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rants for graduate student travel, on-line access to a bibliographical data base, Gthe new "Focus" sections in Isis, and a responsive Executive Office - these are among the History of Science Society's most valued functions. According to a recent survey, members want HSS core functions, such as our publications and the annu­ al meeting, kept in orbi~ and new ones launched. You have, for example, conveyed to us ideas for supporting new-comers to the field, speaking more accessibly and meaningfully to each other and to those outside the discipline, and fulfilling the potential of our international character. The enthusiasm manifested for the field and the Society, along with the profusion of positive suggestions for the future, C8 / HST HSS Web Isis Newsletter OSk'ts assured a delighted Executive Committee that HSS has the commitment and ener­ database sl:e '& to enhance significantly what it does for its members and the history of science. The online survey is one way individual members are participating in shap­ ing the future of the Society and the discipline. Many thanks to those who partic­ ipated. (To those who did not, you will have a second chance when the Committee Reading the USS Survey on Research and the Profession produces a more detailed survey.) We will be using the survey results, along with deliberations by the Council and various commit­ he recent survey of HSS members represents an ongoing conversation. tees, as the basis for imagining the future of HSS. In the coming months we will TResponses not only give us vital information about you, your experiences draw up a list of ambitious but practical goals and a set of plans for achieving with the Society also give us a measure of how well we are doing our jobs. them. For example, should we be promoting more dialogue among our sub-dis­ The many thoughtful suggestions and ideas show the commitment of our ciplines or with our sister disciplines? If so, how? members to making the Society as useful and responsive as possible to its The impetus (forgive the medieval physics) for enhancing the ways we serve members and to the wider community. the discipline and our members must come first and foremost from you, in the Members rate our flagship journal, Isis , highly. More than 85% of respon­ form of ideas, participation, and financial support. NEH is ready to give us dents rate it as good or excellent. Comments showed that the book-review sec­ $125,000 toward endowing the work that goes into the Current Bibliography and tion is especially valuable to members. Broad questions about who we are and the electronic data base - but only if we chip in ourselves (to donate go to what we want to be as a Society filled the comments section, not only on Isis , http://wwwhssonline.org) . It's not all about money, of course. If we decide we but also on the rest of our publications and the annual meeting. want news media or textbook publishers or political leaders to appreciate the sig­ (Continued on page 20) nificance of the history of science, some of us will need to commit ourselves to making our research accessible to them. Contents In short, if the History of Science Society is to exert force - to serve its mem­ News and Inquiries 3 Preliminary Program {Insert) 1-X bers, to advance scholarship in the field, and, more generally, to foster interest in Behind the Scenes: Future Meetings 11 the history of science and its social and cultural relations - we need to decide on Stephen Weldon 7 Dissertations 12 a direction and give it a push. I am delighted to announce that Marc Rothenberg, Awards, Honors, Isis Books Received 13 who, after a decade of service to HSS as Treasurer, will be stepping down from that and Appointments 8 Bucculentus Revisited 16 role, has agreed to lead us in this undertaking. The new campaign for the history Jobs 9 NEH Donors 18 Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes of science will enable us to meet the goals we define. Please join in the effort. 9 History of Science in Bulgaria 19 HSS Conference Election Results 22 - Joan Cadden, HSS President Registration Form 10 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6

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Beijing Congress: General Assembly Summary of Activities, 27, 29 July 2005: Commission Presidents • Creation of the "World History of Science Online: Databases of Bibliographic Ancient and Medieval Astronomy: S.M. Women in Science: Annette Vogt and Archival Source;" (WHSO) in collaboration with the Pre;ident of the Razaullah Ansari ICOH7EC' Hans]. Braun Commis.5ion on Bibliography and Documentation. For further infonnation: Bibliography and Documentation: Peter IASCUD: Wesley Stevens www.d.hs-whso.org. Harper History ofAstronomy C41/ !CHA (with • Updating of DHS Bylaws: The word "Technology" was added to the name of !Jast Asia: Christopher Cullen !AU): Alexander Gurshtein the Division in order to recogniz.e the importance and professional value of the Islamic Civiliwtion: Jamil Ragep History ofGeography (with !GU): Hector history of technology. The DHST Council acknowledged the need to include MeteorokJgy: Cornelia Ludecke Mendoza gender balance and cultural diversity among<;t the members. Modern Physics: Christoph Meinel History Qf GeokJgical Scienc,e (with JUGS): • Prof. Eva Vamos delivered a speech on Hungary's application to host the next Modern Chemistry: Helge Kragh and Philippe Tacquet Congress. (The 2009 Congress will be held in Budapest.) Roger Stuewer Internatimzal Commission for the History •A proposal to create a new commission on Science and Religion was not Oceanography: Keith Benson ofMathematics (with !MU): Karen V. H. approved. Pacific Circle: Roy McLeod Parshall • The members of the Assembly also agreed by majority that the maximum Scientifzc Instruments: Paolo Brenni History ofSoil Science: Benno Warkentin tenn for one individual to work as the President is eight years (two tenns). Science and Empire: Michael Osborne Internatimzal Committee for the History • Ronald Numbers was elected Pre;ident of the DHST. Teaching: Jaroslav Folta ofMetrokJgy (!CHM): Jean-Claude Hocquet • Efthymios Nicolaidis was elected Secretary General.

The IUHPS/DHST Council 2005-2009 President: Ronald Numbers (USA) Treasurer: Ida Stamhuis First Vice President: Liu Dun (Netherlands) (China) Assessors: Lesley Cormack Second Vice President: Fabio (Canada) Bevilacqua (Italy) Ubiratan d'Ambrosio (Brazil) Secretary General: Efthymios Abdul Hafiz Mohamot (Egypt) Nicolaidis (Greece) Michio Yano (Japan) Assistant Secretary General: Eva Catherine Jami (France) Vamos (Hungary) Alexey Postnikov (Russia)

New Public Senrer at dte University ef Chicago Press to Improve Access to ~ Material

In February, the University of Chicago Press replaced its main public server. This is the machine which helps make available all of UCP's public Web resources - online journals, online mailing lists, and online direc­ tories - for HSS and other scholarly society clients. The previous server was replaced with a much faster machine, and as a result download time for Press content has improved. If you have any questions about this server upgrade, please write to Mitchell Szczepanczyk at the University of Chicago Press: [email protected].

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online Athree-year grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain has been awarded to Professor James Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K) and Professor Janet Browne (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, U.K.) to create a comprehensive scholarly collection of Charles Darwin's published and unpublished writings, except for correspon­ dence, on the World Wide Web. Visit http://darwin-online.org.U.K. New Blog for the Forum for the History of Science in America A blog has been set up for the Forum for the History of Science in America. The goal is to provide a place to post short essays and comments for discus­ sion - items more substantial than a listserv note but short of a publishable Elizabeth Green Musselman, Brandon Marsh, Adrian Howkins, Kimberly Hamlin, Angela Smith, Alberto Martinez, Bruce Hunt, Steve Kirkpatrick, Joanna article. The blog is available at: http://fhsanewsandviews.blogspot.com/. Semendeferi, Frank Benn, and Anthony Stranges Gennan Society for History of Geophysics and Cosmical t""f1he Lone Star History of Science Group held its nineteenth annual meeting on 21 Physics l April 2oo6 at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. The gathering was A commission for the history of geophysics and cosmical physics has been hosted by Professor Elizabeth Green MUS&lman of Southwestern, and the speaker was founded under the leadership of Professor Dr. Hans-Jiirgen Treder, formerly Dr. Alberto Martinez, who served this past year as a visiting lecturer in the University director of the Einstein-Laboratory for theoretical physics of the Academy of of Texas Department of Histoiy Sciences. The commission publishes a journal entitled Contributions for Dr. Martinez earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and held postdoc­ the History ofGeophysics and Cosmical Physics, open to all authors. For toral positions at MIT and Caltech before coming to Texas. His book Negative Math: more information: http://verplant.org/history-geophysics/Wiechert.htm. How Mathematical Rules Can Be Posilively Bent has recently been published by Princeton University Press, and he has written extensively on the origins and signifi­ Robert Hooke Folio to be Returned to Royal Society cance of Einstein's special theory of relativity In his Lone Star talk, entitled The Royal Society reached a private agreement for the return of the Robert "Subtractive History: Writing about Einstein in 1905 (after the 2005 Commotion has Hooke folio, which was due to be auctioned in March 2oo6. The documents Finally Died Down)" and delivered in a characteristically lively fashion, Dr. Martinez include notes of minutes that were taken by Hooke as part of his duties as surveyed some of the many attempts that have been made to explain the origins of Secretary to the Society in the late seventeenth century, and Hooke's private Einstein's theory and examined why no clear consensus on the question has yet been notes of the Society's meetings. reached- or, given current scholarly trends, is likely to be reached. Dr. Martinez illus­ Chymistry of Newton Online trated his points with a provocative argument about the role a concern with develop­ With the support of the National Science Foundation, The Chymistry of Isaac mental psychology may have played in Einstein's thinking, and offered some sugges­ Newton is producing a scholarly online edition of Newton's alchemical manu­ tions on how Einstein scholarship might best move forward in the future. scripts integrated with new research on Newton's 'chymistry' To date, about Each spring, the Lone Star Group draws together historians of science, technolo­ gy, and medicine from around Texas and the Southwest to discus.5 their shared inter­ Call for Su~ions: ests and enjoy a friendly dinner. The next Lone Star meeting will be held at Texas A&M The Encyclopedia of the History of Invention and Technology University in College Station, Texas, in April 2007. Anyone interested in attending Contributors are needed for an encyclopedia on the social history of technol­ should contact Prof. Tony Stranges of the Texas A&M History Department at a­ ogy and invention. The encyclopedia is intended for general audiences. For [email protected]. more information, please contact David J. Staley at [email protected]. Interdisciplinary &says on Science in 19th-Century Britain In Memoriam: Joaa Warnow-Blewett Papers are being sought for a collection of essays on Science in Nineteenth­ Joan Waroow-Blewett died on 30 May, 2006. Agood friend and an extraordi­ Century Britain. Edited by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb, the collection will be nary colleague, Joa.ii was a forceful voice for change in the at'Cbival profession. printed by Cambridge Scholars Press in Spring/Summer 2007. Deadline for Her work at the AIP lfistory Centei; along witn her many pµblications and pre­ submissions: 10 August 2oo6. Essays are to be 5,000-6,000 words in length sentatiQfls, helped shape mcidern archival practice. Joan retired in 1997 and and follow the author/date system (Chicago style). Inquiries and submissions moved f.o Nnrth Carolina with her husband, physieist John 81eWett. She main­ to: [email protected]. tained her ties with"ihe. AW History .Centet first as an occasional consultant New &says on Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries and later as a member of its Development Committee. John died in 2000, and Anew volume exploring the relationship among the arts (fine and decorative) Joan married noted Yale hisf.orian Martin Klein in 2005. and sciences (or, more broadly, natural and experimental philosophy) in the -joeAnderson eighteenth and nineteenth centurie; is under contract with Cambridge Centerfar Hfstory qf~ Amerlmn lnslilute qf PbysicY Scholars Press, Ltd. Send cover letter, essay manuscript (approx. 30-40 pp, double spaced, 12p~ letter or A4), abstract (two pages max.), and c.v., post­ Correction: The April Newsletter gave the mistaken impression that Pam Long marked by August 15, 2oo6 to: Andrew Graciano, Editor, Dept of Art, is currently affiliated with the University of Maryland. She is an independent schol­ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208,USA. E-mail questions to: ar; Maryland is where she received her Ph.D. [email protected]. 4 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 seven hundred pages have been transcribed and encoded in TEI/XML. Of these, rough­ F,xperiments and Notes on the Mechaniail Origine or Production of Electricity, ly six hundred have been edited and are available online, including Newton's Most and the scientific library of Louis Pasteur. For more information, please visit Complete Laboratmy Notebook. For more infonnation: ht1p://webapp l.dlib. ht1p://www.huntington.org. indiana.edu/newton/index.jsp. Special Subscription Offer for HSS Members: 'Historical Records of Australian Science' In Memoriam: David L. Cowen CSIRO Publishing offers HSS members a special 2oo6 subscription to Historical David L. Cowen died on Friday, 16 April 2oo6. He was 96. Dr. Cowen was a Records efAustralian Science. To obtain the discount rate for society membership, e­ highly-respected teacher, researcher, and author, whose work in the history of mail [email protected]. Or visit: ht1p://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/hras. phannacy earned him world-renown. ARutgers alumnus, he taught history at New Ph.D. Program at the University of Vienna Rutgers from 1933 to 1974. In 1994, he received the Continuing Lifetime The University of Vienna offers Ph.D.'s on 'Naturwissenschaften im historischen Achievement Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Kontext/The Sciences in Historical Context.' Up to 12 doctoral student positions begin­ Inl989, in honor of his accomplishments, the Rutgers College of Phannacy ning 1 October 2oo6. Information can be found at one of the following Web sites: established the annual David L. Cowen Lecture on the History of Phannacy. ht1p://univie.ac.at/geschichte/ash/initiativkolleg, ht1p://international.univie.ac.at/ In 2001, the Medical History Society of New Jersey established the David L. en/portal/initiativkolleg

Physics: Thinking Back and Forward s the American Institute of Physics (AIP) celebrates its 75th anniversary this satellite less encumbered by gravity. Through his special theory of relativity, Ayear, physicists will be thinking about how much their science has evolved Einstein showed that time moves slower for a moving object such as a satellite and how far it has expanded into new territory. relative to one at rest such as a GPS user on Earth. Both effects must be consid­ What have been the most important events in physics during this relatively ered in order for GPS to work accurately. short period of time? AIP senior historian, physicist and HSS member Spencer Ironically, these two theories (general relativity and quantum mechanics) Weart suggests two discoveries. Quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theo­ are incompatible with one another although they are both used to great effec­ ry of relativity, he says, have laid down the "new physics" of our age. tiveness. But they fail when scientists combine them to explain behavior inside Quantum mechanics has led to the development of lasers, atomic clocks, black holes, for example. magnetic resonance imaging, the electron microscope, transistors, computer Combining these two pictures of the universe into a "unified" theory is one chips and high-speed communications with fiber optics. Whereas general rela­ of the major challenges still facing physicists, says Judy Franz, Executive Officer tivity has enabled us to predict, with incredible precision, the position of the of the American Physical Society. planets and other objects in space. "Science," says Jim Gates, a professor of physics at the University of For example, in order for Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to work, a net­ Maryland, is "a detennined flight from fantasy. Physics is not about the truth, it work of satellites, each of which contains atomic clocks to synchronize their is about making our systems of beliefs less false." signals with one another, must take into account Einstein's general theory that gravity slows time down for an observer bound to the Earth compared to a (adapted from an article furnished by the American Institute of Physics)

At left: In the early 1930's, particle accelerators took up the space of a room in a lab. Today, the largest accelerator forms an underground 17-mile (27-km) loop. Photos courtesy of Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics 5 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Free Online Access to Nearly 200 Years of Annual Midwest Junto Report Medical Research The 49th annual Midwest ]unto for the History of Science took place dur­ Back issues covering nearly 200 years of biomedical journals are being made ing the weekend of 28-30 April, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin, available online as a result of a Wellcome Trust project. The archive is avail­ Madison. After a Friday-night reception at the Rare Books room of able at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/. Further information: http://library. Memorial Library, the ]unto formally began on Saturday morning, when wellcome.ac.U.K./backfiles. participants heard 23 papers in six sections by faculty, graduate students Careers in Academic Librarianship and two undergraduates in six sessions on various topics, including Members of the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of Maxwell's natural theology, amateur telescope making, the natural history College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have formed a committee to address of poison, Jefferson's gardening, and cadavers in American medical educa­ the current and long-term shortage of academic librarians. They are particu­ tion. At the Sunday morning business meeting, President David Robinson larly interested in advising scholars and teachers with foreign language train­ (Truman State University) announced that Alan Shapiro (University of ing and advanced degrees that careers in academic librarianship provide addi­ Minnesota) was chosen President-elect by acclamation. tional options for using their training in an academic setting. For more infor­ The highlight of the meeting was the first Stuart Pierson Memorial mation, please visit the Web site for the WESS Committee on Recruitment to Presentation, given at the Saturday-evening banquet by William the Profession: http://www.columbia.edu/ - klgl 9/WESS/. Ashworth (University of Missouri-Kansas City). After introductions by Alan Shapiro and David Lindberg, Ashworth gave a richly illustrated presentation of the unfortunate but very amusing career of the hapless Executive Secretary Needed at 1he Philosophy of Science ~on The Philosophy of Science Association seeks applications for the post of seventeenth century natural philosopher Bucculentus in "Bucculentus Executive Secretary, service to begin in June 2008. Qualified applicants are Revisited: The Underside of the Scientific Revolution." (See page 16 for requested to send c.v. to [email protected]. The PSA reserves the Bucculentus' career.) right to hold the search open until a satisfactory candidate has been found. The SOth annual Junto will take place at Iowa State University in Ames, Succes.5ful candidates will be energetic, knowledgeable in the field, and possess Iowa in the spring of 2007. Plans are underway for a celebration of the SOth some management and/or business experience. The office of Executive Secretary anniversary of the Junta, and a full announcement will appear in an upcom­ is unpaid, although it may be possible to negotiate funding for a course release. ing HSS Newsletter. For the complete 2006 program and more information on the ]unto or on donating to the Pierson Fund, contact the Secretary­ Treasurer Peter Ramberg ([email protected]) or see the ]unto Website at http://www.public.iastate.edu/-history_info/hots/junto/junto.htm. - Peter Ramberg

