About the Author

William Clark is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Jan Golinski is professor of history and humanities at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Making Natural Knowledge, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Lissa L. Roberts is associate professor of the history of science at the University Twente, the Netherlands.

Simon Schaffer is professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge.

Peter Dear is professor of the history of science at Cornell University.