The Cambridge History of Science

Editors

Hugh Richard Slotten, University of Otago, New Zealand
Hugh Richard Slotten is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (2009) and Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the US Coast Survey (Cambridge, 1994).

Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught between 1974 and his retirement in 2013. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including The Creationists (1992, 2006), Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (2007), and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (2009).

David N. Livingstone, Queen's University Belfast
David N. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He is the author of a number of books including Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1984), The Geographical Tradition (1992), Putting Science in its Place (2003), Adam's Ancestors (2008), and Dealing with Darwin (2006).

Contributors

Hugh Richard Slotten, Michael Worboys, Pratik Chakrabarti, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus, Ronald E. Doel, James Spiller, John Stenhouse, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Richard J. Sorrenson, David E. H. Edgerton, John V. Pickstone, Robert Fox, George Weisz, Dominique Pestre, Kathryn M. Olesko, Loren Graham, Klaas van Berkel, Jole R. Shackelford, Giuliano Pancaldi, Lino Camprubí, Thomas F. Glick, Efthymios Nicolaidis, Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, David Cahan, Yakov M. Rabkin, Deepak Kumar, Michael A. Osborne, Georgina M. Montgomery, John M. MacKenzie, Libbie J. Freed, Shellen Wu, Fa-ti Fan, James R. Bartholomew, Geun Bae Kim, Yung Sik Kim, C. Michele Thompson, Jennifer Munger, Warwick Anderson, Morris F. Low, Ronald L. Numbers, R. W. Home, Suzanne E. Zeller, Marcos Cueto, Stuart McCook, Marilia Coutinho, Simon Schwartzman, Hebe Vessuri

Awards

• Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021, Choice Reviews