Isis

Article	Citations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers	16
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines	12
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science	11
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2023	11
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)	11
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture	11
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914	9
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture	9
Judith Farquhar; Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. 304 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $	9
Neeraja Sankaran. A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. $	9
John Troyer. Technologies of the Human Corpse. 272 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $24.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780262043816. Paper and e-book available.	9
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850	8
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica	7
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism	6
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing	6
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano	6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide	6
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry	5
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal	5
Note from the Editors	5
Front Cover	4
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene	4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–1900	4
Reservations	4
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics	4

Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)	3
Ilaria Scaglia. The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period. (Emotions in History.) 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford Univ	3
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science	3
William J. Ashworth. The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2	3
The Prenatal Gaze	3
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs	3
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World	3
The Post-Heroic Field	3
Bill Jenkins. Evolution before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834. 232 pp., bibl. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2019. £80 (cloth); ISBN 9781474	3
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s	3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)	3
Kenny Cupers; Catharina Gabrielsson; Helena Mattsson (Editors). Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present. (Culture, Politics, and the Built Env	2
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography	2
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges	2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden	2
Veronica della Dora. The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor. 416 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $65 (cloth); ISBN 9780226	2
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability	2
Front Cover	2
Front Matter	2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna	2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950	2
John Bellamy Foster. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. 672 pp., notes, indexes. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9781583678367. Paper and e-book available.	2
Greta LaFleur. The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. 304 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781421438849. Clot	2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society	2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2021	2
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity	2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions	2
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)	2
Contents of Isis, Volume 115	2
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain	2
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century	2
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States	2
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine	2
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–1700	2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences	2
Introduction	2
Front Matter	2
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution	1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology	1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science	1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century	1
Making the Neanderthals White: Historicizing Ancestry, Race, and Hominin Heritage	1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy	1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment	1
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain	1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion	1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia	1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium	1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada	1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal	1

Front Matter	1
Front Matter	1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age	1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)	1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution	1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity	1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation	1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 1900	1
Front Matter	1
Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. 296 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $25 (paper); ISBN 9780226732862. Cloth and e-book availa	1
Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Reading	1
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population	1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem	1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation	1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect	1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”	1
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”	1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig	1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology	1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary	1
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection	1
In Reply	1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–1920	1
Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiments, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021	1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance	1
:Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea	1
Morris Low. Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiii + 260 pp., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. $1	1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond	1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism	1
Front Matter	1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History	1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach	1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief	1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World	1
:A History of the Wind	1
:The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology	1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2022	1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines	1
Jacob Steere-Williams. The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.) 340 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rochester,	1
Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. 408 pp., figs. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. $50 (paper); IS	1
:Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens	1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France	1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds	1
: Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa	1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain	1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure	1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)	1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy	1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible	1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King	1
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology	1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming	1
: Ciencia y diplomacia: Penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939–1945	1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66	1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling	1
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy	1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health	1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust	1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California	1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan	1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India	1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World	1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance	1
Ido Hartogsohn. American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century. 432 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $35 (paper); ISBN 97802625	1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano	1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000	1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century	1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate	1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy	1
Mark Boyer Adams (1944–2024)	1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science	1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata	1
Whose Home Is the Field?	1
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960	1
Timothy M. Harrison. Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England. 328 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $30 (paper); ISBN 9780226725123. Cl	1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750	1
Letter to the Editors	1
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine	1

Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors	1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”	1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)	1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720	1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–1867	1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools	1
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955	1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century	1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan	1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks	1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)	1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento	1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States	1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History	1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration	1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China	1
Shaky Claims: Deception Island and the Geopolitics of Extinction	1
:Wasp	1
David A. Guba Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. (Intoxicating Histories.) 384 pp., notes, index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. $37.95 (paper	1
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War	1
A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language	1
Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–1635	1
: Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification	1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning	1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America	1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life	1
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers	1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution	1
Hannah Marcus. Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. 360 pp., bibl., index, halftones, tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45 (cl	1
: American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within	1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy	1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya	1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts	1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge	1
:A Book of Waves	1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography	1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)	1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology	1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?	1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution	1
Front Matter	1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines	1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–2000	1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science	1
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire	1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam	1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine	1
Contents of Isis , Volume 116	1
Front Matter	1
Rebekah Lee. Health, Healing, and Illness in African History. 272 pp., illus., notes, index. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. £58.50 (cloth); ISBN 9781474254380. Paper and e-book available.	1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages	1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction	1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact	1
Christianizing America, School District by School District	1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society	1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes	1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar	1
The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable: Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)	1
Front Matter	1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions	1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia	1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible	1
Jennifer M. Rampling The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700. (Synthesis.) 416 pp., 19 halftones, 2 tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); I	1
Elena Aronova. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. 256 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Pre	1
: Cyclotron	1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland	1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia	1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object	1
Sean Quinlan. Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France. xiv + 336 pp., illus., notes, index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9781501	1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth	1
Giovanni Battimelli; Giovanni Ciccotti; Pietro Greco. Computer Meets Theoretical Physics: The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation. Translated by G. Giobbi. (The Frontiers Collection.) 206 pp.,	1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945	1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India	1
Phillip Reid. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology. (Technology and Change in History, 18.) xiv + 308 pp., illus. Leiden: Brill, 2	1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction	1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.	1
Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp.	1
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis	1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines	1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall	1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One	1
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan	1
David Trippett; Benjamin Walton (Editors). Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination. xv + 381 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90 (	1
Editors’ Note	1
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences	1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–1945	1
Thank You to Our Reviewers	1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences	1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction	1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology	1
Thank You to Our Reviewers	1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok	1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America	1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines	1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea	1