Notes on Contributors

Richard Burian is a philosopher of science with long-standing interest in conceptual change and epistemological problems in science, especially biology. Recently, he has published mainly on the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, genetics, and developmental biology, the conceptual issues raised in attempts to integrate the perspectives and theoretical commitments of these disciplines, and some asssociated issues about the effects of the institutional of disciplines. He is Professor of Philosophy and Science Studies at Virginia Tech and has served as President ofthe International Society of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.

Friedrich Steinle has a background in physics, a Ph.D. in History of Science and his Habilitation in History and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of numerous articles and a book, Newton's Manuskript 'De graviatione' (Stuttgart 1991), on Newton's mechanical and optical concepts. In more recent work, including his forthcoming book Explorative Experimente: Ampère, Faraday und die Urpünge der Elektrodynamik (Stuttgart 2003), he has focused on the history and philosophy of experiment. He is currently a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where he is working on the history and epistemology of eighteenth century electricity.

Jutta Schickore is currently a research fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge, UK. Before coming to Cambridge, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at M.I.T. and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany). She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1996. Her current work focuses on historical and philosophical aspects of microscopy. Her interests include research on the eye and vision, the history of philosophy of science especially from the nineteenth century, and the relation between history and philosophy of science. She is the author of several articles, most recently: "Ever-Present Impediments: Exploring Instruments and Methods in Microscopy." Perspectives on Science, (2001), and co-editor of a collection entitled Wahrnehmung der Natur - Natur der Wahrnehmung. Studien zur Geschichte visueller Kultur um 1800. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst (2001).

Michel Janssen used to be an editor at the Einstein Papers Project. He is now an assistant professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. For more information, see: www.tc.umn.edu/~janss011/

Ofer Gal is head of the division of History and Philosophy of Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and has a joint appointment at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several articles dealing with Robert Hooke and the book, Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts (Kluwer 2002).