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Behind the Sttnes: Stephen Weldon, ~ Bibliographer

"\VJhen Stephen Weldon began work as the History of Science Society I Infonnation for Contributors I WBibliographer in the sununer of 2002, his first job was to produce the 2002 . . . . . Current Bibliograpby (CB) ... in under eight months. After clearing that hurdle, he immedi.- Scholars publishing or kn~g of ~des and ~ks.pertinent to ~e ately jumped into compiling the 2003 bibliography. Since then, he has been producing yearly scope of the ~B s~ould notify the lszs Current Biblwgraphy_ office. bibliographies and formatting data from 2000 and 2001 - making it computer friendly for Se~d all contributions to Stephen P. ~eldo~ Department of History of the Research libraries Group (RLG), publishers of the electronic History of Science, Science, 6ol Elm St., Room 618, yru:e~1ty of Oklahoma, Norman, Technology, and Medi.cine (HST) database. "I've been juggling quite a bit of data here," he Oklahoma 73019-3106; .. ~.at!: [email protected];. ~eb page: says. "In December of last year (2005) I finally got up to date, subtnitting over 12,000 records h~://www.ou.edu/c~sci/ists/mdex.htm. For.those wi:'hing to con- and filling in gaps from 2000 to 2005. All of those records have just recently been incmporated ~bute an en~ or e~tries, pleasi: se~d as much mf~rmation abo~t ~e into the HST database. I urge users to start exploring." items as possible, usmg the entries m the CB to guide you. Descnptive Weldon received his Ph.D. (1997) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the remarks of under 50 words are encouraged but not necessary. same university at which the HSS's previous bibliographer, John Neu, worked for over 30 years. Writing a dissertation on science and secular humanism in the U.S., Weldon would go to Neu for help finding citations. "He was an important figure on campus for all of us in the history of sci­ ence department," says Weldon. According to Weldon, the classification and ordering of bibliographic entries was standardiz.ed in the Reminder: The Isis Bibliograpby from 1975 to the present Fifties by a committee of historians of science. Neu maintained that system until he retired. When Weldon is available online with the Research Libraries Group (RLG). took the job, he knew he wanted to make some changes. "I had the historical training, and felt able to Members of the Society may access the RLG Web site and the History make decisions about the classification scheme. For example, there was a category called pseudo-science, of Science and Technology Database (HST) through the HSS home­ which had seemed like a perfectly legitimate category for historians of science in an age dominated by page athttp://hssonline.org. RLG has assigned us "Y6.G19" as a "User positivism. Since the late 19(i0s, however, the growth of social constructivism led to an expansion of the Name" and "HSSDEMO" as a "Password." purview of history of science and reevaluations of knowledge systems in general. It became clear to me that pseudo-science was not a good category. I eliniinated it and added categories such as alchemy, astrology, and occult sciences." Weldon spent a lot of time talking with people about this problem. "While it was clear to me that certain parts needed changes, I did not see that a wholesale reconfiguration was desirable or warranted. After the first year, I called a special session at HSS to discuss the changes, and still people periodically tell me whether it is working for them or not. I keep notes. One of the things that has always struck me about the bibliography is how central it is, not just to the HSS, but to the larger community of histori­ fellowships ans of science around world. I want to preserve its uniqueness and its functionality." Weldon inherited pre-digital methods and developed, with the help of graduate student Sylwester available -=:...-;::::o-::_-_ --=------~,,._, Ratowt, a computerized system sophisticated enough for quick input J and easy proofreading that produces data suitable for both print and electronic publication. He also faced challenges in getting software flexi­ ble enough to work on different computers, software that could be coordinat­ The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced ed with a central server that would periodically update all the machines Study at Harvard University awards 45 J with the newest data. "It was daunting," he says. In the simplest terms, the HSS bibliographer searches for citations and funded residential fellowships each year ·· then classifies them. Weldon's two graduate student assistants enter most of designed to support scholars, scientists, the data, and he then categoriz.es it. Some of the sources for citations include artists, and writers of exceptional prom­ standard history and history of science journals , major university press cata- logs, and library acquisition slips. Authors also send information about new ise and demonstrated accomplishment. articles and books. 'Tm always look­ ,, '.f :, · ing for other ways to find relevant For more information, please contact: / /,..."fl'~~~ ' publications," he says. To that end, he Radcliffe Application Office · , wants people to send him c.v.'s or other 34 Concord Ave. , ;~ notifications of published work, especially Cambridge, MA 02138 ,/,/', if the publications have appeared in obscure 617-496-1324 places. "We uncover a good bit of material through [email protected] volunteer contributions." www.radcliffe.edu Fifty percent of Weldon's time is devoted to the bibliog- raphy and fifty percent to teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

1 Pulling together 2,500 to 3,000 entries per year is challenging. "I plan ~ J{\fl(fllll l,...,llll JI f{I], \ll\\'\(J l'- 11

to make it larger. Neu ended his career producing 4,000 entries a year. ';::/ I! , 1' \ \ F'.JI l '\ !\ t 1, "! l l I have yet to achieve that, but I'm getting closer" 7 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6

Center for Information Technology. His project is titled: "Planting the Seeds: How the Awards, Honors, and NIH Cultivated Biomedical Computing." Science and Religimz, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin, by Richard G. Appointments Olson, professor of history at Harvey Mudd College, has been named to the annual Best Books List for 2005 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Peder Anker joined the Department of History, University of Oslo, as a Senior (MAS) Science Books & Film (SB&F) magazine. Researcher on a four-year program starting in the spring of 2oo6. Don Opitz has been appointed assistant professor in the School for New Learning, David Cantor has been appointed series editor for Studies in the Social Histary of DePaul University (Chicago, IL), effective 1July 2oo6. Medicine published by Routledge for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Karen A. Rader and John C. Powers have accepted positions at Virginia The China Reading Week(y named Robert Marc Friedman's 7he Politics of Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond, beginning fall 2oo6. Rader will be Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Scien<:e as "one of the ten best books of 2005." an associate professor in the Department of History and director of the new STS The Office of NIH History sponsored a two-day conference this past year on the theme Initiative. Powers will be a collateral assistant professor in the Department of History, 'Biomedicine in the 'l\ventieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics,' in honor of and the Assistant Director of the STS Initiative. Victoria A. Harden, the director of the Office of NIH History, on her retirement. R Jamil Ragep has been appointed to a Canada Research Chair at the Institute of John L. Heilbron, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Science at the Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Sally P. Ragep has been appointed as University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the 2oo6 Pais Priz.e for History of a Research Associate at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Physics. Nancy G. Siraisi has been awarded the Council of the American Historical Among the ACLS Fellows chosen for 2005-06 were three HSS members: Hunter Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction. She has been a prolific and leading Crowther-Heyck (Ryskamp Fellow); RJamil Ragep (Digital Innovation Fellow); scholar in the history of medicine and science of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Michael Wein1roub (ACLS Fellowship program ("core program")). Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University) has been awarded the Leo Gershoy Award The Office of NIH History and Sletten Museum at the National Institutes of Health for 7he Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientif'zc Revolution (Univ. announces the appointment of Joseph A. November as the next DeWitt Sletten, Jr., of Chicago Press, 2004). Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology. He will spend John Harley Warner has been named Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine his fellowship year (2007-2008) at the NIH conducting research sponsored by the at Yale University.

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Thursday. 2 November Thierry Bardini, Universite de Montreal, "Bush and the Nexus: Towards the 1:00 p.m. - 5:00p.m. Hypertextual Intetlace" HSS Council Meeting Jean-Fran~is Blanchette, University ofCalifornia, I.os Angeles, "From Enigma Machines to the Word Wide Web: Public-key Cryptography and the Promise 5:30p.m. - 7:00p.m. of Electronic Authenticity" Plenary Session Bruno J. Strasser, University iflilusanne, "Banking DNA Sequences: Physicists, Biologists and the Electronic Management of Biomedical Data" 7:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. Commentator: Tunothy Lenoir, Duke University Welcome Orientation for First-Tune Attendees *Chair: Nancy Anderson, Dartmouth College

7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m. History of Evolutionary Theory (F4) Ana Barahona, Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico, "The Rhetorical Reception Construction of Eldredge and Gould's Article on the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria in 1972" 7:30p.m. - 9:30p.m. Raf De Boot, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, "Fighting on 1\vo Fronts: Chemical Interest Group Dinner (check www.chemheritage.org ) Spiritualist Thinking and Evolutionaty Theory in Fin de Siecle Belgium." William deJong-Lambert, "S7crepan Pienimk: Polish Lysenkoist" 9:00 p.m. - 11:00p.m. Kathryn S. Plaisance, University ofMinnesota, "Fisher v. Fisher: The Origins of Graduate Student Party (tentative) Analysis of Variance in the Biological and Behavioral Sciences" Robert H. Silliman, Emory University, "Pilgrim's Progress: Leo Lesquereux Friday, 3 November (1806-1889) and the Rise of Palaeobotany in America" (*indicates session organizer) 7:30 a.m. - 8:45a.m. Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Negotiating 1\vo Women's Caucus Meeting Worlds through Practice and Performance, 1850-1910 (F5) Erwin Hiebert, Harvard University, "The Physia; and Mathematics of Just 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. Intonation in the History of Fixed-Tone Keyboard Construction" (Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.) Elfrieda Hiebert, Harvard University, "Exploring Links Between Science and Putting the World in Order: Collecting in the Eighteenth Century (Fl) Piano Pedagogy During the Late 19th Centuty" James Delbourgo, McGill Universiiy, "How to Collect the World, and Why? by *Alexandra Hui, University ofCalifornia, I.os Angeles, "Musical Instruments, Hans Sloane" Psychophysical Instruments: The Sound Sensation Studies of Hermann Helmholtz Bedt Fowkes Tobin,Arizona Slate University, 'The Duch~'s South Pacific Shells: Gift and Ernst Mach" Exchangffi, Commercial Networks, and Regimes of Value in Natural Histoty Collecting" Gustavo Garza, University ofCalifornia, I.os Angeles, ''The Objective Preservation of Matthew D. Eddy, Durham Universiiy, "Symbolic Specimens. Or, Teaching Subjective Expression: The Use of the Phonograph in Ethnographic Fieldwork at the University Students to Be Collectors, 1770-1800" Tum of the 20th Centuty" *Daniela Bleichmar, University ofSouthern California, "Seeing, Owning, and Chair and Commentator: Emily Thompson, University ofCalifiJrnia at Knowing: Training the Expert Eyes of Naturalists and Art Connoisseurs" San Diego Chair and Commentator: Paula Findlen, Stanford University Theoretical Physics Up Close: Editing the Papers of Einstein, Cells, Ants, Apes, and Angels in Natural and Human Economies (F2) Hilbert, Lorentz, Poincare (F6) Mall'fll'd ~, UrzimWy rfBrilish Co/,umbia, "More Like~ Than Angels: Natur­ Jeroen van Dongen, California Institute ofTechnology, "German Reactionaries al Historical MOOes of Thinking in the Political Economy of David Hume and Adam Smith'' and Einstein's Fame: The Anti-Relativity Campaign of 1920." Andrew Stuart Reynolds, Cape Breton University, "The Power of Metaphor: Anne J. Kox, University ofAmsterdam, "Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's Scientific The Cell as Metaphorical and Literal Factoty" Correspondence: New Insights into His Thinking and His Personality" *Abi~ Lustig, Universiiy rf Jb:os, Austin, "Ant Economia; and Cold War Sociobiology" *Ttlman Sauer, California Institute ofTechnology, "David Hilbert's Lectures on Commentator: Mary Morgan, Inndorz School ofEamomics the Foundations of Physia;" Chair: Thomas Archibald, Simon Fraser University Scott Walter, University ofNancy, "Henri Poincare's Correspondence with Physicists, Chemists, and Engineers" In the Legacy of Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think": Interactivity, Commentator: TBD Representation and the Archive in an Electronic Age (F3) Chair: Diana Kormos Buchwald, California Institute ofTechrwlogy Orit Halpern, Duke University, "Screen-Memories: Temporality, Perception and the Archive in Cybernetic Thought" History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Friday, 3 November Berty/Smith Feud of 1917, and the Triumph of Nationalist Rhetoric in the American 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. (continued) Chemical Society'' Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, "Re-evaluating the 'Revolution': Chemistry Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue (Fl) and the Divide Between Science and Technology'' Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University ofNevada, Las Vegas, "Critiques of the Chair: TDD Biblical Argument Against Copernicanism: Ingoli, Foscarini, Galileo, Campanella" Richard Oosterhoft; Redeemer University College, "Did Llteralization in Psychology and Madness (F12) Theology Affect Natural Philosophy? Testing Harrison's Hypothesis" Christopher D. Green, York University, "The Historical Impact for *Jitse Vandermeer, Redeemer University College, "Georges Cuvier and the Use Experimental Psychology of Johns Hopkins U. Choosing G. S. Hall Rather than C. S. of Scripture in Geology" Peirce for Its Philosophy Professorship in 1883." James Matthew Ashley, lJniwrsiiy QfNotre Dame, ''Contesting 'The Universe Story': Sultana Banulescu, Princeton University, "A Baltic Noblewoman and Italian Theistic and Atheistic Interpretations of 'Drep History' at the End of the 20th Century'' Psychoanalysis" Chair: Jitse Vandermeer, Redeemer University College Jennifer L Ba7.ar, York University, "The Toronto Asylum as Seen by Society" Kathryn McKay, Simon Fraser University, "Before the Cuckoo's Nest: 19th and 20th Century Traditions: Negotiating Medicine in Pre- Accusations of Madness and First Nations Women" colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial Vietnam (FB) Henderikus J. Stam, University Qf Calgary, "Instruments of Intelligence: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University, "The Natural Animals in Early 1\ventieth-Century Psychology" Laws of Reproduction and Inheritance in Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam, 1802-1945" Chair: TDD Laurence Monnais, UniversiJe de Montreal, "Can Traditional Medicine Be (Scientifically) Trustworthy? Colonial Views of Vietnamese Medicine in the First Half Art, Performance, and Science (F13) of the 1\ventieth Century" Hanna Rose Shell, Harvard University, "Productive Mimesis and the Art of Michitake Aso, University of Wtsamsi,n, Madison, "Race, Science, and Disappearance: Abbott H. Thayer, Protective Coloration in Nature, and the Modeling Nationalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Vietnam" of Strategic Invisibility (1890-1920)" Ayo Wahlberg, BIOS Centre, London School ofEcmwmics, "Caught in Cornelius Borek, McGill University, "The Posthumanism of the Avantgarde: Transition: Traditional Medicine and the Emerging Problem of 'unhealthy lifestyles' Artistic Experiments in Prosthetic Vision" in Vietnam" Cecelia A. Watson, University Qf Chicago, '"And my picture, of course, has not altered':John LaFarge's Influence on the Psychology and Phila;ophyciWtlliamJames" Race and Racism: Studying Humans in Sofie Lachapelle, University ofGuelph, "Science on Stage: Magic Shows and 1\ventieth-Century America (F9) 'Amusing Physics' in Nineteenth-Century Paris" Juliet Burba, Science Museum ofMinnesota, "Discerning the Original 'I}'pe: Ales Laura}. Snyder, University ofPittsburgh (Fall 2006), '"Connexion and Unity' Hrdlicka's Reconciliation of Race and Prehistoric Migration" in William Whewell's Science of Architecture" *Margot Iverson, University ofMinnesota, "The Influence of Native American Chair: TDD Blood-'I}'pes on William C. Boyd's Genetic Theory of Race" Paul Lawrence Farber, Oregon State University, "Science and Race-mixing in 12:00p.m. - l:OOp.m. 20th Century America" Organmrti.on Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Melinda Gonnley, Oregon State University, "Undermining Scientific Racism: Practice (SPSP) Politics and Science at Columbia University" Open to all, please bring your lunch Chair and Commentator: John Jackson, University Qf Colorado 12:00p.m. - 12:30p.m. In Memory of Marshall Clagett (FJO) Fomm for the History of Science in America (msA) Business *A. Mark Smith, University Qf Missouri, "How Should We Inteipret 'Experiment' Meeting in Alhacen's Optical Analysis?" Edith Dudley Sylla, North Carolina State University, "The Place of]acob 12:30p.m. - 1:15p.m. Bernoulli's 1be Art of Conjecturing in the History ofMathematicS' msA Distinguished Scientist Lecture: Broce Eastwood, University ofKentucky, "From Computus to Astronomy in the Jill Morawski, We\'leyan University Carolingian Renaissance" Sabetai Unguru, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, "Inteipretation and 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. Overinteipretation of Apollonius's Collica" Agricultural Science (F14) Chair: David Lindberg, University of Wisamsin, Madison Seung-joon Lee, University of Wisamsin, Whitewater, "Taste in Numbers: Agricultural Science and the Rice Control Policy in Guomindang China, 1927-1937" Chemistry and Society (Fll) Micah Roeber, M~pi State University, "In One End and Out the Udder: Jacob Stegenga, University ofCalifornia, San Diego, "The Chemical Vitamins, Oleo Margarine, and American Dairy Science" Characterization of the Gene: ASociological Analysis of Scientific Reception" Bert Theunissen, Utrecht University, "The 'Holsteinisation of the Dutch Dairy Debasmita Patra, University ofHyderabad, "History of Institutionalization of Cattle Breeds in the 1970s and 1980s" Solid State Chemistry in India: Deriving From a Particular Case" lbeodore}ames Yarno, University Qf (};dffarnia, Berkdey, "Sewall Wright at the Martha Harris, University ofJbronto, "Chemical Reductionism Revisited: The Bureau of Animal Industry: Inbmrling and the Agricultural Roots of the Mcx:lem Synthesis" Physico-Chemical Nature of the Chemical Bond" Chair: TDD Donald Cotter, Mount Holyoke College, "Unconditional Surrender: The II History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6

