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A MASTER OF SCIENCE HISTORY Archimedes NEWSTUDIES INTHEHISTORY ANDPHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY VOLUME30 EDITOR JEDZ.BUCHWALD,DreyfussProfessorofHistory,CaliforniaInstitute ofTechnology,Pasadena,CA,USA. ASSOCIATEEDITORSFORMATHEMATICSANDPHYSICALSCIENCES JEREMYGRAY,TheFacultyofMathematicsandComputing, TheOpenUniversity,Buckinghamshire,UK. TILMANSAUER,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology ASSOCIATEEDITORSFORBIOLOGICALSCIENCES SHARONKINGSLAND,DepartmentofHistoryofScienceandTechnology, JohnsHopkinsUniversity,Baltimore,MD,USA. MANFREDLAUBICHLER,ArizonaStateUniversity ADVISORYBOARDFORMATHEMATICS,PHYSICALSCIENCESANDTECHNOLOGY HENKBOS,UniversityofUtrecht MORDECHAIFEINGOLD,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology ALLAND.FRANKLIN,UniversityofColoradoatBoulder KOSTASGAVROGLU,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens PAULHOYNINGEN-HUENE,LeibnizUniversityinHannover TREVORLEVERE,UniversityofToronto JESPERLU¨TZEN,CopenhagenUniversity WILLIAMNEWMAN,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington LAWRENCEPRINCIPE,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity JU¨RGENRENN,Max-Planck-Institutfu¨rWissenschaftsgeschichte ALEXROLAND,DukeUniversity ALANSHAPIRO,UniversityofMinnesota NOELSWERDLOW,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,USA ADVISORYBOARDFORBIOLOGY MICHAELDIETRICH,DartmouthCollege,USA MICHELMORANGE,CentreCavaille`s,EcoleNormaleSupe´rieure,Paris HANS-JO¨RGRHEINBERGER,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,Berlin NANCYSIRAISI,HunterCollegeoftheCityUniversityofNewYork Archimedeshasthreefundamentalgoals;tofurthertheintegrationofthehistoriesofscienceandtechnology withoneanother:toinvestigatethetechnical,socialandpracticalhistoriesofspecificdevelopmentsinscience andtechnology;andfinally,wherepossibleanddesirable,tobringthehistoriesofscienceandtechnology intoclosercontactwiththephilosophyofscience.Totheseends,eachvolumewillhaveitsownthemeand titleandwillbeplannedbyoneormoremembersoftheAdvisoryBoardinconsultationwiththeeditor. Althoughthevolumeshavespecificthemes,theseriesitselfwillnotbelimitedtooneoreventoafew particularareas.Itssubjectsincludeanyofthesciences,rangingfrombiologythroughphysics,allaspectsof technology,broadlyconstrued,aswellashistorically-engagedphilosophyofscienceortechnology.Takenas awhole,Archimedeswillbeofinteresttohistorians,philosophers,andscientists,aswellastothosein businessandindustrywhoseektounderstandhowscienceandindustryhavecometobesostronglylinked. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5644 Jed Z. Buchwald Editor A Master of Science History Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie 1 3 Editor Prof.Dr.JedZ.Buchwald CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology DivisionofHumanities&SocialSciences E.CaliforniaBlvd.1200 91125PasadenaCalifornia USA [email protected] ISSN1385-0180 ISBN978-94-007-2626-0 e-ISBN978-94-007-2627-7 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2627-7 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011944095 #SpringerScienceþBusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeof beingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScienceþBusinessMedia(www.springer.com) CharlesandEmilyGillispie.PhotobyIvorGrattan-Guinness Bornin1918,CharlesGillispiegraduatedfromWesleyanUniversityin1940 and, following service during the Second World War, received his PhD from Harvardin1949.HethereafterjoinedtheDepartmentofHistoryatPrinceton University,whereheremaineduntilhisretirementasDayton-StocktonProfes- sorofHistory,Emeritusin1987.Hehasbeenawardedmanyhonors,including