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. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Industrialization of Invention: A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry95
From Heredity Theory to Vererbung: The Transmission Problem, 1850-191536
The Medieval Latin Translations from the Arabic of the Elements of Euclid, with Special Emphasis on the Versions of Adelard of Bath28
The Visual Theology of Victorian Popularizers of Science: From Reverent Eye to Chemical Retina23
From Science to Practice, or Practice to Science? Chickens and Eggs in Raymond Pearl's Agricultural Breeding Research, 1907-191619
Power, Patronage, and the Authorship of Ars: From Mechanical Know-How to Mechanical Knowledge in the Last Scribal Age19
From Rodent Utopia to Urban Hell: Population, Pathology, and the Crowded Rats of NIMH16
From Art to Applied Science16
Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918–192916
Science in the Everyday World16
Descartes's Comparisons: From the Invisible to the Visible16
The History of Science as Oxymoron: From Scientific Exceptionalism to Episcience14
A View from the Industrial Age13
Distancing Science from Religion in Seventeenth-Century England12
The Meaning of Early Medieval Geometry: From Euclid and Surveyors' Manuals to Christian Philosophy11
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context11
From Association to Gestalt: The Fate of Hermann Lotze's Theory of Spatial Perception, 1846-192010
What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy?10
Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on “Form”10
The Flow of Cognitive Goods: A Historiographical Framework for the Study of Epistemic Transfer10
From Farm and Family to Career Naturalist: The Apprenticeship of Vernon Bailey10
The Oostvaardersplassen Fiasco10
Galileo's Proof for the Earth's Motion from the Movement of Sunspots9
Currents from the Underworld: Electricity and the Technology of Display in Early Victorian England9
Network Analysis for the Digital Humanities: Principles, Problems, Extensions9
The Prehistory of Serendipity, from Bacon to Walpole8
In Search of GeographyThe Origins of Academic Geography in the United States. Brian W. BlouetEmpiricism and Geographical Thought from Francis Bacon to Alexander von Humboldt. Margarita B8
Big Science, Nazified? Pascual Jordan, Adolf Meyer-Abich, and the Abortive Scientific JournalPhysis8
An Historical Survey of the Concept of Nature from a Medical Viewpoint8
Fine-Grained Analysis: Talk Therapy, Media, and the Microscopic Science of the Face-to-Face7
The Relativity Revolution from the Perspective of Historical Epistemology7
The Invisible and Indeterminable Value of Ecology: From Malaria Control to Ecological Research in the American South6
Triangulation of History Using Textual Data6
Cyclonic Ecology: Sugar, Cyclone Science, and the Limits of Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean World, 1870s–1930s6
Explaining Science Historically6
History from the Ground Up6
Reading Cardano with the Roman Inquisition: Astrology, Celestial Physics, and the Force of Heresy6
The Principle of the Impenetrability of Bodies in the History of Concepts of Separate Space from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century5
George Frederick Wright: From Christian Darwinist to Fundamentalist5
The Artifical Fertilization of Date-Palms in the Time of Ashur-Nasir-Pal B.C. 885-8605
English Manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): From Anatomia hepatis (The Anatomy of the Liver), 1654. Andrew Cunningham5
Computational History of Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities5
Can We Date Newton's Early Optical Experiments?5
Note on Epicycles & the Ellipse from Copernicus to Lahire5
Technologies of the Scientific Self: John Tyndall and His Journal5
Gleanings from an Arabist's Workshop: Current Trends in the Study of Medieval Islamic Science and Medicine4
Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective: A Quantitative Analysis4
Mediaeval Jewish Physicians in the near East, from Arabic Sources4
The History of Science and the Science of History: Computational Methods, Algorithms, and the Future of the Field4
From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy: Science and the Shared Interests of Samuel Hartlib’s London and Frederick Clodius’s Gottorf4
The History of Science Society, 1970-1999: From Subscription Agency to Professional Society4
The Knot in Hebrew Literature, or from the Knot to the Alphabet4
Calendars on Coffin Lids from Asyut (Second Half of the Third Millennium)4
Why Save a Seed?4
Art History, History of Science, and Visual ExperienceMartin Kemp. The Human Animal in Western Art and Science. 320 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press4
Bibliography Is Social: Organizing Knowledge in theIsisBibliography from Sarton to the Early Twenty-First Century4
I. A Daily Weather Record Continued from 1 September 1400 to 25 June 14014
Tycho Brahe's Cosmology from the Astrologia of 15914
A Planetary Anthropocene? Views From Africa4
Emergence4
Patronage versus InstitutionsE. C. Spary. Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History From old Regime to Revolution. xvi + 321 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chica4
