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
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19149
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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
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
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science6
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture6
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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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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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
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
Front Matter2
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
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
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
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
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
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
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
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
Front Matter1
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
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
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 Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
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
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
:Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society1
Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research1
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
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
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
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
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
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:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
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
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
:Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century1
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 Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
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
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
Mistress of the Sciences, Asylum of Liberty: Joseph Priestley, Human Rights, and Science in the Early U.S. Republic1
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
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
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
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:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
:A History of the Wind1
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:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
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
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
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
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
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Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19401
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
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
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
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
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
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
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
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
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
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
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
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
In Reply1
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
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
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
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
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Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
Letter to the Editor1
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
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
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
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Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
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
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
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
: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
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
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
Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica1
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
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
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
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
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
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
Editors’ Note1
:A Book of Waves1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
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
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
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
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
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
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An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
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
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
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