Catching up with the vision : essays on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the History of Science Society / edited by Margaret W. Rossiter. - 359 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 26 cm.

"A supplement to Isis, volume 90, 1999."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

John Farquhar Fulton and the History of Science Society / The Isis crisis and the coming of age of the History of Science Society / Crisis and Kuhn / Recollections of a history of science guinea pig / Apologia pro vita sua / Some lessons from living in the history of science / No free will / The History of Science Society, 1970-1999 : from subscription agency to professional society / Berkeley's History of Science Dinner Club : a chronicle of fifty years of activity / "Too far to go" : early years of the Midwest Junto / The Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society / The Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology / Forum for the history of science in America : identity and organization / Flail on, Columbia : an irreverent look at HSS's soggiest subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group / "Objects of curious research" : the history of science and technology at the Smithsonian / History of science, history and science, and natural sciences : undergraduate teaching of the history of science at Harvard, 1938-1970 / Force and nature : the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, 1960-1998 / Officers of the History of Science Society, 1924-1999. Prizes awarded by the Society. Thomas P. Gariepy -- I. Bernard Cohen -- Jensine Andresen -- Marie Boas Hall -- Charles C. Gillispie -- Gerald Holton -- Will Provine -- Michael M. Sokal -- Roger Hahn -- Robert E. Schofield -- Mary Louise Gleason -- Mary P. Winsor with recollections by Leonard G. Wilson -- Clark A. Elliott -- Keith R. Benson -- Pamela M. Henson -- Joy Harvey -- Kevin T. Grau -- Appendices. Appendix A : Appendix B.

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