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OF VISITING I-ITSTORIANS HSS EXECUTIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE By JOSEPH W. DAUBEN PRESIDENT EDWARD GRANT, Indiana University HOW CAN THE I-llSTDRY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY best promote the future of VICE-PRESIDENT its most talented younger members? Is it possible to expand career opportunities WILLIAM COLEMAN, University of and secure new or more diverse positions on college campuses and within major Wisconsin - Madison universities, while at the same time increasing awareness of the history of sci­ SECRETARY ence generally beyond its usual academic setting? These questions are among AUDREY DAVIS, Smithsonian Institution several raised in the convext of the Society's ongoing fund-raising campaign. TREASURER Some preliminary answers have been offered, and some means found to SPENCER R. WEART, American Institute heighten both the visibility and appreciation of the profession. of Physics The History of Science Society is pleased to announce that, beginning in the EDITOR fall of this year, a new venture will promote these aims: the Visiting Historians ARNOLD THACKRAY, University of Pennsylvania of Science Program. The overall goal of the program is to promote the history of science (including technology and medicine), especially at smaller colleges where a historian of science might serve as the focus of core curricula or in The History of Science Society was founded in 1924 to secure the future of Isis, the interna­ bridging the work of a number of departments, and at universities that have tional review that George Sarton (1884-1956) growing history of science departments or that are thinking of instituting pro­ had founded in Belgium in 1912. The Society grams. The plan is for the HSS Lecturers not only to give lectures and seminars, seeks to foster interest in the history of science but to talk with department heads and college and university deans and presi­ and its social and cultural relations, to provide a dents who have questions abqut the importance and pedagogical usefulness of forum for discussion, and to promote scholarly research in the history of science. The Society the history of science. The HSS Lecturers will also represent the profession in pursues these objectives by the publication of visits to industrial and research laboratories, to corporations and businesses, and its journals Isis and Osiris, by the support and perhaps to occasional community and public forums, whenever appropriate. subvention of other forms of scholarly publica­ '----- Following each series of lectures, HSS Lecturers will submit a brief report of tion, by the organization of annual meetings their visits to indicate what, if any, follow-up might be appropriate on the and other programs, by the award of medals and Society's part. prizes for outstanding contributions to the hlstory of science, by the encouragement and Other societies have launched similar programs and found them beneficial, sponsorship of local and regional sections of the continued on page 14 Society, and by cooperation with other learned and scientific societies.

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Lorraine Daston Clark A. Elliott Paul Lawrence Farber Judith R. Goodstein Robert E. Kohler

tory of Science in America: News and THE 1985 HSS ELECTION Views-editor (1980-present}; Society of American Archivists. • Selected publica­ CANDIDATES' BIOGRAPI-ITES tions: Biographical Dictionary of Ameri­ can Science: The Seventeenth through the FOR COUNCIL and W. Woodward (Praeger, 1982). • Cur­ Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood, 1979}; rent project: a book on the classical theory "Citation Patterns and Documentation for Lorraine Daston of probability during the Enlightenment. the History of Science: Some Methodolog­ • Statement: I hope the HSS Council ical Considerations;' American Archivist, Assistant Professor of History and History will do more to keep younger scholars in 1981, 44:131-142; "Models of the Ameri­ of Science, Princeton University. Ph.D., the field, particularly those in specialities can Scientist: A Look at Collective Biogra­ Harvard University, 1979. • Specialties: whose scholarly importance is not cur­ phy;' Isis, 1982, 73:77-93. • Current Enlightenment science, history of mathe­ rently reflected by market demand, by project: a census and biographical index to matics (1600-1850), Renaissance natural encouraging the creation of postdoc- American scientists deceased before 1941. history, nineteenth- and twentieth­ toral fellowships and other short-term century psychology. • Professional activ­ opportunities. Paul Lawrence Farber ities: HSS-Schuman Prize Committee (member and Chair), Honors and Prizes Clark A. Elliott Professor of the History of Science, Ore­ Committee, Isis Advisory Editor. • Se­ gon State University. Ph.D., Indiana Uni­ lected publications: articles on classical Associate Curator of the Harvard Univer­ versity, 1970. • Specialties: biology; probability theory (Historia Mathematica, sity Archives. Ph.D., Case Western Re­ medicine, science, and society. • Profes­ 1980, 7:234-260), the study of monsters serve University, 1970. • Specialties: sional activities: HSS-Council member in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century American science (especially nineteenth­ (1978-1981}, Committee on Undergradu­ France and England (with Katharine Park) century}, biography, institutions, histori­ ate Education (1976-1978); West Coast (Past and Present, Aug. 1981, 92:20-54), ography and historical methodology, HSS-Council member (1982-1984}; Galilean analogies (Isis, 1984, 75:302- archives, bibliography. • Professional Columbia History of Science Group­ 310), and "The Theory of Will versus the activities: HSS-representative and editor Program Coordinator (1985}. • Selected Science of Mind;' in Psychology in of final report, Joint Committee on publications: The Emergence of Ornithol­ Nineteenth-Century Thought, ed. !yi. Ash Archives of Science and Technology; His- ogy as a Scientific Discipline: 1760-1850

Candidates for Council Three-year term, 1 January I-ITSTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY 1986-31 December 1988 BALLOT - 1985 ELECTION Vote for 5 of the 10 candidates __ Lorraine Daston USE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE __ Clark A. Elliott Candidates for the Nominating Committee - One-year term Please detach (or copy} the __ Paul Lawrence Farber Representatives from Council Representatives at large ballot and mail in the en­ __ Judith R. Goodstein Vote for 3 of the 6 candidates Vote for 2 of the 4 candidates closed official envelope to the __ Robert E. Ko~ __ Robert G. Frank, Jr. __ Frederick Gregory Secretary, Dr. Audrey B. Davis, 1214 Bolton Street, __ William Montgomery __ John C. Greene __ David Lindberg Baltimore, MD 21217. To be __ Alex Roland __ Frederic L. Holmes __ Albert E. Moyer valid, ballots (one per enve­ __ John W. Servos __ Karl Hufbauer __ Phillip R. Sloan lope} must be mailed in the official envelope and post­ __ Rachel Laudan __ Nancy G. Siraisi marked by 15 September __ Michael M. Sokal __ Margaret W. Rossiter 1985. July 1985 page 3

