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AAASREPORT HSSEXECUTIVE A Larger Role for History of Science COMMITTEE PRESIDENT in Undergraduate Education STEPHEN G. BRUSH, University of Maryland NORRISS S. HETHERINGTON VICE-PRESIDENT Office for the History of Science and Technology, SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT, University of California, Berkeley University of Minnesota EXECU11VESECRETARY HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE have often been called to contribute to under­ MICHAEL M. SOKAL, Worcester graduate education. As HSS President Stephen G. Brush notes jNewsletter, Polytechnic Institute January 1990, pp. 1, 8-10), historically oriented science courses could be­ TREASURER come a valuable part of the core curriculum at many institutions, and fac­ MARY LOUISE GLEASON, New York City ulty at many colleges-especially science professors-have expressed strong EDITDR interest in using materials and perspectives from history of science. RONALD L. NUMBERS, University of We are now called again, this time by the American Association for the Wisconsin-Madison Advancement of Science. The Liberal Art of Science: Agenda for Action, published by the AAAS in May 1990, argues that science is one of the liberal The Newsletter of the History of Science arts and that it should be taught as such, as integrated into the totality of Society is published in January, April, July, and October. Regular issues are sent to individual human experience. This argument and advice may seem obvious to histori­ members of the Society who reside in North ans of science, but it is a revolutionary departure from tradition for many America. Airmail copies are sent to those scientists, and one that could transform both undergraduate education and members overseas who pay $5 yearly to cover postal costs: The Newsletter is available to the role of our discipline. nonmembers and institutions for $20 a year. Historians of science, with intellectual and cultural interests bridging the The Newsletter is overseen by a Steering ~ humanities and the sciences, clearly have a key role to play in the reform of Committee consisting of the President, the Executive Secretary, and the Editor of the His­ undergraduate education recommended by AAAS. Traditionally tugged be­ tory of Science Society. It is edited by the Execu­ tween the "two cultures," we used to meet in alternate years with scientists tive Secretary, Dr. Michael M. Sokal, and is produced at the Society's Publications Office AAAS Report continued on page 6 under the supervision of Dr. Frances Kohler. Send news items to Newsletter, History of Science Society, c/o Michael M. Sokal, 35 Dean Street, Worcester, MA 01609. The deadline for receipt of news is the fust of the month prior to publication, though urgent announcements will be accepted until the tenth of the month. Articles and other long pieces should be sub­ mitted at least two weeks before the first.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1990 ELECTION 2 BALLOT 5 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM 9 PREREGISTRATION AND Conference honors Thomas S. Kuhn: see RESERVATION FORMS 18 story, and other meeting reports, on page 24. Photograph by fehane R. Kuhn. page 2 History ofScience Society Newsletter

William B. Ashworth fr. Keith R. Benson Bruce Eastwood Robert A. Hatch Daniel P. !ones

and optics. Professional activities: THE 1990 HSS ELECTION HSS-Committee on Education, 1986- 89; Derek Price Award Committee, CANDIDATES' BIOGRAPHIES 1989-90, chair, 1990. Selected publica­ tions: Astronomy and Optics from FOR COUNCIL tee, Forum for the History of Science in Pliny to Descartes (Variorum, 1989); America, 1987-90. Founder and direc­ coauthor, Aratea: Kommentar zum Ara­ William B. Ashworth, Jr. tor, Columbia History of Science Group, tus des Germanic us, ms. Voss. lat. Q. 79 Associate Professor, Department of His­ 1983-present. Chair, Division of the (1989); "Plinian Astronomical Diagrams tory, University of Missouri-Kansas History and Philosophy of Biology, in the Early Middle Ages," in Mathe­ City; Consultant, History of Science, American Society of Zoologists, 1987- matics and Its Applications to Science Linda Hall Library. Ph.D., University of 89. Bookshelf Committee, [ournal of and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Wisconsin, 1975. Specialties: Renais­ the History of Biology, 1984-present. Ages, ed. E. Grant and J. Murdoch sance and seventeenth-century science; Editorial Board, History and Philosophy (Cambridge, 1987); "Plinian Astronomy natural history; astronomy; Jesuit sci­ of the Life Sciences, 1989-present. Se­ in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ence; scientific illustration; emblems of lected publications: editor (with Jane Science in the Early Roman Empire science. Professional activities: HSS ­ Maienschein and Ronald Rainger), The Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influ­ Program chair, 1989 Gainesville meet­ American Development of Biology ence, ed. R. French and F. Greenaw ing; Visiting Historian of Science, 1988- (Pennsylvania, 1988) and The American (Barnes & Noble, 1986). Current proj­ 90; Committee on Meetings and Pro­ Expansion of Biology (Rutgers, forth­ ect: "Before Copernicus: Solar Forces grams, 1989-91. Selected publications: corning); "From Museum Research to and Circumsolar Planets from Late "Natural History and the Emblematic Laboratory Research: The Transforma­ tiquity to the Twelfth Century." World View," in Reappraisals of the Sci­ tion of Natural History into Academic entific Revolution, ed. D. C. Lindberg Biology," in The American Develop­ Robert A. Hatch and R. Westman (Cambridge, 1990); ment of Biology; "Biology's Phoenix: Associate Professor of Histo~ of Sci­ "Light of Reason, Light of Nature: Historical Perspectives on the Impor­ ence, Department of History, University Catholic and Protestant Metaphors of tance of the Organism," American Zo­ of Florida. Ph.D., University of Wiscon­ Scientific Progress," Science in Context, ologist, 1989, 29:1067-1074; "Review sin, 1978. Specialties: Scientific Revolu­ 1990, 3(1):89-107; The Face of the Paper: The Naples Stazione Zoologica tion; French science; correspondence Moon: Galileo to Apollo (Linda Hall Li­ and Its Impact on the Emergence of networks and informal societies. Profes­ brary, 1989); "Iconography for a New American Marine Biology," foumal of sional activities: HSS-Local Arrange­ Physics," History and Technology, the History of Biology, 1988, 21:331- ments cochair, 1989 Gainesville meet­ 1987, 4:263-293; "Catholicism ·and 341; "Laboratories on the New England ing; Program cochair, 1983 Norwalk Early Modem Science," in God and Na­ Shore: The Somewhat Different Direc­ meeting; National Committee, Visiting ture: Historical Essays on the Encoun­ tion of American Marine Biology," New Historians of Science Program, 1986- ter between Christianity and Science, England Quarterly, 1988, 56:53-78; 88; Watson Davis Prize Committee, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. L. Numbers "The Journal of Morphology as Window 1985-86 chair, 1986; Committee on (California, 1986); [esuit Science in the and Mirror: Reflections and Glimpses Meetings and Programs, 1988- 90; Com­ Age of Galileo (Linda Hall Library, on the Birth of American Biology," fom­ mittee on Education, 1988-90; Com­ 1986). nal of Morphology, 1987, 194:221- 234. mittee on the Quincentennial. Advisory Current project: a book on the role of Board Intematiooa.l Conference on His- Keith R. Benson marine biology stations (MBL, Scripps, tory and Philosop Science in Edu- Associate Professor of Medical History Hopkins Marine Station, Friday Harbor cation, 1990-93_ History • Science Edi­ and Ethics, University of Washington. Laboratories) in the growth of American tor, The Eighteenth ,... n Gun Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1979. biology from 1880 to 1915. Bibliography. Selected puhliations: Specialties: history of American sci­ The Collection Boulliau ·entory ence; nineteenth-century American bi­ Bruce Eastwood (American Philosophical S 1982). ology; history of marine biology. Profes­ Professor of History, University of Ken­ Current projects: A caien

Peggy Aldrich Kidwell David Kohn Pamela E. Mack Theodore M. Porter Spencer R. Weart

Daniel P. Jones David Kohn role of science education and women in Program Officer for Humanities, Sci­ Oxnam Professor of Science and Society science in the American scientific com­ ence, and Technology, Division of Re­ and Chair of the Graduate Program in munity, 1837-1940, using Mount Hol­ search Programs, National Endowment Nineteenth-Century Studies, Drew yoke College as the primary case study for the Humanities. Ph.D., University of University. Ph.D., University of Massa­ (with Miriam Levin). Wisconsin, 1969. Specialties: nine­ chusetts, 1976. Specialties: Charles teenth- and twentieth-century chemis­ Darwin; science and Victorian culture; Theodore M. Porter try; history of American science, tech­ science and religion; nineteenth-cen­ Associate Professor of History, Univer­ nology, and medicine. Professional tury life sciences. Selected publications: sity of Virginia. Ph.D., Princeton Uni­ activities: AAHM-Committee on De­ editor, The Darwinian Heritage (Prince­ versity, 1981. Specialties: history of sta­ velopment, 1987-881 William H. Welch ton, 1985); editor, Charles Darwin's tistics and quantification; social and Medal Committee, 1989-90. Selected Notebooks, 1836-1844 (Cornell, 1987); political uses of science in modem Eu­ publications: "From Military to Civil­ "Darwin's Ambiguity: The Seculariza­ rope and America. Selected publica­ ian Technology: The Introduction of tion of Biological Meaning," British tions: The Rise of Statistical Thinking, Tear Gas for Civil Riot Control," Tech­ Journal for the History of Science, 1989, 1820-1900 (P.rinceton, 1986); coauthor, nology and Culture, 1978, 19:151-168; 22:215-239. Current project: a book on The Empire of Chance: How Probabil­ "American Chemists and the Geneva early Victorian belief, romanticism, and ity Changed Science and Everyday Life Protocol," Isis, 1980, 71:426-4401 Charles Darwin's intellectual develop­ (Cambridge, 1989); "The Promotion of "Chemical Warfare Research during ment. Mining and the Advancement of Sci­ World War I and Its Impact on American ence: The Chemical Revolution of Min­ Chemistry," in Chemistry and Modern Pamela E. Mack eralogy," Annals of Science, 1981', Society, ed. J. Parascandola and J. Whor­ Associate Professor of History of Tech­ 38:543-570; "Lawless Society: Social ton (American Chemical Society, 1983). nology and Science, Department of His­ Science and the Reinterpretation of Sta­ Current project: initiation of NEH tory, Clemson University. Ph.D., Uni­ tistics in Gernii.my, 1850- 1880," in The grants for Guided Studies of Great Texts versity of Pennsylvania, 1983. Probabilistic Revolution, Vol. I, ed. L. in Science, designed to make primary Specialties: history of the U.S. space Kriiger, L. J. Daston, and M. Heidelber­ sources in the history of science more program; history of women in American ger (MIT, 1987)1 "Natural Science and accessible to students and general read­ science; history of technology. Profes· Social Theory," in Companion to the ers. sional activities: HSS - Committee on History of Modern Science, ed. R. Olby Independent Scholars, chair, 1987-90; et al. (Routledge, 1990). Current project: Committee on Women, cochair, 1990- a book on the uses of quantification in Peggy Aldrich Kidwell 91. Coordinating Committee, Forum for public life. Statement: The Society Specialist, Section of Mathematics, Na­ the History of Science in America, should work to strengthen ties to neigh­ tional Museum of American History, 1987-90. SHOT -Executive Council, boring disciplines and to give history of Smithsonian Institution. Ph.D., Yale 1989-921 Program Committee, 1986- science more public exposure. University, 1979. Specialties: history of 88, chair, 19871 Editor (for space), news­ astrophysics; role of women in science; letter of the Albatrosses (special interest Spencer R. Weart history of computing. Professional ac­ group for aerospace history), 1985-pres­ Director, Center for History of Physics tivities: fellowships from the American ent. Selected publications: Viewing the at the American Institute of Physics. Philosophical Society, the American In­ Earth: The Social Construction of the Ph.D., University of ColDrado, 1968. stitute of Physics, and the Smithsonian Landsat Satellite System (MIT, 1990); Specialties: modem physics; nuclear en­ Institution. Selected publications: "Straying from Their Orbits: Women in ergy; archives. Professional activities: "Prelude to Solar Energy: Pouillet, Her­ Astronomy," in Women of Science: HSS - Council, 1980-831 Treasurer, schel, Forbes, and the Solar Constant," Righting the Record, ed. G. Kass-Simon 1984-871 Committee on Finances and Annals of Science, 1981, 38:457-476; and P. Fames (Indiana, 1990); "Review Committee on Development, 1987- "Women Astronomers in Britain, 1780- Essay: Space History," Technology and present. 4S - Council, 1980-83. Associ­ 1930," Isis, 1984, 75:534-546; "Ameri­ Culture, 1989, 30:657-6651 "Satellites ate Editor, Historical Studies in the can Scientists and Calculating Ma­ and Politics: Weather, Communica­ Physical and Biological Sciences, 1982- chines,'' Annals of the History of Com­ tions, and Earth Resources," in A Space­ present. Fulbright Scholar Committee, puting, 1990, 12:31-40. Current project: faring People: Perspectives on Early 1987- present. Selected publications: "Landmarks in the History of Digital Space Flight, ed. A. Roland (NASA, "A. Einstein, 1879- 1979" (traveling ex­ Computing." 1985). Current project: a study of the hibit, with J. Warnow, 1979)1 "Sources page 4 History ofScience Society Newsletter

