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Volume 108; Issue 2

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Volume 108; Issue 2

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Heiko Stoff. Gift in der Nahrung: Zur Genese der Verbraucherpolitik Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts . 248 pp., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. €49 (paper).

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Christophe Bonneuil; Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us . Translated by David Fernbach xiv + 306 pp., figs., illus., index. London/New York: Verso Books, 2016. £16.99 (cloth).

Howe, Joshua P.

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Brian P. Copenhaver. Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment . xiv + 600 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. $125 (cloth).

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Héron d’Alexandrie. Metrica: Introduction, texte critique, traduction française et notes de commentaire . Edited by Fabio Acerbi and Bernard Vitrac. (Mathematica Graeca Antiqua, 4.) 712 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. Pisa/Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2014. €220 (paper).

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Jeroen van Dongen (Editor). Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge . (History of Science and Medicine Library, 51; History of Modern Science, 1.) x + 293 pp., figs., tables, index. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €115 (cloth).

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Ronald R. Kline. The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age . (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History.) xi + 336 pp., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. $54.95 (cloth).

Ensmenger, Nathan

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Samuel J. Redman. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums . 373 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2016. $29.95 (cloth).

Rader, Karen A.

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Jeremy Gray. The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the Nineteenth Century . (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series.) xvi + 350 pp., figs., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015. €36 (paper).

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Robert J. Richards; Lorraine Daston (Editors). Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic . 208 pp., figs., table, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $25 (paper).William J. Devlin; Alisa Bokulich (Editors). Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”—Fifty Years On . (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 311.) xi + 199 pp., bibls., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015. €105.99 (cloth).

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Matthew Bell. Melancholia: The Western Malady . xvii + 210 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £65 (cloth).Stephanie Shirilan. Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy . (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.) xii + 218 pp., bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. £60 (cloth).

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Geoffrey Gorham; Benjamin Hill; Edward Slowik; C. Kenneth Waters (Editors). The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century . (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 20.) 346 pp., figs., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. $40 (paper).

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Jesuit Scientists and Mongolian Fossils: The French Paleontological Missions in China, 1923–1928

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Constructing Canals on Mars: Event Astronomy and the Transmission of International Telegraphic News

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Common Knowledge: Bodies, Evidence, and Expertise in Early Modern Germany

Mendelsohn, J. Andrew, Kinzelbach, Annemarie

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Ana Simões; Maria Paula Diogo; Kostas Gavroglu (Editors). Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Academic Landscapes . (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 309.) x + 393 pp., illus., bibls., index. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. $179 (cloth).

Wachelder, Joseph

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Serena Bianchetti; Michele Cataudella; Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Editors). Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition . (Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies.) xviii + 490 pp., figs., illus., maps, bibl., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016. $210 (cloth).

Irby, Georgia L.

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Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle’s Biology

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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2016

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Consequences of the Spanish Civil War for Entomology: A Quantitative Example of Abrupt Alteration in Scientific Research Dynamics

Albaladejo, Carolina Martín, Sanchiz, Borja

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On Building Knowledge: Comments on “Qualifying Consequences”

Albaladejo, Carolina Martín, Sanchiz, Borja

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Giuseppe Bruzzaniti. Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius . Translated by Ugo Bruzzo. x + 348 pp., figs., tables, apps., index. New York: Springer, 2016. $129 (cloth).

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Editor’s Introduction

Cohen, H. Floris

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Sarah Amato. Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture . x + 306 pp., illus., bibl., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. $65 (cloth).

Conlin, Jonathan

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Introduction: History of Science Museums between Academics and Audiences

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Erika Dyck; Larry Stewart (Editors). The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century . (Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities, 95.) xii + 297 pp., illus., tables, graphs, index. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2016. €115 (cloth).

Jacobs, Noortje

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Hyung Wook Park. Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–1960 . viii + 342 pp., illus., tables, figs., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $50 (cloth).

Matthews, J. Rosser

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Ralph M. Leck. Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science . xviii + 279 pp., illus., bibl., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. $60 (cloth).

Mildenberger, Florian G.

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Karine Chemla; Jacques Virbel (Editors). Texts, Textual Acts, and the History of Science . ix + 430 pp. Cham, Switzerland/New York: Springer, 2015. $129.

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Rebecca Priestley. Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science . xxxiii + 422 pp., illus., bibl., index. Wellington, New Zealand: AWA Press, 2016. NZ $55 (paper).

Bocking, Stephen

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Orit Halpern. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 . (Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices.) ix + 342 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2014. £17.99 (paper).

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Melissa Graboyes. The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014 . (Perspectives on Global Health.) xxvii + 307 pp., illus., tables. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. $27.50 (cloth).

Greenwood, Anna

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Karen Bush Gibson. Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures . (Women of Action.) 234 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014. $19.95 (cloth).

McLennan, Sarah

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Tamara Plakins Thornton. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life . xiv + 402 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. $35 (cloth).

Bergland, Renée

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Thomas A. Apel. Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic . x + 191 pp., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. $60 (cloth).

Tannenbaum, Rebecca J.

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Juliette Kennedy (Editor). Interpreting Gödel: Critical Essays . xi + 279 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £60 (cloth).

