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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 5186 Hankins, Thomas L Thomas L. Hankins papers 1964-2000 9.69 cubic feet (11 boxes) Collection materials are in English and French. Writings, research, correspondence, course files, committee files, and lecture materials of Thomas Hankins, a Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle

Thomas Leroy Hankins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington Department of History. He was born September 9, 1933. He earned a B.S. in physics from Yale in 1956, an M.A.T. from Harvard in 1958, and a Ph.D. in history from Cornell in 1964. Hankins began his service at the University of Washington as an assistant professor in the History Department in 1964. He was promoted to associate professor in 1969 and full professor in 1975. Hankins retired in 2000. From 1971 to 1973 he also served as associate chairman of the History Department. He served on the History Department Curriculum Committee and numerous search committees.

Hankins specialized in the history of science, focusing on 18th-19th century mathematical physics and scientific biography. He was an active member of the History of Science Society, acting as advisory editor of the Society's quarterly journal Isis from 1976 to 1980, and as contributing editor to the Society's annual journal Osiris. He also served as the Publications Committee chair for the History of Science Society from 1987 to 1989. Hankins was active in the international community of historians of science, serving as chair of the United States National Committee for the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science from 1983 to 1985.

Hankins' publications include: Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment; Science and the Enlightenment; Sir William Rowan Hamilton; and Instruments and the Imagination (with Robert Silverman).

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Accession No. 5186-001, Thomas L. Hankins papers, 1964-2000 Accession No. 5186-002, Thomas L. Hankins papers, 1965-1994

Writings, research, correspondence, course files, committee files, and lecture materials related to Thomas Hankins' career as a professor and historian of science.

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Accession No. 5186-001: Thomas L. Hankins papers, 1964-2000 9 cubic feet (9 boxes)

Scope and Content: The Thomas L. Hankins papers document Hankins' research, teaching, and publishing activities during his 36 years as professor of history at the University of Washington. The papers contain material relating to his publications as well as unpublished research. His research files concern both technical and social aspects of science history. They provide insight into the development of his publications on the 18th century French mathematician and physicist Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, and Enlightenment era science. They also describe the 10 years of research and correspondence that culminated in Hankins' intellectual biography of 19th century Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton. The Hankins papers document his relationship with the History of Science Society and its journal Isis—as a committee member, a book and article reviewer, and an article contributor. The collection also reveals a collaborative project, with David C. Lindberg among others, to develop a history of science textbook for college courses, which was ultimately aborted.

Hankins was an energetic promoter of history of science research both at the University of Washington and internationally. These papers document his views on graduate education in history, his course topics and teaching style, and his support of an interdisciplinary degree program for History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Washington. They also afford a glimpse into the mechanics of promoting and organizing an international conference of historians and philosophers of science that united researchers from both sides of the "iron curtain" in the early 1980s.

The papers include correspondence with a wide array of historians, scientists, philosophers, and friends. They contain writings, course files, university and departmental committee files, History of Science Society, and International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science-United States National Committee records.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Thomas Hankins in 2000.

Arrangement: Arranged into 6 series: Personal and professional papers, 1964-2000 University of Washington committee files, 1977-1991 University of Washington History Department records, 1964-1991 Columbia History of Science Group records,1986-1995 History of Science Society records, 1965-1993 International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, United States National Committee records, 1978-1988

Series 1 Personal and Professional Papers 1964-2000 1/1 5186-001 Biographical Information undated General Correspondence

Scope and Content: Writings from various authors are included with correspondence in some folders.

1/2-38 5186-001 A-L 1965-1998 2/1-30 5186-001 Mc-Z 1965-1998

Scope and Content: Folder 22 includes one photograph of Hankins with Marina Tolmacheva and an unidentified person in the background, Friday Harbor, Washington, 1990.

