History of Science Society’S Most Valued Functions

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rants for graduate student travel, on-line access to a bibliographical data base, Gthe new “Focus” sections in Isis, and a responsive Executive Office - these are among the History of Science Society’s most valued functions. According to a recent survey, members want HSS core functions, such as our publications and the annual meeting, kept in orbit, and new ones launched. You have, for example, conveyed to us ideas for supporting new-comers to the field, speaking more accessibly and meaningfully to each other and to those outside the discipline, and fulfilling the potential of our international character. The enthusiasm manifested for the field and the Society, along with the profusion of positive suggestions for the future, assured a delighted Executive Committee that HSS has the commitment and energy to enhance significantly what it does for its members and the history of science. The online survey is one way individual members are participating in shap- ing the future of the Society and the discipline. Many thanks to those who partic- ipated. (To those who did not, you will have a second chance when the Committee Reading the HSS Survey on Research and the Profession produces a more detailed survey.) We will be using the survey results, along with deliberations by the Council and various commit- he recent survey of HSS members represents an ongoing conversation. tees, as the basis for imagining the future of HSS. In the coming months we will TResponses not only give us vital information about you, your experiences draw up a list of ambitious but practical goals and a set of plans for achieving with the Society also give us a measure of how well we are doing our jobs. them. For example, should we be promoting more dialogue among our sub-dis- The many thoughtful suggestions and ideas show the commitment of our ciplines or with our sister disciplines? If so, how? members to making the Society as useful and responsive as possible to its The impetus (forgive the medieval physics) for enhancing the ways we serve members and to the wider community. the discipline and our members must come first and foremost from you, in the Members rate our flagship journal, Isis, highly. More than 85% of respon- form of ideas, participation, and financial support. NEH is ready to give us dents rate it as good or excellent. Comments showed that the book-review sec- $125,000 toward endowing the work that goes into the Current Bibliography and tion is especially valuable to members. Broad questions about who we are and the electronic data base – but only if we chip in ourselves (to donate go to what we want to be as a Society filled the comments section, not only on Isis, http://www.hssonline.org). It’s not all about money, of course. If we decide we but also on the rest of our publications and the annual meeting. want news media or textbook publishers or political leaders to appreciate the sig- (Continued on page 20) nificance of the history of science, some of us will need to commit ourselves to making our research accessible to them. Contents In short, if the History of Science Society is to exert force – to serve its mem- News and Inquiries 3 Preliminary Program (Insert) I-X bers, to advance scholarship in the field, and, more generally, to foster interest in Behind the Scenes: Future Meetings 11 the history of science and its social and cultural relations – we need to decide on Stephen Weldon 7 Dissertations 12 a direction and give it a push. I am delighted to announce that Marc Rothenberg, Awards, Honors, Isis Books Received 13 who, after a decade of service to HSS as Treasurer, will be stepping down from that and Appointments 8 Bucculentus Revisited 16 role, has agreed to lead us in this undertaking. The new campaign for the history Jobs 9 NEH Donors 18 of science will enable us to meet the goals we define. Please join in the effort. Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes 9 History of Science in Bulgaria 19 HSS Conference Election Results 22 – Joan Cadden, HSS President Registration Form 10 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

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Beijing Congress: General Assembly Summary of Activities, 27, 29 July 2005: Commission Presidents Creation of the “World History of Science Online: Databases of Bibliographic Ancient and Medieval Astronomy: S.M. Women in Science: Annette Vogt and Archival Sources” (WHSO) in collaboration with the President of the Razaullah Ansari ICOHTEC: Hans J. Braun Commission on Bibliography and Documentation. For further information: Bibliography and Documentation: Peter IASCUD: Wesley Stevens www.dhs-whso.org. Harper History of Astronomy C41/ ICHA (with Updating of DHS Bylaws: The word “Technology” was added to the name of East Asia: Christopher Cullen IAU): Alexander Gurshtein the Division in order to recognize the importance and professional value of the Islamic Civilization: Jamil Ragep History of Geography (with IGU): Hector history of technology. The DHST Council acknowledged the need to include Meteorology: Cornelia Ludecke Mendoza gender balance and cultural diversity amongst the members. Modern Physics: Christoph Meinel History of Geological Science (with IUGS): Prof. Eva Vamos delivered a speech on Hungary’s application to host the next Modern Chemistry: Helge Kragh and Philippe Tacquet Congress.(The 2009 Congress will be held in Budapest.) Roger Stuewer International Commission for the History A proposal to create a new commission on Science and Religion was not Oceanography: Keith Benson of Mathematics (with IMU): Karen V. H. approved. Pacific Circle: Roy McLeod Parshall The members of the Assembly also agreed by majority that the maximum Scientific Instruments: Paolo Brenni History of Soil Science: Benno Warkentin term for one individual to work as the President is eight years (two terms). Science and Empire: Michael Osborne International Committee for the History Ronald Numbers was elected President of the DHST. Teaching: Jaroslav Folta of Metrology (ICHM): Jean-Claude Hocquet Efthymios Nicolaidis was elected Secretary General. The IUHPS/DHST Council 2005-2009 President: Ronald Numbers (USA) Treasurer: Ida Stamhuis First Vice President: Liu Dun (Netherlands) (China) Assessors: Lesley Cormack Second Vice President: Fabio (Canada) Bevilacqua (Italy) Ubiratan d’Ambrosio (Brazil) Secretary General: Efthymios Abdul Hafiz Mohamot (Egypt) Nicolaidis (Greece) Michio Yano (Japan) Assistant Secretary General: Eva Catherine Jami (France) Vamos (Hungary) Alexey Postnikov (Russia)

New Public Server at the University of Chicago Press to Improve Access to HSS Material

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

Future HSS Meetings Pittsburgh, PA Washington, DC (Joint Meeting with PSA, 6-9 Nov. 2008) Vancouver, BC (1-4 Nov. 2007) (Joint Meeting with PSA & 4S, 2-5 Nov. 2006)

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Lone Star Historians of Science The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online A three-year grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain has been awarded to Professor James Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.) and Professor Janet Browne (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, U.K.) to create a comprehensive scholarly collection of Charles Darwin’s published and unpublished writings, except for correspondence, on the World Wide Web. Visit http://darwin-online.org.U.K. New Blog for the Forum for the History of Science in America A blog has been set up for the Forum for the History of Science in America. The goal is to provide a place to post short essays and comments for discussion – items more substantial than a listserv note but short of a publishable Elizabeth Green Musselman, Brandon Marsh, Adrian Howkins, Kimberly Hamlin, Angela Smith, Alberto Martinez, Bruce Hunt, Steve Kirkpatrick, Ioanna article. The blog is available at: http://fhsanewsandviews.blogspot.com/. Semendeferi, Frank Benn, and Anthony Stranges German Society for History of Geophysics and Cosmical he Lone Star History of Science Group held its nineteenth annual meeting on 21 Physics April 2006 at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. The gathering was T A commission for the history of geophysics and cosmical physics has been hosted by Professor Elizabeth Green Musselman of Southwestern, and the speaker was founded under the leadership of Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Treder, formerly Dr. Alberto Martinez, who served this past year as a visiting lecturer in the University director of the Einstein-Laboratory for theoretical physics of the Academy of of Texas Department of History. Sciences. The commission publishes a journal entitled Contributions for Dr. Martinez earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and held postdoc- the History of Geophysics and Cosmical Physics, open to all authors. For toral positions at MIT and Caltech before coming to Texas. His book Negative Math: more information: http://verplant.org/history-geophysics/Wiechert.htm. How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent has recently been published by Princeton University Press, and he has written extensively on the origins and signifi- Robert Hooke Folio to be Returned to Royal Society cance of Einstein’s special theory of relativity. In his Lone Star talk, entitled The Royal Society reached a private agreement for the return of the Robert “Subtractive History: Writing about Einstein in 1905 (after the 2005 Commotion has Hooke folio, which was due to be auctioned in March 2006. The documents Finally Died Down)” and delivered in a characteristically lively fashion, Dr. Martinez include notes of minutes that were taken by Hooke as part of his duties as surveyed some of the many attempts that have been made to explain the origins of Secretary to the Society in the late seventeenth century, and Hooke’s private Einstein’s theory and examined why no clear consensus on the question has yet been notes of the Society’s meetings. reached – or, given current scholarly trends, is likely to be reached. Dr. Martinez illus- Chymistry of Newton Online trated his points with a provocative argument about the role a concern with develop- With the support of the National Science Foundation, The Chymistry of Isaac mental psychology may have played in Einstein’s thinking, and offered some sugges- Newton is producing a scholarly online edition of Newton’s alchemical manu- tions on how Einstein scholarship might best move forward in the future. scripts integrated with new research on Newton’s ‘chymistry.’ To date, about Each spring, the Lone Star Group draws together historians of science, technology, and medicine from around Texas and the Southwest to discuss their shared inter- Call for Submissions: ests and enjoy a friendly dinner. The next Lone Star meeting will be held at Texas A&M The Encyclopedia of the History of Invention and Technology University in College Station, Texas, in April 2007. Anyone interested in attending Contributors are needed for an encyclopedia on the social history of technol- should contact Prof. Tony Stranges of the Texas A&M History Department at a- ogy and invention. The encyclopedia is intended for general audiences. For [email protected]. more information, please contact David J. Staley at [email protected]. Interdisciplinary Essays on Science in 19th-Century Britain In Memoriam: Joan Warnow-Blewett Papers are being sought for a collection of essays on Science in Nineteenth- Joan Warnow-Blewett died on 30 May, 2006. A good friend and an extraordi- Century Britain. Edited by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb, the collection will be nary colleague, Joan was a forceful voice for change in the archival profession. printed by Cambridge Scholars Press in Spring/Summer 2007. Deadline for Her work at the AIP History Center, along with her many publications and pre- submissions: 10 August 2006. Essays are to be 5,000-6,000 words in length sentations, helped shape modern archival practice. Joan retired in 1997 and and follow the author/date system (Chicago style). Inquiries and submissions moved to North Carolina with her husband, physicist John Blewett. She main- to: [email protected]. tained her ties with the AIP History Center, first as an occasional consultant New Essays on Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries and later as a member of its Development Committee. John died in 2000, and A new volume exploring the relationship among the arts (fine and decorative) Joan married noted Yale historian Martin Klein in 2005. and sciences (or, more broadly, natural and experimental philosophy) in the – Joe Anderson eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is under contract with Cambridge Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics Scholars Press, Ltd. Send cover letter, essay manuscript (approx. 30-40 pp, double spaced, 12pt, letter or A4), abstract (two pages max.), and c.v., post- Correction: The April Newsletter gave the mistaken impression that Pam Long marked by August 15, 2006 to: Andrew Graciano, Editor, Dept. of Art, is currently affiliated with the University of Maryland. She is an independent schol- University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208,USA. E-mail questions to: ar; Maryland is where she received her Ph.D. [email protected]. 4 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 seven hundred pages have been transcribed and encoded in TEI/XML. Of these, rough- Experiments and Notes on the Mechanical Origine or Production of Electricity, ly six hundred have been edited and are available online, including Newton’s Most and the scientific library of Louis Pasteur. For more information, please visit Complete Laboratory Notebook. For more information: http://webapp1.dlib. http://www.huntington.org. indiana.edu/newton/index.jsp. Special Subscription Offer for HSS Members: ‘Historical Records of Australian Science’ In Memoriam: David L. Cowen CSIRO Publishing offers HSS members a special 2006 subscription to Historical David L. Cowen died on Friday, 16 April 2006. He was 96. Dr. Cowen was a Records of Australian Science. To obtain the discount rate for society membership, e- highly-respected teacher, researcher, and author, whose work in the history of mail [email protected]. Or visit: http://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/hras. pharmacy earned him world-renown. A Rutgers alumnus, he taught history at New Ph.D. Program at the University of Vienna Rutgers from 1933 to 1974. In 1994, he received the Continuing Lifetime The University of Vienna offers Ph.D.’s on ‘Naturwissenschaften im historischen Achievement Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Kontext/The Sciences in Historical Context.’ Up to 12 doctoral student positions begin- In1989, in honor of his accomplishments, the Rutgers College of Pharmacy ning 1 October 2006. Information can be found at one of the following Web sites: established the annual David L. Cowen Lecture on the History of Pharmacy. http://univie.ac.at/geschichte/ash/initiativkolleg, http://international.univie.ac.at/ In 2001, the Medical History Society of New Jersey established the David L. en/portal/initiativkollegs/i020/. Cowen Award for Achievement in the History of Medicine. Dr. Cowen was also a prolific writer. For New Jersey’s Bicentennial Celebration in 1964, he penned Burndy Library Donated to the Huntington Library Medicine and Health in New Jersey: A History. He also produced numerous The entire Burndy Library has been presented as a gift to the Huntington Library, Art other books and scholarly articles, including (with retired Merck and Co. Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The collection includes such treasures as a 1544 executive William Helfand) Pharmacy: An Illustrated History. edition of Archimedes’ Philosophiae Geometrae, a first edition of Boyle’s

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

At left: In the early 1930's, particle accelerators took up the space of a room in a lab. Today, the largest accelerator forms an underground 17-mile (27-km) loop. Photos courtesy of Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics 5 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Free Online Access to Nearly 200 Years of Annual Midwest Junto Report Medical Research The 49th annual Midwest Junto for the History of Science took place dur- Back issues covering nearly 200 years of biomedical journals are being made ing the weekend of 28-30 April, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin, available online as a result of a Wellcome Trust project. The archive is avail- Madison. After a Friday-night reception at the Rare Books room of able at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/. Further information: http://library. Memorial Library, the Junto formally began on Saturday morning, when wellcome.ac.U.K./backfiles. participants heard 23 papers in six sections by faculty, graduate students Careers in Academic Librarianship and two undergraduates in six sessions on various topics, including Members of the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of Maxwell’s natural theology, amateur telescope making, the natural history College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have formed a committee to address of poison, Jefferson’s gardening, and cadavers in American medical educa- the current and long-term shortage of academic librarians. They are particu- tion. At the Sunday morning business meeting, President David Robinson larly interested in advising scholars and teachers with foreign language train- (Truman State University) announced that Alan Shapiro (University of ing and advanced degrees that careers in academic librarianship provide addi- Minnesota) was chosen President-elect by acclamation. tional options for using their training in an academic setting. For more infor- The highlight of the meeting was the first Stuart Pierson Memorial mation, please visit the Web site for the WESS Committee on Recruitment to Presentation, given at the Saturday-evening banquet by William the Profession: http://www.columbia.edu/~klg19/WESS/. Ashworth (University of Missouri-Kansas City). After introductions by Alan Shapiro and David Lindberg, Ashworth gave a richly illustrated Executive Secretary Needed at the Philosophy of Science Association presentation of the unfortunate but very amusing career of the hapless The Philosophy of Science Association seeks applications for the post of seventeenth century natural philosopher Bucculentus in “Bucculentus Executive Secretary, service to begin in June 2008. Qualified applicants are Revisited: The Underside of the Scientific Revolution.” (See page 16 for requested to send c.v. to [email protected]. The PSA reserves the Bucculentus’ career.) right to hold the search open until a satisfactory candidate has been found. The 50th annual Junto will take place at Iowa State University in Ames, Successful candidates will be energetic, knowledgeable in the field, and possess Iowa in the spring of 2007. Plans are underway for a celebration of the 50th some management and/or business experience. The office of Executive Secretary anniversary of the Junto, and a full announcement will appear in an upcom- is unpaid, although it may be possible to negotiate funding for a course release. ing HSS Newsletter. For the complete 2006 program and more information on the Junto or on donating to the Pierson Fund, contact the Secretary- Treasurer Peter Ramberg ([email protected]) or see the Junto Website at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~history_info/hots/junto/junto.htm. – Peter Ramberg

Historical Records of Australian Science In Memoriam: Ferenc Szabadvary Special subscription offer for HSS members erenc Szabadvary died 21 May 2006. A member of the Hungarian CSIRO PUBLISHING is pleased FAcademy of Sciences, former Director-General of the Hungarian to present members of the Museum for Science and Technology, and Editor-in-Chief of History of Science Society with Technikatorteneti Szemle (Review of the History of Technology), he a special 2006 subscription offer to Historical Records of gained fame with his book History of Analytical Chemistry. The book Australian Science. was awarded the Dexter Prize in 1970, making him the first Continental Historical Records of Australian European to win the award. Besides books and book chapters, Szabadvary Science is the journal of record published 382 papers in domestic and foreign journals. In 1971 he joined for the history of science, pure and the Group for Registration and Collection of Technical Monuments, later applied, in Australia and the southwest Pacific. organized as the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology under Print subscription prices include air delivery his leadership. Szabadvary founded a school in technical museology and worldwide. To obtain the discount rate for society launched many young curators and researchers in this interdisciplinary membership, please email us at branch of science. In Hungary, his work in history of science was recog- [email protected] nized by the Szechenyi Prize, awarded by the first democratically-elected

