Volume 100; Issue 3

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Volume 100; Issue 3

Isis

Volume 100; Issue 3

1

L. Piccardi; W. B. Masse (Editors):Myth and Geology.

Review by: By Bernhard Fritscher

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2009

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english

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Jennifer Karns Alexander:The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control.

Review by: By Jon Agar

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2009

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english

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3

Introduction

Secord, James A.

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2009

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english

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4

Looking at Darwin: Portraits and the Making of an Icon

By Janet Browne

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2009

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english

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5

“You Are Here”: Missing Links, Chains of Being, and the Language of Cartoons

Clark, Constance Areson

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2009

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english

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Singing His Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song and Musical Production

Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty

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2009

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english

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7

Design and Dissent: Religion, Authority, and the Scientific Spirit of Robert Broom

By Jesse Richmond

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2009

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english

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8

2008 History of Science Society Prize Citations

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2009

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english

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9

Eloges: Joseph Stewart Fruton, 1912–2007

Summers, William C.

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2009

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english

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Eloge: Michael S. Mahoney, 1939–2008

Buchwald, Jed Z., Burnett, D. Graham

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2009

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english

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Letters to the Editor

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2009

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english

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Letters to the Editor

Pisano, Dominick A.

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2009

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english

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Letters to the Editor

By Roger Cooter

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2009

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english

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John D. Barrow:Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science

Topper, David R.

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2009

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english

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15

Marco Beretta; Karl Grandin; Svante Lindqvist (Editors):Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr

Review by: By Robert Fox

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2009

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english

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16

Oren Harman; Michael R. Dietrich (Editors):Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

Review by: By Sharon Kingsland

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2009

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2009

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David Boyd Haycock:Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

Mauck, Aaron Pascal

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2009

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english

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18

Peter M. J. Hess; Paul L. Allen:Catholicism and Science, and Don O'Leary:Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History

Freiburger, Dana A., Numbers, Ronald L.

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2009

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english

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19

Nicole Hulin:L'enseignement secondaire scientifique en France d'un siècle à l'autre, 1802–1980: Évolution, permanences et décalages, and Nicole Hulin:Les femmes, l'enseignement et les sciences: Un long cheminement (XIXe–XXe siècle)

Review by: By Sofie Lachapelle

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2009

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english

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20

Karl-Eugen Kurrer:The History of the Theory of Structures: From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics

Review by: By Thomas Boothby

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2009

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english

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21

James E. McClellan III (Editor):The Applied-Science Problem

Review by: By Ian Inkster

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2009

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english

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22

Londa Schiebinger (Editor):Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering

Review by: By Kristen Intemann

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2009

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english

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23

Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma:The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments

Review by: By Michio Yano

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2009

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english

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24

Arnoud Vrolijk; Jan P. Hogendijk (Editors):O Ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture in Honour of Remke Kruk

Review by: By Sonja Brentjes

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2009

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english

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25

Michael N. Fried; Sabetai Unguru:Apollonius of Perga'sConica:Text, Context, Subtext

Review by: By Fabio Acerbi

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2009

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english

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26

Susan P. Mattern:Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing

Review by: By Laurence Totelin

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2009

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english

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27

Sylvain Gouguenheim:Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l'Europe chrétienne

Livesey, Steven J.

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2009

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english

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28

Helen King:Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium

Review by: By Katharine Park

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2009

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english

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29

William H.Sherman:Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England

Review by: By Karen Reeds

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2009

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english

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John Dunmore:Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-François de la Pérouse

McClellan, James E.

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2009

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english

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31

Ursula Goldenbaum; Douglas Jesseph (Editors):Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries

Review by: By Craig Fraser

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2009

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english

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:Protogaea, trans. and ed. by Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield

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2009

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english

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Robert L. Martensen:The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History

Wolfe, Charles T.

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2009

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english

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34

Steven Matthews:Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon

Review by: By Peter Harrison

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2009

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english

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35

Paolo Palmieri:Reenacting Galileo's Experiments: Rediscovering the Techniques of Seventeenth-Century Science

Pitt, Joseph C.

