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Volume 108; Issue 3
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Volume 108; Issue 3
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Volume 108; Issue 3
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Surekha Davies. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters . xxi + 355 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. £74.99 (cloth).
Goddard, Peter A.
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Stephan Paetrow; Wolfgang Wimmer. Carl Zeiss: Eine Biografie, 1816–1888 . 143 pp., illus. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2016. €20.60 (cloth).
Staubermann, Klaus B.
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Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920 . xii + 266 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. $45 (cloth).
Grunden, Walter
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Pascal Schillings. Der letzte weiße Flecken: Europäische Antarktisreisen um 1900 . 448 pp., figs., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. €39.90 (cloth).
Weiss, Martin P. M.
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Jimena Canales. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time . vii + 479 pp., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. $35 (cloth).
Giovanelli, Marco
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Introduction: Hegemonic Languages and Science
Gordin, Michael D.
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“Darwin’s Delay”: A Reassessment of the Evidence
Buchanan, Roderick D.
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Bradley, James
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From Modernizing the Chinese Language to Information Science: Chao Yuen Ren’s Route to Cybernetics
Yeang, Chen-Pang
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False Reflexes in the History of PhysiologyDaniel P. Todes. Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science . xix + 855 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. £27.49 (cloth).
Stahnisch, Frank W.
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Thinking in Many Tongues: Language(s) and Late Imperial China’s Science
Schäfer, Dagmar
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“Making Trials” in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century European Academic Medicine
Ragland, Evan R.
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A “Precious Minority”: Constructing the “Gifted” and “Academically Talented” Student in the Era of Brown v. Board of Education and the National Defense Education Act
Porter, Jim Wynter
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Yiftach Fehige (Editor). Science and Religion: East and West . (Science and Technology Studies.) viii + 232 pp., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2016. £95 (cloth).
Long, Jeffery D.
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Rebecca Onion. Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States . (Studies in United States Culture.) xi + 226 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. $29.95 (paper).
Mody, Cyrus C. M.
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Alan C. Love (Editor). Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development . (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 307.) xviii + 490 pp., figs., tables, bibls., index. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. $179 (cloth).
Peirson, B. R. Erick
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Samir Boumediene. La colonisation du savoir: Une histoire de plantes médicinales du “Nouveau Monde” (1492–1750) . 477 pp., figs., glossary, notes. Vaulx-en-Velin: Éditions des Mondes à Faire, 2016. €24 (paper).
Klein, Wouter
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Amos Morris-Reich. Race and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876–1980 . xiv + 280 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $32.50 (paper).
Yeomans, Rory
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French in the Siècle des Lumières : A Universal Language?
Terrall, Mary
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E. Geoffrey Hancock; Nick Pearce; Mungo Campbell (Editors). William Hunter’s World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting . (Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950.) xxvii + 392 pp., illus., tables, index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. £80 (cloth).
Jordanova, Ludmilla
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Elizabeth Yale. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain . (Material Texts.) xi + 346 pp., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. $69.95 (cloth).
Charmantier, Isabelle
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Jason D. Hansen. Mapping the Germans: Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848–1914 . (Oxford Studies in Modern European History.) xv + 192 pp., maps, illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £60 (cloth).
Schröder, Iris
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A Choice of CompanionsBernard Lightman (Editor). A Companion to the History of Science . xvi + 601 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. £120 (cloth).Georgina M. Montgomery; Mark A. Largent (Editors). A Companion to the History of American Science . (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History.) xvii + 692 pp., bibl., index. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. £120 (cloth).
Heilbron, J. L.
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Francine F. Abeles; Mark E. Fuller (Editors). Modern Logic, 1850–1950, East and West . (Studies in Universal Logic.) xiii + 258 pp., figs. Basel: Springer, 2016. $69.99 (paper).
Aberdein, Andrew
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José Pinto de Azeredo. Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) . Translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones. Edited by Timothy D. Walker, Adelino Cardoso, António Braz de Oliveira, and Manuel Silvério Marques. (Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation, 2.) x + 151 pp., illus., bibl., index. Dartmouth, Mass.: Tagus Press, 2016. $24.95 (paper).
da Costa, Palmira Fontes
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William M. Cavert. The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City . xx + 274 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. £64.99 (cloth).
Brimblecombe, Peter
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Russian and the Making of World Languages during the Cold War
Aronova, Elena
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Latin in a Time of Change: The Choice of Language as Signifier of a New Science?
Fransen, Sietske
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“In a Clear Arabic Tongue”: Arabic and the Making of a Science-Language Regime
Ragab, Ahmed
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Annette Mülberger (Editor). Los límites de la ciencia: espiritismo, hipnotismo y el estudio de los fenómenos paranormales (1850–1930) . (Estudios sobre la ciencia, 67.) 346 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Madrid: Editorial CSIC, 2016. €30 (paper).
Casado, Santos
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Fay Bound Alberti. This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture . xii + 289 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £20 (cloth).
Subramaniam, Banu
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Angela Willey. Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology . xiv + 195 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2016. $23.95 (paper).