William Montgomery Alex Roland John w. Servos Nancy G. Siraisi Michael M. Sakal

{Reidel, 1982); "Buffon's Concept of Spe­ Isis, Minerva, Bulletin of History of Medi­ John W. Servos cies;• foumal of the History of Biology, cine; "Foundations and the Community 1972, 5:259-284; "The Type Concept in of Science: The 1920s;• Osiris, 1986, 3. Assistant Professor, Department of His- Zoology During the First Half of the Nine­ • Current projects: a book on founda- · tory, Amherst College. Ph.D., Johns teenth Century;' f. Hist. Bioi., 1976, tions and science in the U.S., and a book Hopkins University, 1979. • Specialties: 99:93-119; "The Transformation of Natu­ on the organization and practice of sci­ history of science and technology in mod­ ral History in the Nineteenth Century," f. ence in America, 1870-1940. em America; history of chemistry. • Pro­ Hist. Bioi., 1982, 15:145-152. fessional activities: HSS, SHOT, and William Montgomery ACS-chair, commentator at meetings; Judith R. Goodstein KCTS-TV, Seattle-consultant; Five­ Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Col­ College Faculty Seminar in the History of Institute Archivist, California Institute of lege at Potsdam. Ph.D., University of Science-convener; referee for journals in Technology. Ph.D., University of Washing­ Texas, Austin, 1974. • Specialty: history the field and for National Science Founda­ ton, 1969. • Specialties: scientific insti­ of biology. • Professional activity: HSS­ tion. • Selected publications: tutions, contemporary science, Assistant/Associate Editor, Isis {1978- articles on chemistry, chemical engineer­ mathematics, twentieth-century physics 1984). • Publications: Associate Editor of ing, and geochemistry, on A. A. Noyes, and seismology, science under Mussolini, Calendar of the Correspondence of W. D. Bancroft, G. N. Lewis; on MIT, national science of the United States and CluJiles Darwin {Garland, 1985) and Col­ Caltech, and the Carnegie Institution of Italy. • Professional activities: HSS­ lected Correspondence of CluJiles Darwin Washington in Ambix, Isis, Historical Chairman, Schuman Prize Committee (Cambridge Univ. Press, Vol. I, 1985; Vol. Studies in the Physical Sciences, foumal {1976); West Coast HSS-Co-president II, in press); articles on Darwinism and of Chemical Education, and Chemistry in {1975-1976); Academic Consultant/ German biology. • Statement: Modem Society: Essays in Honor of Aaron Scriptwriter, "The Mechanical Universe;• We should maintain the visibility of the f. Ihde, ed. J. Parascandola and J. Whorton Caltech's introductory physics telecourse. history of science through joint activities (ACS, 1983), plus "History of Chemistry," • Publications: with J. Greenberg, "The­ with other societies, programs to encour­ Osiris, 1985, 1. • Statement: Our society odore von Karman and the Arrival of Ap­ age undergraduate teaching, and support should support young historians of sci­ plied Mathematics in the United States, for research and publication. We should ence through.modest grants to defray the 1930-1940," Science, 1983, 222:1300- claim an appropriate share for the history expenses of traveling to conventions and 1304; "Atoms, Molecules, and Linus of science in general education while archives and subsidies for the publication Pauling," Social Research, 1984, 51:691- strengthening the traditional sources of of manuscripts. HSS should sponsor lec­ 708; "The Rise and Fall of Vito Volterra's our disciplinary reputation: Isis, Osiris, ture series and develop closer ties with World," [oumal of the History of Ideas, and the Critical Bibliography. other scholarly associations, especially 1984, 45:607-618. • Current project: a the AHA, AAAS, and scientific societies. history of Cal tech. Alex Roland Nancy G. Siraisi Robert E. Kohler Associate Professor of History, Duke Uni­ versity. Ph.D., Duke University, 1974. Professor of History, Hunter College and Associate Professor of History and Sociol­ • Specialties: the relationship of tech­ the Graduate School, City University of ogy of Science, University of Pennsylva­ nology and war, with particular emphasis New York. Ph.D., City University of New nia. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. on aviation, spaceflight, and nuclear en­ York, 1970. • Specialties: history of • Specialties: American science, natural ergy. • Professional activities: HSS-Isis medicine (1200-1600), medieval science, and medical sciences in the twentieth Advisory Editor {1982-1984); SHOf­ medieval and Renaissance Italian universi­ century, philanthropy and science. • Pro­ Secretary; Director of Duke's Program in ties. • Professional activities: New York fessional activities: HSS-Committee on Science, Technology, and Human Values. Academy of Sciences-Vice-chair, Section Isis {1973-1977), Annual Meeting Local • Publications: Underwater Wazfare in of History and Philosophy of Science Arrangements Chair {1976), Nominating the Age of Sail {Indiana, 1978); Model {1985-1986); Renaissance Society of Committee {1984); Joint Atlantic Research: The National Advisory Com­ America-Council member {1982-1984, Seminar-cosponsor. • Selected publica­ mittee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958 {2 1985-1987); foumal of the History of tions: From Medical Chemistry to Bio­ ':Ols.; NASA, 1985); and "Science and Medicine and Allied Sciences­ chemistry {Cambridge, 1982); articles in War;' Osiris, 2nd series, 1985. Consultant Editor {1985-1988); History of page4 History of Science Society Newsletter

Robert G. Frank, fr. fohn C. Greene Frederic L. Holmes KOil Hufbauer Rachel Laudan

Universities-Editorial Board. • Selected FOR THE NOMINATING Frederic L. Holmes publications: Arts and Sciences at Padua COMMITTEE- (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Chairman, Section of the History of Medi­ 1973); Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils FROM COUNCIL cine, Yale University School of Medicine; (Princeton Univ. Press, 1981), awarded the Master, Jonathan Edwards College. Ph.D., William Henry Welch Medal of the Amer­ Robert G. Frank, Jr. Harvard University, 1962. • Specialties: ican Association for the History of Medi­ history of life sciences, fine structure of cine, 1985; article on Latin editions of the Associate Professor of Medical History scientific creativity. • Professional activi­ and History, University of California, Los Canon of Avicenna, in The Medical Ren­ ties: HSS-President (1981-1982}; Ameri­ Angeles. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971. aissance of the Sixteenth Century; ed. A. can Association for History of Medicine Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie (Cam­ • Specialties: seventeenth and nine­ -Council member. • Selected teenth to twentieth centuries, history of bridge Univ. Press, 1985). • Current publications: Claude Bernard and Animal project: a study of Renaissance Latin com­ biology and the medical sciences. • Pro­ Chemistry (Harvard Univ. Press. 1974); fessional activities: HSS-Annual Meet­ mentaries on the Canon of Avicenna. Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life (Univ. ing Local Arrangements Chair (1981), Wisconsin Press, 1985); "Hans Krebs and Michael M. Sokal Council (1985-1987}; foumal of the His­ the Discovery of the Ornithine Cycle;' tory of Biology-Associate Editor (1973- Federation Proceedings, 1980, 39:216- Professor of History, Worcester Polytech­ 1980}; foumal of the History of 225. • Statement: The Society's recent nic Institute. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Medicine-Board of Editors (1979-1982); growth in complexity makes the choice of University, 1972. • Specialties: history of West Coast HS8-Secretary-1Ieasurer its officers more important than ever. psychology, history of American science (1981-1983). • Selected publications: HSS's future is most crucially determined and technology. • Professional activities: English Scientific Virtuosi in the 16th and by the wisdom and energy of its Nominat­ HSS-Comrnittee on Status of Women 17th Centuries (Clark Libraiy, 1979}; ing Committee in proposing persons to (1972-1973), Schuman Prize Committee Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: whom the membership may trust its (1984, Chair, 1985), Isis Advisory Editor Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction hopes for the Society's ongoing vitality. (1985-1987); Smithsonian Post-Doctoral (Univ. California Press, 1981; Il Mulino, Fellow (1973-1974); NSF-HPS Program, 1983), awarded the William Henry Welch Karl Hufbauer Advisory Panel; Journal of the History Medal of the American Association for the of the Behavioral Sciences-Book Review History of Medicine (1983); "Science, Associate Professor, Department of His­ Board; Archives of the History of Ameri­ Medicine, and the Universities of Early tory, University of California, Irvine. can Psychology-Board of Advisors. Modem England;' History of Science, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, • Selected publications: James McKeen 1973, 11:194-216, 239-269. 1970. • Specialties: early modem chem­ Cattell's journal and letters (1880-1888) istry, twentieth-century physics and as­ (MIT Press, 1981); (with P. A. Rafail) a John C. Greene tronomy. • Professional activities: West guide to manuscript collections in the Coast HSS-President (1980-1982). history of psychology (Kraus, 1982); plus Professor, Department of History, Univer­ • Selected publications: The Formation articles in Science, American Historical sity of Connecticut. Ph.D., Harvard Uni­ of the German Chemical Community. Review. and The Works of William fames versity, 1952. • Specialties: history of 1720-1795/Univ. California Press, 1982); (Harvard Univ. Press, 1985). • Current evolutionary biology, early American "Astronomers Take Up the Stellar-Energy project: a biography of James McKeen science. • Professional activities: HSS­ Problem, 1917-1920;' Historical Studies Cattell. • Statement: HSS priorities President (1975-1977). • Selected publi­ in the Physical Sciences, 1981, 11:277- should include its publications and other cations: The Death of Adam: Evolution 303. • Current projects: working as a professional activities; financial growth; and Its Impact on Western Thought NASA contract historian on a book about lobbying for our field and all scholarship; (1959); American Science in the Age of solar science since Galileo; examining the career development aid for younger Jefferson (1984). • Statement: In making stellar-energy problem (1903- 1941) as a scholars; growth among nonuniversity nominations I would look for people of case study of interdisciplinary theoretical professionals; broadening our audience; judgment and known dedication to the science. • Statement: I believe that the and further encouragement of special Society's work and welfare and would seek slate should include more historians of interest groups, like the Forum for the a fair representation of different age, sex, science working outside the colleges and _ History of Science in America. and geographic groups within the Society. universities. July 1985 page 5

Margaiet W Rossiter Frederick Gregory David Lindberg Albert E. Moyer Phillip R. Sloan

