British Journal for the History of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the History of Science is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology12
Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research9
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency6
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young5
Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835–19335
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain5
‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–18534
DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein in its original context4
The art of gathering: histories of international scientific conferences4
Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–19534
‘Seeing with one's own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics4
Introduction: the issue of duplicates4
‘Research sharing’ using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist3
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene3
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences3
‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–19143
‘The troubles of collecting’: William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain's nineteenth-century world3
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–19493
Science by Nobel committee: decision making and norms of scientific practice in the early physics and chemistry prizes3
‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–18813
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences2
Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry2
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo2
Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon2
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape2
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–19262
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kongc.1883–19142
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing2
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity2
Malcolm Dick and Caroline Archer-Parré (eds.), James Watt, 1736–1819: Culture, Innovation, Enlightenment Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-7896-2081-8. £80.00 (hardback2
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel2
‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain2
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.19502
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps2
Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)2
Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power2
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19202
Daniel S. Milo, Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-0-6745-0462-2. $28.95 (hardback).1
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 19661
Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine1
Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations1
Audra Wolfe, Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4211
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISB1
Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-9304-0. $35.00 (paperback1
‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus1
Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).1
Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. xiii + 286. ISBN 978-0-8229-4681-6. $601
Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback)1
Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN: 978-1-1084-7819-9, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-1087-47091
Negotiating conservation and competition: national parks and ‘victory-over-communism’ diplomacy in South Korea1
Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN: 978-0-1988-1862-5. £84.00 (hardback).1
Amir Teicher, Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 268. ISBN 978-1-1084-9949-1. £26.99 (hardback).1
Ido Hartogsohn, The American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3914-2. $35.00 (paperback)1
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19801
Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 298. ISBN 978-1-1088-7915-6. £75.00 (hardback).1
Michel Anctil, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 467. ISBN: 978-0-77351
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation1
Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited1
Voyaging towards the future: the brigRurikin the North Pacific and the emerging science of the sea1
Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 987-1-4214-3874-0. $54.95 (hardback)1
Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. ISBN 978-0-511-98014-5. £120.00 (hardback)1
J.B. Shank, Before Voltaire: The French Origins of ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics, 1680–1715 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 464. ISBN: 978-0-2265-0929-7. $55.00 (paperback).1
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).1
What mysteries lay in spore: taxonomy, data, and the internationalization of mycology in Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum1
C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback1
Sergei Belyakov ,Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-9-8132-2868-9. £25.00 (paperback).1
Gordon Barrett, China's Cold War Science Diplomacy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-1088-4457-4. £75.00 (hardback).1
Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century New York: Zone Books, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-9354-0836-9. £25.00 (hardback).1
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology1
Alex Csiszar, The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-2265-5323-8. $45.00 (hardbac1
‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament1
Tom Williamson, Humphry Repton: Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-1-7891-4299-0. £35.00 (hardcover)1
Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-2951-9. $52.00 (hardback). ISBN1
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-2267-3286-2. $25.00 (paperback).1
Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-2260-2038-9. $35.00 (hardback).1
Vanessa Heggie, Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-2266-5088-3. $40.00 (hardback).1
Antonio Stoppani's ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene1
Alexander Wragge-Morley, Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN: 978-0-2266-8086-6. $120.00 (har1
Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardbac1
Technical conferences as a technique of internationalism1
Sabine Clarke, Science at the End of Empire: Experts and the Development of the British Caribbean, 1940–62. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-5261-3138-6. £80.00 (hard1
Denis Papin's digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation1
William Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 406. ISBN 987-1-1088-3708-8. £64.99 (hardback).1
Mark A. Waddell, Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-1083-4823-2. £69.99/£19.99 (hardback/paperback).1
Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-1086-8845-1. £17.99 (hardback).1
Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)1
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth1
Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 398. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3905-0. $50.00 1
Michael Wheeler, The Athenæum: More than Just Another London Club New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-3002-4677-3. £35.00 (hardback)1
Elena Aronova, Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-22671
Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 487. ISBN 978-1-1084-1828-7. £29.99 (hardback).1
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century1
Erika Lorraine Milam, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 408. ISBN 978-0-6911-8188-2. $29.95 (hardcover).1
‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club1
Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. Pp. 279. ISBN 978-3-8353-3680-3. €28.00 (hardback).1
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates1
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).1
Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research1
Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach (eds.), Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century London: UCL Press, 2018. Pp. 438. ISBN 978-1-7873-5395-4. 1
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms1
Allan Esterson and David C. Cassidy, Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3897-8. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-21
Antony Adler, Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN: 978-0-6749-7201-8. £31.95 (hardback)1
Roger D. Launius, Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-3002-3046-8. $30.00 (hardback).1
Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-3002-2741-3. $40.00 (hardcover)1
Ian Hesketh (ed.), Imagining the Darwinian Revolution Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-822-94708-0. $55.00 (hardcover).0
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Benjamin Johnson, Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery Cham: Springer Nature, 2022. Pp. xvi + 278. ISBN 978-3-030-85531-4. £44.99 (hardcover).0
Karel Čapek (ed. Jitka Čejková), R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-54450-4. $29.95 (paperback).0
Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82676-9. $35.00 0
A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of Vestiges in Russia0
Zachary Dorner, Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0680-1. $50.00
‘Like nets or cobwebs’: Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction0