Australia & NZ Rest of the world government in 1991. He was elected corresponding member of the Society members Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995 and regular member in 2002. He Online AU$75 US$55 was a founding member of the Complex Committee for History of Science Print + Online AU$85 US$70 and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Normally Online AU$90 US$65 Committee for History of Science and Technology of the Federation of Print + Online AU$100 US$80 Technical and Scientific Societies. He served as president of the Hungarian IUHPS/DHL Committee for three decades.

www.publish.csiro.au/journals/hras (News continued on page 17) 6 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 BBehindehind tthehe SScenes:cenes: Stephen Weldon, HSS Bibliographer

hen Stephen Weldon began work as the History of Science Society Information for Contributors WBibliographer in the summer of 2002, his first job was to produce the 2002 Current Bibliography (CB) ... in under eight months. After clearing that hurdle, he immedi- Scholars publishing or knowing of articles and books pertinent to the ately jumped into compiling the 2003 bibliography. Since then, he has been producing yearly scope of the CB should notify the Isis Current Bibliography office. bibliographies and formatting data from 2000 and 2001 – making it computer friendly for Send all contributions to Stephen P. Weldon, Department of History of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), publishers of the electronic History of Science, Science, 601 Elm St., Room 618, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Technology, and Medicine (HST) database. “I’ve been juggling quite a bit of data here,” he Oklahoma 73019-3106; email: [email protected]; web page: says. “In December of last year (2005) I finally got up to date, submitting over 12,000 records http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/isis/index.htm. For those wishing to con- and filling in gaps from 2000 to 2005. All of those records have just recently been incorporated tribute an entry or entries, please send as much information about the into the HST database. I urge users to start exploring.” items as possible, using the entries in the CB to guide you. Descriptive Weldon received his Ph.D. (1997) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the remarks of under 50 words are encouraged but not necessary. same university at which the HSS’s previous bibliographer, John Neu, worked for over 30 years. Writing a dissertation on science and secular humanism in the U.S., Weldon would go to Neu for help finding citations. “He was an important figure on campus for all of us in the history of science department,” says Weldon. According to Weldon, the classification and ordering of bibliographic entries was standardized in the Reminder: The Isis Bibliography from 1975 to the present Fifties by a committee of historians of science. Neu maintained that system until he retired. When Weldon is available online with the Research Libraries Group (RLG). took the job, he knew he wanted to make some changes. “I had the historical training, and felt able to Members of the Society may access the RLG Web site and the History make decisions about the classification scheme. For example, there was a category called pseudo-science, of Science and Technology Database (HST) through the HSS home- which had seemed like a perfectly legitimate category for historians of science in an age dominated by page at http://hssonline.org. RLG has assigned us “Y6.G19” as a “User positivism. Since the late 1960s, however, the growth of social constructivism led to an expansion of the Name” and “HSSDEMO” as a “Password.” purview of history of science and reevaluations of knowledge systems in general. It became clear to me that pseudo-science was not a good category. I eliminated it and added categories such as alchemy, astrology, and occult sciences.” Weldon spent a lot of time talking with people about this problem. “While it was clear to me that certain parts needed changes, I did not see that a wholesale reconfiguration was desirable or warranted. After the first year, I called a special session at HSS to discuss the changes, and still people periodically tell me whether it is working for them or not. I keep notes. One of the things that has always struck me about the bibliography is how central it is, not just to the HSS, but to the larger community of histori- fellowships ans of science around world. I want to preserve its uniqueness and its functionality.” Weldon inherited pre-digital methods and developed, with the help of graduate student Sylwester Ratowt, a computerized system sophisticated enough for quick available input and easy proofreading that produces data suitable for both print and electronic publication. He also faced challenges in getting software flexible enough to work on different computers, software that could be coor- The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced dinated with a central server that would periodically update all the Study at Harvard University awards 45 machines with the newest data. “It was daunting,” he says. In the simplest terms, the HSS bibliographer searches for citations and funded residential fellowships each year then classifies them. Weldon’s two graduate student assistants enter most of designed to support scholars, scientists, the data, and he then categorizes it. Some of the sources for citations include artists, and writers of exceptional prom- standard history and history of science journals , major university press cata- logs, and library acquisition slips. Authors also send information about new ise and demonstrated accomplishment. articles and books. “I’m always looking for other ways to find relevant For more information, please contact: publications,” he says. To that end, he Radcliffe Application Office wants people to send him c.v.’s or other 34 Concord Ave. notifications of published work, especially Cambridge, MA 02138 if the publications have appeared in obscure 617-496-1324 places. “We uncover a good bit of material through [email protected] volunteer contributions.” www.radcliffe.edu Fifty percent of Weldon’s time is devoted to the bibliography and fifty percent to teaching at the University of Oklahoma. Pulling together 2,500 to 3,000 entries per year is challenging. “I plan to make it larger. Neu ended his career producing 4,000 entries a year. I have yet to achieve that, but I’m getting closer.” 7 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

Center for Information Technology. His project is titled: “Planting the Seeds: How the Awards, Honors, and NIH Cultivated Biomedical Computing.” Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin, by Richard G. Appointments Olson, professor of history at Harvey Mudd College, has been named to the annual Best Books List for 2005 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Peder Anker joined the Department of History, University of Oslo, as a Senior (AAAS) Science Books & Film (SB&F) magazine. Researcher on a four-year program starting in the spring of 2006. Don Opitz has been appointed assistant professor in the School for New Learning, David Cantor has been appointed series editor for Studies in the Social History of DePaul University (Chicago, IL), effective 1 July 2006. Medicine published by Routledge for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Karen A. Rader and John C. Powers have accepted positions at Virginia The China Reading Weekly named Robert Marc Friedman’s The Politics of Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond, beginning fall 2006. Rader will be Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science as “one of the ten best books of 2005.” an associate professor in the Department of History and director of the new STS The Office of NIH History sponsored a two-day conference this past year on the theme Initiative. Powers will be a collateral assistant professor in the Department of History, ‘Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics,’ in honor of and the Assistant Director of the STS Initiative. Victoria A. Harden, the director of the Office of NIH History, on her retirement. F. Jamil Ragep has been appointed to a Canada Research Chair at the Institute of John L. Heilbron, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Science at the Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Sally P. Ragep has been appointed as University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the 2006 Pais Prize for History of a Research Associate at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Physics. Nancy G. Siraisi has been awarded the Council of the American Historical Among the ACLS Fellows chosen for 2005-06 were three HSS members: Hunter Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction. She has been a prolific and leading Crowther-Heyck (Ryskamp Fellow); F. Jamil Ragep (Digital Innovation Fellow); scholar in the history of medicine and science of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Michael Weintroub (ACLS Fellowship program (“core program”)). Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University) has been awarded the Leo Gershoy Award The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum at the National Institutes of Health for The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (Univ. announces the appointment of Joseph A. November as the next DeWitt Stetten, Jr., of Chicago Press, 2004). Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology. He will spend John Harley Warner has been named Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine his fellowship year (2007-2008) at the NIH conducting research sponsored by the at Yale University.

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The following announcements have been edited for space. For (301) 209-3174. Fax: (301) 209-0882. Deadlines for applications:15 April and 15 November Jobs full descriptions and for the latest announcements, of each year. http://www.aip.org/history/. please visit http://hssonline.org. The Society does not INA Grant-in-Aid Program assume responsibility for the accuracy of any item, and interested persons should The International Neuropsychopharmacology Archives (INA) announces the verify all details. Those who wish to publish a job announcement should send an availability of grants of up to $1,500 to support research at the INA at the Vanderbilt electronic version of the posting to [email protected]. University Medical Center Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Applications must include Director Needed at the Tsongas Industrial History Center a hard copy of: a one-page description of the project, with specific reference to the The University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Lowell National Historic Park seek an archival collections to be consulted; detailed budget; applicant’s c.v.; one letter of recom- experienced educator as director of the Tsongas Industrial History Center in Lowell, MA. mendation from a scholar familiar with the applicant’s work. Grants will be given four Candidates for the position should have an earned doctorate in history, education or relat- times a year. Deadlines are:1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December. Completed applied field and at least ten years of relevant experience. For additional information, see: cations should be sent by the deadline to: INA Grant-in-Aid Program, c/o CINP Central. http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/index2.htm/. Office, 1608 17th Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37212, U.S. Tenure-Track Position in the History of Chemistry or Astronomy at Caltech Why Should Anyone Need to Know about the History of Science? The Humanities faculty at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) invites appli- The British Society for the History of Science is offering a prize of £250 for the cations for a tenure-track position in the history of chemistry or astronomy (17th through best 500-word answer to this question: Why should anyone need to know about the history the 19th centuries). Appointment at the assistant professor level preferred, although of science? The winning entry will be made available on the BSHS Web site: exceptionally well qualified applicants will be considered at associate or full professor http://www.bshs.org.U.K./. Essays should be written for a general audience; footnotes level. Review will begin 1 October 2006 and continue until the position is filled. For more should be avoided. Anyone wishing to submit essays should contact information, contact Sanja Ilic: phone: 626.395.1724; e-mail: [email protected]. [email protected]. for an entry identification number. Deadline is 31 August 2006. Naval Research Laboratory Seeking Historian 2007 NEH Summer Stipends Awards The NRL in Washington, D. C. is seeking a Historian to perform all duties related to the The NEH Summer Stipends program supports two months of full-time research on a funding, staffing, and conduct of the NRL History Program. Candidates must be eligible for project in the humanities. The award is $5,000; deadline is 2 October 2006. For applica- a Non-Critical Sensitive Security Clearance. Deadline 1 September. Contact: Cindy Stiles, tions and further details visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html. NRL Human Resources Office. Phone: 202.767.7878, E-mail: [email protected]. Residencies at the Institute for Advanced Study The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology and anthropology. Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes For 2007-2008 the focus will be The Rule of Law Under Pressure. Application deadline is 15 The following announcements have been edited for space. For full descriptions and for the lat- November, 2006. For more information: http://www.sss.ias.edu/applications. est announcements, please visit our Web site (http://hssonline.org). The Society does not assume The BSHS Singer Prize 2006 responsibility for the accuracy of any item, and potential applicants should verify all details, The Singer Prize, of up to £300, is awarded by the BSHS every two years to the writer of especially closing dates, with the organization or foundation of interest. Those who wish to pub- an unpublished essay based in original research into any aspect of the history of science, lish a grant, fellowship, or prize announcement should send an electronic version of the post- technology or medicine. The Prize is intended for younger scholars or recent entrants into ing to [email protected]. the profession. Essays on offer or in press will not be eligible. The deadline is 15 December Bakken Library 2006. Enquiries only by e-mail to [email protected].. Visit: http://www.bshs.org.U.K.. The Bakken Library and Museum offers Visiting Research Fellowships and Research Memberships in the School of Historical Studies at the Travel Grants for research in its collection relating to the history of electricity and magnet- Institute for Advanced Study ism. For further information e-mail Elizabeth Ihrig at [email protected]. Web Candidates of any nationality may apply for one or two terms at the Institute for site: http://www.thebakken.org; click on “Library” or “Research.” Advanced Studies. Residence in Princeton during term time is required. The only The Victor and Joy Wouk Grant-in-Aid Program other obligation of Members is to pursue their own research. Ph.D. (or equivalent) and California Institute of Technology Grants-in-Aid offers research assistance of up to substantial publications are required. For further information: http://www.hs.ias.edu. $2000 for work in the Papers of Victor Wouk in the Caltech Archives. The Maurice A. Biot American Geographical Society Library Fellowships for 2007 Archives Fund and other designated funds offer research assistance up to $1500 to use the The AGS Library offers two short-term fellowship programs: The McColl Research collections of the Caltech Archives. Please visit: http://archives.caltech.edu. Applications are Program fellowship is for those who wish to communicate their research results to a broad reviewed on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year. audience. Awards of $3,000 for four-week fellowships will be provided to support residencies The University of Oklahoma Travel Fellowship Program that make direct use of the Library. The Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships The Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship Program helps visitors to make use of include stipends of $375 per week, for periods up to four weeks, for residencies that make the University’s History of Science Collections. Proposals from scholars at both predoctoral direct use of the Library. For further information: http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/fel- and postdoctoral levels are evaluated continuously upon receipt, and funds awarded shortly lowships.html. after the decision is made. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. Web site: 2007 Jerry Stannard Memorial Award http://libraries.ou.edu/etc/histsci/mellon.asp. The $1,000 award is given by the University of Kansas for an outstanding published or Grants in Aid for History of Modern Physics unpublished scholarly study in the pre-1700 fields of materia medica, medicinal botany, The Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics has a pharmacy, folklore of drug therapy, and the bibliography of these areas. The competition is program of grants-in-aid for research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences open to graduate students and to recent recipients of a doctoral degree. Manuscripts must and their social interactions. Grants can be up to $2,000 and will be given only to reimburse be in English, French or German, and should include a one-page abstract in English, a expenses for travel and subsistence to use the resources of the Center’s Niels Bohr Library in current c.v., and a letter of recommendation from an established scholar in the field. College Park, Maryland, or expenses to tape-record oral history interviews or microfilm Deadline 15 February 2007. Address manuscripts and correspondence to: The Stannard archival materials. Apply to: Spencer Weart, Center for History of Physics, American Institute Award Committee, Attn: Prof. Victor Bailey, Dept. of History, University of Kansas, Wescoe of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. E-mail: sweart@ aip.org. 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Thursday, 2 November Thierry Bardini, Université de Montréal, “Bush and the Nexus: Towards the 1:00 p.m. - 5:00p.m. Hypertextual Interface” HSS Council Meeting Jean-François Blanchette, University of California, Los Angeles, “From Enigma Machines to the Word Wide Web: Public-key Cryptography and the Promise 5:30p.m. - 7:00p.m. of Electronic Authenticity” Plenary Session Bruno J. Strasser, University of Lausanne, “Banking DNA Sequences: Physicists, Biologists and the Electronic Management of Biomedical Data” 7:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. Commentator: Timothy Lenoir, Duke University Welcome Orientation for First-Time Attendees *Chair: Nancy Anderson, Dartmouth College