Princeton’sBehrmanPrizeintheHumanities(1981),thePfizerPrize(1981)and Sarton Medal(1984)oftheHistoryofScienceSociety,laMe´dailleAlexandre Koyre´ oftheAcade´mieInternationaled’HistoiredesSciences(1985),theDis- tinguishedAlumnusAwardofWesleyanUniversity(1990),theDibnerAward for Distinction in History of Science and Technology (1994), and the Balzan Prize for History and Philosophy of Science (1997). In 2011 he received the D.H.S.,HonorisCausa,fromPrincetonUniversity.Gillispie’sworkhasranged widelyoverscienceandtechnologyhistory.Heisamongthefoundingmembers ofthedisciplinewhosepublicationsandteachinghavinginfluencedgenerations ofhistoriansandreaders.Wearehonoredtopresenttheseessaysbyhisstudents and colleagues which were completed on August 6, 2011, the day of his 93rd birthday. Contents PartI CharlesGillispie 1 PublicationsbyCharlesCoulstonGillispie..................... 3 2 AProfessionalLifeintheHistoryofScience................... 15 CharlesCoulstonGillispie 3 ACareerintheHistoryofScienceasaStudent ofCharlesGillispie....................................... 25 SeymourH.Mauskopf 4 CharlesGillispieintheDigitalAge .......................... 37 JaneMaienscheinandManfredD.Laubichler PartII Archaeology 5 PekingMan:NewLightonanOldDiscovery .................. 49 ToreFrängsmyr 6 ThePuzzlePictureofLucretius:AThrillerfromHerculaneum..... 63 KnutKleve PartIII Astronomy 7 UraniaPropitia,TabulaeRudophinaefacilesredditaeaMariaCunitia BeneficentUrania,theAdaptationoftheRudolphineTablesbyMaria Cunitz................................................. 81 N.M.Swerdlow 8 SimplicityintheCopernicanRevolution:Galileo,Descartes,Newton 123 DavidB.Wilson vii viii Contents PartIV Chemistry 9 TheWeekdayChemist:TheTrainingofAleksandrBorodin ....... 137 MichaelD.Gordin PartV GeologyandNaturalTheology 10 TheGenesisofHistoricalResearchontheHistoryofGeology,with ThoughtsAboutKirwan,deLuc,andWhiggery................. 167 DavidOldroyd 11 FiveDiscoursesofBibleandScience1750–2000 ................ 179 NicolaasA.Rupke 12 ‘‘NaturalTheologyofIndustry’’inSeventeenth-CenturyChina?:Ideas AbouttheRoleofHeaveninProductionTechniquesinSongYingxing’s Heaven’sWorkinOpeningThings(Tiangongkaiwu) ............ 197 YungSikKim PartVI Mathematics 13 OntheRoleoftheEcolePolytechnique,1794–1914,withEspecial ReferencetoMathematics ................................. 217 IvorGrattan-Guinness 14 TheNotionofVariationinLeibniz........................... 235 EberhardKnobloch 15 FoundingActsandMajorTurning-PointsinArabMathematics .... 253 RoshdiRashed PartVII MedicineandHealth 16 ChemotherapybyDesign.................................. 275 JohnE.Lesch 17 AmericanHealthReformersandtheSocialSciencesintheTwentieth Century ............................................... 297 EvanM.Melhado 18 QuantityandPolity:AsylumStatisticsandtheDriveforMedical Evidence............................................... 327 TheodoreM.Porter Contents ix 19 TheQuestionofEfficacyintheHistoryofMedicine............. 341 NathanSivin PartVIII ScienceandIndustryinFrance 20 Secrecy,IndustryandScience.FrenchGlassmakingintheEighteenth Century ............................................... 357 MarcoBeretta 21 Balloons,HydraulicMachinesandSteamEnginesatWarandPeace: Jean-PierreCampmas,aVisionaryoranInefficientInventor? ..... 367 PatriceBret 22 Cauchy’sTheoryofDispersionAnticipatedbyFresnel............ 399 JedZ.Buchwald 23 SadiCarnotonPoliticalEconomy.Science,Morals,andPublicPolicy inRestorationFrance..................................... 417 RobertFox Index..................................................... 429
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