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Robert Hatch

Department of History

Research & Publications

Books

  • Robert A. Hatch, The Collection Boulliau (BN, FF. 13019-13059), An Inventory (Foreword by Harcourt Brown), American Philosophical Society, 1982 (lxxiii + 599 pp).
  • Robert A. Hatch, Boulliau {in progress}

Books: Edited Chapters

Robert A. Hatch, Editor, History of Science, Section III, ‘Philosophy, Science, and Religion,’ The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography {seventeen chapters, for 1980-1995),

  • N.S. 21 (for: 1995), in progress.
  • N.S. 20 (for: 1994), in progress.
  • N.S. 19 (for: 1993), forthcoming.
  • N.S. 18 (for: 1992), forthcoming.
  • N.S. 17 (for: 1991), in press.
  • N.S. 16 (for: 1990), in press.
  • N.S. 15 (for: 1989), in press.
  • N.S. 14 (for: 1988), New York, 1995 (463 pp.):  100-143.
  • N.S. 13 (for: 1987), New York, 1994 (605 pp.):  145-200.
  • N.S. 12 (for: 1986), New York, 1992 (559 pp.):  147-212.
  • N.S. 11 (for: 1985), New York, 1990 (738 pp.):  189-262.
  • N.S. 10 (for: 1984), New York, 1989 (802 pp.):  227-308.
  • N.S. 9   (for: 1983), New York, 1988 (793 pp.):  201-299.

Robert A. Hatch, Editor, “History of Science, Technology, and Medicine,” The Reader’s Adviser, 13th edition, Volume 5, R. R. Bowker Publishers, 1988: 22-52.

Robert A. Hatch, Co-Editor, History of Science, Section III, “Philosophy, Science, and Religion,” The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography,

  • N.S. 8, (for: 1982), New York, 1986 (603 pp.):  167-229.
  • N.S. 7, (for: 1981), New York, 1985 (662 pp.):  143-216.
  • N.S. 6, (for: 1980), New York, 1984 (643 pp.):  165-250.

Articles: In Press & In Progress

  • ‘Between Erudition & Science: The Archive & Correspondence Network of Ismaël Boulliau,’ Chapter in Archives of the Scientific Revolution: the Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Boydell and Brewer (in press; expected publication date, May 1998).
  • ‘Peiresc As Correspondent: The Republic of Letters & the “Geography of Ideas,”‘ Chapter in Science Unbound, Ed. B.P. Dolan, Umeå University Publication {Umeå, Sweden} (in press; expected publication date, Spring 1998).
  • Seven Articles, The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, Ed. W. Applebaum {Editorial Board includes Paolo Rossi, Steven Shapin, Richard S. Westfall, Robert S. Westman}, {forthcoming; expected publication date, Spring 1999}
  • Publishing Peiresc: A Retrospective’ Isis (in preparation; title tentative)

Articles: Published Articles & Chapters

  • ‘Between Friends: Huygens & Boulliau.’ De zeventiende eeuw: Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplnair perspectief, 12 (1996), nummer 1: 106-116.
  • ‘Coherence, Correspondence & Choice: Gassendi & Boulliau on Light & Vision.’ Proceedings, International Colloquium Pierre Gassendi, Digne les Bains, France, Société Scientific et Littéraire, Tome II (1994): 365-385.
  • ‘The Scientific Revolution: Paradigm Lost?’ Invited article, the OAH Magazine of History, vol. IV, no. 2, Spring 1989, pp. 34-39.
  • ‘Boulliau, Mercator, and Horrocks’s Venus in sole visa: Three Unpublished Letters,’ Journal for the History of Astronomy 14 (Pt. 13) October 1983, pp. 166-179.
  • ‘The Collection Boulliau: A Checklist of Correspondents,’ Cahiers Boulliau (Bullisiana), Numéro 1 (Summer 1981), pp. 10-20.
  • Others

