Historians of Science Collections

Margaret Osler Papers, 1912-2010

3. Academia. 1964-2009, undated.

Materials describing Osler's institutional affiliations and professional academic activities are held in Series 3. Among them are sets of correspondence and institutional records documenting Osler's tenures at the handful of universities where she worked, most notably 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.

9 boxes

Boxes 3.001 - 3.009 (Page: 1 - 9)



3.001.
Institutional Records. 1967-2002, 2007-2008. 4 folders
1.1.
Correspondence, Background Materials: Canterbury, University of. 2007-2008.
1.2.
Correspondence, Institutional Records: Oregon State University. 1967-1970.
1.3.
Correspondence, Institutional Records, Vitae: Harvey Mudd College. 1969-2002.
1.4.
Correspondence, Institutional Records: Wake Forest University. 1973-1975.

3.002.
Institutional Records. 1975-2009. 1 folder
2.1.
Correspondence, Institutional Records, Vitae: Calgary, University of. 1975-2009.

3.003.
Teaching Materials: C - H. 1968-2008. 17 folders
3.1.
Correspondence, Syllabus: courses on the history of science and history of philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 2007-2008.
3.2.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus: "Classic Experiments in the History of Science." Columbia University. 1973-1974.
3.3.
Typescript, Notes: "Directed Reading - Newton." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1971.
3.4.
Syllabus: "General Science 411 - Science in Antiquity." Oregon State University. Fall 1968.
3.5.
Syllabus: "General Science 507 - Philosophy of Science." Oregon State University. Summer 1969.
3.6.
Syllabus: "General Science 412 - The Scientific Revolution." Oregon State University. Winter 1970.
3.7.
Syllabus: "General Science 413 - History of Science." Oregon State University. Spring 1970.
3.8.
Correspondence, Syllabus: "History 105 - History of Science." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1970, Fall 1972.
3.9.
Syllabus: "History 106 - History of Science." Harvey Mudd College. Spring 1971, Spring 1973.
3.10.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus, Background Materials: "History 107 - History of the Occult Sciences." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1971.
3.11.
Notes, Syllabus: "History 108 - Topics in the History of Ideas: The Reception of Scientific Ideas." Harvey Mudd College. Spring 1972.
3.12.
Notes, Correspondence: "History 111 - Europe from the Renaissance to 1789." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1974.
3.13.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus: "History 337 - History of Science." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1974.
3.14.
Notes, Syllabus: "History 338 - History of Science." Harvey Mudd College. Spring 1975.
3.15.
Notes, Syllabus, Background Materials: "History 594 - Historical Studies in Science and Religion." Harvey Mudd College. 1979-1980.
3.16.
Notes, Syllabus: general history of science course materials. 1971-1981.
3.17.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus, Background Materials: "Humanities 138 - The 17th Century World." Harvey Mudd College. Fall 1972.

3.004.
Teaching Materials: P. 1969-1970. 2 folders
4.1.
Notes, Syllabus: "Philosophy 470 - Philosophy of Science." Oregon State University. Winter 1970.
4.2.
Notes, Syllabus, Background Materials: "Philosophy 471 - Philosophy of Science." Oregon State University. Fall 1969.

3.005.
Teaching Materials: Q - S. 1970-1978. 3 folders
5.1.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus, Background Materials: "The Quest for Commonwealth." Harvey Mudd College. 1970-1971.
5.2.
Notes, Correspondence, Syllabus, Background Materials: "The Quest for Commonwealth." Harvey Mudd College. 1972-1974.
5.3.
Notes, Syllabus: "Science and Religion." University of Calgary. 1977-1978.

3.006.
Lectures: A - G. 1967-2005, undated. 21 folders
6.1.
Notes: 17th century scientific methods. undated.
6.2.
Notes: 18th century physics. 1976.
6.3.
Notes, Background Materials: alchemy. 1974, 1998, 2001.
6.4.
Notes, Visual Aids: anatomy - Vesalius through Harvey. October 2001, undated.
6.5.
Typescript, Notes: Arabic science. undated.

File includes partial typescript titled Exploring the Properties of Matter: Alchemy and Chemistry, by Margaret Osler. [?]

