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This article owes much to help from archivists at the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck, the National Archives and Records Administration, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. The author is grateful to them for their assistance, to the Dibner Institute for the History of Science for a visiting fellowship in autumn 1998, to the National Science Foundation for grant SBR-9729131, which... 

Parts of this paper have been presented and discussed with colleagues at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. See my essays Laboratory Practice and the Physical Chemistry of Michael Polanyi, in F. L. Holmes and Trevor Levere, eds, Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry (Cambridge, MA. MIT Press, 2000), 367-400 and Michael Polanyi s Theory of Adsorption How Premature in Ernest Hook, ed., Prematurity in Scientific Discovery (Berkeley University of California Press, in press). 

Matthew D. Eddy is lecturer in the history and philosophy of science and an associate of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease at the University of Durham. He has most recently held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT), Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and with the University of Notre Dame s Erasmus Institute. He has written numerous articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual history. Most recently he has edited (with David M. Knight) Science and Belief From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900 (2005) and William Paley s Natural Theology (2006). He is currently writing a book on the interactions between medicine, philosophy, and science in Enlightenment Edinburgh. 

Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology http //dibinst.mit.edu (accessed October 20, 2010). The Dibner Institute is an international center for advanced research in the history of science and technology and located on the campus of MIT. Each year the institute hosts senior, postdoctoral, and graduate student fellows, as well as symposia, conferences, lectures, and workshops (from Web page). 

Dibner, B. (1981). Heralds of science as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets in the Dibner Library. Washington, DC Library and Smithsonian Institution. 

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