On the Continuity of Western Science from the Middle Ages: A. C. Crombie's Augustine to Galileo3
How Calculus-Based Mathematical Physics Arose in France after 1700: A Historicized Actor-Network Narrative as Explanation3
A Great (Scientific) Divergence: Synergies and Fault Lines in Global Histories of Science3
Artificial Fertilization of Date-Palms in Palestine and Arabia3
Boundaries, Transformations, Historiography: Physics in Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s3
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Second Look at Joseph Needham3
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Data in the History of Science3
Anonymi De elementis: From a Twelfth-Century Collection of Scientific Works in British Museum MS Cotton Galba E. IV3
From Ought to Is: Physics and the Naturalistic Fallacy3
Red Crescents: Race, Genetics, and Sickle Cell Disease in the Middle East3
Historical Explanation and Causality3
Science under Inquisition: Heresy and Knowledge in Catholic Reformation RomeUgo Baldini; Leen Spruit (Editors). Catholic Church and Modern Science: Documents from the Archives of the Roman Congrega2
No Escape from Fleck2
A. J. Kox (Editor). The Scientific Correspondence of H. A. Lorentz. Volume 1. (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.) xxiv + 777 pp., bibl., index. Cham, Swit2
Seeing the Light: A Response to “Chasing the Light”2
Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO)2
Partes intermutabilesFrom the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. David A. Hounshell2
Editor’s Introduction2
From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution in the Aims and Methods of Science. Nicholas Maxwell2
Date of the Translation by Ermengaud Blasius of the Work on the Quadrant by Profatius Judaeus2
From Savagery to Sovereignty: Identity, Politics, and International Expositions of Argentine Anthropology (1878–1892)2
Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics. Lindley Darden2
Some Letters from Charles Darwin to Jeffries Wyman2
Kristie Macrakis. Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda. xiv + 377 pp., illus., bibl., app., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press,2
John E. Joseph. Language, Mind, and Body: A Conceptual History. x + 282 pp., figs., illus., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £85 (cloth). ISBN 9781107149557.2
Computerizing Diagnosis: Keeve Brodman and the Medical Data Screen2
From His Claw the Greene LyonThe Foundations of Newton's Alchemy; Or "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon". Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs2
Reading Needham Now2
From Shelves to Cyberspace: Organization of Knowledge and the Complex Identity of History of Science2
Explaining Babylonian Astronomy2
From Modernizing the Chinese Language to Information Science: Chao Yuen Ren’s Route to Cybernetics2
On the Date of a Comet Ascribed to A. D. 12382
Pliny's Natural History. A Selection from Philemon Holland's Translation. J. Newsome2
Books on the BombAtomic Bomb Scientists: Memoirs, 1939-1945. Joseph J. ErmencThe End of the World That Was: Six Lives in the Atomic Age. Peter GoldmanManhattan: The Army and the Atomi2
Theories and Origins in Planetary PhysicsNebulous Earth: The Origin of the Solar System and the Core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys. Stephen G. BrushTransmuted Past: The Age of the Ea2
M.  Campbell‐Kelly;, M.  Croarken;, R.  Flood;, E.  Robson (Editors). The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets. viii + 361 pp., illus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
The Holy Office in the Republic of Letters: Roman Censorship, Dutch Atlases, and the European Information Order, circa 16602
Chasing the Light: What Happened to the Ancient Theories?2
Scientific Change. Historical Studies in the Intellectual, Social and Technical Conditions for Scientific Discovery and Technical Invention, from Antiquity to the Present. Alistair C. Crombie2
Darwin’s Technology of Life2
A Documentary History of the Problem of Fall from Kepler to Newton. Alexandre Koyré2
Editor’s Introduction2
The Uniform Motion Equivalent to a Uniformly Accelerated Motion from Rest (Galileo Gleanings XX)2
Translations of Works of Galen from the Greek by Peter of Abano2
Glyn Williams. Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin. xv + 309 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2013. $38 (cloth).1
The Latest Date of Composition of Gilbert's De mundo1
Roger L. Williams. Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College. xv + 256 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $44.95 (c1
Christoph Lüthy; Claudia Swan; Paul Bakker; Claus Zittel (Editors). Image, Imagination, and Cognition: Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice. (Intersections, 55.) xvi + 323 pp., illus.,1
The Masterbuilders. A History of Structural and Environmental Design from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century. Henry J. Cowan1
Julius Rocca (Editor). Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches. xiii + 331 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £75 (cloth). ISBN 97811071
Gerhardt Stenger (Editor). Les singularités de la nature. (Complete Works of Voltaire, 65B.) xxi + 383 pp., figs., index. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2017. £105 (cloth). ISBN 9780729411523.1
