Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He has held fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge; at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. His books are: Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1992); Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998) and The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (co-edited with William Clark and Simon Schaffer), (University of Chicago Press, 1999).