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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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What is science for? The Lighthill report on artificial intelligence reinterpreted18
‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology10
Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research8
The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain7
Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context7
A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico6
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency5
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain5
Why Semmelweis's doctrine was rejected: evidence from the first publication of his results by Friedrich Wieger, and an editorial commenting on the results4
Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835–19334
‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–18534
Cultivating famine: data, experimentation and food security, 1795–18484
‘Seeing with one's own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics4
Eating game: proteins, international conservation and the rebranding of African wildlife, 1955–19653
DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein in its original context3
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–19493
‘The troubles of collecting’: William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain's nineteenth-century world3
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences3
‘Research sharing’ using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist3
Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–19533
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–19262
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.19502
Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry2
Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)2
The place of Edward Gresham'sAstrostereon(1603) in the discussion on cosmology and the Bible in the early modern period2
Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power2
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin's early nineteenth-century collection landscape2
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel2
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kongc.1883–19142
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo2
Science by Nobel committee: decision making and norms of scientific practice in the early physics and chemistry prizes2
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
The green airliner that never was: aerodynamic theory, fuel-efficiency and the role of the British state in aviation technology in the mid-twentieth century2
‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain2
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young2
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene2
The logistics of the Republic of Letters: mercantile undercurrents of early modern scholarly knowledge circulation2
‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–18812
Introduction: the issue of duplicates2
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
Natural history in the physician's study: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), Steven Blankaart (1650–1705) and the ‘paperwork’ of observing insects1
Thomas J. Anderson, Reassembling the Strange: Nationalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. 237. IS1
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
Voyaging towards the future: the brigRurikin the North Pacific and the emerging science of the sea1
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
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
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing1
Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity1
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
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
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
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
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
Negotiating conservation and competition: national parks and ‘victory-over-communism’ diplomacy in South Korea1
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
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
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
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
Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–18351
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology1
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation1
Antonio Stoppani's ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene1
Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback)1
Denis Papin's digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation1
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
Science, Catholicism and politics in Argentina (1910–1935)1
JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-1-4214-2889-5. $64.95 (hardcover).1
Anton Howes, Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-6911-8264-3. £30.00/$35.00 (hardback).1
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
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
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
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps1
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences1
Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine1
Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research1
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
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth1
‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament1
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
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
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century1
Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon1
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates1
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
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
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
Martin Beech, Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling through the Earth. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. P1
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
Harun Küçük, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 324. ISBN 978-0-8229-4580-2. $50.00 (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
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 19661
Performing in a different place: the use of a prodigy to the Dublin Philosophical Society1
Ian Duncan, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-6911-7507-2. £30.00 (hardcover).1
‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club1
Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong and Christine von Oertzen (eds.), Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8229-41
Subject 01: exemplary Indigenous masculinity in Cold War genetics1
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
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
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
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
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
‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–19141
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
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
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
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
Sergei Belyakov ,Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-9-8132-2868-9. £25.00 (paperback).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
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
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19201
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms1
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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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
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
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
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics0
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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
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
D. Senthil Babu, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-8-19-483160-0. ₹1895.00 (hardcover).0
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
Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-2265-4608-7.0
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
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‘An attempt to trace illusions to their physical causes’: atmospheric mirages and the performance of their demystification in the 1820s and 1830s0
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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Jodhpur and the aeroplane: aviation and diplomacy in an Indian state 1924–19520
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
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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
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Paula De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 404. ISBN 978-0-8229-4649-6 $50.00 (hardback).0
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-5017-6977-1. $56.95 (hardcover).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
Out on the fringe: Wales and the history of science0
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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
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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
Efran Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 970
Transformations: the material representation of historical experiments in science teaching0
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
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
Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking memory in Dutch science cinema 1925–c.19600
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19140
From museumization to decolonization: fostering critical dialogues in the history of science with a Haida eagle mask0
Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin and Alexis Wolf (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 658. ISBN 978-3-0307-8972-5. £149.99 (hardco0
Toby Musgrave, The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. ISBN 978-0-3002-2383-5. $35.00 (hardco0
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Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6.0
Showcasing the international atom: theIAEA Bulletinas a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–19620
Revolutionary electricity in 1790: shock, consensus, and the birth of a political metaphor0
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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
Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden0
Christoph Irmscher, The Poetics of Natural History, 2nd edn New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Pp. 403. ISBN 978-1-9788-0586-6. $43.95 (paperback).0
Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain0
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Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 303. ISBN 978-1-7891-4342-3. £14.99 (hardback).0
Michael D. Barton, Janet Browne, Ken Corbett and Norman McMillan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall, vol. 6: The Correspondence, November 1856–February 1859. Pittsburgh, PA: 0
Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal0
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
The Society of Astrologers (c.1647–1684): sermons, feasts and the resuscitation of astrology in seventeenth-century London0
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–19000
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Grant Bollmer, The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 978-1-5179-1546-9. $28.00 (paperback).0
Globalizing ‘science and religion’: examples from the late Ottoman Empire0
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
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
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
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
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
Scientizing the ‘environment’: Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences0
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
D.E. Willoughby Christopher, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-1-469-67184-0. $99.000
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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
The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich0
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
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
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
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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
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8229-4609-0. $35.00 0
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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
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
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
Richard J. Oosterhoff, Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Etaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-1988-2352-0. £65.00 (hardback).0
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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
The ‘Courant Hilton’: building the mathematical sciences at New York University0
Medicine and the heavens in Padua's Faculty of Arts, 1570–16300
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
The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer0
Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878–18910
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
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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The Pugwash scientists’ conferences, Cyrus Eaton and the clash of internationalisms, 1954–19610
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
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
Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)0
Catherine Jackson, Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 460. ISBN 978-0-262-54554-9. $75.00 (paperback).0
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
Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2266-0568-5. $32.00 (paperback).0
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
Chris Manias, The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 488. ISBN 978-0-8229-4780-6. $65.00 0
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Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-3002-3006-2. £20.00 (hardback)0
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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
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
Karl S. Matlin, Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-226-81934-1. $105.00 (cl0
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
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Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM0
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
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
Cesare Cremonini's non-theological cosmology: a contribution to Padua's secular culture in times of wars of religion0
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun'sMuqaddimah0
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
Irina Podgorny, Florentino Ameghino y hermanos Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 978-987-628-598-8. AR$9,150.00 (softcover) - Irina Podgorny, Los Argentinos vienen de los peces: Ensa0
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy0
Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4630-40
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
Lina Zeldovich, The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-61557-8. $26.00 (clot0
J. David Archibald, Critical Lives: Charles Darwin London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-7891-4440-6. $19.00 (paperback).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).0
What mysteries lay in spore: taxonomy, data, and the internationalization of mycology in Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum0
Veronica Della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-4129-1. $65.00 (hardback).0
A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of Vestiges in Russia0
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19800
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
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young - CORRIGENDUM0
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine0
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