Reviews {Selected}

  • Nellen, Henk J.M. Ismaël Boulliau (1605-1694): Astromome, Épistolier, Nouvelliste et Intermédiaire Scientific, Ses Rapports avec les Milieux du <<Libertinage Érudit>>. Amsterdam & Maarssen, 1994, Isis Spring 1996.
  • Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. Reviewed in Isis 83 (1992), pp. 661-662.
  • Crowe, Michael J. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. Dover Publications, 1990. Review in Isis, 82 (No. 314), December 1991, p. 705.
  • Ogilivie, Marilyn Bailey. Women in Science, Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1986. Review in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. N.S. 12 (1986), New York, 1992, pp. 187-188.
  • Konvitz, Josef. Cartography in France, 1660-1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft. Foreword by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Reviewed in Technology and Culture, Oct. 1989, pp. 1042-1043.
  • Morton, Bruce. Halley’s Comet, 1755-1984: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 11 (1985), p.29.
  • Huygens, Christiaan. The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstration Concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks. Translated by Richard J. Blackwell. Introduction by H.J.M. Bos. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1986. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography N.S. 12 (1986), New York, 1992, p.172.
  • Morrison-Low, A. D. and J. R. R. Christie (eds.). “Martyr of Science”: Sir David Brewster, 1781-1868. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1984. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 10 (1984), p. 275.
  • Home, R. W., (with the assistance of Mark J. Gittings). The History of Classical Physics: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 10 (1984) p. 256.
  • Ludwik Celniker, Histoire de l’Astronomie occidentale. Paris: Technique et Documentation-Lavoisier, 1986. Reviewed in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 19 Pt. 1 (1988), 61.
  • Henry Oldenburg, The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volumes XII and XIII. Edited and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. London and Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1986. Reviewed (together) in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography N.S. 12 (1986), New York, 1992, pp. 188-190.
  • Newton, Isaac. Certain Philosophicall Questions: Newton’s Trinity Notebook, edited by J. E. McGuire and Martin Tamny, Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cambridge U. Press. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography N.S. 9 (1983), pp. 666-668; N.S. 10 (1984) pp. 270-272.
  • Jeronimo Munoz, Libro del Nuevo Cometa: Littera ad Bartholomaeum Reisacherum summa del Prognostico del Cometa, edited by Victor N. Brotons and Elizabeth Ladd. Valencia, Artes Graficas Soler, 1981. Reviewed in Isis 76, December 1985, pp. 636-637.
  • John L. Heilbron, Physics at the Royal Society during Newton’s Presidency. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Reviewed in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Fall 1985), pp. 101-103.
  • Le Opere dei Discepoli di Galileo Galilei: Carteggio, 1649-1659, volume secondo, edited by Paolo Galluzzi and Maurizio Torrini. Florence, Giunti-Barbèra, 1984, reviewed in British Journal for the History of Science, 20 (July 1987), pp. 360-362.
  • The Letters of Georges Cuvier: A Summary Calendar of Manuscripts and Printed Materials Preserved in Europe, the United States of America, and Australasia, edited by Dorinda Outram, (BSHS Monographs) Chalfont St. Giles, England: British Society for the History of Science, 1981. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 8 (1982), pp. 213-214.
  • Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution, reviewed Isis, An International Review, Official Journal of the History of Science Society, Vol. 75, Number 276, March 1984, pp. 213-215.
