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IDA H. STAMHUIS, TEUN KOETSIER, CORNELIS DE PATER
   and ALBERT VAN HELDEN / Foreword

ALBERT VAN HELDEN / Introduction

MICHAEL S. MAHONEY / In Our Own Image: Creating the Computer
  From "Giant Brain" to Information Appliance
  The Transparency of Software
  The World of the Computer

BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT / Changing Images of Chemistry
  Introduction
  Creating Life
  The Wonderful World of Chemistry
  The Ways Back to Nature

GARLAND E. ALLEN / The Changing Image of
   Biology in the Twentieth Century
   Introduction
   The Nineteenth Century Background
   Biology and the Physical Sciences: Experimentalism and Reductionism
   The Technological and Institutional Imperative
   The Technological Imperative
   Professional and Institutional Imperatives
   Integrative Processes
   The Economic, Social and Technological Context in the
     Development of an Experimentally and Mechanistically
     Based Biology in the Twentieth Century
     The Industrialization of Agricultural Productivity
     The Imperative of Social Control



    Differences Among Eugenics Activities in Different Countries
    A New Eugenics'Today?
  Conclusion

ABRAHAM PAIS / The Image of Physics
  Introduction by the Editors
  Introduction
  Einstein's and Bohr's Views on Philosophy
  On Relativity Theory
    The Special Theory
    The General Theory
  On Complementarity
  Some Final Comments

SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT AND DONALD L. OPITZ /
    Re-imag(in)ing Women in Science: Projecting Identity and
    Negotiating Gender in Science
  Introduction
  Margaret Cavendish - Defiant Natural Philosopher with
      an Independent Voice
  Maria Sibylla Merian - Innovative Entomologist Working
      within Conventions
  Mary Somerville - Queen of Celestial (and Domestic) Science
  Ada Lovelace - Mathematician Calculating Body Image
  Agnes Pockels - Surface Chemist and "Hausfrau"
  Jantina Tammes - Geneticist Defining Her Own "Weak Constitution"
  Marie Curie - Independent and Eminent Collaborator
  Conclusions

DAVID CHRISTIAN / Science in the Mirror of "Big History"
  Introduction
  Science in the Mirror of "Big History"
  Big History
  Science as Creation Myth
  Systems of Knowledge
  Pre-Human Knowledge Systems
  Human Knowledge Systems of the Palaeolithic
  Science as a System of Knowledge
  Science and the Future?
  Conclusion
  Appendix: A Modem Creation Story




STEVE FULLER / The Changing Images of Unity and Disunity in
    the Philosophy of Science
  The Misrecognition of Unity in Recent History and
      Philosophy of Science
    The Gospel According to the Disunificationists
    Reducing (Away) the Philosophical Component of Reductionism
    The Root Image of Disunity as Intercalation
  Unity and Disunity as Expressions of Constructivism and Realism
    The Natural and the Normative: Aligned or Opposed?
    Evaluation and Application: Clear or Blurred?
  Historical Conditions for the Unity and Disunity of Science
    The Unity of Science as Natural: Deductive and Inductive Versions
    The Unity of Science as Artificial
      Pro-Unity: From Sublation to Reduction
      Anti-Unity: From Kant to Kuhn
  Conclusion: Beyond Misrecognizing to Rediscovering the
      Unity of Science

Authors and Editors

Index