RachelLaudan FOR THE NOMINATING tributing Editor {1984-present). • Selected publications: Theories of Associate Professor, Science Studies Cen­ COMMITTEE- AT LARGE Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler (Univ. ter, Virginia Polytechnic Instimte and Chicago Press, 1976); (ed.) Science in the State University. Ph.D., University of Middle Ages (Univ. Chicago Press, 1978); London, 1974. • Specialties: history of Frederick Gregory Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature (Ox­ geology, history of technology, historiogra-, Associate Professor of History of Science, ford Univ. Press, 1983); (co-ed., with phy. • Professional activities: HSS­ University of Florida. Ph.D., Harvard R. Numbers) God and Nature: Historical Council member {1983-1986), Isis University, 1973. • Specialties: Essays on the Encounter between Chris­ Advisory Editor {1985-1988). • Selected nineteenth-cenmry German science, tianity and Science {Univ. California publications: {ed.J The Nature of Techno­ science and religion. • Professional activ­ Press, forthcoming 1986). logical Knowledge {Reidel, 1984); "Redefi­ ities: HSS-Committee on Honors and nitions of a Discipline: Histories of Prizes (Chair), Council member (1981- Albert E. Moyer Geology and Geological History;' in Loren 1984), Annual Meeting Program Chair Graham et al., Functions and Uses of (1983); The Eighteenth Century: A Cur­ Associat<: Professor, Department of His­ Disciplinary History {1983); "The Role of rent Bibliography-History of Science tory, Adjunct Member, Center for the Methodology in Lyell's Geology;• Studies coeditor. • Selected publications: Scien­ Study of Science in Society, Virginia Poly­ in History and Philosophy of Science, tific Materialism in Nineteenth-Century technic Institute and State University. 1982, 13:215-250; "Ideas and Organiza­ Gennany (Reidel, 1977); articles on Ger­ • Specialties: physics, American sci­ tions: The Case of the Geological Society man science in Sudhoffs Archiv (1983, ence. • Professional activities: The Phys­ of London;' Isis, 1977, 68:527-538. 67:145-157), Historia Mathematica (1983, ics Thacher-Editorial Board {1978-1984). • Current project: a book on the history 19:184-201), Clio Medica (1983, 18:179- • Selected publications: American Phys­ of geology from the Scientific Revolution 189), and Archives Intemationales d'His­ ics in TJ:ansition: A History of Conceptual to 1830. toire des Sciences {1984, 34:108-123), Change in the Late Nineteenth Ce~tury and on Darwinism and Protestant theol­ {Thmash, 1983); "Robert Hooke's Ambigu­ Margaret W. Rossiter ogy in 1Wo Thousand Years of Science ous Presentation of Hooke's Law;• Isis, 1977, 68:266-275; "History of Physics;' Research Associate, American Academy of and Christianity, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. L. Numbers (forthcoming). • State­ Osiris, 2nd series, 1985, 1. • Current Arts and Sciences. Ph.D., Yale University, project: a study of modem physics and the 1971. • Specialties: nineteenth- and ment: It is important for the Society to create through the nominations procedure ideology of operationalism in the United twentieth-cenmry science, women in States. science, agricultural sciences. • Profes­ a balance within the positions of leader­ ship between the prudence of tested expe­ sional activities: HSS-Council member Phillip R. Sloan {1973-1976, 1983-present), assorted other rience and the energy and freshness of committees, including Committee on new blood. Associate Professor and Chair, Program of Research and Profession (Chair, 1982- David Lindberg Liberal Studies, University of Notre present). • Selected publications: The Dame. Ph.D., University of California, Emergence of Agricultural Science, Justus Evjue-Bascom Professor of the History of San Diego, 1970. • Specialty: history of Liebig and the Americans, 1840-1880 Science, University of Wisconsin. Ph.D., biology in the seventeenth through nine­ {Yale Univ. Press, 1975); "The Organiza­ Indiana University, 1965. • Specialties: teenth centuries. • Professional activi­ tion of the Agricultural Sciences;• in The ancient, medieval, and early modem ties: HSS-Annual Meeting Program Organization of Knowledge in Modem science; science and religion. • Profes­ Chair (1980), Committee on Meetings America, 1880-1920, ed. A. Oleson and sional activities: HSS-Committee on and Programs {Chair, 1981-1984). J. Voss (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1979); Publications (1981-1985, Chair, 1985), • Publications: writings on Descartes, Women Scientists in America, Struggles Committee on Meetings and Programs Buffon, and Darwin; joint author of From and Strategies to 1940 (Johns Hopkins (1981-1985, Chair, 1984-1985), Council Natural History to the History of Nature: Univ. Press, 1982; paperback 1984); (co­ member (197Q-1972, 1981-1983), Nomi­ Readings from Buffon and His Critics. ed., with Sally Gregory Kohlstedt) Histori­ nating Committee (Chair, 1982), Annual • Current projects: a book on Darwin's cal Writing on American Science: Osiris, Meeting Program Co-chair {1981), Isis species concept; an edition of manuscript 2nd series, 198S, 1. Advisory Editor {1976-1980), Osiris Con- lectures of Richard Owen. page6 History of Sciuce Society Newsletter

FELLOWSHIPS GRANTS by the SSRC and the International Re­ &. search and Exchanges Board. Applicants to the programs administered by the ACLS (except for China studies) must be citi­ The American College of Obstetricians obtained from Gay Takakoshi, ACOG, zens or permanent residents of the United and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Ortho 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Suite 300 States. Support is offered for postdoctoral Pharmaceutical Corporation announce East, Washington, DC 2002A; telephone humanistic research, participation in the establishment of the ACOG-Ortho (202) 638-5577. The application deadline conferences abroad, and research, tr:lh•;...

POSITIONS of experimental and theoretical physics quali£ications, but is expected to be in the introduced in the twentieth century and $40,000 range. Inquiries should be ad­ on fundamental changes in our world dressed promptly to Judith M. Liersch, Cornell University invites applicants for picture. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545; telephone the position of Assistant Professor, Histo­ in a relevant discipline. Appointments (505) 667-4355. AA/EOE. rian of Science, specializing in the Scien­ will be jointly held in the Program for the ti£ic Revolution and the Enlightenment. History and Philosophy of Science and Ohio State University has an opening at Candidates must be competent in the Technology and an appropriate academic the rank of full or associate professor physics and the philosophies of the'·period department. Applicants should write to beginning in September 1986. Historians and should also be sensitive to the nonsci­ Shirley Rice, Secretary of the Search Com­ of science with training in modem Euro­ entific aspects of the Scienti£ic Revolu­ mittee, McGraw Hall, Cornell University, pean social history (including Britain) tion. Excellence in teaching, as well as Ithaca, NY 14853; telephone (607) 256- from the mid-eighteenth century to the evidence of scholarly eminence, will be 3639. No deadline has been fixed yet for present will be considered . An interest in requirements for achievement of tenure. receipt of applications. AA/EOE. cross-cultural or comparative history is The position will be filled either in 1986 desirable, and recognized scholarly ac­ or 1987, depending upon the caliber of the The Los Alamos National Laboratory complishment and demonstrated capacity candidates. (LANL) is seeking a director for its science to teach graduate and undergraduate stu­ Cornell also seeks to fill another tenure­ museum. This museum, with a staff of dents are essential. The salary is negotia­ track position at the rank of assistant ten, is a repository for historically interest­ ble. Send nominations or expressions of professor, but exceptional circumstances ing scientific and technical apparatus from interest and credentials by 25 October may permit an appointment at a more the site, which are used to interpret the 1985 toM. Les Benedict, Chair, Search senior level. Candidates' research should work of the laboratory for a variety of Comoittee, Department of History, Ohio focus on the evolution or the foundations audiences. There are opportunities for State University, 230 West 17th Avenue, research and publication. Candidates Columbus, OH 43221. AA/EOE. The abbreviation "AA/EOE" has been should have a degree in the physical sci­ used when the hiring or granting institu­ ences and should be prepared to demon­ The Department of the History of Science tion has indicated that it is an Affirmative strate administrative ability and a at the University of Oklahoma invites Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. sensitivity to the opportunities presented. applicants for a one-year appointment as The salary will be commensurate with Visiting Assistant Professor for the aca- July 1985 page 7

The Columbia Society of Fellows in the qualified for promotion to tenure but for Humanities, with grants from the Andrew whom a tenured position does not cur­ HSS Job Survey W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. rently exist. Stipends are $28,000 plus Kenan 1iust, will appoint a number of regular faculty benefits; additional funds The HSS employment survey, 1983-1984, postdoctoral fellows in the humanities for for research materials and typing are avail­ scheduled for this issue of the Newsletter, the academic year 1986-1987. Fellows able. Appointments will normally be is being held over so that the Newsletter, newly appointed then must have received renewed for a second year. Senior Fellows ballot, and envelope, now going first class, the Ph.D. between 1 January 1984 and 1 will teach half-time in courses determined will weigh less than two ounces. July 1986. Stipends are $24,500, one half in consultation with the appropriate de­ for independent research and one half for partments at Columbia. Candidates must teaching in the undergraduate program in be nominated by the chair of their depart­ nology and Medicine of the Hebrew Uni­ general education, with additional funds ments or of an appropriate interdepart­ versity of Jerusalem announces two available for research materials and typ- mental committee, either at Columbia or postdoctoral fellowships for the academic ing. at their present institution. Applications year 1985-1986. Candidates who can The Society of Fellows, with a grant from individuals will not be considered. make use of any of the following collec­ from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, For application forms or nomination tions are especially encouraged to apply: will also appoint two Senior Fellows in requirements, write to Director, Society of Edelstein Collection (chemistry, alchemy, the Humanities for the academic year Fellows in the Humanities, Heyman Cen­ and dyeing), Friedenwald Collection (his­ 1986-1987. Awards will be made to ter for the Humanities, Box 100 Cent:ral tory of medicine), Laor Collection (maps scholars of particular accomplishment Mail Room, Columbia University, New of the Holy Land), and Einstein Archives. and promise who have held the doctorate York, NY 10027. The deadline for receipt Applicants should have a Ph.D. or its and have been teaching as full-time of completed applications or nominations equivalent in the history, philosophy, or faculty for at least five years but have not is 15 October 1985. AA/EOE. sociology of science, or in the physical yet received tenure and who have at least and life sciences. Applications should one significant publication to their credit. The Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the include curriculum vitae, list of publica­ Preference will be given to candidates History and Philosophy of Science, Thch· tions, letters of recommendation, an