fohn Beatty Richard W Burkhardt, Jr. Frederick Gregory Lynn S. foy for History of Modem Astrophysics" ualty Commission, 1947-1956," in The chair, 1989 Gainesville meeting; Com­ (microfilm collection, with D. De­ American Expansion of Biology, ed. mittee on Meetings and Programs, Vorkin, 1981); Scientists in Power (Har­ K. R. Benson, J. Maienschein, and R. 1982-86; Committee on Honors and vard, 1979); Nuclear Fear: A History of Rainger (Rutgers, forthcoming). Current Prizes, chair, 1984-87; Nominating Images (Harvard, 1988). Current proj­ project: a book on genetics and evolu­ Committee, 1986; Committee on Pro­ ects: history of solid state physics, espe­ tionary biology in the context of the grams and Priorities, 1988; Visiting His­ cially social organization; history of atomic age-a study of an intercon­ torian of Science, 1988-S9; Committee modem geophysics, especially climatol­ nected set of conceptual, methodologi­ on Publications, 1989-93. Selected pub­ ogy. Statement: As a former Treasurer cal, and social policy issues facing ge­ lications: "Romantic Kantianism and of the Society, I take particular interest neticists and evolutionary biologists in the End of the Newtonian Dream in in budgetary and financial matters. The the 1940s-1960s. Chemistry," Archives lntemationales many opportunities the Society has for d'Histoire des Sciences, 1984, 34:108- helping historians of science can be re­ Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. 123; "The Impact of Darwinian Evolu­ alized only if enough of us pay close at­ Professor, Department of History; Affili­ tion on Protestant Theology in the tention to the details of raising funds ate, Department of Ecology, Ethology, Nineteenth Century," in God ana ·a­ and carefully spending them. and Evolution, University of Illinois at ture, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. L -lum­ Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D., Harvard bers (California, 1986); "Kant s InHu­ University, 1972. Specialties: history of ence on Natural Science in the German FOR NOMINATING biology; history of the study of animal Romantic Period," in New Trends the COMMITTEE, behavior. Professional activities: HSS ­ History of Science, ed. R. Visser Reidel, FROM COUNCIL Council, 1989-91; Schuman Prize Com­ 1988); "Kant, Schelling, and the Admin­ mittee, 1976, chair, 1979. NSF Panel on istration of Science in the German Ro­ John Beatty the History and Philosophy of Science, mantic Era," Osiris, N.S., 1989, 5:1~- Associate Professor of the History of 1985-88. Coeditor, Oxford Monographs 35; editor of J. F. Fries, Knowledge, Be­ Science and Technology, Department of in History and Philosophy of Biology. lief, and Aesthetic Sense (Dinter, 1989 . Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Uni­ Selected publications: The Spirit of Sys­ Current projects: "Nature Lost: Ger­ versity of Minnesota; Member, Minne­ tem: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biol­ man Natural Science and Theology in sota Center for Philosophy of Science. ogy (Harvard, 1977); "The Development the Nineteenth Century.'' Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979. Spe­ of an Evolutionary Ethology," in Evolu­ cialties: history and philosophy of biol­ tion from Molecules to Men, ed. D. S. Lynn S. Joy ogy, nineteenth and twentieth centu­ Bendall (Cambridge, 1983); "Darwin on Associate Professor of Philosophy and ries; biology and society. Profes~ional Animal Behavior and Evolution," in The Associate Professor of History, Univer­ activities: HSS-Council, 1988, 1990- Darwinian Heritage, ed. D. Kohn sity of Notre Dame. Ph.D., Harvard 92; Committee on Research and the (Princeton, 1985); "Charles Otis Whit­ University, 1982. Specialties: Renais­ Profession. AAAS-Member at Large, man, Wallace Craig, and the Biological sance science and philosophy; physical Section L, 1990-92. Selected publica­ Study of Behavior in America, 1898- and biological sciences in the seven­ tions: "Dobzhansky and Drift: Facts, 1924," in The American Development teenth century; contemporary philoso­ Values, and Chance in Evolutionary Bi­ of Biology, ed. R. Rainger, K. R. Benson, phy of science. Professional activities: ology," in The Probabilistic Revolution, and J. Maienschein (Pennsylvania, HSS-Council 1990--92; Schuman Prize Vol. II, ed. L. KrUger, G. Gigerenzer, and 1988). Current project: a book on the Committee, 1987--88, chair, 1988. Se­ M. S. Morgan (MIT, 1987); "Weighing emergence of ethology as a scientific lected publications: Gassendi the Ato­ the Risks: Stalemate in the Classical/ discipline in the twentieth century. mist: Advocate History in an Age of Balance Controversy," Journal of the Science (Cambridge 1987 - The Con­ History of Biology, 1987, 20:289-319; Frederick Gregory flict of Mechanisms and Its Empiricist "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Associate Professor of History of Sci­ Outcome," Monist, 1988 7 1:49&--514; the War and Postwar Years: Questions ence, Department of History, University "Rival Renaissance Atornisms and the and Comments," ibid., 1988, 21:245- of Florida. Ph.D., Harvard University, Making of an Epicurean Tradition," in 263; coauthor, The Empire of Chance: 1973. Specialties: science in Germany; The Cambridge History of Seventeenth­ How Probability Changed Science and science and religion; eighteenth- and Century Philosophy, ed. M. Ayers and Everyday Life, by G. Gigerenzer et al. nineteenth-century science. Profes­ D. Garber (Cambridge, forthcoming). (Cambridge, 1989); "Genetics in the sional activities: HSS - Council, 1981- Current project: "Frameworks of Expe­ Atomic Age: The Atomic Bomb Cas- 84, 1989- 91; Local Arrangements co- rience in Late Renaissance Learning," a Jaly 1990 page 5

Reception of Chemical Atomism in Germany," Isis, 1979, 70:519-536; "At­ oms and Equivalents: The Early Devel­ opment of the Chemical Atomic The­ ory," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 1978, 9:225-263.

Katharine Park Alan f. Rocke Loren Graham FOR NOMINATING COMMITTEE, FROM THE study of the cultural contexts in which Alan J. Rocke SOCIETY AT LARGE nature was reconceived during the six­ Associate Professor, Program in History teenth and seventeenth centuries. of Science and Technology, Case West­ Loren Graham em Reserve University. Ph.D., Univer­ Professor of the History of Science, Katharine Park sity of Wisconsin, 1975. Specialties: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chair and Associate Professor of His­ nineteenth- and twentieth-century Visiting Professor of the History of Sci­ tory, Wellesley College. Ph.D., Harvard chemistry, atomic theory, structure the­ ence, Harvard University. Ph.D., Co­ University, 1981. Specialties: medieval ory. Professional activities: HSS-Coun­ lumbia l}niversity, 1964. Specialties: and Renaissance medicine, psychology, cil, 1990-92; Local Arrangements chair, history ol science in Russia and the So­ and natural philosophy. Professional ac­ 1988 Cincinnati meeting; Derek Price viet Union; social relations of science. tivities: HSS-Council, 1990-92. Ren­ Award Committee, 1987-89. President, Professional activities: HSS-Council, aissance Society of America-Council, Midwest Junto, 1987-88. Director, 1973-75; Nominating Committee, 1988-present; Program Committee, Michelson-Morley Centennial Sympos­ 1975; Representative to Section L, 1987-89. Selected publications: Doctors ium, 1987. Board of Advisors and Coun­ AAAS, 1990-92; Visiting Historian of and Medicine in Early Renaissance cil, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Science, 1985-87; HS5-SHOT Joint Florence (Princeton, 1985); (with Lor­ Northeast Ohio. Selected publications: Planning Committee, 1989-present; raine J. Daston), "Unnatural Concep­ Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Advisory Editor, Isis, 1976-80. Editorial tions: Monsters in Sixteenth- and Sev­ Century: From Dalton to Cannizzaro Board, Science, Technology, and Hu­ enteenth-Century France and England," (Ohio State, 1984); "Methodology and man Values, 1979-88. Advisory Editor, Past and Present, 1981, 92:20-54; "Ba­ Its Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century Social Studies of Science, 1980-present. con's Enchanted 'Glass,'" Isis, 1984, Chemistry," in The Schofield Fest­ Advisory Editor, Zeitschrift fiir Wissen­ 75:290- 302; "The Organic Soul," in The schrift, ed. E. Garber (Lehigh, 1990); schaftsforschung, 1983-present. Advi­ Cambridge History of Renaissance Phi­ "Kekule's Benzene Theory and the Ap­ sory Committee, Office of Science and losophy, ed. C. B. Schmitt et al. (Cam­ praisal of Scientific Theories," in Scruti­ Society, NSF, 1978- 80. Member, Coun­ bridge, 1988). Current projects: medical nizing Science, ed. A. Donovan et al. cil of Scholars, Library of Congress, practice and organization in Italian Ren­ (Reidel, 1988); "Hypothesis and Experi­ 1981-82. Chair, Joint Committee on So­ aissance hospitals; wonders and anoma­ ment in the Early Development of Kek­ viet Studies of Social Science Research lies in natural history and natural phi­ ule's Benzene Theory," Annals of Sci­ Council, 1986-89. Corresponding Mem­ losophy, 1500-1720 (with L. J. Daston). ence, 1985, 42:355--381; "The ber, Academie Intemationale d'Histoire

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The Society notes with regret the death of Francis C. Haber, at age 69, on 11 March 1990, in Washington, D.C.

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and with historians. More recently, our Albert Van Heiden Martha H. Verbrugge Mary P. (Polly) Winsor professional interests have focused more on our ties with the humanities, des Sciences. Chair, US-USSR Subcom­ vard University, 1978. Specialties: his­ and our humanist colleagues have mission on History and Philosophy of tory of American science and medicine, learned to look to us to help them close Science, American Council of Learned especially women's health and medical the gap between these cultures. Now, as Societies and Social Science Research care. Professional activities: HSS­ scientists increasingly appreciate the Council, 1987-present. Selected publi­ Council, 1988-90; Committee on Edu­ crucial importance of the history of sci­ cations: Between Science and Values cation, 1988-90. Selected publications: ence in science education, we can once (Columbia, 198n; coeditor, Functions "Knowledge and Power: The History of again help our scientist colleagues build and Uses of Disciplinary History (Rei­ Health and Physical Education for the connections between the humani­ del, 1983); coeditor, Red Star: The First Women in America," in The History of ties and the sciences that they seek. Bolshevik Science Utopia (Indiana, Women, Health, and Medicine: An En­ As the AAAS report stresses, educa­ 1984); Science, Philosophy, and Human cyclopedic Handbook, ed. R. Apple tion in science is more than the trans­ Behavior in the Soviet Union (Colum­ (Garland, forthcoming); Able-Bodied mission of factual information. Science bia, 1987); editor, Science and the Womanhood: Personal Health and So­ education should emphasize the nature Soviet Social Order (Harvard, 1990); cial Change in Nineteenth-Century of scientific understanding, integrative "Russian and Soviet Science and Tech­ Boston (Oxford, 1988); "Emma Perry concepts, and the context of science. nology," in Teaching in the History of Carr, 1880-1972," in Notable American The teaching of science must explore Science (HSS, 1989); "Toward a New Women: The Modern Period, ed. B. the interplay between science and the Era in U.S.-Soviet Relations," Issues in Sicherman and C. H. Green (Harvard, intellectual and cultural traditions Science and Technology (Fall1989); 1980); "Women and Medicine in Nine­ within which it is firmly embedded. "Adapting to New Technologies," in So­ teenth-Century America," Signs, 1976, Science has a history that can demon- viet Social Problems, ed. T. A. Jones et 1:957-972. Current project: women and strate relationships between science and IIIJIIIfl al. (Westview, 1990). Current project: a the professionalization of physical edu­ the wider world of ideas and can illumi- survey history of Russian science during cation in America, 1880--1980. nate contemporary issues. Liberal edu- the last two centuries. cation in the sciences must provide stu- dents with linkages to the real world by Mary P. (Polly) Winsor exploring values inherent in science, by Albert Van Heiden examining institutions that set direc- Associate Professor and Director, Insti­ Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History, tions for science, and by stressing the tute for the History and Philosophy of Rice University. Ph.D., University of choices that scientists, citizens, and Science and Technology, University of London (Imperial College), 1970. Spe­ governments make about science in hu­ Toronto. Ph.D., Yale University, 1971. cialties: history of astronomy; Scientific .C--~__1.....!..-- l...... • .manlives. This i_s where _historians of Jaly 1990 page 7