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
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Miriam Solomon. Making Medical Knowledge . xv + 261 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £35 (cloth).
Sturdy, Steve
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Christine Lehleiter (Editor). Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain . xii + 354 pp., illus., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. $75 (cloth).
Sha, Richard C.
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Angelo Baracca; Rosella Franconi. Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba’s Outstanding Achievements in Science and Biotechnology, 1959–2014 . (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology.) ix + 103 pp. Basel: Springer, 2016. $54.99 (paper).
Raby, Megan
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Jennifer Hubbard; David J. Wildish; Robert L. Stephenson (Editors). A Century of Maritime Science: The St. Andrews Biological Station . vii + 477 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. $85 (cloth).
Muka, Samantha
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Corine Defrance; Anne Kwaschik (Editors). La guerre froide et l’internationalisation des sciences: Acteurs, réseaux et institutions . 195 pp., figs., index. Paris: CNRS, 2016. €29 (paper).
Fontaine, Philippe
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Cristian Berco. From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain . xvi + 264 pp., tables, bibl., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. $65 (cloth).
Slater, John
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Roger Paulin. The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry . xiv + 662 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2016. £29.95 (paper).
Palmieri, Kristine
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Sofie Lachapelle. Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France . xii + 201 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $95 (cloth).
Gauvin, Jean-François
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Hannah Gay; William P. Griffith. The Chemistry Department at Imperial College London: A History, 1845–2000 . x + 569 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. London: World Scientific, 2017. £56 (cloth).
Patterson, Gary
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In Reply
Westman, Robert S.
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Joan T. Mark (1937–2015)
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Rossiter, Margaret W.
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Ronald Rainger (1949–2016)
Bengtsson, Keith R.
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John Stillwell. Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel . xiv + 422 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. $39.95 (cloth).
Turner, Laura E.
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Raz Chen-Morris. Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility . xi + 247 pp., figs., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. $79.95 (cloth).
Lawson, Ian
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Paola Zambelli. Alexandre Koyré in Incognito . (Biblioteca di Galilaeana, 5.) xxii + 288 pp., bibl., index. Florence: Olschki Editore, 2016. €32 (paper).
Beretta, Marco
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Robert B. Campenot. Animal Electricity: How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines . xii + 340 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2016. $39.95 (cloth).
Kuiper, Timothy
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Friedrich Steinle. Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics . Translated by Alex Levine. x + 494 pp., tables, figs., apps., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $65 (cloth).
Mitchell, Daniel Jon
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Robert J. Richards; Michael Ruse. Debating Darwin . xi + 299 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $30 (cloth).
Hahn, Andre Michael
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Cristina Bellorini. The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany: Medicine and Botany . (History of Medicine in Context.) xiv + 261 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2016. £95 (cloth).
Schmiedel, Irina
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David A. West. Darwin’s Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of Fritz Müller . xxii + 316 pp., figs., bibl., index. Gainesville: University Press Florida, 2016. $79.95 (cloth).
Barberis, Daniela S.
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Lara V. Marks. The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare . xxv + 316 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2015. $40 (cloth).
Park, Buhm Soon
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John Orton; Tom Foxon. Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Short History . xii + 516 pp., figs., illus., tables, indexes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £45 (cloth).
Brock, David C.
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Efthymios Nicolaidis; Constantine Skordoulis (Editors). The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism . ( Almagest , vol. 7, no. 1.) 319 pp., figs., bibl. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €33.00 (paper).
Koetsier, Teun
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Raf de Bont. Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870–1930 . 274 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $40 (paper).
Schwarz, Astrid
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Peter of Spain. Questiones super libro “De Animalibus” Aristotelis: Critical Edition with Introduction . Edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez. (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean.) xv + 451 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. £85 (cloth).
Spruyt, Joke
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Christopher Braun. Das Kitāb Sidrat al-muntahā des Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya: Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung eines hermetisch-allegorischen Traktats zur Alchemie . (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 327.) 160 pp., bibl., index. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2016. €39.80 (paper).
Martelli, Matteo
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Susan E. Cayleff. Nature’s Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America . x + 397 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. $39.95 (cloth).
Sharma, Avi
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Letters to the Editor
Vesel, Matjaž
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Rémi Luglia. Des savants pour protéger la nature: La Société d’acclimatation (1854–1960) . 432 pp., figs., bibl., index. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. €23 (paper).
Osborne, Michael A.
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Florian G. Mildenberger. Der Deutsche Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme, Kritik, Interpretation . 176 pp., figs., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. €16 (cloth).
Staudenmaier, Peter
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John Krige. Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: U.S. Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation . xii + 227 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $33 (cloth).
Augustine, Dolores L.
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Scott Selisker. Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . viii + 256 pp., figs., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. $26 (paper).
Holmes, Marcia
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SoÅa Å trbáÅová. Holding Hands with Bacteria: The Life and Work of Marjory Stephenson . (SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science: History of Chemistry.) 145 pp., figs., apps., indexes. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. $39.99 (paper).
Dröscher, Ariane
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