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SARTONIANA Volume 25 2012 Sarton Chair of History of Science SARTONIANA Volume 25 2012 Sarton Chair of History of Science Ghent University SARTONIANA Volume 25 2012 Editors: Robert Rubens and Maarten Van Dyck Sarton Chair of History of Sciences Ghent University © Academia Press & Sartoniana, Gent, Belgium Eekhout 2 9000 Gent T. (+32) (0)9 233 80 88 F. (+32) (0)9 233 14 09 [email protected] www.academiapress.be De publicaties van Academia Press worden verdeeld door: J. Story-Scientia nv Wetenschappelijke Boekhandel Sint-Kwintensberg 87 B-9000 Gent T. 09 255 57 57 F. 09 233 14 09 [email protected] www.story.be Gent, Academia Press, 2012, 235 pp. ISBN 978 90 382 2050 5 D/2012/4804/244 U1930 Opmaak: proxessmaes.be Niets uit deze uitgave mag worden verveelvoudigd en/of openbaar gemaakt door middel van druk, fotokopie, microfilm of op welke andere wijze ook, zonder voorafgaande schriftelijke toestemming van de uitgeverij. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means without prior written permission form the publishers. Table of Contents Introduction. 5 Robert Rubens SARTON CHAIR LECTURES Laudatio Sheila Jasanoff (1) . 9 Raf Vanderstraeten Laudatio Sheila Jasanoff (2) . 13 Frederic Vandermoere The Publics of Public Reason . 17 Sheila Jasanoff SARTON MEDAL LECTURES Laudatio Seán Donlan . 39 D. Heirbaut ‘The law touches us but here and there, and now and then’: Edmund Burke, law, and legal theory. 43 Seán Patrick Donlan Laudatio: Paul De Paepe . 61 Peter Van den haute Mineral Species named after Belgian Citizens and Localities. 65 Paul De Paepe Laudatio Dr. Luc Devriese . 97 Frank Gasthuys 1 2 From mules, horses and livestock to companion animals. A linguistic- etymological approach to veterinary history, mirroring animal and (mainly) human welfare . 99 Luc Devriese Laudatio prof. dr. Raphael Maurits Ernest Suy-Verburg . 115 Frank Vermassen The quest for the elusive human urinary membrane . 119 R. Suy Laudatio Niccolò Guicciardini . 155 Eric Schliesser, “Specious algebra is fit enough to find out, but entirely unfit to consign to writing and commit to posterity”: Newton’s publication strategies as a mathematical author . 161 Niccolò Guicciardini Laudatio for Prof. dr. Michel De Vroey . 179 Freddy Heylen What can civil society expect from theoretical macro? . 183 Michel De Vroey Laudatio Prof. dr. Marvin Trachtenberg. 203 G. Châtel Grand Canyon, Saqqara, and Brunelleschi’s Dome: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era . 207 Marvin Trachtenberg Authors Prof. dr. Robert Rubens. Chairman Sarton Committee, University Hospital Ghent, Department of Endocrinology, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Prof. dr. Maarten Van Dyck. Secretary Sarton Committee, Ghent University, Centre for History of Science, St.-Hubertusstraat 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Prof. dr. Sheila Jasanoff. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Prof. dr. Sean Donlan. School of Law, University of Limerick, Kildromin, Kilteely, County Limerick, Ireland Prof. dr. Paul De Paepe. Ghent University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geology and Soil Science, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Dr. Luc Devriese. Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Salisburylaan 133, B-9820, Merelbeke, Belgium Prof. dr. Raphaël Suy. A. Stesselstraat 31, B-3012 Leuven-Wilsele, Belgium Prof. dr. Niccolo Guicciardini. Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Bergamo, via Pignolo 123, 24121 Bergamo BG, Italia Prof. dr. Michel De Vroey. Département des Sciences Economiques, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place Montesquieu, 31348 Louvain- la-Neuve, Belgium Prof. dr. Marvin Trachtenberg. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th street, New York, NY10075, USA 3 Introduction Robert Rubens The 25th volume of Sartonia represents a hallmark in this series. More than a quarter of a century ago Ghent University, remembering its alumnus George Sarton founded the chair, carrying his name and devoted to the history of sciences. The volume you are starting to read contains the tran- scripts of the lectures held during the past academic year. Prof Sheila Jasanoff,the lecture holder for 2011-12, coming from Harvard University as the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies gave a new field to the interdisciplinarity so common in the creed of Sarton. Furthermore coming from a department imbued with the ideas of Sarton she has synthesized and introduced sociology in the large field of the history of science. The historical review of the ideas of Burke as explained by Prof. Sean Dolan situates Edmund Burke in his time frame. By his careful studies of the original writings of Burke he furthermore could more precisely circum- scribe the reforming ideas of Burke. The painstakingly detailed collection of Belgian names in petrology as kept by Prof. De Paepe not only has been published in a large volume but for the scientist who needs an introduction we are glad that he could deliver a medal lecture devoted to the subject. The last couple of years saw a new interest building in the history of veter- inary science. Dr Luc Devriese not only worked years in bacteriology but also founded a museum devoted to the history of veterinary science. He was the medalist for the faculty of veterinary medicine and gave an over- view of the genesis of the scientifically trained veterinary surgeon. 