripts, since have been editedfor space. For a foll description consult the HSS Web site manuscripts submitted will not be returned. Each manuscript must be at http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec. Electronic listings ofmeetings accompanied by the following: (a) a one-page abstract of the paper in are updated every Friday morning and are brought to the History of English; (b) a current curriculum vitae of the author; and (c) a letter of recommendation from an established scholar in the field. Entrants who are Science Society's attention between quarterly publication of the HSS resident in the United States ofAmerica are also requested to indicate their Newsletter. For those who wish to publish afoture meeting announcement home address and social security number. Entries must be received no later or call for papers please send an electronic version ofthe posting to us via than February 2000. The award will be announced on or about 15 May e-mail at [email protected]. The Society does not assume 2000. All manuscripts and correspondence should be addressed to: The responsibility for the accuracy ofany items, and interested persons should Stannard Award Committee, Department of History, Wescoe Hall 3001, verifY all details, especially deadlines, with the appropriate contact person. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2130. Mid-Atlantic Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, The Marc-Auguste Pictet Prize, will reward an outstanding work, and Technology unpublished or recently published in the field of the history ofscience. The A conference by and for graduate students interested in the prize is issued by the "Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de history of science, broadly understood Geneve" (SPHN) and, in principle is intended for a young researcher. The 6-8 August 1999, University ofPennsylvania value of the Prize depends on the income of the Fund and may be shared: We in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University in 1998 it amounted to Sfr. 14.000. Application is open to both Swiss and of Pennsylvania invite you to join us at a conference of graduate students foreign candidates at the university level. Notification ofcandidature should interested in the history of science, medicine, and technology. The purpose be sent by 31st December 1999 to the following address: President de la of this conference is to foster collegial interaction among the graduate SPHN, Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Case postale 6434, CH-1211 students of the many fine programs in the history of science (broadly GENEVE 6, Switzerland. Two full copies of the work, accompanied by a understood) in this region, and to provide a forum for constructive and summary and a curriculum vitae should be submitted before the deadline. supportive critiques of each other's work. To encourage social as well as One copy ofthe prize-winning work will remain the property ofthe SPHN. scholarly interaction, MAC will open on Friday, August 6 with a welcoming 28 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999 reception for attendees. Saturday, August 7, and FEES: There will be a registration fee of US Fourth Conference at the Como "A. Volta" the morningofSunday,August 8, will be devoted $100 (or equivalent amount in national Centre for Scientific Culture at Pavia University. to paper presentations and "working sessions" of currency) for those who are selected to present. Papers for conference presentation and for pre-circulated works longer than the typical Members ofISEA, CAiiA/STAR and Leonardo/ inclusion in the Proceedings were due 1 May conference paper, such as articles-to-be or ISASTwill be granted a 20% reduction. Further 1999. For more information, please see the dissertation chapters. Paper presentations will be information is available at: http:// Conference Web page, http://www.cilea.it/ 20-25 minutes. Each "working session" will be www. i taucul rural. org. br/ in vencao/ volra99 or contact the Conference Coordinator: one hour, and will consist of a 20-30 minute invencao.htm or lnstituto Cultural ltau, Av. [email protected]. presentation by the author with the remainderof Paulista 149, 01311-000 Sao Paulo (SP)-Brazil, the time devoted to discussion. Following the tel 55 11 2381741, fax 55 11 2381720, 4th International History, Philosophy precedent established by the 1998 MAC [email protected]. and Science Teaching Conference and organizers at Johns Hopkins University, we will 8th European History and Physics strive to make this conference as productive and 18th Congress of the British Society for Teaching Conference as inexpensive as possible for all participants. We the History of Medicine "Science as Culture" will make an effort to house attendees with local 8 -11 September 1999, University ofLeeds 15-19 September 1999, Pavia-Como graduate students, and some meals will be The Congress is organized