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Volume 106; Issue 4

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Volume 106; Issue 4

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Andrea S. Wiley. Cultures of Milk: The Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and India . xi + 193 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. $39.95 (cloth).

Woods, Rebecca J. H.

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Neil Chambers (Editor). The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820 . Volume 7. (The Pickering Masters.) 608 pp. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. £100 (cloth).Neil Chambers (Editor). The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820 . Volume 8. (The Pickering Masters.) 448 pp. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £100 (cloth).

Miller, David Philip

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Karl A. E. Enenkel; Paul J. Smith (Editors). Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education . (Intersections, 32.) xxiv + 522 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Leiden: Brill, 2014. $179 (cloth).

Roos, Anna Marie

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Avi Sharma. We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany . ix + 210 pp., bibl., index. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014. $35 (paper).

Mildenberger, Florian G.

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Amit Prasad. Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India . (Inside Technology.) xi + 219 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. $37 (cloth).

Stingl, Alexander I.

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Manfred Horstmanshoff; Helen King; Claus Zittel (Editors). Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe . (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 25.) xxvi + 772 pp., illus., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €224 (cloth).

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James Tabery. Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture . xiii + 279 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. $40 (cloth).

Weidman, Nadine

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Philosophical Intelligence: Letters, Print, and Experiment during Napoleon’s Continental Blockade

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Anne-Lise Rey (Editor). Méthode et histoire: Quelle histoire font les historiens des sciences et des techniques? (Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences, 6.) 513 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. €49 (paper).

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Christopher Hamlin. More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever . (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease.) xii + 383 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $25.95 (paper).

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Zvi Artstein. Mathematics and the Real World: The Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of Mathematics . Translated by Alan Hercberg. 426 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014. $26 (cloth).

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James Rodger Fleming; Ann Johnson (Editors). Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective . xiv + 284 pp., illus., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. $28.95 (paper).

Le Roux, Thomas

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Jonathan Reinarz. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell . xi + 279 pp., illus., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2014. $90 (cloth).

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Ark and Archive: Making a Place for Long-Term Research on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

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Elizabeth W. Mellyn. Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy . 290 pp., illus., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. $55 (cloth).

Andretta, Elisa

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C. Philipp E. Nothaft. Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar: A Study with Five Editions and Translations . (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 4.) xii + 690 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €162 (cloth).

Mosshammer, Alden

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Anne Kirkham; Cordelia Warr (Editors). Wounds in the Middle Ages . (History of Medicine in Context.) xiv + 254 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £70 (cloth).

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Finn Aaserud; J. L. Heilbron. Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr’s 1913 Trilogy Revisited . viii + 284 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. $61 (cloth).

Rentetzi, Maria

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Néstor Herran; Xavier Roqué (Editors). La física en la dictadura: Físicos, cultura y poder en Enspaña 1939–1975 . (Congressos, 10.) 312 pp., tables, bibl. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Servei de Publicacions, 2012. €16 (cloth).

Puig, Albert Presas

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Patience A. Schell. The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile . (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xii + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £61 (cloth).

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Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (Editor). Siméon-Denis Poisson: Les mathématiques au service de la science . (Histoire des Mathématiques et des Sciences Physiques.) xiii + 522 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Éditions de l’École Polytechnique, 2013. €26.60 (paper).

Ehrhardt, Caroline

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Eloge: Ivor Grattan-Guinness 1941–2014

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Trading Zones in Early Modern Europe

Long, Pamela O.

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Producing (in) Europe and Asia, 1750–1850

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John B. Hearnshaw. The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy . xvi + 367 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibls., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $120 (cloth).

Becker, Barbara J.

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Ludger Müller-Wille. The Franz Boas Enigma: Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences . 186 pp., illus., bibl., index. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2014. $24.95 (paper).

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Noah J. Efron. A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century . (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) xv + 149 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $26.95 (cloth).

Gordin, Michael D.

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Krista Maglen. The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone . x + 240 pp., tables, bibl., index. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. $95 (cloth).

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Adrian M. K. Thomas; Arpan K. Banerjee. The History of Radiology . (Oxford Medical Histories.) xiii + 222 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. $82 (cloth).

Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann

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Roman Duda. Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics . (History of Mathematics, 40.) Translated by Daniel Davies. xi + 231 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2014. $39 (cloth).

Zitarelli, David E.

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Anke te Heesen. The Newspaper Clipping: A Modern Paper Object . Translated by Lori Lantz. (Rethinking Art’s Histories.) x + 281 pp., illus., bibl., index. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. £70 (cloth).

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George Weisz. Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History . xvi + 307 pp., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $29.95 (paper).

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Lundy Braun. Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics . xxix + 271 pp., illus., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. $24.95 (cloth).

