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Volume 109; Issue 1
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Volume 109; Issue 1
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Volume 109; Issue 1
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Geology and Christianity
van Lunteren, Frans
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2018
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Toward a Reflexive History of Modern Subjectivity
Mayer, Andreas
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2018
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The Place of Subjecthood in Madness: Toward an Intellectual History of Psychiatry on a Philosophical Basis
Scarfone, Marianna
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Capturing the “Spirit” of Stoic Physics
Langermann, Y. Tzvi
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2018
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Fragments of History and Science
Lewis, Orly
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2018
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Amir Alexander. Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World . 352 pp., figs., index. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. $27 (cloth).
Crippa, Davide
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2018
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Lysenko Unemployed: Soviet Genetics after the Aftermath
Gordin, Michael D.
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2018
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Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt’s Plant Geography and Vertical Cartography
Anthony, Patrick
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2018
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english
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Allan Franklin. What Makes a Good Experiment? Reasons and Roles in Science . viii + 372 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $55 (cloth).
Arabatzis, Theodore
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2018
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How to Make an Inca Mummy: Andean Embalming, Peruvian Science, and the Collection of Empire
Heaney, Christopher
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Isis
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2018
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Jeanne Kisacky. Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870–1940 . vii + 448 pp., figs., index. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. $65 (cloth).
Howell, Joel D.
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2018
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Leslie Topp. Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 . (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies.) xxii + 232 pp., figs., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. $99.95 (cloth).
Broere, Sebastiaan
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Juan Pimentel. The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History . Translated by Peter Mason. 356 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2017. $29.95 (cloth).
Margócsy, Dániel
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Isis
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2018
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Saulo de Freitas Araujo. Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal . xiv + 254 pp., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. €105.99 (cloth).
Ziche, Paul
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2018
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Angus McLaren. Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain . viii + 235 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $69 (cloth).
Largent, Mark A.
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2018
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Lorraine Daston (Editor). Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures . viii + 397 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $37.50 (paper).
Wright, Alex
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2018
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Édouard Mehl; Nicolas Roudet (Editors). Le temps des astronomes: L’astronomie et la décompte du temps de Pierre d’Ailly à Newton . 402 pp., figs., indexes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. €35 (paper).
Le Lay, Colette
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2018
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Humor in a Time of Science Wars: Rereading Isabelle Stengers
De Bont, Raf
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2018
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Taking Scientists (More) Seriously
Leclercq, Valérie
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Vandendriessche, Joris
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2018
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Creating Room for Historical Rationality
Engler, Fynn Ole
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Renn, Jürgen
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Schemmel, Matthias
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2018
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Gillian Beer. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll . ix + 296 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $35 (cloth).
Hesketh, Ian
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2018
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Alison Winter (1965–2016)
Kevles, Daniel J.
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2018
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse. Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance . xx + 660 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2016. $59.95 (cloth).
Galle, Karl
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2018
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Lawrence D. Longo; Lawrence P. Reynolds. Wombs with a View: Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century . xv + 380 pp., illus., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $44.99 (cloth).
du Plessis, Rory
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Isis
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2018
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Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Editor). The Impact of Arabic Sciences in Europe and Asia . (Micrologus, 24.) vi + 504 pp., illus., tables, indexes. Florence: Sismel—Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2016. €80 (paper).
Ragep, F. Jamil
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2018
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J. D. Trout. Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science . xiv + 241 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £19.99 (cloth).
Clericuzio, Antonio
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2018
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Peter Collins. The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960 . xix + 333 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. £64.99 (cloth).
Gregory, Jane
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2018
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James Q. Davies; Ellen Lockhart (Editors). Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 . vi + 257 pp., figs., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $55 (cloth).
Wardhaugh, Benjamin
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2018
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Robin E. Jensen. Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term . (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric.) xiii + 225 pp., figs., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. $29.95 (paper).
Marsh, Margaret
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2018
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Harald Siebert. Die ptolemäische “Optik” in Spätantike und byzantinischer Zeit: Historiographische Dekonstruktion, textliche Neuerschließung, Rekontextualisierung . (Boethius, 67.) 575 pp., fig., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. €86 (cloth).