Sven Dupré (Editor). Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. (Archimedes, 37.) xxiii + 200 pp., illus. Cham: Springer, 2014. €105.99 (cloth). S1
Philosophers and Provincials: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1822 to 1844. A. D. Orange1
John F. Marra. Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science. xii + 264 pp., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780231186704. E-book available.1
Whose Science Wins or Loses? (And What’s Left for Reason After?)1
Patricia Fara. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. xiii + 334 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £18.99 (cloth). ISBN 9780198791
Manfred Horstmanshoff; Helen King; Claus Zittel (Editors). Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe. (Intersections: Interdisciplinary1
Barbara Tramelli. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s “Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura”: Color, Perspective, and Anatomy. (Nuncius: Studies and Sources in the Material and Visual History of Science, 1.) 1
Janis  Langins. Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. xiv + 532 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. $55, £35.95 (clo1
C. Pierce Salguero (Editor). Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources. xxi + 689 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $150 (cloth). ISBN 978023111
Ze’ev Rosenkranz (Editor). The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922–1923. xviii + 357 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univers1
Alan I. Marcus (Editor). Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930. (Nexus.) x + 344 pp., bibl., index. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Pr1
Emily Ogden. Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. xiv + 267 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $27.50 (paper). ISBN 9780226532332.1
Mareike Vennen. Das Aquarium: Praktiken, Techniken und Medien der Wissensproduktion (1840–1910). 423 pp., figs., plates, bibl. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018. €37 (cloth). ISBN 97838353325221
Lorraine  Daston (Editor). Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. 447 pp., illus., index. New York: Zone Books, 2004. $34.50 (cloth).Soraya  de Chadarevian;, Nick  Hopwood (Edit1
A History of Luminescence from the Earliest Times until 1900. E. Newton Harvey1
Mary Harris. Rocks, Radio, and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social, and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander. xvii + 595 pp., figs., bibl., index. London: World Scientific, 2019. $148 (1
Explaining Structural Constraints on Lay Participation in Field Science1
Andrew Scull. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. 448 pp., figs., bibl., index. London: Thames & Hudson, 21
Amir A. Afkhami. A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera. xv + 276 pp., apps., notes, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. $54.95 (c1
From the History of Science to Geoanthropology1
Caspar Henderson. A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. 371 pp., bibl., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $29 (cloth). ISBN 9780226291918.1
James Delbourgo. Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane. xxxi + 347 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. London: Allen Lane, 2017. £25 (cloth). ISBN 9780674737334.1
Tobias Scheidegger. “Petite Science”: Außeruniversitäre Naturforschung in der Schweiz um 1900. 707 pp., figs., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017. €82.20 (cloth). ISBN 9783835319971
Simone Schleper. Planning for the Planet: Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980. (Environment in History: International1
Ulrike May. Freud at Work: On the History of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, with an Analysis of Freud’s Patient Record Books. Translated by Daniela Haller, Bettina Mathes, Michael Molnar, 1
Alan G. Gross;, Joseph E. Harmon. Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning. vii + 332 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $30 (1
Explaining an Early Modern Magnum Opus1
Andreas Lammer. The Elements of Avicenna’s Physics: Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations. (Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 20.) xx + 594 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 201
Peter J Bowler. A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov. x + 287 pp., figs., illus., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. $741
Juliet Floyd; Alisa Bokulich (Editors). Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 324.) xvii + 361 pp., inde1
E. Nicolaidis (Editor). Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. (De Diversis Artibus, 104 [N.S., 67].) 197 pp., figs., notes, index. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. €80 (cloth).1
Stefani Engelstein. Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity. xiii + 360 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. $65 (cloth). ISBN 978023118041