  • Jean-Marie Homet, Astonomie et astronomes en Provence (1680- 1730). Ouvrage publié avec le concours du centre national de la recherche scientific et du Centre méditerranéen de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle, 1982, reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 8 (1982), pp. 198-199.
  • Paul L. Farber, The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760-1850, Studies in the History of Modern Science no. 12. Dordrecht, Holland, Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1982, reviewed in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 38, Oct. 1983, pp. 484-485.
  • Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche, Vicente de Doz, and Joaquin Velazquez Cárdenas de Léon, The 1769 Transit of Venus: The Baja California Observations of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche, Vicente de Doz, and Joaquin Velazques Cardenas de Léon. Ed. by D. B. Nunis, trans. by J. Donahue, M. Geiger, and I. W. Engstrand. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 8 (1982), p. 182.
  • Huygens et la France, foreword by René Taton (Table Ronde du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 27-29 March, 1979), L’Histoire des Sciences Textes et Etudes, Librairie Philosophique Vrin, 1982, reviewed in Journal for the History of Astronomy XIV (1983), pp. 61-62.
  • Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. Reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 7 (1981), p. 157.
  • James X. Corgan, The Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South, 1982, reviewed in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXVII (Summer, 1983), No. 2, pp. 236-237.
  • Agnes Heller, A Theory of History, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, reviewed in The Historian, (1984), pp. 597-598.
  • I. Bernard Cohen, The Newtonian Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 1980, reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 6 (1980), pp. 178-180.
  • John Winthrop, The Scientific Work of John Winthrop, ed. by Michael N. Shute, Arno Press, 1980, reviewed in American Journal of Physics, 50 (No. 6), 1982, p. 574.
  • Stanley Jaki, The Origin of Science and the Science of Its Origin (The Fremantle Lectures, Oxford University, 1977). Regnery/Gateway, 1978, reviewed in Zygon, 16, 1981, pp. 391-392.
  • Allen Debus, Robert Fludd and his Philosophical Key, Science History Publications, 1979, reviewed in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 32 (1982), pp. 120-121.
  • Liebniz à Paris (1671-1676), tome II, la philosophie de Liebniz (Symposion de la G. W. Liebniz-Gesellschaft et du Centre Nat. de la Rech. Scient. à Chantilly du 14 au 18 Nov. 1976) Wiesbaden (Franz Steiner Verlag) 1978 (Studia Liebnitiana Supplementa vol. XVIII), reviewed in Centaurus 25, 1981, pp. 138-140.
  • Théophile de Bordeu, Correspondance, ed. M. Fletcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 4 vols., 1977-79, reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (1980), N.S. 5, 1982, pp. 152-154.
  • R.L. Numbers, Creation by Natural Law: Laplace’s nebular hypothesis in American thought, Washington Press, 1977, reviewed in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 30, 1980, pp. 216-217.
  • J. Harrison, The Library of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, 1978, reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 6 (1980), pp. 153-154.
  • H. Hovenkamp, Science and Religion in American, 1800-1860, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978, reviewed in The History Teacher, 13 Nov 1979, p. 148.
  • D.H. Hall, History of the Earth Sciences During the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, Elsevier, 1976, reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (1979), N.S. 5, pp. 172-173.
  • J. H. Lambert, Cosmological Letters on the Arrangement of the World Edifice, Science History Publications, 1976, reviewed in Isis An International Review, Official Journal of the History of Science Society, 70, Jun 1979, pp. 316-317.

