British Journal for the History of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal for the History of Science is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
BJH volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Back matter12
Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain9
Eric Schatzberg, Technology: Critical History of a Concept Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6. $38.00 (paperback).8
D. Senthil Babu, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-8-19-483160-0. ₹1895.00 (hardcover).7
Ian Hesketh (ed.), Imagining the Darwinian Revolution Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-822-94708-0. $55.00 (hardcover).5
Meteorology, weather and war in South East Asia: Malaya c.1940–19604
Bernard Lightman and Efram Sera-Shriar (eds.), Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2024. Pp. 307. ISBN 4
Jaeyoon Park, Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-0-226-83276-0. $27.50 (cloth).4
‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy3
Paulo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4. £37.95 (hardcover). – ERRATUM3
Gisela Boeck and Alan J. Rocke, Lothar Meyer: Modern Theories and Pathways to Periodicity Cham: Birkhäuser, 2022. Pp. xi + 193. ISBN 978-0-303-78341-9. £79.99 (hardcover). - Gisela Boeck and Al3
Charting the hybrid architectural style of quantum theory3
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).3
Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst (eds), Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease since 1750: Capturing Contagion London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 978-1-032-26107-2. £130.00 (hardback).3
Experimental bioclimatology and prospects of agricultural modernization at the CNRS phytotron, France, 1953–19883
Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2266-0568-5. $32.00 (paperback).2
Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).2
BJH volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6.2
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’: Frank Sherwood Taylor and the public role of the history of science2
BJH volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Grant Bollmer, The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 978-1-5179-1546-9. $28.00 (paperback).2
Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal2
Nancy Rose Marshall (ed.), Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, Pp. 365, ISBN 978-02
Allan Esterson and David C. Cassidy, Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3897-8. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-22
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).2
Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-1070-9. £28.00/$35.00 (hardback).2
Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 978-0-8229-4661-8. $55.00 (cloth).2
The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer2
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun'sMuqaddimah2
Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (eds), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-032-13916-6. £96.00 (hardback).1
Warwick Anderson, Spectacles of Waste Cambridge: Polity, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-1-509-55741-7. £14.99 (paperback).1
Fanny Gribenski, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-82326-3. $55.00 (cloth).1
Cold War aviation: American technology transfer and the construction of Turkey's first international civilian airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, 1944–19531
Cyrus C.M. Mody, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-0-262-54361-3. $65.00 (paperback).1
Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Perez and Jérôme Lamy (eds.),Global History of Techniques: 19th–21st Centuries Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 781. ISBN 978-2-503-59151-3. €120.00 (hardback).1
Colin Webster, Tools and Organisms: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82877-0. $45.00 (cloth).1
Michel Anctil, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 467. ISBN: 978-0-77351
Efran Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 971
Introduction: the issue of duplicates1
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-01
Richard Noakes, Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 419. ISBN 978-1-3168-8243-6. £90.00 (hardcover).1
Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82676-9. $35.00 1
‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–18811
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781
Robert Baker, Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. P1
Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon, eds., Handbook for the Historiography of Science Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. Pp. xx + 530. ISBN 978-3-031-27509-8. £199.99 (ebook).1
BJH volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Antonio Stoppani's ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene1
Elizabeth A. Athens, William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-8229-4826-1. $40.00 (hardcove1
Irina Podgorny, Florentino Ameghino y hermanos Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 978-987-628-598-8. AR$9,150.00 (softcover) - Irina Podgorny, Los Argentinos vienen de los peces: Ensa1
Panagiotis Charitos, Theodore Arabatzis, Harry Cliff, Günther Dissertori, Juliette Forneris and Jason Li-Ying (eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts London: IOP 1
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape1
Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardbac1
Kamlesh Mohan, Science and Technology in Colonial India London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-1-032-36479-7. £96.00 (hardback).1
Johann Christoph Sturm’s eclectic scientific method and his indebtedness to Francis Bacon1
BJH volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–19001
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8229-4609-0. $35.00 1
Aaron Bateman, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-54736-9. $60.00 (paperba1
