astrolabe History of Science

Jane R. Camerini

Faculty Associate, History of Science

Home: 36 Bagley Court
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-233-1802 (Home)
608-262-1406 (Hist. Sci. Dept.)
Fax: 608-262-3984
Email: jrcameri@wisc.edu
Jane Camerini

Special interests and recent research:

The subject of my research is how distribution maps of plants and animals shaped the knowledge-making process in the history of the evolutionary are ecological sciences, 1750 - present. I am especially interested in fieldwork as a means to producing new knowledge, and in the role of maps and other pictures not only in scientific research, but also their use in books, museums, and science education. I am also interested in historiographic issues in the history of science, particularly how recent emphasis in science studies enhance and constrain historical research on environmental history and the history of psychology.

Recent publications:

  • The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings From the Field (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
  • "Worldwide Disease Maps: Berghaus and his Students." in Medical Geography in Historical Perspective, edited by Nicolaas Rupke (London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2000).
  • "Visual Arguments and Thematic Mapping." Science and Visual Imagination in the Nineteenth Century conference at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA 29-30 May 1998. (conference volume in preparation).
  • "The Power of Biography." A. Desmond, Huxley: The Devil's Disciple and N. Rupke, Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist. Essay review, Isis, 1997, 88:306-311.
  • "Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field." In B. Lightman, ed., Contexts of Victorian Science (University of Chicago Press, 1997) 354-377.
  • "Wallace in the Field." Osiris, vol. 11, Science in the Field, R. Kohler and H. Kuklick, eds., 1996, 44-65.