Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010.
Margaret Osler Papers
1912-2010
1940-2010
MSS Osler
17.50 cubic feet, including 1036 photographs and 814 negatives
52 boxes, including 1 oversize box
Materials in English and French and Latin.
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
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Oregon State University
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The Margaret Osler Papers document Osler's life and career as a historian of science and philosophy. Margaret Osler (1942-2010) was a historian of science and philosophy who published widely on the scientific revolution and on the connection between religion and early science. In her two books and more than 125 articles, Osler focused in particular on the work of Pierre Gassendi, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton. Osler was a member of the faculty at Oregon State University from 1968 to 1972, and a faculty member at the University of Calgary for thirty-five years.
Access to Margaret Osler's diary in Series 1 is restricted until January 1, 2030 due to provisions set by the donor. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist.
Biographical Note:
Margaret Jo Osler was born on November 27, 1942 in New York City, New York to Abraham G. and Sonia Fellner Osler. The son of Russian immigrants – whose surname was originally spelled Osofsky – Abraham Osler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1911. He completed a Bachelor’s degree at the City College of New York in 1931, and a Master’s of Science (1933) and PhD (1948) in Bacteriology at Columbia University in New York City, New York. Osler married Sonia Fellner in 1938. Born in Poland in 1912, Sonia attended Hunter College in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1933. She went on to complete a PhD in Psychology at Johns Hopkins University in 1954.
Both Abraham and Sonia fell under the scrutiny of the intermittent “Red Scares” of the 1930s through the 1950s. In the 1930s, Abraham was fired from a position at the Bronx Hospital for trying to organize a union among hospital personnel (the workers did eventually unionize as Service Employees International Union, Local 1199). Sonia was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1958 to testify regarding alleged Communists working for the New York City Housing Authority, by whom Sonia had been employed from the late 1930s until 1949.
Margaret Jo Osler – who preferred to go by Maggie, and who joked that her middle name, Jo, was a tribute to Joseph Stalin – graduated from Forest Park High School in Baltimore, Maryland in 1959. From 1959 to 1963, she attended Swarthmore College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Osler went on her earn her M.A. and PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University in 1966 and 1968, respectively. She completed her doctoral thesis, John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton, under the supervision of historian of science Richard S. Westfall, best known for his biography of Isaac Newton, Never at Rest.
In 1968, immediately after completing her studies at Indiana, Osler was hired by Oregon State University (OSU) as an Assistant Professor in the History of Science, and General Science. She left OSU in 1972, and went on to teach at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California (1970-1974), and Wake Forest University (1974-1975) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before finding her permanent academic home at the University of Calgary in 1975, where she taught History of Science (1975-2010) and Philosophy (1998-2008).
A prolific author, Osler wrote two books – Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World, and Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe – edited four others, and published over 125 articles, essays, and reviews in prominent journals including The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Isis, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. In addition to her published works, Osler wrote at least as many unpublished papers and essays that she presented at various symposia and conferences. Much of her work focused on the scientific revolution - specifically on religion and its connection to early science, with an emphasis on the work of scientists and philosophers Pierre Gassendi, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.
Osler was active in a number of academic societies, especially the History of Science Society, for which she served as Secretary from 2001 until her death. She also served as President of the Canadian Society of the History and Philosophy of Science from 1987 to 1990, and as editor for the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Margaret Osler died of pancreatic cancer September 15, 2010 at the age of 69, just three months after the publication of her second book, Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding in Early Modern Europe. She was predeceased by both her parents, and her life companion, Dr. Betty Flagler.
History of Science Society.
Indiana University.
University of Calgary.
Swarthmore College.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Farber, Paul Lawrence, 1944-
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
Newton, Isaac,1642-1727.
Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010.
Westfall, Richard S.
Religion and science.
Science--History--17th century.
Science--History.
Science--Philosophy--History.
Women historians of science
Women historians.
Universities and Colleges
Jewish Americans
Women
Photographs
Forty linear feet of assorted archival materials were accessioned from the estate of Margaret Osler by the OSU Libraries Special Collections on November 29, 2010.
One folder of correspondence was accessioned from Paul Farber by the OSU Libraries Special Collections on January 5, 2011.
Four linear feet of photographs and correspondence were accessioned from Francine Michaud, University of Calgary, by the OSU Libraries Special Collections on May 25, 2011.
Preliminary arrangement by Christy Turner and John Ngo. Final arrangement by Chris Petersen. Arrangement revised by Rachel Lilley.
Access to Margaret Osler's diary in Series 1 is restricted until January 1, 2030 due to provisions set by the donor. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist. All other materials in this collection are open for research.
Margaret Osler Papers (MSS Osler), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Materials in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings pertaining to Margaret Osler's career at Oregon State University include Paul Lawrence Farber's interview in the Oregon State Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection (OH 026), and the News and Communication Services Records (RG 203).
Additional collections and materials that document the teaching of History of Science at Oregon State University include the Paul Lawrence Farber Papers (MSS Farber), the Mary Jo Nye Papers (MSS Nye), and the J. Brookes Spencer Papers (MSS SpencerJ).
The papers of Abraham and Sonia Osler - including a summary of Sonia Osler's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1958 - are held by Johns Hopkins Libraries Special Collections.
The Margaret J. Osler Papers are arranged in seven series: Series 1. Biographical Materials, 1942-2010; Series 2. Correspondence, 1948-2010; Series 3. Professional Activities, 1964-2009; Series 4. Subject Files and Research Materials, 1952-2009; Series 5. Pierre Gassendi: Translations and Research, 1957-2007; Series 6. Publications, 1961-2010; and Series 7. Photographs and Negatives, 1942-2002. Materials are organized either chronologically, or alphabetically by subject heading or name, as appropriate.
The Correspondence series, Series 2, is split into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. General, 1968-2010; Sub-series 2. Professional, 1967-2009; and Sub-series 3. Personal, 1948-2003.
Series 3, Professional Activities, is divided into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. Teaching Materials, 1968-2008; Sub-series 2. Lectures, 1964-2007; and Sub-series 3. Conferences, 1989-2009.
Series 5, Pierre Gassendi: Translations and Research, is divided into six sub-series: Sub-series 1. General Subject Files, 1961-2008; Sub-series 2. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Logic and Physics, Books 1 – 3, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 3. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Physics, Books 4 – 7, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 4. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Physics 2 and 3, Ethics, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 5. Volume III and Volume VI Translations, circa 1980-2000; and Sub-series 6. Volume III Translations: Little Syntagma, Exercitationes, Disquisitio, circa 1980-2000.
The Publications series, Series 6, has been further divided into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. Articles, 1970-2007; Sub-series 2. Books, 1960-2010; and Sub-series 3. Manuscripts, 1961-2010.
The Margaret Osler Papers include biographical materials, correspondence, materials documenting her professional activities, publications, subject files and research materials, and photographs. A wide variety of keepsakes, personal documents, and other biographical records are organized into Series 1, Biographical Materials, including Osler’s Master’s and PhD diplomas from Indiana University, elementary school work, and the literary zine of the Forest Park High School’s Scribbler’s Club, The Inklings.
Osler's correspondence, found in Series 2, is arranged into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. General, 1968-2010; Sub-series 2. Professional, 1967-2009; and Sub-series 3. Personal, 1948-2003. Materials in these sub-series include thank you notes and holiday cards; letters of recommendation; correspondence with her publishers, employers, and fellow historians of science; and letters between Margaret and her parents, Abraham and Sonia.
Series 3, Professional Activities, documents Osler's institutional affiliations and professional academic activities and includes institutional records from the universities where Osler worked; lecture notes and syllabi that Osler prepared for her courses; and materials related to the professional conferences Osler attended.
Series 4, Subject Files and Research Materials, contains much of the raw data - typescripts, notes, publications, and a small amount of correspondence - that Osler used in developing her own research and writing. One highlight of the collection is Osler's extensive, though not complete, translation of French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician Pierre Gassendi's Syntagma Philosophicum (Philosophical Treatise), found in Series 5. Series 6 contains manuscripts of articles and speeches written by Margaret Osler, as well as reprints of her published papers, her reviews of the writings of other scholars, and materials related to the books that Osler wrote and edited.
The photographs in Series 7 include images of Osler, her family, friends, colleagues and travels. The extended family photos in this series primarily document Sonia Osler’s extended family, including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Many of the photographs documenting international travel are of Abraham and Sonia Osler; many of the images of domestic trips document the Osler family in places such as Jasper, Wyoming; Troy, Montana; and the John Day Fossil Beds in Oregon.
