Editor: Roy M. MacLeod University of Sydney, Dept. of History, NSW, Australia, roy.macleod@arts.usyd.edu.au Board of Advisory Editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Yaron Ezrahi, The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, Israel; Michael G. Gibbons, University of Sussex, UK; Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington, DC, USA; Gerald Holton, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, History of Science and Technology Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA; John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; Giuliano Pancaldi, University of Bologna, Italy; Sheldon Rothblatt, Berkeley, CA, USA; Jean-Jacques Salomon, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France; Peter Scott, Kingston University, UK; Bruce L.R. Smith, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, USA; Sverker Sorlin, Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research (SISTER), Stockholm, Sweden; Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University, UK; Antoine B. Zahlan, London, UK; Suzanne Zeller, Wilfried Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada Peter Weingart (Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany) has assumed the editorship of MINERVA as of issue No.2, 2008. He is assisted by Niels C. Taubert as managing editor.: Minerva 46 (2008), 3, Dordrecht