demic year 1985-1986. (This position of science that was announced in the University, History of Medicine, P.O. Box depends upon authorization, expected in April 1985 Newsletter on page 7. Send 3333 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06510, early June.) Candidates must hold the curriculum vitae, references, outlines of by 15 October 1985. AA/EOE. Ph.D. degree or have completed all its two proposed courses with reading lists, requirements by August 1985. Teaching and a description of research interests to JULY DEADLINE responsibilities in the fall semester will be Science and Society Search Committee, two undergraduate courses, one of which c/o Janet Held, Faculty Secretary, Sarah The Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefel­ will be the first half of a two-semester Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 10708 ler University, is seeking a director. The survey of the history of science covering by 1 October 1985; earlier response is new director's qualifications should in­ antiquity to the early seventeenth century. welcomed. AA/EOE. clude outstanding intellectual and per­ The spring course load will include three sonal qualities, demonstrated research courses, two of which could be identical The Section of History of Medicine, achievements, and the ability to interact sections of one half of the survey. Appli­ School of Medicine, at Yale University with sponsors, intellectual constituen­ cants are asked to send a description of invites applications for a three-year term cies, and relevant private and public their educational background and qualifi­ appointment as Assistant Professor to bodies. Compensation and conditions of cations (including a record of graduate begin 1 July 1986 or sooner. A Ph.D. in appointment are negotiable. Suggestions courses taken), any relevant teaching history of medicine or in history of sci­ of possible candidates and applications · experience, research interests, and the ence with experience in history of life from interested individuals should be sent names, addresses, and telephone numbers sciences relevant to medicine is expected. to the Office of the President, Rockefeller of three references promptly to Kenneth L. Within these areas, preference may be University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, Taylor, Department Chair, History of given to candidates whose areas of interest NY 10021, by 15 July 1985. For further Science Department, 601 Elm Street, complement those of the present faculty. information, contact the chair of the Room 621, University of Oklahoma, The appointee will participate in the search cominittee, Nathan Reingold, Norman, OK 73019; telephone (405) 325- development of a Ph.D. program in his­ Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 2213. tory of medicine and the life sciences and 20560. The Center, located in North Tar­ may do additional teaching within the rytown, New York, contains the archives Sarah Lawrence College has extended the Medical School or in Yale College. Appli­ of the Rockefeller Foundation, papers of deadline for applications for the position cations and other inquiries should be Rockefeller family members, and Rock­ teaching science and society or the history addressed to Frederic L. Holmes, Yale efeller University records. AA/EOE. pageS History oC Science Sodety Newsletter

abstract, a sample chapter from the doc­ the time of appointment, at least two toral dissertation, and an outline of a years' postdoctoral teaching as college or planned project and must be received by university faculty in the humanities. Henry Guerlac, 1910-1985 15 September 1985 at the Sidney M. Edel­ Special consideration will be given to stein Center for the History and Philoso­ candidates who have not recently bad The History of Science Society bas phy of Science, Thchnology and Medicine, access to the resources of a major research learned with regret of the death of Henry Hebrew University, Levy Building, Room university. Candidates must have received Guerlac, Goldwin Smith Professor of 202, Givat Ram, 91010 Jerusalem, Israel. a Ph.D. prior to 30 June 1984. Appoint­ History of Science, Emeritus, at Cornell ment is for one year (July 1986-June University. Professor Guerlac was a former The Council for the International Ex­ 1987), with an annual salary of $22,000, president of HSS (1957-1960). He won the change of Scholars (CffiS) has opened the limited teaching duties, departmental Pfizer Award in 1962 for his book 1986-1987 Fulbright Scholar Awards for affiliation, and the opportunity to develop Lavoisier-The Crucial Year: The Back­ research and university lecturing abroad. scholarly research. Applications are due 1 ground and Origin of His Fiist Experi­ Scholars of any rank and most disciplines November 1985; awards will be an­ ments on Combustion in 1772 (Ithaca, are eligible. Requirements include United nounced 1 February 1986. For information N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961). In States citizenship, a Ph.D. or comparable and application procedures, write to 1973 he was awarded the Sarton Medal, professional qualifications, university or Richard M. Hunt, Program Director, Har­ and in 1982 he delivered the George college teaching experience, and, possibly, vard University Mellon Faculty Fellow­ Sarton Memorial Lecture before the An­ proficiency in a foreign language. Applica­ ships, Lamont Library 202, Cambridge, nual Meeting of the American Association tion deadlines are 15 September 1985 for MA02138. for Advancement of Science. Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East; 1 November 1985 for Junior Lecturerships The National Endowment for the Human­ to France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; 31 ities (NEH) draws the attention of December 1985 for NATO Resident Fel­ scholars and professional staffs to the lowships; and 1 February 1986 for Semi­ Columbian Quincentenary and invites nars in German Civilization Awards, proposals for the dissemination of scholar­ Spain Resident Fellowships, and France ship on related topics through confer­ and Germany navel-Only Awards. 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National Humanities Center Fellowships The number of exchanges available"·and for 1986-1987 are available to scholars C. Doris Hellman the eligibility requirements vary by coun­ several years beyond the doctorate from Memorial Fund try. The program also provides opportuni­ any nation to pursue research and writing ties for teachers to participate in summer in residence at the Center, located in The HSS Committee on Research and the seminars, which will be held in Italy and Research 'll"iangle Park, North Carolina. Profession seeks ideas from members the Netherlands in 1986. The deadline for Thirty-five to forty fellowships, mostly for concerning the wise use of the C. Doris receipt of completed applications is 15 the academic year (September through Hellman Memorial Fund, which was October 1985. Contact the Fulbright May), are available annually. Stipends are announced in the April issue of the News­ Teacher Exchange Program, E/ASX, USIA, based on scholars' usual academic sala­ letter (pp. 17-18). The purpose of the fund 3014th Street, S.W., Washington, DC ries. All fellows are given travel expenses is to provide modest revolving loans and 20547; telephone (202)485-2555. to and from the Center for themselves and small grants to support first publications, their families. Applications, consisting of to send unaffiliated members to job inter­ Harvard University offers Andrew W. a form available from the Center, a curric­ views, and to help younger scholars in Mellon Faculty Fellowships in the Hu­ ulum vitae, a 1,000-word project proposal, other ways. Suggestions on how to distrib­ manities for nontenured, experienced and three letters of recommendation, ute such aid, especially from those who junior scholars who have completed, at must be postmarked by 15 October 1985. can provide appropriate personal career For application materials, write to Kent experiences to illustrate their advice, are Mullikin, Assistant Director, National welcome. Send responses to P. Thomas See the information on Resources for Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Drive, Carroll, Department of Science and Thch­ Independent Scholars in the April 1985 Research niangle Park, NC 27709; tele­ nology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Newsletter, page 6. phone (919) 549-0661. AA/EOE. Institute, 'll"oy, NY 12180-3590. July 1985 page9

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Indiana University Participants who will need slide projectors or special arrangements for their papers should contact Professor Bloomington, Indiana Victor E. Thoren, Local Arrangements Chair, Department of 31 October-3 November 1985 History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401, before 15 September. Please report errors and changes to Albert Van Heiden, Program Chair, Department of History, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77252, before 15 September.