Webster, Colin
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Isis
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2018
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Delphine Antoine-Mahut; Stephen Gaukroger (Editors). Descartes’ Treatise on Man and Its Reception . (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43.) 304 pp., figs. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. €105.99 (cloth).
van Berkel, Klaas
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Isis
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2018
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Klaus Taschwer. Der Fall Paul Kammerer: Das abenteurliche Leben des umstrittensten Biologen seiner Zeit . 351 pp., figs., bibl., index. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2016. €24 (cloth).
Hopwood, Nick
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2018
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Mi Gyung Kim. The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe . xxv + 427 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. $54.95 (cloth).
Lynn, Michael R.
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Isis
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2018
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Al Coppola. The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain . x + 265 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99 (cloth).
Paskins, Matthew
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2018
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Cyrus C. M. Mody. The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science . x + 284 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2017. $45 (cloth).
Slayton, Rebecca
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2018
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Mark Coeckelbergh. New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine . x + 320 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2017. $50 (cloth).
Alexander, Amir
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2018
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Chris Bernhardt. Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science . x + 189 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $26.95 (cloth).
Thomas, Wolfgang
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2018
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Doug Millard. Satellite: Innovation in Orbit . 206 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. £16 (cloth).David J. Shayler. The Hubble Space Telescope: From Concept to Success . With David M. Harland. xviii + 414 pp., figs., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Springer, 2016. $39.99 (paper).
Lambright, W. Henry
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2018
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Hunter Heyck. Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science . ix + 258 pp., figs., app., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. $54.95 (cloth).
Erickson, Paul
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2018
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Hunter Heyck. Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science . ix + 258 pp., figs., app., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. $54.95 (cloth).
Erickson, Paul
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Isis
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2018
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Franklin H. Portugal. The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code . xi + 169 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $17.95 (cloth).
Hogan, Andrew J.
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Isis
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2018
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english
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Jean-Michel Delire. Les mathématiques de l’autel védique: Le Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra et son commentaire Śulbadīpikā . (Hautes Études Orientales—Extrême-Orient, 15.) xiv + 626 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2016. €100.23 (paper).
Danino, Michel
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Isis
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2018
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Marco Beretta; Maria Conforti; Paolo Mazzarello (Editors). Savant Relics: Brains and Remains of Scientists . xii + 236 pp., figs., index. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2016. $56 (paper).
Hicks, Robert D.
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2018
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Between Two Poles: Positivism and Historicism in the History of Contemporary Geography
Portuondo, María M.
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2018
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Brian J. McVeigh. The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950 . (Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.) ix + 319 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. $114 (cloth).
Blowers, Geoffrey
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2018
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Martijn van Calmthout. Sam Goudsmit: Zijn jacht op de atoombom van Hitler . 285 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 2016. €24.99 (paper).
Hoeneveld, Friso
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Isis
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2018
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Brian J. McVeigh. The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950 . (Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.) ix + 319 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. $114 (cloth).
Blowers, Geoffrey
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2018
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Francesca Rochberg. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science . 369 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $55 (cloth).
Stevens, Kathryn
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2018
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Francesca Rochberg. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science . 369 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $55 (cloth).
Stevens, Kathryn
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The Logic That Governs Each Step of Scientific Research
Guzzardi, Luca
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2018
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David I. Shyovitz. A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz . (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) ix + 336 pp., figs., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. $59.95 (cloth).
Berns, Andrew
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2018
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The History of Geography: Narratives to Discipline the Past and Reinvent Geography as a Modern Discipline
Lois, Carla
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2018
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Klaus Hentschel; Ning Yan Zhu (Editors). Gustav Robert Kirchhoffâs Treatise âOn the Theory of Light Raysâ (1882): English Translation, Analysis, and Commentary . ix + 155 pp., figs., index. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific, 2016. £73 (cloth).
Eckert, Michael
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2018
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Kieran McNally. A Critical History of Schizophrenia . (Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology.) vii + 269 pp., app., bibl., index. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $95 (cloth).
Evans, Bonnie
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2018
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