Series 1
Biographical Materials
1942-2010
A wide variety of keepsakes, personal documents, and other biographical records are organized into Series 1, including Osler’s Master’s and PhD diplomas from Indiana University, elementary school work, and the literary zine of the Forest Park High School’s Scribbler’s Club, The Inklings. Of particular interest in this series are journals and programs of the Downtown Community School, an experimental, cooperative, and racially-integrated school located in the Manhattan borough of New York City, and founded in 1944. Also of note are brochures and Counselor-in-Training “yearbooks,” or manuals, for Camp Woodland, the summer camp Osler attended as a young girl and teenager. Established in 1939 and in operation until 1962, Camp Woodland was located in the Woodland Valley of the Catskill Mountains near Phoenicia, New York. Founded by folklorist and educational reformer Norman Studer and his wife Hannah, Woodland was “interracial and coeducational,” and was founded on the premise that camp can be a place where “city children strike deep roots in country soil.” To that end, campers made frequent field trips into nearby Catskill communities, where they learned folk songs, and listened to local folk tales. The camp’s annual Folk Festival has been credited as an inspiration for the Woodstock Music Festival, and has connections to several well-known folk singers, including Janis Ian and Pete Seeger.
Access to Margaret Osler's diary in Series 1 is restricted until January 1, 2030 due to provisions set by the donor. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist.
1.1
Personal Documents
1942-1980
File includes birth certificate, passports, identification cards and immigration information.
1.2
Camp Woodland; Phoenicia, New York
1957-1958
Brochures, newsletters
1.3
Journal of the Downtown Community School
1947-1949
The Downtown Community School was located in New York City, New York, and was where Osler attended elementary school.
1.4
The Inklings
1958-1959
Publication of Forest Park High School's Scribblers Club.
1.5
Keepsakes
1923-1979
Includes two publications of Abraham Osler with annotations addressed to Margaret; Abraham Osler's doctoral certificate from Columbia; and Margaret Osler's New York teacher registration certificates.
1.6
School Work and Records
1950-1961
Includes grade reports, teacher evaluations, and homework.
1.7
A World Full of Beauty, by Margaret Osler
circa 1956
Typescript. Booklet on art and aesthetics created by Margaret Osler. Includes text and photographs created by Osler.
1.8
Indiana University, Diploma, Master of Arts
1966
1.9
Indiana University, Diploma, Doctor of Philosophy
1968
1.10
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, University of Calgary Chapter, Certificate of Membership
1987
1.11
Materials re: Death of and Memorial Service for Margaret Jo Osler
2010
52.1
Diary of Margaret Jo Osler
undated
Access to Margaret Osler's diary is restricted until January 1, 2030 due to provisions set by the donor. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist.
Series 2
Correspondence
1948-2010
Osler's correspondence is arranged into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. General, 1968-2010; Sub-series 2. Professional, 1967-2009; and Sub-series 3. Personal, 1948-2003. They are generally arranged chronologically within these sub-series. The General Correspondence sub-series includes thank you notes and holiday cards; letters of recommendation and requests for letters of recommendation; correspondence from publishers regarding her own work, or the work of others; and History of Science Society newsletters. The Professional correspondence sub-series documents Osler’s interaction with fellow historians of science, such as Dr. Paul Farber and Dr. Richard Westfall; her employers, including the University of Calgary, Oregon State University, Harvey Mudd College, and Wake Forest University; and with one of her publishers, the Cambridge University Press. Also documented in this sub-series is an offer of employment by the University of California, Berkley, and correspondence regarding Osler’s acceptance of a Visiting Erskine Fellowship in the School of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The personal correspondence sub-series is comprised entirely of letters between Margaret and her parents, Abraham and Sonia. A number of the letters dating between 1951 and 1957 were written by Osler and her parents while she was away at Camp Woodland.
There are several letters of note in the Personal correspondence sub-series. First, is a letter written by Abraham to Osler on September 30, 1960, in which Abraham describes the “anonymous” objections of his and Sonia’s prospective neighbors in Ruxton, Maryland, namely that “we might a) move to Ruxton, b) thereby becoming their neighbors, c) thereby lowering their property value.” A second letter, written by Osler to her parents on April 20, 1970, discusses the anti-war riots happening on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley, including the use of tear gas.
General
1968-2010
2.1
1968-1970
2.2
1971
2.3
1972
2.4
1973
2.5
1974
2.6
1975
2.7
1976
3.1
1977
3.2
1978
3.3
1979
3.4
1980
3.5
1981
3.6
1982
4.1
1983
4.2
1984
4.3
1985
4.4
1986
4.5
1987
4.6
1987
5.1
1988
5.2
1989
5.3
1990
5.4
1991
5.5
1992
5.6
1993
5.7
1994
5.8
1995
6.1
1996
6.2
1997
6.3
1998
6.4
1999
6.5
2000
6.6
2001
6.7
2002
6.8
2003
6.9
2004
6.10
2005
6.11
2006
6.12
2007
6.13
2008-2010
Professional
1967-2009
7.1
Barker, Peter
1992-2004
7.2
Berkeley, University of California at
2001
7.3
Calgary, University of [1 of 3]
1975-2009
Correspondence, institutional records, vitae
7.4
Calgary, University of [2 of 3]
1975-2009
Correspondence, institutional records, vitae
7.5
Calgary, University of [3 of 3]
1975-2009
Correspondence, institutional records, vitae
8.1
Cambridge University Press
1989-1998
8.2
Cambridge University Press
1999-2006
8.3
Canterbury, University of
2007-2008
Correspondence, background materials
8.4
Farber, Paul
1970-2004
9.1
Harvey Mudd College
1969-2002
Correspondence, institutional records, vitae
9.2
Hazen Prize - History of Science Society
1998-1999
9.3
Huntington Library
1985
9.4
Oregon State University
1967-1970
Correspondence, institutional records
9.5
Wake Forest University
1973-1975
Correspondence, institutional records
9.6
Westfall, Richard S.
1969-1996
Personal
1948-2003
9.7
Between Margaret and her parents
1948-1949
10.1
Between Margaret and her parents
1951
10.2
Between Margaret and her parents
1952
10.3
Between Margaret and her parents
1953
10.4
Between Margaret and her parents
1954
10.5
Between Margaret and her parents
1955
10.6
Between Margaret and her parents
1956
10.7
Between Margaret and her parents
1957
10.8
Between Margaret and her parents
1958
10.9
Between Margaret and her parents
1959
10.10
Between Margaret and her parents
1960
10.11
Between Margaret and her parents
1961
11.1
Between Margaret and her parents
1962
11.2
Between Margaret and her parents
1963
11.3
Between Margaret and her parents
1964
11.4
Between Margaret and her parents
1965
11.5
Between Margaret and her parents
1966
11.6
Between Margaret and her parents
1967
11.7
Between Margaret and her parents
1968
11.8
Between Margaret and her parents
1969
11.9
Between Margaret and her parents
1970
12.1
Between Margaret and her parents
1971
12.2
Between Margaret and her parents
1972
12.3
Between Margaret and her parents
1973
12.4
Between Margaret and her parents
1974
12.5
Between Margaret and her parents
1975
12.6
Between Margaret and her parents
1976
12.7
Between Margaret and her parents
1977
12.8
Between Margaret and her parents
1978-1999
12.9
Between Margaret and her parents
1978-2003
12.10
Margaret to her father
1954-1981
12.11
Margaret to her mother
1949-1974
Series 3
Professional Activities
1964-2009
Materials documenting Osler's institutional affiliations and professional academic activities comprise Series 3, which is divided into three sub-series: Sub-series 1. Teaching Materials, 1968-2008; Sub-series 2. Lectures, 1964-2007; and Sub-series 3. Conferences, 1989-2009. Among them are institutional records documenting Osler's tenures at the handful of universities where she worked, including Oregon State University, Harvey Mudd College, and the University of Calgary. The lecture notes and syllabi that Osler prepared for her courses are also included, as are materials related to an array of professional conferences that Osler attended.