7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m. History of Evolutionary Theory (F4) Ana Barahona, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “The Rhetorical Reception Construction of Eldredge and Gould’s Article on the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria in 1972” 7:30p.m. - 9:30p.m. Raf De Bont, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “Fighting on Two Fronts: Chemical Interest Group Dinner (check www.chemheritage.org ) Spiritualist Thinking and Evolutionary Theory in Fin de Siècle Belgium.” William deJong-Lambert, “Szczepan Pieniazek: Polish Lysenkoist” 9:00 p.m. - 11:00p.m. Kathryn S. Plaisance, University of Minnesota, “Fisher v. Fisher: The Origins of Graduate Student Party (tentative) Analysis of Variance in the Biological and Behavioral Sciences” Robert H. Silliman, Emory University, “Pilgrim’s Progress: Leo Lesquereux Friday, 3 November (1806-1889) and the Rise of Palaeobotany in America” (* indicates session organizer) 7:30 a.m. - 8:45a.m. Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Negotiating Two Women’s Caucus Meeting Worlds through Practice and Performance, 1850-1910 (F5) Erwin Hiebert, Harvard University, “The Physics and Mathematics of Just 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. Intonation in the History of Fixed-Tone Keyboard Construction” (Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.) Elfrieda Hiebert, Harvard University, “Exploring Links Between Science and Putting the World in Order: Collecting in the Eighteenth Century (F1) Piano Pedagogy During the Late 19th Century” James Delbourgo, McGill University, “How to Collect the World, and Why? by *Alexandra Hui, University of California, Los Angeles, “Musical Instruments, Hans Sloane” Psychophysical Instruments: The Sound Sensation Studies of Hermann Helmholtz Beth Fowkes Tobin, Arizona State University, “The Duchess’s South Pacific Shells: Gift and Ernst Mach” Exchanges, Commercial Networks, and Regimes of Value in Natural History Collecting” Gustavo Garza, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Objective Preservation of Matthew D. Eddy, Durham University, “Symbolic Specimens. Or, Teaching Subjective Expression: The Use of the Phonograph in Ethnographic Fieldwork at the University Students to Be Collectors, 1770-1800” Turn of the 20th Century” *Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California, “Seeing, Owning, and Chair and Commentator: Emily Thompson, University of California at Knowing: Training the Expert Eyes of Naturalists and Art Connoisseurs” San Diego Chair and Commentator: Paula Findlen, Stanford University Theoretical Physics Up Close: Editing the Papers of Einstein, Cells, Ants, Apes, and Angels in Natural and Human Economies (F2) Hilbert, Lorentz, Poincaré (F6) Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia, “More Like Apes Than Angels: Natur- Jeroen van Dongen, California Institute of Technology, “German Reactionaries al Historical Modes of Thinking in the Political Economy of David Hume and Adam Smith” and Einstein’s Fame: The Anti-Relativity Campaign of 1920.” Andrew Stuart Reynolds, Cape Breton University, “The Power of Metaphor: Anne J. Kox, University of Amsterdam, “Hendrik Antoon Lorentz’s Scientific The Cell as Metaphorical and Literal Factory” Correspondence: New Insights into His Thinking and His Personality” *Abigail Lustig, University of Texas, Austin, “Ant Economics and Cold War Sociobiology” *Tilman Sauer, California Institute of Technology, “David Hilbert’s Lectures on Commentator: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics the Foundations of Physics” Chair: Thomas Archibald, Simon Fraser University Scott Walter, University of Nancy, “Henri Poincaré’s Correspondence with Physicists, Chemists, and Engineers” In the Legacy of Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think”: Interactivity, Commentator: TBD Representation and the Archive in an Electronic Age (F3) Chair: Diana Kormos Buchwald, California Institute of Technology Orit Halpern, Duke University, “Screen-Memories: Temporality, Perception and the Archive in Cybernetic Thought” I History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Friday, 3 November Herty/Smith Feud of 1917, and the Triumph of Nationalist Rhetoric in the American 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. (continued) Chemical Society” Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, “Re-evaluating the ‘Revolution’: Chemistry Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue (F7) and the Divide Between Science and Technology” Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Critiques of the Chair: TBD Biblical Argument Against Copernicanism: Ingoli, Foscarini, Galileo, Campanella” Richard Oosterhoff, Redeemer University College, “Did Literalization in Psychology and Madness (F12) Theology Affect Natural Philosophy? Testing Harrison’s Hypothesis” Christopher D. Green, York University, “The Historical Impact for *Jitse Vandermeer, Redeemer University College, “Georges Cuvier and the Use Experimental Psychology of Johns Hopkins U. Choosing G. S. Hall Rather than C. S. of Scripture in Geology” Peirce for Its Philosophy Professorship in 1883.” James Matthew Ashley, University of Notre Dame, “Contesting ‘The Universe Story’: Sultana Banulescu, Princeton University, “A Baltic Noblewoman and Italian Theistic and Atheistic Interpretations of ‘Deep History’ at the End of the 20th Century” Psychoanalysis” Chair: Jitse Vandermeer, Redeemer University College Jennifer L. Bazar, York University, “The Toronto Asylum as Seen by Society” Kathryn McKay, Simon Fraser University, “Before the Cuckoo’s Nest: 19th and 20th Century Traditions: Negotiating Medicine in Pre- Accusations of Madness and First Nations Women” Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial Vietnam (F8) Henderikus J. Stam, University of Calgary, “Instruments of Intelligence: *Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University, “The Natural Animals in Early Twentieth-Century Psychology” Laws of Reproduction and Inheritance in Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam, 1802-1945” Chair: TBD Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal, “Can Traditional Medicine Be (Scientifically) Trustworthy? Colonial Views of Vietnamese Medicine in the First Half Art, Performance, and Science (F13) of the Twentieth Century” Hanna Rose Shell, Harvard University, “Productive Mimesis and the Art of Michitake Aso, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Race, Science, and Disappearance: Abbott H. Thayer, Protective Coloration in Nature, and the Modeling Nationalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Vietnam” of Strategic Invisibility (1890-1920)” Ayo Wahlberg, BIOS Centre, London School of Economics, “Caught in Cornelius Borck, McGill University, “The Posthumanism of the Avantgarde: Transition: Traditional Medicine and the Emerging Problem of ‘unhealthy lifestyles’ Artistic Experiments in Prosthetic Vision” in Vietnam” Cecelia A. Watson, University of Chicago, “‘And my picture, of course, has not altered’: John La Farge’s Influence on the Psychology and Philosophy of William James” Race and Racism: Studying Humans in Sofie Lachapelle, University of Guelph, “Science on Stage: Magic Shows and Twentieth-Century America (F9) ‘Amusing Physics’ in Nineteenth-Century Paris” Juliet Burba, Science Museum of Minnesota, “Discerning the Original Type: Ales Laura J. Snyder, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2006), “‘Connexion and Unity’ Hrdlicka’s Reconciliation of Race and Prehistoric Migration” in William Whewell’s Science of Architecture” *Margot Iverson, University of Minnesota, “The Influence of Native American Chair: TBD Blood-Types on William C. Boyd’s Genetic Theory of Race” Paul Lawrence Farber, Oregon State University, “Science and Race-mixing in 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. 20th Century America” Organization Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Melinda Gormley, Oregon State University, “Undermining Scientific Racism: Practice (SPSP) Politics and Science at Columbia University” Open to all, please bring your lunch Chair and Commentator: John Jackson, University of Colorado 12:00p.m. - 12:30p.m. In Memory of Marshall Clagett (F10) Forum for the History of Science in America (FHSA) Business *A. Mark Smith, University of Missouri, “How Should We Interpret ‘Experiment’ Meeting in Alhacen’s Optical Analysis?” Edith Dudley Sylla, North Carolina State University, “The Place of Jacob 12:30p.m. - 1:15p.m. Bernoulli’s The Art of Conjecturing in the History of Mathematics” FHSA Distinguished Scientist Lecture: Bruce Eastwood, University of Kentucky, “From Computus to Astronomy in the Jill Morawski, Wesleyan University Carolingian Renaissance” Sabetai Unguru, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, “Interpretation and 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. Overinterpretation of Apollonius’s Conica” Agricultural Science (F14) Chair: David Lindberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison Seung-joon Lee, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, “Taste in Numbers: Agricultural Science and the Rice Control Policy in Guomindang China, 1927-1937” Chemistry and Society (F11) Micah Rueber, Mississippi State University, “In One End and Out the Udder: Jacob Stegenga, University of California, San Diego, “The Chemical Vitamins, Oleo Margarine, and American Dairy Science” Characterization of the Gene: A Sociological Analysis of Scientific Reception” Bert Theunissen, Utrecht University, “The ‘Holsteinisation of the Dutch Dairy Debasmita Patra, University of Hyderabad, “History of Institutionalization of Cattle Breeds in the 1970s and 1980s” Solid State Chemistry in India: Deriving From a Particular Case” Theodore James Varno, University of California, Berkeley, “Sewall Wright at the Martha Harris, University of Toronto, “Chemical Reductionism Revisited: The Bureau of Animal Industry: Inbreeding and the Agricultural Roots of the Modern Synthesis” Physico-Chemical Nature of the Chemical Bond” Chair: TBD Donald Cotter, Mount Holyoke College, “Unconditional Surrender: The II History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 The Newtonian Revolution (F15) Boyertown, Pennsylvania: Risk, Radon, and Regulation in Cold War America” Ari Belenkiy, Bar-Ilan University, “Groping Toward Linear Regression Analysis: Patrick David Slaney, University of British Columbia, “James B. Conant on Newton’s Analysis of Hipparchus’ Equinox Observations” Science Education: Science, Security and the Institutions of Social Order in the Early Massimo Mazzotti, University of Exeter, “The Catholic Newton” Cold War” Joel Kenton Press, University of Arizona, “What Leibniz Failed to See in Alex Wellerstein, Harvard University, “Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Locke’s Conception of Space” Intellectual Property, and Technological Control” Edward T. Richards, Jr., University of Tennessee, “Securing the Conceptual Roland Wittje, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, “Nuclear Foundations of Newton’s Mechanics: The Case for a Post-Principia De Gravitatione” Physics Instrumentation in Norway: 1933-1955” Chair: TBD Chair: TBD

