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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers16
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines12
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)11
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture11
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science11
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 202311
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
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19149
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture9
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
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18508
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica7
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide6
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism6
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing6
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano6
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal5
Note from the Editors5
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry5
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
Reservations4
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics4
Front Cover4
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene4
The Prenatal Gaze3
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs3
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World3
The Post-Heroic Field3
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
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)3
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 Univ3
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
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
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century2
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17002
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Introduction2
Front Matter2
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 Env2
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography2
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
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 97802262
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability2
Front Cover2
Front Matter2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
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. Clot2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
Editors’ Note1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
Making the Neanderthals White: Historicizing Ancestry, Race, and Hominin Heritage1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
: Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification1
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire1
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
Contents of Isis , Volume 1161
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
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
Front Matter1
Christianizing America, School District by School District1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
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
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
Front Matter1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
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 Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
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
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
Front Matter1
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
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
:Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan1
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
:The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
:Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
: Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
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
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Front Matter1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
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
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
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
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
Mark Boyer Adams (1944–2024)1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
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
In Reply1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
Front Matter1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
:A History of the Wind1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
Shaky Claims: Deception Island and the Geopolitics of Extinction1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
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
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
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
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology1
: American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:A Book of Waves1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
Front Matter1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
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
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact1
: Ciencia y diplomacia: Penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939–19451
Letter to the Editors1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable: Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)1
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19601
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
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
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
Front Matter1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
: Cyclotron1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
:Wasp1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
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
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–16351
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
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
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
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