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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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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 17
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 283. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4735-6.10
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).9
Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Marius Buning (eds.), Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-0-262-54559-4. $65.00 (pape5
‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy4
Stephen Case, Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-8229-4
Jaeyoon Park, Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-0-226-83276-0. 4
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).4
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).4
Paulo Galluzzi, The Italian Renaissance of Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-674-98439-4. £37.95 (hardcover). – ERRATUM4
Jessica Ratcliff, Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-009-37949-6. £90.00 3
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).3
Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878–18913
Maria Cristina Galmarini, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-1-5013
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).3
Neil Tarrant, Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9782
Dipesh Chakrabarty, One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2023. Pp. 144. ISBN: 978-1-6845-8157-3. $24.95 (paper).2
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).2
Rocket stars, space personas and the global Space Age2
Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray (eds.), Greedy Science. Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 2
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 (hardcove2
Theodora Vardouli, Graph Vision: Digital Architecture’s Skeletons Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-262-04901-6. $60.00 (hardcover).2
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR 2nd edn Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-4214-4405-5. $28.95 (paperback).2
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).2
Matthew Shindell, For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-0-226-82189-4. $27.50 (cloth).2
Imperialism in the academy: the Royal Society, C.V. Raman and the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934–1970)1
Laura Kelly, Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922–92 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 978-1-108-96977-2. $89.99 (hardcover).1
Science and the city: reviewing Naples, London and Lisbon1
A science museum ‘to rival South Kensington’: historicizing the industrial city and galvanizing ‘modern’ science in post-war Manchester1
Performing national independence through medical diplomacy: tuberculosis control and socialist internationalism in Cold War Vietnam1
Computing as sugar? The sweet and the bitter of social histories of computing1
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Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 533. ISBN 978-1-1084-1869-0. $21
‘Visible’ compulsions: OCD and the politics of science in British clinical psychology, 1948–19751
Helen Anne Curry, Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781
Carola Sachse, Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationale Politik (1945–2000) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 594. ISBN 978-3-525-302061
Peter H. Hoffenberg, A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-8229-4576-5. $45.00 (cloth).1
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. I1
Liaisons dangereuses : Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and the circulation of knowledge about penicillin (1943–1950)1
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing1
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-6742-8136-3. £40.95 (hardcover).1
Mauricio Suárez, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-226-83004-9. $35.00 (paper).1
Leapfrogging India:  Vikram Sarabhai and the developmental promise of geocentric spaceflight1
Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 428. ISBN 978-1-4780-2505-4. $26.95 (paperb1
Humus gnosis: soil fertility, research and funding in the life of Sir Albert Howard1
Epilogue: the many worlds of rock(et) stars1
Milena Ivanova and Steven French, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-032-33718-0. £110.00 (hardback).1
‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management1
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Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences1
Leonie Hannan, A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-5261-5303-6. £85.00 (hardcover).1
Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché – CORRIGENDUM1
The politics of ‘the politics of display’: a nuclear-energy gallery, a science museum in the 1980s and a debate about patronage1
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. $40.00 (hardback).1
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine1
Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni, The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) Leiden: Brill, 2021
Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin, The Environment: A History of the Idea Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4214-4002-6. $27.00 (paperback).1
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Jenny Boulboullé, Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4780-3096-6. $29.95 (pap1
Scott Alan Johnston, The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-2280-0843-9. CA$49.95 (clot1
Johan Alfredo Linthorst, Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry Utrecht: Eburon, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-9-4630-1434-2. €36.001
A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire 1450–1600. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. P1
Gemma Almond-Brown, Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-5261-6135-2. £85.00 (hardco0
Picturing Chinese science: wartime photographs in Joseph Needham's science diplomacy0
Alma Steingart, Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-0-226-82420-8. $35.00 (paperback).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
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
‘Super Bowl of the world conference circuit’? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing0
The art of gathering: histories of international scientific conferences0
Hugh R. Slotten, Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-4214-4122-1. $55.00 (hard0
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
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
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
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Antonio Stoppani's ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene0
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
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
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U0
How the Glaishers pictured snowflakes0
Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-2280-1753-0. CA$47.95 (paperback).0
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
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 424. ISBN 978-0-19-70