Cultures of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (F16) The Spaces of Science (F21) Dane Thor Daniel, Wright State University, Lake Campus, “Alchemical Aspects Talitha Bolton, University of Kent at Canterbury, “Mapping British Institutions of Paracelsus’ Theology” of Science: The Spatial Characteristics of the Common Cold Unit and Porton Down’s Cesare Pastorino, Indiana University, Bloomington, “The Alchemical Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment” Background to Bacon’s Proteus” Eric Brown, Princeton University, “The Lab and the Field in 19th-century Kevin Chang, Academia Sinica, “Balsamic Pills: The Alchemical Background American Economic Geology” and Commercial Value of the Stahlian Equivalent of Universal Medicine” Dmitry Valerievich Efremenko, Institute for Scientific Information on Social *John C. Powers, Sarah Lawrence College, “Alchemy at the University: Herman Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Societal and Historical Background of V. Boerhaave’s Lectures at Leiden” I. Vernadsky’s Theory of Noosphere” Chair: TBD Sarah Grossman, University of New Mexico, “Extending the Area of Freedom: Categorical Differentiation,Topographical Analysis, and the New Mexico Territory” History of Science and Pedagogy (F17) Chair: TBD Michelle D. Hoffman, University of Toronto, “Factoring History into the Equation: History of Science in Ontario High School Physics Textbooks, 1911-Present” The Imperial Context of Science (F22) Trevor J. Owens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “A Child’s Eye View of Life Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University, “When the Green Archipelago as a Scientist: Science, Society, and Gender in the History of Children’s Biographies Encountered Formosa: Colonial Governance, Capitalism and the Emergence of of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein” Modern Forestry in Colonial Taiwan (1895-1930s)” Sage Ross, Yale University, “Natural Philosophy Images: Pedagogy and Popular Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Steno Institute, University of Aarhus, “Postcolonial Science in America” Partnership: Science, State and Media in the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52” Steve Sturdy, University of Edinburgh, “Scientific Method for Medical Practitioners: Brian Schefke, University of Washington, “The Hudson’s Bay Company as a The Case Method of Teaching Pathology in early Twentieth-century Edinburgh” Context for Science in the Columbia Department” Chair: TBD Rajive Tiwari, Belmont Abbey College, “Astronomy Education and Religion in Colonial India” History of Modern Astronomy (F18) Chair: TBD Matthew C. Aberman, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Politics of Pure Speculation” Studies in Molecular Biology (F23) Francesca Bavuso, College Misericordia, “Figures in Obsolescence: Changes to Elena A. Aronova, Salk Institute & University of California at San Diego, Constellation Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Europe” “’Humanitarizing’ Molecular Biology: Programs in the Humanities and Social David Michael Gossman, Texas Tech University, “The Scientist and the Sciences at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 1963-1979” Craftsmen Traditions in the Twentieth Century: George Ellery Hale and George W. Heiko Stoff, Technische Universität Braunschweig, “Active Substances as Ritchey at Mount Wilson Observatory” Precarious Substances: Institutionalizing Research on Enzymes, Vitamins and Woodruff T. Sullivan, University of Washington, “Radio Astronomy after World Hormones in Germany, 1920-1970” War II: A New Way of Doing Business” Justin Suran, University of California, San Francisco, “Colin M. MacLeod & Chair: TBD Cold War Microbiology” Edna Suárez, UNAM/Max Planck Institute for History of Science, “‘Information’ The Science of the Mind (F19) as ‘History’: Metaphor and Politics in the Early Days of Molecular Evolution” Howard Hsueh Hao Chiang, Columbia University, “Effecting Science, Affecting Medicine: Homosexuality, the Kinsey Reports, and the Contested Boundaries of Science and Society (F24) Psychopathology in the United States, 1948-65” Lino Camprubi, Cornell University, “Transforming Regimes: Continuity of Ziv Eisenberg, Yale University, “Old Ideas, New Science: Mental Health and the Scientific Institutions in Spain (1960-1980)” Medical Care of Pregnant Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America” Yulia Egorova, Cardiff University, “Science and Culture: Conversations with Alexandra Rutherford, York University, “Inside the Human Skinner Box” Geneticists” Martin Staum, University of Calgary, “Nature and Nurture in French Psychology Brigit Ramsingh, University of Toronto, “Making History: A. Linton Davidson and Sociology, 1873-1914” and the Story of the Canadian Food and Drug Directorate” Chair: TBD Frank W. Stahnisch, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, “German- Speaking Neuroscientists in North-America after 1933: The Issue of Emigration- Science and Society in the Cold War (F20) Induced Scientific Change” Ellen Bales, University of California, Berkeley, “From Calamity Mesa to Chair: TBD III History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Friday, 3 November Humanists, Artisans, and Laboratories: A Session in Memory of 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. (continued) Owen Hannaway (F30) Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, “Laboratory Work and the Spaces of Physics and Physicists (F25) the World” Paul Arpaia, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “Radium as a Cultural Mary Henninger-Voss, Independent Scholar, “Mathematicians and the Word” Phenomenon in late-19th-century Italy” Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, “Butter and Mercury, Lizards and Deepanwita Dasgupta, University of Minnesota, “Doing Science from a Vermilion: Artisanal Views of Nature in Early Modern Europe” Colony: S.N. Bose and His Communications with Einstein” Commentator: Barbara Becker, University of California, Irvine Christina Turner, University of Notre Dame, “The Early History of Gravitational Chair: John Servos, Amherst College Lensing” (Organized by Sharon Kingsland, John Hopkins University) Kelley Wilder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Trusting the Photochemical Trace: Creating Quantitative Data from a Photographic Plate.” The Grande Dame of Enlightenment Science: Celebrating Émilie du Chair: TBD Châtelet’s 300th Birthday (1706-2006) (F31) Matthew Jones, Columbia University, “From Sociability to Vis-Viva: Émilie du Race and Science (F26) Châtelet on Social and Natural Order” Conor Burns, University of Toronto, “Ethnological Diversity in a New Light: Judith P. Zinsser, Miami University, Ohio, “Mme Du Châtelet and the Historians” Daniel Wilson’s 1858 Critique of North American Ethnology” *Jean-Francois Gauvin, Harvard University, “Experience, Luxury, and Natural Andrea Patterson, California State University Fullerton, “The Medicalization Philosophy: Du Châtelet and Scientific Instruments at Cirey” of Racism: Public Health Policies in the Early-20th-Century American South” Chair and Commentator: Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles Jessica Weaver, University of Notre Dame, “The British Bathing Ritual in India: Environmental Determinism and the Nineteenth-century Case for Cold Bathing in Medicine and the Modern City (F32) Warm Climates” *Suzanne M. Fischer, University of Minnesota, “Selling Scientific Medicine: Samuel Talcott, DePaul University, “Kant’s Concept of Race and the Science of ‘For Men Only’ Advertising Medical Institutes, Immigrants and Scientific Living Things” Popularization in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago” Chair: TBD Rachel Ponce, University of Chicago, “Murder, Passion, and Insanity: Rationalization and Pathologization in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth (Coffee Break 3:10p.m. - 3:30p.m.) Century France and the United States.” Joseph M. Gabriel, University of California, San Diego, “Contagious Habit: 3:30p.m. - 5:00p.m. (F27) Drugs, Addiction, and Metaphors of Infection, 1870-1920” Mathematics Before the ‘Arts and Sciences’ Halle Lewis, “Risk, Health, and Disability in Working-Class Cleveland, 1880-1895” Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago, “God’s Arithmetic” Chair: Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota, “Courtly Mathematics? Evangelista Torricelli’s Finite Volume Infinite Solid in Cultural Context” Scientific Transfer Across the Seas (F33) *Jacqueline Wernimont, Brown University, “Refiguring the Literary Family Vera Schwach, Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Tree: Recognizing the Place of Mathematics in a History of Literature” Education Centre for Innovation Research, “Seek a Field of Science and Find Commentator: TBA Fishes. Johan Hjort and the Emergence of Oceanography 1890-1920” Chair: Niccolo Guicciardini, Università di Siena Jennifer M. Hubbard, Ryerson University, “The Canadian Fisheries Expedition 1914-1915: Johan Hjort and the Birth of a Scientific Program in Canada” Are Mountains Necessary? Working with Altitude in European *Mary Carmel Finley, University of California, San Diego, “The Voyages of the Science, 1840-1920 (F28) Pacific Explorer: Oceanographic Research, Catching Fish and Making Money, 1946-48” *Michael S. Reidy, Montana State University, “Joseph Dalton Hooker and Chair: Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut Verticality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” Robert Marc Friedman, University of Oslo, “Geophysical Science for Tough Situating Newton in Philosophical Context (F34) Guys: Polar Heroics and Norwegian Auroral Research” Andrew Janiak, Duke University, “Newton as a Critic of Descartes” Bruce Hevly, University of Washington, “Does Up Equal North? Travelogue, Local *Mary Domski, University of New Mexico, “Locke and Newton on the Knowledge and Natural Law in James David Forbes’s Norway and Its Glaciers” Mathematical Nature of Natural Philosophy” Chair and Commentator: Bernard Lightman, York University Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University & Leiden University, “Hume’s Attack on Newton’s Philosophy” Science, Technology, Morality, and Community: 20th-Century African- Chair and Commentator: Daniel Garber, Princeton University American Commitments and Ideals (F29) *Helena Pycior, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “The Pioneering African- Circulation of Knowledge in Postwar Japan (F35) American Research Scientists: Superimposed Callings to Research, Teaching, and Service” *Hyungsub Choi, Johns Hopkins University, “Replicating the Transistor in Ronald Elbert Mickens, Clark Atlanta University, “Black Scientific Organizations” Occupied Japan, 1948-1954” Rayvon Fouche, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Facing the Challenge of a Kenji Ito, The University of Tokyo, “Transmission of Feynman Diagrams from the New Age: Martin Luther King, Jr., Science, and Morality” United States to Japan: A Case of a Resonance of Scientific Practice” Commentator: Kenneth Manning, MIT Chigusa Kita, Kansai University, Japan, “Transistor Computer on Campus since 1960” Chair: Helena Pycior, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Commentator: Sharon Traweek, University of California, Los Angeles Chair: TBD IV History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Talking about the Birds and the Bees: Popularizing Behavioral Natural Knowledge: Roundtable on the Histories of Science Biology in the 20th Century (F36) and the Environment (F42) Amanda Rees, University of York, “Working with Beasts: Animal Societies in 20th *Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley Century Popular Culture” Gregg Mittman, University of Wisconsin, Madison Graeme Beale, University of Edinburgh, “One for the Birds? The Tinbergen Edmund Russell, University of Virginia School’s Presentation of Ornithology as the Behavioral Science of Ethology” Ron Doel, Oregon State University Tania Munz, Princeton University, “Famous Scientists, Popular Beasts: Teaching Chair: Michael Egan, McMaster University the Public about Animals in the Works of Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz” *Mark E. Borrello, University of Minnesota, “Lessons from Nature? Teaching Women, Gender and Science: Conservation, Overpopulation and a World Out of Balance” Extending the Limits (F43) Chair: Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota Monica H. Green, “The Whole Enchilada: On the Virtues of Teaching Aristotle to AIDS” Mara Mills, Harvard University, “Teaching Feminist Science Studies After the Medicine to WWI (F37) Biological Turn” Henry B. Kreuzman, College of Wooster, “Where, When, Who, and What: The Susan Rensing, Mississippi State University, “Teaching Women, Gender, and Empirical Nature of Alexander Gordon’s Arguments that Childbed Fever is Infectious” Science at Mississippi State” Anna Geltzer, Cornell University, “Penicillin as an Emerging Technology” Grace Sirju-Charran, University of the West Indies, “Content and Pedagogy of a Angela D. Seaworth, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Course on Gender and Science” “Serving Humanity: Women’s Use of Science in WWI International Relief” Chair: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota Chair: TBD (Organized by Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University) Contextualizing the Cognitive Revolution (F38) Saturday, November 4th Tara H. Abraham, York University, “Warren S. McCulloch’s Mechanization of 7:30a.m. - 8:45a.m. the Brain and Mind” Osiris Breakfast *Gregory Radick, University of Leeds, “The Reactionary Origins of the Chomskyan Revolution: The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis” 9:00a.m. - 11:45am Hunter Crowther-Heyck, University of Oklahoma, “Patrons of the Revolution: (Coffee Break 10:00a.m. - 10:15a.m.) Ideals and Institutions in Postwar Behavioral Science” Probing the World with Waves (Sa1) Jamie Cohen-Cole, “Cognitive Science and the Politics of Autonomy in Cold War George E. Smith, Dibner Institute/Tufts University, “Messages from the Inside America” of the Earth” Chair: Ellen Herman, University of Oregon Edward Jones-Imhotep, York University, “Images and the Enemy: Ionosondes and the Nature of War” On the Origins of Pragmatism (F39) Claire Calcagno, Dibner Institute, “Sounding the Past: The Development of *Paul Jerome Croce, Stetson University, “Rejected Science: William James’s Use Sonar Surveying in Underwater Archaeology” of His Father’s Beliefs” Jeremiah James, Dibner Institute, “Modeling and Mimesis in Early X-Ray David E. Leary, University of Richmond, “Between Peirce (1877) and James Crystallography” (1898): G. Stanley Hall and the Origins of Pragmatism” *Chen-Pang Yeang, MIT/University of Toronto, “How Much Wave Theory Did Francesca Bordogna, Northwestern University, “Enchanted Pragmatism: G. Radio Ionospheric Sensors Need?” Papini and G. Prezzolini’s Variety of Pragmatism, and its Uses” Chair: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University Chair and Commentator: James Gilbert, University of Maryland Making Knowledge Travel: The Circulation of Skills and Instruments 7:00p.m. - 9:30pm in Early Modern Science (Sa2) Teaching with Harmonics: Integrating History of Science Content into Jessica G. Riskin, Stanford University, “Mechanical Christs, Hydraulic Brutes the Non-History-of-Science Course ((F40) and the Invention of Consciousness” *Julie Newell, Southern Polytechnic State University Stéphane Van Damme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Daniel Kevles, Yale University “Philosophical Mobility within European Capital Cities Between Scientific Practices Edward B. Davis, Messiah College and Sociability : A Comparative Study.” Chair: Robert DeKosky, University of Kansas *Koen Vermeir, Harvard University, “Divination and the Circulation of Contested Knowledge Claims (1690-1720)” Coping with Exceptional Circumstances – Natural Disasters (F41) Nicholas Dew, McGill University, “Baroque Metrology and the Travels of the Sarah Dry, University of Cambridge, “Saving Lives Everyday: Disaster Prevention Seconds Pendulum, 1672-1726” in mid-Victorian Britain” Chair: Bronwen Wilson, McGill University Jordan Kellman, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, “Highly Mutable Mobiles: Guillaume Le Gentil’s Passage to Brahmanic Astronomy as a Response to Disaster” The Impact of the Great War on Science and Scientists (Sa3) Matthias Dorries, Université Louis Pasteur, “Responding to Natural Hazards: *Matthew Stanley, Iowa State University, “Work of National Importance: British Krakatau” Science, A.S. Eddington, and Conscription in the Great War” Felix Driver, University of London, “Disaster in the Tropics: The Wreck and Stefan Wolff, Deutsches Museum, “German Physicists in World War I – The Role Salvage of HMS Thetis, 1830-1854” of Wilhelm Wien” Chair: TBD Charlotte Bigg, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “From the Belle- V History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Saturday, 4 November Nuclear Peripheries: Challenging Geographic, Institutional and 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. (continued) Disciplinary Narratives in Nuclear History (Sa8) Époque to the Années Folles: What Was the Impact of the First World War on the *Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Clemson University, “The Other Atomic Scientists: French Physical Sciences?” Oceanographers and Radioactive Waste in the Fifties” Ole Molvig, Yale University, “The First World War and the Reorganization of Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan, “Scenes from the Nuclear Life of Scientific Communication” Radon, Set in South Africa, Australia, and other Peripheries” Chair: TBD Jahnavi Phalkey, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Urgent and Highly Important: The Organization of Nuclear Research in Postwar India (1946 -1948)” Observation and Experiment in the Early Modern Period (Sa4) Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, “Promise Wilbur Applebaum, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Copernicanism, Precision and Peril of Nuclear Ambitions: Argentina during the 1976-1983 Military Regime” and Causality at the Watershed of the Scientific Revolution” Commentator: Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney Paolo Palmieri, University of Pittsburgh, “Replicating Galileo’s Pendulum Experiments” Chair: Morris Low, The Johns Hopkins University Michael Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Huygens’ ‘anom- alous suspension’ Revisited” Local Knowledge at the Margins of Science and Empire (Sa9) Yaakov Zik, University of Haifa, “Laying Bare the Sources of Errors: Kepler’s Theodore Binnema, University of Northern British Columbia, “Peter Fidler Optical Part of Astronomy” and Enlightenment Science in the Hudson’s Bay Company Territories, 1788-1822” Renee Jennifer Raphael, Princeton University, “Accepted by Mathematicians Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, University of Victoria, “‘Marginal’ Landscapes of and Confirmed by Experiments: An Investigation of 17th-Century Attempts to Verify Science? Gender, Environments, and Colonial Encounters in Nineteenth-century Galileo’s Science of Motion through Experiment” Australia, Canada, and New Zealand” Chair: TBD Julie Cruikshank, University of British Columbia, “Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest” Medicine and Public Health (Sa5) *Suzanne Zeller, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Wild Life: The Animal Stories of Ernest Mary Frances Chicorelli, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers, “The Pain Pa- Thompson Seton (1860-1946), the Canadian North, and Post-Darwinian Biology” radigm: John Bonica, Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall’s Quest to Conquer Chronic Pain” Aryn Martin, Cornell University, “Nature’s Experiment: A Genealogy of Chimeras At the Edge of Instrument Studies: Alternate Practices and Made and Found in 20th-Century Clinical Medicine” Interpretations in the History of Instruments in Science (Sa10) Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University, “Why Have So Many Medical Historians Catherine Eagleton, British Museum, “Did You Hear the One About the Student Been Working For the Tobacco Industry As Expert Witnesses? And How Does Defense and the Astrolabe?: Learned Humour in 1420s Oxford” Expert Testimony Differ from that of Plaintiff’s Witnesses?” *Janet Vertesi, Cornell University, “Images of Instruments: The Visual Rhetoric Daniel Schneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Public vs. Private of Virtual Witnessing in Hevelius’ Organographia” Science: Biological Sewage Treatment and the Struggle Over Patents, 1896-1937” Boris Jardine, University of Cambridge, “Darwin’s Microscopes: Theory, Practice Nicolas Rasmussen, University of New South Wales, Australia, “Amphetamine and Reputation” and the Reinvention of Depression, 1935-1955” Chitra Ramalingam, Harvard University, “Sparks, Striations, and Radiant Chair: TBD Matter – Inside the Early Vacuum Tube” Chair: Janet Vertesi, Cornell University On the Trail of Wildlife Migration Studies (Sa6) Joseph E. Taylor III, Simon Fraser University, “Peeking into the Black Box: Watches and Apples, Examiners and Genes: Intersections in the The Science and Politics of Mapping Pacific Salmon Migratory Patterns” History of Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property (Sa11) *Dan Bouk, Princeton University, “The Migrating Jersey Bird: The Study and *Daniel Kevles, Yale University, “Policing Intellectual Property in New Fruits: Control of Salt Marsh Mosquitoes” The Case of the Golden Delicious Apple” Robert M. Wilson, Syracuse University, “A Bird’s Eye View of North America: Kara Swanson, Harvard University, “Scientific Men, Working Ladies, and the Avian Migration Studies and Waterfowl Management, 1920-1960” Inventive Community in the Antebellum United States Patent Office” D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University, “‘The Stalk of the Louse’: Whale Brendan Alexander Matz, Yale University, “Hybrid Corn and Transgenic Marking, Migration Research, and Stock Analysis in the Twentieth Century” Plants: A Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Property Regimes” Chair and Commentator: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University Mario Biagioli, Harvard University, “From Ciphers to Patents: Registering Priority Claims in Early Modern Europe” Cold War Astronomy (Sa7) Prakash Kumar, Colorado State University, “Battle Against Bt Cotton: The Principle *David H. DeVorkin, Smithsonian Institution - National Air and Space of ‘Biological and Intellectual Commons’ in the Anti-GMO Movement in India” Museum, “Leo Goldberg and the Two Chinas” Chair: TBD Teasel Muir-Harmony, University of Notre Dame, “Tracking Diplomacy: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Satellite Tracking Station in India” Understanding Other Natures: Colonial Natural History in Spanish John Krige, Georgia Tech, “Why Did the Ford Foundation Support the Creation of Peru, French Egypt and British India (1737-1947) (Sa12) the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Early 1960s?” Jane H. Murphy, Princeton University, “Eighteenth-Century Colonies, Natural Patrick McCray, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Global Science- History, and Old World Exploration” Sport of Satellite Tracking during the IGY” Matthew James Crawford, University of California, San Diego, “The Case of Quina: Commentator: Robert Smith, University of Alberta Trans-Atlantic Institutions and Natural History in the Spanish Colonial Empire, 1737-1792” Chair: Ron Doel, Oregon State University Minakshi Menon, University of California, San Diego, “Colonialism and Its VI History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Forms of Knowledge: British Natural History in Late Eighteenth and Early Science and Religion (Sa18) Nineteenth-Century Colonial India” Taner Edis, Truman State University, “Islamic Creationism in Turkey: Historical *John Mathew, Harvard University, “Fashioning a Regional Natural History: and Intellectual Perspectives” The Fauna of British India Series” Ab Flipse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, “‘Not a Bastion of Unbelief’: Dutch Calvinist Chair and Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University and Roman-Catholic Scientists About Science-Religion Issues in the Early 20th Century” Ernst Hamm, York University, “Science, Dissenters and the Dutch Enlightenment” Women and People of Color in the Profession: Problems and John Stenhouse, University of Otago, Dunedin, “‘True Knowledge’ the ‘Handmaid Prospects (Sponsored by the Women’s Caucus) (Sa13) of True Religion’: Christian Missions and the Spread of Science, 1790-1930” Jane R. Camerini, “Integration of Independent Scholars in the HSS” Chair: TBD Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University Sharrona Pearl, Harvard University, “Women and People of Colour in the Physics and Physicists in the Twentieth Century (Sa19) Profession: A Graduate Student/Junior Scholar Perspective” Kai-Henrik Barth, Georgetown University, “Scientists, Clerics, and Nuclear Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University Decision Making in Iran” Chair: Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University Aant Elzinga, University of Goteborg, Sweden, “Einstein’s Nobel Prize. Some (Organized by Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University) New Light on an Old Question” Marijn Johannes Hollestelle, Leiden Institute of Physics, “Paul Ehrenfest as 1:30p.m. - 3:10pm a Mediator” Popularizing the Human Sciences in Twentieth Century America Jaume Navarro, University of Cambridge, “From Father to Son. The Electron (Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Human Science) (Sa14) and the Thomsons” Benjamin Harris, University of New Hampshire, “Psychology for the Masses: Chair: TBD John B. Watson and “Psychology Today” on the Radio (1931-1932)” Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati, “Reveries of Race Mixing: Travelogues, Measurement, Computers, and Technology (Sa20) Potboilers, and Popular Anthropology” Daniel Eric Crosby, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Logician and *Nadine Weidman, Harvard University Extension School, “Popularizing the the Cash Register: Alan Turing’s Material Epistemology of Minds and Machines” Ancestry of Man: Dart, Ardrey, and the Killer Instinct” Brian R. Gaines, University of Calgary, “A Critical Period in the History of the Chair and Commentator: John Burnham, Ohio State University World Wide Web” Takushi Otani, Kibi International University, “Replication and Redesign of Early Modern Science and Medicine (Sa15) Transistor Manufacturing through Visual Images in Japan During the 1950s” Lesley B. Cormack, University of Alberta, “From De Sphera to De Globis: Frans van Lunteren, Utrecht University/Vrije Universiteit, “Individualism and Mathematical Practice and Concepts of the Earth” Bureaucracy in Science: Opposing the Metric Convention” Louise Curth, Bath Spa University, Bath, “Astrological Medicine in Early Modern Chair: TBD English Almanacs” Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, University of Twente, “The Visible World. Knowledge Collecting, Representation, and Science (Sa21) of Things Optical in the Dutch Republic” Maura C. Flannery, St. John’s University, NY, “The Work of Art: Agnes Arber as Dana Jalobeanu, Warburg Institute, London, “Francis Bacon’s Brotherhood and Biologist/Illustrator” Its Classical Sources: Yates Thesis Revisited” Taika Helola, University of Turku (Finland), “The Truth of the Matter: Chair: TBD Biographies of Zoological Specimens” Marianne Klemun, University of Vienna, “Space, State, Territory and Habitat: Science and Race in the Twentieth Century (Sa16) Alpine Gardens in the Habsburg Countries” Michelle Brattain, Georgia State University, “Redefining Race in the Post-World War Nicola Pezolet, Université Laval, “Anti-Functionalism and “Nomadic Science”: Asger II Era: Anthropology, Genetics, and the UNESCO Effort to Re-educate the Public on Race” Jorn and the “Mouvement International pour un Bauhaus Imaginiste” (1954-57)” Alex Csiszar, Harvard University, “Joseph Deniker and the Classification of Race Chair: TBD and of the Sciences at the Fin de Siècle” Lisa Gannett, Saint Mary’s University, “Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Typological- Genetics and Heredity in the 20th Century (Sa22) Population Distinction, and the Question of Race” Ted Everson, Chemical Heritage Foundation, “Genome Research Funding and Cheryl A. Logan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Heredity and Race the Construction of Genetic Disease” in Paul Kammerer’s Endocrine Hypothesis of Somatic Induction” Jeffrey William Lewis, Ohio State University, “Scientific Fundamentalism and Chair: TBD the Gene as Secular Soul” Gail Schmitt, Princeton University, “Modeling Cytoplasmic Inheritance: The Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology (Sa17) Debate between Ruth Sager and Nicholas Gillham” Warren Alexander Dym, “Scholars and Miners: Prospecting, Divining, and the William C. Wimsatt, University of Chicago, “Did Punnett Invent the Punnett Square?” Freiberg Mining Academy” Chair: TBD Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A. C., “Germans in Space: Astronomy and Anthropologie in the Eighteenth Century” Science in Victorian England (Sa23) James Sumner, University of Manchester, “Liquid Assets: Beer as a Chemically- Ian Hesketh, York University, “The Sobel Effect, Froude’s Disease, and the Managed Commodity, 1760-1830” Making of Un-Popular History in Mid-Victorian England” Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, “The Natural Rebecca Brookfield Kinraide, Independent Scholar, “Converging Concepts of Philosophy of Thomas Morgan (d. 1743): Deist and Overlooked Newtonian” Utility: A New Look at Intention and Reception in the Useful Knowledge Movement” VII History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Saturday, 4 November Public Lands Advocacy, 1975-2000” 1:30p.m. - 3:10p.m. (continued) Peter S. Alagona, Harvard University, “The Mojave Desert Tortoise Industry: From Wildlife Management to Conservation Biology in the New Southwest” Iwan Rhys Morus, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, “Philosophical Reflections: Libby Robin, Australian National University, “Science for a Country in Crisis: Optical Illusions and Knowledge-Making in Early Nineteenth Century Britain” Conservation Biology in Australia 1950-2006” K (Kenneth) G. Valente, Colgate University, “‘Who Will Explain the Chair: Stephen Bocking, Trent University Explanation?’: Higher Dimensional Spaces and Spiritualism in Britain, 1875-90” Chair: TBD Language, Logic and the Structure of the Universe (Sa29) Kevin Lambert, Cornell University, “Maxwell’s Method and Boole’s Analogy: Or Why Clinical Medicine and Medical Science (Sa24) George Boole’s Logic was Important for James Clerk Maxwell’s Theoretical Practice.” Colin L. Talley, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, “Public Michael E. Hobart, Western Washington University, “The Zodiac of the Health Science and Smoking in Atlanta, 1964-2006” Syllogism: Symbol and Meaning in the World of Augustus De Morgan” Loes Anne Knaapen, McGill University, “Randomized Clinical Trials; Debating *Joan L. Richards, “From Matter to Spirit: Language and Meaning in the World Science and Surgery” of Sophia De Morgan” Paul Dimeo, University of Stirling, Scotland, “The History of Science, Drugs and Commentator: Norton Wise, University of California, Los Angeles Sporting Performance, 1920-1960” Chair: TBD Microbiology, General Biology, and Mass Production Around 1900 (Sa30) Christina Brandt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “From Plant Gender and Sex (Sa25) Breeding to the Laboratory: Clones, Pure Lines and Mass Production in early 20th- Kimberly A. Hamlin, The University of Texas at Austin, “Plumed Peacocks, Coy Century Botany and Protozoology” Females, and Pugnacious Men: Scientific and Popular Responses to Darwin’s Theory Andrew Mendelsohn, Imperial College London, “Manufacturing Variation, of Sexual Selection, 1871-1910” Fixing Heredity: Microbial Nature and the Business of Vaccines” Mioara Deac, University of Notre Dame, USA, “Sciences of the Mind, Automatic Maureen O’Malley, Egenis, University of Exeter, “Everything is everywhere: Drawing, and Feminism in Victorian England” Beijerinck, Baas-Becking and Microbial Ecology” Paul Burnett, University of Pennsylvania, “Pregnant Men and Extra Breasts in *Staffan Mueller-Wille, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Women!: Sexology and Sexology Magazine, 1933-60” Exeter, “Plant Breeding, Microbiology, and Biochemistry at the Carlsberg Laboratory Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University, “The ‘Sexual Science’ of Mary (Copenhagen): Wilhelm Johannsen’s Formative Years 1881-1892” Putnam Jacobi” Chair: John Dupre, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter Chair: TBD The Relations of Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Engineering: A New Renaissance Natural Philosophy and the Occult (Sa26) Look at Boundaries and Practice in the First Industrial Revolution (Sa31) Darin Hayton, Haverford College, “Comets, Horoscopes and Politics at the Court *David Philip Miller, The University of New South Wales, “Seeing the Chemical of Matthias Corvinus” Steam for the Historical Fog: James Watt as Chemist” Allison Kavey, John Jay College, “Desiring Subjects: The Place of Desire and Trevor Levere, University of Toronto, “Dr. Thomas Beddoes, James Watt, and Imagination in The Three Books of Occult Philosophy” Their Collaboration in Pneumatic Medicine” *Sheila J. Rabin, St. Peter’s College, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Kabbalah” Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan, “Industrialists and Instruments in Chair and Commentator: Irving Kelter, University of St. Thomas the Late Eighteenth Century”