Conference Papers & Activities {Selected}

  • ‘The Mirror of Nature: Virtual Images & Real Witnesses, Gassendi & Leonardo.’ Invited Paper, Third International British-North American Meeting for the History of Science, 23-26 July 1996, Edinburgh, Scotland. Session Organizer for this paper in ‘Boundaries of the Scientific Revolution.’ For this International meeting I also served as Program Chair for the United States throughout 1994-1996; See below.
  • ‘The Scientific Revolution: Correspondence & Coherence in “early modern science”‘. Invited Paper from the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Umeå Universitët, Umeå, Sweden, 15 April 1996.
  • ‘Astronomy, Intelligence & Erudition: Imagining the Archive and Correspondence Network of Ismaël Boulliau,’ Invited Paper, Archives of the Scientific Revolution, International Conference Sponsored by the Royal Society of London and the British Society for the History of Science, London, 11-12 April 1996.
  • ‘After Images: The Retina, the Witness, the Private Eye,’ Invited Paper for Special Session of the History of Science Society (see below) National Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Minneapolis.
  • Session Organizer, ‘Perfecting Tradition, Re-Thinking Revolution: Changing Images in the Scientific Revolution,’ Special Session of the History of Science Society in Honor of the 60th Birthday of David C. Lindberg (Society President), October 1995, National Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Minneapolis.
  • ‘Between Friends: Huygens & Boulliau.’ Invited Paper, Christiaan Huygens Congress, International Conference Held Under the Auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Leyden-Voorburg (Netherlands), 7-8 July 1995.
  • Program Chair, Third International British-North American Meeting for the History of Science, Edinburgh: 23-26 July 1996, 1994-1996 (Joint International Meeting, British Society for the History of Science; Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science; History of Science Society {USA}).
  • ‘Double-Bind: Science as Discourse & Culture,’ invited paper, The New Contextualism: Science as Discourse and Culture, Workshop, University of Florida, 12-13 March 1994.
  • Chair, ‘The Year of Gassendi: The Gassendi Correspondence and the Future of Scholarly Editions,’ 28 Dec 1992, National Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Washington, D.C.
  • Chair, ‘Medieval and Early Modern Science,’ 29 Dec 1992, National Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Washington, D.C.
  • ‘Cooperation and Conflict: Conversations between Gassendi & Boulliau on the Nature of Light and Color.’ Colloque International Pierre Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, 18-22 May 1992, 21 May 1992.
  • ‘Computing the Scientific Revolution, or, 80,000 Brief Lives,’ Invited paper, the Historian and the Computer, annual national meeting of the History of Science Society, Madison, 2 November 1991.
  • ‘Books, Experiments & Poison: Boulliau on Italian Learning and Patronage, 1645-1665.’ Invited paper, Parisian & Italian Cultures and Perceptions, Chair, Orest Ranum, Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of South Carolina, 4-7 October 1990.
  • Participant, International Conference of the British Society for the History of Science, Summer Meeting 1990, ‘The Scientific Revolution: Science, Technology & Medicine in the Early Modern Period.’ Keble College, Oxford, England, 17 – 20 July 1990.
  • Lecturer, Cambridge International Summer Schools, History of British Science, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Summer 1990.
  • National Arrangements Co-Chair, 1989 meeting of the History of Science Society, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 26-29 October 1989.
  • Chair, ‘The Retrial of Galileo,’ Plenary Session, International Conference on the History & Philosophy of Science in Science Education, Tallahassee, 7 November 1989.
  • Session Chair, ‘Science, Pseudo-Science, & Society,’ Annual meeting of the national History of Science Society, Gainesville, 27 October 1989.
  • ‘The Two Cultures Reconsidered,’ paper read at the Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, St Louis, 8 April 1989.
  • Session Chair, Special Session, ‘Teaching History of Science,’ Annual meeting of the national History of Science Society, Gainesville, 27 October 1989.
  • Session Chair, ‘Science, 1300-1650,’ Annual meeting of the national History of Science Society, Bloomington, 2 November 1985.
  • Invited Speaker, International Conference on Documentary Editing in the History of Science and Technology, Rockefeller Archive Center and Seven Springs Center, New York, 11-14 April 1985: ‘The Continuing Documentary Crisis: Retooling in an Age of Revolution.’
  • National Program Co-Chairman, 1983 Meeting of the History of Science Society, The Burndy Library, Norwalk, Connecticut, 27-30 October 1983.
  • Session Chair, ‘Renaissance and Early Modern Science,’ Annual Meeting of the national History of Science Society, Norwalk, Connecticut, 29 October 1983.
  • Participant, International Symposium on Problems of Documentation in the History of the Sciences, Newbattle Abbey College, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16-19 September 1983.
  • Session Chair, ‘Current Research in Medieval and Renaissance Astronomy,’ Annual Meeting of the national History of Science Society, Philadelphia, 31 October 1982.
  • ‘Ismaël Boulliau and the Dissemination of Keplerian Astronomy: Coherence and Correspondence,’ session (Astronomical Issues in the Mid-17th Century) at the Annual meeting of the national History of Science Society, Los Angeles, 19 December 1981.
  • ‘Ismaël Boulliau (1605-1694), Erudit & Correspondant,’ paper delivered at special session (Les Erudits et la recherche en France au dix-septième siècle) of the Modern Language Association Convention, New York, 30 December 1981, co-authored with Buford Norman.
  • ‘The Collection Boulliau: A Quantitative and Comparative Study with the Correspondence of Mersenne and Oldenburg,’ paper read at the Annual meeting of the national History of Science Society, University of Toronto, 17 October 1980.
  • ‘The Planetary Hypothesis of Ismaël Boulliau,’ paper read at the Annual Meeting of the national History of Science Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 28 October 1978.
  • ‘Galileo and the World Systems,’ invited colloquium lecture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 17 April 1978.
  • ‘Galileo Gleanings and Tychonic Thrashings,’ paper read at the Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 7 April 1978.
  • ‘Ismaël Boulliau and the Keplerian Revolution,’ lecture delivered to the History Forum, Iowa State University, Ames, 12 May 1977.
  • ‘Boulliau and the Variable Star Mira Ceti,’ paper read at the Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 25 March 1977.
  • ‘Galileo’s Dialogue and the Third Chief System of the World,’ paper before the Ames Philosophical Society, Iowa State University, Ames, 11 March 1977.
  • ‘Ismaël Boulliau and His Correspondence: A Survey of the Collection Boulliau,’ paper read at the Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 27 March 1976.