The Newtonian Revolution (F15) Boyertown, Pennsylvania: Risk, Radon, and Regulation in Cold War America" Ari Belenkiy, Bar-!lan University, "Groping Toward Llnear Regression Analysis: Patrick David Slaney, University ofBritish Columbia, 'James B. Conant on Newton's Analysis of Hipparchus' Equinox Observations" Science Education: Science, Security and the Institutions of Social Order in the Early Massimo Mazzotti, University of&eter, "The Catholic Newton" Cold War" Joel Kenton Press, University ofArizona, "What Leibniz Failed to See in Alex Wellerstein, Harvard University, "Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Locke's Conception of Space" Intellectual Property, and Technological Control" Edward T. Richards, Jr., University ifTennessee, "Securing the Conceptual Roland Wittje, N01Wegian University ofScience and Technology, "Nuclear Foundations of Newton's Mechanics: The Case for a Post-Principia De Gravitatione" Physics Instrumentation in Norway: 1933-1955" Chair: TBD Chair: TBD

Cultures of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe {F16) The Spaces of Science {F21} Dane Thor Daniel, Wright Stale University, Lake Campus, "Alchemical Aspects Talitha Bolton, University ofKent at Canterbury, "Mapping British Institutions of Paracelsus' Theology" of Science: The Spatial Characteristics of the Common Cold Unit and Porton Down's Cesare Pastorino, Indiana University, Bloomington, "The Alchemical Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment" Background to Bacon's Proteus" Eric Brown, Princeton University, "The Lab and the Field in l 9tlLcentury Kevin Chang, Academia Sinica, "Balsamic Pills: The Alchemical Background American Economic Geology" and Commercial Value of the Stahlian Equivalent of Universal Medicine" Dmitry Valerievich Efremenko, Institute for Scientiftc Information on Social *John C. Powers, Sarah Lawrence College, "Alchemy at the University: Hennan Scienc&, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Societal and Historical Background of V. Boerhaave's Lectures at Leiden" I. Vemadsky's Theory of Noosphere" Chair: TBD Sarah Grossman, University rf New Mexiro, "Extending the Area of Freedom: Categorical Differentiation, Topographical Analysis, and the New Mexico Territory" History of Science and Pedagogy (F17) Chair: TBD Michelle D. Hoffman, University rf 7bronto, "Factoring History into the Equation: History of Science in Ontario High School Physics Textbooks, 1911-Present" The Imperial Context of Science {F22) Trevor J. Owens, University of Wtsamsin, Madison, "A Child's Eye View of Life Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University, "When the Green Archipelago as a Scientist: Science, Society, and Gender in the History of Children's Biographies Encountered Fonnosa: Colonial Governance, Capitalism and the Emergence of of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein" Modem Forestry in Colonial Taiwan (1895-1930s)" Sage Ross, Yale University, "Natural Philosophy Images: Pedagogy and Popular Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Steno Institute, University rf Aarhus, "Postcolonial Science in America" Partnership: Science, State and Media in the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52" Steve Sturdy, University rf !Jdinburgh, "Scientific Method for Medical Practitioners: Brian Schetke, University of Washington, "The Hudson's Bay Company as a The Case Method of Teaching Pathology in early 'IWentieth-<:entury Edinburgh" Context for Science in the Columbia Department" Chair: TBD Rajive Tiwari, Belmont Abbey College, "Astronomy Education and Religion in Colonial India" History of Modern Astronomy (F18) Chair: TBD Matthew C. Aberman, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Politics of Pure Speculation" Studies in Molecular Biology (F23) Francesca Bavuso, College Miserirordia, "Figures in Obsolescence: Changes to filena A. Aronova, Salk Institute & University of California at San Diego, Constellation Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Europe" "'Humanitarizing' Molecular Biology: Programs in the Humanities and Social David Michael Gossman, Texas Tech University, "The Scientist and the Sciences at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 1963-1979" Craftsmen Traditions in the 'IWentieth Century: George Ellery Hale and George W Reiko Stoft; 7echnische Universitiit Braunschweig, "Active Substances as Ritchey at Mount Wilson Observatory" Precarious Substances: Institutionalizing Research on Enzymes, Vitamins and Woodruff T. Sullivan, University if Washington, "Radio Astronomy after World Honnones in Gennany, 1920-1970" War II: ANew Way of Doing Business" Justin Suran, University rf California, San Francisco, "Colin M. Macleod & Chair: TBD Cold War Microbiology" Edna Swirez, UNAM/Ma.x Planck Institute for History ofScience, "'Infonnation' The Science of the Mind {F19) as 'History': Metaphor and Politics in the Early Days of Molecular Evolution" Howard Hsueh Hao Chiang, Columbia University, "Effecting Science, Affecting Medicine: Homosexuality, the Kinsey Reports, and the Contested Boundaries of Science and Society {F24) Psychopathology in the United States, 1948-65" lino Camprubi, Cornell University, "Transforming Regimes: Continuity of Ziv Eisenberg, Yale University, "Old Ideas, New Science: Mental Health and the Scientific Institutions in Spain (196o-1980)" Medical Care of Pregnant Women in Mid-1\ventieth-Century America" Yulia Egorova, Cardiff University, "Science and Culture: Conversations with Alexandra Rutherford, York University, "Inside the Human Skinner Box" Geneticists" Martin Staum, University of Calgary, "Nature and Nurture in French Psychology Brigit Ramsingh, University of 7bronto, "Making History: A Linton Davidson and Sociology, 1873-1914" and the Story of the Canadian Food and Drug Directorate" Chair: TBD Frank W. Stahnisch,johann& Gutenberg-University ofMainz, "Gennan­ Speaking Neuroscientists in North-America after 1933: The Issue of Emigration­ Science and Society in the Cold War (F20) Induced Scientific Change" Ellen Bales, University of California, Berkeley, "From Calamity Mesa to Chair: TBD III History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6

Friday, 3 November Humanists, Artisans, and Laboratories: A Session in Memory of 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. (continued) Owen Hannaway (F30) Simon Schaffer, University ofCambridge, "Laboratocy Work and the Spaces of Physics and Physicists (F25) the World" Paul Arpaia, Indiana University ofPennsylvania, "Radium as a Cultural Mary Henninger-Voss, independent Scholar, "Mathematicians and the Word" Phenomenon in late-19th-centucy Italy" Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, "Butter and Mercury, Lizards and Deepanwita Dasgupta, University of Minnesota, "Doing Science from a Vennilion: Artisanal Views of Nature in Early Modem Europe" Colony: S.N. Bose and His Communications with Einstein" Commentator: Barbara Becker, University ofCalifornia, Irvine Christina Turner, University of Notre Dame, "The Early Histocy of Gravitational Chair: John Servos, Amherst College Lensing" (Organized by Sharon Kingsland,jobn Hopkins University) Kelley Wilder, Max Planck Institute for the History ofScience, "Trusting the Photochemical Trace: Creating Quantitative Data from a Photographic Plate." The Grande Dame of Enlightenment Science: Celebrating Emilie du Chair:TBD Chatelefs 300th Birthday {1706-2006) (F31) Matthew Jones, Columbia University, "From Sociability to Vts-Wva: Emilie du Race and Science (F26) Chatelet on Social and Natural Order" Conor Bums, University of Jbronto, "Ethnological Diversity in a New Light: Judith P. Zinsser, Miami University, Ohio, "Mme Du Chatelet and the Historians" Daniel Wilson's 1858 Critique of North American Ethnology'' *Jean-Francois Gauvin, Harvard University, "Experience, Luxucy, and Natural Andrea Patterson, California State University Fullerton, "The Medicalization Philosophy: Du Chatelet and Scientific Instruments at Cirey" of Racism: Public Health Policies in the Early-20th-Centucy American South" Chair and Commentator: Mary Terrall, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles Jessica Weaver, University ofNotre Dame, "The British Bathing Ritual in India: Environmental Detenninism and the Nineteenth-centucy Case for Cold Bathing in Medicine and the Modern City (F32) Warm Climates" *Suzanne M. Fischer, University ofMinne.sofa, "Selling Scientific Medicine: Samuel Talcott, DePaul University, "Kant's Concept of Race and the Science of 'For Men Only' Advertising Medical Institutes, Immigrants and Scientific Living Things" Popularization in Early 1\ventieth-Centucy Chicago" Chair: TBD Rachel Ponce, University of Chicago, "Murder, Passion, and Insanity: Rationalization and Pathologization in Late-Nineteenth and Early-1\ventieth (Coffee Break 3:10p.m. - 3:30p.m.) Centucy France and the United States." Joseph M. Gabriel, University of California, Stm Diego, "Contagious Habit: 3:30p.m. - 5:00p.m. (F27) Drugs, Addiction, and Metaphors of Infection, 1870-1920" Mathematics Before the 'Arts and Sciences' Halle Lewis, "Risk, Health, and Disability in Working-Class Cleveland, 1880-1895" Carla Mazzio, University of Chica.go, "God's Arithmetic" Chair: Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine J.B. Shank, University ofMinne.sofa, "Courtly Mathematics? Evangelista Torricelli's Finite Volume Infinite Solid in Cultural Context" Scientific Transfer Across the Seas (F33) *Jacqueline Wernimont, Brown University, "Refiguring the Literacy Family Vera Schwach, Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Tree: Recognizing the Place of Mathematics in a Histocy of Literature" &iucation Centre for Innovation Re.search, "Seek a Field of Science and Find Commentator: TBA Fishes. Johan Hjort and the Emergence of Oceanography 1890-1920" Chair: Niccolo Guicciardini, Universita di Siena Jennifer M. Hubbard, Ryerson University, "The Canadian Fisheries Expedition 1914-1915:Johan Hjort and the Birth of a Scientific Program in Canada" Are Mountains Necessary? Working with Altitude in European *Mary Carmel Finley, University of California, San Diego, "The Voyages of the Science, 1840-1920 (F28) Pacific Explorer: Oceanographic Research, Catching Fish and Making Money, 1946-48" *Michael S. Reidy, Montana State University, 'Joseph Dalton Hooker and Chair: Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut Verticality in the Mid-Nineteenth Centucy" Robert Marc Friedman, University ofOskJ, "Geophysical Science for Tough Situating Newton in Philosophical Context (F34) Guys: Polar Heroics and NoIWegian Auroral Research" Andrew Janiak, Duke University, "Newton as a Critic of Descartes" Bruce Hevly, University of Washington, "Does Up Equal North? Travelogue, Local *Mary Domski, University ofNew Mexico, "Locke and Newton on the Knowledge and Natural Law in James David Forbes's Norway and Its Glaciers" Mathematical Nature of Natural Philosophy" Chair and Commentator: Bernard Lightman, York University Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University & J.eiden University, "Hume's Attack on Newton's Philosophy" Science, Technology, Morality, and Community: 20th-Century African- Chair and Commentator: Daniel Garber, Princeton University American Commitments and Ideals (F2'J) *Helena Pycior, University of WtsamSin, Milwaukee, 'The Pioneering African­ Circulation of Knowledge in Postwar Japan (F35) American Research Scientists: Superimp

Talking about the Birds and the Bees: Popularizing Behavioral Natural Knowledge: Roundtable on the llistories of Science Biology in the 20th Century (F36) and the Environment (F42) Amanda Rees, University of York, ''Working with Beasts: Animal Societies in 20th *Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeky Century Popular Culture" Gregg Mittman, University of W'/Sconsin, Mad~on Graeme Beale, University of&Unburgh, "One for the Birds? The Tinbergen Edmund Russell, University of Virginia School's Presentation of Ornithology as the Behavioral Science of Ethology" Ron Doel, Oregon State University Tania Munz, Princeton University, "Famous Scientists, Popular Beasts: Teaching Chair: Michael Egan, McMaster University the Public about Animals in the Works of Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz" *Mark E. Borrello, University ofMinnesota, "Lessons from Nature? Teaching Women, Gender and Science: Conservation, Overpopulation and a World Out of Balance" Extending the Limits (F43) Chair: Mark Borrello, University ofMinn(',Sota Monica H. Green, "The Whole Enchilada: On the Virtues of Teaching Aristotle to AIDS" Mara Mills, Harvard University, "Teaching Feminist Science Studies After the Medicine to WWI (F37) Biological Tum" Henry B. Kreuzman, College ef Wooster, "Where, When, Who, and What: The Susan Rensing, Mississippi State University, "Teaching Women, Gender, and Empirical Nature of Alexander Gordon's Arguments that Childbed Fever is Infectious" Science at Mississippi State" Anna Geltzer, Cornell University, "Penicillin as an Emerging Technology" Grace Sitju-Charran, University of the West Indies, "Content and Pedagogy of a rr1+gela D. Seaworth, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Course on Gender and Science" &i"I "Serving Humanity: Women's Use of Science in WWI International Relief' Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University ofMinnesota Chair: TBD (Organized by Elizabeth Green Musselman, Soufhw(',Sfern University)

