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Volume 109; Issue 2

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Volume 109; Issue 2

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Roberto Lalli. Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War . x + 168 pp., figs., bibl. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. $54.99 (paper).

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Translating Words, Building Worlds: Meteorology in Japanese, Dutch, and Chinese

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Theory versus Practice in German Chemistry: Erlenmeyer beyond the Flask

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David F. Channell. A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology . (History and Philosophy of Technoscience, 12.) x + 286 pp., bibl., index. London: Routledge, 2017. $110 (cloth).

Seidel, Robert W.

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Marie Hicks. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing . (History of Computing.) x + 342 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2017. $37 (cloth).

Grier, David Alan

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Mobilities of Science: The Era of Translation into Arabic

Montgomery, Scott L.

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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2017

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A Neurotic Dog’s Life: Experimental Psychiatry and the Conditional Reflex Method in the Work of W. Horsley Gantt

Ramsden, Edmund

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Patrick Popescu-Pampu. What Is the Genus? (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2162.) xvii + 184 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $59.99 (paper).

Sørensen, Henrik Kragh

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Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn: Historical Figures with Future SignificanceAlexander Blum; Kostas Gavroglu; Christian Joas; Jürgen Renn (Editors). Shifting Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn and the History of Science . (Max Planck Library for the History and Development of Knowledge: Proceedings, 8.) ix + 387 pp., figs., index. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2016. €21.99 (paper).Jeremy Shearmur; Geoffrey Stokes (Editors). The Cambridge Companion to Popper . x + 394 pp., indexes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. £22.99 (paper).

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Geoffrey Belknap. From a Photograph: Authenticity, Science, and the Periodical Press, 1870–1890 . xix + 268 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. £81 (cloth).

Pichel, Beatriz

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Krister Dylan Knapp. William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity . xiii + 385 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $39.95 (cloth).

Sommer, Andreas

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David N. Schwartz. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age . xxiii + 436 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2017. $35 (cloth).

Gariboldi, Leonardo

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Steven J. Diner. Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America . xiv + 170 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. $44.95 (cloth).

Townsend, Robert B.

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Kristine C. Harper. Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America . ix + 317 pp., figs., tables, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $40 (cloth).

Shindell, Matthew

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Zachary A. Matus. Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages . 201 pp., figs., bibl., index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. $59.95 (cloth).

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Criticizing Chrysopoeia? Alchemy, Chemistry, Academics, and Satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650–1750

Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

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Introduction: Science and Practices of Translation

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Let Us Make the Effort: Science into Latin in Antiquity

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Edward Bever; Randall Styers (Editors). Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization . vi + 208 pp., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. $74.95 (cloth).

Marrone, Steven P.

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Arabic into Turkish in the Seventeenth Century

Küçük, B. Harun

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Gregg Mitman; Kelley Wilder (Editors). Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record . 285 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $35 (cloth).

Belknap, Geoffrey

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Holly Folk. The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland . xii + 351 pp., bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $34.95 (paper).

Cayleff, Susan E.

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Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World . xi + 292 pp., figs., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 2016. $49.95 (cloth).

Harper, Kristine C.

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Frederick Barton Churchill (1932–2017)

Farber, Paul Lawrence

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Tore Frängsmyr (1938–2017)

Heilbron, J. L.

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Alexander Ellis’s Translation of Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone

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Robert S. Westman. Copernicus and the Astrologers: Dibner Library Lecture, December 12, 2013 . Transcription of lecture (pdf). 99 pp., figs., index, notes, bibl. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Libraries, 2017. Free (ebook).

Regier, Jonathan

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Matthew J. James. Collecting Evolution: The Galápagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin . xiii + 284 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £22.99 (cloth).

Fichman, Martin

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Rivka Feldhay; F. Jamil Ragep (Editors). Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century . (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas, 71.) xx + 344 pp., tables, figs., bibl., index. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. $120 (paper).

