- Susan Faye Cannon
Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon (1925,
Durham, North Carolina – 1981) was an American historian of science.The son of James Cannon III (1892-1960), Dean of
Duke University Divinity School, Walter F. Cannon gained a degree in physics atPrinceton University . [Morrell (1983)] . Turning tohistory of science , his PhD (Harvard University , 1956) was titled 'On uniformity and progression in early Victorian cosmography'. In the early 1960s he wrote influential articles on uniformitarian geology, the 'Cambridge network',William Whewell 's tidology,John Herschel , the relation ofCharles Darwin toWilliam Paley , liberalAnglicanism , and the general place of science in nineteenth-century culture. From 1962 to 1979 Cannon was curator of classical physics and geosciences at theSmithsonian Institute . He founded and was the first editor of the "Smithsonian Journal of History". In 1976 Cannon changed his name to Susan Faye Cannon, thereafter referring to himself as a 'male woman'. [Morrell (1983)]Works
*"The Problem of Miracles in the 1830s", "Victorian Studies" 4 (1960), 5-32.
*"The Impact of Uniformitarianism: Two Letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836-37," "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society" 105 (1961) 310-14.
*"The Uniformitarian-Catastrophist Debate," "Isis" 51 (1960) 38-55.
*"John Herschel and the Idea of Science," "Journal of the History of Ideas", 22 (1961), 215-39
*"Scientists and Broad Churchmen: An Early Victorian Intellectual Network", "Journal of British Studies" 4 (1964): 65–88.
*"Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period", 1978.References
*Morrell, J. B., 'Susan Faye Cannon (Walter Faw Cannon) 15 October 1925-6 November 1981', "Isis", Vol. 74, No. 1. (Mar., 1983), p. 88.
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