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2009

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english

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Pamela H. Smith; Benjamin Schmidt (Editors):Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800

Cohen, H. Floris

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2009

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english

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37

Warwick Anderson:Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

Mazumdar, Pauline M. H.

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2009

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english

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Daniel Beer:Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930

Todes, Daniel P.

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2009

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english

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William H. Brock:William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science

Review by: By Richard Noakes

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2009

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english

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40

Cristina Chimisso:Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s

Review by: By Warren Schmaus

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2009

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english

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Patrick Coffey:Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

Paradowski, Robert J.

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2009

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english

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Alex D. D. Craik:Mr. Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century

Parshall, Karen Hunger

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2009

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english

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43

Sander Gliboff:H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation

Bowler, Peter J.

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2009

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english

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44

Dieter Hoffmann:Max Planck: Die Entstehung der modernen Physik

Review by: By Clayton Gearhart

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2009

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english

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Eva Johach:Krebszelle und Zellenstaat: Zur medizinischen und politischen Metaphorik in Rudolf Virchows Zellularpathologie

Review by: By Andrew Reynolds

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2009

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english

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Doug Macdougall:Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

Review by: By Marianne Sommer

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2009

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english

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Ralph O'Connor:The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856

Review by: By Jim Paradis

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2009

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english

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Anne O'Connor:Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860–1960

Review by: By David Oldroyd

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2009

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english

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Gregory Radick:The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language

Review by: By Tania Munz

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2009

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english

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Michael Brian Schiffer:Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison

Review by: By Peter Shulman

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2009

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english

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Jagdish N. Sinha:Science, War, and Imperialism: India in the Second World War

Review by: By David Edgerton

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2009

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english

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Nelly Tsouyopoulos:Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert. ed. by Claudia Wiesemann, Barbara Bröoker, and Sabine Rogge

Review by: By Frederick Gregory

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2009

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english

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Caroline Hannaway (Editor):Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics

Review by: By Kenton Kroker

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2009

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

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Kelly A.Joyce:Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency

Review by: By Isabelle Dussauge

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2009

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english

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W. Patrick McCray:Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age

Dick, Steven J.

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2009

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english

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Ulf Schmidt; Andreas Frewer (Editors):History and Theory of Human Experimentation: The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics

Review by: By Anne Cottebrune

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2009

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english

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Edward Shorter; David Healy:Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

Dror, Otniel E.

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2009

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english

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James A.Marcum:Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science

Review by: By Jay Foster

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2009

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english

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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger:Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung

Review by: By Rafael Ziegler

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2009

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english

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Notes on Contributors

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Frontispiece

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Grégoire Chamayou:Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

Review by: By Tobias Cheung

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2009

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english

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PDF, 41 KB

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Jakob Vogel:Ein schillerndes Kristall: Eine Wissensgeschichte des Salzes zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Moderne

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2009

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english

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Adrian Desmond; James Moore:Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

Review by: By Sadiah Qureshi

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2009

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english

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The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation, and the Tobacco Industry

By Brianna Rego

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2009

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english

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PDF, 664 KB

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Small Parts: Crisóstomo Martínez (1638–1694), Bone Histology, and the Visual Making of Body Wholeness

By Nuria Valverde

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2009

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english

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PDF, 1.78 MB

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Francesca Bray; Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann; Georges Métailié (Editors):Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft

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2009

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english

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Roger L. Emerson:Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews Universities

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2009

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english

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Sara S. Gronim:Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York

Review by: By Pamela Henson

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2009

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english

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Kristen Haring:Ham Radio's Technical Culture

Review by: By Sungook Hong

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2009

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english

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Robert Poole:Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth

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2009

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english

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Massimo Mazzotti (Editor):Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes

Review by: By Sergio Sismondo

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2009

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english

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PDF, 34 KB

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Frank Linhard:NewtonsSpiritsund der Leibnizsche Raum,

Review by: By Patricia Radelet–de Grave

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2009

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english

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Brian Rotman:Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being

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2009

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english

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Anita McConnell:Jesse Ramsden (1735– 1800): London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker

Review by: By Pedro Raposo

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2009

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english

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