in conjunction with Jointly organized by the Group around the provided. For futher information contact: A. the Thackray Medical Museum, The Leeds Science & Education journal and the EPS Wolfe, Mid-Atlantic Conference Organizing Philosophical and Literary Society, and the History of Physics Group, this conference Committee, History and Sociology of Science Yorkshire Branch ofthe Society ofOccupational follows earlier, successful ones. Papers for Department, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. Medicine. The Congress theme is Occupational conference presentation and for inclusion in 36th St., Logan 303, Philadelphia, PA 19104- Medicine and builds upon the industrial the Proceedings, were due 1 May 1999. For 6304. E-mail: [email protected]. heritage of West Yorkshire and the fact that further information, refer to the conference Charles Turner Thackray, the founder of the Web site: www.cilea.it/volta99 or E-mail: ACS National Meeting: 125th Anniversaiy discipline, was born in Leeds and practiced [email protected]. of the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom medicine there. However, topics on many 22-26August 1999, New Orleans, LA aspects ofthe History ofMedicine and Dentistry 1999 Joint Atlantic Seminar in the The year 1999 marks the 125th anniversary of will be included in the program. The venue for History of Physical Sciences the tetrahedral carbon atom. In honor of that the event will be Bodington Hall, a University 17-19 September 1999, The George anniversary the Division of Organic Chemistry, of Leeds Hall of Residence. For further details Washington University, Washington, DC the Division of the History of Chemistry, and please contact Susan Lacey, Conference and The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of The Chemical Heritage Foundation are Marketing Office, The University of Leeds, Physical Sciences resumes its annual meetings. cosponsoring a symposium during the August Leeds LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 233 6106. Fax 0113 Registration for the seminar closes July 30. For 1999 New Orleans National Meeting of the 233 6107. E-mail: [email protected]. more information see our Web site at http:// American Chemical Society. Ideally, the www.gwu.edu/ ~recsci/jashops.html or write to: symposium will be a mixture of papers on Commission on the History of Women JASHOPS, Center for History of Physics, historical topics and reflections on current issues in Science, Technology and Medicine American Institute of Physics, College Park, in stereochemistry by chemists (but not 10-12September1999, Newnham College, MD 20740-3843. straightforward research results). For more Cambridge, UK information, contact Peter J. Ramberg, The Women's Commission ofthe DHS/IUHPS Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) Tetrahedral Carbon Atom Symposium, will hold an open Conference/Workshop on and His Times Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins "Women in the History of Science: Biography, University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 19-24 September 1999 Autobiography, Tasks, Results, Problems" at [email protected]. "Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) and Newnham College, Cambridge, UK, 10-12 His Times" is sponsored by the Technical September 1999. The theme aims to direct University Bergakademie Freiberg and the lnvencao: Thinking the Next Millennium contributors towards critical discussion of the International Commission on the History of 25-29 August 1999, Sao Paolo, Brazil (auto)biographical method. The total cost Geological Sciences (INHIGEO). The Invencao is an opportunity for those working at (including accommodation and all meals) will symposium will focus on the geological the creative edge of the arts, sciences and be about £165, around $265 US at present rates sciences during Werner's lifetime. Participants technology to collaborate in the transdisciplinaty To join the email list to receive further may offer papers addressing the following development of ideas and innovative strategies information,write to [email protected]. for life in the next millennium. Invencao is a themes: (a) Knowledge of the earth from 1750 to 1820 and the geological ideas of A.G. "seeding" event that seeks to identify key Volta and the History of Electricity questions and issues that can lead to the radical Werner; (b) Developments and 11-15September1999, Pavia-Como communication, theoretical concepts and transformation ofculture. lnvencao will examine The Interdivisional History of Physics Group the consequences of this convergence of art, academic controversies, research centers and of the European Physical Society, together science and technology on our sense of self and influences in geological sciences; (c) The with the Commission on the History ofModern human identity, on consciousness, community relationships among geological knowledge and Physics of the DHS-IUPHS, is holding its and the city, as well as on learning and leisure. scientific, ideological, and religious ideas Future Meetings 29 during the Enlightenment and the early +(49)-551-395045, Fax. +(49)-551-395043, The 1999 Program Committee seeks proposals Industrial Revolution; (d) Werner and the E-mail: [email protected]. for individual papers related to the History, technical disciplines related to mining ca. Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, 1750-1820; (e) Wernerandhisnaturalhistory 24th Annual Great Lakes History Technology, Medicine from the ancient period collections, private library and coin collection Conference to the present. Please mail, email or fax a one­ in relation to other contemporary coin "History and the Telling of It II" page abstract for a 15-20 minute paper and brief collections and private libraries; (f) Werner's 24-25 September 1999, Grand Rapids, MI c.v. postmarked by August 9, 1999 to: influence beyond the earth sciences and mining The theme of this conference is "History and MePHiSToS 1999, Department of the History technology; and (g) the history of the influence the Telling oflt II." We are pleased to announce of Science, The University of Oklahoma, 601 and the reception ofWerner' s work. Copies of that Dr.John Harley WarnerofYale University Elm, Room 622, Norman, Oklahoma 73019- the first circular are available from: will be our keynote speaker. Those interested in 0315. Tel.: (405) 364-2003, Fax: (405) 325- Tagungsbiiro "Werner-Symposium," chairing and commenting on a session should 2363, E-mail: [email protected]. Akademiestrasse 6, TU Bergakademie send a c. v. and indicate areas of expertise. Please Freiberg, D-09599 Freiberg (Sachsen), address all inquiries to Dr. Carolyn Shapiro­ Society for the History of Technology Germany. E-mail contacts are Dr. Peter Shapin, Department of History, Grand Valley Annual Meeting Schmidt ([email protected]) or State Universiry, Allendale, MI 49401. E-mail: 7-10October1999, Detroit, Michigan Prof. Helmuth Albrecht ([email protected]­ [email protected]. Fax: (616) 895-3285. The local arrangements committee for the freiberg.de). Phone: (616) 895-3445. 1999 meeting is busy making plans. The meeting will be held at the Detroit Marriott in Astronomische Gesellschaft Speaking in Signs: Cultures of downtown Detroit's Renaissance Center; we will also hold several events at the Henry Ford 20 September 1999, Gottingen Communication in the Early Modern The annual convention of the Astronomische Museum. There will be ample time for visits Americas Gesellschaft will be taking place in Gottingen to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield 24-25September1999, University of this year under the rubric NEW Village. Downtown Detroit boasts the Detroit Pennsylvania ASTROPHYSICAL HORIZONS. At this Institute of Art, which houses the world­ This conference seeks to bring together a diverse occasion there will be a meeting of the History famous Diego Rivera murals, as well as vintage group of graduate students interested in of Science Working Group (AK 1920s and 30s architecture. Two tours are discussing the general themes ofcommunication Astronomiegeschichte) on Monday, September definite at this time: "Ruins, Remains, and in the Early Americas in all of its forms and 20, 1999. The Working Group's Organizing Reminders," a tour down Detroit's Woodward stages-from the production and dissemination Committee has-with the approval of the Avenue, the address ofimportant auto factories of ideas/texts to their reception, appropriation, society's Local Organizing Committee-chosen and other interesting local sites. There will and re-deployment. For more information the following theme: The history and function also be a trip to Henry Ford's estate, Fairlane. contacr: McNeil Center for Early American ofnonverbal representations in research practice Other tours are in the planning stage and the Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3440 in astronomy and astrophysics. This primarily organizers are waiting for final word on them. Market Street, Suite 540, Philadelphia, PA involves images or other forms of pictorial For questions or information about local 19104-3225, (215) 898-9251 I 9252, http:// registration (e.g., photos, video tapes) of arrangements contact the committee chair, ccat.sas. upenn.edu/mceas. observational data. Historical studies of Bob Casey: tel: 313-982-6079; fax: 313-982- astronomical and astrophysical representations 6244; email: [email protected]. http:// are our emphasis, but scientists in the field are Mephistos 1999 www.hfmgv.org/ shot/. also invited to think about the current functions 1-2October1999, University ofOklahoma of imaging (e.g., unsharp masking, speckle The University of Oklahoma History ofScience Challenging Rhetorics: Cross­ deconvolution or image compression) and the Association is proud to announce the 18th annual Disciplinary Sites of Feminist Discourse