Thursday, 31 October 3. Ideas of Extraterrestrial LiJe 9:00a.m. -12:00 noon Chair: Michael J. Crowe• (University of Notre Dame) HSS Council Meeting Steven J. Dick (U.S. Naval Observatory): The 2:00p.m. -9:00p.m. Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science Cash Bar E. Robert Paul (Dickinson College): Plurality of Worlds 7:00 p.m.-9:00p.m. on the American Frontier: A Use of Science in Religious Theology, 1820-1900 James J. Kevin, Jr. (University of Notre Dame): A. R. Friday, 1 November Wallace, Teleological Evolution, and the Question of Extraterrestrid 1 Life 1. Ancient Science: The DiHerence the Texts Make Stanley L. Jaki (Seton Hall University): ETI and 9:00a.m.-12:00 noon Scientific Progress Chair: W. R. Knorr• (Stanford University) Joseph N. Tatarewicz (Smithsonian Institution): "The J. L. Berggren (Simon Fraser University): Flattening the Persistence of Lowell's Legacy . . ." : Life, Mars, and the Globe: Ptolemy's Geography US. Space Program, 1958-1967

C. Anagnostakis (Albertus Magnus College): Flattening 4. Victorian World Views the Heavens: Ptolemy's Planisphere 9:00- 12:00 noon J. M. Riddle (North Carolina State University): Chair: Paul Theerman • (Joseph Henry Papers, Dioscorides' Materia Medica: What the Scholiasts Smithsonian Institution) Knew Bruce Hunt (University of Texas at Austin): Heaviside A. Jones (Dumbarton Oaks): Making Sense of Pappus' the Telegrapher: Submarine Cables and Field Theory in Collections: The Sources of Ancient Geometry Victorian Britain W. R. Knorr (Stanford University): Pandora's Box: The Joe Burchfield (Northern Illinois University): Tyndall's Awful Troth about Ancient Mathematical Texts Materialism! 2. The History of Method and the Method of History: James Paradis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): A Memorial to Alberto Coffa Art, Artifice, and the Artificial World in T. H. Huxley's 9:00-11:30a.m. Evolution and Ethics Chair: Wesley Salmon (University of Pittsburgh) Comment: David Roos (South Bend, Indiana) Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago) Richard Creath* (Arizona State University): Camap and Intuition 5. God, Nature, and the Human Mind: Reason, Religion, and Larry Laudan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Science in the Seventeenth Century University): The Mutual Relevance of History and the 9:00- 11 :00a.m . Philosophy of Science Chair: RichardS. Westfall (Indiana University) Clark Glymour (University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Andrew Fix (Lafayette College): The Intellectual Mellon University): Remarks on Alberto Cofta Consequences of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Upheaval and the Coming of a Rational/ Secular World • Session organizers are indicated by an asterisk View page 10 History of Science Society Newsletter

Edward B. Davis• (Messiah College): The Role of Divine Freedom in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy Comment: Margaret J. Osler (University of Calgary)

6. Science and Philosophy, 1770-1820 (Works in Progress] 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: To be announced LeeAnn Hansen Le Roy (University of California at Los Angeles): Johann Christian Reiland the Rationale for Naturphilosophie Carleton E. Perrin (York University): Of Overworked Veins and Undetected Bonanzas: A Prospector's Report from the Lavoisian Digs Naum Kipnis (Bakken Library of Electricity in Life): Thomas Young and the Discovery of the Principle of Interference of Light

7. Biology, 1870-1910 (Works in Progress] 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon Chair: To be announced Priestley's pneumatic trough and other chemical appamtus in Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (177 4). Marc Swetlitz (University of Chicago): Charles Darwin Courtesy of the Center for History of Chemistry, Philodelphill. and Nineteenth-Century American Reform Judaism, 1870-1890 Alan Rocke (Case Western Reserve University): Ralph W. Dexter (Kent State University): The Role of Aufkliirer as Historians of Chemistry E. S. Morse in Bringing Zoology to Japan (1877-1883) Rachel Laudan• (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Marsha Richmond (Indiana University): Richard State University): The Uses of History of Science Goldschmidt and the Chromidial Hypothesis: A 1800-1840 Cytological Theory of Heredity and Development circa 1905 Comment: Timothy Lenoir (Hebrew University and University of Pennsylvania) HSS Business Meeting 1:30-2:30 p.m. 10. H. J. Muller: Geneticist, Evolutionist, and Eugenicist 2:30-5:30 p.m. 8. New Perspectives on the Chemical Revolution Chair: Elof Carlson (State University of New York at 2:30-5:30 p.m. Stony Brook) Chair and Comment: Arthur Donovan• (Virginia Elof Carlson (State University of New York at Stony Polytechnic Institute and State University) Brook): Muller as a Geneticist: Lasting and Changing Robert Siegfried (University of Wisconsin): What is the Views on Mutation and Gene Theory Chemical Revolution~ James Crow (University of Wisconsin): Genetical Frederic L. Holmes (Yale University): At the Core of the Considerations Underlying Muller's Evolutionary Chemical Revolution-Lavoisier's Conceptual Passage Views. I Karl Hufbauer (University of California at Irvine): John Beatty• (University of Minnesota): Genetical German Chemists and Lavoisier's System-A National Considerations Underlying Muller's Evolutionary Disciplinary Community in Chemistry's First Views. II Theoretical Revolution Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts at Boston): Muller's Eugenics 9. Scientists and their Past: Themes in the History of Science, 1750-1850 11. Channel Crossing: French Science and English Medicine 2:30-5:30 p.m. in the Nineteenth Century 2:30- 5:30 p.m. Chair: Shirley Roe (Harvard University) Chair: M. Jeanne Peterson (Indiana University) Thomas Hankins (University of Washington): Mathematicians and their History John Harley Warner (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine): "The Decline of Science" Argument and English Medical Reformers July 1985 page 11

Russell C. Maulitz (University of Pennsylvania): 15. The Scientific Community, 1900-Present Pathological Anatomy and the Declinist Controversy (Works in Progress) 3:30-4:30 p.m. Ann F. La Berge (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) : Edwin Chadwick and the French Chair: To be announced Connection George E. Webb (Tennessee Technological University): Comment: William Coleman (University of Wisconsin, American Scientists, 1906-1933: A Preliminary Madison) Demographic Report Othrnar Keel (Universite de Montreal). Eric L. Mills (Dalhousie University): Pattems of Organizer: Ronald L. Numbers (University of Progress in Early Biological Oceanography: the Rise and Wisconsin! Decline of 1Wo Research Groups Eugene Garfield and Henry Small (Institute for 12. Science in Sixteenth-Century Italy Scientific Information): The Geography of Science: 3:00-5:30 p.m. Disciplinary and National Mapping Chair: Paolo Galluzzi (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. (Ohio State University): The Scienza, Florence, and University of Siena) Career Consequences for a Scientist of a Mistaken Thomas B. Settle (Polytechnic Institute of New York): Research Project Egnatio Danti and the Thscan Transition Meeting of the HSS Women's Committee W. R. Laird* (Rice University): Giuseppe Moletti and 5:30-6:30 p.m. Renaissance Mechanics Frederick Purnell, Jr. (Queen's College, New York): Dinner for the Isis Editorial Board Jacopo Mazzoni's Treatise on Comets 7:30-9:30 p.m. Comment: Winifred L. Wisan (Oneonta, New York) The Real Stuff: Artifacts as Argument in the History of Science 13. Mathematics, Logic, and Society, 1700-1900 Sponsored by the HSS Committee on Education 3:00-5:30 p.m. 8:30-10:30 p.m. Chair: Michael J. Crowe (Notre Dame University) Chair: Stanley Goldberg• (Smithsonian Institution) James G. Buickerood (Rutgers University): The Natural Ramunas A. Kondratas (Smithsonian Institution): History of the Understanding: Locke and the Rise of Artifacts and the History of Science Exhibit: The Case Facultative Logic in the Eighteenth Century of the Medical Sciences Helena M. Pycior (University of Wisconsin at Gregory A. Good (West Virginia University) : Artifacts Milwaukee): Something out of Nothing: and Instruments in the History of Science Classroom Eighteenth-Century British Mathematics Comment: A. Michal McMahon (NASA and University Ann Hibner Koblitz (Seattle, Washington) The of Pennsylvania) Mythification of Sofia Kovalevskaia Stanley Goldberg (Smithsonian Institution) Comment: Thomas L. Drucker• (University of Wisconsin) Saturday, 2 November 14. Science and Politics, 1850-1950 (Works in Progress) 2:30-3:30 p.m . 16. Western European Medieval Medicine in its Social Context Chair: To be announced 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Richard A. Jarrell (York University): "Special Chair and Comment: Nancy Siraisi* (Hunter College) Recommendations for Ireland": English and Irish Perceptions of the Need for Technical and Scientific Monica Green (Princeton University): Monastic Values Education for Ireland, 1845-1899 and Gynecological Literature in the Early Midle Ages Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina): J Larry Owens (University of Massachusetts at Amherst): Royal Patronage of Medicine: The Kingdom of Aragon in Vannevar Bush and the Frontiers of Invention: Patents l and Political Economy in the 1930s the Early Fourteenth Century Darrel W. Amundsen (Western Washington University) : Sheila Faith Weiss (Clarkson University) : German Race Hygiene at the Crossroads: The Case of the Kaiser The Tension between Secular Medicine and Faith in Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, Late Medieval Catholicism and Eugenics, 1927-1945 Katherine Park (Wellesley College): Hospitals and Regis Cabral (University of Chicago): The Brazilian Medical Care of the Poor in Italy, 1250-1550 Reaction to the First Use of Atomic Energy page 12 History of Science Society Newsletter