Teaching Materials
1968-2008
13.1
General Science 411 - Science in Antiquity. Oregon State University
1968
Syllabus
13.2
General Science 507 - Philosophy of Science. Oregon State University
1969
Syllabus
13.3
Philosophy 471 - Philosophy of Science. Oregon State University
1969
Notes, syllabus, background materials
13.4
General Science 412 - The Scientific Revolution. Oregon State University
1970
Syllabus
13.5
General Science 413 - History of Science. Oregon State University
1970
Syllabus
13.6
Philosophy 470 - Philosophy of Science. Oregon State University
1970
Notes, syllabus
13.7
The Quest for Commonwealth. Harvey Mudd College
1970-1971
Notes, correspondence, syllabus, background materials
13.8
History 105 - History of Science. Harvey Mudd College
1970-1972
Correspondence, syllabus
13.9
Directed Reading - Newton. Harvey Mudd College
1971
Typescript, notes
13.10
History 107 - History of the Occult Sciences. Harvey Mudd College
1971
Notes, correspondence, syllabus, background materials
13.11
History 106 - History of Science. Harvey Mudd College
1971-1973
Syllabus
13.12
History 108 - Topics in the History of Ideas: The Reception of Scientific Ideas. Harvey Mudd College
1972
Notes, syllabus
13.13
Humanities 138 - The 17th Century World. Harvey Mudd College
1972
Notes, correspondence, syllabus, background materials
14.1
The Quest for Commonwealth. Harvey Mudd College
1972-1974
Notes, correspondence, syllabus, background materials
14.2
Classic Experiments in the History of Science. Columbia University
1973-1974
Notes, Correspondence, syllabus
14.3
History 111 - Europe from the Renaissance to 1789. Harvey Mudd College
1974
Notes, correspondence
14.4
History 337 - History of Science. Harvey Mudd College
1974
Notes, correspondence, syllabus
14.5
History 338 - History of Science. Harvey Mudd College
1975
Notes, syllabus
14.6
History 594 - Science and Religion. University of Calgary
1977-1978
Notes, syllabus
14.7
History 594 - Historical Studies in Science and Religion. Harvey Mudd College
1979-1980
Notes, syllabus, background materials
14.8
Courses on the history of science and history of philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2007-2008
Correspondence, syllabus
14.9
General history of science course materials
1971-1981
Notes, syllabus
Lectures
1964-2007
14.10
17th century scientific methods: Bacon and Descartes
undated
Notes
14.11
18th century physics: The Newtonian Legacy
1976
Notes
14.12
Alchemy
1974-2001
Notes, background materials
14.13
Anatomy - Vesalius through Harvey
2001
Notes, visual aids
15.1
Arabic science
undated
Typescript, notes. File includes partial typescript titled Exploring the Properties of Matter: Alchemy and Chemistry, by Margaret Osler. [?]
15.2
Aristotle
undated
Notes, visual aids
15.3
Babylonian mathematics and astronomy
undated
Notes
15.4
Brahe, Tycho
undated
Notes
15.5
Chemistry - 17th century
1979-2005
Notes. File includes typescript review of Antonio Clericuzio's A Redefinition of Boyle's Chemistry and Corpuscular Philosophy, by Margaret Osler. [?]
15.6
Chemistry - 18th century
1973
15.7
Copernicus, Nicolaus
1977-1999
Notes, background materials
15.8
Darwin, Charles
1978-1982
Notes, visual aids, background materials
15.9
Egyptian mathematics and astronomy
undated
Notes
15.10
Embryology
1967
Notes
15.11
"Fortune, Fate and Divination"
1988
Notes, background materials
15.12
Galileo
1975-1992
Notes
15.13
Genetics
1976
Notes
15.14
Greek astronomy
undated
Notes
15.15
Greek medicine
undated
Notes
15.16
Greek science and society
1976
Notes
15.17
Greek science, transmission of
undated
Notes
15.18
Kepler, Johannes
circa 1987
Notes
15.19
Magic, science and religion
1977-1989
Notes, background materials. File includes typescript titled Exploring the Properties of Matter: Alchemy and Chemistry, by Margaret Osler. [?]
15.20
Mechanical Philosophy
1964-1996
Notes
16.1
Mechanics - 17th century
1965-1973
Includes bound set of notes titled "Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Dr. Richard S. Westfall. Fall 1965."
16.2
Medieval culture
1991-1994
Notes
16.3
Medieval physics
1985
Notes
16.4
Newton, Isaac
1982-2007
Notes
16.5
Optics - 17th century
1987
Notes
16.6
Plato
undated
Notes, visual aids
16.7
Pre-history
1967-1981
Notes
16.8
Pre-Socratics
undated
Notes, visual aids
16.9
Renaissance
1976
Notes
16.10
Rise of evolution
1982-1987
Notes, visual aids
16.11
Science and religion
1975-2001
Notes, background materials
16.12
Science in the universities - 17th century
1976
Notes
16.13
Scientific revolution
1975-1978
Notes
16.14
Social aspects of science
1976-1983
Notes
16.15
Women and science
1974-1993
Notes
Conferences
1989-2009
17.1
"Women's Ways of Knowing." Issues and information session, Institute for Gender Research, University of Calgary
1989
Notes, correspondence, background materials
17.2
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Knowledge." University of Calgary
1991
Correspondence, background materials
17.3
"Science and (Homo)Sexualities." Plenary session, meeting of the History of Science Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1994
Correspondence, background materials
17.4
"Libertines and Libertinism in Early Modern Europe: The Origins of Civil and Religious Liberty." International Residential Conference, Royal Holloway College, London
1999
Correspondence, program, background materials. Osler presented a seminar titled "The Limits of Gassendi's Epicureanism."
17.5
"Medicine and Modernism: Reflections on the Recent Scholarship." Health Sciences and Humanities workshop, University of Calgary
2003
Notes, correspondence, itinerary, background materials
17.6
"What is Nature? Historical Perspectives." Meeting of the Apeiron Society for the Practice of Philosophy
2006
Notes
17.7
"Complexity Theory and Explanation Events." University of Calgary
2006
Notes, program
17.8
"How Do Teleological Explanations Work? Historical Perspectives on Final Causes." Humboldt University, Berlin.
2009
Notes, itinerary. Osler presented on the topic "Mechanism, Teleology, and Uses of the Argument from Design in Early Modern Europe."
Series 4
Subject Files and Research Materials
1952-2009
This large series contains much of the raw data - typescripts, notes, publications, and a small amount of correspondence - that Osler used in developing her own research and writing. Covering a wide range of topics, from ancient atomism to witchcraft, this series also includes concentrations on philosopher and chemist Robert Boyle, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton. Of special note in this series are several folders on feminist theory as it relates to science, and feminist critiques of science. The series is organized alphabetically by topic.
17.9
Alchemy
1997-2002
Notes, publications
17.10
Anatomy - 17th century
circa 1990s
Publications
17.11
Anti-evolutionary attitudes
1968-2005
Notes, publications
17.12
Aquinas, Thomas
1962-1975
Notes
17.13
Arabic science
circa 1990s
Notes, typescript
17.14
Arabs - Islamic science
2007
Notes
18.1
Aristotle
1975-1976
Notes, publications
18.2
Armogathe, Jean-Robert (authored by)
2002-2008
Publications
18.3
Astrology
1983
Notes, publications
18.4
Astronomy, history of
1961-1979
Notes, publications. Annotated: "Contains notes from Victor Thorem's History of Astronomy class from the 1960s."
18.5
Atomic bomb
undated
Syllabi
18.6
Atomism - ancient
1985-1996
Publications, bibliography
18.7
Bacon, Francis
1981-1993
Notes, publications
18.8
Barrow, Isaac - Theological Works
undated
Photoduplication
18.9
Bernier, Francois
2000
Publication
18.10
Bible - New Testament
1978-1998
Notes
18.11
Bible - Old Testament
circa 1963
Notes
18.12
Biology, history of
1966-1987
Notes, publications
18.13
Biology, philosophy of reductionism
1976
Notes
18.14
Boyle, Robert - afterlife
undated
Notes
18.15
Boyle, Robert - assorted biographical materials
1995-2002
Publications
18.16
Boyle, Robert - chemistry
1978-1991
Notes, typescripts, publications
18.17
Boyle, Robert - chronological bibliography
1995
Typescript
19.1
Boyle, Robert - collected notes
circa 1970s
An extensive set of collected notes by Margaret Osler arranged into four volumes.
19.2
Boyle, Robert - contemporary perception
2008
Notes
19.3
Boyle, Robert - final causes
undated
Notes
19.4
Boyle, Robert - matter
1979-1996
Notes, publications
19.5
Boyle, Robert - method
1984-1987
Notes, typescripts, publications
19.6
Boyle, Robert - primary sources
circa 1990-2000
Notes
19.7
Boyle, Robert - primary sources
1998-2004
Publications
20.1
Boyle, Robert - materials written by J. R. Jacob
1972-1978
Notes, publications
20.2
Boyle, Robert - materials written by J. J. MacIntosh
1990-2005
Typescripts, publications
20.3
Boyle, Robert - materials written by Jan W. Wojcik
1992
Notes, typescripts. File also includes a copy of Wojcik's Ph. D. thesis Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason: A Study in the Relationship between Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England.
