Catching up with the vision
Subtitle: essays on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the History of Science Society
By: edited by Margaret W. Rossiter.
Contributors: Rossiter, Margaret W.; History of Science Society.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press for the History of Science Society
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Chicago, Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: History of Science Society.; Science -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Other titles: Isis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A supplement to Isis, volume 90, 1999."
Table of contents: title: John Farquhar Fulton and the History of Science Society -- Thomas P. Gariepy; title: The Isis crisis and the coming of age of the History of Science Society -- I. Bernard Cohen; title: Crisis and Kuhn -- Jensine Andresen; title: Recollections of a history of science guinea pig -- Marie Boas Hall; title: Apologia pro vita sua -- Charles C. Gillispie; title: Some lessons from living in the history of science -- Gerald Holton; title: No free will -- Will Provine; title: The History of Science Society, 1970-1999 : from subscription agency to professional society -- Michael M. Sokal; title: Berkeley's History of Science Dinner Club : a chronicle of fifty years of activity -- Roger Hahn; title: "Too far to go" : early years of the Midwest Junto -- Robert E. Schofield; title: The Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society -- Mary Louise Gleason; title: The Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology -- Mary P. Winsor with recollections by Leonard G. Wilson; title: Forum for the history of science in America : identity and organization -- Clark A. Elliott; title: Flail on, Columbia : an irreverent look at HSS's soggiest subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group -- Keith R. Benson; title: "Objects of curious research" : the history of science and technology at the Smithsonian -- Pamela M. Henson; title: History of science, history and science, and natural sciences : undergraduate teaching of the history of science at Harvard, 1938-1970 -- Joy Harvey; title: Force and nature : the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, 1960-1998 -- Kevin T. Grau -- Appendices. Appendix A :; title: Officers of the History of Science Society, 1924-1999. -- Appendix B.; title: Prizes awarded by the Society.