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Marjolijn Bol, The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 314. ISBN 978-0-226-82036-1. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Medicine and the heavens in Padua's Faculty of Arts, 1570–16300
Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (eds), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-032-13916-6. £96.00 (hardback).0
David Zimmerman, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4875-4365-5. $85.00 (hardcover).0
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Catherine Jackson, Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 460. ISBN 978-0-262-54554-9. $75.00 (paperback).0
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics0
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Colin Webster, Tools and Organisms: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82877-0. $45.00 (cloth).0
Roland Jackson, Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-8229-4790-5. $65.00 (hardcover).0
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Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19140
Eric Schatzberg, Technology: Critical History of a Concept Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-226-58397-6. $38.00 (paperback).0
Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (eds), The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 308. ISBN 970
Hans Radder, From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology and Society Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4579-6. $50.00 (hardcove0
Jodhpur and the aeroplane: aviation and diplomacy in an Indian state 1924–19520
Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 978-0-8229-4661-8. $55.00 (cloth).0
Thomas B. Robertson and Jenny Leigh Smith (eds.), Transplanting Modernity: The Environmental Legacy of International Development Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 0
Globalizing ‘science and religion’: examples from the late Ottoman Empire0
Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-73160-5. $45.00 (cloth).0
From museumization to decolonization: fostering critical dialogues in the history of science with a Haida eagle mask0
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun'sMuqaddimah0
Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock, The Botany of Gin. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2020. Pp. 102. ISBN 978-1-8512-4553-6. £15.00 (hardback).0
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-350-19582-0. £90.00 (hardback).0
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Frederick Burkhardt, James Secord and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22, 1874 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press0
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Gunnar Broberg, The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 512. ISBN 978-0-691-21342-2. £35.00 (hardcover).0
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Victoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82328-7. $55.00 (cloth).0
Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst (eds), Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease since 1750: Capturing Contagion London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 978-1-032-26107-2. £130.00 (hardback).0
The ‘Courant Hilton’: building the mathematical sciences at New York University0
Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-478-00642-8. $107.95 (cloth).0
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-6-9123-379-6. £35.00 (hardcover).0
Bernard Lightman and Bennet Zon (eds.), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-3672-2842-2. £120.00 (hardback).0
James J.A. Blair, Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5. 0
‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy0
Michel Anctil, Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-2280-1053-1. CS$49.95 (cloth).0
Mario Daniels and John Krige, Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 978-0-226-81753-8. $40.00 (paper).0
Emma K. Sutton, William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82898-5. $30.00 (paper).0
Stig S. Frøland, Duel without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes (trans. John Irons) London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 632. ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2. £30.00 GBP (paperback).0
Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain0
Cesare Cremonini's non-theological cosmology: a contribution to Padua's secular culture in times of wars of religion0
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Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, Vera Rubin: A Life Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2021. Pp. x + 309. ISBN 978-0-6749-1919-8. £23.95 (hardback).0
Justin Humphreys, The Invention of Imagination: Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-0-8229-4740-0. $50.00 (hard0
Abdelhamid I. Sabra (ed. and trans.), prepared for publication by Jan P. Hogendijk, The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–V: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection London: University of Lo0
Marci R. Baranski, The Globalization of Wheat Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9. $55.00 (hardcover).0
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Massimo Mazzotti, Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-2268-2674-5. $37.50 (paperback).0
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-00
Fanny Gribenski, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-82326-3. $55.00 (cloth).0
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Curious Devices and Mighty Machines: Exploring Science Museums London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-789-14639-4. £20.00 (hardback).0
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy0
Richard Noakes, Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 419. ISBN 978-1-3168-8243-6. £90.00 (hardcover).0
Cyrus C.M. Mody, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-0-262-54361-3. $65.00 (paperback).0
Transformations: the material representation of historical experiments in science teaching0
Claire Hickman, The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 238. ISBN 978-0-3002-3610-1. £30.00 (hardback).0
Gisela Boeck and Alan J. Rocke, Lothar Meyer: Modern Theories and Pathways to Periodicity Cham: Birkhäuser, 2022. Pp. xi + 193. ISBN 978-0-303-78341-9. £79.99 (hardcover). - Gisela Boeck and Al0
Nina R. Gelbart, Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-5256-9. $40.00 (hardcover).0
Transnational scientific advising: occupied Japan, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the establishment of the Science Council of Japan0
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The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer0
Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-78914-301-0. £25.00 (hardback).0
Ian Hesketh (ed.), Imagining the Darwinian Revolution Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-822-94708-0. $55.00 (hardcover). – CORRIGENDUM0
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Paulo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4. £37.95 (hardcover).0
Nancy Rose Marshall (ed.), Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, Pp. 365, ISBN 978-00
Value, knowledge and reputation: zoological exchange by Australian museums, 1870–19000
Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878–18910
Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden0
Andrew Fiss, A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-9788-2021-0. $150.00 (cloth).0
Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal0
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J. Justin Castro and James A. Garza (eds), Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4748-6.0
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-7891-4455-0. £20.00 (hardback).0
Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-1070-9. £28.00/$35.00 (hardback).0
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Maria Rentetzi, Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. xi + 292. ISBN 978-0-8229-4706-6. $35.00
Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-226-82312-6. $49.00 (cloth).0
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Out on the fringe: Wales and the history of science0
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Roger Smith, Kinasthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 978-1-032-43590-9. £48.99 (hardback).0
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’: Frank Sherwood Taylor and the public role of the history of science0
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Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).0
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David Herzberg, White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-2267-3188-9. $27.50 (hardback).0
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Jonathan Finn, Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence and the History of the Photo-finish Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 212. ISBN 978-0-2280-0343-4. CD$43.95 (clo0
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The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich0
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James A. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-108-48415-2. $108.00 (hardcover).0
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Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0. $34.95 (paperback).0
The politics of medical expertise and substance control: WHO consultants for addiction rehabilitation and pharmacy education in Thailand and India during the Cold War0
Omar W. Nasim, The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-04553-7. $60.00 (paperback).0
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