20.4
Boyle, Robert - theology
1986-2001
Notes, typescripts, publications
20.5
Calvin, John
circa 1965
Notes
20.6
Cause, philosophical
1963-1969
Notes, publications
20.7
Charleton, Walter - Epicurus' Morals
1998
Notes, publications
21.1
Charleton, Walter - primary sources
circa 1978
Notes, publications
21.2
Charleton, Walter - secondary sources
1967-1998
Correspondence, publications
21.3
Chemistry, history of
1955-1985
Notes, publications
21.4
China, science in
1969
Notes
21.5
Christianity, history of
undated
Notes
21.6
Condemnation of 1277
1979
Notes, publications
21.7
Copernicus, Nicolaus
1964-1977
Notes, publications
21.8
Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science, by Edward B. Davis, Jr
2002
Typescript, notes
21.9
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
circa 1970
Notes, publications
21.10
Darwin, Charles - evolution and responses to
1953-2003
Notes, publications
21.11
Descartes, René
1970-1986
Notes, typescripts, publications
22.1
Descartes, René
circa 1970s
Notes
22.2
Descartes, René
circa 1990s
Notes, publications
22.3
Descartes, René
circa 1990s
Notes, publications
22.4
Descartes, René
1957-1998
Notes, publications
22.5
Descartes, René
1961-1981
Notes, publications
22.6
Descartes, René
1954-1972
Notes, publications
22.7
Descartes, René
1965-1994
Notes, typescripts, publications
22.8
Descartes, René
1952-1987
Notes, publications
22.9
Descartes, René
1988-2001
Notes, publications
22.10
Descartes, René - matter
1964-2008
Notes, publications
23.1
Descartes, René
1972-2001
Notes, publications
23.2
Descartes, René
1960-2001
Notes, publications
23.3
Descartes, René
1988-2001
Notes, typescripts, publications
23.4
Descartes, René
circa 1980s
Notes
23.5
Descartes, René
1967-1983
Publications
23.6
Descartes, René
1976-1996
Publications
23.7
Descartes, René
2001
Notes
23.8
Descartes, René
1971-1991
Notes, publications
23.9
Diderot, Denis
circa 1967
Notes
23.10
Digby, Kenelm
1970-1988
Notes, publications
24.1
Disciplinary boundaries
1997
Notes
24.2
Earth sciences
1960-1976
Notes, publications
24.3
Ecology
1967-1969
Correspondence, publications. Includes letters from Mark Hatfield, Bob Packwood, and A.V. Tunison regarding Paul Ehrlich's article "Eco-Catastrophe!"
24.4
Embryology
1966-1978
Notes, typescripts
24.5
Enlightenment, the
1974-1985
Notes, typescripts
24.6
Epicureanism
1971-2005
Publications
24.7
Essentialism
1989-1996
Notes, publications
24.8
Eternal verities
2002-2003
Notes, typescripts
24.9
Ethics
circa 1969
Notes
24.10
Evolution
1957-2005
Notes, typescripts, publication
24.11
Final causes - William Harvey
circa 1980s
Notes
24.12
Foucault, Michel
1981-1993
Notes, publications
24.13
Freud, Sigmund
1982-1993
Notes, publications
25.1
Galileo - assorted
1970-1983
Notes, publications
25.2
Galileo and the church
1964-1999
Notes, publications
25.3
Garin, Pierre, Thèses Cartèsiennes et Thèses Thomistes
1931
Photoduplication
25.4
Genetics
1968-1975
Notes, publications
25.5
Greeks - history and culture
circa 1965
Notes, publications
25.6
Greek medicine and biology
1953-1983
Notes, publications
25.7
Greek philosophy
1964-1979
Notes
25.8
Greek science
1962
Notes
25.9
Gilbert, William
1978
Notes
25.10
Harvey, William
1964-1999
Notes, publications
25.11
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
1975
Publication
25.12
Hermetic tradition
1967-1988
Notes, publications
26.1
Historiography
1980
Publication
26.2
History and philosophy of science propaganda
1970
Publications
26.3
History of science
1960-1986
Notes, publications, bibliographies. Annotation reads: "The reading lists here pertained to MJO's years at Indiana."
26.4
Hobbes, Thomas
1962-2003
Notes, publications
26.5
Hooke, Robert
circa 1968
Notes, publications
26.6
Hume, David
1976-1993
Notes, publications
26.7
Huygens, Christiaan
1969-2004
Publications
26.8
Ideology
1981
Notes
26.9
Industrial Revolution
1969-1974
Notes, publications
26.10
Intelligence quotient
1977-1994
Notes, publications
26.11
Jesuits
1968-1986
Publications
26.12
Jung, Carl
1971-1974
Notes
26.13
Kant, Immanuel
undated
Notes
27.1
Kepler, Johannes
1981-1985
Notes, publications
27.2
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
1977
Notes
27.3
Laws of nature
1995
Publication
27.4
Leibniz, Gottfried
1971-1989
Notes, publications
27.5
Libertinism
1996-2002
Notes, publications
27.6
Locke, John - assorted
circa 1960
Notes, publications
27.7
Locke, John - intellectual relations
1984-1994
Notes, publications
27.8
Locke, John and Robert Boyle - real essences
circa 1968
Notes
27.9
Lysenko, Trofim
1977
Notes
27.10
Magic, science and religion
1984-1987
Notes, publications
27.11
Marx, Karl
circa 1983
Notes, publications
27.12
Matter - general
1978-1988
Notes, publications
28.1
Mechanical philosophy
1983-1991
Notes, publications
28.2
Mechanical philosophy - methodological issues
1984-1993
Notes, publications
28.3
Mechanical philosophy - minor figures
circa 1997
Notes, publications
28.4
Medicine, history of
1966-1984
Notes, publications
28.5
Medicine - institutions and the profession
circa 1970s
Notes
28.6
Medieval history
circa 1973
Notes
28.7
Medieval philosophy
1958-1987
Notes, publications
28.8
Medieval physics
circa 1964
Notes
28.9
Mersenne, Marin
1981-1993
Notes, publications
28.10
Metaphor in philosophy
1984
Notes
28.11
Millenarianism
1991
Notes, publications
28.12
Mind-body connection
1990
Publication
29.1
More, Henry
1978-2006
Notes, publications
29.2
Myth
1985
Notes
29.3
Natural philosophy textbooks - 17th century
undated
Notes
29.4
Natural theology
circa 1979
Notes
29.5
Natural theology
1998
Notes
29.6
Nature and the natural
1984-1994
Notes, typescript
29.7
Naturphilosophie
1982
Notes
29.8
Naudé, Gabriel
2004-2005
Publications
29.9
Near East - ancient
circa 1963
Notes
29.10
Newton, Isaac
1963-1996
Notes, typescripts, publications
29.11
Newton, Isaac - materials written by B. J. T. Dobbs
1980-1988
Notes, typescripts, publications
29.12
Newton, Isaac - manuscripts for translation
1966-1971
Notes
29.13
Newton, Isaac - matter and force
1963-1982
Notes, publications
29.14
Newton, Isaac - methodology
1965-1975
Notes, publications
29.15
Newton, Isaac - ontological status of force
circa 1970s
Notes, publications
30.1
Newton, Isaac - physics
1969-1980
Notes, publications
30.2
Newton, Isaac - theology
1966-1994
Notes, typescripts, publications
30.3
Newtonianism - assorted
1973-1986
Notes, publications
30.4
Newtonianism - post-Newtonian theories of matter
1968-1971
Notes, typescripts, publications
30.5
Nominalism
circa 1976
Notes
30.6
Ockham, William
circa 1978
Notes
30.7
Omnipotence and Promise: The Legacy of the Scholastic Distinction of Powers, by Francis Oakley
2002
Typescript
30.8
Pascal, Blaise
1979-2001
Notes, publications
30.9
Paracelsus
circa 1960s
Notes
30.10
Philosophy, history of
Notes, publications
30.11
Philosophy of science
1963-1970
Bibliographies
30.12
Philosophy of science
1964-1984
Notes
30.13
Physics - 17th century
circa 1980s
Notes
30.14
Physics - 17th century
2006
Notes
31.1
Physics - 18th century
circa 1980s
Notes
31.2
Physics, history of
1964-1987
Notes, publications
31.3
Physics of the Eucharist
1992
Notes, typescript
31.4
Physiology
circa 1980s
Notes
31.5
Pintard, Ren
1975-2002
Publications, bibliography
31.6
Plato
circa 1963
Notes
31.7
Platonism
1995
Notes, publications
31.8
Predestination
circa 1988
Notes
31.9
Pre-Socratics
circa 1965
Notes
31.10
Probabilism
1974-1983
Notes, publications
31.11
Psychical research
circa 1970s
Typescripts
31.12
Race, historical
1954-1978
Notes, publications
31.13
Ray, John
circa 1960s
Notes
31.14
Reformation, the
1963-2009
Notes, typescripts
31.15
Relativity
1988
Newspaper Clippings
31.16
Religion - 17th century France
circa 1975
Notes
31.17
Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart
1998-2002
Notes, background materials
32.1
Renaissance
1966-1975
Notes, bibliographies
32.2
Renaissance - philosophy
circa 1983
Notes
32.3
Renaissance - science and technology
circa 1975
Notes
32.4
Renaissance - universities
2001
Publication
32.5
Rochmontrix, Camille de - La Fleche
1889
Photoduplication
32.6
Romans
1984
Notes
32.7
Scepticism
1979-2006
Notes, publications
32.8
Science and literature
circa 1960s
Notes, typescript
32.9
Science and religion
1958-1999
Notes, publications
32.10
Science and religion - 17th century providence and creation
1984-2003
Notes, publications
32.11
Science and society
1973-1977
Notes, publications
32.12
Science and society in the 17th century (Merton, et. al.)