Contextualizing the Cognitive Revolution (F38) Saturday, November 4th Tara H. Abraham, York University, "Warren S. McCulloch's Mechanization of 7:30a.m. - 8:45a.m. the Brain and Mind" Osiris Breakfast *Gregory Radick, University of!.eeds, "The Reactionary Origins of the Chomskyan Revolution: The Unmaking of a Modem Synthesis" 9:00a.m. - 11:45am Hunter Crowther-Heyck, University of Oklahoma, "Patrons of the Revolution: (Coffee Break lO:OOa.m. - 10:15a.m.) Ideals and Institutions in Postwar Behavioral Science" Probing the World with Waves (Sal) Jamie Cohen-Cole, "Cognitive Science and the Politics of Autonomy in Cold War George E. Smith, Dihner Institute/Tufts University, "Messages from the Inside America" of the Earth" Chair: Ellen Herman, University of Oregon EdwardJones-Imhotep, York University, "Images and the Enemy: Ionosondes and the Nature of War" On the Origins of Pragmatism (F39) Claire Calcagno, Dibner Institute, "Sounding the Past: The Development of *Paul Jerome Croce, Stetson University, "Rejected Science: William James's Use Sonar Surveying in Underwater Archaeology'' of His Father's Beliefs" Jeremiah James, Dibner Institute, "Modeling and Mimesis in Early X-Ray David E. Leary, University ef Richmond, "Between Peirce (1877) and James Crystallography" (1898): G. Stanley Hall and the Origins of Pragmatism" *Chen-Pang Yeang, M!I'!University of 7bronto, "How Much Wave Theory Did Francesca Bordogna, Northw(',Stern University, "Enchanted Pragmatism: G. Radio Ionospheric Sensors Need?" Papini and G. Prezzolini's Variety of Pragmatism, and its Uses" Chair: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University Chair and Commentator: James Gilbert, University ofMaryland Making Knowledge Travel: The Circulation of Skills and Instruments 7:00p.m. - 9:30pm in Early Modern Science (Sa2) Teaching with llannonics: Integrating History of Science Content into Jessica G. Riskin, Stanford University, "Mechanical Christs, Hydraulic Brutes the Non-llistory-of-Science Course ((F40) and the Invention of Consciousness" *Julie Newell, Southern Polyteclmic State University Stephane Van Damme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientif11J.ue, Daniel Kevles, Yale University "Philosophical Mobility within European Capital Cities Between Scientific Practices Edward B. Davis, Messiah College and Sociability: AComparative Study." Chair: Robert DeKosky, University ofKansas *Koen Vermeir, Harvard University, "Divination and the Circulation of Contested Knowledge Claims (1690-1720) '' Coping with Exceptional Circwnstances - Natural Disasters (F41) Nicholas Dew, McGill University, "Baroque Metrology and the Travels of the Sarah Dry, University of Cambridge, "Saving Lives Everyday: Disaster Prevention Seconds Pendulum, 1672-1726" in mid-Victorian Britain" Chair: Bronwen Wilson, Mcflill University Jordan Kellman, University ofLouisiana, Lafayette, "Highly Mutable Mobiles: Guillaume Le Gentil's Passage to Brahmanic Astronomy as a Response to Disaster" The Impact of the Great War on Science and Scientists (Sa3) Matthias Dorries, Universite Louis Pasteur, "Responding to Natural Hazards: *Matthew Stanley, Iowa State University, "Work of National Importance: British Krakatau" Science, A.S. Eddington, and Conscription in the Great War" Felix Driver, University ofLondon, "Disaster in the Tropics: The Wreck and Stefan Wolff, Deufsch(',S Museum, "German Physicists in World War I - The Role Salvage of HMS Thetis, 1830-1854" of Wilhelm Wien" Chair: TBD Charlotte Bigg, Max Planck Institute for the History ofScience, "From the Beile­ y History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6 Saturday, 4 November Nuclear Peripheries: Challenging Geographic, Institutional and 9:00a.m. ~ 11:45a.m. (continued) Disciplinary Narratives in Nuclear History (Sa8) Epoque to the Annees Foiles: What Was the Impact of the First World War on the *Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Clemson University, "The Other Atomic Scientists: French Physical Sciences?" Oceanographers and Radioactive Waste in the Fifties" Ole Molvig, Yale University, "The First World War and the Reorganization of Gabrielle Hecht, University qf Michigan, "Scenes from the Nuclear Life of Scientific Communication" Radon, Set in South Africa, Australia, and other Peripheries" Chair: TBD Jahnavi Phalkey, Grorgia Institute of Technology, "Urgent and Highly Important: The Organization of Nuclear Research in Postwar India (1946 -1948)" Observation and Experiment in the Early Modem Period (Sa4) Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, "Promise Wilbur Applebaum, Illinois Institute of Tec/Jrwlogy, "Copemicanism, Precision and Peril of Nuclear Ambitions: Argentina during the 1976-1983 Military Regime" and Causality at the Watershed of the Scientific Revolution" Commentator: Roy Macleod, University ofSydney Paolo Palmieri, University qfPiUJfJurgh, "Ri:plicaling Galileo's Pendulum Elqffinmts" Chair: Morris Low, '/be johns Hopkins University Michael Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Huygens' 'anom­ alous suspension' Revisited" Local .Knowledge at the Margins of Science and Empire (Sa9) Yaakov Zik, University ofHaifa, "Laying Bare the Sources of Errors: Kepler's Theodore Binnema, University ofNorthern British Columbia, "Peter Fidler Optical Part of Astronomy" and Enlightenment Science in the Hudson's Bay Company Territories, 1788-1822" Renee Jennifer Raphael, Princeton University, "Accepted by Mathematicians Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, University of Victoria, "'Marginal' Landscapes of and Confirmed by Experiments: An Investigation of 17th-Century Attempts to Verify Science? Gender, Environments, and Colonial Encounters in Nineteenth-century Galileo's Science of Motion through Experiment" Australia, Canada, and New Zealand" Chair: TBD Julie Cruikshank, University ofBritish Columbia, "Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America's Far Northwest" Medicine and Public Health (Sa5) *Suzanne Zeller, Wilfrid wurier Universiiy, "Wild Life: The Animal Stories of Ernest Mary Frances Chicorelli, Jhe State University qfNew ]mey- Rutgers, ''The Pain Pa­ Thompson Seton (1001946), the Canadian North, and Post-Daiwinian Biology" radigm: John Boni ca, Ronald Mel7,ack and Patrick Wall's Quest to Conquer Chronic Pain'' Aryn Martin, Cornell University, "Nature's Experiment: AGenealogy of Chimeras At the Edge of Instrument Studies: Alternate Practices and Made and Found in 20th-Century Clinical Medicine" Interpretations in the History of Instruments in Science (SalO) Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University, "Why Have So Many Medical Historians Catherine Eagleton, British Museum, "Did You Hear the One About the Student Been Working For the Tobacco Industty As Expert Witnesses? And How Does Defense and the Astrolabe?: Learned Humour in 1420s Oxford" Expert Testimony Differ from that of Plaintiff's Witnesses?" *Janet Vertesi, Cornell Universi-ty, "Images of Instruments: The Visual Rhetoric Daniel Schneider, Universiiy ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Public vs. Private ofVirtual Witnessing in Hevelius' Organographia" Science: Biological Sewage Treatment and the Struggle Over Patents, 1896-1937" Boris Jardine, University ofCambridge, "Darwin's Microscopes: Theory, Practice Nicolas Rasmussen, University ofNew South Wale\', Australia, "Amphetamine and Reputation" and the Reinvention of Depression, 1935-1955" Chitra Ramalingam, Harvard University, "Sparks, Striations, and Radiant Chair: TBD Matter - Inside the Early Vacuum Tube" Chair: Janet Vertesi, Cornell University On the Trail of Wildlife Migration Studies (Sa6) Joseph E. Taylor III, Simon Fraser University, "Peeking into the Black Box: Watches and Apples, Examiners and Genes: Intersections in the The Science and Politics of Mapping Pacific Salmon Migratmy Patterns" History of Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property (Sall) *Dan Houk, Princeton University, "The Migrating Jersey Bird: The Study and *Daniel Kevles, Yale University, "Policing Intellectual Property in New Fruits: Control of Salt Marsh Mosquitoes" The Case of the Golden Delicious Apple" Robert M. Wilson, Syracuse University, "A Bird's Eye View of North America: Kara Swanson, Harvard University, "Scientific Men, Working Ladies, and the Avian Migration Studies and Waterlowl Managemen~ 1920-196o" Inventive Community in the Antebellum United States Patent Office" D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University, "'The Stalk of the Louse': Whale Brendan Alexander Matz, Yale University, "Hybrid Com and Transgenic Marking, Migration Research, and Stock Analysis in the 1\ventieth Century" Plants: AComparative Analysis of Intellectual Property Regimes" Chair and Commentator: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University Mario Biagioli, Harvard University, "From Ciphers to Patents: Registering Priority Claims in Early Modem Europe" Cold War Astronomy (Sa7) Prakash Kumar, Colorado State Universiiy, "Battle Against Bt Cotton: The Principle *David H. DeVorkin, Smithsonian Institution -National Air and space of 'Biological and Intellectual Commons' in the Anti-GMO Movement in India" Museum, "Leo Goldberg and the '!Wo Chinas" Chair: TBD Teasel Muir-Harmony, University qf Notre Dame, "Tracking Diplomacy: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Station in India" Understanding Other Natures: Colonial Natural History in Spanish John Krige, Grorgia Tech, "Why Did the Ford Foundation Support the Creation of Peru, French Egypt and British India (1737-1947) (Sa12) the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Early 1960s?" Jane H. Murphy, Princeton University, "Eighteenth-Century Colonies, Natural Patrick McCray, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Global Science­ History, and Old World Exploration" Sport of Satellite Tracking during the IGY" Matdiew James Cmwford, University qf r1llifomia, San Diego, 'The Case of Quina: Commentator: Robert Smith, University ofAlberta Th!n5-Atlantic Irntitutions and Natural History in the Spanish Colonial Empire, 1737-1792'' Chair: Ron Doel, Oregon State University Minakshi Menon, University of California, San Diego, "Colonialism and Its

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Forms of Knowledge: British Natural Histmy in Late Eighteenth and Early Science and Religion (Sa18) Nineteenth-Century Colonial India" Taner Edis, Truman State University, "Islamic Creationism in Turkey: Historical *John Mathew, Harvard University, "Fashioning a Regional Natural History: and Intellectual Perspectives" The Fauna of British India Series" Ab ffipse, wye Uniwrsil.eitAmsterdam, "'Not a Bastion ofUnrelief: Dutch Calvinist Chair and Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University and Roman-Catholic Scientists About Scienre-Religion ISiues in the Early 20th Century'' Ernst Hamm, York University, "Science, Dissenters and the Dutch Enlightenment" Women and People of Color in the Profession: Problems and John Stenhouse, University of Otago, Duni!din, '"True Knowledge' the 'Handmaid Prospects (Sponsored by the Women's Caucus) (Sa13) of True Religion': Christian Missions and the Spread of Science, 1790-1930" Jane R. Camerini, "Integration of Independent Scholars in the HSS" Chair:TBD Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University Sharrona Pearl, Harvard University, 'Women and People of Colour in the Physics and Physicists in the 1\ventieth Century (Sa19) Profes.sion: AGraduate Student(Junior Scholar Perspective" Kai-Henrik Barth, Georgetawn University, "Scientists, Clerics, and Nuclear Londa Schiebinger, Stanfard University Decision Making in Iran" Chair: Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University Aant Elzinga, University of Goteborg, Sweden, "Einstein's Nobel Prize. Some (Organized by Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University) New Llght on an Old Question" Marijn Johannes Hollestelle, Leiden Institute ofPhysi<;s, "Paul Ehrenfest as 1:30p.m. - 3:10pm a Mediator" Popularizing the Human Sciences in 1\ventieth Century America Jaume Navarro, University of Cambridge, "From Father to Son. The Electron (Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science) (Sa14) and the Thomsons" Benjamin Harris, University ofNew Hampshire, "Psychology for the Mas.5es: Chair:TBD John B. Watson and "Psychology Today" on the Radio (1931-1932)" Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati, "Reveries of Race Mixing: Travelogues, Measurement, Computers, and Technology (Sa20) Potboilers, and Popular Anthropology" Daniel Eric Crosby, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Logician and *Nadine Weidman, Harvard Universiiy Extension School, "Popularizing the the Cash Register: Alan Turing's Material Epistemology of Minds and Machines" Ancestry of Man: Dart, Ardrey, and the Killer Instinct" Brian R. Gaines, University of Calgary, "A Critical Period in the History of the Chair and Commentator: John Burnham, Ohio State University World Wide Web" Talrushi Otani, Kibi International University, "Replication and Redesign of Early Modem Science and Medicine (Sa15) Transistor Manufacturing through Visual Images in Japan During the 1950s" Lesley B. Cormack, University ofAlberta, "From De Sphera to De Globis: Frans van Lunteren, Utrecht University!Vrije Universiteit, "Individualism and Mathematical Practice and Concepts of the Earth" Bureaucracy in Science: Opposing the Metric Convention" Louise Curth, Bath spa Universily, Bath, "Astrological Medicine in Early Modem Chair: TBD English Almanacs" Fokk.o Jan Dijksterhuis, University of Twente, "The Visible World. Knowledge Collecting, Representation, and Science (Sa21) of Things Optical in the Dutch Republic" Maura C. Flannery, St. john's University, NY, "The Work of Art: Agnes Arber as DanaJalobeanu, Warburg Institute, London, "Francis Bacon's Brotherhood and Biologist/Illustrator" Its Classical Sources: Yates Thesis Revisited" Taika Helo la, University of Turku (Finland), "The Truth of the Matter: Chair: TBD Biographies of 7.oological Specimens" Marianne Klemun, University of Vienna, "Space, State, Territory and Habitat: Science and Race in the 1\ventieth Century (Sa16) Alpine Gardens in the Habsburg Countries" Michelle Brattain, Grorgia State University, "Redefining Race in the Post-World War Nicola Pezolet, Universiti J.aval, "Anti-Functionalism and "Nomadic Science": Asger II Era: Anthropology, Genetics, and the UNESCO Effort to Re~ucate the Public on Race" Jorn and the "Mouvement International pour un Bauhaus Imaginiste" 0954-57)" Alex Csiszar, Harvard University, 'Joseph Deniker and the Classification of Race Chair: TBD and of the Sciences at the Fin de Siecle" lisa Gannett, Sa,int Mary's University, "Theodosius Dobzhansky, the 'fypological­ Genetics and Heredity in the 20th Century (Sa22) Population Distinction, and the Question of Race" Ted Everson, Chemical Heritage Foundation, "Genome Research Funding and Cheryl A. Logan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Heredity and Race the Construction of Genetic Disease" in Paul Kammerer's Endocrine Hypothesis of Somatic Induction" Jeffrey William Lewis, Ohio State University, "Scientific Fundamentalism and Chair: TBD the Gene as Secular Soul" Gail Schmitt, Princeton University, "Modeling Cytoplasmic Inheritance: The Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology (Sa17) Debate between Ruth Sager and Nicholas Gillham" Warren Alexander Dym, "Scholars and Miners: Prospecting, Divining, and the William C. WmNltt, Universily of G:Jimgo, "Did Punnett Inwnt the Punnett Square?" Freiberg Mining Academy" Chair: TBD Michael J. Sauter, Centro de lnvestigaciOn y Docencia !1con6micas, A. C., "Germans in Space: Astronomy and Anthropologie in the Eighteenth Century" Science in Victorian England (Sa23) James Sumner, University ofManchester, "Llquid Assets: Beer as a Chemically­ Ian Hesketh, York University, "The Sobel Effect, Froude's Disease, and the Managed Commodity, 176o-1830" Making of Un-Popular History in Mid-Victorian England" Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Calgary Institute far the Humanities, "The Natural Rebecca Brookfield Kinraide, Independent Scholar, "Converging Conrepts of Philosophy of Thomas Morgan (d. 1743): Deist and Overlooked Newtonian" Utility: ANew Look at Intention and Reception in the Useful Knowledge Mo\'eIIleil.t" VII History of Science Society Newsletter July 20o6

Saturday, 4 November Public Lands Advocacy, 1975-2000" 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. (continued) Peter S. Alagona, Harvard University, "The Mojave Desert Tortoise Industry: From Wildlife Management to Conservation Biology in the New Southwest" Iwan Rhys Moros, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Philosophical Reflections: Libby Robin, Australian Natkmal University, "Science for a Country in Crisis: Optical Illusions and Knowledge-Making in Early Nineteenth Century Britain" Conservation Biology in Australia 1950-2oo6" K (Kenneth) G. Valente, Colgate University, '"Who Will Explain the Chair: Stephen Bocking, Trent University Explanation?': Higher Dimensional Spaces and Spiritualism in Britain, 1875-90" Chair: TBD Language, Logic and the Structure of the Universe (Sa29) Kevin I.ambert, Cornell University, "Maxwell's Method and Boole's Analogy: Or Why Clinical Medicine and Medical Science (Sa24) George Boole's Logic was Important for James Clerk Maxwell's Theoretical Practice." Colin L. Talley, Rollins School ofPublic Health at Emory University, "Public Michael E. Hobart, We\'tern Washington University, "The Zodiac of the .Jfealth Science and Smoking in Atlanta, 1964-2oo6" Syllogism: Symbol and Meaning in the World of Augustus De Morgan" 6,, 1'1ft' "I.Oes Anne Knaapen, McGill University, "Randomized Clinical Trials; Debating *Joan L. Richards, "From Matter to Spirit: Language and Meaning in the World Science and Surgery" of Sophia De Morgan" Paul Dimeo, University ofStirling, Scotland, "The History of Science, Drug; and Commentator: Norton Wise, University of California, Ws Angeles Sporting Performance, 1920-1960" Chair:TBD Microbiology, General Biology, and~ Production Around 1900 (Sa30) Christina Brandt, Max Planck Institute for the History ofScienm, "From Plant Gender and Sex (Sa25) Breeding to the Laboratory: Clones, Pure Lines and Mass Production in early 20th­ Kimberly A. Hamlin, Jbe University of Tf!'«lS at Austin, "Plumed Peacocks, Coy Century Botany and Protozoology" Females, and Pugnacious Men: Scientific and Popular Responses to Daiwin's Theory Andrew Mendelsohn, Imperial, College London, "Manufacturing Variation, of Sexual Selection, 1871-1910" Fixing Heredity: Microbial Nature and the Business of Vaccines" Mioara Deac, University ofNotre Dame, WI, "Sciences of the Mind, Automatic Maureen O'Malley, Egenis, University ofExeter, "Everything is everywhere: Drawing, and Feminism in Victorian England" Beijerinck, Baas-Becking and Microbial &ology" Paul Burnett, University ofPennsylvania, "Pregnant Men and Extra Breasts in *Staffan Mueller-Wille, E5RC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Women!: Sexology and Sexology Magazine, 1933-60" Exeter, "Plant Breeding, Microbiology, and Biochemistry at the Carlsberg Laboratory Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University, "The 'Sexual Science' of Mary (Copenhagen): Wilhelm Johannsen's Formative Years 1881-1892" Putnam Jacobi" Chair: John Dupre, E5RC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter Chair: TBD The Relations of Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Engineering: A New Renaissance Natural Philosophy and the Occult (Sa26) Look at Boundaries and Practice in the First Industrial Revolution (Sa31) Darin Hayton, Haverford College, "Comets, Horoscopes and Politic; at the Court *David Philip Miller, 1be University ofNew South Wales, "Seeing the Chemical of Matthias Cmvinus" Steam for the Historical Fog: James Watt as Chemist" Allison Kavey,john jay College, "Desiring Subjects: The Place of Desire and Trevor Levere, University oflbronto, "Dr. Thomas Beddoes,James Watt, and Imagination in 1be Jbree Books of Occult PhilrJsophy" Their Collaboration in Pneumatic Medicine" *SheilaJ. Rabin, St. Peter's O;!J,ege, "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Kabbalah" Larry Stewart, University ofSaskatchewan, "Industrialists and Instruments in Chair and Commentator: Irving Kelter, University ofSt. Jbomas the Late Eighteenth Century"