2/31 5186-001 American Philosophical Society Library 1974-1977 2/32-33 5186-001 Badash, Lawrence 1970-1972 2/34 5186-001 Bauman, Harold 1965, 1967 2/35 5186-001 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) 1984, undated 2/36 5186-001 De Villafranca, George W. 1968 2/37 5186-001 Farrar, Lancelot 1973-1975 2/38 5186-001 Federico, P. J. 1975-1980 2/39-40 5186-001 Goslin, David 1983-1985, 1988 2/41-42 5186-001 Greenberg, John Leonard 1973, 1981, 1983-1986, 1988 2/43 5186-001 Guerlac, Henry 1965, 1968-1973 3/1 5186-001 Hahn, Roger 1965-1972, 1983-1984 3/2 5186-001 Hindle, Brooke 1984-1985 3/3 5186-001 Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1982, 1986 3/4 5186-001 Hogness, John R. 1974-1975 3/5 5186-001 Holl, Jack M. 1974-1975 3/6-7 5186-001 Hunt, Bruce J. 1980-1987 3/8 5186-001 International Academy of the History of Science 1993-2000 3/9 5186-001 The Johns Hopkins University Press 1978-1980 3/10 5186-001 Kargon, Robert 1965-1975, 1982, 1984, 1993 3/11 5186-001 Katz, Solomon 1977-1979, 1983 3/12 5186-001 KCTS/9 1981-1982 3/13 5186-001 Kuhn, Thomas 1967-1969 3/14 5186-001 Lindberg, David C. 1966 3/15 5186-001 Machamer, Peter K. 1972-1973 3/16 5186-001 May, Kenneth O. 1968-1970 3/17 5186-001 Odegaard, Charles E. 1969-1973 3/18 5186-001 Pitt, Joseph C. 1992-1995 3/19 5186-001 Porter, Roy S. 1974-1978, 1994 3/20 5186-001 Pyenson, Lewis 1977-1983 3/21 5186-001 Richards, Joan L. 1978-1979, 1988, 1994

Scope and Content: Includes writings of Joan L. Richards.

3/22 5186-001 Roberts, David 1964-1966 3/23 5186-001 Schwab, Richard N. 1966-1968 3/24 5186-001 Scott, Wilson L. 1968, 1972 3/25 5186-001 Shapere, Dudley 1967-1970 3/26 5186-001 Sokal, Michael M. 1979-1989 3/27 5186-001 Spitzer, Paul 1968-1971 3/28 5186-001 Stacey, Robert C. 1992-1997 3/29 5186-001 Strickland, Stuart 1991-1992 3/30 5186-001 Tenner, Edward 1982, 1989, 1991 3/31-32 5186-001 Terrall, Mary 1986-1993 3/33 5186-001 Turner, G. L'E 1989, undated 3/34 5186-001 University of Hawaii 1978-1980 3/35 5186-001 Van de Wetering, Maxine and John 1966, 1968-1970 3/36 5186-001 Van Helden, Albert 1989 3/37-38 5186-001 Voisé, Waldemar 1964-1965, 1967, 1983

Scope and Content: Includes writings of Waldemar Voisé.

3/39 5186-001 Weiner, Charles 1972-1973 3/40 5186-001 Westfall, Richard S. 1976, 1982-1983 3/41 5186-001 Williams, L. Pearce 1981, 1987, 1991-1997 3/42 5186-001 Woolf, Harry 1970-1973 General Correspondence Regarding 3/43 5186-001 18th Century Mathematics 1982-1986 3/44 5186-001 Bouvet and Leibniz Correspondence Project 1978-1981 3/45 5186-001 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1974, undated 3/46-48 5186-001 D'Alembert book 1966-1973 3/49 5186-001 Evans, James 1982-1986 3/50-51 5186-001 Greene, Mott T. 1974-1995, undated 3/52-54 5186-001 Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir 1972-1979

Scope and Content: Includes communication with A.P.W. Malcomson, John W. H. O' Regan, William O' Sullivan, Helena Pycior, Patrick A. Wayman, and Jacqueline Wehmueller.