Margaret Saha (University of Virginia): Side Chains, Episomes, and Genomeres: Quantitative Theories of A I C Inheritance in the 1920s and 1930s Will Provine (Cornell University): Mathematical ~ 0 - Populations Genetics and the Interactive Genome L. Richard M. Burian, Doris Zallen (Virginia Polytechnic

lz Institute and State University), and fean Gayon I (University of Dijon): The Physiological Tradition and I the Sudden Flourishing of French Genetics after World X / /j L_____ -!!~~~--=--l_:£!_1_22:._

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Diagram of ferromagnetic suspension apparatus used by a team of Comment: Garland Allen (Washington University) particle physicists, led by Giacomo Morpurgo, at the University of Genoa. See Isis, 1981, 72:219. 20. Pierre Duhem: Physicist, Philosopher, Historian 9:00-12:00 noon 17. The Emergence of Science as Research, 1730-1880 Chair: Roger Ariew* (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 9:00a.m. -12:00 noon State University) Chair: RobertS. Westman* (University of California at Stanley L. Taki (Seton Hall University): Helene Duhem Los Angeles) and the Publication of the Systeme du monde William Clark (University of California at Los Angeles): Donald G. Miller (Lawrence Livermore National The Doctor of Philosophy and the Advent of the ~ Laboratory): Some of Duhem's Contributions to Research Seminar: An Archeology of the Ge=an The=odynamics Academic, 1738,-1838 Niall Martin (London School of Economics): Saving Tames McClellan III (Stevens Institute of Technology): Duhem and Galileo Scientific Societies and the Scientist of the Ancien Roger Ariew and Peter Barker (Virginia Polytechnic Regime, 1750-1789 Institute and State University): Duhem on Maxwell Barbara f. Reeves (Ohio State University): Inventing the Comment: William A. Wallace (Catholic University of Italian Re_search University: Institutional Strategies and America) Political Compromises after Italian Unification Elizabeth Knoll (University of Chicago): Natural or 21. Modes of "Scientific" Activity Characteristic of the Historical Science!: The Place of Philology in Post-World War ll United States Nineteenth Century England 9:00a.m.-12:00 noon Comment: foseph Ben-David (Hebrew University of Chair: Silvan S. Schweber (Brandeis University) ferusalem) David G. Satin (Lindemann Center): From Individual Psychology to Social Refo=: The Beginnings of the 18. The Science-Thchnology Continuum: New Concepts Community Mental Health Movement in the 1940s 9:00a.m. -12:00 noon and 1950s Chair and Comment: Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard Steve f. Heims* (Tamaica Plain, Massachusetts): University) Optimism and Mechanism in the Social Sciences: The Edward Constant (Carnegie-Mellon University): Conference Series on "Circular Causal and Feedback Inte=ediate Technology: Science, Technology; and Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems" Regulation in the Texas Oil Business (1946-1953) Thomas Hughes* (University of Pennsylvania): The Evelyn Fox Keller (Northeastern University and Seamless Web: Technology; Science, Etcetera, Etcetera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Next Stop: The Etcetera Secret of Life Timothy Lenoir (Hebrew University and University of Andrew Pickering (Massachusetts Institute of Pennsylvania): Reverse Salients and Magic Bullets: Technology): Pragmatism in Particle Physics Science-Based Medicine and the Industrial System in the Kaiserreich 22. Modem Medicine and Psychology I (Works in Progress) 9:00-10:00 a.m. Comment: Edwin Layton (University of Minnesota) Chair: To be announced 19. Interacting Traditions in Twentieth-Century Genetics Martha L. Hildreth (University of Nevada at Reno): The 9:00-11:30 a.m. Image of the Good Old Days: Conflicting Ideologies of Chair: Richard Burian • (Virginia Polytechnic Institute the Role of French Physicians in the Age of the and State University) Bacteriological Revolution July 1985 page 13

Alesia Maltz (University of illinois): The Priority 26. Custodial Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Dispute that Wam 't: Frederick Gowland Hopkins and American Asylum the Discovery of Vitamins 2:30-5:00 p.m. Ben Rogers (Wichita State University): Psychology and Chair and Comment: Norman Dain (Leonia, New the Maturing of Statistical Practice, 1869-1940 Jersey) Ellen Dwyer (Indiana University): Healthy Bodies and 23. Modem Medicine and Psychology II (Works in Progress} Mad Minds: Caring for the Physical ms of 10:00-11:00a.m. Nineteenth-Century Lunatics Chair: To be announced Frank R. Levstik (Kentucky Department for Libraries Sara Waitstill Thcker (Washburn University of Topeka): and Archives): Medical Education and the Treatment of Go East Young Woman: American Women Scientists Mental mness in the West, 1817-1838 and the Presbyterian Mission to Canton, China, Ronald F. White• (Kentucky Department of Libraries 1882-1937 and Archives): Local Circumstance and the History of Naomi Rogers (University of Pennsylvania): The Public Eastern State Lunati.c Asylum, 1824-1856 Role of Science: The Case of the 1916 Polio Epidemic in New York City 27. Nursing and Science in America, 1875-1985 2:30-5:00 p.m. James H. Capshew (University of Pennsylvania): Psychology for the Fighting Man and World War II: Text Chair: Audrey B. Davis• (Smithsonian Institution) and Context Janet James (Boston College): Lavinia Dock, Visiting Nurse and Social Reformer Luncheon for Osiris Editorial Board 12:00 noon-2:00p.m. Karen Bubier-Wilkerson (University of Pennsylvania): Nurses Still Make Housecalls: One Hundred Years of Forum for the History of Science in America Visiting Nurses in America 1:30-2:30 p.m. Barbara Bates, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania): Science, Reform and Control: The Case of Thberculosis 24. The Philosophy and Methodology of "Knowing": Nursin& 1903-1917 Feminist Historical Perspectives on the Social Sciences 2:30-5:30 p.m. 28. Theory and Observation in Kepler's Natural Philosophy Chair: Elizabeth Fee (Johns Hopkins University) 2:30-5:00 p.m. Shulamit Reinharz (Brandeis University): Images of Chair: Curtis A. Wilson (St. John's College, Annapolis) Women in Sociology: An Historical Overview Stephen Straker (University of British Columbia): Marcia Weskott (University of Colorado): Kepler and his Critics on the Nature of Light and Colors Psychoanalysis in History: Freud's Seduction Theory in Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburgj): Kepler and Context the Forces Shere Hite• (The Hite Report): The Ideological Legacy William H. Donahue* (Santa Fe, New Mexico): The of the Natural Sciences to the Social Sciences Peccadillo of Johannes Kepler: Covering Up the Mess in Comment: Evelyn Fox Keller (Northeastern University the Astronomia Nova and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 29. Science, 1300-1650 (Works in Progress} 25. Fabrication, Censorship, and Construction of History of 3:00-4:15 p.m. Science Chair: Robert A. Hatch (University of Florida! 2:30-5:30 p.m. Steven D. Sargent (Union College): Jean Buridan and Chair: Arthur I. Miller• (University of Lowell and the Quies Media of Reflected Motion Harvard University) Winifred L. Wisan (Oneonta, New York) : Galileo's Gerald Holton (Harvard University): Introductory "concetto immenso" Remarks Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada at Reno): Moritz Arthur I. Miller (University of Lowell and Harvard of Hessen-Kassel, Johannes Hartmann, and the Origins University): The Fabrication of "How I Created the of Academic Chemistry Theory of Relativity" Christopher B. Burch (University of Pittsburgh): On the Frank J. Sulloway (Harvard University): Freud and Integrity of the Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of Psychoanalysis: Analysts of Censorship as Censors Rene Descartes Howard E. Gruber (University of Geneva and Rutgers University, Newark): Differential Uptake in the History of Ideas page 14 History of Science Society Newsletter

30. Chemistry and Physics, 1860-1920 (Works in Progress} Sunday, 3 November 4:00-5:00 p.m. Plenary Session Chair: To be announced 31. The Jesuits and the Scientific Revolution: A Fresh Look Jeffrey A. Johnson (State University of New York at 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Binghamton): The Development of Gennan Chemical Literature, 1867-1914 Chair: Mordechai Feingold* (Boston University) Lisa Mae Robinson (University of Pennsylvania): William A. Wallace (Catholic University of America): Experimentill Style in American Science: The The Jesuits and the Calculators in the Late Sixteenth Electroanal}'t.ical Techniques of Edgar Fahs Smith and Early Seventeenth Centuries Walter E. Pittman, Jr. (Mississippi University for Edward Grant (Indiana University): Divergent Women): Mudlumps and Salt Domes: Early Concepts of Cosmologies among Early Modem Jesuit Natural Isostasy in Gulf Coast Geology Philosophers

