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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAmir Alexander is the author, most recently, of Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (Harvard University Press, 2010) and is now working on a book on the politics of infinitesimals, to be published in 2014. He teaches at UCLA.Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb is the Founder and Chair of the Center Simão Mathias for Studies in History of Science (CESIMA) and Professor in the Graduate Program in History of Science, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, as well as a research fellow at the Department of Science and Technology of University College, London, and a member of the Advisory Board of World History of Science Online. She has written extensively on early modern science, the history of chemistry, and medieval Arabic science. She is the translator and the author of a study on Livro do Tesouro de Alexandre [Book of the Treasure of Alexander] (São Paulo, 1999), among several other books and articles; she is now working on theories of matter in early modern science and the organization of knowledge over time.Colin Allen is on the faculty of Indiana University, Bloomington, with appointments in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Program in Cognitive Science. His primary research concerns the philosophy of cognitive science, especially animal cognition and machine morality. In addition to directing the InPhO project, he is Associate Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Katharine Anderson is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies at York University and formerly spent many hours in dusty periodical stacks. She recently annotated Phillip Parker King and Robert FitzRoy's The Narrative of the Beagle Voyages (4 vols.; Pickering & Chatto, 2011), and she is working on a history of ocean sciences in the interwar period.R. Joseph (Joe) Anderson has been with the American Institute of Physics since 1993 and is currently Director of the Niels Bohr Library and Archives and Associate Director of the Center for History of Physics. He was formerly employed at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, the Yale University Department of Manuscripts and Archives, and the Historical Society of Wisconsin. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.Peter Barker is a professor of history of science at the University of Oklahoma. His current research examines the background to Copernicus's education and work, including the status of celestial orbs in European astronomy, and the circulation of Islamic materials in Renaissance Italy.Mark V. Barrow, Jr., is Chair of the Department of History and affiliated with the Department of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. The author of A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon (1998) and Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (2009), he is now researching an environmental and cultural history of the American alligator.Antonio Becchi is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. In 1999 he founded, with other colleagues, the Edoardo Benvenuto Association for Research on the Science and Art of Building. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.Staffan Bergwik is Assistant Professor at the Department for History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, where he teaches science studies and history of science. His research interests include scientific families in the twentieth century, gender, scientific emotions, and the public culture of modern science.Christopher Burton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. He studies health care under Stalinism, the medical profession, and the Soviet science of environmental health. He coedited Soviet Medicine: Culture, Practice, and Science.Jane Carruthers, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Africa, is a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and a member of the South African Academy of Science. She has written on many aspects of national parks, and her current research interest is in the history of the biological sciences in southern Africa.Stephen Clucas is Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is Coeditor of Intellectual History Review. His most recent publication is Magic, Memory, and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2011).Elena Conis is an assistant professor of history at Emory University, where she teaches courses on the history of disease, public health, and the environment in the twentieth-century United States. Her book Vaccine Nation: Vaccines, Children, and Society since the Sixties is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.Roger Cooter is a professor at the Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. His latest book, with Claudia Stein, is Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine (2013).Kathleen Crowther is an associate professor of history of science at the University of Oklahoma. Her first book, Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation (Cambridge, 2010), won the Gerald Strauss Prize for best new book in Reformation studies. She is now working on a book about Sacrobosco's Sphere.Stephanie Dick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University. She studies the history of mathematics and computing in postwar America. Her work is currently supported by John Templeton Foundation Grant No. 15619, “Mind, Mechanism, and Mathematics: Turing Centenary Research Project,” and by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant No. 1154889.Steffen Ducheyne is Research Professor at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) and the author of the monograph “The Main Business of Natural Philosophy”: Isaac Newton's Natural-Philosophical Methodology (Springer, 2012). His research interests are in Newton's natural philosophy and its eighteenth-century reception. He has published widely in the history and philosophy of science.Jim Endersby ([email protected]) is Reader in the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (Chicago, 2008) and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology (Harvard, 2007). He is now writing a cultural history of the orchid for Reaktion Press.Márcia H. M. Ferraz is Vice Chair of the Center Simão Mathias for Studies in