nator, Department of History, Univer­ NEWS OF THE SOCIETY sity of Vermont, Wheeler House, Bur­ lington, VT 05405; (802) 656-3180. Grant from Pfizer, Inc. science, history of biology, or science and society. CoE thanks all HSS mem­ 1991 Annual Meeting Pfizer, Inc., the worldwide research­ bers who have already responded. If you The 1991 HSS Annual Meeting will be based company that has long supported have not yet sent your course material, held in Madison, Wisconsin, from HSS in many ways-including, since please do not delay. And if you have not Thursday, 31 October, through Sunday, 1958, its subvention of the Pfizer yet received the committee's initial 3 November. It will run concurrently Award-has again proved to be one of mailing about the Syllabus Project, the Society's best friends. In July 1990 it please contact Henry J. Steffens, Coordi- Continued on next page will grant $5,000 to the Society to sup­ port a full evaluation of all aspects of Committee on Meetings and Programs the Society's publications program, in­ cluding Isis, Osiris, the HSS Newsletter, At its meeting in Gainesville, the Committee on Meetings and Programs discussed the Current Bibliography, the Guide to the desirability of canvasing Society members on such issues as the timing and loca­ the History of Science, all occasional tion of annual meetings and the frequency of joint meetings with the American His­ publications, and the HSS Publications torical Association, the Society for the History of Technology, and other societies. Office at the University of Pennsylva­ We ask you to take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire so that CoMP can nia. This study will be carried out by take your views into account as it plans future meetings. Barbara Meyers, one of the founders of Membership status: Member since 19__ ; current status: regular/student/retired the Society for Scholarly Publishing, who has already begun to talk with the What meetings have you attended in the last ten years? If you cannot remember, please do editors of all HSS publications and has not guess. (Circle your response.) scheduled visits to their offices. She 1980 Toronto, October, four societies Yes No will report the results of her analysis to 1981 Los Angeles, December, with AHA Yes No the Committee on Publications later 1982 Philadelphia, October, four societies Yes No this summer, and it will meet to con­ 1983 Norwalk, October, HSS only Yes No sider her recommendations early in Sep­ 1984 Chicago, December, with AHA Yes No tember. In October the Council will re­ 1985 Bloomington, October- November, HSS only Yes No view the results of this survey at its 1986 Pittsburgh, October, four societies Yes No Seattle meeting. 1987 Raleigh, October-November, with SHar Yes No 1988 Cincinnati, December, with AHA Yes No HSS Election Procedures 1989 Gainesville, October, HSS only Yes No The Executive Secretary has received no What meetings do you expect to attend? additional comments about the three 1990 Seattle, October, HSS only Yes No election procedures currently being con­ 1991 Madison, October, with SHar Yes No sidered by the Council (see HSS News­ 1992 Washington, D .C., December, with AHA Yes No letter, January 1990, p. 2, and April 1993 Santa Fe, early November, HSS only Yes No 1990,-p. 2). In addition, the April issue 1994 · Midwest or ~ October,. four societies Yes No. neglected to note that Nathan Reingold explicitly wished to have his comments How would you alter frequencies in the current meeting pattern if you could? on these procedures read as those of a {Circle your response.) past candidate for presidency nominated Fall meetings {on university campuses or in small cities) as a single society or by petition. with SHOT: increase decrease leave as is Fall four-society meetings: increase decrease leave as is Committee on Education Winter meetings with AHA: increase decrease leave as is The Committee on Education has be­ Meetings in the East: increase decrease leave as is gun its Syllabus Project, intended to Meetings in the Midwest: increase decrease leave as is collect syllabi, writing assignments, ex­ amination questions, and bibliographies Meetings in the West: increase decrease leave as is from as many courses in and related to What time of year do you prefer? Please rank in order of preference {1 = first choice). the history of science as possible. CoE ___ October- November December Other {please specify) plans and has initial funding to publish the results of the project. Publication will proceed in two stages: first, a col­ Remarks: ______~~--~--~------~---- lection of about twenty-five syllabi rep­ resenting the broad range of history of science courses taught by HSS mem­ bers; second, collections on more spe­ Please return by 30 September 1990 to John W. Servos, Department of History, Amherst cialized topics, for example, women in College, Amherst, MA 01002. page 8 History ofSdence Sodety Newsletter

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Lyot and the Coronagraph, 1929-1939: Karl Huf!Jauer, History of Science Society University of California at Irvine Annual Meeting Exploring the Rocket Ultraviolet in Postwar Astrophysics: Bruce Hevly, University of Washington Is a Radio Telescope a Telescope? The Instruments and 2~28 October 1990 Claims of Early Radio Astronomy and Their Acceptance by Astronomers: Woodruff T. Sullivan ill,· University of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza Washington Seattle, Washington Commentator: Peter Galison, Stanford University

1990 Program Committee Friday, 26 October Peter Galison, Stanford University Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University HSS Committee on Research and the Profession: Breakfast Meeting 1990 Local Arrangements Committee 7:00 a.m.-9:00a.m. Keith Benson, University of Washington, Chair Forum for the History of Science in America: Breakfast Meeting Please report errors or corrections to nmothy Lenoir, Program in 7:30 a.m.--8:30a.m. History of Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, before 31 August 1990. 3. Workshop on 'leaching Gender and Science: Approaches and Thpics for Courses in the History of Science, Thchnology, Registration (tentative) and Medicine Thursday, 25 Octr;>bc.r, 4:00 p,¥1.~.1 0:00p.m, Sponsored by the HSS Committee on Women and Friday, 26 October, 8:30 a.m.-6;00 p.m. Committee on Education Saturday, 27 October, 8:30 a.m.-3:00p.m. 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Thursday, 25 October Chair: Leslie Burlingame, • Franklin and Marshall College Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin at Madison HSS Executive Committee Meeting Ruth Schwartz Cow~, State University of New York at 11:00 a.m.-l2:00 noon Stony Brook Ann Fausto-Sterling, Brown University HSS Council Buffet Luncheon Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota 12:00 noon-1:00p.m. Carolyn Merchant, UniveJsity of California at Berkeley Margaret Rossiter, Cornell University HSS Council Meeting Londa Schiebinger, Pennsylvania State University 1:00p.w,,-"7:()(J p.m. 4. New Bottles for Old Wine: Changing Perspectives on the Opening Reception Evolutionary Synthesis 5:30 p.rp.--8:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Chair: Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, * University of Florida and 1. New Challenges to the Historiography of Science Stanford University 8:00 p.m.-..,9!45 p.m. Julian Huxley and the Unijlcatipn ~ BiQlQW: Vassiliki Chair: Stephen C. Brush,* University of Maryland at Betty Smocovitis College Park Macroevolution and the Bvolutionazy Syntbe:~i&: Mark Construct or Context: Evaluating the New Historidgraphy: Adams, University of Pennsylvania Carolyn Merchant, University of California at Berkeley The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution and the Michel Foucault as Historian (Jj Science: Gary. Gutting, Evolutionazy SNnthesi~: William Provine, Cornell University of Notre Dame University Commentator: David A. Hollinger, Univexsity of Michigan Commentator: Garland Allen, Washington Un\versity at St. Louis 2. Science and Practice: Artificial Revelation in Modem Astronomy 5. Perspectives on Plato's Timaeus 8:00 p.m.-9:45p.m. 8:30a.m.-10:15 a.m. Chair: John Lankford, University of Missouri at Columbia Chair and commentator: Michael White, Arizona State Redshifts and Rotations: V. M. Slipher and the M~tezy of University Spectrographic Technique: Robert W. Smith, Johns Hopkins A Statement of the Limitations, Misunderstandings, and University and Smithsonian Institution 'Iloubling Doctrines of the Medieval Tunaeus: Paul Dl,ltton, • Session organizers are indicated by an asterisk. Simon Fraser University page 10 Histo~t of Science Society Newsletter

Friday, session 5--continued 9. Science and Romanticism 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Plato's Timaeus: Cosmological Myth and Political Chair: Trevor Levere, • University of Toronto Metaphor: Wilbur Knorr, • Stanford University Goethean Law and Order: Myles W. Jackson, University of The Platonic Element in Early Medieval Astronomy: Bruce Cambridge Eastwood, University of Kentucky From Enlightenment to Naturphilosophie: fohann Christian The Timaeus among the Neoplatonists: Cosmology, Reiland the Berlin Circle of Marcus and Henriette Herz: Psychology, and Theology: Steven K. Strange, University LeAnn Hansen LeRoy, California State University at of Pittsburgh Fullerton 6. Science and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century France Circumscribing Science: Romantic Naturphilosophie and 8:30a.m.-10:15 a.m. the Physics of Sidereal Man: Stuart Strickland, Harvard University Chair: Mordechai Feingold, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Romantic Science: Tohann Wilhelm Ritter and the Study of Animal Electricity: Maria Trumpler, Yale University Peiresc and the Patronage of Science in Seventeenth­ Century France: Lisa Sarasohn, • Oregon State University When Facts Speak for Themselves: Spirit Phenomena and the Spirit of Science in Antebellum America: Chris Shanks, Patronage in Seventeenth-Century French Science: The San Diego State University Founding of the Academie Royale: David S. Lux, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Faustian Phenomena: Empirical Teleology in Goethe's Bioscience: John F. Cornell, University of Chicago Descartes in Social Context: Roger Ariew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 10. Gender and Academic Patronage: Student-Mentor Commentator: Martha Rose Baldwin, Independent Scholar Collaborative Relationships 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 7. Cognitive Approaches to the History of Science and Organizer: Pnina Abir-Am, Stanfoni University Thchnology 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Chair: Dorinda Outram, University College, London Chair: Bernard Carlson, • University of Virginia Collaborative Relationships between Male and Female Scientists in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s: Ann Hibner Faraday's Memory: Ryan Tweney, Bowling Green State University Koblitz, Hartwick College Lise Meitner's Mentors: Ludwig Boltzmann at the Mental Models and Mechanical Representations: A University of Vienna and Max Planck at the Kaiser Wilhelin Cognitive Reconstruction of How Alexander Graham Bell Institute in Berlin: Ruth Sirne, Sacramento City College Invented the Telephone: Bernard Carlson; Michael Gorman, University of VIrginia European and American Mentors of American Women Reuniting Mind and Body: The Role of Sensuous Scientists at the Naples Zoological Station: Jan Sloan, Technology in the Chemical Revolution: Lissa Roberts, San Independent Scholar Diego State University What Makes Science Possible~ African-American Women Commentator: Ronald N. Giere, University of Minnesota Scientists: Evelyn Hammonds, Harvard University Friend or Foe: The Academic Mentors of Women Scientists 8. The Impact of Quantum Field Theory at Canadian Universities, 1890-1940: Marianne Ainley, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Conconiia University Chair: Max Dresden, • Stanford University and Stanford Commentators: Stephen G. Brush, University of Maryland Linear Accelerator Center at College Park; Margaret Rossiter, Cornell University Spontaneous Breaking of Symmetry: Its Rediscovery and Integration in Quantum Field Theory: Laurie Brown, 11. National Styles in Paleontology Northwestern University 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Historical Interplay between Statistical Mechanics and Chair and commentator: Martin J. S. Rudwick, University Quantum Field Theory: Max Dresden of California at San Diego A Historical Perspective on Perturbation Ideas in Quantum The Development of American Paleontology: Ronald Mechanics: Martin Gutzwiller, IBM Watson Laboratory, Rainger, Texas Tech University Yorktown, New York H. F. Osborn and the Development of Canadian Paleontology: Gale Avrith, * Royal Ontario Museum, Historical Development of Renormalization Ideas: Silvan S. Toronto Schweber, Dibner Institute and Brandeis University Uniformitarianism and Unity in American Historical • Session organizers are indicated by an asterisk. Geology, 1922-1933: Naomi Oreskes, Dartmouth College ~90 page 11