ever changing techniques used, which inevitably Mephistos graduate student conference at the 7-9 October 1999, Minneapolis will soon become part of history as well. The UniversityofOklahomainNorman, Oklahoma The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of on October 1-2, 1999. Mephistos is an annual conference language is English. Following a Writing at the University of Minnesota conference for graduate students working in the decision by the society's board, a projected fee announces a call for papers for the Second in the amount ofabout 30 D M (15 Euro) will field of Science Studies, which encompasses the Biennial International Feminism(s) and have to be charged to all those participants not history, philosophy, and sociology of science, Rhetoric(s) Conference "Challenging registering at the AG meeting. Please direct any technology, and medicine. Mephistos provides Rhetorics: Cross-Disciplinary Sites ofFeminist questions to: Dr. Habil. Klaus Hentschel, the opportunity for graduate students to present Discourse," 7-9 October in Minneapolis. We papers, engage in informal discussion, and meet Institute for History of Science, Universiry of invite 250-word proposals that share theories Giittingen, Humboldtallee 11, D-37073 students from other universities. Although about and examples of new discourse practices Mephistoswill appeal to people in science studies, Gottingen, Tel. +(49)-551-398412, E-mail: emerging as a result of feminist scholarship students in other areas touching on the sciences [email protected]. Organizational questions, across the disciplines in the academy. For technical requests, etc., please direct to: Dr. or with an interest in interdisciplinary research further information, contact Hildy Miller at Axel D. Wittmann, Universitats-Sternwarte, are also encouraged to submit paper proposals e-mail [email protected] or see our Web and to attend the conference. A conference Geismarlandstr. 11, D-37083 Giittingen, Tel. site http://CISW.cla.umn.edu. regiscration fee of $10 is required ofall attendees. 30 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999

Sixteenth Century Studies Association Into the Next Millenium: The Past and the history of health and healing; of medical Annual Meeting Promise of Environmental History ideas, practices and institutions; the history of 28-30October1999, St. Louis 16-19 March 2000, Tacoma, Washington illness, disease, and public health-from all eras The annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century The American Society for Environmental and regions of the world. The program Studies Association will take place in St. Louis, History will hold its 2000 meeting in Tacoma, committee welcomes session proposals and October 28-30, 1999. The conference is Washington. Papers and sessions will examine proposals for luncheon workshops; as in previous devoted to a wide range of topics in sixteenth aspects of human interaction with the physical years, papers will be judged on their individual century studies, including early modern history environment over time. For more information, merits. All papers must represent original work of science. For more information contact contact Mart Stewart (program chair), Western not already published or in press. Because the Gerhild Scholz Williams, Coordinator, Washington University, [email protected]; Bulletin ofthe History ofMedicine is the official Department of German, Box 1104, (360) 650-3455; Kate Christen, Smithsonian journal of the AAHM, the Association Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, Institution, [email protected], (202) 357- encourages speakers to make their manuscripts gerhild_ williams@aismail. wustl. ed u. 1421; Gail Evans, [email protected], (503) available for consideration by the "Bulletin" 873-5854; Mark Harvey, North Dakota State, upon request. Please send six copies of a one History of Geophysics and Space Physics [email protected], 1(701) 231-8828; page abstract of no more than 350 words to March 2000, Munich, Germany Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin, Harry M. Marks, Dept. ofthe History ofScience, The History of Geophysics and Space Physics [email protected], (608) 265-9008; Medicine & Technology, The Johns Hopkins announces a one-day session during the Annual Lisa Mighetto (ex-officio/local arrangements University, 1900 E. Monument Street, Meeting of the German Geophysical Society chair) Historical Research Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21205. Abstracts should not being held in Munich Germany. The session is [email protected], (206) 343-0226. merely state a research question, but should open for oral lectures and posters. The topics describe findings and conclusions sufficient to are the development ofgeophysics as a scientific Third European Social Science History allow assessment by the program committee. discipline during the last decades, biographical Conference Please also provide