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.

Contributor(s): Rossiter, Margaret W | History of Science Society
Language: English Publisher: [Chicago, Ill.] : University of Chicago Press for the History of Science Society, c1999Description: 359 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeUniform titles: Isis. Subject(s): History of Science Society | Science -- United States -- Societies, etcDDC classification: 506/.073 LOC classification: Q11 | .C47 1999
Contents:
John Farquhar Fulton and the History of Science Society / Thomas P. Gariepy -- The Isis crisis and the coming of age of the History of Science Society / I. Bernard Cohen -- Crisis and Kuhn / Jensine Andresen -- Recollections of a history of science guinea pig / Marie Boas Hall -- Apologia pro vita sua / Charles C. Gillispie -- Some lessons from living in the history of science / Gerald Holton -- No free will / Will Provine -- The History of Science Society, 1970-1999 : from subscription agency to professional society / Michael M. Sokal -- Berkeley's History of Science Dinner Club : a chronicle of fifty years of activity / Roger Hahn -- "Too far to go" : early years of the Midwest Junto / Robert E. Schofield -- The Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society / Mary Louise Gleason -- The Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology / Mary P. Winsor with recollections by Leonard G. Wilson -- Forum for the history of science in America : identity and organization / Clark A. Elliott -- Flail on, Columbia : an irreverent look at HSS's soggiest subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group / Keith R. Benson -- "Objects of curious research" : the history of science and technology at the Smithsonian / Pamela M. Henson -- History of science, history and science, and natural sciences : undergraduate teaching of the history of science at Harvard, 1938-1970 / Joy Harvey -- Force and nature : the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, 1960-1998 / Kevin T. Grau -- Officers of the History of Science Society, 1924-1999. Prizes awarded by the Society.
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"A supplement to Isis, volume 90, 1999."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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