6.6.
Notes, Visual Aids: Aristotle. undated.
6.7.
Notes: Babylonian mathematics and astronomy. undated.
6.8.
Notes: Brahe, Tycho. undated.
6.9.
Typescript, Notes: Chemistry - 17th century. 1979-2005.

File includes typescript review of Antonio Clericuzio's A Redefinition of Boyle's Chemistry and Corpuscular Philosophy, by Margaret Osler. [?]

6.10.
Notes: Chemistry - 18th century. April 1973.
6.11.
Notes, Background Materials: Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1977-1999.
6.12.
Notes, Visual Aids, Background Materials: Darwin, Charles. 1983-1982.
6.13.
Notes: Egyptian mathematics and astronomy. undated.
6.14.
Notes: embryology. 1967.
6.15.
Notes, Background Materials: "Fortune, Fate and Divination". December 1988.
6.16.
Notes: Galileo. 1975-1992.
6.17.
Notes: genetics. 1976.
6.18.
Notes: Greek astronomy. undated.
6.19.
Notes: Greek medicine. undated.
6.20.
Notes: Greek science and society. September 1976.
6.21.
Notes: Greek science, transmission of. undated.

3.007.
Lectures: K - P. 1964-2007, undated. 11 folders
7.1.
Notes: Kepler, Johannes. ca. 1987.
7.2.
Typescript, Notes, Background Materials: magic, science and religion. 1977-1989.

File includes typescript titled Exploring the Properties of Matter: Alchemy and Chemistry, by Margaret Osler. [?]

7.3.
Notes: mechanical philosophy. 1964-1996.
7.4.
Notes: mechanics - 17th century. 1965, March 1973.

Includes bound set of notes titled "Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Dr. Richard S. Westfall. Fall 1965."

7.5.
Notes: medieval culture. 1991-1994.
7.6.
Notes: medieval physics. 1985.
7.7.
Notes: Newton, Isaac. 1982-2007.
7.8.
Notes: optics - 17th century. 1987.
7.9.
Notes, Visual Aids: Plato. undated.
7.10.
Notes: pre-history. 1967-1981.
7.11.
Notes, Visual Aids: pre-Socratics. undated.

3.008.
Lectures: R - W. 1974-2001. 7 folders
8.1.
Notes: Renaissance. October 1976.
8.2.
Notes, Visual Aids: rise of evolution. 1982-1987.
8.3.
Notes, Background Material: science and religion. 1975-2001.
8.4.
Notes: science in the universities - 17th century. October 1976.
8.5.
Notes: scientific revolution. 1975-1978.
8.6.
Notes: social aspects of science. 1976-1983.
8.7.
Notes: women and science. 1974-1993.

3.009.
Conferences. 1989-2009. 8 folders
9.1.
Notes, Correspondence, Background Materials: "Women's Ways of Knowing." Issues and information session, Institute for Gender Research, University of Calgary. June 1-2, 1989.
9.2.
Correspondence, Background Materials: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Knowledge." University of Calgary. June 26-30, 1991.
9.3.
Correspondence, Background Materials: "Science and (Homo)Sexualities." Plenary session, meeting of the History of Science Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. October 1994.
9.4.
Correspondence, Program, Background Materials: "Libertines and Libertinism in Early Modern Europe: The Origins of Civil and Religious Liberty." International Residential Conference, Royal Holloway College, London. March 29-31 1999.

Osler presented a seminar titled "The Limits of Gassendi's Epicureanism."

9.5.
Notes, Correspondence, Itinerary, Background Materials: "Medicine and Modernism: Reflections on the Recent Scholarship." Health Sciences and Humanities workshop, University of Calgary. March 25, 2003.
9.6.
Notes: "What is Nature? Historical Perspectives." Meeting of the Apeiron Society for the Practice of Philosophy. January 10, 2006.
9.7.
Notes, Program: "Complexity Theory and Explanation Events." University of Calgary. March 10-11 2006.
9.8.
Notes, Itinerary: "How Do Teleological Explanations Work? Historical Perspectives on Final Causes." Humboldt University, Berlin. November 27-28, 2009.

Osler presented on the topic "Mechanism, Teleology, and Uses of the Argument from Design in Early Modern Europe."