12. Money, Manpower, and Machines: The Rise of American Unity of Science: \-Jennese Positivism versus American Geophysics as Big Science Operationalism: Nancy Cartwright, Stanford University 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The Construction of Modernism: The Vienna Circle and Chair: Spencer R. Weart, American Institute of Physics, Bauhaus Architecture: Peter Galison, • Stanford University New York 16. Works in Progress: Chemistry Science as Good Business: The International Geophysical 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Year and the Rise of Big Science in Geophysics: Ron Doel, • American Institute of Physics, New York Chair: John Servos, Amherst College Compartmentalization in Big Geophysics: Research on Antoine Lavoisier, Academician: Arthur Donovan, United Artificial Radiation Belts, 1958-1962: James H. Capshew, States Merchant Marine Academy Indiana University The Structure and Philosophy of Group Research: August New Instruments, New Opportunities: The Migration of Wilhelm von Hofmann's Laboratory Research Program in American Astronomers to Geophysics, 1946-1958: David London and Berlin: Michael Keas, University of Oklahoma DeVorkin, Smithsonian Institution Priestley and Lavoisier: The Industrious Production and Commentator: Robert W. Smith, Johns Hopkins University Aesthetic Resolution of Facts: Alfred Nordmann, University and Smithsonian Institution of South Carolina fames Hutton and Phlogiston: Douglas Allchin, University 13. Fieldwork in the Nineteenth and 1\ventieth Centuries of Chicago 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Prior History and Aftereffects: Nachwirkung and Hysteresis Chair and commentator: Henrika Kuklick, University of in Nineteenth-Century Physics: Matthias Dorries, Pennsylvania University of California at Berkeley Empire and Expeditions: The Politics and Culture of Eclipse Observation in India, 1868- 1898: Alex Pang, • University of HSS Committee on Minority Affairs: Luncheon Pennsylvania 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. The Modeling of the Grasslands: Chunglin Kwa, University HSS Committee on Honors and Prizes: Luncheon of Amsterdam 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Kuru Fieldwork: A Strange Case of Medical Science Cannibalizing Anthropology: Warwick Anderson, HSS Committee on Independent Scholars: Luncheon University of Pennsylvania 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Reconstructing Research Practices in Vegetation Science: This session is open to all interested HSS members The Exploration of Field Notebooks: Kaat Schulte HSS Business Meeting Fischedick, University of Amsterdam 1:00 p.m.-2:00p.m. 14. Beyond Historical Impressionism: Testing Theories of 17. Race and Gender in Science Scientific Change 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. 10:30a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Chair: Londa Schiebinger, • Pennsylvania State University Chair: Frank Sulloway, * Massachusetts Institute of Technology Savage Mothers: Nature, Science, and Eighteenth-Century The Limits of Scientific Reasoning: Implications for the Narratives of Maternity: Felicity Nussbaum, Syracuse History and Philosophy of Science: David Faust, University University of Rhode Island The Anatomy of Difference: Sex and Race in Eighteenth­ Orthodoxy and Innovation in Science: A Multivariate Century Science: Londa Schiebinger Analysis: Frank Sulloway The Dissection of Race and Gender in the Nineteenth A Repository for More Than Anecdote or Chronology: Century: Ann Fausto-Sterling, Brown University History of Science as the Science of Science: Rachel Laudan, Commentator: Cynthia Smith, Smith College University of Hawaii Commentator: David Hull, Northwestern University 18. New Perspectives on the Evolutionary Synthesis: The Work of George Gaylord Simpson 15. The Cultural Context of the Vienna Circle 2:00 p.m.-3:45p.m . 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Chair: Ronald Rainger,* Texas Tech University Chair and commentator: Margaret Morrison, University of Setting the Record Straight: Simpson's Interest in Mega­ Toronto Evolution: Joseph Allen Cain, University of Minnesota Carnap's Engineering Conception of Philosophy: Richard Creath, Arizona State University paJe 12 History of Science Society Newsletter

Friday, session 18-continued 22. Running the Manhattan Project: Conant, Graves, and Szilard The Grand S}'llthesis: G. G. Simpson and The Meaning of 2:00 p.m.-3:45p.m. Evolution: Mark Swetlitz, University of Chicago Chair: Martin Sherwin, Tufts University G. G. Simpson as Mentor and Apologist for Aloof But Not Oblivious: [ames B. Conant, Manhattan Paleoanthropology: Uo Laporte, University of California at Proiect Scientists, and Controlling the Atomic Bomb, Santa Cruz 1944-1945: James Hershberg, Tufts University Commentator: Michael Ruse, University of Guelph Groves and the Scientists: Compartmentalization and the Struggle to Build the Bomb: Stanley Goldberg, • Independent 19. Naturalizing the Economy and Economizing Nature in Scholar Victorian Scientific Culture Cosponsored by the Forum for History of Human Science Running Down the Manhattan Pro;ect: Leo Szilard's Efforts 2:00 p.m.-3:45p.m. to Build and Ban the Bomb: William Lanouette, Independent Scholar Chair: Silvan S. Schweber, Dibner Institute and Brandeis University Commentators: Martin Sherwin; Thomas L. Hankins, University of Washington Managers of Work and Waste: The Philosophical Sooiety of Glasgow and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Norton 23. Works in Progress: Science and Power Wise, University of California at Los Angeles 2:00 p.m.-3:4S p.m. Economic Man, Economic Machine: Images of Circulation Chair and commentator: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State in the \-lctorian Money Market: Timothy Alborn, Harvard University University Ethel Browne, Hans Spemann, and the Discovery of the fohn Stuart Mill and the Natural! Artificial Distinction: Organizer: Howard M. Lenhoff, University of California at Margaret Schabas, • University of Wisconsin at Madison Irvine Commentator: Theodore Porter, University of VIrginia Carter Administration Responses to Genetic Engineering: Edward Larson, University of Gemgia 20. The Book of Nature: New Perspectives on Printing and Early Modem Science The Year 1846147 in Harvard Science: A Study of Documents and Events: Clark A. Elliott, Harvard University 2:00 p.m_.-3,:45 p.m. • Chair: Henry Lowood, • Stanford University Private Funding, Public Science: Geologists and the Oil Industry in Nineteenth-Century America: Paul Lucier, Constructing the New Book of Nature: Communities and Princeton University Control: Robin Rider, University of California at Berkeley; Henry Lowood She Was Ignored: Ida Noddack and the l)iscovezy of Nuclear Fission: Teri Hopper, Stanford University The Garden of Nature: Evolution of a Seventeenth-Century Image: William Ashworth, University of Missouri at Kansas The Evolution, Publication, and Extension uf the Henry City Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra at Harvard College Observatory, 1886-1949: Barbara Welther, Harvard· New Readings of Nature: Natural History Books in the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Seventeenth Century: Anthea Waleson, Stanford University Sinister Science: Genetics and Eugenics in Gmnany, 1900- Commentator: Mario Biagioli, University of California at 1950: A. S. Baer, Oregon State University Los Angeles 24. Natural History, Language, and Gender 21. Human Science and Social Classification in Twentieth­ 4:00 p.m.-:-5:45 p.m. Century America Cosponsored by the Forum for History of Human Science Chair and commentator: Mordechai Feingold, Virginia 2:00 p.m.- 3:45 p.m. Polytechnic Institute and State University Chair: Michael M. Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Scientific Knowledge and the Female Audience in E~ly Modem England: Juliet Fleming, Harvani University "Destitute of Moral Sense": Scientific Testimony in the 1916 'Itial of a Teenage Teacher-Murderer: Steven Celb, A Place for Women: The Romantic Botany pf fean-[acques University of San Diego Rousseau and [ohann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lisbet Koerner,* Harvard University Who's Smart? Whos Not/ Who Cares! "Intelligencen in the [aZ2 Age: John Carson, Princeton University Kant on Women's Natures: New Evidence from the Anthropology Lectures: Steven Lestition, University of "What Manner of Morph Are You!" Bodytyping in American Chicago Medicine and Psychology: Sarah W. Tracy, University of Pennsylvania Commentator: Leila Zenderland, • California State University at Fullerton • Session organizers are indicated by an asterisk. }lily 1990 paae 13

25. Science in the Pacific: Darwinian Perspectives Psychology, Psychical Research, and Statistical 4:00 p.m.-5:45p.m. Improbabilities, 1880-1920: Deborah Coon, • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Chair: Philip F. Rehbock, • Universi'ty of Hawaii Commentator: Zeno Swijtink, Indiana University Darwin and the West Coast Exchange Network: Keith Benson, University of Washington 29. Maxwell and Hertz Darwin:S Correspondents in the PaCifiC: Janet Bell Garber, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Independent Scholar Chair: Jed Z. Buchwald, • University of Toronto The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics: The Psychohistory of Saturn :S Rings: C. W. F. Everitt, John Stenhouse, Saint Marks College, University of British Stanford University Columbia Text and Context in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Commentator: David Stoddart, University of California at Daniel M. Siegel, University of Wisconsin at Madison Berkeley Models and Reality in Nineteenth-Century Physics: 26. Geology and Geological Communities in Nineteenth­ Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto Century North America Commentator: Norton Wise_ University of California at Cosponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in Los Angeles · America 4:00 P-~·=5:4~ p.m. 30. Works in Progress: Modeling and Measurement Chair: Joanne Bourgeois, Universicy of Washington 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Looking for the Unity in Community: American Gedlogists Chair: Lawrence Badash, University of California at Santa in the Antebellum Period: Julie Newell,* Urtiver5ity of Barbara Wisconsin at Madison Reason Not the Need: The Metric System, Descriptive The Formation of a Colcmial S(:.ienti/ic Comml.lllity: Geometry, and the French Revolution: Ken Alder, Harvard Montreal in the 1850s: William Eagan, Moorhead State University University From an Art to a Science: The Evolution of Mathematics in Early State Geological Surveys in the 'Itans-Missi$sippi Civil Engineering and Arch Dam Design: Nancy Farm West: Rex Buchanan, Kansas Geological Survey Mannikko, Vnginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Commentator: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota Visualizing the Invisible: The Nature of Sound and the Science of Acoustics in the Nineteimth Century: Emily 27. Was There a Scientific Revolution in the Sixteenth and Thompson, Princeton University Seventeenth Centuries? Models of the Universe in the Palm of One's Hand: Sarah 4:00 p.m.-5:45p.m. Schechner Genuth, Adler Planetarium, Chicago Chair and commentator: Robert Westman, • Univer.sity of Forensic Medicine and the Law of Proof in Early Modem California at San Diego Europe: Catherine Crawford, Wellcome Institute for the /New/ Master Narrative(s), Yes; "Scientific Revol.u.tion," No History of Medicine Thanks: John Schuster, University of Wollongong President's Reception for Members of the Council and MRevolution" and the New Science: Gary Hatfield, Committee Chairs University of Pennsylvania 6:00 p.m .-7:00p.m. It Was a Whole New Experience . . . : Peter Dear, Cornell University HSS Reception 6:00 p.m.-8:00p.m. 28. Probabilities and Uncertainties: At the Nexus of the Natural and Social Sciences Dinner for the Isis Editorial Board Cospoosored by the Forum for History of Human Science 7:30 p.m.-9:30p.m. 4:00 p.m .-5:45p.m. Forum for the History of Science in America Chair: Theodore Porter, University of Vrrginia 8:30 p.m.-9:30p.m. William James:S Scientific Education: A Case Study in the Impact of the Probabilistic Revolution: Paul Croce, • Forum for History of Human Science Stetson University 8:30 p.m.-9:30p.m. Opposing ~ewpoints for a Science of Society: Quetelet versus Comte: I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University pate 14 History of Science Society Newsletter

