Jed Z. Buchwald is Director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I. Bernard Cohen is the Victor S. Thomas Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Harvard University. His most recent books are Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (MIT Press, 1999) and the first completely new translation of Newton's Principia in the last 270 years.