(Coffee Break 3:10p.m. - 3:30p.m.) Disciplining the Plant Sciences: Specialization and its Consequences (Sa32) 3:30p.m. - 5:30p.m. David Brownstein, University of British Columbia, “‘Spasmodic Research as Astrology: Art, Science and Medicine in Early Modern Culture (Sa27) Executive Duties Permit’: Practice and Authority in the British Columbia Forest Mary Quinlan-McGrath, Northern Illinois University, “The Visual Arts and Branch, 1912-1925.” Astrological Practice” Katie R. Zimmerman, Oregon State University, “A Comparative Reception of Tayra Maricarmen Lanuza-Navarro, Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Darwin: The Botanical and Sociological Work of Lester Frank Ward” Documentación “López Piñero”, Universitat de València, “Medical Astrology in *Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Boundary Zones and Spain during the Seventeenth Century” Disciplinary Divides: The Fischer-Smith Debate and its Multiple Contexts” Ana Cecilia Avalos, European University Institute, “Astrology and Other Occult Chair and Commentator: Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, University of Florida Sciences in Seventeenth-Century New Spain” *H. Darrel Rutkin, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Useful Knowledge, 1750-1850: From Speculation to Evaluation Renaissance Studies, “Why Newton Rejected Astrology: A Reconstruction” (Sa33) Chair: H. Darrel Rutkin, Villa I Tatti Frédéric Graber, Centre Alexandre Koyré (Paris), “Knowledge as a Decision- Making Tool – Leveling in France at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century” Comparative Perspectives on the History of Ecology and *Anna Maerker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Making Conservation Biology (Sa28) Natural Philosophy Useful: The Case of Kant’s Natural History of the Heavens” *Stephen Bocking, Trent University, “Ecologists and the Transformation of Carsten Reinhardt, University of Regensburg, “Knowledge as Expertise. The Interactive Canadian Environmental and Resource Politics, 1950-1970” Development of Analytical Chemistry and the Juridical System in Germany, ca. 1850” James Turner, Wellesley College, “Thinking Big: Conservation Biology and U.S. Commentator: Peter Dear, Cornell University

VIII History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Artificial Radiation, “Natural” Laboratories (Sa34) Sciences: Marginalizations and Rehabilitations of Race Science” *Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University, “The Greatest Laboratory in the World: Achim Trunk, University of Cologne, Germany, “A Triple Pseudo Project? Non- The 1947 Scientific Resurvey of Bikini Atoll” Existent Enzymes as Tools in Racial Research Conducted on Auschwitz Inmates” Soraya de Chadarevian, University of Cambridge, “Biology under the Cloud: Chair and Commentator: *Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna ‘Unplanned’ Experiments and Strategic Implications” Judy Johns Schloegel, “Nuclear Fear, the Atomic Energy Commission, and 6:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Environmental Research at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955-1975” History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture Ronald Rainger, National Science Foundation, “Radioactivity and Richard Burkhardt, University of Illinois, “The Leopard in the Garden: Life in Experimentation in Southern California” Close Quarters at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle” Chair: Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University Introduction by Garland Allen, Washington University, St. Louis

Setting, Sex, and Scandal in the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Sa35) 8:30p.m. - 10:00p.m. Andreas Mayer, University of Cambridge, “Psychology in the Boudoir. The History of Science Society Awards Banquet Libertine Origins of the Psychoanalytic Couch” Lydia Marinelli, Sigmund Freud Foundation Vienna, “Bed and Couch as Sunday, 5 November Instruments of the Mental Cure” 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. *Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University, “‘Why Stop With a Kiss?’: Freud, (Coffee Break 10:00a.m. - 10:15a.m.) Ferenczi, and Maternal Tenderness in the Analytic Setting” Medicine, Matter-Theory, and Astronomy before 1650 (Su1) Chair: Andrew Lakoff, University of California, San Diego Arianna Borrelli, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Non-verbal Modes of Communication in Latin High Medieval Mathematics” Anatomy in Context (Sa36) Frederick W. Gibbs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Natural Philosophy Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University, “Anatomists and Mathematicians” of Poison: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Toxins in the Latin West” Lucia Dacome, University of California, Los Angeles, “Bodies and Blood in David P.D. Munns, Drexel University, “The Challenge of Variations: The Observational Eighteenth-Century Naples” Traditions of Ptolemy and Aristotle, and Copernicus’s Heliocentric Solution.” *Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Anatomy as Natural Abdelhamid I. Sabra, Harvard University, “The Simple Ontology of Islamic History: Perrault, Duverney, and the ‘Histoire des animaux’“ Kalam Atomism” Lucia M. Tanassi, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, “Anatomy Biopolitics: Plastination between Dismemberment and Performance” Cooperation, Competition, and Emulation: Chair: Jole Shackelford, University of Minnesota Nineteenth-Century French Observatory Sciences in International Context (Su2) Science Pedagogy (Sa37) Fabien Locher, Institut National de la Recherche Pédagogique, “The Landed Adam R. Shapiro, University of Chicago, “The American Textbook Industry and Ship and the Crusade: International Cooperation and Competition in Meteorology the Roots of the Anti-Evolution Movement” and Geomagnetism (1830-1850)” Catherine Lange, State University of New York at Buffalo, “Iconic Science Laetitia Maison, Natural History Museum (Lyon, France), “A Model for Heroes as Models for the Pedagogical Use of the History of Science: Thomas Edison Reorganizing French Meteorology? Alfred Angot’s Tour of U.S. Observatories in 1875” and Wilson Greatbatch” Jérôme Lamy, Observatoire de Paris, “Coordinating and Adjusting Astronomical Johan Hendrik De Klerk, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, Practices: The ‘Carte du Ciel’ Undertaking at the Turn of the 20th Century” “History of Mathematics and Technology as Motivational Tools in Teaching Mathematics” Arnaud Saint-Martin, Université Paris-Sorbonne, “The New Astronomical Margaret Ursula Chmiel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “When Science Eldorado: The French Look at American Astrophysics, 1900-1920” Became a Sputnik: The Crises and Criticism of Secondary Science Educators 1943-63” Chair & Commentator: *David Aubin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Chair: TBD Cognition and History: Three Responses to The Cognitive Structure Science in the Marketplace: Scientists, Business, and the American of Scientific Revolutions (Su3) Public (Sa38) Robert Westman, University of California, San Diego, “Cognizing the *Megan Barnhart, University of California, Los Angeles, “Selling the Copernican Revolution” International Control of Atomic Energy: The Scientist’s Movement, the Advertising William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego, “Concepts, Perceptual Council, and the Public” Symbols, and the Cognitive History of Science” Matthew Howard Hersch, University of Pennsylvania, “Geeks in Space: Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Does Cognition Matter to History?” Selling America’s Scientist-Astronauts, 1965-1982” Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma, “Historical Themes in the Cognitive Katie Proctor, Cornell University, “Selling American Optics: Clark Telescopes Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Response to Westman, Bechtel and Nersessian” and the Uses of Science” Hanne Andersen, University of Aarhus,“Philosophical Themes in The Cognitive Commentator: John Carson, University of Michigan Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Response to Westman, Bechtel and Nersessian” Chair: Sarah Igo, University of Pennsylvania Chair: *Xiang Chen, California Lutheran University

Historicizing ‘Pseudoscience’ (Sa39) Made in Japan? A Constructivist Inquiry into Christina Wessely, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, “Fictional East Asian Science (Su4) Objectivity. The ‘cosmic ice theory’ 1894-1945” *Alexander R. Bay, Stanford University/Chapman University, “Beriberi, Barley, Veronika Lipphardt, Humboldt University Berlin, “The ‘Black Sheep’ of Bio and Tools of Empire: Military Medicine in China and Korea” IX History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Sunday, 5 November Globalizing Knowledge: The South-North 9:00a.m. - 11:45a.m. (continued) Scientific Relations (Su9) *Alexis De Greiff, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, “A Critical Appraisal of Sumiko Otsubo, Metropolitan State University, “Emperor, Family, and the Historiography of the North-South Technoscientific Relations” Modernity: The Passage of the National Eugenics Law in 1940” Shawn Mullet, Harvard University, “Institutionalizing Brazilian Science: North James Bartholomew, Ohio State University, “Uniqueness or Particularity in American Models and the Formation of the CNPq” Modern Japanese Science: Two Examples” Mónica García, University of Edinburgh, “Finitism and Medical Knowledge: Akihito Suzuki, Keio University, “Medicine, Climate, and Global Immigration Reconfiguration of French Theories of Fevers in Colombia, 1860-1900” in the Japanese Empire 1930-1945” Juan Andrés León, Harvard University, “Worldwide: The Snake Venom Commentator: Brett Walker, Montana State University Specificity Debates, 1890-1912” Chair: James Bartholomew, Ohio State University Commentator: Thomas Glick, Boston University Chair: Alexis De Greiff, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Beyond Excellent Adventures: Perspectives on the Construction of Scientific Exploration (Su5) Mobilizing Youth for Science in the Twentieth-Century U.S. and *Matthew Shindell, University of California, San Diego, “To Hell with the Socialist China (Su10) Moon: Harold Urey, Expertise, and Scientific Exploration” Aaron Alcorn, Case Western Reserve University/ National Air and Space Peder Roberts, Stanford University, “The Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Museum, “Educating for the Air Age: Toys, Technology, and Textbooks” Expedition and the Making of Modern Scientific Internationalism” Larry Owens, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Science Fiction and the John G. Cloud, NOAA Central Library, “‘The Far Away Nearby’: Situating Mobilization of Youth in the Cold War” Exoticism in 20th Century Ocean Exploration” *Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Youth and the Rachel Koroloff, Oregon State University, “Descriptions of Kamchatka: Stepan Krash- ‘Great Revolutionary Movement’ of Scientific Experiment in Socialist China” eninnikov, Georg Wilhelm Steller and Russia’s Eighteenth-Century Naturalist Tradition” Ralph Richard Hamerla, University of Oklahoma, “The Historian of Science Chair and Commentator: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego and Political Realities” Commentator: David Rhees, The Bakken Library and Museum Exploring Biography: Approaches to ‘Lives in Science’ (Su6) Chair: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst *Lloyd Ackert, Yale University, “Parallel Biography: Ferdinand Cohn Versus Louis Pasteur on Bacterial Speciation, 1850-1870” (Re)producing “Monsters”: Old and New World Interpretations of Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, “Serial Biography: The Life and Abnormal Births During the Late Seventeenth to Death of a Journal and the Birth of National Styles” Early Nineteenth Centuries (Su11) Neeraja Sankaran, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, “Autobiography: Margaret D. Garber, California State University Fullerton, “Terror and Insights from F.M. Burnet’s Ego-Documents in Reconstructing His Investigative Fantasy: Generating Facts of ‘Monstrous’ Births in the Journal of the Academy of Pathway in Bacteriophage Research, 1924-1937” the Investigators of Nature (1670-1700)” Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University, “Biographies of the Living and Adam Warren, University of Washington, “‘Monsters’ and Their Meanings in Near-Living” Colonial Peru: An Examination of the Birth of Conjoined Twins in 1694” Commentator: Thomas Söderqvist, University of Copenhagen Sean M. Quinlan, University of Idaho, “Monstrous Births, Medical Networks, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1820” The Control of a Healthy Society: Institutionalizing Statistics in the 19th Century (Su7) Objects, Images, and Constructs in *Ida H. Stamhuis, Free University Amsterdam, “Why No Dutch Statistical Life Sciences Pedagogy (Su12) Society after the Establishment of Central Official Statistics?” Sara T. Scharf, IHPST, University of Toronto, “Training the mind’s eye with Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, University of California, Los Angeles, “Recounting Identification Keys” the Nation: The General Register Office and Victorian Bureaucracies” Dawn Mooney Digrius, Drew University, “Imag(in)ing Paleobotany: The Andrea Rusnock, University of Rhode Island, “Counting in the Clinic: Medical Internal Structure Debates, 1868-1895” Statistics and Hospital Medicine” *Ruthanna Dyer, York University, “The Blaschkas’ Glass Invertebrates in Early Morgane Labbé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, “Prussian Census Biology Education” and the Statistical Office in the 19th Century: Global Construct Versus Local Fact” John L. Rudolph, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Epistemologies in Conflict: Chair and Commentator: Theodore Porter, University of California, Los Angeles Scientific Supply Companies and the Biology-Education Reforms of the 1960s”