Saturday, 27 October 34. Theory versus Practice in Agricultural Science 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. HSS Committee on Education: Breakfast Meeting Chair: Jonathan Harwood,* University of Manchester 7:00 a.m.-8:30a.m. Mendelian Genetics and Plant Breeding Practice in HSS Committee on Finance: Breakfast Meeting Interwar Britain: Paolo Palladino, University of Manchester 7:00 a.m.-9:00a.m. The Bureau of Animal Industry and the Introduction of Research into Veterinary Medicine: Patricia Gossel, HSS Committee on Meetings and Programs: Smithsonian Institution Breakfast Meeting 7:30 a.m.-8:30a.m. Soil Microbiology and Clean Milk: Agricultural Bacteriology in Britain, 1912-1939: Keith Vernon, HSS Committee on Publications: Breakfast Meeting University of Manchester 8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Commentator: Barbara Kimmelman, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science 31. Gendered Visions in the French Human Sciences Cosponsored by the Forum for History of Human Science 35. Panel Discussion: Does Big Science Exist? Should It? 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Chair: Donna Haraway, University of California at Santa Chair: Nathan Reingold,* Smithsonian Institution Cruz Robert W. Smith, Johns Hopkins University and The Sex of Weakness and the Force of Knowledge: Gender in Smithsonian Institution the Psychology of Pierre Janet: John Brooks,* University of Lillian Hoddeson, University of Illinois at Urbana­ Hanford; Nancy Burke, Amherst College Champaign and Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois Was There a Pornographic Moment in French Anthropology! Lily E. Kay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Limits of the Feminist Critique: Richard Gringeri, University of Chicago 36. Galileo's Science and Court Culture 8:30 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Gendering French Sociology: Sexual Politics in Comte and Durkheim: Jean Pederson, University of Chicago Chair and commentator: William Ashworth, University of Missouri at Kansas City ~ Commentator: Martha Hildreth, University of Nevada at Reno Re-Frying Galileo: Robert Westman, University of California at San Diego 32. From Eugenics to Human Genetics: A Comparative Jesuit Theater and Court Culture: Rivka Feldhay, Tel Aviv Perspective University 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Court Culture and Galileo's 1hal: Mario Biagioli, * Chair: Diane B. Paul,* University of Massachusetts at University of California at Los Angeles Boston Getting into Med School: From "Human" Genetics to 37. Works in Progress: Psychology, Philosophy, and the "Medical Genetics," 1945- 1965: Susan Lindee, Cornell Human Sciences University 8:30 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Developmental Genetics and Psychology during the Nazi Chair: Margo Hom, Stanford University Period: A Case Study: Mitchell G. Ash, University of Iowa An American Paleontologist on Human Origins: William After Eugenics: The Emergence of Human Genetics, 1933- King Gregory Enters Early 1Wentieth-Century 1955: Diane B. Paul Anthropology: Sheila Dean, Johns Hopkins University Commentator: Mark Adams, University of Pennsylvania Human Stability and Locomotion in Bain :~ and Preyer 's Developmental Psychologies: Mary Mosher Flesher, Smith 33. Periodization in the Earth Sciences College 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. The Grounds for Mach's Re;ection of Atomism: Hazim Chair and commentator: Bruce Hcvly, University of Murad, University of Malaysia Washington From Comrade Scientist to Comrade Therapist: McCarthy­ Oceanography's Double Life. Matt Greene,* University of Era Career Changes among Leftist Psychologists: Benjamin Puget Sound Harris, University of Wisconsin at Parkside Look Out the Window! Perception. Practice, and Gaston Bachelard's Sociohistorical Epistemology: An Periodization in Meteorology: Robert Marc Friedman, Approach to the Historical Foundations of Science Studies: University of California at San Diego Teresa Castelao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Oceanographic Surveys and Military and Commercial Concerns: Henry Frankel, University of California at San Wundt's Ethics in Relation to His Psychology: Adrian Brock, Diego York University July 1990 page 15

38. Panel Discussion on the History of Sexuality: Deviants and 42. Science in the Haunted Fifties Doctors Cosponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. America 10:30 a.m.-12: 15 p.m. Chair: Arnold Davidson,* University of Chicago Chair: Lawrence Badash, University of California at Santa Styles of Reasoning about Sexual Perversions: Arnold Barbara Davidson Communism at Caltech: Lawrence Badash; Judith Sex and the Doctors: Thomas Laqueur, University of Goodstein,* California Institute of Technology California at Berkeley Project \-1sta: Scientists and Nuclear Weapons: David Elliot, The Emergence of the Sexual Fetish: Robert Nye, University of Oklahoma California Institute of Technology · Witch-Hunting of Scientists: Linus Pauling, Linus Pauling 39. Constructing Biological Knowledge through Collaboration Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, California 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 43. Semiotics and the Languages of Science Chair: Jane Ma.ienschein, *Arizona State University 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Why Collaborate{ Jane Maienschein Chair: Evelyn Fox Keller,. University of California at Into the Museum: Levels of Collaboration and the Aims of Berkeley Science: James R. Griesemer, University of California at Gender and Semiotics: The Author as Nothing in Early Davis Modem British Women s Texts: Catherine Gallagher, Into the Lab: Creating a Molecular Knowledge of Life? Lily University of California at Berkeley E. Kay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Problem of Signifying the Scientific Author: Evelyn Fox Into the Field: Scientific Collaboration and Diplomacy in Keller the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission: John Beatty, The Semiotics of Mathematics: Brian Rotman, Independent University of Minnesota Scholar 40. Reinterpreting Paris Medicine, 1789-1850 The Semiotics of Chemistry: Stephen Weininger, Worcester 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Polytechnic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair: John Harley Warner, Yale University Reevaluating Nineteenth-Century European Medical 44. Works in Progress: Evolution and Ecology Education: Were There National Styles? Arleen Tuchman, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Vanderbilt University Chair: Mott Greene, University of Puget Sound The Menu, Not the Meal: Reconsidering Medicine and the A History of Wetland Ecology; or, A Science Which Keeps French Revolution: Russell Maulitz, Presbyterian Medical Losing Its Past: Marc Boule, Shapiro and Associates, Seattle, Center, Philadelphia Washington Teachers and Students of Medical Microscopy in Paris, Evolution and Taxonomy: The Research School in 1830-1848: Ann LaBerge,* VIrginia Polytechnic Institute Evolutionary Entomology at Cornell University, 1880- and State University 1930: Pamela M. Henson, Smithsonian Institution Archives Roundtable Discussion Race in the Biology and Sociology of Clemence Royer: Sara Joan Miles, Wheaton College · 41. Climate Change in Historical Perspective 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Science and Conservation in Mexico: Lane Simonian, University of California at Santa Barbara Chair: Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology Natura fecit saltum: The Origins ofT H. Huxley's Climate and Its History in the Late Enlightenment and Saltationalism: Sherrie Lyons, University of Chicago Early Romantic Period: Theodore Feldman, University of Southern Mississippi Terms of Estrangement: "Catastrophism," "Gradualism," and the K-T Bolide Debate: Steven Wyman, University of Imagining the Human Impact on Climate: From 1}rndall to Missouri Little Orphan Annie: Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics, New York The Curious Case of Paul Du ChaiJlu: A Case Study in the Construction of Scientific Facts: Stuart McCook, Rensselaer An Unholy 'llinity-Science, Politics, and the Press: Global Polytechnic Institute Climate Change as a Political Issue, 1980-1990: James E. Jensen, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, D.C. HSS Committee on Women: Luncheon The Changing Nature of Climatic Change: James Fleming,* 12:15 p.m.-1 :30 p.m. Colby College This session is open to all HSS members interested in women and science. Commentator: Robert Marc Friedman, University of California at San Diego • Session organizers are indicated by an asterisk. page 16 History of Science Society Newsletter

Saturday-continued The Rockefellei Foundation's Program in Netirophysiology: Politics and Instrumentation in the Medical Sciences Osiris Editorial Board: Luncheon Division: Joy Harvey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. State University The Spanish Laboratory Crisis of the 1920s: Rockefeller Visiting Historians of Science and VHSP National Committee: Foundation Officers Assess the Culture of Scarcity: Thomas Luncheon Glick, Boston Qniversity 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. The Rockefeller Foundation and Spectroscopy Research: 45. The lnterdisciplinarity of Chemistry Comparing the Programs at Utrecht and C.hicago: Doris 1:30 p.m.-3:15p.m. Zallen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chair: James Hoimann, .. California State University at What Did Weaver Do If He Did Not Create Molecular Fullerton Biology! The Impact and Limitations <1/ an Aspiring Sciente Statesman: Pnina Abir·Am, • Stanford University The Scientific Study of UploMr.es.: From lAvoisier to Berthelot: Seymour Mauskopf, Duke University Commentators: Hamilton Cravens; Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania The Unification of Bioenergetics through the Integration of Physiology and Physical Chemistry: Peter Mitchell and,the 49. Helmholtz Studies Thday Origin of Chemiosmotic Theory: Bruce Weber, California 1:30 p.m.-3:15p.m. State University at Fullerton Chair: To be announced The Thennally Activated Hopping Model for 1tansition Metal Oxides: 1949-1963: James Hofmann The Young Helmholtz: David Cahan, • University of Nebraska 46. The Animal Machine Helmholtz's Early Physiological Experiments: Kathryn 1:30 P.J11>-3r.15 p.m. Olesko, Georgetown University; Frederic L. Holmes, Yale Chair: Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana University University The Animal Machine before Descartes: Peter G. Sobol,* Helmholtz and the Education of the Senses: Tm10thy University of Wisconsin at Madison Lenoir, Stanford University Women, Animals, and the Mechanical Philosophy: Anita Commentator: Robert Richards, University of Chicago Guerrini, • University o£ Cali{ornia at Santa Barbara 50. Workshop on 'leaching Survey Courses in the History of The Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory: Noise, War, and Science the Human-Machine Bounpqry: Paul Edwards, University Sponsored by the Committee on Education of California at Santa Cruz 1:30 p..rn.-3:15 p.m.

47. The Politics of the Environmental Movement and Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., University of lllinois at Urbana Environmental Science Sharon Kingsland,· Johns Hopkins University 1:30 p.,m.-3:15 p.m. Stephen McKnight, University of Florida Chair: Robert Proctor,* Pennsylvania State University 51. Works in Progress: Physics and Mathematics Nature Red, Nature Green: A Political Iconology: Ian Boal, 1:30 p.m.-3:15p.m. Stanford University Chair: Max Dresden, Stanford University and Stanford Radiation and Response: Dose, Disease, and the Linear Accelerator Center Development of Health Physics: Geoffrey Sea, Independent The Neutrino Concept, 1930-1956: Charles Atchley, Scholar University of Minnesota Ontologies of the Environment: The Ecofeminist Challenge: Karl Compton and the Role of the University President in Ynestra King, University of Southern Maine Research Administration: Joel Genuth, Massachusetts The Great Cancer Debate, 1978-1990: Robert Proctor Institute of Technology Public and Private Science: The Case of Cold Fusion: Bruce 48. Comparing the Rockefeller Foundation's Programs in Lewenstein, Cornell University Natural, Social, and Medical Sciences: The Impact and Limitations of Private Philanthropy Radioactive Contamination and Public Policy at the 1:30 p.m.-3:15p.m. Hanford Nuclear Reservation: The Airborne Contaminants: Michele Stenehjem, Independent Scholar Chair: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University Zabarella, Piccolomini, and the Gradual11:ansition from The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Reproduction Inductive Logic to Analytical Mathematics: Joerg Maas, and Production of Hegemony: The Rockefeller Foundation Harvard University and the Social Sciences: Don Fisher, University of British Columbia Parcere norninibus: Robert Hooke's Advice to Robert Boyle: Edward Davis, Messiah College Jaly 1990 page 17

