Contributors 403Arabic- speaking world and especially on the natural philosophy of Ibn
Sı ̄na ̄, or Avicenna. McGinnis has received two National Endowment for the
Humanities fellowships, an Andrew Mellon grant, and has been a member
of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Ronald L. Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medi-
cine and a member of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has written or edited more than
two dozen books, including, most recently, When Science and Christian-
ity Meet (coedited with David Lindberg, Chicago, 2003) The Creationists:
From Scientifi c Creationism to Intelligent Design (Harvard, 2006), Science and
Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (Oxford, 2007), Galileo Goes to Jail and Other
Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard, 2009), and Biology and Ideology
from Descartes to Dawkins (coedited with Denis Alexander, Chicago, 2010).
He is a previous editor of Isis and a past president of the History of Science
Society, the American Society of Church History, and the International
Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
Jon H. Roberts is the Tomorrow Foundation Professor of American Intellectual
History at Boston University. He has written a number of articles dealing
primarily with the history of the relationship between science and religion,
as well as the book Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellec-
tuals and Organic Evolution, 1859–1900 (Wisconsin, 1988), which received
the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of
Church History. He also coauthored The Sacred and the Secular University
(with James Turner, Princeton, 2001). He is currently working on a book
dealing with American Protestant thinkers’ treatment of the mind during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Francesca Rochberg is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished
Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies
and the Offi ce for the History of Science and Technology at the University
of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several monographs on Baby-
lonian science, including The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and
Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge, 2004) and In the Path of the
Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy (Brill, 2010).
Michael H. Shank is professor of the history of science at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. His primary research interests focus on late medieval
natural philosophy and astronomy, with special attention to the Viennese
tradition and most specifi cally, of late, the work of Johannes Regiomon-
tanus. He is author of “Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand”: Logic,
University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna (Princeton, 1988), editor of
The Scientifi c Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Chicago, 2000), and
coeditor of the forthcoming The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 2: The
Middle Ages (with David Lindberg).
Daniel P. Thurs is a faculty fellow in science studies at New York University’s
John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program. He has researched