(Coffee Break 3:10p.m. - 3:30p.m.) Disciplining the Plant Sciences: Specializ.ation and its Consequences (Sa32) 3:30p.m. - 5:30p.m. David Brownstein, University ofBritish Columbia, "'Spasmodic Research as Astrology: Art, Science and Medicine in Early Modern Culture (Sa27) Executive Duties Permit': Practice and Authority in the British Columbia Forest Mary Quinlan-McGrath, Northern Illinois University, "The Visual Arts and Branch, 1912-1925." Astrological Practice" Katie R. Zimmerman, Oregon State University, "A Comparative Reception of Tayra Maricarmen Lanuza-Navarro, Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Daiwin: The Botanical and Sociological Work of Lest.er Frank Ward" Documentad6n ''I.6pez Pinero", Universitat de Valencia, "Medical Astrology in *Christina Matta, University of Wtsamsin-Madison, "Boundary Z.ones and Spain during the Seventeenth Century" Disciplinary Divides: The Fischer-Smith Debate and its Multiple Contexts" Ana Cecilia Avalos, European University Institute, "Astrology and Other Occult Chair and Commentator: V~iliki Betty Smocovitis, University ofFlorida Sciences in Seventeenth-Century New Spain" *H. Darrel Rutkin, Villa I Tatti, Jbe Harvard University Center for Italian Useful Knowledge, 1750-1850: From Speculation to Evaluation Renaissanm Studies, "Why Newton Rejected Astrology: AReconstruction" (Sa33) Chair: H. Darrel Rutkin, Villa I Tatti Frederic Graber, Centre Alexandre Koyre (Paris), "Knowledge as a Decision­ Making Tool - Leveling in France at the Tum of the Nineteenth Century" Comparative Perspectives on the History of Ecology and *Anna Maerker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, "Making Conservation Biology (Sa28) Natural Philosophy Useful: The Case of Kant's Natural History of the Heavens" *Stephen Bocking, Trent University, "Ecologists and the Transformation of Carsten Reinhardt, Uniwrsity of Regensburg, "Knowledge as Expertire. The Interactive Canadian Environmental and Resource Politic;, 1950-1970" ~qiment of Analytical Chemistiy and the Juridical s~ in Germany, ca. 1850" James Turner, WellRsley College, "Thinking Big: Conservation Biology and U.S. Commentator: Peter Dear, Cornell University

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Artificial Radiation, "Natural" Laboratories (Sa34) Sciences: Marginalizations and Rehabilitations of Race Science" *Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University, "The Greatest Laboratory in the World: Achim Trunk, University of Cologne, Germany, "A Triple Pseudo Project? Non­ The 1947 Scientific Resurvey of Bikini Atoll" Existent Enzymes as Tools in Racial Research Conducted on Auschwitz Inmates" Soraya de Chadarevian, University of Cambridge, "Biology under the Cloud: Chair and Commentator: *Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna 'Unplanned' Experiments and Strategic Implications" Judy Johns Schloegel, "Nuclear Fear, the Atomic Energy Commis.sion, and 6:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Environmental Research at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955-1975" History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture Ronald Rainger, National Science Foundation, "Radioactivity and Richard Burkhardt, University ofIllinois, "The Leopard in the Garden: Life in Experimentation in Southern California" Close Quarters at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle" Chair: Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University Introduction by Garland Allen, Washington University, St. Louis

Setting, Sex, and Scandal in the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Sa35) 8:30p.m. - 10:00p.m. Andreas Mayer, University of Cambridge, "Psychology in the Boudoir. The History of Science Society Awards Banquet libertine Origins of the Psychoanalytic Couch" Lydia Marinelli, Sigmund Freud Foundation Vienna, "Bed and Couch as Sunday. 5 November Instruments of the Mental Cure" 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. *Eliz.abeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University, '"Why Stop With a Kis.s?': Freud, (Coffee Break lO:OOa.m. - 10: l 5a.m.) Ferenczi, and Maternal Tenderness in the Analytic Setting" Medicine, Matter-Theory, and Astronomy before 1650 (Sul) Chair: Andrew Lakoff, University of California, Sttn Diego Arianna Borrelli, Max Planck Institute for the History ofScience, "Non-verbal Modes of Communication in Latin High Medieval Mathematics" Anatomy in Context (Sa36) Frederick W. Gibbs, University ef Wzsconsin, Madison, "The Natural Philosophy Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University, "Anatomists and Mathematicians" of Poison: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Toxins in the Latin West'' Lucia Dacome, University of California, Los Angeles, "Bodies and Blood in David P.D. Munns,Dnxd University, "The Challenge of Variations: The Observational Eighteenth-Century Naples" Th!ditions of Ptolemy and Aristotle, and Copernicus's Heliocmtric Solution.'' *Anita Guerrini, University of California, Sttnta Barbara, "Anatomy as Natural Abdelhamid I. Sabra, Harvard University, "The Simple Ontology of Islamic History: Perrault, Duverney, and the 'Histoire des animaux"' Kalam Atomism" Lucia M. Tanassi, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "Anatomy Biopolitics: Plastination between Dismemberment and Performance" Cooperation, Competition, and Emulation: Chair: Joie Shackelford, University ef Minnemta Nineteenth-Century French Observatory Sciences in International Context (Su2) Science Pedagogy (Sa37) Fabien Locher, Institut National de la Recherche Pedagogique, "The Landed Adam R. Shapiro, University of Chicago, "The American Textbook Industry and Ship and the Crusade: International Cooperation and Competition in Meteorology the Roots of the Anti-Evolution Movement" and Geomagnetism (1830-1850)" Catherine Lange, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Iconic Science Laetitia Maison, Natural History Museum (Lyon, France), "A Model for Heroes as Models for the Pedagogical Use of the History of Science: Thomas Edison Reorganizing French Meteorology? Alfred Angot's Tour of U.S. Observatories in 1875" and Wilson Greatbatch" Jerome Lamy, Observatoire de Paris, "Coordinating and Adjusting Astronomical Johan Hendrik De Klerk,Norlh West University, Potd:efstroom, &Juih Africa, Practices: The 'Carte du Ciel' Undertaking at the Tum of the 20th Century" ''History of Mathematics and Technology as Motivational Tools in Teaching Mathematics'' Arnaud Saint-Martin, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, "The New Astronomical Margaret Ursula Chmiel, qf "When Science University WislXJflSin-Madison, Eldorado: The French Look at American Astrophysics, 1900-1920" Became a Sputnik: The Crises and Criticism of Secondary Science Educators 1943-63" Chair & Commentator: *David Aubin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Chair: TBD Cognition and History: Three Responses to The Cognitive Structure Science in the Marketplace: Scientists, Business, and the American of Scientific Revolutions (Su3) Public (Sa38) Robert Westman, University ef California, San Diego, "Cognizing the *Megan Barnhart, University of California, Los Angeles, "Selling the Copernican Revolution" International Control of Atomic Energy: The Scientist's Movement, the Advertising William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego, "Concepts, Perceptual Council, and the Public" Symbols, and the Cognitive History of Science" Matthew Howard Hersch, University ofPennsylvania, "Geeks in Space: Nancy~ Gwrgia lnstitule Qf Trrlmology, "Does Cognition Matter to History?'' Selling America's Scientist-Astronauts, 1965-1982" Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma, "Historical Themes in the Cognitive Katie Proctor, Cornell University, "Selling American Optics: Clark Telescopes Structure of Scientific Revolutions: AResponse to Westman, Bechtel and Nersessian" and the Uses of Science" Hanne Andersen, University QfAarhus, "Phil

Historicizing 'Pseudoscience' (Sa39) Made in Japan? A Constructivist Inquiry into Christina Wessely, Max-Planck-Institute for the History ofScience, "Fictional East Asian Science (Su4) Objectivity. The 'cosmic ice theory' 1894-1945" *Alexander R. Bay, Stanford University/Chapman University, "Beriberi, Barley, Veronika Lipphardt, Humboldt University Berlin, "The 'Black Sheep' of Bio and Tools of Empire: Military Medicine in China and Korea" IX History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6

Sunday, 5 November Globalizing Knowledge: The South-North 9:00a.m. - 11:45am. (continued) Scientific Relations (Su')) *Alexis De Greifl, Universi.dad Nacional de Colombia, "A Critical Appraisal of Sumiko Otsubo, Metropolitan State University, "Emperor, Family, and the Historiography of the North-South Technoscientific Relations" Modernity: 1be Pas.5age of the National Eugenics Law in 1940" Shawn Mullet, Harvard University, "Institutionalizing Brazilian Science: North James Bartholomew, Omo State University, "Uniqueness or Particularity in American Models and the Formation of the CNPq" Modem]apanese Science: 1\vo Examples" Monica Garcia, University ofEdinburgh, "Finitism and Medical Knowledge: Akihito Suzuki, Keio University, "Medicine, Climate, and Global Immigration Reconfiguration of French Theories of Fevers in Colombia, 186o-1900" in the Japanese Empire 1930-1945" Juan Andres Leon, Harvard University, "Worldwide: The Snake Venom Commentator: Brett Walker, Montana State University Specificity Debates, 1890-1912" Chair: James Bartholomew, Omo State University Commentator: Thomas Glick, Boston University Chair: Alexis De Greifl, Universi.dad Nacional de Colombia Beyond Excellent Adventures: Perspectives on the Construction of Scientific Exploration (Su5) Mobilizing Youth for Science in the 1\ventieth-Century U.S. and *Matthew Shindell, University of California, San Diego, "To Hell with the Socialist China (SulO) Moon: Harold Urey, Expertise, and Scientific Exploration" Aaron Alcorn, C&e Western Reserve University/ National Air and space Peder Roberts, Stanford University, "The Notwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Museum, "Educating for the Air Age: Toys, Technology, and Textbooks" Expedition and the Making of Modem Scientific Internationalism" Larry Owens, University ifMassachusetts, Amherst, "Science Fiction and the John G. Cloud, NOAA Central Library, "'1be Far Away Nearby': Situating Mobilization of Youth in the Cold War" Exoticism in 20th Centuiy Ocean Exploration" *Sigrid Schmalzer, University ofM&sachusetts, Amherst, "Youth and the Rachel Korolott; Oregon Stale University, "Descriptions of Kamchatka: Stepan Krash­ 'Great Revolutionaiy Movement' of Scientific Experiment in Socialist China" enirmikov, Georg Wilhelm Steller and R!lffiia's Eighteenth-Cennny Naturalist Thldition" Ralph Richard Hamerla, University of Oklahoma, "The Historian of Science Chair and Commentator: Naomi Oreskes, University ifCalffornia, San Diego and Political Realities" Commentator: David Rhees, Jhe Bakken Library and Museum Exploring Biography: Approaches to 'Lives in Science' (Su6) Chair: Sigrid Schmalzer, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst *Uoyd Ackert, Yale University, "Parallel Biography: Ferdinand Cohn Versus Louis Pasteur on Bacterial Speciation, 1850-1870" (Re)producing "Monsters": Old and New World Interpretations of Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, "Serial Biography: The Life and Abnormal Births During the Late Seventeenth to Death of a Journal and the Birth of National Styles" Early Nineteenth Centuries (Sull) Neeraja Sankaran, University of Wisconsin, Jiau Claire, "Autobiography: Margaret D. Garber, California State University Fullerton, "Terror and Insights from EM. Bumet's Ego-Documents in Reconstructing His Investigative Fantasy: Generating Facts of 'Monstrous' Births in the journal of the Academy of Pathway in Bacteriophage Research, 1924-1937" the Investigators ofNature (1670-1700)" Nathaniel Comfort,johns Hopkins University, "Biographies of the Llving and Adam Warren, University of W&hington, "'Monsters' and 1beir Meanings in Near-Llving" Colonial Peru: An Examination of the Birth of Conjoined 1\vins in 1694" Commentator: Thomas SOderqvist, University of Copenhagen Sean M. Quinlan, University ofIdaho, "Monstrous Births, Medical Networks, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1820" The Control of a Healthy Society: Institutionalizing Statistics in the 19th Century (Su7) Objects, Images, and Constructs in *Ida H. Stamhuis, Free University Amsterdam, "Why No Dutch Statistical Life Sciences Pedagogy (Su12) Society after the Establishment of Central Official Statistics?" Sara T. Scharf, IHPSI', University of Toronto, "Training the mind's eye with Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, University of California, Los Angeles, "Recounting Identification Keys" the Nation: The General Register Office and Victorian Bureaucracies" Dawn Mooney Digrius, Drew University, "Imag(in)ing Paleobotany: The Andrea Rusnock, University ofRhode Island, "Counting in the Clinic: Medical Internal Structure Debates, 1868-1895" Statistics and Hospital Medicine" *Ruthanna Dyer, Yark University, "The Blaschkas' Glas.5 Invertebrates in Early Morgane Labbe, &ate des Hautes Etudes en &:ienms Socia/es, "Prussian Census Biology Education" and the Statistical Office in the 19th Centuty: Global Construct Versus Local Fact" John L. Rudolph, University if Wisamsin, Madison, "Epistemologies in Conflict: Chair and Commentator: Theodore Porter, University ifCalifornia, l£Js Ang

Science Friction? Ph)'Sics Meets Astronmny Over the Longue Duree (Su8) lies, Damn Lies, and Their Characteristics (Su13) Richard Staley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Relative Measures, Absolute *Ken Alder, Northwestern University, "Placebo Technologies: Of Atom Bombs Standards and the Perfect Laboratory" and Polygraphs" Peter Susalla, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Conflict or Consensus? The Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, "Agnotology and Colonial Science" Neglected Middle Ground Between 'Old' and 'New' Astronomy, 1890-1910" Laura Stark, Northwestern University, "Observing and Deceiving: The Science Daniel Kennefick, University ofArkansas, "Pushing the Llmits: Looking for and Ethics of Research Methods, 1966-1973" Gravitational Waves in the Post-Newtonian Approximation, 1945-1965" Alison Wmter, University ifChicago, "A Science of Expectation: Martin Orne and the David Kaiser, MlF, ''When Fields Collide:: 'fraining and the Birth of Particle Cosmology" Invention of ''Demand Characteristics'' in the Design of Psychological Experiments'' Commentator: Cathryn Carson, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley Commentator: Matt Wisnioski, W&bington University, St. Louis Chair: Suman Seth, Cornell University x History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

