Individuals and Their Interactions in Science Past and Present: Introduction

Modified versions of. most of the papers given in the other sessions are in the press or already published elsewhere: For the record, details of these are given here, as far as they are known at the time of writing. Barker E. V. , “Science as theology—theological functioning of Western science”, in Hesse M. B. and Peacocke A. R. (eds), The sciences and theology in the twentieth century (London, in press); Braun H. J. , “Gas oder Elektrizität? Zur Konkurrenz zweier Beleuchtungssysteme, 1880–1914”, Technikigeschichte , Bd xlvii, nr 1 (1980), 1–19; Brookman F. H. , “The emergence of Dutch science policy since World War ii”, pt iii of Brookman F. H. , The making of a science policy: A historical study of the institutional and conceptual background to Dutch science policy in a West-European perspective (Amsterdam, 1979); Rudwick M. J. S. , “The history of scientific knowledge as a social construction: Implications for theistic belief”, in Hesse and Peacocke , op. cit.; Shapin S. A. , “Social uses of science”, in Rousseau G. S. and Porter Roy (eds), The ferment of knowledge: Studies in the historiography of eighteenth-century science (Cambridge, 1980), 93–139; and “Of gods and kings: The political significance of the Leibniz – Clarke disputes”, Isis, lxxii (1981: In press).