Isis

Papers
(The TQCC of Isis is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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)11
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series11
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
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.9
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19149
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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. $7
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.7
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture6
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science6
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20235
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 (cloth5
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines5
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers5
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)5
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics4
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism4
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide4
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano4
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture4
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal4
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Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19003
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica3
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 97814743
Reservations3
Note from the Editors3
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)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, 23
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing3
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
The Prenatal Gaze3
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The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17002
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Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World2
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 Univ2
The Post-Heroic Field2
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World2
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
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Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
Emmanuel Didier. America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics. Translated by Priya Vari Sen. 432 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pres2
Introduction2
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., app2
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)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
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
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:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture. (Haney Foundation Series.) 280 pp., figs., notes, index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pre1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
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:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
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
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
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
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910). 240 pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9780826521
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
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. $11
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
Charles H. Smith; James T. Costa; David A. Collard (Editors). An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion. v + 439 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $60 (cloth1
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
Francisco Malta Romeiras. Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal. (Jesuit Studies.) 195 pp., figs., app., index. Leiden: Brill, 2019. $139 (e-book); ISBN 978901
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
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:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
Letter to the Editor1
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
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 97815011
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
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, 21
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 (paper1
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:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
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 (cl1
:A History of the Wind1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
Juan Carlos González Espitia. Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World. (Writing the Early Americas.) 412 pp., bibl., index. Charlottesville: Univers1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica1
Mistress of the Sciences, Asylum of Liberty: Joseph Priestley, Human Rights, and Science in the Early U.S. Republic1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia. Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan. xiii + 317 pp., figs., bibl., notes, index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. $30 (paper); ISBN 97811
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
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
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
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
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:A Book of Waves1
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19401
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Reading1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Michael Kaasch; Joachim Kaasch; Torsten K. D. Himmel (Editors). Biologie in der DDR: Beiträge zur 24. Jahrestagung der DGGTB in Greifswald 2015. (Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Bi1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
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Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
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
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
Antonio Badia. The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can’t Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News. xvii + 352 pp., refs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. $50 (cloth); ISBN 978026204301
Jürgen Renn. The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene. 585 pp., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780691171981
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
In Reply1
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
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
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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
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
Pankaj Sekhsaria. Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory. (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects.) xxii + 126 pp., app., refs., index. London: Routledge, 2018. $60 (clot1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
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:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
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, 20211
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
Lara Freidenfelds. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America. 256 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780190869816. E-book available.1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
David Sepkoski. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. 360 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
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); I1
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
:Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century1
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. Cl1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
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
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”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 978026251
Trais Pearson. Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam. 252 pp., figs., app., notes, bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. $24.99 (e-book); ISBN 1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
Editors’ Note1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
Felipe Rojas. The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. xvii + 244 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75 (cloth); ISBN 978110848481
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
William R. Shea. Conversations with Galileo. Foreword by Dava Sobel. xi + 115 pp., notes. London: Watkins Media, 2019. $14.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781786782496. E-book available.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); IS1
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
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