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Tore Frängsmyr and Robin Rider, Berkeley, 1990) and The Oxford Companion
to the History of Modern Science (Oxford, 2003).
Ronald R. Kline is the Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering,
with a joint appointment between the Science and Technology Studies
Department and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Cornell University. In 2008, he became vice president / president- elect of
the Society for the History of Technology. He is the author of Steinmetz:
Engineer and Socialist (Johns Hopkins, 1992) and Consumers in the Country:
Technology and Social Change in Rural America (Johns Hopkins, 2000) and is
currently completing a book on the history of cybernetics and information
discourses in the United States and Britain during the cold war.
Daryn Lehoux is professor of classics at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
He is the author of Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World
(Cambridge, 2007); the forthcoming titles What Did the Romans Know?
An Inquiry into Worldmaking and Ancient Science; and numerous articles on
ancient science. He has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University and editor of
the journal Isis. His research centers on the cultural history of Victorian sci-
ence. He is author of The Origins of Agnosticism (Johns Hopkins, 1987) and
Victorian Popularizers of Science (Chicago, 2007), editor of Victorian Science
in Context (Chicago, 1997), general editor of the monograph series Science
and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Pickering and Chatto), and coeditor
of Figuring it Out (with Ann Shteir, Dartmouth, 2006) and Science in the
Marketplace (with Aileen Fyfe, Chicago, 2007). Currently he is working on a
biography of the physicist John Tyndall.
David N. Livingstone is professor of geography and intellectual history at
Queen’s University Belfast. A Fellow of the British Academy, he works on
the history of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientifi c culture,
and the historical geography of science and religion. His books include Na-
thaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (Alabama, 1987),
Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders (Eerdmans, 1987), The Geographical Tradition
(Blackwell, 1992), Putting Science in its Place (Chicago, 2003), and Adam’s
Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (Johns Hopkins,
2008). He is currently working two projects, one entitled Locating Darwin-
ism: Chapters in the Historical Geography of Darwinian Encounters, the other
on the history of environmental determinism under the title The Empire of
Climate.
Jon McGinnis is associate professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the
University of Missouri, St. Louis. His general research interest, on which he
has published extensively, is the history and philosophy of physics as that
science is represented within Aristotle and the Aristotelian commentary
tradition extending from its early Greek roots up to the Latin scholastics.
His particular focus is the infl uence of that tradition within the medieval