The History of Science Society Lecture Robert S. Westman (University of California at Los Angeles): Giovanni Baptista Riccioli (1598-1671) and 5:30-6:30 p.m. Jesuit Argumentative Practices in Astronomy Frederic Lawrence Holmes (Yale University) William B. Ashworth (Linda Hall Library and HSS Cocktail Party University of Missouri at Kansas City): Seeing the 6:30-7:30 p.m. Light: Emblems in the Cause of Science; Or Vice Versa HSS Annual Banquet Comment: John L. Heilbron (University of California at 7:30-9:30 p.m. Berkeley) Paolo Galluzzi (Istituto e Museo di Storia Presentation of HSS Awards and Prizes della Scienza, Florence, and University of Graduate Student Party Siena) 9:30-11:30 p.m. Open to HSS student members and their guests.

continued from page 1 receptive to the example-and presence­ Fund Drive of an appropriate representative of the Society, a National Committee has been The History of Science Society is proud to such as the American Physical Society's formed, chaired by Joe Burchfield of list the following donors to and supporters Visiting Physicists Program and programs Northern lllinois University. The National of its Fund Drive. Earlier lists of donors of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Committee, geographically diverse in its may be found in the HSS Newsletter, Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Organization representation in hopes of providing well­ Aprill984 and Aprill985. of American Historians. ·. informed coverage of all areas of the Through the generosity of the Exxon country- from coast to coast, North to Education Foundation, the first year of the South-will also depend upon timely Lifetime Sustaining Max Tishler HSS lecture series has been underwritten, suggestions from knowledgeable members Member Theodore J. Whitehead Kenneth Lud.merer and the Ford Foundation has agreed to of the Society as to where a particular Other Donors support four additional years. At the end speaker might do the most good in pro­ Sustaining Members Mats Engwall of its first five years of operation, it is moting the history of science. Joan Bromberg Daniel Friedman hoped that the Visiting Historians of Anyone wishing more specific informa­ Joseph R. Dell'Aquila Keith Hutchison Science Program will be self-sustaining tion about this program or who may be John J. Domingo E. S. Kennedy Bruce Eastwood Stephen Straker through support from endowment and able to offer suggestions about the place­ Jonathan A. Hill cost-sharing with the institutions, both ment of speakers, especially in the fall of Thomas P. Hughes Foundations public and private, that benefit from 1985, is urged to contact either Joseph W. Manny H. Moser The Rockefeller the availability of the Society's annual Dauben, Coordinator of Programs, HSS Nancy L. Stepan Foundation lecturers. Visiting Historians of Science Program, The next issue of the HSS Newsletter Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY, lf you are interested in making a donation will announce the first group of speakers Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY to the HSS, you may obtain the brochure who have agreed to serve as Visiting His­ 10468, telephone (212) 960-8289, or Joe "Four Ways of Giving to the History of torians of Science for 1985-1986. Th help D . Burchfield, Chairman, National Com­ Science Society" by contacting Gerald coordinate their placement at promising mittee, HSS Visiting Historians of Science Holton, 358 Jefferson Laboratory, Harvard locations, preferably at a crucial moment Program, Department of History, North­ University, Cambridge, MA 02138; tele­ when a given institution might be most em lllinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. phone(617)495~74 . July 1985 page 15

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CALLS FOR PAPERS Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, MVSA Execu­ sium, RICHST, Royal Institution, 21 tive Secretary, Department of English and Albemarle Street, London, W1X 4BS, The American Association for the Ad­ Communication, DePaul University, 2323 England. vancement of Science encourages mem­ North Seminary Avenue, Chicago, IT.. 60614. The eleventh annual meeting of the Social bers of HSS to organize symposia dealing Science History Association will be held with issues in the history of science for its The Royal Institution of Great Britain 16-19 October 1986 at St. Louis, Mis­ meeting to be held 25-30 May 1986 in Centre for the History of Science and souri. Those wishing to participate or Philadelphia. For further information and Thchnology (RICHST) will present a sym­ offer suggestions for the program should required forms, contact Paul A. Haole, posium titled "Laboratories: The Place of contact Richard Steckel, Program Com­ Associate Director for Research, National Experiment" on 17-19 September 1986. mittee Chair, Department of Economics, Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Questions to be addressed include how Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Institution, Washington, DC 20560; tele­ laboratories are funded and staffed, how 43210, telephone (614) 422-5008 (office), phone {202) 357-2493. The deadline for the physical construction of the buildings (614) 422-6701 (secretary), or D'Ann proposing a session is 1 August 1985. affects the events that happen in them, Campbell, Co-Chair, Department of His­ "Victorians Abroad" will be the topic of how research groups internally collaborate tory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN the 'Ienth Annual Meeting of the Midwest to produce a distinctive style, and so on. 47405, telephone (812) 335-3849 (office). Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) in Contributions are welcomed from histo­ Papers and panel proposals should include Cincinnati during 25-26 April1986. The rians and sociologists dealing with prob­ a short description of the papers and the Association welcomes proposals treating lems relating to historical and names, departments, and institutional varied aspects of British Victorian life contemporary laboratories. Offers of pa­ affiliations of all proposed participants. abroad, including exploration. 'len-page pers, including a brief abstract, should be Panels may include roundtable discus­ papers or two-page abstracts should be sent by 30 September 1985 to the orga­ sions. Proposals should be received no sent no later than 15 November 1985 to nizer, Frank James, Laboratories Sympo- later than 1 November 1985.

AWARDS, HONORS ana University for his dissertation, "Crea­ Indiana, for September 1985. She will tion, Contingency, and Early Modem teach Western Civilization and develop & ·APPOINTMENTS Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic courses in the history of medicine and Theology on Seventeenth Century Natu­ science. ral Philosophy!' He has also accepted a P. Thomas Carroll of the Department of position as assistant professor of history Arnold Thackray has been elected as Science and 'Iechnology Studies, Rensse­ and science at Messiah College in Gran­ Treasurer and member of the Board of laer Polytechnic Institute, has been tham, Pennsylvania. Directors of the American Council of named one of two Exxon Research Fellows Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS is a at the Program in Science, 'Iecbnology, William Eamon of New Mexico State federally chartered council of scholarly and Society, Massachusetts Institute of University won the second annual New organizations concerned with the human­ Technology, for the academic year 1985- Mexico Humanities Council competitive ities. The History of Science Society is a 1986. He plans to investigate the effects of essay award for his essay "Albert Einstein constituent society of the ACLS. graduate training, industrial patronage, and the Generation of 1905!' He has also and other cultural influences on the re­ accepted a fellowship at the Institute for The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial search careers of doctorate chemists and Research in the Humanities at the Univer­ Foundation has awarded fellowships for chemical engineers in twentieth-century sity of Wisconsin for 1985-198 6. 1985 for pursuit of proposed studies to the America. following historians of science: Amos Jeremiah M. G. Hackett of the University Funkenstein (University of California, Los Audrey B. Davis presented the Kate Hurd of South Carolina has been selected as one Angeles, and 'Iel-Aviv University), theol­ Mead Lecture at the College of Physicians of the 1985 Research Fellows of the Biblio­ ogy and the scientific imagination from of Philadelphia on 14 March 1985, the graphical Society of America. He will use the Middle Ages to the seventeenth cen­ Keynote lecture to the Buffalo Visiting the award for work on a critical edition of tury; Timothy Lenoir (University of Penn­ Nursing Association at their hundredth Roger Bacon's Opus Maius, Part VI, De sylvania and Hebrew University), the anpiversary dinner on 16 April, and a Scientia Experimentoli. institutional revolution in German sci­ lecture to the Washington, D.C., Visiting ence, 1850-1885; Alan E. Shapiro (Univer­ Nurse Association on their eighty-fifth Richard L. Kremer has been appointed sity of Minnesota), an edition of Newton's anniversary at the National Museum of Mellon Assistant Professor in the Depart­ optical papers; Arnold Thackray (Univer­ American History on 25 April1985. ment of History at Dartmouth College. sity of Pennsylania), a history of the Cen­ ter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Edward B. Davis has been selected as one Susan C. Lawrence has been appointed Sciences; and Alexander Vucinich (Uni­ of the 1984 winners of the Esther L. assistant professor in the Department of versity of Pennsylvania), science and So­ Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award of Indi- History, Ball State University, Muncie, viet ideology. July 1985 page 17

