401Peter Dear is professor of history and of science and technology studies at Cor-
nell University. He has published widely on aspects of early modern science
and is the author of Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools (Cornell, 1988),
The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (Chicago,
2006), Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientifi c Revo-
lution (Chicago, 1995), and Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge
and its Ambitions, 1500–1700 (Princeton, 2009).
Peter Harrison is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the
University of Oxford. He is also director of the Ian Ramsey Centre and a
Fellow of Harris Manchester College. He has published extensively in the
area of cultural and intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical,
scientifi c, and religious thought of the early- modern period. His publica-
tions include ‘Religion’ and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cam-
bridge, 1990); The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cam-
bridge, 1990); The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge,
2007); and The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (Cambridge,
2010). He is a founding member of the International Society for Science
and Religion and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
J. L. Heilbron is professor of history and vice- chancellor emeritus at the Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley, and honorary Fellow of Worcester College,
Oxford. His work relevant to early- modern natural philosophy includes
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Berkeley, 1979), Weighing Impon-
derables (Berkeley, 1993), The Sun in the church (Harvard, 1999), Galileo (Ox-
ford, 2010), and, as editor, The Quantifying Spirit in the 18th Century (with
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