1963-1983
Notes, publications
32.13
Scientific change
1970-1975
Publications
33.1
Scientific change
1976-1982
Notes, publications
33.2
Scientific instruments
1995
Notes
33.3
Scientific method
circa 1967-1970
Notes
33.4
Scientific revolution
1976-1991
Notes, publications
33.5
Scientific societies
1960-1975
Notes, publications
33.6
Scopes trial
1976-1986
Notes, publications
33.7
Scotus, Duns
circa 1970s
Notes
33.8
Scripture and history
1979
Notes, typescripts
33.9
Sex
1992-2005
Notes, publications
33.10
Social Darwinism
1966-1977
Notes, publications
33.11
Social factors - England
1971-1980
Notes, publications
33.12
Social factors - France
1971-1985
Notes, publications
33.13
Social factors - Germany
1971-1984
Notes, publications
34.1
Social factors - Russia
1972-1986
Publications
34.2
Social factors - Scotland
1981
Publication
34.3
Social factors - United States of America
1976-1979
Notes, publications
34.4
Social sciences, history of
1964-1980
Notes, publications
34.5
Sociobiology
1979-1987
Notes, publications
34.6
Sociology of science
1982-1984
Notes, typescript
34.7
Soul, immortality of the
circa 1980s
Notes, publications
34.8
Space - 18th century
circa 1975
Notes, publications
34.9
Stoicism
1983-1984
Notes, publications
34.10
Stoics - ancient
circa 1986
Notes, publications
34.11
Supreme Court cases
circa 1971
Publications
34.12
Sydenham, Thomas
circa 1967
Notes
34.13
Taxonomy
1976-1980
Notes, publications
34.14
Technology
1972-1983
Notes, publications
35.1
Theology
circa 1980s
Notes
35.2
Time and eternity - 17th century
1977-2009
Notes, publications
35.3
Universities - 17th century
1981-1984
Notes, publications
35.4
Universities - medieval
circa 1975
Notes
35.5
Values and science
circa 1970s
Typescripts
35.6
Voluntarism
1990-2002
Notes, typescript
35.7
Whewell, William
circa 1967
Notes
35.8
White, Thomas
1992
Publication
35.9
Witchcraft
1962-1983
Notes, publications
35.10
Women and science
1973-1997
Notes, publications
35.11
Women and science
1977-1987
Notes, publications
35.12
Women and science - feminist critiques of science
1980-1989
Notes, typescripts
35.13
Women and science - feminist theory
1980-1989
Notes, publications
36.1
Women and science - homosexuality
1993-1994
Typescript, bibliography
36.2
Women and science - Shapiro, Barbara
1988-2003
Typescripts, publications, correspondence
36.3
Women in science
1978-1980
Notes, publications
Series 5
Pierre Gassendi: Translations and Research
1957-2007
Series 5 is comprised of Osler’s translations of French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician Pierre Gassendi’s work, Syntagma Philosophicum (or, Philosophical Treatise), a project she worked on for over 30 years, primarily in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. The majority of the materials in this series are typescripts of the translations Osler made; the project was never completed, and none of her translations were published.
The materials in this series were originally housed in binders, which were discarded due to preservation concerns; the binder titles / groupings were retained as sub-series: Sub-series 1. General Subject Files, 1961-2008; Sub-series 2. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Logic and Physics, Books 1 – 3, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 3. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Physics, Books 4 – 7, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 4. Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Physics 2 and 3, Ethics, circa 1980-2000; Sub-series 5. Volume III and Volume VI Translations, circa 1980-2000; and Sub-series 6. Volume III Translations: Little Syntagma, Exercitationes, Disquisitio, circa 1980-2000.
General Subject Files
1961-2008
36.4
Church, the
1991-2008
36.5
Correspondence
circa 1980s
Notes, Publication
36.6
Correspondence regarding Gassendi translations
1989-1995
In Box 41 - Move to Box 36 and consolidate
36.7
Descartes
1978-1980
Notes, Publications
36.8
Ethics
1989-1995
Publications
36.9
Fludd, Robert
1964-1982
Notes, Publications
36.10
Gventsadze, Veronica (materials written by)
2002
Notes, Typescripts
36.11
Hobbes, Thomas
2000-2001
Publications
36.12
Immortality of the soul
1961-1991
Notes, Publications
36.13
Intellectual relations
1990-2005
Publications
36.14
Knowledge
1980-1994
Publications, Typescript
36.15
Matter
1986-1991
Notes, Typescripts, Publications
37.1
Matter
2000-2007
Notes, Typescripts, Publications
37.2
Method
1970-1983
Notes, Publication
37.3
Primary sources
circa 1980s
Notes, Publications
37.4
Religion and theology
1967-1992
Notes, Typescripts, Publications
37.5
Sarasohn, Lisa (materials written by)
1979-1987
Notes, Typescripts, Publications
37.6
Scepticism
2000
Notes, Publications
37.7
Secondary sources
1978-1999
Notes, Publications
Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Logic and Physics, Books 1-3
circa 1980-2000
37.8
"What Philosophy Is"
Vol. 1, Introduction, Chapter 1
37.9
"On the End of Philosophy"
Vol. 1, Introduction, Chapter 2
37.10
"The Division of Philosophy"
Vol. 1, Introduction, Chapter 9
37.11
"How Logic is Named, Defined, and Divided"
Vol. 1, Proemial Chapter
37.12
"The Origin and Invention of Logic"
Vol. 1, Chapter 1
37.13
"The Logic of Epicurus"
Vol. 1, Chapter 7
37.14
"The Logic of Bacon"
Vol. 1, Chapter 10
37.15
"The Logic of Descartes"
Vol. 1, Chapter 11
37.16
"Logical Principles - in 4 Parts"
Preface, Vol. 1, Logic
37.17
"Principles of Logic, First Part: Of Simple Things of the Imagination"
Vol. 1, Logic
38.1
"Prooemium"
Vol. 1, Physics
38.2
"Preface"
Vol. 1, Physics
38.3
"On the Universe and World, Which It Embraces, or On the Nature of Things. What Various Philosophers Understand by the Universe"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 1
38.4
"On Place and Time, the Space and Duration of Things"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2
38.5
"That Empty Space is Given and First that Which They Call Separate or Extra-Mundane"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 2
38.6
"That the Disseminated Void or Void Spaces Interspersed in the Bodies of the World are Given"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 3
38.7
"That There is Given in the World a Larger or Coacervatum Void"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 4
38.8
"On the Recent Experiments on the Large or Coacervatum Void, by the Work of Mercury"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 5
38.9
"That Place is Nothing Other then Space Here Described"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 6
38.10
"What Time is and How it is Distinguished from Eternity"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 2, Chapter 7
38.11
"Index"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3
38.12
"That there is, and by Necessity, a Material Principle, and that there is Necessarily a First Matter"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 1
38.13
"According to the Established Opinions, from the Beginning Matter has been Provided with Elementary Qualities, which are Called Primary"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 2
38.14
"According to the Established Opinions, Matter is Affected by Certain Qualities which are Called Secondary"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 3
38.15
"According to the Established Opinions that Matter...[Greek] is Devoid of All Qualities (Except Figure, According to Some)"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 4
38.16
"According to the Established Opinion Matter Consists Only of Atoms or Corpuscles which are Endowed with Magnitude, Figure and Weight"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 5
38.17
"Of the Properties of these Atoms, Particularly Magnitude and Figure"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 6
38.18
"On Weight and that it is the Cause of the Motion of Atoms"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 3, Chapter 7
Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Logic and Physics, Books 4-7
circa 1980-2000
38.19
"Index"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4
38.20
"On the Nature of the Universe. On the Efficient Principle or Causes of Things. Of What Kind they are, which Causes are Looked for by Physics"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 1
38.21
"That Among Causes, One is Given First of All; or which is the Same that God Is"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 2
38.22
"In Order that the Form is Perceived by which we Know God"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 3
38.23
"What Kind of Perfections which we Understand to be God"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 4
38.24
"That God is the Author or Productive Cause of the World"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 5
38.25
"That God is Ruler or Governing Cause of the World"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 6
39.1
"That God Rules with Special Care for Human Kind"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 7
39.2
"On the Efficient Principle, or the Causes of Things"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 4, Chapter 8 [non-Osler publication]
39.3
"Index"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 5
39.4
"On the Motion and Change of Things. What Motion Is; and Whether it is Given"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 1
39.5
Headings for untranslated chapters
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 5, Chapters 2-5. Chapter headings are as follows: On Natural and Violent Motion; On the Acceleration of Motion in Falling Things, and on the Proportion by which they Accelerate; On the Motion of Projected Things; On Reflex Motion and on the Vibrations of Pendula.
