HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Renee Dumouchel, Professors Charles Lovett and Donald deB Beaver
discuss updates
to the History of Science at Williams.
Under the auspices of the Williams Summer
Mellon Program, in summer 1999, Donald deB. Beaver, Professor of the
History of Science, with the creative work and help of Jennifer
Dolloff ’01, produced a departmental web page, replete with
course descriptions, syllabi, and links to significant web resources
in the history of science, technology, and medicine. Those curricular
resources were maintained and improved during the academic year,
1999-2000, with the research and computer literate assistance of
Wayne M. Wight ’00.
Professor Beaver was invited to attend the
annual meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, held at the
University of Oklahoma in Norman, October 7-10, 1999. At the meeting,
he gave a fuller version of “Contributions to Natural History,
1817-1854: the Career of Sarah Bowdich Lee.”
In the spring, he reviewed the third edition
of Rudi Volti’s Society and Technological Change as part
of Professor Volti’s preparation for a 4th edition.
During the year, Professor Beaver continued
to review and referee scholarly work for Spectrum [an IEEE
journal] and Isis [journal of the History of Science
Society].