the following information: notes, discussion of international research 12-15 Apri/2000, Amsterdam Name, preferred mailing address, work and programs and the interdisciplinary discussion The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars home telephone numbers, present institutional of philosophical and historical problems in interested in explaining historical phenomena affiliation and academic degrees. Abstracts must connection with geophysical research. For using the methods of the social sciences. The be received by 1 October 1999. E-mailed or further information contact: Dr. Wilfried conference is characterized by a lively exchange faxed proposals will not be accepted. Schroder, Hechelstrasse 8, D-28777 Bremen­ in many small groups, rather than by formal Roennebeck, Germany. plenary sessions. The Conference is organized in Portraiture and Scientific Identity a large number of networks: Africa -Antiquity - 23-24 June 2000, National Portrait Gallery, The Age of Economic Measurement Asia - Childhood - Criminal Justice - Culture - London March or April 2000, Duke University Economics - Education - Elites - Ethnicity - This conference is being organized by the Participants in the 2000 workshop ofthe History Family/Demography- Geography- Government National Portrait Gallery and the British Society of Political Economy will explore the history of and Politics - Health - Labor - Latin America - for the History ofScience. The likely pattern of the commitment to measurement in economics Middle Ages -Migration-Nations- Oral History conference will be four plenary sessions and a from the late 19th through early 20th centuries. - Political Movements - Quantitative Methods - number of shorter sessions with papers of 25 We invite paper proposals that deal with the Religion - Rural - Sexuality- Social inequality­ minutes. Professor Ludmilla Jordanova is emergence of that commitment and its T echnology-Theory- Urban-Women/Gender. responsible for the program, and offers of short consequent effect on the economics discipline. The Conference fee will be dfl. 300 (at present papers can be made to her at any time between We welcome proposals focused on the social, this is about US$ 150). The deadline for sending now and 1 November 1999. This should take political and policy contexts ofthese changes, as an abstract was 30 April 1999. Further the form of a brief abstract of no more than one well as those that explore interactions of information about the European Social Science page, together with any supporting material economics with other disciplines in regard to History Conference can be obtained from the thought appropriate, for example, a list of items measurement issues. (The full details of the Conference Internet site at http://www.iisg.nl/ already published on the topic. theme of the workshop can be obtained from ESSHC or from the conference secretariat: The final program will be drawn up by the organizers noted below.). Please send paper European Social Science History Conference Christmas 1999, and it will be circulated in the proposals ( 1 page only) to both Mary S. Morgan 2000, cl o International Institute ofSocial History, new year. A copy of the final program can be sent (at Department of Economic History, London Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, to those who provide the Education Department School of Economics, Houghton St., London Netherlands; Telephone: +31.20.6685866; Fax: of the National Portrait Gallery (St Martin's WC2A 2AE, UK, or to [email protected]. uk or +31.20.6654181. E-mail: [email protected] Place, London, WC2H OHE) with a stamped to Fax: 44-171-955-7730) and Judy L. Klein addressed envelop marked 'BSHS conference.' (at Department of Economics, Mary Baldwin American Association for the History of The meeting is being held in association College, Staunton, VA 24401, USA, or to Medicine with a small exhibition at the National Portrait [email protected] or to Fax: 1-540-887-7137). Bethesda, MD, May 17-21, 2000 Gallery, which will explore portraiture in relation The American Association for the History of to practitioners of science, medicine and Medicine welcomes papers on topics related to technology since the seventeenth century in Future Meetings 31

