Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences
Essays in Honour of I Bernard Cohen

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. The History and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences and Mathematics
1. Compounding ratios: Bradwardine, Oresme, and the first edition of Newton's Principia Edith Sylla
2. Atomism and motion in the fourteenth century John E. Murdoch
3. 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' in Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton Joseph T. Clark
4. Conceptual revolutions and the history of mathematics: two studies in the growth of knowledge Joseph W. Dauben
5. Cauchy and Bolzano: tradition and transformation in the history of mathematics Judith Grabiner
6. Idolatry, automorphic functions, and conceptual change: reflections on the historiography of nineteenth-century mathematics Uta C. Merzbach
7. The Andalusian revolt against Ptolemaic astronomy: Averroes and al-Bitruji A. I. Sabra
8. 'Success sanctifies the means': Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, and the transition to modern physics Gerald Holton
9. Einstein's image of himself as a philosopher of science Erwin Hiebert
Part II. The Eighteenth-Century Tradition:
10. The Paracelsians in eighteenth-century France: a Renaissance tradition in the Age of the Enlightenment Allen G. Debus
11. Inventing demography: Montyon on hygiene and the state William Coleman
12. Joseph Priestley, eighteenth-century British Neoplatonism, and S. T. Coleridge Robert Schfield
13. Enlightenment views on the genetic perfectibility of man Victor Hilts
14. Anatomia animata: the Newtonian physiology of Albrecht von Haller Shirley A. Roe
Part III. Science in America:
15. Creating form out of mass: the development of the medical record Stanley Joel Reiser
16. 'Frankenstein at Harvard': the public politics of recombinant DNA research Everett Mendelsohn
17. William Ferrel and American science in the centennial years Harold J. Burstyn
18. The American occupation and the Science Council of Japan Nakayama Shigeru
19. The worm in the core: science and general education Peter S. Buck and Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz
20. The pre-history of an academic discipline: the study of the history of science in the United States, 1891–1941 Arnold Thackray
Part IV. Scientific Ideas in their Cultural Context:
21. Aristophanes and the antiscientific tradition Richard Olson
22. Carl Voit and the quantitative tradition in biology Frederic L. Holmes
23. Ideological factors in the dissemination of Darwinism in England:
1860–1900 Martin Fichman
24. Transformations in realist philosophy of science from Victorian Baconianism to the present day Yehuda Elkana
25. Science and the city before the nineteenth century George Basalla
26. Why the Scientific Revolution did not take place in China - or didn't it? Nathan Sivin
Index.

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