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Jacques Sesiano. Magic Squares in the Tenth Century: Two Arabic Treatises by Anṭākī and Būzjānī . (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) viii + 394 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. €116.59 (cloth).

Blanco, Mónica

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Alan Bewell. Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History . xviii + 393 pp., figs., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. $60 (cloth).

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Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic . xx + 291 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $29.95 (paper).

Phaf-Rheinberger, Ineke

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Daniel E. Bender. The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo . 393 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2016. $39.95 (cloth).

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Hoi-Eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan . xvi + 249 pp., bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. $55 (cloth).

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J. Benjamin Hurlbut. Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics . xiv + 359 pp., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $65 (cloth).

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Renée Raphael. Reading Galileo: Scribal Technology and the “Two New Sciences.” ix + 265 pp., figs., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. $54.95 (cloth).

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Volker R. Remmert; Martina R. Schneider; Henrik Kragh Sørensen (Editors). Historiography of Mathematics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . (Trends in the History of Science.) x + 276 pp., figs., tables, index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $129 (cloth).

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Clifford J. Cunningham. Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research . xiii + 304 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. €109.99 (cloth).

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Masthead

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Lesley B. Cormack; Steven A. Walton; John A. Schuster (Editors). Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe . (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 45.) xii + 203 pp., figs., bibl. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. €95.39 (cloth).

Abou-Nemeh, Catherine

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Miguel Á. Granada; Patrick J. Boner; Dario Tessicini (Editors). Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology . 351 pp., figs., index. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. €30 (paper).

Giudice, Franco

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Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples . xii + 414 pp., figs., tables, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. $35 (cloth).

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Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma . (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 48.) xv + 375 pp., tables, bibl., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017. €138 (cloth).

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Brendan Larvor (Editor). Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings, 2012–2014 . (Trends in the History of Science.) viii + 460 pp., figs., index. Basel: Springer, 2016. €153.69 (cloth).

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Tine van Osselaer; Henk de Smaele; Kaat Wils (Editors). Sign or Symptom? Exceptional Corporeal Phenomena in Religion and Medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . 206 pp., figs., bibl., index. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017. €45 (paper).

Duffin, Jacalyn

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Roland Wittje. The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound . (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xii + 297 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $40 (cloth).

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Peter Marren. Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight . xx + 308 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $30 (cloth).

Ogilvie, Brian W.

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Alexander Jones (Editor). Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity . 206 pp., tables, illus., bibl. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016. $55 (cloth).

King, Colin Guthrie

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Daniela Dueck (Editor). The Routledge Companion to Strabo . xiv + 407 pp., figs., tables, indexes. London/New York: Routledge, 2017. £165 (cloth).

Mayhew, Robert J.

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Michael Sappol. Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject . xv + 247 pp., figs., illus., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. $30 (paper).

Borck, Cornelius

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Jürgen Teichmann. Der Geheimcode der Sterne: Eine neue Landschaft des Himmels und die Geburt der Astrophysik . 372 pp., illus., bibl., index. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2016. €20 (cloth).

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Gilles de Corbeil. Liber de uirtutibus et laudibus compositorum medicaminum . Edited with a commentary by Mireille Ausécache. (Edizione Nazionale “La Scuola Medica Salernitana.”) 523 pp., bibl., indexes. Florence: Sismel—Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017. €68 (paper).

McVaugh, Michael

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Tiago Saraiva. Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism . (Inside Technology.) xiv + 330 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $40 (cloth).

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Tiago Saraiva. Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism . (Inside Technology.) xiv + 330 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $40 (cloth).

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Amber Brian. Alva Ixtlilxochitlâs Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico . x + 196 pp., figs., bibl., index. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. $55 (cloth).

CaÃ±izares-Esguerra, Jorge

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Michiel Meeusen. Plutarchâs Science of Natural Problems: A Study with Commentary on âQuaestiones Naturales.â (Plutarchea Hypomnemata.) 555 pp., tables, bibl., index. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017. â¬85 (cloth).

Lamberton, Robert

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