52. Applied History of Science and 'Iechnology Liebig's Role in the Establishment of Agr:ic;ultural 3:30 p.m.-5:15p.m. Chemistry: Ursula Schling-Brodersen, Arizona State University Chair: John Heilbron, Unive:csity of California at Berkeley The Complementarity of Formal and Informal Applied History of Science in "The Mechanical Universe Communication in the Work of Justus von Liebig: Regine and Beyand": David L. Goodstein, California Institute of Zott, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin Technology Liebig's Metamorphosis: From Organic Chemistry to Plant History of Science in the Space Program: NASA: Sylvia D. Physiology: Patrick Munday Fries, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Commentator: Ronald J. Ovennann, * Program in History 56. Rereadings: The Public 'Iexts of Vannevar Bush and Philosophy of Science, National Science Foundation 3:30 p.m.-5:15p.m. Chair: Michael Dennis,* Johns Hopkins University 53. The Transition from Biochemical to Molecular Genetics 3:30 p.m .-5:15p.m. Endless Politics on the Endless Frontier: Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology Chair and commentator: Rollin Hotchkiss, Rockefeller University Pieces of the Action: An Engineer Tells a Story; or, A Fable of Instrumental Reason: Litrry Owens, University of From Chemtcrzl to Mafecrilar Explanation in Genetics and Massachusetts at Amherst Cell Biology,· Changing Styles in Scientific Explanation: Bernardino Fantini, University of Rome Keeping the FLlith: The Political Ac.cop11ting of Modem Arms and Free Men: Michael Dennis Precursors of the Central Dogma: From Cellular Ph:y.siology and Cytochemistry to the Molecular Biology of the Genetic Commentator: David A Hollinger, University of Michigan Material: Richard Burian,* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 57. Huygens, Light, and Gravity 3:30 p;m ...-5: 15 p.m . How DNA Was Received, 1944-1953: Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University Chair: Thomas L. Hankins, University of Washington The Impact of Biochemical and Molecular Concepts and Mechanical Theories of Guwity: James Evans, University of Methodology on Human and Medical Genetics: Amo PugetSound Motulsky, University of Washington Mathematical Analysis of Gravitation: Huygens versus Newton: Franc;ois de Gandt, Centre National de Recherche 54. Measurement and Dispute in Eighteenth-Century Science Scientifique, Paris 3:30 p:m.-5: 15 p.m. Behind Every Good 'Iteatise Is a Manuscript: The Codices Chair: Mary Terrall, * University of California at Los Angeles Hugeniorurn: Joella Yoder,* Independent Scholar The Nicety of Experiment: The Persuasive Power af Huygens and the Relativity Principle: Christiane Vilain, Precision Measurement in the Chemical Revolution: Jan University of Paris VII Golinski, University of New Hampshire The Politics of Measuring: Contests for Certainty in 58. Works in Progress: Astronomy Eighteenth-Century Political Arithmetic: Andrea Rusnock, 3:30 p.m.-5:15p.m. Princeton University Chair: Wilbur Knorr, Stanford University Philosophes versus Instrument Makers: The Dispute over Antonie Pannekoek, 1873-1960: James Naiden, Oregon the Invention of the Achromatic Lens: Richard Sorrenson, State System of Higher Education Indiana University John Evans and the Lost Port Orford Meteorite Hoax: The Polemics of Measurement: The Shape of the Earth in Howard Plotkin, University of Western Ontario the 1730s: Mary Terrall Numerical Calculations in Ptole!lly's Almagest: Glen Van 55. Science, Politics, and Praxis: Justus Liebig and Agricultural Brummelen, Simon Fraser University Chemistry '. A Perplexing Family of Annotations in Copemicuss De 3:30 p.m .-5:15p.m. revolutionibus: Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Chair: Patrick Munday,* Cornell University Center for Astrophysics Liebig's Plans for the Utilization of London's Sewage: Visually Representing the Moon as a Geological Object, W. H. Brock, University of Leicester 1958- 1970: Mark Hineline, University of California at San Diego Sewage, Soup, and Soil Robbery: Justus von Liebig and the Social Issues of the 1860s: Mark Finlay, Iowa State "Ye Force of All Ye Reflectionsn: Newton's Polygon Model for University Circular Motion: Herman Erlichson, College of Staten Island, CUNY

• Session OJganizers are indicated by an asterisk. page 18 History of Science Society Newsletter

Saturday-continued Sunday, 28 October

The History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture 59. Plenary Session: The Social History of Objectivity 5:30 p.m.-6:30p.m. 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. The Middle Ground: Finding a Place between Science and Chair: Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame History: Owen Hannaway, Johns Hopkins University Divers Reports: The Constitution of Credibility in HSS Cocktail Party Seventeenth-Century Science: Steven Shapin, University of 6:30 p.m.-7:30p.m. California at San Diego The Objectivity of Interchangeable Observers, 1830-1900: HSS Annual Banquet Lorraine Daston, University of Gottingen 7:30 p.m .-9:30p.m. Quantification and the Accounting Ideal in Science: Theodore Porter, • University of Virginia Graduate Student Party 9:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Commentator: Peter Dear, Cornell University

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, l •.L skills; and experience and skills in us­ Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical POSITIONS ing computers and other kinds of ex­ Center, Chicago, seeks an ~rchivist to hibit equipmpalogy and antluo­ histqry of science and ~fhnOlogy, effec. The Medical College of Pennsylvania, polo~ts, historians of anthropology tive 1 July 1991. A cru1cal; j,Di~Jxqiscipl~­ Phiiadelphia, seeks a Curator of Photo­ and related disciplini!S, and others with nary approach to the subject is essen­ graphs to manage its collection of knowledge1 trainini, and ~xp~rience in tial. Attention to the ,:elationshjp twelve thousand historic photographs. archives and anthropology are encour­ between gender and the devel~pment of Duties include ca~lQging, .p,r~ervjltion, aged to apply. Responsibilities include science and technology is preferred; as and reference service. For further infor-· supervising ~mploy_!!~~' managing is experijfnce in teaching social science mation contact Janet Miller, Director budget1 establishing and implementing to students majoring in science. Appli­ and M,chivist, Archives and Special archival po1~cx, expanding collections, cants must have a Ph.D. or t;quiva)ev-t Collections on Women in Medicine, and setting directions for future devel­ and a strong record of scholarly research Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 opment. Starting salary $42,601- and publicat\on. Send cw:riculum vitae Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129. $50,342 (GM-1420-1.3'/14). Demon­ and names of three references to Paul The Museum of Science and Industry, strated scholarly ability desired; appli­ 4elrod, Chair, Division of Social Sci­ Chicago, seeks a Science Exhibit Devel­ cants must have Ph.D.' Send curriculum ence, Faculty of Arts, York University, oper to "research topics in contempo­ v:i.tae, SF- I 71; letter of application, and North York.(T,oronto), Ontario M3J 1P3, rary science, technology, and medicine three references to Smithsonian Institu­ by 1 September 1990. Candidates are and develop them into exhibits under­ tion, Office of Personnel Administra­ asked to have three letters of reference standable and relevant to the general tion, Branch 1, P.O. Box 23762, Wash­ sent din;!ctly to the Chair. In a.ccord~nce public.'' Candidates should have mu­ ington, DC 20026-3762 !Attn: 90-1058) with Canadian jmmigr;t~ion r,equire­ seum, public education, project man­ by 30 June 1990. For further informa· ments, prj.or,ity will be giyen to Cana­ agement, and hands-on laboratory or tion contact Mariann Horejsi, (202) 287- dian citizens and permanent residents ~ork$hpp ~xperienc~; excellent writing 3100, ext. 224. of Canada. July 1990 page 21

the physical sctencl!s. the biological sci­ toral fell.owships, and sho.~;t courses pur­ ences, technblogy, and the philosophy suing social, ethical_ legal, historicilt The National Endowment for the Hu­ of science. The stipend is $7,750 plus and philosophical perspectives on the manities announces e~ility ~e­ Canadian tuition fees. Non-Canadian initiative to map and sequence the hu­ lines that clarify the distinct~on be­ students, for whom tuition is higher, man genome and the applications of the tween its Division of Research may apply to the university for tuition­ new geneti<: knowledge it will produce. Programs and Division of Fellpwships fee waivers; Application forms for ad­ For further iniol'lllation contact Eric T. and Seminars. Both divisions support mission to the Institute are availahle Juengst, Program Director, Ethical, Le• scholarly research in the hi11tory of sci­ f:tom the School of Graduate Studies; 63 gal, and Social Implications Program, ence, and individuals (including unaf­ St. George Street, University o£ To­ National Center for Human Genome filiated scholars! are eligible in both ronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MSS Research, Building38A, Room 613, Na­ divjsions, Projects submitted by an in­ 1Al. Applicants are also required to tional Institutes of Health, Bethesda, stitution, or longer than one year in du­ submit a statement of their back­ MD 20872; (301) 496-7531. ration, or including costs in addition to grounds and interests in the history of salary support for the project director mathematics to Chandler Davis of the The National Endowment for the Hu· are considered onJy t,hrou.gh the Divi­ university's Deputment of Mathemat­ manities awards grants under the cate­ sion of Research Programs. The Divi­ ics. Application deadline is 31 March gory of Humanities, Science, and Tech­ sion of Fellowships and Seminars, on 1991. nology for the support of scholarly the other hand, reviews proposals for re­ resear~h that employs the theories and search J?Iojects that are submitted by an The National Center for Human Ge· methods of humanities diseipl.ines to individual, and request one year or less nome Research will award funding for study science, technology, and medi­ of support, and are confined exclusively research projetts; confereru:.es, postdoc· cine. Applicants may request support to salazy costs for the individual project for full- or part-time salaries, travel, and director. To receive information on any other costs of conducting re11earch for NEH program contact the Office of Pub­ FOR THE RECORD periods of from one to three years. This lications and Public Affairs at j202l 786- category of sppport is for projects ~h~t, 0254. Proposals submitted to the inap­ Argonne National Laboratory sought an propriate division will be declared ineli­ author to write its history. For further because of their intellectual scope and consequent &i:ote, duration,, or OOlllplex­ gible, and applicants will be requir¢d to information contact Harry W. Conner1 wait until the next deadline of the ap­ Public Affairs Director, Argonne Na­ ity, cannot be accomplished through in­ dividual one-year fellowships. The next propriate program to apply. Applic~nts tional 'Laboratory, 9700 S_ Cass Avenue, who are unsure about the appropiiate Argonne, IL 60439; (7081972-5583. deadline for receipt of applications is 15 October 1990. For further information program for their project may discuss their projects with Daniel Jones, Pro­ The University of Melbourne readver­ and

Fellowships & Grants-continued MEETINGS & CALLS FOR PAPERS The Royal Society awards grants be­ tween £100 and £5,000 {for up to four The American Society for Environmen­ ASZ Division of History and Philosophy years) to promote and support research tal History will sponsor a conference, of Biology. It welcomes papers on any in the history of science, including The Environment and the Mechanized aspect of the history of research on mathematics, medicine, and technol­ World, 28 February-3 March 1991, at Crustacea. For further information con­ ogy. Applicants must live within the the University of Houston. Proposals for tact Frank M. Truesdale, School of For­ United Kingdom. For further informa­ individual papers, works in progress, estry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, Louisiana tion contact Mrs. S. M. Edwards, Royal panels, or workshops should include a State University, Baton Rouge, LA Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, Lon­ one-paragraph abstract for each presen­ 70808. don SW1Y SAG; phone 071-839 5561, tation and a one-paragraph resume for ext. 261. each participant and should be sent by The American Chemical Society's divi­ 15 September 1990 to Martin V. Melosi, sions of Chemical Education and His­ Stanford University awards Andrew W. Department of History, University of tory of Chemistry will sponsor a 200th Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3785; anniversary symposium, Michael Fara· Humanities to highly promising {713) 749-2967. . day: Chemist and Popular Lecturer, at scholar-teachers who received their the ACS spring meeting in Atlanta, Ph.D.s after June 1984 and before Sep­ The Crustacean Society will celebrate Georgia, 15-16 April1991. The session tember 1991. These one-year nonfaculty its tenth anniversary with a sympo­ will feature both invited and contrib­ positions carry annual stipends of sium, The History of Carcinology, to be uted papers; potential participants $30,500 plus benefits, departmental af­ held at the annual meeting of the Amer­ should contact Derek A. Davenport, filiation, limited teaching duties, and ican Society of Zoologists, 2 7-30 De­ Department of Chemistry, Purdue Uni­ the opportunity for scholarly work and cember 1990, in San Antonio, Texas; versity, West Lafayette, IN 47907; (317) intellectual growth and are renewable the symposium is cosponsored by the 494-5465. for a second year. All materials, includ­ ing application forms and three letters of reference, are due no later than 15 PRIZE COMPETITIONS thor(s) should be put in a separate November 1990; applicants will be noti­ envelope. Essays must be sent by 30 fied in late February 1991. For applica­ The American Association for the Ad­ June 1990 by certified mail to SMHCT, tion forms and further information con­ vancement of Science invites nomina­ Apartado Postal2l-873, C.P. 04000 tact Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, tions for the 1990 AAAS/Westinghouse Mexico, D.F., Mexico. For further infor­ Dean's Office, Humanities and Science, Award for Public Understanding of Sci­ mation write to Prof. Juan Jose Saldana Building One, Stanford University, Stan­ ence and Technology, which carries a at this address. ford, CA 94305; {415) 723-2275. $2,500 stipend and recognizes scientists The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis and engineers who make outstanding The Society for the History of Alchemy University provides short-term Mellon contributions to the popularization of and Chemistry has established the Par­ Fellowships {of two to eight weeks) to science and are not members of the me­ tington Prize (of £100), awarded every pay the travel expenses and per diem al­ dia. The deadline for nominations is 1 three years for an original and unpub­ lowances of postdoctoral researchers or August 1990. For further information lished essay on any aspect of the history dissertation writers using the library's contact Patricia S. Curlin, Award Ad­ of alchemy or chemistry. The next clos­ collection for well-defined projects. Pro­ ministrator, Committee on Public Un­ ing date is 31 December 1990, and fur­ jects can be scheduled only in one of derstanding of Science and Technology, ther details can be obtained from Ann three periods during 1991: 15 January­ American Association for the Advance­ Newmark, Science Museum, South IS May, 1 June-31 July, and 1 Septem­ ment of Science, 1333 H Street, NW, Kensington, London, SW7 2DD. ber-22 December. For further informa­ Washington, DC 20005; {202) 371-9526. tion contact the Andrew W. Mellon Fel­ The British Society for the History of lowship Program, Vatican Film Library, The Mexican Society for History of Sci­ Science awards the Singer Prize every Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis ence and Technology {SMHCT), the two years to the writer (of any national­ University, 3650 Lindell Blvd., Saint Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de ity) of an unpublished essay based on Louis, MO 63108. Mexico, the Universidad Aut6noma original research into any aspect of the Metropolitana, and the National Coun­ history of science, technology, or medi­ The Woodrow Wilson International cil of Science and Technology invite en­ cine. On the closing date for entries all Center for Scholars awards approxi­ tries for the Dr. Enrique Beltran Prize candidates must be either (I) under mately forty residential fellowships for the best essay on any aspect of the thirty-five years of age or (2) within five each year for advanced research in the history of Mexican science and technol­ years of first registering for a postgrad­ humanities and social sciences. The ap­ ogy. The prize consists of five million uate degree in the history of science or plication deadline is 1 October 1990. pesos, and the winning essay will be some related discipline. Essays must For further information and application published. Entries must be at least 150 not exceed six thousand words (exclud­ materials contact the Fellowships Of­ pages long, signed with a pseudonym, ing footnotes) and must be fully docu­ fice, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washing­ and, if not written in Spanish, accompa­ mented, typewritten with double-line ton, DC 20560; {202) 357-2841; FAX nied by a translation. The name, ad­ spacing, and submitted in English. The (202) 357-4439. dress, and telephone number of the au- total amount available for the prize is July 1990 page 23

