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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreDavid Arnold, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick, has published extensively on the history of disease and medicine, the environment, and science in India. His work includes Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, Science, Technology, and Medicine in Colonial India, and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity.Francesco Barreca, who holds a Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Pisa, is now a research fellow at the “Antonio Ruberti” Foundation in Rome. His research interests include early modern astronomy and cosmology and early historiography of science in Italy.José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez teaches history of science at the University of Valencia and is a member of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero” (Universitat de València–CSIC). His research interests include science in nineteenth-century classrooms, chemistry textbooks, and scientific instruments. He works in the history of nineteenth-century toxicology and is finishing a biography of Mateu Orfila.Paola Bertucci is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. Her current research focuses on the relationship between artisanal knowledge and experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Paris.Alan C. Bowen is Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science at Princeton, where he studies ancient Greco-Latin science and philosophy. His most recent books are New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo (2009; with Christian Wildberg) and Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy (2013).Peter J. Bowler is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of several books on the history of evolutionism and the coauthor of Making Modern Science.Julie K. Brown, an independent scholar and Research Associate at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, has written two books on nineteenth-century expositions, industrial fairs, and institutional exhibitions. Her most recent publications are Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions, 1976–1904 (2009), and a chapter in Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903–1931 (2012).Robert A. Buerki is Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. The author of more than eighty articles, book chapters, and books on various aspects of professional ethics and the history of pharmaceutical education, he now serves as the Secretary of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.Börje Bydén is a Senior Researcher in the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Gothenburg. He has written a book and numerous articles on various aspects of ancient and Byzantine philosophy. He is also the coeditor (with Katerina Ierodiakonou) of The Many Faces of Byzantine Philosophy (Athens, 2012).Michael C. Carhart, an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University, is the author of The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard University Press, 2007). He is now at work on “Leibniz Discovers Asia: Comparative Linguistics in the Early Enlightenment Republic of Letters.”Indira Chowdhury is Director of the Centre for Public History at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore. She was awarded the Tagore Prize for The Frail Hero and Virile History (Oxford, 1998). She has been instrumental in creating several oral history archives in India.Kathy J. Cooke is Professor of History and Founding Director of the University Honors Program at Quinnipiac University. Her research specializations include the history of breeding and reform in the United States, the history of sexuality, and the history of eugenics.Elise Crull, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, is writing a book with Guido Bacciagaluppi titled “The Einstein Paradox”: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935 (Cambridge University Press). She is also working on publishing aspects of her dissertation (Notre Dame, 2011) on quantum decoherence.Frederick R. Davis, an associate professor of history at Florida State University, is the author of The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is now writing a book on pesticides and toxicology in the twentieth century.Georgiann Davis is an assistant professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Her research focuses on the contemporary U.S. medical management of intersexuality, specifically on how it has been debated and experienced by individuals with intersex traits, their parents, and medical experts since the formal introduction of “disorder of sex development” nomenclature in 2006.Dallas G. Denery II is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, where he specializes in medieval religious and intellectual history. His first book, Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World (Cambridge, 2005), examined the connections among medieval religion, science, and theology. He is working on his second book, a history of lying.Matthias Dörries is Professor of History of Science at the University of Strasbourg, France. His research and interests focus on French history of science, the relation of language and science, the geophysical and atmospheric sciences, and, more recently, climate change.Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University, where he teaches and writes about the history of the human sciences. He is writing a book on the history of the role of science and medicine in the rehabilitation of convicts in twentieth-century Germany.Paul Lawrence Farber is Distinguished Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Oregon State University. He has published on the history of natural history, evolutionary ethics, and race mixing. He is now working on a joint project with Vreneli Farber on the life of Theodosius Dobzhansky.Jonardon Ganeri has focused primarily on a retrieval of the Sanskrit philosophical tradition in relation to contemporary Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and he has done work in this vein on theories of self, concepts of rationality, and the philosophy of language, as well as on the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He has also worked extensively on the social and intellectual history of early modern South Asia and on the political idea of identity.Stefano Gattei is an assistant professor at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca. His edition of Kepler's Strena seu de nive sexangula is forthcoming with Les Belles Lettres. He is working on a book on the engraved frontispiece of Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae, under contract with Oxford University Press.Tina Gianquitto is Associate Professor of Literature at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the author of “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885 (University of Georgia Press, 2007), and the coeditor of a collection of essays, America's Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture, 1859–Present (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming).Benjamin Goldberg is Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012, writing a dissertation on William Harvey's conception of philosophical anatomy. He is now working on a number of projects related to the interactions between early modern medicine and philosophy in Europe, including an edited volume on that theme to be published by Springer in 2013.Michael D. Gordin is a professor of history at Princeton University, where he teaches the history of modern science and Russian history. His most recent book is The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2012.I. Grattan-Guinness is Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic at Middlesex University. He was Editor of Annals of Science from 1974 to 1981. In 1979 he founded the journal History and Philosophy of Logic, which he edited until 1992. His books include The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940 (2000). In July 2009 the International Commission for the History of Mathematics awarded him the Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize in the History of Mathematics for his contributions to the field.Mott Greene is John Magee Professor of Science and Values (Emeritus) at the University of Puget Sound, Affiliate Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, and the author of (the aggressively euhemeristic) Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity (1992).Richard Hirsh, Professor of History of Technology at Virginia Tech, writes about energy policy in the United States. He is the author of Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry (1989) and Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System (1999).Gustav Holmberg is a historian of science at Lund University. His research interests are focused on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy.Giorgio Israel is a professor of history of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Among his books are The Invisible Hand (with B. Ingrao; 2000), The Biology of Numbers (with A. Millán Gasca; 2002), The World as a Mathematical Game (with A. Millán Gasca; 2009) (a winner of the Peano Prize), and Il fascismo e la razza (2010).Stephen Johnson is an associate research professor with the Center for Space Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author and editor of several books and many articles in space history, including Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia (2010).Kevin Lambert is an assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He is working on a book on English mathematics and British physics during the first half of the nineteenth century.John M. Lynch teaches at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. His interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, the role of history of science in science education, science and religion, and contemporary American antievolutionism.Peter Machamer is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published widely on seventeenth-century topics, including a book with J. E. McGuire, Descartes's Changing Mind.Iwan Rhys Morus is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. He has published widely on the history of nineteenth-century science; his most recent book, Shocking Bodies, was published in 2011.Barbara Obrist is affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique in Strasbourg, the Centre d'Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales of the CNRS in Paris, and Université Paris Diderot—Paris 7. Her main areas of research are history of alchemy, history of cosmology, and scientific imagery.Dorinda Outram holds the Franklin I. and Gladys W. Clark Chair of History at the University of Rochester. She has written extensively on the history of the life sciences in the Enlightenment. Her next project is a history of wit and laughter in the Enlightenment.Paolo Palmieri is a historian and philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh.Katrina Petersen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Communication and the Science Studies Program. Her research focuses on the production of disaster maps as communication tools and the relationship between the practice of mapping and the knowledge produced.Jahnavi Phalkey is Lecturer in History of Science and Technology at King's College, London. She has studied politics and history of science at the University of Bombay, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is interested in the history of science at its intersection with the transformation of the Indian subcontinent during the twentieth century, seen especially in its effects on laboratory practice.Kapil Raj is Directeur d'Études (Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and cochair of the Centre Alexandre Koyré. The author of Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 (2007), and a coeditor of The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820 (2009), he is now completing a book on the intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the eighteenth century.Chris Reid is an economic historian at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in the history of commercial fisheries. While his research concentrates on British fisheries, he also writes on the political economy of fisheries development. He is currently the Secretary of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA).H. Darrel Rutkin is a historian of science specializing in the history of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern astrology. Now teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno, he is completing his first monograph, Reframing the Scientific Revolution: Astrology, Magic, and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250–1800.Sigrid Schmalzer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the social, cultural, and political significance of science in post-1949 China; she is working on her second book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with “Scientific Farming” in Socialist China.Alexander von Schwerin is a research scholar at the Technical University Braunschweig. He has published on the history of genetics, eugenics, and model organisms and has been a member of the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism.”Alan E. Shapiro is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota and has written widely on the history of optics and color. He is the editor of The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton and the author of Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection.A. Mark Smith, Curators' Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, has published widely on ancient, medieval, and early modern optics and visual theory. On the basis of this work, he has recently completed a historical synthesis entitled From Sight to Light: The Keplerian Turn from Ancient toward Modern Optics.Volker Smyrek is a Ph.D. candidate in the Section for History of Science and Technology in the Department of History at the University of Stuttgart. Since the mid 1990s he has worked as a sound engineer, currently mixing musicals like We Will Rock You and Ich war noch niemals in New York.Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. He is writing a study of experiment during the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution and has recently edited, with Bernie Lightman and Gordon McOuat, Circulating Knowledge, East and West (Brill, 2013).Sara Tjossem is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Her book The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific explores the negotiations leading to the creation of an intergovernmental organization for the northern Pacific. Her teaching and research interests include the history of ecology and marine science and the development of environmental policy.Simone Turchetti is an independent research fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. He is the principal investigator for the research program “The Earth under Surveillance,” funded by the European Research Council (see http://teus.unistra.fr/).Steven Turner recently retired from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has published on the history of the German university, on the career of Hermann von Helmholtz and his conflicts with Ewald Hering over sensory physiology, and on the history of plant pathology in the twentieth century.Deborah Warner is a Curator of the Physical Sciences Collection in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.Paul Weindling is Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oxford Brookes University. His most recent book is John W. Thompson, Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Rochester University Press, 2010). He is now researching coerced experiments under National Socialism.Joseph Ziegler is an associate professor in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa. He is now studying the history of physiognomy in the West from 1200 to 1500. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 104, Number 2June 2013 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/670958 © 2013 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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