Jutta Schickore (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)
Project Title
Hazardous Operations: Experiments with Snake Venom, 1660-1960
Indiana University Bloomington
Return to All FellowsFellowship Work Summary, 2011–12
Jutta Schickore drafted the last two chapters of her book About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically. She cowrote the introduction to a special issue of Perspectives on Science on "Integrated History and Philosophy of Science" and coedited the contributions for the volume. She also wrote a paper on "The Concept of Error in Experimental Reports: Robert Boyle and Felice Fontana on Error, Contingencies, Circumstances, and Vipers."