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Volume 105; Issue 2
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Volume 105; Issue 2
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Volume 105; Issue 2
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HSS 2013 Prize Citations
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An Assemblage of Science and Home: The Gendered Lifestyle of Svante Arrhenius and Early Twentieth-Century Physical Chemistry
Bergwik, Staffan
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Why Isn’t Exploration a Science?
Heggie, Vanessa
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The Great Revolution in the Earth Sciences in the Mid-Twentieth Century Henry R. Frankel . The Continental Drift Controversy . 4 volumes. Volume 1: Wegener and the Early Debate . xxii + 604 pp., illus., bibl., index. Volume 2: Paleomagnetism and Confirmation of Drift . xviii + 525 pp., illus., bibl., index. Volume 3: Introduction of Seafloor Spreading . xvi + 476 pp., illus., bibl., index. Volume 4: Evolution into Plate Tectonics . xix + 675 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $400 (cloth).
Hallam, Tony
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“Being the World Eternal …”: The Age of the Earth in Renaissance Italy
Dal Prete, Ivano
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Digitizing Isaac Newton Robert Iliffe (Director). The Newton Project . http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk . William R. Newman (Director). The Chymistry of Isaac Newton . http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/ . Stephen Snobelen (Director). The Newton Project Canada . http://www.isaacnewton.ca/ .
Guicciardini, Niccolò
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Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
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Rhodri Lewis . William Petty on the Order of Nature: An Unpublished Manuscript Treatise . (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 399.) xiii + 176 pp., bibl., index. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. $55 (cloth).
Rusnock, Andrea
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Michael Friedman . Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science . xix + 646 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. $110 (cloth).
Hyder, David
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Lawrence M. Principe . The Secrets of Alchemy . v + 281 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $25 (cloth).
Beretta, Marco
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Peter J. Bowler . Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin . ix + 318 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $30 (cloth).
Hale, Piers J.
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Andrew F. Jones. Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture . 259 pp., illus., app., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2011. $49.95, €45, £36.95 (cloth).
Shen, Grace Yen
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Sharon M. Leon. An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics . ix + 226 pp., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
Dowbiggin, Ian
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William J. Turkel. Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery . xi + 287 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. $34.95 (cloth).
Fara, Patricia
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Klaas van Berkel. Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making . vii + 265 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. $39.95 (paper).
Schuster, John A.
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Elaine McKinnon Riehm;, Frances Hoffman. Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal . xii + 257 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2011. $45.96 (cloth).
Kent, Deborah
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Marga Vicedo. The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America . ix + 321 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
van der Horst, Frank
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Introduction
Rozwadowski, Helen M.
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The Spaces In Between: Science, Ocean, Empire
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Rozwadowski, Helen M.
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In the Wake of Politics: The Political and Economic Construction of Fisheries Biology, 1860–1970
Hubbard, Jennifer
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Scaling Up Our Vision
Oreskes, Naomi
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Notes on Contributors
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In Reply
Ganeri, Jonardon
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Roger Cooter. With, Claudia Stein. Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine . xiv + 350 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
Anderson, Warwick
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Graham Farmelo. Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race . 553 pp., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2013. $29.99 (cloth).
Moore, Richard
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2014
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Tobias Krüger. Discovering the Ice Ages: International Reception and Consequences for a Historical Understanding of Climate . Translated by, Ann M. Hentschel. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 37.) xix + 534 pp., bibls., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013. $179 (cloth).
Hestmark, Geir
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Wendy Beth Hyman (Editor). The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature . vi + 209 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. £55 (cloth).
Vermeir, Koen
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Nicholas Popper. Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance . xvi + 350 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. $55, £35.50 (cloth).
Olshin, Benjamin B.
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Alisha Rankin. Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany . xiv + 298 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $40 (cloth).
Grell, Ole Peter
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Massimo Bucciantini;, Michele Camerota;, Franco Giudice. Il telescopio di Galileo: Una storia europea . xxvii + 317 pp., illus., bibl., index. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2012. €25 (paper).
Valleriani, Matteo
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Sean Cocco. Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy . xi+322 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $54, £29 (cloth).
Conforti, Maria
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Ofer Gal;, Raz Chen-Morris. Baroque Science . xiv + 333 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
Marcaida, José Ramón
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2014
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Daniel Garber;, Sophie Roux (Editors). The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy . (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 300.) xviii + 338 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2013. $179 (cloth).
Jenkins, Jane
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Roger Hahn (Editor). Correspondance de Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827) . Volumes 1 and 2. xiv + 1,416 pp., illus., tables, index. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2012. €120 (cloth).
Fraser, Craig
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Eric Jorink;, Ad Maas (Editors). Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic . 256 pp., illus., index. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2013. $37 (paper).
Gaukroger, Stephen
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Alain Mothu. La pensée en cornue: Matérialisme, alchimie et saviors secrets à l'âge classique . xii + 408 pp., illus., apps., index. Paris: SÉHA, 2012. €34 (paper).