5 6 The whole of our monetary system is now in a turmoil. Prof. Michel De Vroey who had during many years the chair of the history of economic sciences and an international acclaimed author in this field lectured us about the two main lines in macroecomics. Prof.Raphaël Suy was during years the leading cardiovascular surgeon in the medical faculty of Leuven. After his retirement he became an expert in the history of medical thought and medical philosophy. Referring numerous authors he will explain the quest of the urinary membrane. In a volume devoted to the history of science Prof.Guicciardini describes the importance and the algebraïcal rules proposed by Newton in his writ- ings. Finally the paper by Trachtenberg gives a nice overview of architecture in premodern times. In his review the details of the different architectural structures of that period are carefully described. SARTON CHAIR LECTURES 7 Laudatio Sheila Jasanoff (1) Raf Vanderstraeten Ladies and gentlemen, In 1913, George Sarton published in Ghent the first issue of the journal Isis, which was itself the first journal explicitly devoted to the history of science. On the front cover of this issue, Sarton listed Isis’ patrons, among whom the famous French sociologist Emile Durkheim. In his opening essay, Sarton put forward his view on the identity of a yet-to-be-established scien- tific specialization. He defined his specialization as a “psycho-sociological investigation”. A former Ph.D. student of Sarton at Harvard University, named Robert King Merton, became Associate Editor of Isis in the late- 1930s, first responsible for what was called “the social aspects of science” and, as of 1942, for “sociology”. And in 1952, only a few years before his death, George Sarton, who was by then generally respected as the dean among the historians of science, could still refer to “my sociology of science” (Sarton, 1952, p. 94). Despite the interdisciplinary orientation of Sarton’s original project, it is not difficult to see how the forces of specialization and disciplinarization have shaped today’s scientific field. Before the early-1960s, there was no obvious single place for historians of science in the departmental organiza- tion of universities. Historians of science could be working in departments of history, but they might as well be members of other university depart- ments, such as physics or medicine (see Kuhn 1984, p. 29-30). But in the late-1950s and the 1960s, that situation started to change. History of science was not only a clear beneficiary of the university expansion. The multiplicity of formal academic affiliations of historians of science was 9 10 narrowed down, too. In an article entitled “The Isis Crises and the Coming of Age of the History of Science Society”, the Harvard professor Bernard Cohen (who was not only a Ph.D. student and protégé of Sarton, but who also succeeded Sarton as editor of Isis) wrote in 1999: “The very fact that there are now so many departments of history of science in U.S. colleges and universities is perhaps the best sign of the coming of age of our disci- pline” (1999, p. S42). Since the last decades of the twentieth century, history of science has increasingly developed its own research agenda. It has closed in on itself; it has a strong intra-disciplinary orientation. Contemporary historians of science mainly build their argument on, and refer to publications of other historians of science. They have their own specialized professional associations and visit their own specialized scien- tific conferences. It is nevertheless also evident that the forces of specialization and disci- pline-formation have been and are being countered by interdisciplinary developments. Already in the middle of the twentieth century, scientists such as Thomas Kuhn and Robert Merton began to lay the groundwork for the integration of a sociological perspective into the history of science. In the last decades of the twentieth century, there have also emerged other types of ‘science studies’, such as sociology of science, social studies of science, or science and technology studies. These newcomers are charac- terized by an interdisciplinary orientation. The interchanges between these and neighboring specializations are often much stronger. But its practi- tioners also decry the asymmetries in the relationship with history of science. In the year 2000, for example, the then President of the Society for Social Studies of Science addressed the historians of science gathered to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the History of Science Society with the following words: “I was struck by a kind of asymmetry, or at least an imbalance, in our perceptions of each other.
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