Science Friction? Physics Meets Astronomy Over the Longue Durée (Su8) Lies, Damn Lies, and Their Characteristics (Su13) Richard Staley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Relative Measures, Absolute *Ken Alder, Northwestern University, “Placebo Technologies: Of Atom Bombs Standards and the Perfect Laboratory” and Polygraphs” Peter Susalla, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Conflict or Consensus? The Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, “Agnotology and Colonial Science” Neglected Middle Ground Between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Astronomy, 1890-1910” Laura Stark, Northwestern University, “Observing and Deceiving: The Science Daniel Kennefick, University of Arkansas, “Pushing the Limits: Looking for and Ethics of Research Methods, 1966-1973” Gravitational Waves in the Post-Newtonian Approximation, 1945-1965” Alison Winter, University of Chicago, “A Science of Expectation: Martin Orne and the David Kaiser, MIT, “When Fields Collide:: Training and the Birth of Particle Cosmology” Invention of “Demand Characteristics” in the Design of Psychological Experiments” Commentator: Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley Commentator: Matt Wisnioski, Washington University, St. Louis Chair: Suman Seth, Cornell University X History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

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The list below reflects information provided by Dr. Jonathon Erlen (only dissertation titles placed in Dissertation Abstracts are Dissertations List included) and others and was current as of 1 January 2006. Please send any missing titles to [email protected]. Anderson, Clifford Blake. “The Crisis of Theological Ghent University (Belgium), 2006, 236 pp. Monaldi, Daniela. “The Fate of the Mesotron. The Rome Science: A Contextual Study of the Development of Karl Dym, Warren Alexander. “Divining Science: Treasure Experiment on the Nuclear Absorption of Hard Cosmic Rays.” Barth’s Concept of Theology as Science from 1901 to 1923.” Hunting and the Saxon Mining Industry, 1500-1800.” University of Toronto, 2005, 311 pp. NR02625. Princeton Theological Seminary, 2005, 567 pp. 3184349. University of California, Davis, 2005, 293 pp. 3182482. Ney, Alyssa L. “The Metaphysics of Unified Science.” Belk, Alan Frederick. “The Semantic View of Scientific Ellenbogen, Josh. “Photography and the Brown University, 2005, 167 pp. 3174649. Theories: An Alternative to Realism/Instrumentalism.” Imperceptible: Bertillon, Galton, Marey.” The University of Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma. “Bitter Roots: University of Guelph, 2005, 193 pp. NR04705. Chicago, 2005, 385 pp. 3181333. African Science and the Search for Healing Plants in Ghana, Black, Jeffrey James Stewart. “Rousseau’s Critique of Evangelist, Caery A. “Medieval Intelligibility: The 1885-2005.” Harvard University, 2005, 302 pp. 3173997. Science: A Commentary on the ‘Discourse on the Sciences and Relationship between Mind, World and Transcendental Paras, Eric Edward. “A New Archivist: Michel Foucault the Arts.’” Boston College, 2005, 423 pp. 3176656. Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.” Duke and the Practice of Philosophy, 1968-1984.” Harvard Bouchard, Frederic. “Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle University, 2004, 324 pp 3177297. University, 2005, 265 pp. 3174002. for Persistence.” Duke University 2004, 214 pp. 3177860. Franklin, Colleen. “‘The Strange and Dangerous Voyage Rupp, Gabriel Vincent. “The Police in Different Voices: Browne, Meredith. “The Currency of the Clinical of Captaine Thomas James’: A New Edition and a Isaac Newton and His Programme of Purification.” The Photograph: Science, Photography and the Dream of the Publication and Reception History.” University of Ottawa, University of Oklahoma, 2005, 252 pp. 3176317. Legible Body.” Concordia University, 2005, 331 pp. NR04069. 2004, 426 pp. NR01701. Sucich, Glenn F. “‘By Gradual Scale Sublimed’: Byrne, David. “Anne Conway: An Intellectual Portrait of Gaycken, Oliver Alexander “Devices of Curiosity: Alchemy and the Matter of Souls in the Age of Milton.” a Seventeenth Century Viscountess.” The Claremont Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular.” The University of Northwestern University, 2005, 241 pp. 3177818. Graduate University, 2005, 163 pp. 3175048. Chicago, 2005, 279 pp. 3181341. Vetter, Jeremy. “The Regional Development of Science: Carter, Christopher Ray. “Imperialism and Godefroy, Andrew B. “Defence and Discovery: Science, Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the United Empiricism: Science and State in the Age of Empire.” National Security, and the Origins of the Canadian Rocket States Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, 1860-1920.” Duke University, 2004, 240 pp. 3174110. and Space Program, 1945-1974.” Royal Military College of University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 408 pp. 3179825. Clary, Renee M. “Uncovering Strata: An Investigation into Canada, 2004, 338 pp. NR02033. Wilkinson, John. “The Rust in the Machine: A Metaphoric the Graphic Innovations of Geologist Henry T. De la Beche.” Haber, Matthew Horace. “The Centrality of Hermeneutic of Evolutionary Biology Texts.” California Louisiana State University, 2003, 480 pp. 3182879. Phylogenetic Thinking.” University of California, Davis, Institute of Integral Studies, 2005, 231 pp. 3175044. Cook, Steven W. “Remembering and Forgetting Abram 2005, 111 pp. 3182490. Williams, Clemency J. “Eclipse Theory in the Ancient Kardiner: His Life and Legacy in the Shadow of Freud’s Hollibaugh, Lisa Kathleen. “Southern Crossroads: World.” Brown University, 2005, 442 pp. 3179451. Influence.” Emory University, 2005, 395 pp. 3176012. Science, Religion and Gender in Southern Women’s Wojtach, William Taylor, “An Empirically Constrained Study Cunningham, Michael Doucette. “Seashells on the Literature between the World Wars.” Columbia University, of Visual Perception.” Duke University, 2005, 279 pp. 3181489. 2005, 214 pp. 3174812. Mountains: Antonio Vallisneri, Fossils, and the Republic of Worden, Joel Daniel. “The Galapagos in American Letters.” University of Connecticut, 2005, 215 pp. 3180195. Koehl, Laura Ann. “Doing Science: Lessons Learned Consciousness: American Fiction Writers’ Responses to deJong-Lambert, William. “The New Biology: Lysenkoism from the Oral Histories of Women Scientists.” University of Darwinism.” University of Delaware, 2005, 225 pp. 3181874. Cincinnati, 2005, 152 pp. 3176749. in Poland.” Columbia University, 2005, 246 pp. 3174774. Yudell, Zanja Chanka. “Scientific Realism and Ducheyne, Steffen. “Virtuosi at Work: Historical- La Nave, Federica. “Belief without Proof from Ancient Inconsistency: A Model-Based Approach.” Columbia Philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Geometry to Renaissance Algebra.” Harvard University, University, 2005, 192 pp. 3174933. Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton.” 2005, 168 pp. 3173957. 12 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006

Prior to the publication of each Newsletter, the HSS Executive Office receives from the Isis Editorial Office a list of books ISIS BOOKS RECEIVED received by that office for potential review. This list appears here quarterly; it is not compiled from the annual Current Bibliography. You may also view this list and prior lists online at http://www.hssonline.org/society/isis/mf_isis.html. Anger, Gottfried; Helmut Moritz, Technology and Business. xxi + 402 pp., Bertomeu-Sánchez, José Ramón; Equity v. Choice. xii + 320 pp., index. Joachim Auth, Rainer Burghardt, et figs., index. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science Agustí Nieto-Galan, (Editors). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University al. Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium zum History Publications, 2006. $49.95 (cloth). Chemistry, Medicine and Crime. Mateu Press, 2006. $35 (cloth). 801883393. 75. Geburtstag von Hans-Jürgen Treder. 881352527. J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and His Times. Chekin, L. S. Northern Eurasia in Band 61. Sitzungsberichte Der Leibniz- Barnes, David S. The Great Stink of xxv + 306 pp., figs.,apps., index. Sagamore Medieval Cartography. Inventory, Texts, Sozietät, Herbert Hörz, Präsident. 266 pp., Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Beach, MA: Science History Publi- Translation, and Commentary. 498 pp., apps., Berlin: Verlag Irena Regener, 2003. Struggle against Filth and Germs. xiv + cations/USA, 2006. $52 (cloth). 881352756. illus., bibl. Index. Turnhout: Brepols Euro17.80 (paper). 3896264621. 314 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: The Johns Biagioli, Mario. Galileo’s Instruments Publishers, 2005. Euro75 (cloth). Aragón, Santiago. El Zoológico del Hopkins University Press, 2006. $35 of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. xi + 2503514723. Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. (cloth). 801883490. 302 pp., figs., app., index. Chicago: The Chris, Cynthia. Watching Wildlife. xxii Mariano de la Paz Graells (1809-1898), Barnes, Linda L. Needles, Herbs, Gods, University of Chicago Press. $35 (cloth). + 269 pp., figs., app., index. Minneapolis: la Sociedad de Aclimatación y los and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West 226045617. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. $19.95 Animales Útiles. Monografías. 235 pp., to 1848. 458 pp., illus., bibl., index. Blackmore, John T.; Ryoichi (paper). 816645477. figs., spp., bibl. Madrid: Museo Nacional de Cambridge/London: Harvard University Itagaki; Setsuko Tanaka (Editors). Clancey, Gregory. Earthquake Nation. Ciencias Naturales, 2005. (paper). Press, 2005. $49.95 (cloth). 674018729. Ernst Mach’s Science: Its Character and The Cultural Politics of Japanese 8400083563. Barrera-Osorio, Antonio. Experienc- Influence on Einstein and Others. 304 Seismicity, 1868-1930. xiii + 331 pp., Arnold, David. The Tropics and the ing Nature. The Spanish American pp., index. Kanagawa: Tokai University illus., app., bibl., index. Berkeley: University Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Empire and the Early Scientific Press, 2006. (cloth). 4486031881. of California Press, 2006. $49.95. (cloth). Science, 1800-1856. xiv + 298 pp., illus., Revolution. xi + 211 pp., illus., apps., bibl., Blackwell, Alan; David Mackay 520246071. figs., bibl, index. Seattle: University of index. University of Texas Press, 2006. $45 (Editors). Power. (The Darwin College Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes: A Washington Press, 2005. $50 (cloth). (cloth). 292709811. Lectures.) 139 pp., illus., figs., index. New Biography. xi + 507 pp., apps., figs., bibl., 029598581X. Battaglia, Debbora (Editor). E.T. York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Astore, William J. Observing God: Culture. Anthropology in Outerspaces. ix $60 (cloth). 521823773. Press, 2006. $40 (cloth). 521823013. Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism and + 281 pp., illus., index. Durham: Duke Bourdelais, Patrice. Epidemics Laid Cooper, Michael; Michale Hunter Popular Science in Victorian Britain and University Press, 2005. $79.95 (cloth). Low: A History of What Happened in Rich (Editors). Robert Hooke: Tercentennial America. ix + 304 pp, app., bibl., index. 822336324. Countries. Translated by Bart K. Holland. Studies. xxi + 335 pp., figs., tables, bibl., Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company, Bechtel, William. Discovering Cell xiv + 176 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing 2001. Cloth $79.95. 754602028. Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Company, 2006. $99.95 (cloth). Atkinson-Grosjean, Janet. Public Biology. (Cambridge Studies in Press, 2006. $19.95 (paper). 801882958. 075465365X. Science, Private Interests. Culture and Philosophy and Biology.) xii + 323 pp., Bowker, Geoffrey. Memory Practises Dalby, Andrew. Rediscovering Homer. Commerce in Canada’s Networks of figs., app., index. New York: Cambridge in the Sciences. xi + 261 pp.,illus., figs., Inside the Origins of the Epic. xi + 252 pp. Centres of Excellence. xviii + 269 pp. figs., University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). index. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press. app., bibl. New York: W.W. Norton & tables, apps., bibl., index. Toronto: 052181247X. $34.95 (cloth). 26252295. Company, 2006. $26.95 (cloth). University of Toronto Press, 2006. $55. Beidleman, Richard G. California’s Busard, H. L. L. Campanus of Novara 393057887. (cloth). 802080057. Frontier Naturalists. xii + 484 pp., illus., and Euclid’s Elements. (Boethuis, Band Darwin, Charles. The Correspondence Auyang, Sunny Y. Engineering - an bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: 51, 1 + 2.) 768 pp., figs., bibl. Stuttgart: of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867. Endless Frontier. 344 pp., apps, index. University of California Press, 2006. $39.95 Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Euro 115 Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (cloth). 520230108. (cloth). 3315086455. Porter, et al. (The Correspondence of 2006. $18.95 (paper). 674019784. Bellamy, Matthew J. Profiting the Cadeddu, Antonio. Les Vérités de la Charles Darwin, 15.) xlii + 705 pp., illus., Aveni, Anthony. Uncommon Sense: Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, Science: Pratique, Récit, Histoire: La Cas figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Understanding Nature’s Truths across 1942-1990. xiii + 303 pp., illus., figs., Pasteur. Biblioteca di Nuncius, vol. 57.) Cambridge/New York; Cambridge Time and Culture. xxii + 250 pp., figs., bibl., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s xviii + 282 pp., apps., bibl., index. Florence: University Press, 2006. $130 (cloth). index. Boulder: University Press of University Press, 2005. $65 (cloth). Leo S. Olschki, 2005. Euro30 (cloth). 052185931X. Colorado, 2006. $26.95 (cloth). 870818287. 773528156. 8822254643. de Frenza, Lucia. I Sonnambuli delle Ballenger, Jesse F. Self, Senility, and Beretta, Marco; Giovanni Caffey, David L. Frank Springer & New Miniere: Amoretti, Fortis, Spallanzani e il Alzheimer’s Disease in Modern America: DiPasquale (Editors). Le Verre dans Mexico: From the Colfax County War to Dibattito Sull’elettrometria Organica e A History. xvii + 236 pp., app., index. l’Empire Romain. (Arts et Science.) (Based the Emergence of Modern Santa Fe. xvii Minerale in Italia (1790-1816). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University on the papers presented at Istituto e Museo di + 261 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. College (Biblioteca de Storia della Scienza, vol. 50.) Press, 2006. $43 (cloth). 801882761. Storia della Scienza, 27 March to 31 October Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 258 pp., figs., bibl. Florence: Leo S. Baraldi, Enrico; Hjalmar Fors; 2004, Museo degli Argenti, Florence.) 359 $34.95 (cloth). 1585444642. Olschki, 2005. Euro30 (cloth). Anders Houltz (Editors.) Taking pp., figs., app., bibl. Florence-Milan: Giunti Callahan, Daniel; Angela A. 8822254821. Place: The Spatial Contexts of Science, Editore, 2006. 39 (paper). 271185163X. Wasunna. Medicine and the Market: de Parme, Blaise. Questiones Circa 13 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Tractum Proportionum Magistri Thome Press, 2005. $22 (paper). 801884012. Zimbabwe, 1908-1968. (Cornell Studies Wissenschaftskultur bis 1850 in Braduardini. Edited by Joël Biard; Sabine Gross, Alan G. Starring the Text: The in the History of Psychiatry.) xxi + 230 pp., Deutschland. (Sudhoffs Archiv 55.) 505 Rommevaux. 240 pp., figs., indexes. Paris: Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. x + figs., index. Ithaca: Cornell University pp., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. 217 pp., figs., bibl., index. Carbondale, IL: Press, 2005. $55 (cloth). 801443105. Verlag, 2005. Euro64 (paper). Euro28 (paper). 2711617904. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Jackson, Mark. Allergy. The History of a 3515085114. Deane-Drummond, Celia. Genetics $30 (paper). 809326965. Modern Malady. 288 pp., illus., bibl., Lancaster, Jane. Making Time. Lillian and Christian Ethics. (New Studies in Guerraggio, Angelo; Pietro Nastasi. index. Chicago: University of Chicago Moller Gilbreth – A Life Beyond “Cheaper Christian Ethics.) xxiii + 281 pp., bibl., Italian Mathematics between the Two Press, 2006. $39.95 (cloth). 1861892713. by the Dozen.” xii + 415 pp., illus., apps., index. New York: Cambridge University World Wars. (Science Networks Historical Johnston, Patricia (Editor) Seeing index. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2006. $29.99 (paper). 521536375. Studies 29.) x + 299 pp., figs. Basel: High & Low. Representing Social Conflict Press, 2004. (paper). 1555536522. Denery II, Dallas G. Seeing and Being Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005. Euro94.16 in American Visual Culture. viii + 308 Larson, Barbara. The Dark Side of Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, (cloth). 3764365552. pp. illus., figs., app., index. Berkeley, CA: Nature. Science, Society, and the Theology and Religious Life. x + 207 pp., Guillemin, Jeanne. Biological University of California Press, 2006. $29.95 Fantastic in the Work of Odilon bibl., index. New York: Cambridge Weapons: From the Invention of State- (paper). 520241886. Redon. xx + 256 pp., illus., figs., app., University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. bibl., index. University Park: 521827841. Bioterrorism. xii + 258 pp., index. New Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Pennsylvania State University Press, Dewsbury, Donald A. Monkey Farm: York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Influence on Thought and Art in 2005. $55 (cloth). 271024674. A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of $27.95, £18.95 (cloth). 231129432. Antiquity in the Middle Ages. xii + 359 pp., Lawrence Holmes, Frederic. Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, Haila, Yrjö; Chuck Dyke (Editors). figs., app., bibl., index. Ithaca: Cornell Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour 1930-1965. xii + 347 pp., figs., apps., How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the University Press, 2006. $45 (cloth). Benzer’s Adventures in Phage Genetics. indexes. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Human Ecological Condition. (New 801443962. Edited by William C. Summers. xiv + Press, 2006. $55 (cloth). 838755933. Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century.) viii Kagan, Jerome. An Argument for 334 pp., figs., index. New Haven, CT: Yale Dickerson, James L. Yellow Fever: A + 334 pp., figs., app., index. Durham, NC: Mind. xii + 287 pp., app., index. New University Press, 2006. $50 (cloth). Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again. 271 Duke University Press, 2006. $84.95 Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. $27.50 300110782. pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Amherst, NY: (cloth). 822337258. (cloth). 300113374. Leslie, Esther. Synthetic Worlds. Prometheus Books, 2006. $25 (cloth). Harding, Sandra. Science and Social Kinas, Sven. Adolf Butenandt (1903- Nature, Art, and the Chemical 9781591023999. Inequality. Feminist and Postcolonial 1995) und seine Schule. 260 pp., figs. Industry. 280 pp., illus., bibl., index. Elzinga, Aant. Einstein’s Nobel Prize: A Issues. xi + 205 pp., bibl., index. Berlin Veröffenlichungen aus den Archiv Chicago: The University of Chicago Glimpse Behind Closed Doors. The Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois zur Geschichte der Max-Planck- Press. $45 (cloth). 1861892489. Archival Evidence. xii + 228 pp., illus., Press, 2006. $20 (paper). 25203060. Gesellschaft. (paper). 392757919X. Levinson, Stephen C.; Pierre apps., bibl., index. Sagamore Beach: Hessen, Boris. Les Racines Sociales et Kirkup, John. The Evolution of Jaisson, (Editors). Evolution and Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Économiques des Principia de Newton: Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated Culture. A Fyssen Foundation $39.95 (cloth). 881352837. Une Rencontre entre Newton et Marx à History from Ancient Times to the Symposium. viii + 296 pp., figs., tables, Fedunkiw, Marianne P. Rockefeller Londres en 1931. vi + 228 pp., illus., bibl., Twentieth Century. xviii + 510 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, Foundation Funding and Medical index. Paris: Vuibert, 2006. Euro30 apps., bibl., index. Foreword by James M. 2006. $35 (paper). 262621975. Education in Toronto, Montreal, and (paper). 271177158X. Edmonson. Novato, CA: historyofscience. Liebersohn, Harry. The Travelers’ Halifax. (McGill-Queen’s/Associated Hunger Parshall, Karen. James com, 2006. $275 (cloth). 930405862. World: Europe to the Pacific. xiii + 380 Medical Services Studies in the History of Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in Klinkmann, Horst, et al. Akademien pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: Medicine, Health and Society, 24.) xiv + a Victorian World. xi + 461 pp., apps., in Zeiten des Umbruchs. Wissen- Harvard University Press, 2005. $29.95 201 pp., figs., bibl., index Montreal: McGill- index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins schaftliches Kolloquium aus Anlass des (cloth). 674021851. Queen’s University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). University Press, 2006. $69.95 (cloth). 70. Geburtstages von Horst Klinkmann. Linguerri, Sandra. Vito Volterra E 773528970. 801882915. Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät. Il Comitato Talassografico Italiano: Gouk, Penelope; Helen Hills Hüther, Gerald. The Compassionate Band 81, Jahrgang 2005. 179 pp. Berlin: Imprese Par Aria e per Mare (Editors). Representing Emotions: New Brain: How Empathy Creates Leibniz-Sozietat, 2005. Euro18 (cloth) Nell’Italia Unita (1883-1930). Connections in the Histories of Art, Music Intelligence. Translated by Michael H. 3896265210. Biblioteca de Nuncius, vol. 56. xii + and Medicine. 254 pp., illus., bibl., index. Kohn. vi + 152 pp., index. London: Kolchinsky, E.I.; M.B. Konashev 274 pp., bibl., index. Florence: Leo S. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Trumpeter, 2006. $14 (paper). (Editors). On the Edge. Science in Olschki, 2005. Euro29 (cloth). $79.95 (cloth). 754630587. 159030330X. Russia in the End of XIX-XX Century: 8822254155. Graham, Loren R. Moscow Stories. xi + Ingaliso, Luigi (Editor). Giovan Researches, Sources, Historiography. (In López Piñera, José Maria. Atlas y 305 pp., bibl., index. Indiana University Filippo Ingrassia: Informatione del Russian). Vol 3. 421 pp. Saint- diccionario historico de las plantas med- Press, 2006. $29.95 (cloth). 253347165. Pestifero et Contagioso Morbo. (Filosofia e Petersburg:Nestor-Historia, 2005. (cloth). icinales. CD ROM. Valencia: Faximil Grant, Edward. Science and Religion, Scienza Nell’Eta Moderna.) 656 pp., index- 17267870. Edicions Digitals, 2005. Euro50 (CD- 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to es. Milan: Francoangeli, 2005. 884647290X. Lammel, Hans-Uwe. Klio und ROM). 8493339512. Copernicus. xviii + 307 pp., figs., bibl., Jackson, Lynette A. Surfacing Up: Hippokrates: Eine Liaison littéraire des MacIntosh, J.J. (Editor). Boyle on index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial 18. Jahrhunderts und die Folgen für die Atheism. xxv + 493 pp., apps., bibl., index.