39.6
"Whether and by what Motion Differs from Change and to what Extent they are the Same as Action and Passion"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 6
39.7
"On Movement and Change"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 7 [non-Osler publication]
39.8
"Index"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6
39.9
"On the Qualities of Things. What Qualities are, and what Kinds of Things they are Contained In"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 1
39.10
"Of Rarity, Density, Transparency and Opacity"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 2
39.11
"Of Size, Shape, Subtility [sic], Dullness, Smoothness, and Roughness"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 3
39.12
"On Motive Force, Faculty, and Disposition"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 4
39.13
"On Heaviness and Lightness"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 5
39.14
"Of Heat and Cold"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 6
39.15
"On Taste and Smell"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 9
39.16
"On Light"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 11
39.17
"On Color"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 12
39.18
"On Images or Likenesses which are Called Visible and Intentional Species"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 13
39.19
"On the Qualities which are Called Occult"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 6, Chapter 14
39.20
"On the Origin and Death or Generation and Corruption of Things. To the Extent that they are who Distinguish the Origin and Death or Generation and Corruption from Alteration"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 1, Book 7, Chapter 1
Translation of Syntagma Philosophicum, in Opera Omnia, Physics 2 and 3, Ethics
circa 1980-2000
39.21
"On the Effects of the Stars. What Effects the Stars Produce in these Lower Regions and by what Means"
Vol. 1, Physics, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 1
39.22
"On the Use of Parts in Animals"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 2, Chapter 3
39.23
"On the Soul. What the Soul is and Whether it is Incorporeal?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 3, Chapter 1
39.24
"Who Makes the Soul Corporeal?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 3, Chapter 2
39.25
"What is the Soul of Brutes?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 3, Chapter 3
39.26
"What is the Human Soul?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 3, Chapter 4
39.27
"On Inanimate Earthy Things. On Stones and Metals. On Metals and their Transmutation."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 3, Chapter 6
39.28
"Appendix II. Gassendi on Generation."
In Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology, by Howard B. Adelmann. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press.
39.29
"On the Generation of Animals. On Animals Born Spontaneously."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3B, Book 4, Chapter 1
39.30
"On Sensation in General. On the Organs of Sense."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 6, Chapter 1
39.31
"Of the Mode of Perceiving and Sensibles [sic]"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 6, Chapter 2
39.32
"On the Special Senses. On Touch and Touching."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 7, Chapter 1
39.33
"On Sight and Vision"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 6, Chapter 5
39.34
"On the Phantasy, or the Imagination. What is the Phantasy and How Many are There?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 8, Chapter 1
39.35
"Whether the Common Sense is Something Distinct from the Phantasy"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 8, Chapter 2
40.1
"On the Intellect, or the Mind. That the Rational Soul is an Incorporeal Substance Created by God and Infused in the Body, like and Informing Form."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 9, Chapter 2
40.2
"On the Immortality of Souls. Who Admitted the Immortality of Souls and Who Denied It?"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3B, Book 14, Chapter 1
40.3
"That the Human Soul is Immortal. From Faith, From Physics and From Morals."
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3, Book 14, Chapter 2
40.4
"Epicurus' Objections to the Immortality of Souls, Refuted"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3B, Book 14, Chapter 3
40.5
"On the State of the Rational Soul after Death, where and about Resurrection"
Vol. 2, Physics, Section 3B, Book 14, Chapter 4 [includes notes]
40.6
"Index"
Part III, Ethics [includes notes]
40.7
"Part III, which is Ethics"
Preface [typescript]
40.8
"On Liberty, Fortune, Fate, and Divination. What is Liberty or Free Will?"
Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1. Annotated "Based on translation by Lisa Sarasohn."
40.9
"What are Fortune and Fate?"
Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 2
40.10
"How Fate Can be Reconciled with Fortune and Liberty"
Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 3
40.11
"What is the Meaning of Divination, or the Foreknowledge of Future and Merely Fortuitous Things?"
Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 4
Volume III and Volume IV Translations
circa 1980-2000
40.12
To the Reverend and Learned Father F. Marin Mersenne of the Minim Order, in "Consideration of the Philosophy of Fludd."
Preface to Against Fludd in Opera Omnia, Vol. 3 [typescript]
40.13
On the Book of Edward Herbert of England, On Truth.
Segment of On the Book of Herbert of Cherbury in Opera Omnia, Vol. 3
40.14
Translation of Three Letters Concerning the Motion Imparted by a Moving Body.
Publication unknown.
41.1
Inaugural Oration Held in the Parisian Royal College in the Year 1645, on the Day November 23.
Opera Omnia, Vol. 4
41.2
Assorted letters
Opera Omnia, Vol. 6
41.3
Assorted letters
Gassendi to N. C. F. de Peiresc
41.4
Assorted letters
Gassendi to Marin Mersenne
41.5
Untranslated copy of Septo Cordis Pervio, ["Pores of the Septum"]
41.6
The life of N. C. F. de Peiresc
Includes notes and translations of letters from Gassendi to Peiresc.
41.7
Pierre Gassendi, The Vanity of Judiciary Astrology. Or Divination by the Stars.
41.8
The history of astronomy
Notes
41.9
Abrege de la philosophie de Gassendi en VIII Tomes, by Francois Bernier
Notes
Volume III Translations: Little Syntagma, Exercitationes, Disquisitos
circa 1980-2000
41.10
"Praefatio"
From Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma, Opera Omnia, Volume 3 [includes notes]
41.11
"Canon of Another Criterion Innate Ideas or Anticipation"
From Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma, Opera Omnia, Volume 3
41.12
"Second Part of Philosophy, which is Physics or about Nature"
From Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma, Opera Omnia, Volume 3
41.13
"Dissertationes en Forme de Paradoxes contres les Aristoteliciens (Exercitationes Paradoxicae Adversus Aristoteleos)"
Opera Omnia, Volume 3. Translated by Bernard Rochot.
41.14
"Disquisitio Metaphysica: Se Dubitationes et Instantiae Adversus Renati Cartesii Metaphysicam et Responsa"
Opera Omnia, Volume 3. Translated by Bernard Rochot.
Series 6
Publications
1961-2010
1961-2010
Series 6 contains manuscripts of articles and speeches written by Margaret Osler, as well as reprints of her published papers and her reviews of the writings of other scholars. The series also includes materials related to the books that Osler wrote and edited, including correspondence and published reviews. An advance copy of her final book, Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding in Early Modern Europe, is included in this series. Also of note in this series are bound copies of Osler’s Master’s thesis, Pierre Gassendi: A Study of the Philosophical Foundations of the New Science, and her PhD dissertation, John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton, both from Indiana University.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically, and have been subdivided into the following sub-series: Sub-series 1. Articles, 1970-2007; Sub-series 2. Books, 1960-2010; and Sub-series 3. Manuscripts, 1961-2010.
Articles
1970-2007
41.15
"John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge." Journal of the History of Ideas, 31, 1: 3-16.
1970
41.16
Review of The Methodological Heritage of Newton, Robert E. Butts and John W. Davis, editors. Science, 170, 3954:153.
1970
41.17
Review of Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding. A Selective Commentary on the 'Essay', John W. Yolton, editor. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
circa 1970
41.18
Review of John Pecham and the Science of Optics, David C. Lindberg, editor. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 9, 4: 510.
1971
41.19
Review of Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot: Philosophers of Science, by Lilo K. Luxembourg. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 2, 1: 91-95.
1971
41.20
Review of "Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry," by Arnold Thackray. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 10, 1: 95-96.
1972
41.21
Review of Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 10, 4: 479-480.
1972
41.22
"Galileo, Motion, and Essences." Isis, 64, 4: 504-509.
1973
42.1
Review of De Igne: A Post-Aristotelian View of the Nature of Fire, Victor Coutant, editor. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 12, 2: 256.
1974
42.2
"Physical Sciences, History of." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition.
1974
42.3
"Descartes and Charleton on Nature and God." Journal of the History of Ideas, 40: 445-456.
1979
42.4
"Certainty, Scepticism, and Scientific Optimism: The Roots of Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Scientific Knowledge." In Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Paula R. Backscheider, editor. New York: AMS Press.
1979
42.5
"Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science." In Science, Pseudo-science and Society, Marsha P. Hanen, Margaret J. Osler, Robert G. Weyant, editors. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
1980
42.6
Review of The Impact of Modern Scientific Ideas on Society: In Commemoration of Einstein, Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin and J. G. Richardson, editors. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 33: 171-172.
1983
42.7
"Providence and Divine Will in Gassendi's Views on Scientific Knowledge." Journal of the History of Ideas, 44, 4: 549-560.
