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Pt. I. Emergence Of Authorship. Foucault's Chiasmus: Authorship Between Science And Literature In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries / Roger Chartier; Butter For Parsnips: Authorship, Audience, And The Incomprehensibility Of The Principia / Rob Iliffe; The Ambivalence Of Authorship In Early Modern Natural Philosophy / Adrian Johns; The Uses Of Anonymity In The Age Of Reason / Mary Terrall; Can Artisans Be Scientific Authors?: The Unique Case Of Fraunhofer's Artisanal Optics And The German Republic Of Letters / Myles W. Jackson; A Very Hard Nut To Crack, Or, Making Sense Of Maxwell's Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism In Mid-victorian Cambridge / Andrew Warwick -- Pt. Ii. Limits Of Authorship. Emergent Relations / Marilyn Strathern; Beyond Authorship: Refiguring Rights In Traditional Culture And Bioknowledge / Peter Jaszi And Martha Woodmansee; Uncommon Controversies: Legal Mediations Of Gift And Market Models Of Authorship / Corynne Mcsherry -- Pt. Iii. The Fragmentation Of Authorship. Rights Or Rewards?: Changing Frameworks Of Scientific Authorship / Mario Biagioli; The Death Of The Authors Of Death: Prestige And Creativity Among Nuclear Weapons Scientists / Hugh Gusterson; Discourses Of Circumstance: A Note On The Author In Science / Hans-jörg Rheinberger; The Collective Author / Peter Galison -- Pt. Iv. Commentaries. End Credits / Tom Conley; What Is Not A Scientific Author? / Mark Rose Edited By Mario Biagioli & Peter Galison Includes Bibliographical References And Index Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.