'Jbe following announcements have been edited for space. For full descriptions and the latest announce­ ments, please visit our Web site (http://www.hssonline.org). '/be Society does not assume responsibility for the Future Meetings accuracy of any item; interested persons should verify all details. Jbose who wish to publish a future meet­ ing announcement slxJuld send an electronic versitJn of the posting to [email protected]. ra11s· for Alpers icine and Health care. To be 2006; [email protected]. Design and Evolution. To be Rocky Mountain Interdis­ held at the Army Medical Museum, hUpJAwlw. lshtm.ac.U.KAiistory. held 31 August-2 September 2006 ciplinary History Confer­ ''The Docwnentary Trad­ Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, Surrey at Delft University of Technology, ence. 22-23 September 2oo6 at ·~ ition" at the 2oo6 Film and on 12-13April 2007.Abstractdead­ Faculty of Design Engineering; the University of Colorado, Boulder History Uaglle Conference. line 1 August 2006. Submit to: Upcoming httpJAvww.io.tudelft.nVdhs. http://www.colorado.edu/ To be held 8-12 November 2006 in Curator, Army Medical Services History of the Food Chain - Conference;/RMIHC/. the Dolce Conference Center near Conferences Museum, Keogh Barracks, Ash from Agriculture to Endangered Species in G~ the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. International Conference Vale, Aldershot GU12 5RQ. E-mail Conswnption and Waste. The B~ Models. The Proposal deadline: 15 August Send on the History of Alchemy armymedicalmuseum@btinter­ Szent Istvan University, GOOollo, Dublin Blaschka Congre;<; will take p~als to Dr. Tiffi Boon, Head of and Chymistry. Philadelphia, netcom. near Budapest, 31 August - 3 place 28-30 September 2006; Collections, The Science Museum, 19-22 July 2006; http://www. The American Association Sept.ember 2oo6; http://www. httpJAwlw.ucd.ieAilaschka. London SW7 2DD. E-mail: chemheritage.org/events/alche­ for the History of Medicine euchems-Budapest2006.hu. tim. [email protected]. 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Exchange from the Late Cultivating the 'Next' held 30 July-4 August 2006, 2006, London, Ontario. httpJ/his­ inesworkshop.sts.vtedu. Imperial to Modem Agricultural History. Meeting Bran, Romania. tory.uwo.ca/ events/wheats2oo6!. Periods. To be held at the of the Agricultural History Society Centre for Portuguese Mediated Bodies. To be held at Conference of the Inter­ University of San Francisco on 9 will be held at Iowa State University, Nautical Studies: Maritime Maastricht University, the national EcoHealth Assoc­ March 2007. Deadline for pro­ Ames, 21-23 June 2007. Deadline Archaeology and History Netherlands, 14-16 Sept.ember iation. To be held 7-10 October posals is 18 September 2006. for submissions: 15 October 2006. Coofermce. Tu be held frcm 7-9 2006. Contact Renee van de Vall at 2006, University of Wisconsin­ Submit to: Melissa Dale, Assistant httpJ/agriculturalhistory.ndsu.nod August 2006 in M~ Bay, South [email protected]. Madison. http:/ /www.ecohealth. 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Geological Society of icine/index.php. Food Chains: Provisioning, Humanities and the Arts. 9- and the Wider World. America Convention. Phil­ BSHM 2006. Health and Technology, and Science. 3-4 10 February Z007, Maastricht Amstenlam, The Netherlands, 5-8. adelphia, PA, ZZ-Z5 October Medicine in History: East-West November 2006. Contact Carol University, the Netherlands. June 2007. httpJJwww.eseh.org. Z006. http://www.geosociety. Exchange, 2-4 November, Lockman: [email protected]. Contact Lies Wesseling at lies.wes­ The Legacy of Ramon y org/meetings/2006/index.htm. 2006, Jawaharlal Nehru Inventing America: The [email protected]. Cajal. Chestnut Hill College, Benjamin Franklin's World University, New Delhi. Contact Interplay of Technology Living on the Edge: Hwnan Philadelphia, PA, 5-7 October 17o6-2006. Milan (Z3 October D. Kumar at ashmZ006@red­ and Democracy in Shap­ Desires and Environmental [email protected]. Z006) and Rome (24 October iffmail.com. ing American Identity. Realities. ASEH's Z007 meeting, Bicentenary of the Z006). Contact Marco Sioli at History of Science Society.Joint University of Virginia, 3-4 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1-7 Geological Society (of [email protected] or Daniele meeting with PSA and 4S, 2-5 November 2006. Contact Maggie March. httpJ/www.h-net.org/-env­ London). lZ-13 November Fiorentino at daniele.fiorenti­ November 2oo6. Vancomei; B.C., Dennis: Z02.633.3441, den­ iron/ASEH/conferences.html. Z007. http://www.geolsoc. [email protected] Canada; httpJ/hssonline.org. [email protected]. Rethinking Health, Culture org.U.K/HOGG. Conference on African 2006 PSA Biennial Meeting. Science wi1hin 1he Slate. Berlin, and Society - Physician­ Fifteenth International Science. 24 October 2oo6. Joint meeting with HSS will be held 9-11 November Zoo6. Contact Axel Scholars in the Social Sciences Conference on the Origin of http://www.h-net.org/ Z-5 November Zoo6 in Vancouver, C. Huentelmann (axel.huentel­ and Medical Humanities. Life. Florence, Italy August Z4- announre'show.cgi?ID= 148714. British Columbia; http://philsci. [email protected]), Michael C. Tentatively scheduled 21-ZZ April Z9, Z008. http://www.dbag. Negotiating the Sacred III. orglPSAo6/. Schneider (Michael.Schneider 2007, Uni\mity of Chicago. httpJ/ unili.it/issolZOOS. @uni-

•ssertat1• ons 11• st 7be list befnw reflects infrmnatkm provided by Dr. Jonathon Brien (only dissertation • plm:ed in Dissertation Abstracts are Dl included) and others and was current as of 1January 2006 Please send any missing• to [email protected]:mkne.org. Anderson, Clifford Blake. "The Crisis of Theological Ghent University (Belgium), 2oo6, 236 pp. Mooaldi, Daniela. ''The Fate of the Mesotron. The Rome Science: A Contextual Study of the Development of Karl Dym, Warren Alexander. "Divining Science: Treasure Experiment on the Nuclear Absorption of Hard Cosmic Rays." Barth's Concept of Theology as Science from 1901to1923." Hunting and the Saxon Mining Industry, 1500-1800." UnivmsityofToronto, 2005, 311 pp. NR02625. Princeton Theo1ogical Seminary, 2005, 567 PP· 3184349. University of California, Davis, Z005, 293 pp. 318Z48Z. Ney, Alyssa L. "The Metaphysics of Unilied Science."

0 -• "' .Alan l!rederick. "The Semantic VieW of Scienlific Ellenbogen, Josh. "Photography and the Brown Universitv,•1, 2005, 167 pp. 3174649. Theories: An Alternative to Realism/lnsttumentalism." Imperceptible: Bertillon, Galton, Marey." The University of Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma. "Bitter Roots: U!liversityofGuelph, 2005, I93pp. NR04705. Chicago, 2005, 385 pp. 3181333. African Science and the Search for Healing Plants in Ghana, 01--., J..n;....., -...,, Stewart. "Rousseau's Crltlque of ...... , ---~, .r-~ Evangelist, Caery A. "Medieval Intelligibility: The 1885-2005." Harvard University, 2005, 302 pp. 3173997 . ~:A Commentary on the 'Discourse on the Scienres and Relationship between Mind, World and Transcendental Paras, Eric Eclwri "A New Archivist: Michel Foucault the.Aris.'" &filofl College, ZOOS, 423 PP· 3176656. Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas." Duke and the Practice of Philosophy, 1968-1984." Harvard loudtatd, Frederic. "Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle University, Z004, 3Z4 pp 3177297. University, 2005, Z65 pp. 3174002. for Persistence." Duke University 2004, 214 pp. 311786o. Franklin, Colleen. "'The Strange and Dangerous Voyage Rupp, Gabriel Vincent. "The Police in Different Voices: Browne, Meredith. "The Currency of the Clinical of Captaine Thomas James': A New Edition and a Isaac Newton and His Programme of Purification.'' The Photograph: 8dence, Photography and the Dream of the Publication and Reception History." University of Ottawa, University of Oklahoma, Z005, 252 pp. 3176317. I£gible Body." Concordia University, 2005, 331 pp. NR-04069. 2004, 426 pp. NR01701. Sucich, Glenn F. '"By Gradual Scale Sublimed': Byrne, David. "Anne Conway: An Intellectual Portrait of Gaycken, Oliver Alexander "Devices of Curiosity: Alchemy and the Matter of Souls in the Age of Milton." a Seventeenth century Viscountess." The Claremont Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular." The University of Northwestern University, ZOOS, 241 pp. 3177818. Graduale University, 2005, 163 pp. 3175048. Chicago, 2005, 279 pp. 3181341. Yetter, Jeremy. "The Regional Development of Science: Carter, Christopher Ray. "Imperialism and Godefroy, Andrew B. "Defence and Discovery: Science, Knowledge, Environmen~ and Field Work in the United Empiricism: Science and State in the Age of Empire." National Security, and the Origins of the Canadian Rocket States Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, 186o-1920." Duke University, 2004, 240pp. 3174110. and Space Program, 1945-1974." Royal Military College of University of Pennsylvania, ZOOS, 408 pp. 3179825. Clary, Renee M. "Uncovering Strata: An Investigation into Canada, 2004, 338 pp. NR02033. W-tlkinson,John. "The Rust in the Machine: AMetaphoric the Graphic Innovatrom of Geologist Henry T. De la Beche." Haber, Matthew Horace. "The Centrality of Henneneutic of Evolutionary Biology Tuxts." California Louisiana State Univetsily, 2003, 480 pp. 3182879. Phylogenetic Thinking." University of California, Davis, Institute of Integral Studies, ZOOS, 231 pp. 3175044. Cook,. Steven W. "Remembering and Forgetting Abram 2005, lll pp. 318Z490. Williams, tlemency J. "Eclipse Theory in the Ancient Kardiner. His Life and Legacy in the Shadow of Freud's Hollibaugh, Lisa Kathleen. "Southern Crossroads: World.'' Brown University, 2005, 442 pp. 3179451. Influence." Emory University, 2005, 395 pp. 317()012. Science, Religion and Gender in Southern Women's \lbjttdl, W-tllfam 1aylor, "An Empirically Constraiooi Study Literature between the World Wars." Columbia University, tunnitlgham, Michael Doucette. "Seashells on the ofVwalPero.1Jtion." Duke Univer.ilty, ZOOS, 279pp. 3181489. 2005, 214 pp. 3174812. Mountains; Antonio Vallisueri, ~Is, and the Republic of Worden, Joel Daniel. ''The Galapagos in American Koehl, Laura Ann. "Doing Science: Lessons Learned Irlters." UnivmsityofConnecticut, 2005, 215 pp. 3100195. Consciousness: American Fiction Writers' Responses to deJoog-1.ambert, William. "The New Biology: Lysenkoism from the Oral Histories of Women Scientists." University of Darwinism." Univetsity of Delaware, 2005, 225 pp. 3181874. Cincinnati, Z005, 15Z pp. 3176749. in Poland." Columbia University, 2005, 246 pp. 3174774. Yudell, Zanja Chanka. "Scientific Realism and Ducheyne, Steffen. "Virtuosi at Work: Historical­ La Nave, Federica. "Belief without Proof from Ancient Inconsistency: A Model-Based Approach." Columbia Philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Geometry to Renaissance Algebra." Harvard University, University, 2005, 192 pp. 3174933. Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton." 2005, 168 pp. 3173957. 12 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

Prior to the publication of each Newsletter, the HSS Executive Office receives from the Isis Editorial Office a list of books Isis BOOKS RECEIVED received by that office for potential review. This list appears here quarterly; it is not compiled from the annual Current Bibliography. You may also view this list and prior lists online at http://www.hssonline.org/society/isis/mf_isis.html. Anger, Gottfried; Hehnut Moritz, TID:mology and Busirtei.J. xxi + 402 pp., Bertomeu-Sandtez, Jose Ramon; FiJuity v. Cl.XJice. xii + 320 pp., index. Joachim Auth, Rainer Burghardt, et fig;., index. Sagamore Beach, MA: Scienre Agosti Nieto-Ga1an, (Editors). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University al. W1&Je11SChafi/,icW; Kolkxjuium zum History Publications, 2oo6. $49.95 (cloth). Chemistry, Medicine and Crime. Maleu Prei5, 2oo6. $35 (cloth). 801883393. 75. Geburtstag von Hans-Jurgen Treder. 881352527. JB. 01fiJa (1787-1853) and His 'Jfmes. Chekin, L S. Northern Eurasia in Band 61. Sitzungsberichte Der Leibniz­ Barnes, David S. Jbe Grea1 Stink Qf xxv + 306 pp., figs.,apps., index. Sagamore Medieval cartography. fnventmy, Tex!s, Sozietat, Herrert Horz, Prasident 266 pp., Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Beach, MA: Scienre History Publi- Jrans!atimi, and Commentary. 498 pp., apps., Berlin: 'krlag Irena Regene~ 2003. Struggle against Filih and Germs. xiv+ catio!WUSA, 2oo6. $52 (cloth). 881352756. illus., bib!. Index. Turnhout: Brepols Eurol7.80 (paper). 3896264621. 314 pp., fig;., index. Baltimore: The Johns Biagioli, Mario. Gali/m's lnstrumenis Publishers, 2005. Euro75 (cloth). Arag6n, Santiago. Fl Zool6gkxJ del Hopkins University Press, 2006. $35 ifCrwt: Tdesapei, Images, &tm:y. xi+ 2503514723. MUS{![) de Ciendas Naturale> de Madrid. (cloth). 801883490. 302 pp., fig;., app., index. Chicago: The Chris, Cynthia. Watching Wtldlffe. xxii Mariano de la Paz Grae/ls (1809-1898), Barnes, Linda L Needles, Herbs, Gods, University of Chicago Press. $35 (cloth). + 269 pp., figs., app., index. Minneapolis: la Socia/ad de Aclimatad6n y los and Ghosts: China, Healing, andthe West 226045617. University of Minnesota Press, 2oo6. $19.95 Aninudes Utffes. Morwgrajlas. 235 pp., to 1848. 458 pp., illus., bib!., index. Blackmore, John T.; Ryoichi (paper). 816645477. fig;., spp., bib!. Madrid: Museo Nacional de Cambridge/lnndon: Harvard University Itagaki; Setsuko Tanaka (Editors). Clancey, Gregory. Farthquake Nation. Ciencias Naturales, 2005. (paper). Press, 2005. $49.95 (cloth). 674018729. Ernst Mach's !Cience: Its Character and 7be Cultural Politics of Japanese 84IXXJ83563. Banera-Osorio, Antonio. Fxperienc- lnjluem:e on Einstein and Others. 304 Seismicity, 1868-1930. xiii + 331 pp., Arnold, David Jbe 'ProfJks and the ing Nature. 1be SfJanish American pp., index. Kanagawa: Takai University illus., app., bib!., index. Berkeley: University Jrave/,ing Gaze: India, I.and.scape, and Empire and the Farly Scientific Press, 2oo6. (cloth). 4486o31881. of California Press, 2oo6. $49.95. (cloth). !Cience, 1800-1856 xiv+ 298pp., illus., Revolution. xi + 211 pp., illus., apps., bib!., Blackwell, Alan; David Mackay 520246o71. fig;., bib!, index. Seattle: University of index. University of Texas Press, 2oo6. $45 (Editors). Power. (The Darwin College Clarke, Desmond M. De;cartes: A Washington Press, 2005. $50 (cloth). (cloth). 292709811. Lro:ures.) 139 pp., illus., fig;., index. New Biography. xi+ 507 pp., apps., fig;., bib!., 029598581X Battaglia, Debbora (Editor). E.T. York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Astore, William J. Observing God: Culture. Anlhrrpology in Outerspaces. ix $6o (cloth). 521823773. Press, 2oo6. $40 (cloth). 521823013. Jhomas Dick, Evangelicalism and + 281 pp., illus., index. Durli.am: Duke Bourdelais, Patrice. Epidemics I.aid Cooper, Michael; Michale Hooter Pcpular !Cience in Vutorian Britain and University Press, 2005. $79.95 (cloth). !J.Jw: A His/,ory Q/Wbat Happened in Rich (Editors). Robert Hooke: Tercentennial America. ix + 304 pp, app., bib!., index. 822336324. Countriei. Translat.00 by Bart K Holland. Studies. xxi + 335 pp., fig:;., tables, bib!., Brookfield: Mhgate Publishing Company, Bechtel, Wdliam. Discovering Cell xiv + 176 pp., figs., app., bib!., index. index. Burlington, Vf: Mhgate Publishing 2001. Cloth $79.95. 7546o2028. Mechanisms:JbeCreationifModemCell Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Company, 2006. $99.95 (cloth). Atkinson-Grosjean, Janet. Public Biology. (Cambridge Studies in Prei5, 2oo6. $19.95 (paper). 801882958. 075465365X. !Cience, Private lnteresls. Culture and Philosophy and Biology.) xii + 323 pp., Bowker, Geoffioey. Memory Practise; Dalby, Andrew. Re.discovering Homer. Commerce in Gantlda's Netwarks if fig:;., app., index. New York: Cambridge in the Scienas. xi + 261 pp.,illus., figs., Inside the Origins ifthe Fpic. xi + 252 pp. Centres Qf&cellence. xviii + 269 pp. figs., University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). index. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press. app., bib!. New York: W.W. Norton & tables, apps., bib!., index. Toronto: 052181247X. $34.95 (cloth). 26252295. Company, 2006. $26.95 (cloth). University of Toronto Press, 2oo6. $55. Beidleman, Richanl G. California's Busard, H. LL CampanusQ[Novara 393057887. (cloth). 802080057. Frontier Naturalists. xii + 484 pp., illus., and Eudid's Flements. (Boethuis, Band Darwin, Charles. Jbe Cormpondence Auyang, Sunny Y. Engineering - an bib!., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: 51, 1 + 2.) 768 pp., fig;., bib!. Stuttgart: if Char~ Darwin: Volume 15, 1867. EruikN; Frontier. 344 pp., apps, index. University of California Press, 2oo6. $39.95 Franz Steiner \erlag, 2005. Euro 115 Edited by Frederick Burkhard~ Duncan M. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Prei5, (cloth). 520230108. (cloth). 3315086455. Porter, et al. (The Correspondence of 2oo6. $18.95 (paper). 674019784. Bellamy, Matthew J. Profiting the Cadeddu, Antonio. I.es VertAf\' de la Charles Darwin, 15.) xiii + 705 pp., illus., Aveni, Andmny. Unwmmon Sense: Croum: Ganada,'s Polymer Corporation, !Cience: Pratique, RWI, Histoire: I.a Gas figs., tables, apps., bib!., index. Understanding Nature's 7h1ths across 1942-1990. xiii + 303 pp., illus., fig;., Pasteur. Bibliot.eca di Nundus, vol. 57.) Cambridge/New York; Cambridge 7fme and Culture. xxii + 250 pp., fig;., bib!., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's xviii + 282 pp., apps., bib!., index. Florenre: University Press, 2006. $130 (cloth). --- index. Boulder: University Press of University Press, 2005. $65 (cloth). Leo S. Olschki, 2005. Euro30 (cloth). 052185931X. Colorado, 2oo6. $26.95 (cloth). 870818287. 773528156. 8822254643. de Frenza, Lucia I Sonnambuli de/le Ballenger, J~ F. Self, Senility, and 8eretta, Marco; Giovanni OOey, David L. Frank !pringer & New Miniere: Amoretti, Fortis, spallanzani e iJ Alzheimer's Disease in Modem America: ~e (Editors). Le Verre dans Mexico: From the Colfax County lfilr to Dibattito Sull'eleitrometria Organica e A History. xvii + 236 pp., app., index. l'EmpireRomain. (ArtsetScienre.) (Bakins University onthepaperspremtedatlstitutoeMl.m>di + 261 pp., fig;., app., bib!., index. College (Bibliot.ecadeStoriadellaScienza, vol. 50.) Press, 2oo6. $43 (cloth). 801882761. Storiadella Scienza, 27 March to 31 degli Argenti, Florenre.) 359 $34.95 (cloth). 1585444642. Olschki, 2005. Euro30 (cloth). Anders Houltz (Editors.) Taking pp., fig;., app., bib!. Florence-Milan: Giunti Callahan, Daniel; Angela A. 8822254821. Plam: Jbe !patial ConJe>:ts Qf Sciena!, Editore, 2oo6. 39 (paper). 271185163X Wasunna. Medicine and the Market: de Panne, Blaise. ~ Circa 13 I l History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