1983
42.8
Review of Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes, translated by Valentine Rodger Miller and Reese P. Miller. Isis, 75, 2: 418-419.
1984
42.9
"Eternal Truths and the Laws of Nature: The Theological Foundations of Descartes' Philosophy of Nature." Journal of the History of Ideas, 46: 349-362.
1985
42.10
"Baptizing Epicurean atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the immortality of the soul." In Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall, Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber, editors. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1985
42.11
Review of John Locke and Medicine by Patrick Romanell. Isis, 76, 3: 446-447.
1985
42.12
Review of Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age - A Commentary on Bacon's Advancement of Learning, by Jerry Weinberger. Isis, 77, 3: 544.
1986
42.13
Review of Ideas, Qualities, and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World, by Peter Alexander. Isis, 77, 4: 715.
1986
42.14
Review of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 by Frank E. Sysyn. Publication unknown.
circa 1986
42.15
Review of The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, Kathleen Okruhlik and James Robert Brown, editors. Isis, 78, 2: 304-305.
1987
42.16
Review of Causa e spiegazione: La fisica de Pierre Gassendi by Marco Messeri. Isis, 78, 1: 131.
1987
42.17
Review of Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society by Michael Hunter. Publication unknown.
circa 1989
42.18
"John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge." In Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, John W. Yolton, editor. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press.
1990
42.19
Review of Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom by Gary B. Herbert. Isis, 81, 4: 773-774.
1990
42.20
Review of Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice, by Nancy G. Siraisi. Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
1991
42.21
"Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism." In Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, Margaret J. Osler, editor. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1991
42.22
"Introduction." In Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, Margaret J. Osler, editor. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Margaret J. Osler and Letizia A. Panizza].
1991
42.23
Review of Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools, by Peter Dear. History of Universities, 11: 269-270.
1991
42.24
Review of The Epicurean Tradition, by Howard Jones. Isis, 82, 4: 706.
1991
42.25
Review of Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy by Gabriel Moked. Isis, 82, 1: 143-144.
1991
42.26
Review of Laws and Symmetry by Bas C. Van Fraassen. Publication unknown.
circa 1991
42.27
"Descartes, Natural Philosopher." Essay review in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 23, 3: 509-518.
1992
42.28
"The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature: Gassendi's voluntarism and Boyle's physico-theological project." In Philosophy, science and religion in England, 1640-1700, Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin, editors. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1992
42.29
"Ancients, Moderns, and the History of Philosophy: Gassendi's Epicurean Project." In The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz, Tom Sorrell, editor. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
1993
42.30
Review of Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, by Erica Harth. Isis, 84, 3: 582-583.
1993
42.31
"The Year of Gassendi." Essay review in Annals of Science, 51: 281-285.
1994
42.32
Review of Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by William Eamon. American Scientist, 83: 199.
1995
42.33
Review of Geometria e atomismo nella scuola galileiana, Massimo Bucciantini and Maurizio Torrini, editors. Isis, 86, 1: 111.
1995
42.34
Review of Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James, editors. Isis, 86, 2: 323.
1995
42.35
"Divine Will and Mathematical Truth: Gassendi and Descartes on the Status of the Eternal Truths." In Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections and Replies, Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene, editors. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
1995
42.36
"Volonte divine et verite mathematique: le conflit entre Descartes et Gassendi sur le statut des verite eternelles." In Gassendi et l'Europe, Sylvia Murr, editor. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin.
1995
42.37
Review of Robert Boyle Reconsidered, Michael Hunter, editor. The Scriblerian, 27: 229-230.
1995
42.38
Review of Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, Victor Coelho, editor. Recensioni, 32: 165-166.
1995
42.39
Review of The Battle of Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715, by Thomas M. Lennon. Journal of Modern History, 67, 4: 904-906.
1995
42.40
Review of A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, by Steven Shapin. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27, 1: 121-122.
1996
42.41
Review of Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, by Michael Hunter. Albion, 28, 3: 489-490.
1996
42.42
Review of Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, by Peter Dear. Early Science and Medicine, 2: 103-105.
1997
42.43
"Richard S. Westfall, 22 April 1924 - 21 August 1996." Isis, 88, 1: 178-181.
1997
42.44
Review of The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change, by J. A. van Ruler. British Journal for the History of Science, 30: 233-234.
1997
42.45
Review of The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution by Michael Hunter. Recensioni, 34: 375.
1997
42.46
"Medieval Natural Philosophy in Context." Essay Review of Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy, by Roger French and Andrew Cunningham. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29, 2: 305-311.
1998
42.47
Review of Hume on Miracles and Hume on Natural Religion, Stanley Tweyman, editor. Studies in Religion, 27, 1: 87-88.
1998
42.48
"Robert Boyle Recovered." Essay Review of The Works of Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter and Edward. Davis, editors. Isis, 92, 2.
2001
42.49
"The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Plea for Textual History in Context." Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40, 4: 529-533.
2002
42.50
"New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Physics." Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 26: 167-184.
2002
42.51
"Scienza e teologia." In Storia della scienza, Sandro Petruccioli, editor. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
2004
42.52
"Charleton, Walter" [and] "Gassendi, Pierre." In Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Jonathan Dewald, editor. San Francisco: Charles Scribner's Sons.
2004
42.53
"Mechanical Philosophy." In New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, editor. San Francisco: Charles Scribner's Sons.
2005
42.54
"Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception." In A Companion to Descartes, Janet Broughton and John Carriero, editors. Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell.
2007
Books
1960-2010
42.55
Pierre Gassendi: A Study of the Philosophical Foundations of the New Science
1966
Master's thesis, Indiana University.
43.1
John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton
1968
Ph. D. dissertation, Indiana University.
43.2
Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
1978-2002
Correspondence, notes, referee's reports, published reviews
43.3
Science, Pseudo-science and Society, Marsha P. Hanen, Margaret J. Osler and Robert G. Weyant, editors.
1981-1983
43.4
Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber, editors.
1986-2002
Published reviews
43.5
Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, Margaret J. Osler, editor.
1990-1995
Correspondence, Published reviews
43.6
Proposed book on final causes by Margaret Osler
1995-1999
Notes, Outline
43.7
Proposed history of science textbook edited by Margaret Osler and Lawrence Principe
1997
Notes
43.8
Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions, John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler and Jitse M. van der Meer, editors.
1998-2009
Correspondence, notes, referee's reviews, published reviews
44.1
Proposed book titled The Late, Great Scientific Revolution, by Andrew Cunningham and Margaret Osler
2000-2001
Notes, outline, grant proposals
44.2
Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding in Early Modern Europe
2001-2008
Correspondence, notes, background material
44.3
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, Margaret J. Osler, editor.
2002-2006
Published reviews
44.4
Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding in Early Modern Europe
2010
The Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore, Maryland. Advance copy.
Manuscripts
1961-2010
44.5
On Strawson's Criticism of Russell's Theory of Descriptions
1961-1962
Typescript, notes, background material. Essay written for Philosophy 108 class, Swarthmore College. Folder also contains Osler's class notes for Philosophy 108, "Symbolic Logic" and Philosophy 52, "Social Philosophy."
44.6
Reason and the Acquisition of Knowledge in Montaigne, Erasmus, and Machiavelli
1966-1967
Typescript, notes, background material
44.7
On the Impossibility of Synthetic A Priori Knowledge
1970
Typescript, notes, background material
44.8
Newton, Force, and the Mechanical Philosophy
1970-1974
Typescript, notes, correspondence
44.9
"From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy."
1972-1999
Typescript, notes, correspondence, referee's reviews, background material. Published in The Monist, Vol.79 (3), pp.388-407.
44.10
The Twilight of Probability and the Staving Off of Ignorance: Background to a Discussion of Probability in 17th- and 18th-century Thought
1974
Transcript. Presentation delivered to the Eighteenth-Century Seminar, Modern Language Association, New York.
45.1
Robert Boyle (1627-1692) and Chemistry in the 17th Century
1975
Transcript. Presentation delivered to Wake Forest University Chemistry Department, 1975. Later presented to the University of Calgary chemistry department, January 22, 1976.
45.2
What's Wrong with Operational Definitions?
1977
Typescript, notes, correspondence. Presentation delivered to the Psychology Department, University of Calgary.
45.3
The Realism of Copernican Astronomy
1977
Typescript. Lecture delivered at the Festival of Polish Culture, University of Calgary.
45.4
Women in Science: A Reply to Thelma McCormack
1977
Typescript, correspondence, background materials
45.5
Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science
circa 1978
Typescript fragments, notes, publications
45.6
Gassendi, Descartes, and the Theological Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy
1978-1986
Typescript, notes, correspondence. Ultimately published as Eternal Truths and the Laws of Nature: The Theological Foundations of Descartes' Philosophy of Nature.
