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Microscopy vs. CS
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I mentioned in lecture the historical example of microscopy as an
academic discipline (centered around a tool) that no longer exists on
its own.

On the What is CS website, at

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/whatiscs.html#microscopy

there are some other links that you might be interested in.

Here's another example:

Ornes, Stephen (2007), "Whatever Happened to...Chaos Theory?",
Discover (April): 16.
http://tinyurl.com/342ltp

When I pointed this out to Prof. Shapiro, he replied:

"Chaos Theory, however, was never considered a scientific discipline,
with journals, academic departments, etc.  Microscopy was,
and Computer Science is."

To which I replied:

"Fair enough, and perhaps there are no Depts of Chaos(*),
but there is at least one journal:

	http://neurolab.ing.unirc.it/chaos/

and what evidence besides the one paragraph in Boorstein's book is there
that microscopy had journals and academic depts?

(*) ...though I can't resist observing that there are probably lots of
chaotic departments :-)"

I don't know about the 17th century, but there is now a professional
organization for microscopy:

	http://www.microscopy.org