Isis

Papers
(The median citation count of Isis 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Richard Noakes. Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain. (Science in History.) 418 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $96 (cloth)11
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series11
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.9
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:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19147
Judith Farquhar; Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. 304 pp., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $6
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science5
John Troyer. Technologies of the Human Corpse. 272 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $24.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780262043816. Paper and e-book available.5
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture5
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers5
Neeraja Sankaran. A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. $5
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)4
Front Cover4
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines4
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20234
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture4
James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. 373 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $45 (cloth4
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing3
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism3
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide3
Reservations3
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics3
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal3
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19003
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano3
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica3
Note from the Editors3
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Bill Jenkins. Evolution before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834. 232 pp., bibl. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2019. £80 (cloth); ISBN 97814742
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
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Emmanuel Didier. America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics. Translated by Priya Vari Sen. 432 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pres2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
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Ilaria Scaglia. The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period. (Emotions in History.) 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford Univ2
The Prenatal Gaze2
Front Matter2
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World2
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17002
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Paul J. Nahin. Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Cable. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. 232 pp., app2
The Post-Heroic Field2
William J. Ashworth. The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 22
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)2
Introduction2
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
Inventing the Scientific Revolution2
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World2
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
Charles H. Smith; James T. Costa; David A. Collard (Editors). An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion. v + 439 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $60 (cloth1
Sean Quinlan. Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France. xiv + 336 pp., illus., notes, index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. $45 (cloth); ISBN 97815011
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
Editors’ Note1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
Jacob Steere-Williams. The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.) 340 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rochester,1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
Phillip Reid. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology. (Technology and Change in History, 18.) xiv + 308 pp., illus. Leiden: Brill, 21
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
Sophie Brockmann. The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838. xiv + 268 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
:A History of the Wind1
Felipe Rojas. The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. xvii + 244 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75 (cloth); ISBN 978110848481
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Letter to the Editor1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
Juan Carlos González Espitia. Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World. (Writing the Early Americas.) 412 pp., bibl., index. Charlottesville: Univers1
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
David A. Guba Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. (Intoxicating Histories.) 384 pp., notes, index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. $37.95 (paper1
Front Matter1
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture. (Haney Foundation Series.) 280 pp., figs., notes, index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pre1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
Front Cover1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica1
In Reply1
:The Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
Francisco Malta Romeiras. Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal. (Jesuit Studies.) 195 pp., figs., app., index. Leiden: Brill, 2019. $139 (e-book); ISBN 978901
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Reading1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
Harry Yi-Jui Wu. Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. 240 pp., illus., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2021. $35 (paper)1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. 408 pp., figs. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. $50 (paper); IS1
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
Lara Freidenfelds. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America. 256 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780190869816. E-book available.1
Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiments, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science. 312 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 20211
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
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:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
Ido Hartogsohn. American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century. 432 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $35 (paper); ISBN 978026251
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
Jürgen Renn. The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene. 585 pp., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780691171981
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
Kenny Cupers; Catharina Gabrielsson; Helena Mattsson (Editors). Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present. (Culture, Politics, and the Built Env1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp. 1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
Elizabeth Baigent; André Reyes Novaes (Editors). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. viii + 200 pp., index. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019. $176 (cloth); ISBN 9781350085503.1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
:The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
Giovanni Battimelli; Giovanni Ciccotti; Pietro Greco. Computer Meets Theoretical Physics: The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation. Translated by G. Giobbi. (The Frontiers Collection.) 206 pp.,1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
:The Astronomer’s Chair: A Visual and Cultural History1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
Mistress of the Sciences, Asylum of Liberty: Joseph Priestley, Human Rights, and Science in the Early U.S. Republic1
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia. Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan. xiii + 317 pp., figs., bibl., notes, index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. $30 (paper); ISBN 97811
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:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
Michael Kaasch; Joachim Kaasch; Torsten K. D. Himmel (Editors). Biologie in der DDR: Beiträge zur 24. Jahrestagung der DGGTB in Greifswald 2015. (Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Bi1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
Hannah Marcus. Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. 360 pp., bibl., index, halftones, tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45 (cl1
Timothy M. Harrison. Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England. 328 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $30 (paper); ISBN 9780226725123. Cl1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
Marga Vicedo. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother. 272 pp., notes, index. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. $28.95 (cloth); ISBN 1
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:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
Antonio Badia. The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can’t Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News. xvii + 352 pp., refs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. $50 (cloth); ISBN 978026204301
:A Book of Waves1
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19401
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
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:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
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Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
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Rebekah Lee. Health, Healing, and Illness in African History. 272 pp., illus., notes, index. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. £58.50 (cloth); ISBN 9781474254380. Paper and e-book available.1
William R. Shea. Conversations with Galileo. Foreword by Dava Sobel. xi + 115 pp., notes. London: Watkins Media, 2019. $14.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781786782496. E-book available.1
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
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Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
Veronica della Dora. The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor. 416 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $65 (cloth); ISBN 97802261
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
John Bellamy Foster. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology. 672 pp., notes, indexes. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9781583678367. Paper and e-book available.1
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
David Trippett; Benjamin Walton (Editors). Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination. xv + 381 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90 (1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
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Elena Aronova. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. 256 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Pre1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:The Earth Transformed: An Untold History1
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
Pankaj Sekhsaria. Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory. (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects.) xxii + 126 pp., app., refs., index. London: Routledge, 2018. $60 (clot1
Christian Reiß. Der Axolotl: Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium 1864–1914. 304 pp., figs., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2020. €30.80 (cloth). E-book available.1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
Trais Pearson. Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam. 252 pp., figs., app., notes, bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. $24.99 (e-book); ISBN 1
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
:Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910). 240 pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9780826521
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
David Sepkoski. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. 360 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
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