The Southeastern America Society for vant work-in-progress. Address letters to sponsored by the-&sociation of Industrial Eighteenth-Century Studies will hold its the editor, George W. Stocking, Jr., Depart­ and Thchnical Engineers of Brussels with twelfth annual meeting at the University ment of Anthropology, University of Chi­ the cooperation of the Belgian Committee. of South Carolina, Columbia, on 6-8 cago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL for the History of Sciences. Original schol­ March 1986. Proposals for interdiscipli­ 60637. arly essays in the fields of historical, so­ nary papers on any eighteenth-century cial, and philosophical studies in science topic are solicited. Completed papers Quipu: Revista Latino Americana de and technology are welcome for publica­ should be sent by 1 October 1985 to Eliza­ Historia de las Ciencias y Thcnolog{a, tion. (Technologia is trilingual: English, beth Nybakken, History Department, which appears three times a year and is French, and Dutch.) Address inquiries to Mississippi State University, Mississippi published by the Latin American Society the editor, Hosam Elkhadem, Centre State, MS 39762; telephone (601) 325-3604. for the History of Science and Thchnology, National d'Histoire des Sciences, Bib­ welcomes papers on topics related to the liotheque Royale Albert premier, Boule­ PERIODICALS title of the journal. Those interested in vard de l'Empereur, 4, 1000 Brussels, The fifth annual volume in the series submitting book reviews should contact Belgium. History of Antluopology, published by the president of the society, Juan Jose the University of Wisconsin Press, will be Saldana, Quipu, Apdo Postal21-873, Don't overlook the following calls for devoted to biological perspectives in an­ 04000, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Authors papers in the April1985 Newsletter, p. 10: thropological inquiry, and contributions may submit articles in English, Spanish, the annual meeting of the Association for on the history of biological anthropology Portuguese, or French. are welcomed. Although the deadline for Social Economics in New York City, 28- 30 December 1985, deadline of 31 August completed manuscripts is not until31 Thchnologia, an international quarterly 1985; and the Twelfth Annual Saint Louis August 1986, prospective contributors are devoted to historical, social, and philo­ Conference on Manuscript Studies in encouraged to communicate as soon as sophical studies in science, technology, Saint Louis, 11-12 October 1985. possible with the editor about their rele- and industry, was founded in 1978 and is

Naturalists of the Andes and Amazon;' on MEETINGS 14 November 1985 at 11:00 a.m. in Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Some of those attending Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, the conference "Reflec­ Washington, D.C. The lecture coincides tions on Ecology and Evolu­ with the opening of a major exhibit on the tionary Biology" held at U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Arizona State University For further information, write to 28 Februazy-3 March 1985. Ellen B. Wells, Smithsonian Institution Photograph courtesy of Libraries, NMAH 5016, Washington, DC fane Maienschein. W560. FOR THE RECORD On iS-19 April the Academy of Sciences The Henry Draper Memorial Centennial On 26-28 September 1985 Dickinson of Lisbon sponsored a colloquium, "Hist6- Symposium will be held on 23 October College will celebrate the hundredth ria e Desenvolvimento da Ciencia em 1985 at the University of Western On­ anniversary of the Tome Scientific Build­ Portugal!' The sessions covered mathe­ tario. Papers will be presented by Dorrit ing, the first building devoted to the teach­ matics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, Hoffleit (Yale University) on the historical ing of science on its campus. The Tome medicine, natural sciences (including aspects of the Draper Memorial project Centennial will include a two-day inter­ anthropology and the earth sciences), and and Nancy Houk (University of Michigan) disciplinary symposium entitled "Science applied sciences. HSS members Allen on the project to reclassify the stars in the in the Liberal Arts," a major address by Debus and William R. Shea addressed the Draper Catalogue on the more up-to-date Stephen Jay Gould dealing with both colloquium. scientific and humanistic issues, and an "M-K System!' For further information, "Aesthetics of Science" exhibit, as well as contact Howard Plotkin, Department of Don't overlook the following meetings a display of Dickinson's historic collec­ History of Medicine and Science, Univer­ announced in the April1985 Newsletter, tion of physics apparatus, including an sity of Western Ontario, London, Canada, pp. 14- 15: "The R & D Pioneers" in electrostatic generator (circa 1800) and N6A5Cl. Wilmington, Delaware, 7 October 1985; Joseph Priestley's telescopes and burning the XVllth International Congress of glass. For more information, contact Su­ Joseph Ewan, Emeritus Professor of Bot­ History of Science in Berkeley, California, san Wolf, Coordinator, Thme Centennial any at Tulane University, will deliver the 31 July- 8 August 1985; and "Sherlock Symposium, c/o Department of Physics Ramsbottom Lecture of the Society for the Holmes: Science and Literature" in Madi­ and Astronomy, Dickinson College, Car­ History of Natural History (SHNH), enti­ son, Wisconsin, W-21 July 1985. lisle, PA 17013. tled "A Study in Personality: American page 18 History of Science Society Newsletter

Books Received by Isis London: Yale University Press, 1985. $22.50 figs., index. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985. (cloth); $6.95 (paper). £32. March-May 1985 Christiane Groeben (Editor). Reinhard Dohm, John Langdon Brooks. Just Before the Origin: 1880-1962: Reden, Briefe und Veroftentlich­ Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution. ungen zum 100. Geburtstag. 91 pp., illus. xiii + 284 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer Verlag, Ordering information: Books and Columbia University Press, 1984. $30. 1983. (Paper.) publications listed in the HSS Newsletter Alberto Cambrosio; Raymond Duchesne (Edi­ ~· Th_. Guilbaud. Let;ons d'a-peu-pres. 235 pp., are available from the publisher. The tors). Les (Science, Technolo­ enjeux du progres. b1bl., mdexes. Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1985. gie et Societe.) 356 pp. Sainte-Fay, Quebec: History of Science Society cannot fill (Paper.) orders for non-HSS publishers. Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 1984; Que­ bec: lele-universite, 1984. (Paper.). Marie Boas Hall. All Scientist~ Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century. ix + 261 Geof&q Cocks. Note: Most books on the Books Received Psychotherapy in the Third pp., illus., bib!., index. Cambridge/London/ List that will be reviewed in Isis have Reich: The Goring Institute. xii + 326 pp., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. illus., bibl., index. New York/Oxford: Oxforo $49.50. already been assigned to reviewers. If you University Press, 1985. $24.95. are interested in reviewing a forthcoming J. L. Heilbron. Physics at the Royal Society Murray Code. Order eJ Oiganism: Steps to a book for Isis, please fill in the coupon during Newton's Presidency. xiv + 123 pp., Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mathematics eJ illus., index. Los Angeles: William Andrews "News of Forthcoming Books" in earlier the Natural Sciences. 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Compiled with an introduction by Roshdi Pierre Vigier (Editors). Quantum, Space and Rashed. 386 pp., figs., index. Paris: Librairie A. Graham Flegg; Cynthia Hay; Barbara Moss Time-The Quest Continues: Studies and Blanchard, 1984. Essays in Honour of Louis de Broglie, Paul (Editors). Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathe­ Dirac and Eugene Wigner. (Cambridge Mono­ matician: A Swdy with Extensive 'Ilanslation of ~ter Murray Jones. Medieval Medical Minia­ graphs on Physics.) vii + 662 pp., illus., figs., Chuquet's Mathematical Manuscript Com­ tures. 144 pp., illus., figs., bib!., indexes. Aus­ indexes. Cambridge/London/New York: Cam­ pleted in 1484. viii + 388 pp., illus., app., bibl., tin: University of "Texas Press, with the bridge University Press, 1984. $49.50 (paper). index. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, cooperation of the British Library, 1984. 1985. (Distributed in the U.S. by Kluwer Aca­ Bruno Bellioste. Cauchy: Un mathematicien demic Publishers, Hingham, Mass.) 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New HS Programs CONTENTS The Newsletter of the History of Sci­ Cornell University has established a new ence Society is published in January, Program in the History and Philosophy of April, July, and October. Regular issues are Science and Technology for undergradu­ sent to those individual members of the ates and graduates. The undergraduate Visiting Historians of Science 1 Society residing in North America. Air­ concentration will present a core of 1985 HSS Election 2 mail copies are sent to those members courses in the history of science and med­ overseas who pay $5 yearly to cover postal icine, philosophy of science, and history Fellowships & Grants 6 costs. The Newsletter is available to non­ of technology, and will treat their relation­ Positions 6 members and institutions for $20 a year. ships to other aspects of the intellectual Henry Guerlac, 1910-1985 8 The Newsletter is overseen by a Steer­ world. The graduate field will prepare ing Committee consisting of the Presi­ students to become not only professional C . Doris Hellman Memorial Fund 8 dent, the Secretary, and the Editor of the historians and philosophers of science, HSS Annual Meeting Program 9 History of Science Society; it is produced medicine, and technology, but also teach­ at the Society's Publications Office under ers of science and engineering with histor­ Fund Drive 14 the supervision of Dr. Frances Kohler. ical and philosophical competence, Registration & Reservation Forms 15 Send news items to Newsletter, History museum curators in science and technol­ Call for Papers 16 of Science Society Publications Office ogy, and science writers. The codirectors I 215 South 34th Street/D6, Philadelphia, of the program are Martin Harwit (Astron­ Awards & Appointments 16 PA 12104. The deadlinefor receipt of omy) and L. Pearce Williams (History). 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