Peterschmitt, Luc
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Daniel Stolzenberg. Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity . xi + 307 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $50 (cloth).
Waddell, Mark A.
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David Arnold. Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity . 223 pp., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $30 (cloth).
Prakash, Gyan
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Peter G. Ayres. Shaping Ecology: The Life of Arthur Tansley . xii + 213 pp., illus., bibl., index. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. $99.95 (cloth).
Anker, Peder
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On Barak. On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt . xiii + 341 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. $29.95 (paper).
Arnold, David
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Adelene Buckland. Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology . 377 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
Oldroyd, David
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Michael Hagner. Der Hauslehrer: Die Geschichte eines Kriminalfalls: Erziehung, Sexualität und Medien um 1900 . 280 pp., bibl. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010. €19 (paper).
Sauerteig, Lutz
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Dieter Hoffmann;, Mark Walker (Editors). The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation . Translated by, Ann M. Hentschel. xxiii + 458 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. $90 (cloth).
Kojevnikov, Alexei
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Christian Holtorf. Der erste Draht zur Neuen Welt: Die Verlegung des transatlantischen Telegrafenkabels . 350 pp., illus., app., bibl. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2013. €41.10 (cloth).
Müller-Pohl, Simone
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Tong Lam. A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 . xiii + 263 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. $60, £41.95 (cloth).
Chiang, Howard
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Marli F. Weiner. With, Mazie Hough. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South . xii + 267 pp., index. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. $60 (cloth).
Bankole-Medina, Katherine
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Sheldon Krimsky;, Jeremy Gruber (Editors). Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense . xi + 368 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. $45 (cloth).
Allen, Garland E.
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Stefan Sperling. Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany . 333 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $32.50 (paper).
Stahnisch, Frank W.
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Errata
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Letter to the Editor
Cohen, H. Floris
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François Delaporte. Figures of Medicine: Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites . Translated by, Nils F. Schott. xxiii + 173 pp., illus. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. $26 (paper).
Osborne, Michael A.
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Peter Meusburger;, Thomas Schuch (Editors). Wissenschaftsatlas of Heidelberg University: Spatio-Temporal Relations of Academic Knowledge Production . 391 pp., illus., apps., bibl. Knittlingen: Verlag Bibliotheca Palatina, 2012. €129 (cloth).
Finkelstein, Gabriel
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Piers Mitchell (Editor). Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display . viii + 186 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. $89 (cloth).
Stephens, Elizabeth
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Thomas K. Simpson. Newton, Maxwell, Marx: Spirit, Freedom, and the Scientific Vision . viii + 302 pp., illus., bibl., index. Santa Fe, N.M.: Green Lion Press, 2012. $21.95 (paper).
Josefowicz, Diane Greco
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Alison Winter. Memory: Fragments of a Modern History . x + 319 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $30 (cloth).
Cohen-Cole, Jamie
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Jacopo Aconcio. Trattato sulle fortificazioni . Edited by, Paola Giacomoni, with the collaboration of, Giovanni Maria Fara and Renato Giacomelli. Translated by, Omar Khalaf. (Studi e Testi, 48.) v + 212 pp., illus., index. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2011. €28.
Pepper, Simon
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Sarah Blake McHam. Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance . xiii + 450 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. $75 (cloth).
Smith, Pamela H.
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Janice Neri. The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 . xxvii + 233 pp., illus., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. $27.50 (paper).
Jorink, Eric
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Anna Marie Roos. Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist . (History of Science and Medicine Library, 22; Medieval and Early Modern Science, 16.) xx + 478 pp., illus., bibl., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. $177 (cloth).
Winsor, Mary Pickard
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Alexander R. Bay. Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease . x + 230 pp., bibl., index. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. $95 (cloth).
Otsubo, Sumiko
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Barbara J. Becker. Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy . xix + 380 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $115.
Ratcliff, Jessica
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David G. Schuster. Neurasthenic Nation: America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869–1920 . xii + 203 pp., illus., tables, index. New Brunswick, N.J./London: Rutgers University Press, 2011. $42.95 (cloth).
Eghigian, Greg
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Finn Brunton. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet . xxiii + 270 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $27.95 (cloth).
Abbate, Janet
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Hannah Gay. The Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain . ix + 430 pp., bibl., index. London: Imperial College Press, 2013. $99 (paper).
Bocking, Stephen
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Rolf-Jürgen Gleitsmann;, Günther Oetzel. Fortschrittsfeinde im Atomzeitalter? Protest und Innovationsmanagement am Beispiel der frühen Kernenergiepläne der Bundesrepublik Deutschland . 212 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2012. €20 (paper).
Schüring, Michael
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Chunjuan Nancy Wei;, Darryl E. Brock (Editors). Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China . xxxii + 391 pp., bibl., index. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. $85 (cloth).
Rocha, Leon Antonio
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Frontispiece
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Letter to the Editor
Gorelik, Gennady
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Andrés I. Prieto. Missionary Scientists: Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570–1810 . x + 287 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. $59.95 (cloth).
Barrera-Osorio, Antonio
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