Tractum Proportionum Magistri 1bome Pre;s, 2005. $22 (paper). 801884012. limbabwe, 1908-19&3. (Cornell Studie> w~enschaftsku#ur bis 1850 in Braduardinz: F.dited by Joo Biard; Sabine G~, Alan G. Starrtng the 'Jex:!: '!be in the History of Psychiatry.) xxi + 230 pp., lJeulschland. (Sudhoffs Archiv 55.) 505· Rommevaux. 240 pp., fig;., indexe>. Paris: Pm of Rhetoric in !lielu:e Sfudig;, x + fig;;., index. Ithaca: Cornell University pp., bib!., index. Stuttgart: Franz St.einer Llbrairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. 217 pp., fig;., bib!., index. Carliondale, IL: Press, 2005. $55 (cloth). 801443105. Verlag, 2005. Euro64 (paper). Euro28 (paper). 2711617<_Xl4. Southern Illinois University Pre;s, 2006. Jackson, Mark.Allelgy. 7he Hief!Jry ifa 3515085114. Deane-Dnumnond, Celia. Genetia $30 (paper). 00')326965. Modem Malady. 288 pp., illus., bib!., LaooNer, Jane. Making Tfme. Jillian and Christian Elhics. (New Studie; in Guemlggio, Angelo; Pietro N~i index. Chicago: University of Chicago Moller Gilhrelh-A Iffe Beymd ''Cbmper Christian Ethia;.) xxili + 281 pp., bib!., Italian Mathematicr betwren the 'Pwo Pre;s, 2006. $39.95 (cloth). 1861892713. by the Dozen. "xii + 415 pp., illus., apps., index. New Yolk: Cambridge University World Wtm. (Science Networks Historical Johnston, Pa1ricia (Editor) Sff!ing index. Boston: Northeast.em University Pre;s, 2006. $29.<.J 29.) x + 2<,J for the 1\venty-first Century.) vili Kagan, Jerome. An Argument for 334 pp., fig;., index. New Haven, CT: Yale Dickerson, James L Yellow Fever: A + 334 pp., fig;., app., index. Durham, NC: Mind. xii + 287 pp., app., index. New University Press, 2006. $50 (cloth). fuldl,y Disease Poised to KiU Again. 271 Duke University Pres.5, 2oo6. $84.95 Haven: Yale University Pre;s, 2006. $27.50 300110782. pp., fig;., app., bib!., .index. Amherst, NY: (cloth). 822337258. (cloth). 300113374. Leslie, Esther. Synthetic Worlds. Prometheus Books, 2006. $25 (cloth). Harding, Sandra. !lielu:e and &xi£ll ~' Sven. Adolf Butenandt (1903- Nature, Art, and the Chemical 97815910239<,J, Fedunkiw, Marianne P. Rockefdler Imdresen 1931. vi+ 228pp., illus., bib!., '!WenJielh Century. xviii + 510 pp., fig;., index. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Pre>s, Foundation Funding and Medical index. Paris: Vuibert, 2oo6. Euro30 apps., bib!., index. Foreword by Jame; M. 2006. $35 (paper). 262621975. &lucation in Jbronto, Montreal, and (paper). 271177158X. Edmonson. Novato, CA: historyofscience. liebersohn, Harry. 1be Travelers' Halifax. (McGill-Queen's/As.5ociated Hunger Parshall, Karen. fames com, 2006. $275 (cloth). 930405862. World: Europe to the Padjic. xiii + 380 Medical Setvices Studie> in the History of josrph Sylw;ter:jewish Mathematician in Klinkmann, Horst, et al. Akademien pp., illus., bib!., index. Cambridge, MA: Mooicine, Health and Society, 24.) xiv + a Vutarian World. xi + 461 pp., apps., in J,eiten des Umbruchs. W~en­ Harvard University Press, 2005. $29.95 201 pp., fig;., bibl., index Montreal: McGill­ index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins schafll:ic/:Jt'.S AfJlkxjuium aus ~ des (cloth). 674021851. Queen's University Pre;s, 2005. $75 (cloth). University Pre;s, 2006. $69.95 (cloth). 70. Gthurtstages von Horst Klinkmann. Linguerri, Sandra. Vito Volterra E 773528970. 801882915. Sitzung;;bericht.e der Leibniz-Sozietlit. II Comitato Talassografico Italiano: Gouk, Penelope; Helen Hills Hiidier, Gerald. '/be Cornjxl&l'ionat Band 81, Jahrgang 2005. 179 pp. Berlin: Imprese Par Aria e per Mare (Editors). RlfJrlSefding Emotimls: New Brain: How Empatby Creates Leibniz-Sozietat, 2005. Eurol8 (cloth) Nell'Italia Unita (1883-1930). Connections in the HistJJrie> ofAt-ti Music Intelligence. 'franslated by Michael H. 3896265210. Bibliot.eca de Nuncius, vol. 56. xii + and Medicine. 254 pp., illus., bibl., index. Kohn. vi + 152 pp., index. London: Kolchinsky, E.I.; M.B. Konashev 274 pp., bib!., index. Florence: Leo S. Burlington, vr: A5hgate Publishing, 2005. Trumpet.er, 2006. $14 (paper). (Edit.ors). On the !Jdge. Science in Olschki, 2005. Euro29 (cloth). $79.95 (cloth). 754630587. 159030330X Rt@a in the End if XIX-XX Century: 8822254155. Graham, Loren R.Moscow Storifs. xi + Ingaliso, Luigi (Editor). Giovan R£Searches, Sources, Historiograpby. (In l.Ope-L Pill.era, Jose Maria. Atlas y 305 pp., bib!., index. Indiana University Filippo Ingrassia: Infonnatione de/, Russian). Vol 3. 421 pp. Saint­ diccimutrio historico de fas p/antas rned­ Pre;s, 2006. $29.95 (cloth). 253347165. Peifero et Omiagioo Morbo. (Filadia e Pet.ersburg:Nestor-Historia, 2005. (cloth). icinales. CD ROM. Valencia: Faximil Grant, Edward !lielu:e and Religian, Sciema Nell'Eta Mcx:ffiia) 656 pp., m­ 17267870. F.dicions Digitals, 2005. Euro50 (CD­ 400 B.C. to AD. 1550: From Aristotle to e>. Milan: Francoangeli, 2005. 884647290X Lammel, Hans-Uwe. Klio und ROM). 8493339512. Ccpernicus. xviii + 307 pp., fig;., bib!., Jackson, Lynette A Surfacing Up: Hftpokrates: Eine liaison littiraire des Macintosh, JJ. (Editor). Boyle on index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Psychiatry and !hdal Order in Colonial, 18. jahrhunderts und die Folgen fiir die Aiheism. xxv + 493 pp., apps., bibl., index.

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Toronto: University of Toronto Preis, 2005. NatimuJJ. Jnstitutions. xxi + 294 pp., apps., Ogilvie, Brian W. 7be Science of We!J.erkliirung und WtsSenschaftslegit­ $95. (cloth). 802()C)0184. bibli., index. Cambridge: Cambridge IJescribing. Natural History in Renais­ imierung: 'Jitelbilder und ihre MacKen7ie, Donald An Engine, Not University Press, 2oo6. $30.95 (paper). sance Eurrpe. 385 pp., Illus., app., bib!., Funktionen in der WtsSel1SChaftlkhen a Olmera: How Financial Models Shape 521684153. index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Revolutian. (Wolfenbi.itteler Forschungen: Markets. (Inside Te£hnology.) xii + 377 Murphy, Michelle. Sick Building Press, 2006. $45. (cloth). 226620075. Herausgegeben von der Hel7.0g August pp., figs., apps., indexe;. Cambridge MA Syndrome and the Problem of Olson, Richard G. Science & Re/Jginn, Bibliothek, 110.) 267 pp., fig;., bib!., index. The MIT Press, 2oo6. $40 (cloth). Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Wie;baden: Harras.50witz Verlag in 262134608. 'J/xJ.JrJ.a<;ci, and Women Worim'. x + Darwin. xvii + 292 pp., illus., fig;., bib!., Ko~ion, 2005. 3447053372. .. Meltzer, David J. Folsom: New 253 pp., illus., fig>., bib!., index. index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Rheinberger, Hans-JOrg. Fpistemol­ Archa«Jlogical. Investigations of a C!tmc Durham/London: Duke University Preis, Preis, 2004. $19.95 (cloth). 801884004. gie de; I in 8496476529. Berkeley: University of California Preis, 2006. $39.95 (cloth) 520247043. Press, $49.95 (cloth). 9780520247031. Development: Re-Reading the Mo/a;u/ar Pelis, Kim. Charles NimUe: Pasteur's Miller, Jeffrey C.; Daniel IL Janz.en; Paradigm. (Science and Cultural Theory.) Imperial Missionary, Typhus and Rommevaux, Sabine. Clavius une di Wmi&ed Hallwachs. 100 Caterpillars: vi + 378 pp., fig;., index. 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I l History of Science Society Newsletter July 20o6 Bucculentus Revisited The Underside of the Scientific Revolution

espite my best efforts, Bucculentus remains one of the least recognized Dand most unappreciated giants of the scientific revolution. Known in his heyday as the Wizard of Wiltshire and the Sage of Salisbury, a friend of Hobbes, Wallis, and Descartes, he affected everyone and everything he touched. He was most famous for his testudino-centric cosmology, which he introduced into European intellectual circles from the land of the Incas, as well as his theory of the circulation of the black-bile. Most con­ temporaries rejected his turtle-centered cosmos, and his bilious physiology, but his other new-world discovery was much more popular - the pimento. He brought the pimento back from Ecuador and soon discovered that olives became much more palatable when stuffed with this sweet red pep­ per. Wallis, Boyle, and Bucculentus used to sit around, stuffing olives, and talking natural philosophy, and out of that grew the world's first scientific society: the Pimento Academy. Co-incidentally, Sylvius de la Boe, in Holland, that very same year, invented gin. Modern science was on its way. I first introduced Bucculentus to the history of science community at a ]unto meeting in 1976, several years after I had discovered a major horde of Bucculentus papers and manuscripts in the archives of the Whistling

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named it, in honor of the co-discoverer, Wallis's line. It was also satisfying to help my audience re-interpret one of the most misunderstood images in the history of science, which records the moment when Bucculentus challenged Blaise Pascal to a contest, to see who could race the fastest up the Puy de Dome, carrying a full yard of ale. Much more remains to be discovered about our unsung hero, and I look forward to many future years of dedicated pub time in the Whistling Pig, accompanied, I hope, by the spirit of Stuart Pierson.

Pig, a pub in Salisbury. I have since spent many pleasant hours in this establishment, pouring over the inspired musings of a lost genius, and it was a pleasure to present my most recent discoveries to another ]unto meeting, this one in honor of Stuart Pierson, who would have loved Bucculentus. I was particularly pleased to be able to reveal the purpose of the puzzling brass line laid down in Salisbury cathedral. Bucculentus and Wallis had devised a witnessing test for observers of experiments, to see if they were trustworthy. The proposed witness had to walk the line in the cathedral, and if he made it to the end without falling off, his testimony was rejected, and he was sent back to the Whistling Pig until such time as he was better fit to participate in the enterprise of science. Posterity, unfor­ tunately, has forgotten Bucculentus' role in inventing this line, and has 16 Wallis's Line History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

