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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers18
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines14
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture13
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–191412
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)12
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science12
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 202312
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. $10
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.10
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture9
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18509
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica9
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing7
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano6
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide6
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism6
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry5
Note from the Editors5
“What Difference Does that Make to a Med?” The Sensory and Social Regimes of the Dissecting Room at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania4
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706–18144
Warwick Anderson.  Spectacles of Waste . 184 pp., notes, index. New Jersey: Polity Press, 2024. £14.99 (paper); ISBN 9781509557417. C4
Front Cover4
: Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki4
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
Front Matter3
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)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
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs3
The Prenatal Gaze3
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)3
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges2
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
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
Introduction2
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire2
Front Matter2
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2
Front Matter2
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
Front Cover2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography2
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
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
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan2
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
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
:A Book of Waves1
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
: Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution: Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton1
Shaky Claims: Deception Island and the Geopolitics of Extinction1
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language1
Front Matter1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
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
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
Introduction1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
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
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
Letter to the Editors1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
:Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Sara J. Schechner and Sofia Talas (eds.). Failed Historical Scientific Instruments . 237 pp. figs., tab., notes, index. Leiden, N1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
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
Rebecca Whiteley. Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body . 288 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago and Lo1
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
The Isis Bibliography: Information Practices from Sarton’s Vision to the Digital Age1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano1
: Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
Errata1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable: Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy A. Greene, and Warwick Anderson (eds.), Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (C1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
Acknowledgments1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
Front Matter1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
: Histoire de l’interdisciplinarité: Un mot, des pratiques1
Ana Romero de Pablos. Las primeras centrales nucleares españolas: Actores, políticas y tecnologías. 135 pp., illus., bibl. Madrid: Sociedad Nuclear Española, 2019. Free e-book; ISBN 978840908491
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
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
:Wasp1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Rereading Malthus: Darwin and the Historians1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
: Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830–18801
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
Bernard Lightman and Efram Sera-Shriar (eds.), Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: rethinking the Specialization Thesis 1
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy1
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
Contents of Isis , Volume 1161
In Reply1
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
Christianizing America, School District by School District1
Front Matter1
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17001
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
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
Front Cover1
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
:The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
:Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
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
The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–19681
:The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
: Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification1
Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull.  Energy's History Toward a Global Canon . 292 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025. 1
Front Matter1
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
: Ciencia y diplomacia: Penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939–19451
: Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder and the Evolution of American Archaeology1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:A History of the Wind1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–19201
: Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Texts1
: Cyclotron1
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 14921
: Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)1
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19601
Front Matter1
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
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