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Kathryn Steen. The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910–1930 . xii + 404 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. $39.95 (paper).

Travis, Anthony S.

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Katherine C. Epstein. Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain . 305 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).

Hacker, Barton C.

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Susanne Lettow (Editor). Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences . (Philosophy and Race.) vi + 294 pp., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. $85 (cloth).

Gregory, Frederick

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Jing Tsu; Benjamin A. Elman (Editors). Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s–1940s . (China Studies, 27.) xii + 347 pp., illus., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2014. $148 (cloth).

Grunden, Walter E.

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David I. Spanagel. DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York . xii + 270 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $54.95 (cloth).

Greene, Mott T.

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Maria Pia Donato. Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome . ix + 229 pp., tables, index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014. £63 (cloth).

Meli, Domenico Bertoloni

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Introduction: Bridging Concepts

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On Machines, Self-Organization, and the Global Traveling of Knowledge, circa 1500–1900

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Adrian Wilson. Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England . (History of Medicine in Context.) vi + 261 pp., bibl., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. £70 (cloth).

Blumenthal, Debra

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Miguel A. Granada; Adam Mosley; Nicholas Jardine (Editors). Christoph Rothmann’s Discourse on the Comet of 1585: An Edition and Translation with Accompanying Essays . (History of Science and Medicine Library, 44; Medieval and Early Modern Science, 22.) xx + 376 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €140 (cloth).

Christianson, J. R.

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Eileen Reeves. Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe . 328 pp., illus., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. $69.95 (cloth).

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Douglas D. C. Chambers; David Galbraith (Editors). The Letterbooks of John Evelyn . Two volumes. lxiii + 1,236 pp., illus., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. €195 (cloth).

Hunter, Michael

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Richard Sorrenson. Perfect Mechanics: Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century . ix + 240 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Boston: Docent Press, 2013. $17.99 (paper).

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Emma C. Spary. Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815 . (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories.) xi + 428 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $99 (cloth).

Williams, Elizabeth A.

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Grace Yen Shen. Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China . 309 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).

Thompson, Roger R.

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James A. Secord. Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age . xiii + 306 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £18.99 (cloth).

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Takashi Ito. London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828–1859 . xi + 204 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014. $90 (cloth).

Clark, J. F. M.

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Medieval Round Churches and the Shape of the Earth

Haagensen, Erling, Lind, Niels C.

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Isaac Newton, Historian: Redivivus Jed Z. Buchwald; Mordechai Feingold. Newton and the Origin of Civilization . ix + 528 pp., illus., tables, index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. $49.50 (cloth).

Snobelen, Stephen D.

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Dean Rickles. A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory . (The Frontiers Collection.) xix + 251 pp., figs., tables, index. Berlin: Springer, 2014. €42.39 (cloth).

Blum, Alexander

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Paul Sabin. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future . ix + 304 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2013.

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John S. Haller, Jr. Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies . xxix + 255 pp., app., notes, bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. $35 (cloth).

Matthews, J. Rosser

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Laura Dawes. Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic . viii + 305 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).

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Peter Wade; Carlos López Beltrán; Eduardo Restrepo; Ricardo Ventura Santos (Editors). Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America . xii + 304 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. $25.95 (paper).

Rodriguez, Julia

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Till Düppe; E. Roy Weintraub. Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit . xxv + 276 pp., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. $39.50 (cloth).

Stapleford, Thomas

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Andrew Hamilton (Editor). The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics . (Species and Systematics, 5.) viii + 311 pp., illus., bibls., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. $65 (cloth).

Winsor, Mary P.

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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa . vii + 300 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $35 (paper).

Tousignant, Noémi

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Notes on Contributors

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Index to Isis , Volume 106, 2015

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Contents of Isis , Volume 106

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Astrid Schwarz. Experiments in Practice . (History and Philosophy of Technoscience, 2.) vii + 257 pp., illus., maps, table, bibl., index. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £60 (cloth).

Barwich, Ann-Sophie

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Prudence M. Rice. Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua . xx + 378 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibl., index. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013. $70 (cloth).

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Rens Bod. A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present . xv + 384 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45 (cloth).

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Catelijne Coopmans; Janet Vertesi; Michael Lynch; Steve Woolgar (Editors). Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited . (Inside Technology.) ix + 366 pp., illus., bibls., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2014. $36 (paper).

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Timothy S. Miller; John W. Nesbitt. Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West . xiv + 243 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. $35 (cloth).

Mellyn, Elizabeth W.

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Tanja Klemm. Bildphysiologie: Wahrnehmung und Körper in Mittelalter und Renaissance . xii + 324 pp., illus., apps., bibl., name index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013. €99.80 (cloth).

