Notes on Contributors

Daniel Garber is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, where he had been since 1975. Garber specializes in the history of philosophy and science in the early-modern period, and is also interested in issues in epistemology and the philosophy of science. Garber is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992), Descartes Embodied (2001), and is the co-editor (with Michael Ayers) of The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). Together with Steven Nadler, he edits the Oxford Studies in Early-Modern Philosophy.

Domenico Bertoloni Meli teaches the history of science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Equivalence and priority: Newton versus Leibniz (Oxford, [1993] 1997) and the editor of Marcello Malpighi: Anatomist and Physician (Florence, 1997). He is currently working on thehistories of mechanics and mechanistic anatomy in the seventeenth century.

Douglas Jesseph is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis and Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics and co-author (with Roger Ariew, Dennis Des Chene, Tad Schmaltz and Theo Verbeek) of the Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy. He is the editor and translator of Berkeley's De Motu and The Analyst and the editor of the forthcoming three volume Hobbes's Mathematical Works.

Carla Rita Palmerino is a research fellow at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her publications focus on seventeenth-century theories of matter and motion. She is currently writing a book on the diffusion andevolution of Galileo's new science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe.