Isis

Papers
(The median citation count of Isis 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
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science11
The Nature of Glass: Technologies of Transparency, Materials on the Move11
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17209
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.6
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series5
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19605
Front Matter5
:Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China4
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love4
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica4
Reservations4
Profession of Revulsion: Subjective Science and the Mobilization of Emotions in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Public Medicine4
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing4
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan4
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, 20213
:A Few Acres of Ice: Environment, Sovereignty, and “Grandeur” in the French Antarctic3
Letter from the Editors of Osiris3
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India3
To the Editors3
Introduction to the “Women Historians of Science: Report of the Committee on Women in the History of Science, December, 1973”3
A Humble Genre: History of Isis Book Reviews3
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal3
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19403
:Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France3
Note from the Editors3
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan3
Contents of Isis, Volume 1122
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers2
James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. 373 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $45 (cloth2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20232
Harun Küçük. Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. xv + 320 pp., apps., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. $50 (cloth); ISBN 2
Moving across the Zoo–Field Border: Heini Hediger in Congo2
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism2
Film ist. (1–6): An Exemplary Use of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica2
:The Science of Bureaucracy: Risk Decision-Making and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency2
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object2
:The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh2
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach2
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe2
He Bian. Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China. 264 pp. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780691179049. E-book available.2
HSS, the FBI, and the Unabomber2
:Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry2
Front Cover2
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)2
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture2
Climate Conscious: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940s–1960s2
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible2
Editors’ Note2
Richard Noakes. Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain. (Science in History.) 418 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $96 (cloth)2
:Medical Case Studies (Consilia medica) of the Early Modern Period: Great Pox Documented2
Front Cover2
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)2
Jinee Lokaneeta. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. 262 pp., bibl., index. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. $95 (cloth); ISBN 978047201
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); IS1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s1
Pig Mentations: Race and Face in Radiobiology1
:Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution1
Francesco G. Sacco. Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke’s Natural Philosophy. (International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, 231.) xiv +1
Arne Schirrmacher. Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen: David Hilbert, Max Born, and Peter Debye in Context, 1900–1926. ix + 120 pp., figs., app. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019. €51.99 (pape1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influence 20231
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20211
Mobilizing Moving Images: Reusing a German Flow Film of the 1920s for U.S. Science Education in the Cold War1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
Lukas Rieppel. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. 336 pp., figs., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. $29.95 (cloth); I1
Front Cover1
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions1
:Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome1
Joachim Schummer; Tom Børsen (Editors). Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering. 568 pp., indexes. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific, 2021. $198 (cloth); ISBN 97898112335311
A Darwinian Murder: The Role of the Barré-Lebiez Affair in the Diffusion of Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century France1
Mordechai Feingold; Giulia Giannini (Editors). The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe. (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions.) xii + 301 pp., figs. Leiden:1
Front Matter1
George Biddell Airy and Information Management at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich: Library, Archive, and Uses of the Historical Past1
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c. 1275–c. 1330). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) 368 pp., illus. Oxford: Oxford Universit1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
:Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India1
Peter Ayres. Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain: In Search of Fellowship. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xix + 228 pp., illus., app., bibl., index1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
In Reply1
Brian C. Odom; Stephen P. Waring (Editors). NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement. xi + 266 pp., index. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. $85 (cloth); ISBN 9780813066202.1
Marga Vicedo. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother. 272 pp., notes, index. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. $28.95 (cloth); ISBN 1
Acknowledgments1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy1
Antoine Traisnel. Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition. 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Minnesota/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. $27 (paper); ISBN 971
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. $1
:Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon1
Robert J. Mayhew; Charles W. J. Withers (Editors). Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century. (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) x1
:A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine1
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)1
Zachary Dorner. Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century. 280 pp., halftones, tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 1
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19141
Elizabeth Reis. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. (Second Edition.) 296 pp., photos, illus., notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. $30 (paper); ISBN 9781
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Moon Microbes? Interpretations of Risk and the Limits of Quarantine in NASA’s Apollo Program1
Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics1
Dean Rickles. Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916–1956). 320 pp., illus., app., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65 (cloth); ISBN 9780199602957. E-boo1
:Erdöl: Ein Atlas der Petromoderne1
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene1
:Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
:Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya1
:Irrtümer und Fälschungen der Archäologie: Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung1
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
Technical Chronology and Computus Naturalis in Twelfth-Century Lotharingia: A New Source1
:Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco1
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
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 97802261
Dániel Bárth. The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar. (Microhistories.) 304 pp. New York: Routledge, 2020. $160 (cloth); ISBN 9780367356798. E-book avai1
:A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–20151
:Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England1
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
Jacqueline Mitton; Simon Mitton. Vera Rubin: A Life. x + 310 pp., figs., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 978067491911
Sam White; Christian Pfister; Franz Mauelshagen (Editors). The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. xxv + 656 pp., figs., tables, index. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. $210 (cloth); ISBN 971
On Exemplary Individuals and the Advantages of Teamwork1
:Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic, and Ancient Egypt1
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 Pre1
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing1
Philip Steadman. Renaissance Fun: The Machines behind the Scenes. 418 pp., bibl., index. London: UCL Press, 2021. £50 (cloth); ISBN 9781787359178. Paper and e-book available.1
Anne Lawrence-Mathers. Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac. ix + 228 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $84.99 (cloth); ISBN1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
Front Cover1
Courtney E. Thompson. An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America. 248 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2020. $1201
The Origins of Modern Science in the Classroom1
Christopher Byrne. Aristotle’s Science of Matter and Motion. x + 196 pp., notes, bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. $59 (cloth); ISBN 9781487503963. E-book available.1
History of Science Society Virtual Forum, 20201
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence. xx + 278 pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $32.99 (paper); ISBN 97811081
Introduction1
:The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan1
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life1
Timothy Paul Grove. Christ Came Forth from India: Georgian Astrological Texts of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. (Eurasian Studies Library, 15.) xxii + 463 pp. Leiden: Br1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
38°C: Fever, Thermometry, and the Coming into Being of a Global Norm, ca. 1868–18901
Between Aspiration and Reality: Folklore Film Work in Times of Upheaval1
Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Public Health, 1890–19301
Joris Vandendriessche. Medical Societies and Scientific Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium. (Social Histories of Medicine.) xii + 317 pp., notes, bibl., index. Manchester: Manchester Univers1
Paul J. Nahin. Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Cable. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. 232 pp., app1
Front Matter1
:Bodies of Work: The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation1
History of Epidemics: A Bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in Italian and on Italy1
:The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade1
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
:Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain1
Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: A Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science1
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
Front Cover1
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
Front Matter1
Edward J. Gillin. Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 320 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $501
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19501
A “Truly International” Discipline: Adverbs, Ideals, and the Reinvention of International Mathematics, 1920–19501
The Myth of the “One-Sex” Body1
Matthew Shindell. The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey. (Synthesis.) 248 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $27.50 (cloth); ISBN 9780226662081
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
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Karl S. Matlin; Jane Maienschein; Rachel A. Ankeny (Editors). Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory.) 344 pp., figs., index. Chicago/Lo1
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World1
A Plague of Meat: Food, Politics, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
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. $1
Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice1
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. Clot1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
“To Embrace and Protect”: Managing Wind, Water, and Trees in the Ryukyu Kingdom1
Introduction: Expanded Perspectives on Tiny Animals as Epistemic Agents1
Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850. (Global Health Histories.) 258 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. $75 (cloth); ISBN 971
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
:Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life1
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Sebastian Vehlken. Zootechnologies: A Media History of Swarm Research. 400 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. €119 (cloth); ISBN 9789462986206. E-book available.1
:Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace1
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 Env1
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 availa1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
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.1
Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950. 433 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
Harry Yi-Jui Wu. Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. 240 pp., illus., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2021. $35 (paper)1
Letter to the Editor1
Nara B. Milanich. Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father. 352 pp., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780674980686. E-book available.1
:The Age of Pandemics, 1817–1920: How They Shaped India and the World1
Larrie D. Ferreiro. Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) 408 pp., figs., note1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
:Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb1
Rocío G. Sumillera; Jan Surman; Katharina Kühn (Editors). Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation. viii + 272 pp., index. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. $143 (cloth); ISBN 978902721
Front Matter1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
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:Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France1
Karena Kalmbach. The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France. 236 pp., bibl., index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. $120 (cloth); ISBN 9781789207026. E-book 1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
:The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World1
Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s1
Klaus Mauersberger; Monika Schulz-Fieguth (Editors). Hans-Jürgen Treder: Ein Porträt. 128 pp., illus., bibl. Potsdam: Christian & Cornelius Ruess, 2018. €35 (cloth); ISBN 9783000602450.1
Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. 280 pp., illus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $54.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781421438740. E-b1
The Post-Heroic Field1
Danielle Giffort. Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy. xiv + 240 pp., bibl., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. $25 (pape1
Jennifer Johung. Vital Forms: Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life. 200 pp., figs., notes, index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. $27 (paper); ISB1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
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.1
John H. Evans. The Human Gene Editing Debate. 216 pp., notes, bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99 (cloth); ISBN 978-0197519561. E-book available.1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology1
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna1
Making Place in the Field1
We Need to See Things1
George E. Smith; Raghav Seth. Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality: A Study in Theory-Mediated Measurement. (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science.) 468 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford Uni1
A Feminist Physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676–1764) and His Advice for Those in Love1
Kassandra J. Miller; Sarah L. Symons (Editors). Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 8.) xii + 297 pp., figs., index. Leiden1
Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–16351
The European Perspective on Pandemics1
Ursula Klein. Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750–1850. 336 pp., 24 figs. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $40 (paper); ISBN 9780262539296. E-book available.1
Kären Wigen; Caroline Winterer (Editors). Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era. 272 pp., illus., maps, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45 (cloth1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
Placing Insects in Histories of Science1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
Planetary Health Histories: Toward New Ecologies of Epidemiology?1
David Pingree. Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca. (Magic in History.) xii + 364 pp., tables, notes, bibl., index. U1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
:Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe1
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defense of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914. x + 204 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75 (cloth); ISBN 9781108490092. E-boo1
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science1
:Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment1
M. Susan Lindee. Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War. 296 pp., notes, refs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9780674919181.1
:Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic World: A New Perspective on the History of Modern Science1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
Hermann Hunger; John Steele. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World.) viii + 245 pp., abbrev., bibl., index. London: Routledge1
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