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Gowan Dawson. Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America . 476 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $50 (paper).Martin J. S. Rudwick. Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters . ix + 360 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. £30 (cloth).

Tamborini, Marco

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Sarah Bridger. Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research . x + 350 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2015. $45 (cloth).

Doel, Ronald E.

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Science Museums: A Panoramic View

Bergers, Lara, Trijp, Didi van

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Science Museums and Science Education

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“Time Capsules” of Science: Museums, Collections, and Scientific Heritage in Portugal

Lourenço, Marta C., Dias, José Pedro Sousa

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Challenging Tropes: Genius, Heroic Invention, and the Longitude Problem in the Museum

Higgitt, Rebekah

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Present Tense: Locating History in Boston’s Museums of Science

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Fraser MacDonald; Charles W. J. Withers (Editors). Geography, Technology, and Instruments of Exploration . (Studies in Historical Geography.) xii + 269 pp., figs., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. £70 (cloth).

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Peter Barthel; George H. van Kooten (Editors). The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Experts on the Ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and Modern Astronomy . (Themes in Biblical Narrative: Jewish and Christian Traditions, 19.) xxii + 695 pp., illus., tables, bibls., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. €186 (cloth).

Kremer, Richard L.

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Qualifying Consequences: A Response to “Consequences of the Spanish Civil War for Entomology”

Johnson, Kristin

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Tania Munz. The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language . 278 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $30 (cloth).

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Gregory B. Moynahan. Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899–1919 . lii + 225 pp., index. London/New York: Anthem Press, 2014. $40 (paper).

Freyberg, Sascha

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Marco Beretta; Francesco Citti; Alessandro Iannucci (Editors). Il culto di Epicuro: Testi, iconografia e paesaggio . (Biblioteca di Nuncius: Studi e Testi, 71.) vi + 314 pp., figs., tables, index. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. €34 (paper).

Piergiacomi, Enrico

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Sarah Gordon. Indecent Exposures: Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion” Nudes . ix + 173 pp., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2015. $65 (cloth).

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Rebecca Lemov. Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity . xii + 368 pp. bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2015. $35 (cloth).

Shapira, Michal

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Aitor Anduaga. Geophysics, Realism, and Industry: How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900–1960 . xviii + 339 pp., figs., illus., app., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. $75 (cloth).

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Sergei S. Demidov; Boris V. Lëvshin (Editors). The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin . Translated by Roger Cooke. (History of Mathematics, 43.) xxix + 375 pp., illus., indexes. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2016. $59 (cloth).

Gerovitch, Slava

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Paul J. J. M. Bakker (Editor). Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and Its Reception in the Latin West . (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: Series 1.) xiv + 249 pp., bibl., indexes. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. €80 (cloth).

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Andreas Lerch. Scientia astrologiae: Der Diskurs über die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Astrologie und die lateinischen Lehrbücher 1470–1610 . (Acta Historica Astronomiae, 56.) 321 pp., illus., tables, index. Leipzig: AVA—Akademischen Verlagsanstalt, 2015. €29 (paper).

Stuckrad, Kocku von

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Didier Kahn. Le fixe et le volatile: Chimie et alchimie, de Paracelse à Lavoisier . 233 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: CNRS, 2016. €22 (paper).

Peterschmitt, Luc

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Michael Schüring. “Bekennen gegen den Atomstaat”: Die evangelischen Kirchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Konflikte um die Atomenergie, 1970–1990 . (Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue Folge, 31.) 317 pp., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015. €29.90 (cloth).

Beyler, Richard H.

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Joris Vandendriessche; Evert Peeters; Kaat Wils (Editors). Scientists’ Expertise as Performance: Between State and Society, 1860–1960 . (History and Philosophy of Technoscience, 6.) xv + 239 pp., figs., index. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. £95 (cloth).

Hartmann, Heinrich

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Scott Curtis. The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany . (Film and Culture.) xv + 371 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. $35 (paper).

Killen, Andreas

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James T. Costa. Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species . xvii + 331 pp., illus., tables, app., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2014. £29.95, $42 (cloth).

Bellon, Richard

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Sigrid Schmalzer. Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . x + 304 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $45 (cloth).

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Christian Fleck. Etablierung in der Fremde: Vertriebene Wissenschaftler in den USA nach 1933 . 475 pp., tables, figs., bibl., index. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2015. €39.90 (paper).

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Axel Jansen; Andreas Franzmann; Peter Münte (Editors). Legitimizing Science: National and Global Publics (1800–2010) . 331 pp., figs. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2015. €45 (paper).

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C. G. Jung; Erich Neumann. Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann . Edited and introduced by Martin Liebscher. Translated by Heather McCartney. lxi + 424 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. £24.95 (cloth).

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Johannes Kepler. Vom wahren Geburtsjahr Christi . Translated by Otto Schönberger and Eva Schönberger. (Itinera Classica, 10.) 187 pp., bibl. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2016. €34.80 (paper).

Nothaft, C. Philipp E.

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Neel Ahuja. Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . xix + 262 pp., figs., bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2016. $24.95 (paper).

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Giovanni Sommaruga; Thomas Strahm (Editors). Turing’s Revolution: The Impact of His Ideas about Computability . xxiv + 329 pp., figs. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $109 (cloth).

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Letters to the Editor

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