Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard and author of Galileo, Courtier. He is editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge). Peter Galison is Mallinkrodt Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. He is the author of several books, including Image and Logic and is editor, with Caroline Jones, of Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge).
Introduction, Mario Biagioli, Peter Galison
Part I Emergence of Authorship
Chapter 1 Foucault's Chiasmus, Roger Chartier
Chapter 2 Butter for Parsnips, Rob Iliffe
Chapter 3 The Ambivalence of Authorship in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Adrian Johns
Chapter 4 The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason, Mary Terrall
Chapter 5 Can Artisans Be Scientific Authors?, Myles W. Jackson
Chapter 6 "A Very Hard Nut to Crack", Andrew Warwick
Part II Limits of Authorship
Chapter 7 Emergent Relations, Marilyn Strathern
Chapter 8 Beyond Authorship, Peter Jaszi, Martha Woodmansee
Chapter 9 Uncommon Controversies, Corynne Mcsherry
Part III The Fragmentation of Authorship
Chapter 10 Rights or Rewards?, Mario Biagioli
Chapter 11 The Death of the Authors of Death, Hugh Gusterson
Chapter 12 "Discourses of Circumstance", Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Chapter 13 The Collective Author, Peter Galison
Part IV Commentaries
credits End Credits, Tom Conley
author What Is Not a Scientific Author?, Mark Rose