45.7
Descartes and Charleton on Nature, God, and the Mechanical Philosophy
1979-1980
Typescript, notes, correspondence
45.8
Providence, Divine Will, and Gassendi's Views on Scientific Knowledge
1981-1983
Outline, notes, correspondence
45.9
Baptizing Epicurean Atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the Immortality of the Soul
circa 1984
Typescript, notes, correspondence
45.10
Matter, Motion, and Force: Newton and the Mechanical Philosophy. A Discussion of Issues Raised in the Scholarly Literature
1987
Typescript. Presented at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
45.11
Essay Review of Gassendi the Atomist: Advocate of History in an Age of Science, by Lynn Sumida Joy
1987-1988
Typescript
45.12
Providence and the Epistemological Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy
circa 1988
Typescript, notes, correspondence
45.13
Essentialism, Empiricism, and Science
1991
Typescript. Lecture delivered at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Gender, University of Calgary.
45.14
The Intellectual Sources of Robert Boyle's Philosophy of Science
circa 1992
Typescript
45.15
Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
circa 1994
Typescript. For publication in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
45.16
Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Historiographical Reconsiderations
1995
Typescript. Paper developed for conference "Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science," Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel.
45.17
Whose Ends? Teleology in the Scientific Revolution
1995
Typescript, correspondence, background materials
46.1
The Gender of Nature and the Nature of Gender in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
1996-2004
Typescript, notes, correspondence, background material
46.2
A Previously Unpublished Newton Manuscript, by Margaret Osler, Lawrence Principe and Jan Wojcik
1997
Typescript, notes, correspondence
46.3
The Canonical Imperative: Re-thinking The Scientific Revolution
1998-2001
Typescript, notes, correspondence
46.4
Scienza e teologia
1999-2003
Notes, correspondence, referee's report
46.5
New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Physics
2002
Typescript, notes, correspondence. Prepared for a department seminar at Cambridge University.
46.6
The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Plea for Textual History in Context
2002
Correspondence, referee's reviews
46.7
Charleton, Walter and Gassendi, Pierre
2002
Correspondence, background material. Prepared for the Dictionary of Early Modern Europe.
46.8
When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine?
2003
Typescript, notes, correspondence, background material. Prepared for a meeting of the History of Science Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
46.9
Becoming an Outsider: Gassendi in the History of Philosophy
2003
Typescript, notes, background material
46.10
New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Physics; Baptizing Epicurean Philosophy: Gassendi on Divine Will and the Philosophy of Nature; and When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine?
2004
Typescripts, notes, correspondence, background materials. Seminar talks prepared for presentation at Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
47.1
Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception
2004-2007
Typescripts, notes, correspondence, background materials
47.2
Gassendi on Resurrection and Atomism: The Limits of Reason and the Boundaries of Mechanization
2005
Typescript, correspondence, program, background material. Prepared for presentation at "Pierre Gassendi et la Modernite." Societe Pierre Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, France. File includes French translation of Osler's manuscript.
47.3
Mechanical Philosophy
2005
Typescript, background material
47.4
Reading Gassendi: Sceptics, Libertines, and Historians of Philosophy
2006
Typescript. Popkin Memorial [?], Chicago, Illinois.
47.5
A Hero for their Times: Early Biographies of Newton
2006
Typescript, preprint, notes, correspondence. Paper written for publication in Notes and Records of the Royal Society.
47.6
What Ever Happened to the Scientific Revolution?
circa 2006
Typescript, notes. In Review of Early Modern Science; the Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3. Katherine Park and Lorraine Daston, editors. For publication in American Historical Review.
47.7
The Other Side of Isaac Newton: The Religiosity of Seventeenth-Century Scientific Thinkers
2007
Typescript, notes, correspondence, program. Prepared for presentation at "The Pedagogy of Belief and Doubt;" faculty seminar, University of Richmond, Virginia.
47.8
Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution
2007
Typescript, notes, correspondence, program, background material. Prepared for presentation at "Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. An International and Interdisciplinary Conference in Honour of Professor John Hedley Brooke." Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancashire, England.
47.9
Gassendi against the Stoics: Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will
2007
Typescripts, notes, correspondence, program, background material. Prepared for presentation at "Emory University Workshop on Stoicism and the Self," Atlanta, Georgia.
47.10
The Scientific Revolution Liberated Science from Religion
2007
Publication agreement, background material. For publication in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, Ronald Numbers, editors.
47.11
Gassendi and Newton on Time and Eternity and The Book of God's Work and the Book of God's Word
2009
Typescripts, notes, correspondence, background materials. Seminar talks prepared for presentation at Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
47.12
The Search for the Historical Gassendi
2010
Typescript, notes, background materials.
47.13
Rethinking the Universe: Newton on Gravity and God
circa 2010
Transcript. Chapter prepared for inclusion in Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding in Early Modern Europe.
Series 7
Photographs and Negatives
1912-2007
Series 7 is comprised of 1036 photographs and 814 negatives of Osler, her family, friends, colleagues and travels, both foreign and domestic. The extended family photos in this series primarily document Sonia Osler’s extended family, including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. An image of the main square of Pruchnik, Poland, Sonia Osler’s birthplace, is included. An image of Abraham’s mother, Fanny Osofsky (Osler), is also included.
Many of the photographs documenting international travel are of Abraham and Sonia Osler on trips in Sardinia in 1960, and Poland in 1961; Macchu Picchu in 1971; with the staff of the Bacteriology and Immunology Department at the University of Campinas in Sao Paolo, Brazil in the 1970s; Tokyo and Nara, Japan (1971); and Tibet (1997). The Osler family appear to have spent a number of vacations camping and / or hiking, and many of their domestic trips document trips to destinations such as Jasper, Wyoming and Troy, Montana; and Joseph Canyon and the John Day Fossil Beds in Oregon. Several of these trips include Margaret’s life companion Betty Flagler and her family.
Subjects in this series also include: Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; images of OSU History Professor Dr. Lisa Sarasohn; Claremont, California; and Osler’s childhood pet, Cleo (in box-folders 48.9 and 50.6).
Of note in this series are images documeting Sonia Osler's work with the New York City Housing Authority in the 1940s (Box-folder 48.09). Included are images of Sonia Osler with Housing Authority colleagues Sara Dolgin, Rose Miller, and Blanche Adlerskim (?) in 1940. Also included are three images documenting a visit then-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer made to the Jacob Riis Housing Project in 1949. Located in New York City's East Village and completed in 1949, the project consists of 19 buildings containing a total of just under 1200 units. The project was named for photographer Jacob Riis, whose photographs revealed the sub-standard living conditions of tenement dwellers in New York City. These three images were taken by Housing Authority photographer L. Marinoff
48.1
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1942-1945
48.2
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1946-1950
48.3
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1951-1955
48.4
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1956-1961
48.5
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1963-1979
48.6
Photographs: Margaret Osler
1981-2004
48.7
Photographs: Margaret Osler
circa 1946-2004
48.8
Photographs: Abraham Osler
1920-1982
48.9
Photographs: Sonia Osler
1922-1975
48.10
Photographs: Abraham and Sonia Osler
1937-1990
49.1
Photographs: Extended Osler family
1912-1986
49.2
Photographs: Betty Flagler
1970-1990
49.3
Photographs: Travel
1960-1983
49.4
Photographs: Travel
1986-2007
49.5
Photographs: Travel
circa 1990-2000
49.6
Photographs: Colleagues and Friends
1954-1972
49.7
Photographs: Colleagues and Friends
1973-2002
49.8
Photographs: Colleagues and Friends
circa 1965-1985
49.9
Negatives: Scout Troop 89 / Camp Whippoorwill
1954-1957
Camp Whippoorwill is a camp that may be located near Madison, Indiana.
49.10
Negatives: Biology Club [Forest Park High School]
1957
50.1
Negatives: Camp Woodland
1957-1958
Camp Woodland is an overnight youth camp located near Phoenicia, New York.
50.2
Negatives: Swarthmore College
1962-1963
50.3
Negatives: Cambridge, Massachusetts
1962-1966
50.4
Negatives: Bloomington, Indiana
1963-1968
50.5
Negatives: Paris
1965-1968
50.6
Negatives: Animals and Pets
circa 1950-1970
50.7
Negatives: Family and Friends
circa 1950-1971
50.8
Negatives: Travel
circa 1970-1990
Negatives in this folder consist primarily of images depicting camping and hiking and were likely taken in Jasper, Wyoming and / or British Columbia. Many match images in Box 49 (folders 3-5).
50.9
Negatives: Landscapes
undated
50.10
Negatives: Miscellaneous
1957-1966
51.1
Oversize photographs: Margaret Osler
circa 1945-1946
Two matted, black and white, 8x10 inch prints of Margaret Osler as a young girl.
51.2
Oversize photographs: Various
1973
One image is a mounted, black and white, 9x6 inch print of Betty Flagler standing next to a stream or creek in Icehouse Canyon in California. The other is a 9x7 inch color print of insect damage on wood.