Duke University will host a conference, for potential contributors and extensive November 1990, with abstracts and vi­ The History of Game Theory, S-6 Octo­ details about current plans and provides tae, to William C. Pratt, Program Coor­ ber 1990, with sessions on (among other much information about the Society it· dinator, MVHC, University of Ne­ topics) the early history of strategic self. For further information about the braska, Omaha, NE 68182. games, the beginnings of game theory at conference contact Peter Taylor, STS Princeton, the early work at Michigan, Program, Cornell University, 632 Clark The Department of History, University and game theory and operations re­ Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853; e-mail of Lancaster, and the journal History of search, philosophy, and political sci­ pjtj@ cornella.Bitnet. the Human Sciences will sponsor a con­ ence. For further information contact E. ference, The Nature of the Human Sci­ Roy Weintraub, Department of Econom­ The International Society for the His­ ences in the Seventeenth and Eigh· ics, Duke University, Durham, NC tory of Rhetoric will hold its biennial teenth Centuries, in Lancaster, 26-29 27706. conference 25-29 September 1991 in September 1990, that will"focus on Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and conceptualising the subject of the hu­ The International Society for the His­ solicits papers on (among other topics) man sciences in the early modern and tory, Philosophy, and Social Studies of the history of rhetoric and science. For Enlightenment period, before the differ­ Biology will meet at Northwestern Uni­ further information contact N. Struever, entiation of the modem human science versity, 11-l4July 1991. The Spring Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins Uni­ disciplines." For further information 1990 issue of the ISHPSSB Newsletter­ versity, Baltimore, MD 21218. contact Roger Smith, Department of copies of which are available from History, University of Lancaster, LA1 Peggy Stewart, ISHPSSB Secretariat, Sci­ The third Latin American Congress of 4YG, England. ence Studies Center, 102 Price House, History of Science and Technology will Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State be held in Mexico City, 12-16 January Individuals interested in receiving the University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0247; 1992. Its general theme will be "Amer­ first circular for the seventeenth Pacific (703) 231-84 71-presents suggestions ica in the Formation of a New World: Science Congress-"Towards the Pa­ 500 Years of Scientific Exchanges." The cific Century: The Challenge of organizers explicitly invite contribu­ Change," Honolulu, Hawaii, 27 May-2 tions in English and urge potential U.S.­ June 1991-should contact the Congress £250, which may be awarded to the based participants to contact Nathan Secretariat, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, writer of one outstanding essay or di­ Reingold, National Museum of Ameri-_ HI 96822; (808)948-7555; FAX (808) vided between two or more entrants. can History, Smithsonian Institution, 942-9008; e-mail [email protected]. Entries, to arrive not later than 31 Octo­ Washington, DC, 20560; (202)357-2183. ber 1990, should be sent to Crosbie For general information and copies of The International Association for Geo­ Smith, History of Science Unit, Physics the first circular contact the chair of the magnetism and Aeronomy will sponsor Laboratory, University of Kent at Can­ organizing committee, Juan Jose Sal­ a meeting, Pioneers in Geophysical Re­ terbury, Canterbury, CT2 7NR England; dana, Apartado postal21-873, 04000 search, in Vienna in August 1991 . For telephone 0227 764000. Mexico, D.F., Mexico. further information contact Wilfried Schroder, Hechelstrasse 8, D-2820 Bre­ The Urban History Association offers Macrocosmos in Microcosmos, a con­ men-Roennebeck, Federal Republic of prizes (of $250 and $150, respectively) ference on the history of natural history Germany. for the best book in North American ur­ cabinets and Wunderkammer of the fif­ ban history published and the best dis­ teenth through eighteenth centuries, The seventeenth Saint Louis Confer­ sertation in urban history completed in will be held 3-6 December 1990 in West ence on Manuscript Studies will be held 1989. Three copies of each entry must Berlin. For further information contact 12-13 October 1990 at Saint Louis Uni­ be received by the appropriate prize the Institut fiir Museumkunde (which is versity. For further information contact committee by 25 September 1990. Sub­ sponsoring the meeting), z. Hd. Herrn the Conference Committee, Manu­ mit books to Carl Abbott, Department Dr. Andreas Grote, In der Halde 1, D- scripta, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland 1000 Berlin 33, Federal Republic of Louis University, 3650 Lindell Blvd., State University, Portland, OR 97207- Germany. Saint Louis, MO 63108. 0751. Submit dissertations to James R. Grossman, Family and Community The University of Wisconsin at La The Society for the History of Science, History Center, Newberry Library, 60 Crosse will hold a Math-History Con­ Turkey, in cooperation with the Inter­ West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610. ference, 5-6 October 1990, and solicits national Union of History and Philoso­ original papers on the history of mathe­ phy of Science and the Research Centre The University of Michigan School of matics. For further information contact for Islamic History, Art, and Culture, Business Administration annually the conference's organizers at the De­ will sponsor a symposium, Science In­ awards the Zell/Lurie Award and Fel­ partment of Mathematics, University of stitutions in Islamic Civilization, in lowship for the Teaching of Entrepre­ Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI 54601. Istanbul, 22-24 April1991. For more neurship, which includes a prize of information contact the Symposium $25,000 and an academic-year appoint­ The Missouri Valley History Confer· Secretariat, P.O. Box 24, 80692, Besiktas, ment at the School. For further informa­ ence will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, Istanbul, Turkey; phone 160 5988; telex tion contact the School of Business Ad­ 14-16 March 1991. Proposals for papers 26484 isam tr; FAX (01)158 4365. ministration, University of Michigan, and sessions in all areas of history are Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234. welcome and should be submitted by 1 Continued on next page Blstory ofScience Society Newsletter

Calls for Papers-continued Call for Publishable MSS Meeting Reports The University of the South Pacific is Mad River, a multidisciplinary journal CONFERENCE HONORS planning a conference, Science of Pacific of essays for the educated general THOMAS S. KUHN Island Peoples, to consider such themes reader-essays "that (as Aristotle said) as traditional science and technology in occupy leisure nobly" -invites contri­ On 18-19 May 1990 the Department of the Pacific, the impact of external con­ butions on (among other topics) the his­ Linguistics and Philosophy at the Mas­ tact on Pacific science, the modem tory and philosophy of science and tech­ sachusetts Institute of Technology held value of traditional knowledge, and sci­ nology. Send manuscripts to Charles S. a conference in honor of Thomas S. ence policy and traditional science. For Taylor, Mad River. Department of Phi­ Kuhn, President of the History of Sci­ further information contact John Morri­ losophy, Wright State University, Day­ ence Society in 1969 and 1970, devoted son, School of Pure and Applied Sci­ ton, OH 45343; e-mail ctaylor@wsu. to the considerable impact his scholar­ ences, University of the South Pacific, Bitnet; [email protected]. ship has had on current work in the his­ Suva, Fiji. tory and philosophy of science. The pre­ sentations included papers in history of The Society for the History of Alchemy The Ford Foundation Program in Com­ science by Jed Z. Buchwald, Noel Swerd­ and Chemistry will hold a meeting de­ parative Scientific Traditions will spon­ low, and M. Norton Wise, with com­ voted to plastics at the Science Museum sor a conference, Understanding the ments by John L. Heilbron; discussions Library, 1 December 1990. For further Natural World: Science Cross-Cultur­ of philosophical issues by Nancy D. information contact Ann Newmark, ally Considered, 20--22 June 1991, at Cartwright, John Erman, Michael Fried­ Science Museum, South Kensington, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massa­ man, and Eman McMullin, with com­ London, SW7 2DD. chusetts. It will examine science ments by Arthur Fine; some remarks by broadly as ways of observing, explain­ Carl G. Hempel on the basic tenets of A workshop, Technohistory of Electri­ ing, predicting, and controlling events logical positivism and the importance of cal Information Technology, will be in the natural world, and its organizers Kuhn's critique of that point of view; held at the Deutsches Museum, Mu­ solicit comparative papers and papers and a concluding paper by Professor nich, 15-19 December 1990. For further focusing on non-Western science. Some Kuhn, responding to the conference and information contact Oskar Blumtritt or supplementary funding may be availa­ indicating the direction of his current Hartmut Petzold, Deutsches Museum, ble to support travel from the Third research. The proceedings will be pub­ Postfach 260102, 8000 Miinchen 26, World. Submit abstracts to and request lished in 1991 by MIT Press. Federal Republic of Germany; phone further information from Kathleen Du­ 089-21-79-1, ext. 271. gan, School of Natural Science, Hamp­ CHEMICAL SCIENCES shire College, Amherst, MA 01002; IN THE MODERN WORLD Dissertations Completed (413) 549-4600, ext. 667; e-mail [email protected] tnet. "Chemical Sciences in the Modem As this listing is rarely complete or up World," a conference sponsored by the to date, the Executive Secretary urges Victorian Virtue and Vice will be the Beckman Center for the History of all graduate students (and their profes­ topic of the fifteenth annual meeting of Chemistry, funded in part by the Alfred sors) to notify him as soon as they de­ the Midwest Victorian Studies Associa­ P. Sloan and the National Science Foun­ fend their dissertations. For accuracy tion, Chicago, 26--27 April1991. For dations, and organized by Duke Univer­ please enclose a copy of the disserta­ further infoi11l.ation contact Michael sity's Seymour H. Mauskopf (the Cen­ tion's title page. Clarke, Department of English, Loyola ter's first Edelstein International Readers of the HSS Newsletter may University of Chicago, 6525 North Fellow), was held in suburban Philadel­ also want to consult A List of Theses in Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626. phia, 17-20 May 1990. It provided a History of Science in British Universi­ forum for sixty historians, sociologists, ties and Polytechnics in Progress or Re­ The British Society for the History of chemists, high school teachers, and cently Completed (no. 20. 1989- 90), Science and the Cambridge Physics His­ others to generate new perspectives on compiled by Sophie Forgan and issued tory Group will sponsor a meeting, the last 150 years of the chemical sci­ by the British Society for the History of Writing the History of Physics, 3-5 ences, to consider ways to improve sci­ Science. Copies are available from the April 1991, at St. John's College, Cam­ ence and history teaching at all levels, BSHS Executive Secretary (31 High bridge. It will comprise a series of work­ and to promote the public understand­ Street, Stanford in the Vale. Faringdon, shop sessions and discussions empha­ ing of science. Oxon SN7 BLH, England) for $6.00 or sizing the period 1870--1945 and The topics treated in the sixteen in­ £3.00 postpaid. initiated by precirculated papers to fo­ vited papers ranged from the epistemol­ cus broadly on such issues as experi­ ogy of Enlightenment chemistry to the Emerson Thomas McMullen, "A Barren ment and the laboratory, theoretical invention of the sulfa drugs (1930s) and Virgin? Teleology in the Scientific Rev­ practice, the establishment of an inter­ the FDA's Delaney Laws (1950s). The olution." Indiana University, 1989. national community of physics, and conference also heard presentations on physics, industry, and technology. Po­ strategies to document the history of Eric Meyer, "Quantitative Methods in tential participants (about forty maxi­ the chemical sciences and on museums the Early Scientific Revolution: The mum) should contact Andrew Warwick, as articulators of this history. Several Quest for Mathematical Laws of Nature St. John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, papers addressed the utility and the lim­ c. 1600." Indiana University, 1990. Great Britain before 30 September 1990. itations of treating science largely as a July 1990 page 25