Andrew Cunningham, ‘I Follow Aristotle’: How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 180. ISBN 987-1-0321-6223-2. £130.00 (hardback).0
Redcliffe Salaman’s Scheme for Raising Virus-Free Potato Stocks : professionalization, institutionalization and regulation in interwar Britain’s plant vi0
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
Peter J.T. Morris and Peter Reed, Henry Enfield Roscoe: The Campaigning Chemist Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-19-084425-7. £0
From museumization to decolonization: fostering critical dialogues in the history of science with a Haida eagle mask0
Andrew J. Hogan, Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. P0
Climério Paulo da Silva Neto, Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Instruments and the First Bell Tests Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. Pp. 73. ISBN 978-3-031-29796-0. £39.99 (softc0
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
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
Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner and Meike Knittel (eds.), Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850 Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-90-04-41246-0. €119.00 (h0
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How did a Lutheran astronomer get converted into a Catholic authority? The Jesuits and their reception of Tycho Brahe in Portugal0
Scientizing the ‘environment’: Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences0
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–19800
Alain Aspect, Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 117. ISBN 978-0-226-83201-2. $16.00 (cloth).0
Warwick Anderson, Spectacles of Waste Cambridge: Polity, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-1-509-55741-7. £14.99 (paperback).0
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo0
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Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives0
The ‘Courant Hilton’: building the mathematical sciences at New York University0
The end of an era0
Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-colonial Siam Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-4015-2. $49.95 (hardback).0
Commerce and modern reproduction0
Joan L. Richards, Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 456. ISB0
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
Jonathan R. Cole, Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 680. ISBN 978-0-231-21261-8. £35.00 (paperback).0
Picturing evolution0
The celebrification of Qian Xuesen0
Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and real-time health communication: intermediality, uncertainty and dissent0
Simon Naylor, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 275. ISBN 978-1-009-20723-2. £85.00 (hardback).0
The rise and fall of applied science in Britain0
Lina Pinto-García, Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-83934-9. $35.000
Neil Chambers (ed.), The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, 3 vols. Pp. 464, 418, 548. ISBN 978-1-032-53030
Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Pp. 408. ISBN 978-0-80
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 630. ISBN 978-0-220
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
Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations0
Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-226-82228-0. $112.50 (cloth).0
Rudolf Rasch (ed.), Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-2-503-60080-2. €120.00 (hardback).0
Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull, The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 200
‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–19140
Regiomontanus's Paduan lecture of 1464, the Byzantine intellectual heritage and the Graeco-Arabic roots of astronomical studies in early modern Italy0
Technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state0
Michael Ruse, Charles Darwin: No Rebel, Great Revolutionary - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 978-1-009-43894-0. £22.99 (paperback).0
Matthew Wale, Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 252. ISBN 978-0-8229-4751-60
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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
Crossing boundaries, forging unity: nuclear medicine and science diplomacy in Cold War Europe0
Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Rebecca Martin and Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (eds.), Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook London: UCL Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 446. ISBN 978-1-0
Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1800 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-108-49125-9. $29.99 (paperback).0
Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics0
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
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
Matthew Daniel Eddy, Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 512. ISBN 978-0-226-18386-2. $65.00 (cloth).0
Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois and Klaus Staubermann, Understanding Use: Objects in Museums of Science and Technology Washington, DC: Smithson0
Kim Marriott, The Golden Age of Data Visualization: How Did We Get Here? Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2025. Pp. 374. ISBN 978-1-032-83079-7. £130.00 (hardback).0
Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-691-26074-7. £30.00 (hardcover).0
Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-825760
Atmospheres of influence: the role of journal editors in shaping early climate change narratives – ERRATUM0
Caroline Arni, Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800–1950 , tr. Kate Sturge Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-942130-89-5. $0
Fusion divided: what prevented European collaboration on controlled thermonuclear fusion in 19580
Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge0
Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)0
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
Judith A. Houck, Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-226-0
The Pugwash scientists’ conferences, Cyrus Eaton and the clash of internationalisms, 1954–19610
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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Black in space: Arnaldo Tamayo and the Cuban cosmic revolution0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-226-82301-0. $35.00 (paper).0
Elizabeth A. Athens, William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 296. 0
Edward B. Davis, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-1-4214-4982-1. $64.95 (hardcover).0
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
David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-691-23670-4. £32.00 (h0
Watching birds: observation, photography and the ‘ethological eye’0
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–19140
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). ISBN0
J. David Archibald, Critical Lives: Charles Darwin London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-7891-4440-6. $19.00 (paperback).0
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. ISB0
Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (eds.), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 Pit0
Nuno Vila-Santa, Knowledge Exchanges between Portugal and Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th–17th Centuries) 0