4/1-2 5186-001 Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir 1972-1979 4/3 5186-001 Hanford Project 1981, 1984-1985 4/4 5186-001 Jean Scott Prize 1992-1993 4/5 5186-001 Kilcup, Rodney W. 1978-1981 4/6 5186-001 Oeuvres de D'Alembert 1991, 1993 4/7 5186-001 Salmon, Wesley C. (Danz Lectureship) 1978-1979 4/8 5186-001 Sloan, Phillip 1977-1979, 1990 4/9 5186-001 University of British Columbia History Workshop 1971 Interdepartmental Correspondence Regarding 4/10 5186-001 Academic Programs (History of Science, Technology, and Medicine) 1987-1988, 1994, 1996, undated 4/11 5186-001 Academic Program Board 1981 4/12 5186-001 Alumni Vacation College 1978, undated 4/13 5186-001 Film Forum 1977 4/14-16 5186-001 John and Jessie Danz Lectureship 1973-1983, undated 4/17 5186-001 Katz Lecture 1988 4/18 5186-001 Nakayama, Shigeru lecture 1982, undated Speeches and Writings

Scope and Content: Also includes correspondence.

4/19 5186-001 1788 Exposition at the Musee de la Revolucion Francaise 1987-1988 4/20 5186-001 CHANCE Article 1998-1999, undated 4/21-22 5186-001 D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond undated

Scope and Content: Contains writings on other 18th century natural philosophers, as well as various aspects of 18th century physics.

4/23 5186-001 Hamilton Chapter for Trinity College Dublin 1979, 1981-1983 4/24-35 5186-001 History of Science Textbook Project 1984-1991, undated

Scope and Content: Folder 4/27 includes an undated photograph of Hankins, David C. Lindberg, and four unidentified persons.

5/1-2 5186-001 History of Science Textbook Project 1984-1991, undated 5/3 5186-001 "History of Science: The Creation of a Discipline" undated 5/4-5 5186-001 Newton's Legacy (Symposium) 1987-1989 5/6 5186-001 "Personality, Metaphysics and Mathematics in the life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton" 1980 5/7 5186-001 Edit of an article for Random House Encyclopedia Microsoft Version 1993, undated 5/8-10 5186-001 Science and the Enlightenment 1977-1988, 1990, undated

Scope and Content: Includes 2 transparencies. One 8x10 of the tree of knowledge from D'Alembert and Diderot's Encyclopédie of 1750, and one 3x5 of Lavoisier conducting an experiment on human respiration.

5/11 5186-001 Sir William Rowan Hamilton 1980, 1986, undated 5/12-13 5186-001 William Rowan Hamilton undated

Scope and Content: Contains notes and bibliography on works relating to Hamilton.

5/14 5186-001 "William Rowan Hamilton-- A Portrait on Paper" 1984-1985 5/15 5186-001 William Rowan Hamilton Lecture Discourse 1985 Speeches and Writings of Others 5/16 5186-001 "Growth and Diversity in the Organization of American Learning" by Dael Wolfe 1983, 1986-1987, undated 5/17 5186-001 Miscellaneous 1971, 1979, undated Course Files 5/18 5186-001 20th Century European History 1969, 1972, undated 5/19 5186-001 Bibliography and Syllabi 1968, 1970-1971, 1982, 1993 5/20-21 5186-001 Comparative History of Ideas 390 1991, 1992, undated 5/22 5186-001 Exams 1971, 1974, 1981, 1986, 1993 5/23 5186-001 Field Course 1982, undated 5/24 5186-001 Films 1977, 1980 5/25 5186-001 The German Bomb 1976, undated 5/26 5186-001 German History 1969, 1971-1972 5/27 5186-001 History 192 undated 5/28 5186-001 History 192 Readings undated 5/29-31 5186-001 History 215 1986-1987, 1993, undated 5/32 5186-001 History 215 Lecture Notes 1973-1974 6/1 5186-001 History 215 Lecture Notes 1973-1974 6/2 5186-001 History 215 Correspondence and Miscellaneous 1970-1976, 1984-1985 6/3-5 5186-001 History 215 Readings undated 6/6 5186-001 History 310 1977, 1984, 1991, 1993 6/7 5186-001 History 310 Course Syllabi 1991, 1993, 1995, 6/8 5186-001 History 310 Midterm and Final Exams 1979, 1980, 1984-1985, 1991, 1993, 1995, undated 6/9-10 5186-001 History 312 Lecture Notes 1985, 1989, 1991, 1994-1996 6/11 5186-001 History 312 Midterm Examination 1966, 1969, 1977, 1985-1987, 1991, 1994, undated 6/12-13 5186-001 History 312 Readings 1984-1985, 1989 6/14 5186-001 History 313 1985, 1987-1989 6/15 5186-001 History 390 1995 6/16 5186-001 History 411 1973, 1976, 1980, 1981, undated 6/17-18 5186-001 History 411 Readings undated 6/19 5186-001 History 412 undated 6/20 5186-001 History 418 1973, 1980-1981, undated 6/21 5186-001 History 490 H and History 491 H undated 6/22 5186-001 History 498 undated 6/23 5186-001 History 512 undated 6/24 5186-001 History 520- Enlightenment undated 6/25 5186-001 History of Science 18th Century 1982, undated 6/26 5186-001 History of Science Lecture Series (Continuing Education) 1981-1982, undated 6/27 5186-001 Index Cards undated 6/28 5186-001 The Manhattan Project and the Origins of 'Big Science' undated 6/29-30 5186-001 Miscellaneous 1987, undated 6/31 5186-001 Notes of Visiting Lectures undated 6/32 5186-001 Course Files of Others undated 6/33-35 5186-001 Reviews of Proposed Publications 1967-1987, undated Reviews 7/1 5186-001 D'Alembert Biography 1970-1971, undated 7/2 5186-001 Hamilton Biography 1980-1983 7/3 5186-001 Science and the Enlightenment 1985-1987 7/4 5186-001 Notes undated 7/5 5186-001 Grant Files 1969, undated 7/6 5186-001 Newsletter of the International Council of Scientific Unions 1984 Subject Files 7/7 5186-001 Atomic Bomb 1979, undated 7/8 5186-001 Disney, Catherine undated