Verboon, Annemieke

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George Steinmetz (Editor). Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline . xvi + 610 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. $34.95 (paper).

Dryer, Theodora

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Log Books and the Law of Storms: Maritime Meteorology and the British Admiralty in the Nineteenth Century

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Formalization and Interaction: Toward a Comprehensive History of Technology-Related Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Popplow, Marcus

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Frederick Burkhardt; James Secord; et al. (Editors). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin . Volume 20. xxxix + 862 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £90 (cloth).Frederick Burkhardt; James Secord; et al. (Editors). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin . Volume 21. xxxvii + 784 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £90 (cloth).

Ghiselin, Michael

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Paula Martin. Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France . (The History of Medicine in Context.) 170 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £58.50 (cloth).

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W. Boyd Rayward (Editor). Information beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque . xvii + 318 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £65 (cloth).

Mergoupi-Savaidou, Eirini

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Kimberly A. Hamlin. From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America . vii + 238 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $40 (cloth).

Richards, Evelleen

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Johannes Zachhuber. Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany: From F. C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch . (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology.) xii + 318 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £56.25 (cloth).

Meneghello, Laura

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Luise Hirsch. From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women and Cultural Exchange . (Studies in Judaism.) xiv + 319 pp., illus., bibl., index. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2013. $32.35 (paper).

Gilman, Sander L.

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Alexander von Humboldt. Views of Nature . Edited by Stephen T. Jackson and Laura Dassow Walls. Translated by Mark W. Person. viii + 313 pp., tables, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).

Martin, Alison E.

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Emily Berquist Soule. The Bishop’s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru . (Early Modern Americas.) 336 pp., illus., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. $45 (cloth).

Bigelow, Allison Margaret

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Ina Goy; Eric Watkins (Editors). Kant’s Theory of Biology . x + 321 pp., bibls., indexes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. €99.95 (cloth).

Duchesneau, François

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Craig Martin. Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science . 262 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $54.95 (cloth).

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Lawrence J. Baack. Undying Curiosity: Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia, 1761–1767 . (Oriens et Occidens: Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben, 22.) 443 pp., illus., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. €68 (cloth).

Klaver, Jan Marten Ivo

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Jamie C. Kassler. Seeking Truth: Roger North’s Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke, c. 1704–1713 . xii + 374 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. £80 (cloth).

Yenter, Timothy

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Ab Flipse. Christelijke wetenschap: Nederlandse rooms-katholieken en gereformeerden over de natuurwetenschap, 1880–1940 . 327 pp., illus., bibl., index. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2014. €29 (paper).

van der Meer, Jitse

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Elizabeth Lunbeck. The Americanization of Narcissism . 367 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. $35 (cloth).

Harrington, Anne

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W. Henry Lambright. Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration . x + 320 pp., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $49.95 (cloth).

Logsdon, John M.

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Carsten Timmermann. A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease . (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern History.) x + 244 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Meldrum, Marcia

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Christopher Hollings. Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups . (History of Mathematics, 41.) xi + 441 pp., figs., tables, notes, app., bibl., index. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2014. $109 (cloth).

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Andrew J. Butrica. The Navigators: A History of NASA’s Deep-Space Navigation . iii + 367 pp., illus., index. San Bernardino, Calif.: Andrew J. Butrica, 2014. $59.95 (paper).

Smith, Robert W.

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Andrew L. Russell. Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks . (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise.) xvii + 306 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $32.99 (paper).

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Johannes Fontana. Liber instrumentorum iconographicus: Ein illustriertes Maschinenbuch . Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Horst Kranz. (Boethius, 66.) 192 pp., illus., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. €46 (cloth).

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Bernard Lightman; Bennett Zon (Editors). Evolution and Victorian Culture . (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 92.) xvii + 320 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £60 (cloth).

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Dániel Margócsy. Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age . xi + 319 pp., illus., map, tables, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $40 (cloth).

van Netten, Djoeke

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Paolo Galluzzi. Libertà di filosofare in naturalibus: I mondi paralleli di Cesi e Galileo . (Storia dell’Accademia dei Lincei, Studi 4.) 599 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Rome: Scienze e Lettere, Editore Commerciale, 2014. €100 (cloth).

Valleriani, Matteo

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Charles Mollan (Editor). William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland . (Royal Dublin Society–Science and Irish Culture Series, 4.) xxii + 368 pp., illus., bibl., index. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. £70 (cloth).

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J. David Pleins. In Praise of Darwin: George Romanes and the Evolution of a Darwinian Believer . xviii + 397 pp., illlus., app., bibl., index. New York/London: Bloomsbury, 2014. $34.95 (paper).

Dean, Sheila Ann

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