British Journal for the History of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal for the History of Science is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context7
The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain7
A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico6
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain5
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency5
‘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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps1
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
Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine1
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
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology1
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
‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament1
Science, Catholicism and politics in Argentina (1910–1935)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
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
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
Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon1
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
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences1
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
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
Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research1
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
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth1
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
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
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
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
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century1
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
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates1
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
‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–19141
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
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
Unfriendly guardians: India's first nuclear leadership change in 19661
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
‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club1
Sergei Belyakov ,Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-9-8132-2868-9. £25.00 (paperback).1
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing1
Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–19201
Natural history in the physician's study: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), Steven Blankaart (1650–1705) and the ‘paperwork’ of observing insects1
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Negotiating conservation and competition: national parks and ‘victory-over-communism’ diplomacy in South Korea1
Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–18351
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
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
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation1
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
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