(News continued from page 6) Natural History: The New York Times Web site features a video on the The U.K.'s National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Akeley Hall of Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. To locate the video, type 'Akeley Hall of Mammals' in the Times' search box. The Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS) reports on the four latest of its col- • AMNH Web site also features multimedia on the diorama at lections to be processed: chemical engineer Sir Frederick Warner, geologist http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/. D.EW. Baden-Powell, molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate Cesar Public Health: Anew collection of seminal public health articles has been Milstein, and biochemical engineer E.M. Crook. The report is at published by Public Health Reports. To order Public Health Reports: Historical http://www.bath.ac.U .K./ncuacs. Collection 1878-2005, download an order form from: http://www.pub­ Anew Web site on the Automobile in American Life and Society lichealthreports.org. Or contact Asha Tobing at [email protected] or can be found at http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu. 202.296.1099. The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be relocating to new Botany and Medicine: The "Historia Plantarum Collection" is now open offices at Capital Gallery (7th and Matyland Ave., SW) in Summer 2oo6. to Smithsonian and external scientists. Devoted to the History of Botany and For further information: http://siarchives.si.edu. Medicine, the collection focuses on the Old World and medicinal plants. For The RutherfordJournal, the New Zealand Journal for the more information: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/herbals/. History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is now avail­ Psychology: The New York Academy of Medicine will be hosting the exhibit able online at http:/lwww.rutherfordjoumal.org. "Sigmund Freud's Neurological Drawings and Diagrams of the Mind: From Anew Web site with digital links for teachers and students can Neurology to Psychoanalysis." In addition, the exhibit will feature several orig­ be found at http://www.universityhistory.org inal drawings from Freud's own hand on loan from the Freud Museum in London. For further information: http://www.nyam.org/initiatives/im­ A new issue, IX.1 (Spring-Summer 2006) of the HOPOS Newsletter histe.shtml. may be found at: http://cas.umkc.edu/scistudlhopos. Exhibitions: The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford has opened With the publication of volume VI, Oceanography and Hydrography, 'Wireless World: Marconi and the Making of Radio.' Visit the edited works ofHans Ertel (1904-1971) are now complete. http://www.mhs.ox.ac.U.K .. A permanent Marconi homepage is at The most recent batch of recent doctoral dissertations concerning http://www.mhs.ox.ac. U.K./marconi/. biomedical ethics and humanities has been downloaded to: There will be a special installation devoted to the materials and techniques of the htp://www.hsls.pitt.edu/ides/histmedlresearchresources/dissertations/index_html. artists as part of the exhibition "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting." At National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. until 17 September Report on USS Council and Business Meetings in 2006, then Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 17 October 2oo6 - 7January 2007. Minneapolis - November 2005 Exhibitions in two Harvard venues commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. "The Circulation of Knowledge," Houghton Library, At the HSS Council and Business Meetings in Minneapolis, in November 2005, until 23 Sep­ President Sokal reported on the progress we have made in raising money to match tember 2oo6 and the NEH Challenge Grant, aimed at endowing the position of the Society "Science and Bibliographer. To date, we have not met the match and are actively engaged in Sociability," development activities. ADevelopment Committee is being established and will be Collection of seeking major donors to the fund President Sokal reminded Council of the impor­ Historical tance of getting strong support from the Society membership. He also announced Scientific the establishment of a fund established in memory of David Dibner who died in Instruments, until late September 2005. David Dibner and the Dibner family have been major patrons 22 December of the History of Science Society. The Council approved the Executive Committee's 2006. nomination of Rachel Ankeny as the new Society Treasurer. She will assume her position on 1 January 2007, replacing Marc Rothenberg who will have seIVed as Treasurer for the past ten years. The Council also approved a change to the statutes, designed to facilitate the review of the Society Editor. The revised statute reads as follows: "Statute 19b. When needed the Committee on Publications shall, when ... directed by the Executive Committee, prepare a recommendation for the appoint­ ' ment of a new Society Editor. The Editor shall be elected by Council for a five-year term. The Editor's performance will be evaluated by the Committee on Publications at the end of the third year of his/her term, and the committee will recommend to Council either that the Editor be reappointed for a second term (which may be extended for a period of from one to five years by mutual agree­ ment of the Council and Editor) or that the search for a new Editor should be undertaken by the Committee. If necessary, the Editor's second term may be extended by one year to facilitate the transition to a new Editor." President Sokal reported these developments to the Business Meeting on Sunday morning. Harvard University commemorating the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. (Courtesy ofHarvard University) 17 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2oo6 Donors to NEH Challenge Fund (As of 1 May 2006) Thank You! Sarton Circle ($2.500 and Above) Richard Creath Chm C. G~ie* River Branch Foundation &Jane Maienschein* In Honor and Memory of David Dibner David Rockefeller Glady.; Krieble ~Foundation John C. Grrene* Laurenre S. Rockefeller Fund The Furumoto Reseaoch Foundation Margaret J. Osler* M '1rginia & John W. Servoo* Lisbet Rausing Trust Charlene & Michael M. Sokal*+

Anonymous Frederick Gregory* Bernard Lightman* Heinrich & Eve von Staden Michele L. Aldrich Gerald Holton* Robert Multhauf* Arnold W. Thackray* Joan Cadden* Shinzo Kohjiya John A.Neu Spenrer Weart Virginia P. Dawson+ Robert Kohler Mary Jo & Robert Nye* Thomas R. Williams Joseph Fruton Sally Gregory Kohlstedt* John A. Popplestone Joella &William Yoder Sustaining Members ($500 - $999) ClarkA. Elliott+ Susan Lindee Alan Rocke Nancy G. Siraisi Judith& David~ John Michel Edward G. Ruestow Laurenre D. Smith Loren Graham EJamil & Sally Palchick Ragep Michael Shank Emily Thompson Contributors (Up to $499) Anonymrius Ken Caneva Janet Bell Garber Margaret Jacob Brian W. Ogilvie Alan E. Shapiro· Renato Acampora Toni V. Carey Patsy Gerstner+ Derek Jensen Marilyn Ogilvie Kate Sheppard Douglas Allchin David Cassidy Neal Gillespie David Kaiser Naomi Oreskes Hilary A. Smith Garland Allen Ranes Chakravorty Mary Louise Gleason* Victor J. Katz Leonello Paoloni Pamela H. Smith Katharine Anderson Peggy Champlin Marie Glitz Peggy Kidwell John Parascandola Scott Spear Peder Anker HasokChang Jan Golinski William Kimler Karen Parshall Darwin H. Stapleton Toby Appel David Channell+ John Gould Sachiko Kusukawa Diane B. Paul Peter R Stevens Wilbur Applebaum H. Floris Cohen Sara S. Gronim Ann La Berge Philip J. Pauly James E. Strick Adamj.Apt N.G. Coley Anita Guerrini Shoshi Lavinghouse L. Pearre & Edith D. Sylla* Jean-Francois Auger Jonathan Coopersmith & Michael Osborne- Bruce V. Lewenst.ein Sylvia I. Williams Liba Taub ]oseA. Bach Angela N. H. Creager Stanley Guralnick Albert C. Lewis James A. Pittman Kenneth L Taylor Lawrenre Badash Paul J. Croce Martin Gutzwiller David Lindberg* Theodore Porter David Topper+ Peter Barker Lorraine J. Daston Beth HaGath William & Marie Longton John K. Pribram Roger D. Turner Donald deB. Beaver Joseph W. Dauben Roger Hahn Phillip Loring Karen Rader A. Bowdoin Van Riper Jean Beetschen Peter R. Dear Hanne Handersen Kenneth M. Ludmerer Sylwester Ratowt Sharon Vaughn-Lahman Alan Beyerchen Allen G. Debus Bert Hansen Elizabet Lunbeck Karen &James Reeds Linda Voigts John Blackmore David Devorkin Katherine Haramundanis Pamela E. Mack* Barbara Reeves Jessica Wang Ann Blair RonaldDoel Jon M. Harkness Robert J. Malone• Joan L. Richards Joan Warnow-Blewett Muriel Blaisdell Michael Dow Joseph E. Hannon Michael Massouh + Robert]. Richards Ruth Wattenberg Angela Boemke-Vallou M. Eddy John L. Heilbron James E. McClellan m Robin E. Rider Eleanor Webster Patrick Boner Guy Emery Kenneth Hellyar Stephen C. McCluskey George Rosenstein Marjorie K. Webster James J. Bono Judith & Jonathon Eden Pamela Henson Sylvia McGrath Marc Rothenberg Charles Weiner+ Mary Ellen Bowden Raymond E. Fancher Javier Herrero Fernandez DonnaMehos James Ruffner Frederick Weinstein William Brock Anne Fausto-Sterling Bruce Hevly Everett I. Mendelsohn Andrea Rusnock Robert Weinstock Janet Browne Javier Fernandez Erwin Hiebert* Margaret 0. Meredith & Paul Lucier Stephen Weldon Stephen G. Brush* Tom & Uma Ferrell Anne Hiskes Michal Meyer Ken Saito Robert Westman Joe D. Burchfield Klaus Fischer David A. Hollinger Ronald E. Mickens Morton L. Schagrin Karin E. Wetmore Richard Burkhardt Gary Fouty Roderick Home Joseph A. Moyzis Robert& Roger L. Williams Leslie J. Burlingame Robert Marc Friedman Karl and Sally Hu!bauer Nancy J. Nersessian Mary-Peale Schofield Thomas Williams Ronald Calinger Elizabeth Garber+ Bruce J. Hunt Sheila Counce Nicklas James A. Secord Eri Yagi Lynn K. Nyhart Joie R. Shackelford Toshihiro Yamada

1be HS5 UKJUld liRe to thank Marjorie Webster for giving $1, 000 * Officers' Incentive Fund - in honor of John Neu in honor of Rod Web\ter, enabling graduate students to attend + In honor of Robert E. Schofield Please send corrections to [email protected] the 2005 HS5 barvjuet. 18 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 A New Society in Bulgaria Links Hard and Soft Science with Education Birth of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC)

By B.V. Toshev

he 29th of September 2005 marked the Tbirthday of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC). Our goals - to foster interest in chemistry education and in the history and philosophy of chemistry with their social and cultural dimensions and influ­ ences - are met by publication of Kbimiya!Cbemistry. Bulgarian journal of Chemical Education ISSN 0861-9255, by the support of other forms of scholarly publica­ tion, by the organization of scientific and pub­ lic meetings, by fostering members' career development, and by cooperation with other learned societies and research units. Today CE&HPC has 170 members; 114 are from Bulgaria and the rest come from throughout the rest of Europe, Australia, South America, North America, Africa, and Asia. The Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry . . . Education and History and Philosophy of Meeting of the Bnlganan Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry. Chemistry is off to a strong beginning. What is behind that success? Part of the In Bulgaria these trends in education accompany the long-term attempt to answer can be traced to the state of science education. reform the national educational system. It is a rather complicated knit of prob- Everywhere in the world science education is under threat. The number of !ems, approaches, techniques, and theories that must be carefully discussed by students in natural sciences and technology programs has fallen in many coun- ed~ca~ors, scholars, parents, and local education authorities. The scholarly tries, including ones with high levels of industrial development. This leads not societies seem to offer the most appropriate forums for this kind of community only to a reduction in the number of researchers, but also to a decrease in sci- discourse, and the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History entific and economic competitiveness. With increasing globalization, this is a and Philos~p~y of Chemistry will contribute in that direction. dangerous trend. For us it is extremely important that we study the international context of Chemistry education, in particular, is an essential part of science education, ~hese ~ro?lems. That is why our Society is internationally oriented. At one point, but it is extremely difficult for pupils to master its three different levels of think- isolatwmsm was a state policy in Bulgaria, and this limited outlook created a ing: The micro-level (atoms, molecules, ions, other particles), the macro-level vulgar modeling of freethinking in a narrow zone with solid boundaries of var- (mathematical description of different chemical and physicochemical process- iou~ dogmas. Hard science and, especially, soft science, were damaged by this es), and the semiotic level (signs, symbols). Such an amalgam of abstract policy. Although we are entering a new chapter for the history and philosophy of approaches and definitions is usually unattainable for most people, leading to sc'.en~e, it is not .e'.15y to utilize them to their full extent because the old way of widespread ignorance of the field. Can we imagine people queuing in the street thmki~g and wnt.mg cann~t easily be changed. The Bulgarian Society for the to hear a public lecture on chemistry today? It happened in Bulgaria in the Chemistry Educat10n and History and Philosophy of Chemistry will help nurture 1920's when large crowds entered the lecture halls to enjoy talks delivered by a new generatio~ ~f social scien.tists. Professor Assen Zlatarov from the University of Sofia, an eminent organic and . Tho~e who JO!Il the Bulganan Society will become members of an active, bioorganic chemist. stJmulatmg group that welcomes newcomers. Members come from all back- At the same time there exists a strong trend in mass higher education to grou~ds'. from Bulgaria and beyond. For citizens outside of Bulgaria, the mem- exclude marginal students. These students need special attention in order to bership is free. For further information, please go to http://khimiya.org or find a proper niche. The history and philosophy of chemistry can excite their http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khimiya. interest in chemistry, helping them to find their place within the chemists' com­ Professor 8. V. Toshev is the President of the Bulgarian Society for the munity. And though there is an increasing demand for an interdisciplinary Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC), at approach to teaching science, providing inspiring and achievable lessons is not the University of Sofia, 1James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, BULGARIA, E­ an easy task. Mail: [email protected]. 19 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

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To answer commenters' stated desire for more wider audience in a timely, critical and relatively unbiased way;" greater outreach (and taking into account positive comments on the upgrade to the involvement in developing high school curricula; building bridges to work­ British Society for the History of Science Newsletter - now called Viewpoint ing scientists; and annual meeting panels that - and its greater focus on outreach), we plan to address issues such as the globalization of science. overhaul the Newsletter. The October Newsletter The other approach focuses on the role the HSS will embody many of your suggestions both to keep could play within academia. Suggestions ranged What's Changing? members connected and to provide an avenue to from cultivating job opportunities in science reach a more general audience interested in the departments to a listserv to provide a voice for the history of science. •HSS Web site redesign to upgrade community. Most of those who attend the annual meeting graphics and links The two main approaches underpinning the (35% listed this as non-applicable) rate it highly - comments are important - building up our aca­ 33% rated it as good and 27% consider it excellent. demic foundations and finding a greater role for No obvious themes emerged from members' com­ the history of science are not mutually exclusive. ments, but several made suggestions regarding •Easy way to renew and update Some of your suggestions are new (and welcome), location. Some wistfully requested more exciting membership details online whereas other ideas are already under considera­ and/or cheaper locations or warmer climates tion. For example the Executive Office is currently (though there was a general recognition of the •Onlne Donations working on an online forum - a discussion page costs involved). 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Some More Survey Thoughts Our last Web site upgrade was five years ago, What We Do (In Case You Were Wondering) and we appreciate suggestions for improvement. This summer, the HSS Web site, hssonline.org, is Survey results indicate that some of our members consid­ undergoing renovation. Navigation will be made er themselves subscribers, more than members. We would like easier and graphics and text better integrated our members to see themselves more as members of a profes­ and streamlined. Expect our new Web site to be sional society than just subscribers to HSS journals. Indeed, up and running early in September. Other Web membership of the HSS is much more than a subscription to improvements include the development of a Isis, Osiris, and the CB. Publication costs of those journals far Committee on Education quality mark for exceed membership fees for retirees, graduate students, and history-of-science-related Web sites. Sites that sponsored scholars - three groups that our regular members meet certain standards may place this quality staunchly support. Our members, with the support of our mark on their Web site, indicating that the endowment, subsidize rooms for graduate students at the information is reliable. annual meeting, cover the costs of administering travel As mentioned earlier, you have told us that grants to the annual meeting, and pay for a bibliographer, there are two areas of critical concern to you - executive director, managing editor, copy editors, information connecting beyond the community of histori­ manager, and six graduate research assistants. ans of science and academia and strengthening In addition to organizing the annual meeting, the HSS history of science within academia. Suggestions Executive Office produces the quarterly Newsletter, coordi­ such as "experts" willing to be called on topics of nates development efforts, handles the governance of our public interest as a way to guide journalists, many standing committees and prize committees, and orches­ strengthening links with scientists, traveling trates the HSS Web site, the sponsor-a-scholar program, inter­ exhibits in libraries, all are welcome. The HSS society relationships, the annual employment survey, and will continue to enhance what members feel many other activities. works well. Your responses to this survey will drive the HSS's planning. To best serve the inter­ ests of our members, we ask for your continued suggestions, responses, and participation as we ponder and act on your concerns. - Michal Meyer and Adrian Morse .~~~-~~

Volkswagen Foundation Grant Concludes By the Numbers Under its program "key themes in the humanities" the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover has sponsored a three­ Almost a third of Society members (756) we contacted via e-mail year collaborative research project under the title "Mysticism responded to the online survey, a wonderful response rate. (Readers should and Modernity." The project concludes this August with a con­ remember that this was a self-selected survey when reviewing the results.) More ference on "Experience and Image in Mysticism and Science" than 50% of respondents have joined the Society since 1990, with the biggest in Tiibingen. cohort (23.8%) joining in the 2000-2004 period. Many respondents reported Four professors and four postdoctoral fellows at Siegen membership in more than one society, with the AHA, AMS, the BSHS, and SHOT University in Germany and the University of Florida have been the most common societies in descending order. exploring ways in which enduring mystical themes have exist­ An overview of our members' education shows that the majority (45%) of ed historically in the western scientific tradition and continue respondents with Ph.D.s earned their degree in history of science. Interestingly, to do so even in areas of contemporary natural science. With 16% of Ph.D.s qualified in the natural sciences and mathematics, a greater individual projects and through regular workshops and con­ number than have their Ph.D.s in history (14%). Six percent received their ferences, participants have investigated three areas in which Ph.D.s in HPS or philosophy; smaller numbers received their degrees in the historical concerns with mystical themes have been evident in social sciences (4%) and education (2%). Eight percent listed "Other." natural science - in the general flourishing of nature mysti­ Sixty-five percent of respondents are employed full-time, 11 % are retired, and cism, and in the contemporary fields of the life sciences and 11 %are students. For comparison, the University of Chicago Press lists 16% of our the cyber world. First fruits of research associated with the total membership as retired and 16% as students. Eight percent work part time, 3% grant are available in Klaus Vondung and Ludwig Pfeiffer, are self-employed, and 2% are unemployed. Of the employed, the vast majority eds., jenseits der entzauberten Welt: Naturwissenscbaft (73%) work for a university, 8% work for a 4-year college, and small percentages und Mystik in der Moderne (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink (under 5%) work in business, pre-collegiate education, government, museums or Verlag, 2006), with more volumes planned in the future. archives, not-for-profits, healthcare, and private foundations. Sixty five percent of respondents are male, 34.1% female, with 0.9% prefer­ ring not to respond.

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