BJH volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Nuno Vila-Santa, Knowledge Exchanges between Portugal and Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th–17th Centuries) Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univer1
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-2267-3286-2. $25.00 (paperback).1
Emma K. Sutton, William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82898-5. $30.00 (paper).1
Bernard Lightman and Bennet Zon (eds.), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-3672-2842-2. £120.00 (hardback).1
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics1
Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Marius Buning (eds.), Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-0-262-54559-4. $65.00 (pape1
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19801
Samantha Muka, Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82413-0. $35.00 (cloth).1
Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach (eds.), Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century London: UCL Press, 2018. Pp. 438. ISBN 978-1-7873-5395-4. 1
Laura Mamo, Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82929-6. $35.00 (paper).1
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19141
Veronica Della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-4129-1. $65.00 (hardback).1
Maria Cristina Galmarini, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-1-5011
Marci R. Baranski, The Globalization of Wheat Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9. $55.00 (hardcover).1
BJH volume 54 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82576-2. $45.00 (cloth).1
Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–19531
Paola Bertucci, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-10
Michael Wheeler, The Athenæum: More than Just Another London Club New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-3002-4677-3. £35.00 (hardback)0
Leonie Hannan, A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-5261-5303-6. £85.00 (hardcover).0
Lukas Rieppel, Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-0-6747-3758-7. £23.95 (hardback).0
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-5261-7480-2. £85.00 (hardcover).0
BJH volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth0
Philip Beeley and Christopher D. Hollings (eds.), Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics, 1600–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 512. ISBN 978-0-19-886395-3. £35.0
Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4630-40
BJH volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Mark Walker, Hitler’s Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-1-009-47928-8. £30.00 (hardba0
Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations0
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM0
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–19490
Andrew Cunningham, ‘I Follow Aristotle’: How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 180. ISBN 987-1-0321-6223-2. £130.00 (hardback).0
Andrew J. Hogan, Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-4533-5. $55.00 (0
Arie Rip, Nanotechnology and Its Governance London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 158. ISBN 978-1-1386-1053-8. £130.00 (hardback).0
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISB0
Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-226-82312-6. $49.00 (cloth).0
Frederick Burkhardt, James Secord and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22, 1874 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press0
Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover).0
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. $40.00 (hardback).0
Concluding Conversation: De-centring Science Diplomacy – CORRIGENDUM0
Darwin’s scientific gardener: John Scott, the ‘physiological test’ and the importance of character in Victorian science0
BJH volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps0
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4214-4757-5. $49.95 (hardcover0
Charles Smith, James T. Costa and David Collard (eds.), An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-2210-1. $60.00 (hardback)0
Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy0
Patronage, cultural politics and the marginalization of astrology in seventeenth-century France: the case of J.-B. Morin and of his polemics with Pierre Gassendi and his circle0
J. Justin Castro and James A. Garza (eds), Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4748-6.0
Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-2280-1753-0. CA$47.95 (paperback).0
Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça, Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-80073-904-8. £89.00 (hardb0
Claudine Cohen, Nos ancêtres dans les arbres: Penser l’évolution humaine Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-2-0211-7599-8. €23.00 (paperback).0
Humus gnosis: soil fertility, research and funding in the life of Sir Albert Howard0
‘Like nets or cobwebs’: Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction0
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 160. ISBN 978-1-9788-0326-8. $33.95 (paperback).0
Chris Manias, The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 488. ISBN 978-0-8229-4780-6. $65.00 0
Technical conferences as a technique of internationalism0
James J.A. Blair, Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5. 0
Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN: 978-0-1988-1862-5. £84.00 (hardback).0
Peter Thompson, The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-009-31486-2. $130.00 (hardback).0
Technology diplomacy in early Communist China: the visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 19520
Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 533. ISBN 978-1-1084-1869-0. $20
Watching birds: observation, photography and the ‘ethological eye’0
‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club0
Nima Bassiri, Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-0-226-83089-6. $35.00 (p0
Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference0