History of Science (CESIMA) and Professor in the Graduate Program in History of Science, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, as well as a research fellow at the Department of Science and Technology of University College, London, and a member of the Isis Current Bibliography board. She has written extensively on the history of chemistry, as well as on the history of science in Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of the 1999 Brazilian National Book Prize winner, As Ciências em Portugal e no Brasil (1772–1822): O Texto Conflituoso da Química [Science in Portugal and Brazil: The Conflicting Text of Chemistry] (São Paulo, 1997), she is now working on theories of matter in early modern science and studies on the organization of knowledge up to the nineteenth century.Larrie D. Ferreiro, a naval architect and historian, is Director of Research and Professor of Systems Engineering at the Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His book Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800, was published by MIT Press in 2007.Mark Finlay is Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University. His publications include Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security (2009) and several articles on the history of the agricultural sciences and technology. He is now working on an environmental history of the Georgia coast.Michael Finn is Adjunct Professor of French at Ryerson University in Toronto. His research focuses on the interaction between late nineteenth-century medico-psychological theory and fiction. He is the author of Proust, the Body, and Literary Form (Cambridge) and of a study on the novelist Rachilde.Erna Fiorentini, of the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, investigates the theory and history of vision. Trained as both a scientist and a historian of art, she explores the relationships between aesthetics and epistemology in imaging processes; she introduced the notion of “induction of visibility” to disturb a general concept of visualization.Alette Fleischer is an independent scholar and part-time educator at the Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation. Her research connects the histories of natural inquiry and technology in the seventeenth-century Low Countries by focusing on private and public gardens and botanical exchange and collections.Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick. His latest book is Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0 (Palgrave, 2012).Yves Gingras is Professor in the Department of History and Canada Research Chair in History of Sociology of Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research focuses on the mathematization of the sciences, the transformation of the universities, and the dynamic of scientific disciplines. His most recent books are Propos sur les sciences (Paris: Raisons d'Agir, 2010), Sociologie des sciences (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012), and Les universities nouvelles, coedited with Lyse Roy (Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université de Québec, 2012).Pamela Gossin is Professor of History of Science and Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she serves as Director of Medical and Scientific Humanities (MaSH). She is working with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln to create a searchable digital archive and interpretative website, Across the Spectrum: The Interdisciplinary Life and Letters of John G. Neihardt.Thomas L. Hankins is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. His publications include Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment (Clarendon Press, l970), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (Johns Hopkins University Press, l980), Science and the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, l985), and Instruments and the Imagination, with Robert Silverman (Princeton University Press, 1995).Elizabeth Hanson is an independent scholar and the author of Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos (Princeton University Press, 2002).Anne Hardy was on the academic staff of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, then the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, from 1990 to 2010. She is now Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.William L. Harper is Senior Fellow at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario. His book, Isaac Newton's Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.Marijn Hollestelle is Program Manager at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Chemical and Physical Sciences Division. He studied physics and history of science at Utrecht University. His dissertation on Paul Ehrenfest, focused on Ehrenfest's life in Leiden, was nominated for the 2012 Boerhaave Biography Award.Bruce J. Hunt is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of The Maxwellians (1991, 2005) and Pursuing Power and Light (2010), he is now working on a book on the interaction between telegraphy and electrical science in Victorian Britain.Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the principal editor of the Works, Correspondence, and work diaries of Robert Boyle and the author of Boyle: Between God and Science (2009), as well as many other books on the intellectual history of early modern England.Joel Isaac is Lecturer in the History of Modern Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (Harvard University Press, 2012) and coeditor of Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2012).Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her research centers on the production and use of science in legal and political decision making. Her books include The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature.Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, he is now writing a book about controversies over vaccination in American history, to be published by Oxford University Press.Grigory Kessel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology of Marburg University. His studies focus on manuscript transmission and circulation of Syriac literature, including its Arabic counterpart. In particular, he is researching the remnant of the Syriac medical tradition that developed in the context of so-called medieval Galenism.Barbara Kimmelman is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Science, Health, and the Liberal Arts at Philadelphia University. She works and teaches broadly in areas of history, contemporary issues, design thinking, biomimicry, and the human relationship with nature.Helen King is Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England. She is a specialist on the history of women's medicine from the ancient world to the Renaissance; her publications include The Disease of Virgins (Routledge, 2004) and Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynecology (Ashgate, 2007).Rina Knoeff is Senior Researcher at the Department of History, University of Groningen. She is now leading a research project on the chemistry and medicine of the Dutch Boerhaavians. She is the author of Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physcian (Amsterdam, 2002).Brandon Konoval researches the relationship between music and early modern science, as well as the work of composers like Rousseau and Nietzsche (who also made noteworthy contributions to philosophical anthropology). He teaches at the University of British Columbia, in the Arts One Programme and at the School of Music.Helge Kragh is a professor of history of science and technology at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he works on the history of the physical sciences since the mid-nineteenth century.Sachiko Kusukawa is a Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her volume Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany was published in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press.Janis Langins teaches history of technology at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. His interests lie in the history of engineering and engineering education, primarily in France in the eighteenth century.Adrián López-Denis became Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware after completing a Ph.D. at UCLA and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University. He studies how colonial practitioners working with soldiers, sailors, and slaves contributed to the modernization of Western medicine during the Age of Revolution.Ad Maas is Curator at Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. His publications have addressed, among other things, the history of Dutch physics, Albert Einstein's practical work, Dutch scientific culture between 1750 and 1900, and scientific research in World War II.Paolo Mazzarello is Professor of History of Medicine and Director of the Historical Museum at the University of Pavia. Among his books are Il professore e la cantante: La grande storia d'amore di Alessandro Volta (Bollati Boringhieri, 2009), Golgi (Oxford University Press, 2010), and L'erba della Regina (Bollati Boringhieri, 2013).David Philip Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales. He remains preoccupied with the nature of discovery and invention and with the work of James Watt, treated most recently in James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (2009).Suzanne Moon is an associate professor of history of science at the University of Oklahoma and Editor-in-Chief of Technology and Culture. She is working on a book about technology in postcolonial Indonesia.Linda Nash is an associate professor of history at the University of Washington, where she teaches environmental and twentieth-century U.S. history. She is the author of Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (University of California Press, 2006). She is now writing on American water engineers and their international projects after World War II.Janice Neri is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at Boise State University. She is the author of The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).Elizabeth Neswald is Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at Brock University. She has written on the cultural history of thermodynamics, Vilém Flusser, and science in nineteenth-century Ireland and is currently researching the early history of nutrition physiology and the foreign laboratory visits of Francis Gano Benedict.Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. A scholar of ancient mathematics, he is the author, most recently, of Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (Cambridge, 2009), as well as a coeditor of The Archimedes Palimpsest (Cambridge, 2011).Joseph November is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).Allan Olley is an independent scholar. He received a Ph.D. from the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto in 2011. His dissertation examined the work of the astronomer and IBM researcher Wallace J. Eckert. His research focuses on the role of the computer in science, in particular in celestial mechanics.Stephen Pemberton is an associate professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress (2011) and a coauthor of The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine (2006).Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2000), Seeing Double: Physics, Philosophy, and Literature (2002), Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability (2003), and Sky in a Bottle (2005), all published by MIT Press.Tiberiu Popa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Butler University in Indianapolis. His research focuses on the history of philosophical and scientific ideas, especially in classical antiquity.Terry S. Reynolds is Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan Tech. He has authored several books and numerous articles on aspects of the history of technology. Several of the articles deal with the history of electrical technology in the 1880s and 1890s.Lukas Rieppel is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His essay “Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life” appeared in the September 2012 issue of Isis. He is writing a book about the way fossil dinosaurs were collected, studied, and put on display around the turn of the twentieth century.Alex Roland is Professor Emeritus at Duke University, where he taught military history and the history of technology, including the history of nuclear power in the United States. He currently participates in the Energy Security Initiative of North Carolina State University and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. 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