Notes on Contributors

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia received his degree in Philosophy from the University of Bari in 1995 and completed his Doctorate in History of Science at the Universities of Bari-Bologna-Genoa-Rome "La Sapienza" in 2001. He is currently a Lecturer in History of Science, University of Bari and Lecturer in History of Science at the Postgraduate School for Teachers, University of Foggia. He is working in the areas of mathematics and philosophy in the seventeenth century, medicine and culture in the eighteenth century, and communication of science. He is the author of three books: Reazioni romane. L'idraulica galileiana negli scritti di Giovanni Bardi e Giuseppe Biancani (Bari, 1997); De natantibus. Una disputa ai confini tra filosofia e matematica nella toscana medicea (1611-1615) (Bari, 1999); and Introduzione alla fisiologia di Georg Ernst Stahl (Lecce, 2000). He is working on a translation of Friedrich Hoffmann's De differentia.

Rachel Cooper is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Lancaster. Her research is in the areas of the philosophy and history of science and medicine.

Joseph H. Spear earned his PhD in Sociology at the University of Virginia in 2000 and is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University. His research and teaching interests lie primarily in the Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Technology, especially as informed by an organizational approach to understanding knowledge production. His current research seeks to understand the dynamics of knowledge as professional and organizational property, with specific attention to how changes in underlying professional and organizational structures are linked to changes in the content of knowledge.

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is Associate Professor of History at SUNY- Buffalo. His Book, How to write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Stanford, 2001) received the Atlantic History and the John E. Fagg Awards from the American Historical Association. The Economist and TLS also cited the book among the best of the year 2001. His "New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies in Colonial Spanish America, 1600-1650" (American Historical Review) received the 199-2001 Forum for the History of the Human Sciences Award from the History of Science Society. He has been a fellow of the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies of American History at Harvard. He is currently a Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library.