Scope and Content: Relates to Hamilton research, and includes copies of manuscripts dated 1834 and 1854, as well as the following reproductions of a painting of Catherine Disney: one 35mm color slide, one 3x5 color slide, and three 5x7 color prints.

7/9 5186-001 Friends of the Georgetown Steam Plant 1980, 1985, undated 7/10-11 5186-001 Humanities Faculty Seminar 1980-1981, undated 7/12-13 5186-001 Lakeside School Year Round Facility Use Task Force 1981-1982, undated 7/14 5186-001 Manhattan Project undated 7/15 5186-001 Travel Plans 1972 7/16-17 5186-001 Ephemera 1969, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1984, 1985, undated 7/18 5186-001 Miscellany 1980, 1983, undated Clippings 7/19 5186-001 Early 20th Century Physics 1961, undated

Scope and Content: Includes photocopies of physics articles from 1898-1914

7/20 5186-001 University of Washington History of Science Program 1986, 1987, undated 7/21 5186-001 Miscellaneous undated Series 2 University of Washington Committee Files 1977-1991 7/22-24 5186-001 University of Washington, College Studies Program Executive Committee 1987-1991

Scope and Content: Contains communication with Hazard Adams.

7/25 5186-001 University of Washington, Committee on Classified and Proprietary Research Review 1977, 1981, undated 7/26 5186-001 University of Washington, Committee on Science and Technology Policy Seminars 1983-1986 7/27 5186-001 University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Executive Committee 1983-1987 7/28 5186-001 University of Washington, Department of Biomedical History Chairman Search Committee 1986 7/29 5186-001 University of Washington, Department of Medical History and Ethics Assistant Professor Search Committee 1988 7/30 5186-001 University of Washington, Distinguished Teaching Awards Committee 1981-1982 7/31-32 5186-001 University of Washington, Engineering Group (Social Management of Technology Program) 1973, 1977-1978 7/33 5186-001 University of Washington, Germanics Department Chairman Search Committee 1977 7/34 5186-001 University of Washington, Humanistic-Social Studies Department Search Committee 1980 7/35 5186-001 University of Washington, Professor of the Humanities Search Committee 1979 Series 3 University of Washington History Department Records 1964-1991 7/36-37 5186-001 Interdepartmental Correspondence Regarding History of Science Program 1984-1991 Intradepartmental Correspondence 7/38 5186-001 Miscellaneous 1980, undated 7/39 5186-001 Bologna Seminar 1987 Committee Files

