Notes on Contributors

Alan C. Bowen is the Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton). He has edited Selected Papers of F. M. Cornford (New York, 1987) and Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece (New York, 1991), and is the author of many articles on the history of Greco-Latin astronomy and harmonic science. He and Robert B. Todd have just finished Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens with Introduction and Commentary (Berkeley, 2003), and he is currently writing a book on Hellenistic astronomy. He is also editor of the online review, Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science.

José Chabás is professor at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He is interested in the history of the exact sciences in the Iberian Peninsula in the late middle ages and early modern times, and he is the author, together with B. R. Goldstein, of Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print, recently published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. He is currently preparing an edition of the Alfonsine Tables of Toledo, with a commentary.

Michael H. Shank teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Professor of the History of Science and a senior member of the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He is completing a book on Regiomontanus's Disputationes, coediting (with David C. Lindberg) volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Science, and working (with Richard L. Kremer) on Regiomontanus's "Defense of Theon." He recently edited The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Articles from Isis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000).

Peter Barker took degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Oxford, England. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught at the University of Memphis, Virginia Tech, where he was the first Director of the graduate program in Science and Technology Studies, and the University of Oklahoma, where he is currently Professor of the History of Science. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Konstanz, Germany, and the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Copenhagen. He is currently writing a book, The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions, with Hanne Andersen (Copenhagen University) and Xiang Chen (California Lutheran University).

Owen Gingerich, Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, published his An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus last February, and is currently working on a trade book concerning his Copernican adventures.