Notes on Contributors

Peter Barker is professor of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma. Trained in both the history and philosophy of science, he has published widely in both fields. In collaboration with Bernard R. Goldstein, he has written extensively on natural philosophy in the period from Copernicus to Kepler. His philosophical interests are represented by a series of recent papers in Philosophical Psychology written with X. Chen and H. Andersen on Kuhn and cognitive science. A companion piece to the present paper will appear as "Religion and Natural Philosophy in the Lutheran Response to Copernicus" in M. J. Osler, ed., Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press).

Bernard R. Goldstein is University Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, and History & Philosophy of Science, at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on the history of astronomy from antiquity to the early seventeenth century, and is currently engaged in a study with Peter Barker entitled "Kepler's Unification of Physics and Astronomy."

Sungook Hong teaches history of physics and technology at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. His research interests include the history of nineteenth century electromagnetism, the history of power engineering, and the history of wireless telegraphy. He has also been working on historiographical issues in the history of science and technology. His articles have appeared in Technology and Culture, Isis, and History and Technology.

David Hull is Dressler Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. He is past president of the Philosophy of Science Association, the Society of Systematic Zoology, and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. He has written or edited eleven books, including Darwin and His Critics (1973), Philosophy of Biological Science (1974), Science as a Process (1988), The Metaphysics of Evolution (1989), and Philosophy of Science (1998) with Michael Ruse.

A. I. Sabra is Research Professor of the History of Arabic Science in the Department of History of Science, Harvard University. He has published extensively on aspects of Arabic/Islamic science, especially optics and astronomy. He is currently completing his edition and translation of Ibn al-Haytham's Optics, books IV-VII.

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