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Martin Korenjak, Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-886605-3. £120.00 (hardback).0
Burton Cleetus and Anne Gerritsen (eds.), Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-3500
Edward J. Gillin, An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20
The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich0
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What mysteries lay in spore: taxonomy, data, and the internationalization of mycology in Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum0
Visual cultures of CRISPR: intermedial figuration in science communication – ERRATUM0
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Kate MacCord, How Does Germline Regenerate? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-226-83051-3. $26.00 (paper).0
Jules Skotnes-Brown, Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp.0
Aaron W. Marrs, The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-4212-4849-7. $64.95 (hardcover).0
Nima Bassiri, Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp0
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle : Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821)0
Susan Greenhalgh, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-83473-3. $25.00 (0
World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900)0
Andrew Brown, Bound by Muscle: Biological Science, Humanism, and the Lives of A.V. Hill and Otto Meyerhof Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 248.0
Allan V. Horwitz, DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-4214-4069-9. $37.00 (hardcover).0
Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference0
James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-78914-758-2. £16.99 (hardback).0
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Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça, Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-80073-904-8. £89.00 (hardb0
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Essay review: the fictive history of Victorian science and empire0
Walter Roy Laird, The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism Cham: Springer, 2024. Pp. 413. ISBN 978-3-031-45504-9. £109.99 (ha0
Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-262-54757-4. $45.000
Gabriele Ferrario, The Book on Alums and Salts of Pseudo-Rāzī: The Arabic and Hebrew Traditions New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-032-86940-7. £32.00 (paperback).0
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).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
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500–1750 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-4214-4368-3. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Transformations: the material representation of historical experiments in science teaching0
Paola Bertucci, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-10
Technical conferences as a technique of internationalism0
Mitchell G. Ash, Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002 Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-3-525-30209-5. €70.00 (hardcover). ISB0
BJH volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of Vestiges in Russia0
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards (eds.), Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2023. Pp. 400
Rebecca K. Wright, Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 280. ISBN 970
Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-0-226-83448-1. $29.00 (p0
Linen, genotrophs and a mid-century bridge to Eastern genetics0
Ron B. Thomson (ed.), Pseudo-Māshā’allāh, On the Astrolabe 2 vols. Waterloo, ON: Volumes Publishing, 2022. Pp. x + 556, x + 583. ISBN 978-1-77827-05-2-9.0
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates0
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–19000
Cold War aviation: American technology transfer and the construction of Turkey's first international civilian airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, 1944–19530
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougal-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015 London: UCL Press, 2022. Pp. 643. ISBN 9780
Melissa Reynolds, Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 318. ISBN 90
BJH volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
Why we fight about science0
Showcasing Germany in space: the lives and afterlives of Cold War rocket stars Sigmund Jähn and Ulf Merbold0
Matthew Holmes, The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-8229-4793-6. $55.00 (hardcover).0
Neal A. Knapp, Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-4214-4655-4. $60.00 (hardcover).0
Museum film as a means of making museums: the Exploratorium’s early years through the intermedial lens0
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
Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon, eds., Handbook for the Historiography of Science Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. Pp. xx + 530. ISBN 978-3-031-27509-8. £199.99 (ebook).0
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
Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-100
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
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
Arie Rip, Nanotechnology and Its Governance London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 158. ISBN 978-1-1386-1053-8. £130.00 (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
Margarete Vöhringer, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-032-53264-6. £104.00 (hardback).0
John K. Brown, Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-40
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth0
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal0
Beatrix Hoffman, Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-226-82086-6. $25.00 (p0
Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-0-262-54809-0. $45.00 (paperback).0
BJH volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Anthony N. Stranges, Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxii + 407. ISBN 978-90-04-54411-6. €160.00 (hardback).0
Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil–Argentina Border Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-1088-4483-3. $103.00 (ha0
Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-0-262-04751-7. $34.950
Innovation amidst post-socialist reform: Jonas Salk and the birth of the Sabin strains-derived inactivated polio vaccine in China0
Greg Eghigian, After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History the UFO Phenomenon Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-19-086987-8. £22.99 (hardback).0
BJH volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Mel Y. Chen, Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-4780-2532-0.0
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
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
Philip Ball, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-226-82582-3. $35.00 (cloth).0
Joshua Blu Buhs, Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 970
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
BJH volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Christopher D.E. Willoughby, 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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