Britain. The exhibition will open in late March 2000. You are advised to register on time as the past, present and future; master narratives in the or early April and will close at the end of June conference venue can only accommodate a history of science, including reassessments of 2000. It will contain works in all media, and maximum of90 participants. earlier narratives and presentations of new ones; suggestions ofunusual, visually interesting items evaluating the relationship between the history thatmight be included can bemadeto Professor ICES History Symposium: 100 Years of ofscience and other disciplines, such as sociology, J ordanova, who would be particularly interested Science under ICES literary studies, social history, cultural history, to hear of relevant self-portraits and of portraits 1-3 August 2000, Helsinki, Finland environmental history, natural science (the made within domestic settings. The practice of The International Council for the Exploration "science wars"); important absences in the history portraiture is one of the main themes of the of the Sea (ICES), the world's oldest of science: what's been missed? what can't be exhibition, so preparatory sketches are of intergovernmental marine science organization, said?; differing modes of investigation in the particular relevance. will celebrate its Centenary in 2002. One of history ofscience, including museum and material Professor Ludmilla Jordanova can be several major events commissioned by the culture studies, history ofpopular culture, history contacted at School of World Art Studies and Council to mark this historic occasion will be of printing and publishing, and others; re­ Museology, UniversiryofEastAnglia, Norwich, this Symposium, slated for 1-3 August 2000 in examinations of particular chronological (e.~., Norfolk, NR4 7TJ. E-mail: 1.jordanova@ Helsinki, Finland. The Symposium will focus Enlightenment or medieval science) and thematic uea.ac.uk. The BSHS website is at: http:// on the key role ICES has played over the past fields (e.g., the history of biology, science and www.man.ac. uk/Science_Engineering/ century in major developments in the fields of gender, science and popular culture); the CHSTM/bshs/. marine fisheries, hydrography, and development of history of science as a discipline environmental quality. and as a profession, in particular to provide an SSHM Annual Conference: Medicine­ The Symposium is open to all scientists, international perspective to the issues that the Magic-Religion historians, students, and others who have an HSS is considering at its 75thanniversary meeting 17-18 July 2000, Southampton interest in the historical development of marine in 1999. This announcement constitutes a call This conference aims at a re-assessment of the science, particularly that involving ICES. for papers. The meeting will be organized into boundaries and intersections between medicine, Contributors must submit tides with 200-300 sessions ofthree or four papers with commentator. magic, and religion in the light of: the current word abstracts to the Convenor by 31 August Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged, upsurge of scholarly interest in the area of pre­ 1999. Contributions will be published, although proposals for individual papers will also modern history ofmedicine; conceptual debates following peer review, in a special issue of the be considered. Session organizers are urged to on the epistemological status of science and ICES journal ofMarine Science. A registration include speakers from more than one country. medicine, vis-a-vis magic and religion; recent fee ofUS $125 (US $75 for students), due by 1 Electronic submissions via the HSS Web site are writing on 'colonial medicine' and on the inter­ July 2000, will cover costs of coffee, tea, preferred. http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/ relationships; hegemonic tendencies and Symposium Dinner and a copy ofthe published 2000/joint2000.html. Proposals, including conceptual incompatibilities of different proceedings. For more information, contact abstracts of approximately 250 words for each cosmologies and systems of healing; recent the Symposium Convenor: Dr Emory D. paper, are due at the HSS Executive Office (see contributions by post-colonial and subaltern Anderson, NOAA/NMFS, Northeast Fisheries address on page 2) by 15 December 99, with histories to the critique of dichotomous Science Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA, notification of acceptance by early February in categories such as "East" versus "West," Tel: +l 508 495 2317; Fax: +l 508 495 2393. 2000. Conference participants may expect to "rationality" versus "irrationality," "science" E-mail: [email protected]. receive a program of published abstracts. For versus "belief;" the rise of" alternative" medicine further details contact the HSS Executive office in western countries and its construction as a Fourth British-North American Joint at [email protected] or the program "holistic" and more "spiritual" alternative to Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS committee: Jon Agar, [email protected]; "scientifically" based bio-medicine. What is to be done? History of Science in Bernie Lightman, [email protected]; and Paul It is intended to bring together historians the New Millennium Theerman, [email protected]. and social scientists working on the development 3-6 August 2000, St. Louis, Missouri, USA ofmedical theories and practices during different Following successful meetings in Manchester International Congress of Historical periods of time and within diverse cultural (1988), Toronto (1992), and Edinburgh (1996), Sciences contexts. Offers of papers based on the British Society for the History ofScience, the 6-13 August 2000, Oslo, Norway interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy The International Committee of Historical are particularly welcome. of Science, and the History of Science Society Sciences has chosen Oslo for the 19th Ifyou would like to present a paper at the will be undertaking their fourth international International Congress of Historical Sciences, conference, please send an abstract (pasted joint meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, August 3- 6-13 August 2000. The largest regular meetings into an e-mail) to [email protected] by 31 6, 2000. The program committee, with members ofprofessional historians from all over the world, January 2000. drawn from the three participating societies, has these congresses take place every five years. The Contact for registration details: Dr chosen as the meeting theme: "What is to be Congress will consist of three major themes of Waltraud Ernst, Department of History, done? History of Science in the New one full day each, 20 specialized themes with half University of Southampcon, Southampton Millennium." Session proposals are invited on a day each, and 25 roundtable discussions. S017 lBJ. E-mail: [email protected] copies that address particularly: critical English and French will be the offical languages Bookings should arrive no later than 1 April historiographical issues in the history of science, of the Congress, and simultaneous Norwegian 32 History of Science Society Newsletter July 1999 translation will be provided for all plenary interchange among the disciplines, while figs. , bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins sessions. The International Congresses of recognizing the uniqueness ofeach. Conference Universiry Press, 1999. $39. Historical Sciences function as comprehensive themes will include, but not be limited to, Andersson-Skog, Lena; Krantz, Olle (Editors). surveys of new trends and developments within personal and external facrors that empower or Institutions in the Transport and Communicatiom various historical disciplines. They also serve as inhibit women's participation in the scientific, Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of an arena for critical debate about cental themes medical, and technological disciplines; InstitutionalPatterm, 1850-1990. xx+ 359 pp., figs., table, app., bibl., index. Canton, Mass.: Science History of current scholarship and the pioneer fronts of scientific, medical, and technological ideas Publications, 1999. $49.95. historical research. In order to ensure the widest that have influenced ideas about gender and possible participation from all parts ofthe world, gender roles in the disciplines and in the wider Andrews, Francis B. The Mediaeval Builder and grants will be available for participants from society; and the relationship between gender His Methods. (Dover Books on History, Political and selected regions. Please send information requests Social Science.) [xviii] + 112 pp., frontis., illus., apps. and conceptions ofknowledge and the practice to: The 19th International Congress ofHistorical Reprint of! 922 edition. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1999. of science, medicine, and technology. Sciences, Department of History, P.O. Box $6.95 (paper). Individual papers and panels are solicited 1008, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway. on topics that explore the interdisciplinary Amal,YolandaTexera(Compiler).Lamoderniuzcidn dificil- Henri Pittieren Venezue/,a, 1920-1950. Foreword relationships ofwomen and gender and science, Transformation and Continuity in the by Leonor Gimenez de Mendoza. 704 pp., illus., medicine, and technology. Conference History of Universities tables. 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Further information History, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell 21.) 365 pp., indexes. Rome: Giunti, 1998. L55,000. is available on the Internet (address below). Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63156. Conference Proposals for papers were due 1 June 1999. The materials will be available afrer August 1, 2000. Benson, Donald C. The Moment of Proof committee will announce the definitive program Mathematical Epiphanies. [vii]+ 331 pp., figs., tables, on 15 January 2000. All enquiries, suggestions bib!., index. New York/Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Isis Books Received Universiry Press, 1999. $30. and proposals for papers should be made in the first instance to Prof. Sivert Langholm or Prior to the publication of each Newsktter, the HSS Beretta, Marco; Pogliano, Claudio; Redondi, Research Fellow Fredrik W. Thue, Forum for Executive Office receives from the Isis Editorial Of­ Pietro. journals and History of Science. 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