Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue at http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGener... . We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture Table of Contents http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGener... Focused Discussion -------- Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction] (1-7) Isaac Record The Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections: Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE (8-20) Ingrid Hehmeyer People as Scientific Instruments (21-29) Maarten Derksen Equipment for an Experiment (30-38) Rom Harré An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice (39-44) Wendy S. Parker Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt (45-60) Michael J. Barany Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine (61-70) James Hull The Machine Speaks Falsely (71-84) Allan Franklin Reading Measuring Instruments (85-93) Mario Bunge Engineering Realities (94-110) Davis Baird Conceptual Sea Changes (111-115) Paul Humphreys Extended Thing Knowledge (116-128) Mathieu Charbonneau Otto in the Chinese Room (129-137) Philip Murray McCullough Humans not Instruments (138-147) Harry Collins Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited (148-154) Trevor H. Levere Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope (155-162) Jessica Ellen Sewell, Andrew Johnston Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones (163-172) François Thoreau, Maria Neicu Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology (173-190) Uljana Feest Articles -------- Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology (191-230) Matthew Benjamin Shindell “Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics (231-254) Dorothy Sutherland Olsen Opinions -------- Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (255-261) Erich Weidenhammer, Michael Da Silva Reviews -------- Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate (262-265) Sebastian Assenza Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (266-269) Christopher Belanger William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (270-272) Bruce J. Petrie Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (273-275) Michael Cournoyea Learning From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster (276-279) Jaipreet Virdi Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care (280-282) Delia Gavrus Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability (283-285) R. Moore Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis (286-288) Julia Agapitos David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (289-291) Sarah-Jane Patterson Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation (292-299) Anthony Kulic _____________________________________________________ Spontaneous Generations http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/ Isaac Record, Editor isaac.record@utoronto.ca Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-postings.