International Conferences & Research

  • 1997 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh.
  • 1996 – July, Edinburgh, Invited Paper, Program Chair representing United States, Joint International Three Society Meeting, Crossing Boundaries in the History of Science, sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science, Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society.
  • 1996 – June – September, Research, Cambridge, 1996, research London, Cambridge, Edinburgh; Paris, August-September, 1996, Research, Bibliothèque Nationale; Archives de l’Académie des Sciences, Institute de France; Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
  • 1996 – April, London, 1996, International Conference, Archives of the Scientific Revolution, Invited Paper sponsored by the Royal Society of London; Invited Paper, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå Universitët, Research, London, Stockholm
  • 1995 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, 1995, research London, Cambridge; Invited Paper, International Huygens Congress, Leyden, The Netherlands
  • 1994 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, 1994, research London, Cambridge; Paris, Research, Bibliothèque Nationale; Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
  • 1993 – June – July, Research, Cambridge, 1993, research London, Cambridge
  • 1992 – 18-22 May, Digne-les-Bains, Invited Paper, International Conference, Colloque International Pierre Gassendi; Research, Bibliothèque Nationale; Paris; Bibliothèque Municipale, Digne; Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, Carpentras.
  • 1991 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, 1991; research Cambridge, London, Sheffield, York
  • 1990 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, 1990; International Conference of the British Society for the History of Science, Summer Meeting 1990, The Scientific Revolution, Keble College, Oxford, 17-20 July; lecturer, Cambridge International Summer Schools, History of British Science, Cambridge University.
  • 1989 – June – October, Research, Cambridge; Paris, (Bibliothèque Nationale; Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères); Aix-en-Provence (Méjanes); Carpentras (Inguimbertine); 1989
  • 1988 – June – August, Research, Cambridge, 1988, research London, Cambridge
  • 1984 – August – December, {London, 7 August 1984} 50 libraries and archives, France, Italy, Austria, West Germany, East Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, United Kingdom (NEH Grant)
  • 1983 – September, Participant, Invited Paper, International Symposium, Problems of Documentation in the History of the Sciences, Newbattle Abbey College, Edinburgh, 16-19 September. Paris, research, 1983
  • 1981 – April – June, Research, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, etc June 1981
  • 1980 – March, Research, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Bibliothèque de l’Observatoire, AMAE, March, 1980.
  • 1975 – February – April, Paris, Research, Bibliothèque Nationale; Bibliothèque de l’Observatoire; Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, AN, etc.