Appraisal: Some exempt material was destroyed

7/40 5186-001 Chairman Search Committee 1971 7/41 5186-001 Graduate Studies Committee 1972 7/42-44 5186-001 Salary Committee 1981, undated 7/45-46 5186-001 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 1973-1975 8/1 5186-001 Bulletins 1970-1972 8/2 5186-001 Faculty Biographies 1971, undated Subject Files 8/3 5186-001 Budget Requests 1973-1975 8/4 5186-001 Course Assignments 1972-1973 8/5-8 5186-001 Departmental Affairs 1964, 1970-1972, 1977-1978, 1988, undated Series 4 Columbia History of Science Group Records 1986-1995 8/9 5186-001 Newsletters 1986-1995 8/10 5186-001 Conferences and Conventions Files 1987 8/11 5186-001 Miscellany 1988, undated Series 5 History of Science Society Records 1965-1993 General Correspondence 8/12-13 5186-001 Holton, Gerald 1983-1985 8/14-18 5186-001 Isis 1965-1985 8/19 5186-001 The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 8/20-22 5186-001 Osiris 1984-1989 8/23 5186-001 Osiris Survey 1987-1988 8/24 5186-001 Pergamon Press 1989 8/25 5186-001 Price, Derek J. de Solla 1965 8/26 5186-001 Princeton University Press 1989 8/27 5186-001 University of California Press 1989 8/28 5186-001 University of Cambridge Press 1989 8/29 5186-001 University of Chicago Press 1989 8/30 5186-001 University of Wisconsin Press 1989 General Correspondence Regarding 8/31 5186-001 Cincinnati Meeting 1988 8/32 5186-001 Critical Bibliography and Pricing 1982, 1988-1989 8/33 5186-001 History of Mathematics 1992-1993 8/34 5186-001 History of Science Society Dinner 1977-1978 8/35 5186-001 History of Science Society Guide 1988 8/36 5186-001 Frank James Case 1988-1989 8/37 5186-001 Meeting at Toronto 1980, undated 8/38 5186-001 Reading Group 1984-1986 8/39 5186-001 Teaching Guides 1989 8/40 5186-001 Online Critical Bibliography 1989 8/41-42 5186-001 University Press Options 1988-1989 Committee Files 8/43 5186-001 International Committee 1985 8/44-45 5186-001 Long Range Planning Committee 1978-1981 8/46 5186-001 National Planning Committee 1984, undated 8/47-48 5186-001 Pfizer Award Committee 1996 9/1-5 5186-001 Publications Committee 1988-1989 9/6-8 5186-001 Budget Files 1988-1989 Series 6 International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, United States National Committee Records 1978-1988 9/9 5186-001 Organizational Information 1983, undated General Correspondence 9/10 5186-001 McMullin, Ernan 1982-1983 9/11 5186-001 Widgor, Alexandra K. 1983-1984 9/12-18 5186-001 Miscellaneous 1978-1985 General Correspondence Regarding 9/19 5186-001 1984 Meeting 1984-1985 9/20 5186-001 Funding 1985 9/21 5186-001 Statutes and Rules of Procedure of the History and Philosophy of Science 1984-1985 9/22-24 5186-001 Study Committee 1985-1986, 1988 9/25 5186-001 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 1984-1985 Conference and Convention Files 9/26 5186-001 XVIth International Conference of History of Science 1981 9/27-30 5186-001 XVIIth International Conference of History of Science 1983-1985 9/31 5186-001 Report to the General Assembly 1985 9/32 5186-001 Newsletters 1982-1985 9/33 5186-001 Bulletins 1981 Subject Files 9/34 5186-001 Expenses 1978-1979, 1983-1985 9/35-36 5186-001 Fund Raising 1984 9/37 5186-001 General Assembly 1983-1985 Accession No. 5186-002: Thomas L. Hankins papers, 1965-1994 0.69 cubic feet (2 boxes)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, "Soloman Katz Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities Series" materials for his lecture "Instruments and the Imagination," lecture scripts and notes, writings, and correspondence regarding the Instruments issue of "Osiris." Many of the papers relate to lectures and papers about Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Judy Peterson, History Dept., 2007-07-18