social construct, applying the concept to case histories as diverse as Justus Lie­ big's organic chemistry, the reform of atomic weights, and George Beadle's use of Drosophila and Neurospora. Sub­ sequent discussion revealed that the concept of social constructionism, while important, mystified conference participants other than historians and sociologists of science. Appropriately, one paper addressed the "near incom­ mensurability" of the approaches and objectives of this "most eclectic group," as one chemist described it. But that ex­ traordinary diversity of background also helped the conference go. Discussion frequently focused on how "Chemical Sciences in the Modern World." Left: fohn and Aaron Ihde. Right: High school the history of chemistry should be teachers Christina Kerekes and Rebecca Dewey go over points with Christopher Hamlin. taught and brought before the public. Among those urging that modem chem­ from Asia and Latin America. They science that was larger than anyone had ical history be made more teachable and heard about seventy-five brief papers in expected. The concluding session thus more assimilable to the rest of history the eleven concurrent sessions, which heard a strong call for the creation of a was Roald Hoffman, host of PBS's focused on regions (East Asia, Brazil), network of "Science and Empire" schol­ "World of Chemistry" series. He advo­ disciplines (botany, medicine, technol­ ars, perhaps facilitated by a newsletter. cated reworking scholarly accounts for ogy), topical approaches (colonial insti­ -Darwin H. Stapleton popular audiences, although he ac­ tutions of science, expeditions and mis­ knowledged that both scientists and sions, government scientific policy), and historians of science find it painful to historiography (models of diffusion). Archives & Research Centers simplify their work. And John Ihde, a The participants' papers revealed an teacher from Wausau, Wisconsin, and enormous range of research and publica­ The American Association of Neurolog· the son of Aaron Ihde (also present), tion on the diffusion of science, based ical Surgeons (formerly the Harvey spoke of his wish to see a sequel, as it upon significant bodies of published and Cushing Society) has established an ar­ were, to his father's Development of archival resources barely known, if at chive to document the development of Modern Chemistry (Harper & Row, all, to historians of science in the the specialty of neurological surgery. Its 1964). United States. holdings include videotaped interviews The Beckman Center is planning a se­ It was exciting to see scholars in the with prominent senior neurological sur­ ries of workshops for high school teach­ former colonial areas actively recover­ geons and others in the neurosciences, ers for the summer of 1991. The papers ing their past, in part as a means of un­ instruments related to the diagnosis and delivered will also be published to stim­ derstanding each nation's particular treatment of neurosurgical conditions, ulate further research.-Mary Ellen process of development. In general the and correspondence, manuscripts, and Bowden papers approached the diffusion of sci­ scientific publications related to the ence in a way familiar to most members creation and development of the spe­ of HSS. Speakers discussed and cri­ cialty. For further information (and a SCIENCE AND EMPIRES tiqued George Basalla's and Lewis Pyen­ catalogue of the videotapes available for son's cultural models of the spread of purchase and rental) contact the AANS On 3-6 April, the Recherches Epistemo­ scientific ideas and the development of at 22 South Washington Street, Park logiques et Historiques sur les Sciences scientific institutions, but no alterna­ Ridge, IL 60068; (708) 692-9500. Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques tive overview found broad support. unit (REHSEIS) at the Centre Nationale Most speakers did, however, share the The Archives of the History of Ameri­ de la Recherche Scientifique sponsored view that the imperial nations often can Psychology at the University of Ak­ an international colloquium, "Science saw Western scientific institutions and ron has received $10,000 from the will and Empires," at the UNESCO building research programs as one means of of James V. McConnell, who also left in Paris. Organized by Patrick Petitjean domination and exploitation. Many of his papers to the archives. and Catharine Jami, the meeting ad­ the papers, particularly those on Brazil dressed both the worldwide diffusion of and India, also examined the counter­ Copies of a guide to the papers of Carl Western science through the coloniza­ vailing development of scientific tradi­ Shipp Marvel (1894-1988), now availa­ tion process that began in the sixteenth tions that have merged Western and in­ ble for scholarly use at the Beckman century and the interaction of Western digenous culture. Despite the variety of Center for the History of Chemistry in and non-Western science, particularly in cultures and tongues represented (pa­ Philadelphia, may be purchased for the new nations of the late twentieth pers were given without translation in $5.00 from the National Foundation for century. The colloquium brought to­ Spanish, French, and English) the collo­ History of Chemistry, 3401 Walnut gether over a hundred historians, social quium clearly tapped a constituency for Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228; scientists, and scientists, principally the study of the diffusion of Western (215) 898-3675. page 26 History ofScience Society Newsletter

& Martha Ellen Webb has established Awards, Honors Appointments Making History, a firm providing re­ search, exhibit, lecture, and other his­ Janet Abbate has been awarded the sec­ Thomas A. Horrocks has been ap­ torical services, in Omaha, Nebraska. ond Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellow­ pointed Director of the Library for His­ ship in the History of Computing by the torical Services at the College of Physi­ Magda Whitrow, editor of the Isis Cu­ Charles Babbage Institute for the His­ cians of Philadelphia. mulative Bibliography, 1913- 1965, has tory of Information Processing. been elected an honorary member of the David Joravsky has been named a fellow Academic Internationale d'Histoire des Edward C. Aldridge and Craig B. Waf£ of the Woodrow Wilson International Sciences. have each received the 1989 Robert H. Center for Scholars for 1990/91. Goddard Historical Essay Award from Martin H. Krieger has been awarded the the National Science Club for their re­ Bernard Zell/Leonard W. 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McBride, John M. Olin Fel­ in the Malay Archipelago, 1816--1942: Articles NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowships low at Yale for 1989/90, recently be­ Presented at a Symposium Held in Honor of in Science recently awarded. came assistant professor of history at Prof. Dr. D. de Moulin. (Nieuwe Nederlandse James Madison University. Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde James J. Bohning recently rejoined the en der Natuurwetenschappen, 35.) vi + 171 staff of the Beckman Center for the His­ Jeffrey Meikle has received a grant from pp., illus., figs., index. Amsterdam/Atlanta : tory of Chemistry as Assistant Director the J. Paul Getty Trust for an interdisci­ Rodopi, 1989. D£1 55. for Oral History Programs. plinary history of plastic in American Hills, Richard L. Power from Steam: A History culture. of the Stationary Steam Engine. xv + 338 pp., Lenore Feigenbaum has been awarded illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. 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Chapel MAny science professors already share Hillii.oodun: University of North Carolina humanities, fine and practical arts, and the beliefs and hopes spelled out in the Press, & - $32.50. social sciences-and especially histori­ AAAS report; they will find the prestige 1 ans of science- are essential collabora­ ~~~::~M:J :s~G~~~a~rn~m~cl~te~VVI~e~rke~·--··----1ca (I). and backing of the AAAS useful in dis­ .._._ 1iUiku Bialas. With the assistance of tors with scientists in framing the defi­ cussions within their colleges and uni­ frirWr\lr;c Boockmann. 591 pp., figs., index. nition of "scientific literacy" and versities and in seeking external sup­ CH. Bech, 1988. designing curricula to provide it. port. For their part, historians of science Claistopher M. Maps in Eighteenth- Inevitably, the proposition that the can do much to support their colleagues ry British Magazines: A Checklist. 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Boston/Basel/ pendix describing existing courses and more about the project that led to this Berlin: Birkhauser, 1989. $119. programs-several of which are orga­ report are urged to contact its director, Kohn, Alexander.. Fortune or Failure: Missed nized and taught by historians of sci­ Audrey B. Champagne, National Center Opportuniti~ and Chance Discoveries in Sci­ ence-whose goals, liberal arts perspec­ for Improving Science Education, 920 L ence. x + 199 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. tive, multidisciplinary content, and Street, NW, Suite 202, Washington, DC Oxford/Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, pedagogical techniques are similar to 2D036; (202) 467-0652. 1989. $24.95. Fellowships & Grants Awarded medical writings on women from the early Middle Ages; and Helen S. Lang CONTENTS July 1990 Recipients of grants recently awarded (Trinity College, Hartford), for a project by the trustees of the Dudley Observa­ on the writing and rhetoric of science­ AAAS Report 1 tory, in response to its seventh annual the tradition of Aristotle's Physics. 1990 Election 2 competition for the Herbert C. Pollock Award in the History of Astronomy and Ten students planning to pursue history News of the Society 7 Astrophysics, include James M. Lattis of science- are among the 850 recipients Program 9 of National Science Foundation Gradu­ (Univ. Wisconsin), for a study of Chris­ Registration & Reservation Forms 18 topher Clavius ($10,000 Pollock Award); ate Fellowships for 1990/91. These indi­ Fellowships & Grants Available 19 Mark Littman (Loyola College), for a bi­ viduals and their undergraduate institu­ ography of Edwin Hubble (.$5,000 Dud­ tions are Michael T. Allen (Whitman Positions 20 ley Award); Norriss S. Hetherington College, Washington); Cathryn L. Car­ Meetings & Calls for Papers 22 son (Univ. Chicago); Stuart M. FeHer (Univ. California at Berkeley), for a Prize Competitions 22 study of Edwin Hubble's cosmology (Univ. Chicago); Ram Neta (Harvard); ( $3,000 Dudley Award); and Frederic J. Jason K. Glenn (Univ. California at Dissertations 24 Baumgartner, for a study of the origins Berkeley); Joseph P. O'Connell (Univ. Meeting Reports 24 of the Provenc;al School of Astronomy <::hicago); Mindy J. Herzfeld (Barnard); Archives 25 ( $2,000 Dudley Award). Jessica G. Riskin (Harvard); Elizabeth RoseS. Watkins (Radcliffe); and Joanne Awards, Honors & Appointments 26 In response to proposals submitted by D. Woiak (Cornell). Books Received by Isis 26 3,218 artists, scholars, and scientists, Fellowships & Grants Awarded 28 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial The University of Oklahoma has named Foundation has awarded 143 fellow­ Pamela Cossin and Joy Harvey Rocke­ ships for 1990/91. Recipients and their feller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows projects include Ian Hacking (Univ. To­ in the Humanities for 1990/91. Their ronto), kinds of people and kinds of respective projects are "Cultural Con­ things; Susan Quinn (Brookline, MA), a texts and Literary Explorations of As­ biography of Marie Curie; Louis Men­ tronomy in the Works of Kepler, New­ and (Queens College, CUNY), the Meta­ ton, Halley, Flamsteed, the Herschels, physical Club and the shaping of mod­ and Proctor" and " 'Almost a Man of Publications em American culture; and Amelie Genius': Clemence Royer, an Unusual Oksenberg Rorty (Mount Holyoke Col­ Nineteenth-Century Frenchwoman." In June 1990 the American Historical lege), philosophical conceptions of the Review published a thematic issue on passions and emotions in the seven­ Among the 122 Mellon Fellows in the the history of science and technology, teenth and eighteenth centuries. Humanities appointed recently by the with articles by Cecil 0. Smith, Jr., Do­ Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship lores Greenberg, John M. Staudenmaier, Among the recipients of the 236 fellow­ Foundation, three plan to study history and A. Mark Smith. Copies may be or­ ships for university and college teachers and philosophy of science: the fellows dered (at $10 each) from the Member­ and independent scholars awarded by and their undergraduate institutions are ship Secretary, American Historical As­ the National Endowment for the Hu­ Cathryn L. Carson (Univ. Chicago); Wil­ sociation, 400 A Street, SE, Washington, manities for 1990/91 are Monica H. liam M. Dickson (Univ. South Caro­ DC 20003; (202) 544-2422. Green (Duke Univ.), for a project on lina); and Katalin Makkai (McGill).

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