California, in December 1981. A Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, grants from American Philosophical Society and the Northern Arizona University Organized Research Committee, and a Sabbatical Leave from Northern Arizona University facilitated research and writing. Without kindly and efficient assistance from librarians at Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, the Cambridge University Library, the Royal Society of London, the British Museum, the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas-Austin and the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University, and from Don Cunningham and Ms Sanda Luthy, my task would have been a hopeless one, I would also like to thank the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge University, for their permission to use the Trinity College Library. The criticisms of the readers for the British Journal for the History of Science led to extensive and much-needed revisions.

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