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. National Institutions. xxi + 294 pp., apps., Ogilvie, Brian W. The Science of Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegit- $95. (cloth). 802090184. bibli., index. Cambridge: Cambridge Describing. Natural History in Renais- imierung: Titelbilder und ihre MacKenzie, Donald. An Engine, Not University Press, 2006. $30.95 (paper). sance Europe. 385 pp., Illus., app., bibl., Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen a Camera: How Financial Models Shape 521684153. index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Revolution. (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen: Markets. (Inside Technology.) xii + 377 Murphy, Michelle. Sick Building Press, 2006. $45. (cloth). 226620875. Herausgegeben von der Herzog August pp., figs., apps., indexes. Cambridge MA: Syndrome and the Problem of Olson, Richard G. Science & Religion, Bibliothek, 110.) 267 pp., figs., bibl., index. The MIT Press, 2006. $40 (cloth). Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag in 262134608. Technoscience, and Women Workers. x + Darwin. xvii + 292 pp., illus., figs., bibl., Kommission, 2005. 3447053372. Meltzer, David J. Folsom: New 253 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. Epistemol- Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Durham/London: Duke University Press, Press, 2004. $19.95 (cloth). 801884004. gie des Konkreten: Studien zur Geschichte Paleoindian Bison Kill. xiv + 374 pp., 2006. $74.95 (cloth). 822336596. Orr, Jackie. Panic Diaries: A Genealogy der modernen Biologie suhrkamp illus, tables, apps., index. Berkeley: Newman, William R. Atoms and of Panic Disorder. xi + 362 pp., apps., taschenbuch wissenschaft. 415 pp., figs., University of California Press, 2006. $55. Alchemy. Chymistry and the bibl., index. Durham, NC: Duke University bibl., index. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, (cloth). 0520246446. Experimental Origins of the Scientific Press, 2006. $79.95 (cloth). 822336103. 2006. Euro14 (paper). 3518293710. Millar, Fergus. A Greek Roman Revolution. xiii + 250 pp., illus., bibl., Otiz Gómez, Teresa. Medicina, histo- Ricketts, Edward F. Breaking Through. Empire: Power and Belief under index. Chicago: University of Chicago ria y género: 130 años de investigación Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Theodosius II, 408-450. (Sather Classical Press, 2006. $30 (paper). 226576973. feminista. 362 pp., figs., index. Oviedo: Edward F. Ricketts. Katharine A. Rodger, Lectures, 64.) xxvi + 279 pp., figs., apps., Neumann-Held, Eva M.; Christoph KRK Ediciones, 2006. Euro23.95 (paper). ed. xix + 348 pp., illus., bibl., index. indexes. Berkeley: University of California Rehmann-Sutter (Editors). Genes in 8496476529. Berkeley: University of California Press, Press, $49.95 (cloth). 9780520247031. Development: Re-Reading the Molecular Pelis, Kim. Charles Nicolle: Pasteur’s 2006. $39.95 (cloth) 520247043. Miller, Jeffrey C.; Daniel H. Janzen; Paradigm. (Science and Cultural Theory.) Imperial Missionary, Typhus and Rommevaux, Sabine. Clavius une clé Winifred Hallwachs. 100 Caterpillars: vi + 378 pp., figs., index. Durham, NC: Tunisia. xx + 384 pp., figs., apps., bibls., pour Euclide au XVIe siècle. (Mathesis.) Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Duke University Press, 2006. $23.95 index. (Rochester Studies in Medical 313 pp., figs., apps., bibl., indexes. Paris: Costa Rica. 264 pp., illus., bibl. Harvard (cloth). 822336677. (Two copies received) History.) Rochester: University of Rochester Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Euro University Press, 2006. $39.95 (cloth). Norman, Jeremy M. (Editor). From Press, 2006. $90 (cloth). 580461972. 30 (paper). 2711617874. 674021908. Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook Petsche, Hans-Joachim. Graßmann. Sengoopta, Chandak. The Most Secret Milutis, Joe. Ether: The Nothing that on the History of Information Technology. (Vita Mathematica.) xxii + 326 pp., apps., Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Connects Everything. xxiii + 208 pp., xvi + 899 pp., figs., apps., index. Novato, bibl., index. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, Hormones, 1850-1950. xii + 354 pp., app., index. Minneapolis: University of CA: historyofscience.com, 2005. $89.50 2006. Euro58 (cloth). 3764372575. index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Minnesota Press, 2006. $29.95 (cloth). (cloth). 930405870. Podolsky, Scott H. Pneumonia before Press, 2006. $45 (cloth). 226748634. 816646449. Norton, Trevor. Underwater to Get Out Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Slade, Giles. Made to Break: Technology Mindell, David P. The Evolving World: of the Rain. A Love Affair with the Sea. 385 Evaluation in Twentieth-Century and Obsolescent in America. 330 pp., Evolution in Everyday Life. viii + 341 pp., pp., illus., bibl. Originally published in America. x + 254 pp., figs., index. index. Cambridge: Harvard University figs., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 2005 by Century, U.K.. This edition – Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, Press, 2006. $27.95 (cloth). 674022033. University Press, 2006. $24.95 (cloth). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. $25 2006. $49.95 (cloth). 080188327X. Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in 674021916. (cloth). 306814870. Poirier, Jean-Pierre. Marie Curie: et Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russell Mithen, Steven. The Singing Nye, David E. Technology Matters. les conquérants de l’atome, 1896-2006. Wallace. viii + 602 pp., illus., bibl., index. Neanderthals. The Origins of Music, Questions to Live With. xiv + 282 pp., app., 366 pp., illus., table, bibl. Paris: Pygmalion, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Language, Mind, and Body. ix + 374 bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Euro21.50 (paper). 2756400521. $22.95 (paper). 231130112. pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. 2006. $27.95 (cloth). 262140934. Polizzotti Greis, Gloria. A Noble Smil, Vaclav. Transforming the Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, O’Malley, John W.; S.J. Gauvin Pursuit. The Duchess of Mecklenburg Twentieth Century. Technical 2006. $25.95 (cloth). 674021924. Alexander Bailey; Steven J. Harris; Collection from Iron Age Slovenia. Peabody Innovations and their Consequences. x + Monmonier, Mark. From Squaw Tit to T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., (Editors). Museum Collections Series. Xii + 116 pp., 358 pp. illus., figs., bibl., indexes. Oxford: Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the illus., figs., apps. Cambridge MA: Peabody Oxford University Press, 2006. $45 (cloth). Claim, and Inflame. xiv + 215 pp., figs., Arts, 1540-1773. xxxvi + 905 pp., illus., Museum Press (dist. by Harvard University 9780195168754. bibl., index. 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Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology. geschichte, 16.) 309 pp., bibl., index. about Religion: A Reader. xii + 256 pp., Murmann, Johann Peter. Knowledge (Religion and Society 42.) 290 pp., figs. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2006. (paper). index. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishing, and Competitive Advantage: The Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2005. $113.40 9783406544033. 2006. $74.95 (cloth). 1405121661. (2 (cloth). 3110185458. copies received) Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and Remmert, Volker. Widmung, (Continued page 22) 15 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Bucculentus Revisited The Underside of the Scientific Revolution

