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Niccolo Guicciardini holds a degree in physics and a degree in philosophy (both from the University
of Milan). He wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the Newtonian fluxional method under the supervision of Ivor
Grattan-Guinness. He is associate professor of history of science at the University of Siena. He is the
author of The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700–1800 (Cambridge UP, 1989) and
of Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from
1687 to 1736 (Cambridge UP, 1999). He has also written an introduction to Newton titled Newton:
Un Filosofo della Natura e il Sistema del Mondo (Le Scienze, 1998, German translation for Spektrum
der Wissenschaft, 1999, French translation for Pour la Science, 2003). He is editing two volumes of
Johann Bernoulli’s writings against the British mathematicians (for Birkhäuser) and is working on David
Gregory’s commentary to Newton’s Principia.

Professor Herman Erlichson is at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York.
His current research field is the history of physics. A recent publication is “Kelvin and the Absolute
Temperature Scale,” European Journal of Physics 22 (2001) 325–328.

Michael Nauenberg is a professor of physics, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
where he has taught during the past 34 years. His research interests are in physics, astronomy, and in the
history of these fields. In collaboration with Professor R. Dalitz he edited The Foundations of Newtonian
Scholarship (World Scientific, 2000), and more recently with J.B. Brackenridge he contributed the
article on “Curvature in Newton’s Dynamics” for the Cambridge Companion to Newton, edited by
I.B. Cohen and G. Smith (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002). Currently, he is working on an article on
Hooke’s contributions to the development of dynamics which will appear in a volume celebrating his
tricentenary in 2003.

Dominique Tournès is professor of mathematics at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres,
Reunion Island (Reunion Island is a small French island located in the Indian Ocean, near Madagascar).
His research interests are the theory of differential equations and the history of numerical and graphical
methods of calculation. He has recently published papers in the Revue d’Histoire des Mathématiques.

Steven N. Shore has recently moved permanently to the former academic posting of an earlier
physical scientist, as professor ordinario in astrophysics at the Dipartimento di Fisica “Enrico Fermi,”
Università di Pisa. He is also on leave from Indiana University South Bend and is affliliated with
the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. In astrophysics, he works on spectroscopy, astrophysical
hydrodynamics (especially turbulence), star formation and galactic evolution, and novae. In the history
of science, his work centers on pedagogical issues and history of physics and astronomy. He is author
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of seven entries in the forthcoming Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (ed. T. Hocking, Kluwer)
and the recent book The Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics (2003, John Wiley).

Dr. Michiyo Nakane teaches mathematics and the history of mathematics as a part-time lecturer at Seijo
University and Rikyyo University in Tokyo, Japan. Her major interests are the history of mechanics and
mathematical analysis in the 19th century. She works with Craig Fraser and recently published The Early
History of Hamilton–Jacobi Dynamics 1834–1837 (Centaurus, 2002, Vol. 44, pp. 161–227) with him.
She also organized the Japanese translation of Victor Katz’s book A History of Mathematics, which will
be published in 2004.

Gregory H. Moore is professor of mathematics at McMaster University, where he is editing volume 5 of
Bertrand Russell’s Collected Papers. He has published numerous articles on the history of mathematical
logic and of set theory, including a 2002 article in this journal on Hilbert and the infinite. At present he is
working on the emergence of the modern concept of curve and on the interdisciplinary role of the infinite
(in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and theology) over many centuries.

Henk J.M. Bos (born 1940) is professor of history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht,
the Netherlands. His research interests are in early modern analysis and geometry; he published a
monograph, Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes’ Transformation of the Early Modern Concept
of Construction with Springer-Verlag in 2001. Henk Bos is editor, together with Jed Buchwald, of the
Archive for History of Exact Sciences.


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