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kongc.1883–19140
Steven French, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-19-889795-8. £80.00 (hardcover).0
Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state0
Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. Pp. 279. ISBN 978-3-8353-3680-3. €28.00 (hardback).0
Adrian Johns, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 504. ISBN 978-0-226-82148-1. $32.50 (cloth).0
Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-2951-9. $52.00 (hardback). ISBN0
Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-81820
Representing noise: stacked plots and the contrasting diplomatic ambitions of radio astronomy and post-punk0
Hannah Halliwell, Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870–1914 Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-2280-1990-9. CA$85.00 (0
The end of an era0
Alex Csiszar, The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-2265-5323-8. $45.00 (hardbac0
Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 294. ISBN: 978-1-009-12311-2. £75.00 (hardback).0
Peter H. Hoffenberg, A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-8229-4576-5. $45.00 (cloth).0
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel0
Milena Ivanova and Steven French, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-032-33718-0. £110.00 (hardback).0
Matthew Holmes, The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-8229-4793-6. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology0
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500–1750 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-4214-4368-3. $55.00 (hardcover).0
C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback0
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young - CORRIGENDUM0
Victoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82328-7. $55.00 (cloth).0
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-colonial Siam Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-4015-2. $49.95 (hardback).0
Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-4780-2537-5. $27.95 (paperback).0
Johan Alfredo Linthorst, Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry Utrecht: Eburon, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-9-4630-1434-2. €36.000
Philip Glahn and Cary Levine, The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-54807-6. $45.00 (paperback).0
Science ‘subservient to profit’? William Jackson Hooker and the first Glasgow Botanic Gardens (1817–1841)0
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-7891-4455-0. £20.00 (hardback).0
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-5017-6977-1. $56.95 (hardcover).0
Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 298. ISBN 978-1-1088-7915-6. £75.00 (hardback).0
Sebastián Gil-Riaño, The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-231-19435-8. £30.00 (paperb0
Fabian Kraemer, A Centaur in London: Reading and Observation in Early Modern Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-4214-4631-8. $60.00 (hardcover).0
Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking memory in Dutch science cinema 1925–c.19600
Andrew Fiss, A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-9788-2021-0. $150.00 (cloth).0
Lukas M. Verburgt (ed.), Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-3503-2623-1. £75.00 (hardback).0
Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil–Argentina Border Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-1088-4483-3. $103.00 (ha0
Carola Sachse, Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationale Politik (1945–2000) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 594. ISBN 978-3-525-302060
William C. Summers, The American Phage Group: The Founders of Molecular Biology New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-300-26356-5. $65.00 (hardcover).0
Horizontal Chemistry0
Denis Papin's digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation0
Gemma Almond-Brown, Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-5261-6135-2. £85.00 (hardco0
Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge0
Hans Radder, From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology and Society Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4579-6. $50.00 (hardcove0
J. David Archibald, Critical Lives: Charles Darwin London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-7891-4440-6. $19.00 (paperback).0
Mathieu Charbonneau (ed.), The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 308.ISBN 978-0-262-54780-2. $65.00 (pap0
Kevin McCain and Kostas Kampourakis: What Is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-1385-7015-3. £36.99 (pape0
BJH volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
‘Super Bowl of the world conference circuit’? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing0
Philip Ball, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82582-3. $35.00 (cloth).0
The Anthropocene & the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability0
‘Seeing with one's own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics0
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards (eds.), Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2023. Pp. 400
BJH volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Tom Sharpe, The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning Wimborne Minster: The Dovecote Press, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-9955-4629-5. £20.00 (hardback).0
BJH volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms0
‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management0
BJH volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Martin Korenjak, Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-886605-3. £120.00 (hardback).0
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).0
BJH volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Susan Greenhalgh, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-83473-3. $25.00 (paperback).0
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences0
‘Visible’ compulsions: OCD and the politics of science in British clinical psychology, 1948–19750
Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN: 978-1-1084-7819-9, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-1087-47090
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-6742-8136-3. £40.95 (hardcover).0
Picturing Chinese science: wartime photographs in Joseph Needham's science diplomacy0
Meghan C. Doherty, Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Pp. 244. ISBN 978-94-6372-106-6. €117.00 (0
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1800 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-108-49125-9. $29.99 (paperback).0
Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).0
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine0
Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–19500
‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology0
Gordon Barrett, China's Cold War Science Diplomacy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-1088-4457-4. £75.00 (hardback).0
Scientizing the ‘environment’: Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences0
‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus0
Introduction: arguing about the stars on the southern side of the confessional divide0
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–19260
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).0
Picturing evolution0
Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-100
Amir Teicher, Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 268. ISBN 978-1-1084-9949-1. £26.99 (hardback).0
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19200
Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-1086-8845-1. £17.99 (hardback).0
The history of science and the global turn of the screw - James Poskett, Horizons: A Global History of Science New York: Penguin, 2022. Pp. 464. ISBN978-0-241-98626-4. £12.99 (paperback).0
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing0
Jonathan R. Cole, Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 680. ISBN 978-0-231-21261-8. £35.00 (paperback).0
Vanessa Heggie, Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-2266-5088-3. $40.00 (hardback).0
Amanda Lanzillo, Pious Labour: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. Pp. 246. ISBN 978-0-520-39857-3. £30.00 (paperback).0
‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–18530
Karel Čapek (ed. Jitka Čejková), R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-54450-4. $29.95 (paperback).0
From museumization to decolonization: fostering critical dialogues in the history of science with a Haida eagle mask0
Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-262-54757-4. $45.00 (paperback).0
Alida C. Metcalf, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-4214-3852-8. $57.00 (hardback).0
Scott Alan Johnston, The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-2280-0843-9. CA$49.95 (clot0
John K. Brown, Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4862-6. $35.95 (hardcover).0
Jonathan Finn, Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence and the History of the Photo-finish Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 212. ISBN 978-0-2280-0343-4. CD$43.95 (clo0
James A. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-108-48415-2. $108.00 (hardcover).0
James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-78914-758-2. £16.99 (hardback).0
Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (eds.), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,0
BJH volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Rebecca Martin and Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (eds.), Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook London: UCL Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 446. ISBN 978-1-0
Elizabeth Gansen, Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-5128-2456-8. $55.00
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 0
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo0
Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-2260-2038-9. $35.00 (hardback).0
How the Glaishers pictured snowflakes0
The art of gathering: histories of international scientific conferences0
Shaul Katzir, Sonar to Quartz Clock: Technology and Physics in War, Academy, and Industry Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-19-887873-5. £45.00 (hardback).0
How did a Lutheran astronomer get converted into a Catholic authority? The Jesuits and their reception of Tycho Brahe in Portugal0
‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain0
Margarete Vöhringer, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-032-53264-6. £104.00 (hardback).0
Alexander Wragge-Morley, Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN: 978-0-2266-8086-6. $120.00 (har0
Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-226-82228-0. $112.50 (cloth).0
Mark A. Ragan, Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 816. ISBN 978-0-19-764303-7. £107.50 (hardback).0
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougal-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015 London: UCL Press, 2022. Pp. 643. ISBN 9780
Melissa Lo, Skepticism's Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-0-271-09482-3. $104.95 (hardcover).0
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates0
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.19500
Rudolf Rasch (ed.), Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-2-503-60080-2. €120.00 (hardback).0
Kathleen M. Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies from Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-4214-4763-6. $29.95 (hardcover).0
Rachel E. Walker, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-2268-2256-3. $45.00 (cloth).0
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century0
Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller (eds), Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-2-503-58806-3. €85.00 (hardback).0
Kate MacCord, How Does Germline Regenerate? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-226-83051-3. $26.00 (paper).0
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