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

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

– Bill Ashworth

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

(News continued from page 6) Natural History: The New York Times Web site features a video on the The U.K.’s National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Akeley Hall of Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. To Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS) reports on the four latest of its col- locate the video, type ‘Akeley Hall of Mammals’ in the Times’ search box. The lections to be processed: chemical engineer Sir Frederick Warner, geologist AMNH Web site also features multimedia on the diorama at D.F.W. Baden-Powell, molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate Cesar http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/. Milstein, and biochemical engineer E.M. Crook. The report is at Public Health: A new collection of seminal public health articles has been http://www.bath.ac.U.K./ncuacs. published by Public Health Reports. To order Public Health Reports: Historical Collection 1878-2005, download an order form from: http://www.pub- A new Web site on the Automobile in American Life and Society lichealthreports.org. Or contact Asha Tobing at [email protected] or can be found at http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu. 202.296.1099. The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be relocating to new Botany and Medicine: The “Historia Plantarum Collection” is now open offices at Capital Gallery (7th and Maryland Ave., SW) in Summer 2006. to Smithsonian and external scientists. Devoted to the History of Botany and For further information: http://siarchives.si.edu. Medicine, the collection focuses on the Old World and medicinal plants. For The Rutherford Journal, the New Zealand Journal for the more information: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/herbals/. History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is now avail- Psychology: The New York Academy of Medicine will be hosting the exhibit able online at http://www.rutherfordjournal.org. “Sigmund Freud’s Neurological Drawings and Diagrams of the Mind: From A new Web site with digital links for teachers and students can Neurology to Psychoanalysis.” In addition, the exhibit will feature several orig- be found at http://www.universityhistory.org inal drawings from Freud’s own hand on loan from the Freud Museum in A new issue, IX.1 (Spring-Summer 2006) of the HOPOS Newsletter London. For further information: http://www.nyam.org/initiatives/im- may be found at: http://cas.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos. histe.shtml. Exhibitions: The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford has opened With the publication of volume VI, Oceanography and Hydrography, ‘Wireless World: Marconi and the Making of Radio.’ Visit the edited works of Hans Ertel (1904-1971) are now complete. http://www.mhs.ox.ac.U.K.. A permanent Marconi homepage is at The most recent batch of recent doctoral dissertations concerning http://www.mhs.ox.ac.U.K./marconi/. biomedical ethics and humanities has been downloaded to: There will be a special installation devoted to the materials and techniques of the htp://www.hsls.pitt.edu/ides/histmed/researchresources/dissertations/index_html. artists as part of the exhibition “Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting.” At National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. until 17 September Report on HSS Council and Business Meetings in 2006, then Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 17 October 2006 - 7 January 2007. Minneapolis – November 2005 Exhibitions in two Harvard venues commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. “The Circulation of Knowledge,” Houghton Library, At the HSS Council and Business Meetings in Minneapolis, in November 2005, until 23 Sep- President Sokal reported on the progress we have made in raising money to match tember 2006 and the NEH Challenge Grant, aimed at endowing the position of the Society “Science and Bibliographer. To date, we have not met the match and are actively engaged in S o c i a b i l i t y, ” development activities. A Development Committee is being established and will be Collection of seeking major donors to the fund. President Sokal reminded Council of the impor- H i s t o r i c a l tance of getting strong support from the Society membership. He also announced S c i e n t i f i c the establishment of a fund established in memory of David Dibner who died in Instruments, until late September 2005. David Dibner and the Dibner family have been major patrons 22 December of the History of Science Society. The Council approved the Executive Committee’s 2006. nomination of Rachel Ankeny as the new Society Treasurer. She will assume her position on 1 January 2007, replacing Marc Rothenberg who will have served as Treasurer for the past ten years. The Council also approved a change to the statutes, designed to facilitate the review of the Society Editor. The revised statute reads as follows: “Statute 19b. When needed the Committee on Publications shall, when directed by the Executive Committee, prepare a recommendation for the appointment of a new Society Editor. The Editor shall be elected by Council for a five-year term. The Editor’s performance will be evaluated by the Committee on Publications at the end of the third year of his/her term, and the committee will recommend to Council either that the Editor be reappointed for a second term (which may be extended for a period of from one to five years by mutual agreement of the Council and Editor) or that the search for a new Editor should be undertaken by the Committee. If necessary, the Editor’s second term may be extended by one year to facilitate the transition to a new Editor.” President Sokal reported these developments to the Business Meeting on Sunday morning. Harvard University commemorating the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. (Courtesy of Harvard University) 17 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Donors to NEH Challenge Fund (As of 1 May 2006) Thank You! Sarton Circle ($2,500 and Above) Richard Creath Charles C. Gillispie* River Branch Foundation & Jane Maienschein* In Honor and Memory of David Dibner David Rockefeller Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation John C. Greene* Laurence S. Rockefeller Fund The Furumoto Research Foundation Margaret J. Osler* M. Virginia & John W. Servos* Lisbet Rausing Trust Charlene & Michael M. Sokal*+ Council of Friends of the Society ($1,000 - $ 2,499) Anonymous Frederick Gregory* Bernard Lightman* Heinrich & Eve von Staden Michele L. Aldrich Gerald Holton* Robert Multhauf* Arnold W. Thackray* Joan Cadden* Shinzo Kohjiya John A. Neu Spencer Weart Virginia P. Dawson+ Robert Kohler Mary Jo & Robert Nye* Thomas R. Williams Joseph Fruton Sally Gregory Kohlstedt* John A. Popplestone Joella & William Yoder Sustaining Members ($500 - $999) Clark A. Elliott+ Susan Lindee Alan Rocke Nancy G. Siraisi Judith & David Goodstein John Michel Edward G. Ruestow Laurence D. Smith Loren Graham F. Jamil & Sally Palchick Ragep Michael Shank Emily Thompson Contributors (Up to $499) Anonymous Ken Caneva Janet Bell Garber Margaret Jacob Brian W. Ogilvie Alan E. Shapiro Renato Acampora Toni V. Carey Patsy Gerstner+ Derek Jensen Marilyn Ogilvie Kate Sheppard Douglas Allchin David Cassidy Neal Gillespie David Kaiser Naomi Oreskes Hilary A. Smith Garland Allen Ranes Chakravorty Mary Louise Gleason* Victor J. Katz Leonello Paoloni Pamela H. Smith Katharine Anderson Peggy Champlin Marie Glitz Peggy Kidwell John Parascandola Scott Spear Peder Anker Hasok Chang Jan Golinski William Kimler Karen Parshall Darwin H. Stapleton Toby Appel David Channell+ John Gould Sachiko Kusukawa Diane B. Paul Peter F. Stevens Wilbur Applebaum H. Floris Cohen Sara S. Gronim Ann La Berge Philip J. Pauly James E. Strick Adam J. Apt N.G. Coley Anita Guerrini Shoshi Lavinghouse L. Pearce & Edith D. Sylla* Jean-Francois Auger Jonathan Coopersmith & Michael Osborne~ Bruce V. Lewenstein Sylvia I. Williams Liba Taub Jose A. Bach Angela N. H. Creager Stanley Guralnick Albert C. Lewis James A. Pittman Kenneth L. Taylor Lawrence Badash Paul J. Croce Martin Gutzwiller David Lindberg* Theodore Porter David Topper+ Peter Barker Lorraine J. Daston Beth HaGath William & Marie Longton John K. Pribram Roger D. Turner Donald deB. Beaver Joseph W. Dauben Roger Hahn Phillip Loring Karen Rader A. Bowdoin Van Riper Jean Beetschen Peter R. Dear Hanne Handersen Kenneth M. Ludmerer Sylwester Ratowt Sharon Vaughn-Lahman Alan Beyerchen Allen G. Debus Bert Hansen Elizabet Lunbeck Karen & James Reeds Linda Voigts John Blackmore David Devorkin Katherine Haramundanis Pamela E. Mack* Barbara Reeves Jessica Wang Ann Blair Ronald Doel Jon M. Harkness Robert J. Malone* Joan L. Richards Joan Warnow-Blewett Muriel Blaisdell Michael Dow Joseph E. Harmon Michael Massouh+ Robert J. Richards Ruth Wattenberg Angela Boernke-Vallou M. Eddy John L. Heilbron James E. McClellan III Robin E. Rider Eleanor Webster Patrick Boner Guy Emery Kenneth Hellyar Stephen C. McCluskey George Rosenstein Marjorie K. Webster James J. Bono Judith & Jonathon Erlen Pamela Henson Sylvia McGrath Marc Rothenberg Charles Weiner+ Mary Ellen Bowden Raymond E. Fancher Javier Herrero Fernandez Donna Mehos James Ruffner Frederick Weinstein William Brock Anne Fausto-Sterling Bruce Hevly Everett I. Mendelsohn Andrea Rusnock Robert Weinstock Janet Browne Javier Fernandez Erwin Hiebert* Margaret O. Meredith & Paul Lucier Stephen Weldon Stephen G. Brush* Tom & Uma Ferrell Anne Hiskes Michal Meyer Ken Saito Robert Westman Joe D. Burchfield Klaus Fischer David A. Hollinger Ronald E. Mickens Morton L. Schagrin Karin E. Wetmore Richard Burkhardt Gary Fouty Roderick Home Joseph A. Moyzis Robert & Roger L. Williams Leslie J. Burlingame Robert Marc Friedman Karl and Sally Hufbauer Nancy J. Nersessian Mary-Peale Schofield Thomas Williams Ronald Calinger Elizabeth Garber+ Bruce J. Hunt Sheila Counce Nicklas James A. Secord Eri Yagi Lynn K. Nyhart Jole R. Shackelford Toshihiro Yamada

The HSS would like to thank Marjorie Webster for giving $1,000 * Officers’ Incentive Fund ~ in honor of John Neu in honor of Rod Webster, enabling graduate students to attend + In honor of Robert E. Schofield Please send corrections to [email protected] the 2005 HSS banquet. 18 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 A New Society in Bulgaria Links Hard and Soft Science with Education Birth of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC)

By B.V. Toshev

he 29th of September 2005 marked the Tbirthday of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC). Our goals – to foster interest in chemistry education and in the history and philosophy of chemistry with their social and cultural dimensions and influ- ences – are met by publication of Khimiya/Chemistry. Bulgarian Journal of Chemical Education ISSN 0861-9255, by the support of other forms of scholarly publication, by the organization of scientific and public meetings, by fostering members’ career development, and by cooperation with other learned societies and research units. Today CE&HPC has 170 members; 114 are from Bulgaria and the rest come from throughout the rest of Europe, Australia, South America, North America, Africa, and Asia. The Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Meeting of the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry. Education and History and Philosophy of In Bulgaria these trends in education accompany the long-term attempt to Chemistry is off to a strong beginning. What is behind that success? Part of the reform the national educational system. It is a rather complicated knit of prob- answer can be traced to the state of science education. lems, approaches, techniques, and theories that must be carefully discussed by Everywhere in the world science education is under threat. The number of educators, scholars, parents, and local education authorities. The scholarly students in natural sciences and technology programs has fallen in many coun- societies seem to offer the most appropriate forums for this kind of community tries, including ones with high levels of industrial development. This leads not discourse, and the Bulgarian Society for the Chemistry Education and History only to a reduction in the number of researchers, but also to a decrease in sci- and Philosophy of Chemistry will contribute in that direction. entific and economic competitiveness. With increasing globalization, this is a For us it is extremely important that we study the international context of dangerous trend. these problems. That is why our Society is internationally oriented. At one point, Chemistry education, in particular, is an essential part of science education, isolationism was a state policy in Bulgaria, and this limited outlook created a but it is extremely difficult for pupils to master its three different levels of think- vulgar modeling of freethinking in a narrow zone with solid boundaries of var- ing: The micro-level (atoms, molecules, ions, other particles), the macro-level ious dogmas. Hard science and, especially, soft science, were damaged by this (mathematical description of different chemical and physicochemical process- policy. Although we are entering a new chapter for the history and philosophy of es), and the semiotic level (signs, symbols). Such an amalgam of abstract science, it is not easy to utilize them to their full extent because the old way of approaches and definitions is usually unattainable for most people, leading to thinking and writing cannot easily be changed. The Bulgarian Society for the widespread ignorance of the field. Can we imagine people queuing in the street Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry will help nurture to hear a public lecture on chemistry today? It happened in Bulgaria in the a new generation of social scientists. 1920’s when large crowds entered the lecture halls to enjoy talks delivered by Those who join the Bulgarian Society will become members of an active, Professor Assen Zlatarov from the University of Sofia, an eminent organic and stimulating group that welcomes newcomers. Members come from all back- bioorganic chemist. grounds, from Bulgaria and beyond. For citizens outside of Bulgaria, the mem- At the same time there exists a strong trend in mass higher education to bership is free. For further information, please go to http://khimiya.org or exclude marginal students. These students need special attention in order to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khimiya. find a proper niche. The history and philosophy of chemistry can excite their interest in chemistry, helping them to find their place within the chemists’ com- Professor B.V. Toshev is the President of the Bulgarian Society for the munity. And though there is an increasing demand for an interdisciplinary Chemistry Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry (CE&HPC), at approach to teaching science, providing inspiring and achievable lessons is not the University of Sofia, 1 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, BULGARIA, E- an easy task. Mail: [email protected]. 19 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 (Continued from page 1) respondents listed it as not applicable). More than 87% rated the Newsletter Two broad approaches stood out, and members gave exciting sugges- as good or excellent. In this digital age, comments suggest that parts of the tions for both. One encourages a greater outward focus for HSS, such as Newsletter, such as jobs and other time sensitive material, would be better “actively channeling the fruits of some of its scholarly research to a much limited to our Web pages. To answer commenters’ stated desire for more wider audience in a timely, critical and relatively unbiased way;” greater outreach (and taking into account positive comments on the upgrade to the involvement in developing high school curricula; building bridges to work- British Society for the History of Science Newsletter – now called Viewpoint ing scientists; and annual meeting panels that – and its greater focus on outreach), we plan to address issues such as the globalization of science. overhaul the Newsletter. The October Newsletter The other approach focuses on the role the HSS will embody many of your suggestions both to keep could play within academia. Suggestions ranged What’s Changing? members connected and to provide an avenue to from cultivating job opportunities in science reach a more general audience interested in the departments to a listserv to provide a voice for the history of science. HSS Web site redesign to upgrade community. Most of those who attend the annual meeting graphics and links The two main approaches underpinning the (35% listed this as non-applicable) rate it highly – comments are important – building up our aca- 33% rated it as good and 27% consider it excellent. Newsletter redesign demic foundations and finding a greater role for No obvious themes emerged from members’ com- the history of science are not mutually exclusive. ments, but several made suggestions regarding Easy way to renew and update Some of your suggestions are new (and welcome), location. Some wistfully requested more exciting membership details online whereas other ideas are already under considera- and/or cheaper locations or warmer climates tion. For example the Executive Office is currently (though there was a general recognition of the Online Donations working on an online forum – a discussion page costs involved). Some of the 25% of our member- to pose topics and encourage conversation on the ship who do not live in the U.S. suggested holding HSS Quality Assurance Mark for history of science among our members. an occasional meeting outside North America. The history-of-science-related Web sites The Current Bibliography remains a vital Executive Office is examining all possible locations resource for our members. Ninety-three percent of for our annual meetings, including international respondents indicate that they use the CB. Of locations (meetings through 2009 are already set.) those, 95% rated the service as good or excellent. Several things should be kept in mind when sug- One person wrote that the “bibliography (especially the cumulative volume gesting locations: our November dates have traditionally been chosen for a and online database) are the best of any society.” Suggestions included time when hotel rates are cheaper; warmer climates such as California are updating the CB more regularly and including more citations on the expensive, whereas the U.S. South has few historians of science, meaning ancient and medieval period. (For the current state of play on the CB, see more travel for greater numbers of people. Since meetings are organized by the interview with Stephen Weldon on his work as bibliographer on page 7.) the Executive Office (currently in Florida), holding meetings outside of The CB is especially important to those members who live outside North North America is logistically complicated. The Executive Office would wel- America and Europe. One such member wrote: “Our universities are not come hearing from members who would like to help organize a non-U.S. connected to large databases and have very limited funds…. I wish to conference. express here in the most explicit terms how important this benefit is to his- More than 70% of users rated our Web site as good or excellent. A number torians of science who reside [outside North America and western Europe].” of commenters emphasize the importance of the online membership list and Because we understand the value of the CB, we have won a National suggested more frequent updates. On this point, members will now find updat- Endowment for the Humanities matching grant, and we are soliciting your ing their information much easier. Effective immediately, HSS members can support to endow its future. Donations are now possible online; simply fol- use a new Web tool, “My Accounts,” at https://subfill.uchicago.edu/MyAcccount low the donation link from the HSS home page. to update contact information, renew membership, and much more. Ninety-one percent of Osiris readers rate it as good or excellent (211 Primary Employment of Survey Respondents

20 History of Science Society Newsletter July 2006 Some More Survey Thoughts Our last Web site upgrade was five years ago, What We Do (In Case You Were Wondering) and we appreciate suggestions for improvement. This summer, the HSS Web site, hssonline.org, is Survey results indicate that some of our members consid- undergoing renovation. Navigation will be made er themselves subscribers, more than members. We would like easier and graphics and text better integrated our members to see themselves more as members of a profes- and streamlined. Expect our new Web site to be sional society than just subscribers to HSS journals. Indeed, up and running early in September. Other Web membership of the HSS is much more than a subscription to improvements include the development of a Isis, Osiris, and the CB. Publication costs of those journals far Committee on Education quality mark for histo- exceed membership fees for retirees, graduate students, and ry-of-science-related Web sites. Sites that meet sponsored scholars – three groups that our regular members certain standards may place this quality mark on staunchly support. Our members, with the support of our their Web site, indicating that the information endowment, subsidize rooms for graduate students at the is reliable. annual meeting, cover the costs of administering travel As mentioned earlier, you have told us that grants to the annual meeting, and pay for a bibliographer, there are two areas of critical concern to you – executive director, managing editor, copy editors, information connecting beyond the community of histori- manager, and six graduate research assistants. ans of science and academia and strengthening In addition to organizing the annual meeting, the HSS history of science within academia. Suggestions Executive Office produces the quarterly Newsletter, coordi- such as “experts” willing to be called on topics of nates development efforts, handles the governance of our public interest as a way to guide journalists, many standing committees and prize committees, and orches- strengthening links with scientists, traveling trates the HSS Web site, the sponsor-a-scholar program, inter- exhibits in libraries, all are welcome. The HSS society relationships, the annual employment survey, and will continue to enhance what members feel many other activities. works well. Your responses to this survey will drive the HSS’s planning. To best serve the interests of our members, we ask for your continued suggestions, responses, and participation as we ponder and act on your concerns. – Michal Meyer and Adrian Morse

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

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