Philip Kuhn. Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography. xvii + 445 pp., bibl., index. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. $120 (cloth). ISBN 9781498505222.1
Doug Millard. Satellite: Innovation in Orbit. 206 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. £16 (cloth).David J. Shayler. The Hubble Space Telescope: From Concept to Success1
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. Richard H. Popkin1
John H.  Zammito. A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Postpositivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour. x + 390 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.1
Erika Gielen; Michèle Goyens (Editors). Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and Beyond. (Studies in the Transmission of T1
Myron Echenberg. Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller. li + 236, figs., map, tables, bibl., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.1
Vincenzo De Risi (Editor). Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age. (Trends in the History of Science.) ix + 318 pp., illus., figs., index. Cham: Bir1
Melanie A. Kiechle. Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter. xviii + 331 pp., figs., bibl., index. Seattle/London: University of W1
Maria Pia Donato (Editor). Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World. viii + 210 pp., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019. €95 (cloth). ISBN 9789004386457.1
Paul Halpern. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality. 336 pp., figs., notes, index. New York: Basic Books, 2017. $30 (cloth). ISBN 9780465091
Iwan Rhys Morus (Editor). The Oxford Illustrated History of Science. 436 pp., illus., figs., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £25 (cloth). ISBN 9780199663279.1
Joanna Bourke. The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers. x + 396 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £20 (cloth). Keith Wailoo. Pain: A Political History1
Letters from Ernst Mach to Robert H. Lowie1
Margaret E. Schotte. Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800. (Information Cultures.) xii + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. $59.91
The Other Demarcation Problem1
Scott Lidgard; Lynn K. Nyhart (Editors). Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. 361 pp., figs., index. Chicago/London: University of Chica1
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., app1
Sonja Brentjes. Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800–1700). (Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence, 3.) 334 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Turnhout1
Guillaume Carnino; Liliane Hilaire-Pérez; Jochen Hoock (Editors). La technologie générale: Johann Beckmann, Entwurf der algemeinen Technologie / Projet de technologie générale (1806). (T1
Adrienne Mayor. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. 304 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN1
Medieval Color-Making: Tractatus Qualiter Quilibet Artificialis Color Fieri Possit from Paris, B. N., MS. latin 6749b1
Simon Werrett. Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. x + 315 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $45 (clot1
Mark S. Morrisson. Modernism, Science, and Technology. (New Modernisms.) 180 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. £21.99 (paper). ISBN 9781474233422.1
Adriana Craciun; Mary Terrall (Editors). Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century. (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series.) ix + 242 pp., illus1
Reusable and Nonreusable Films: From Ballistic Films to the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica1
Brian C. Odom; Stephen P. Waring (Editors). NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement. xi + 266 pp., index. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. $85 (cloth); ISBN 9780813066202.1
The Industrious Tyndall1
Iwan Rhys Morus. William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science. (Scientists of Wales.) xi + 172 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. £16.99 (paper)1
Ernst Homburg; Elisabeth Vaupel (Editors). Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800–2000. (Environment in History: International Perspectives, 17.) xiv + 407 pp., index. New York/Ox1
Henri Poincaré. Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text. Translated by Mélanie Frappier, Andrea Smith, and David J. Stump. Edited by Melanie Frappier and David J. Stump. xxxi + 171 pp., index1
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. Joshua M. Epstein , Robert AxtellEpidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. Sheldon Watts1
Adam Becker. What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. 357 pp., notes, bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2018. $25.91 (cloth). ISBN 9780465096053.1
Nadine Ehlers; Shiloh Krupar. Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making. ix + 242 pp., notes, index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. $27 (paper); ISBN 9781517905071. Cloth1
Michael Ruse. On Purpose. xv + 294 pp., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780691172460.1
Sharon T. Strocchia. Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) ix + 330 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Ca1
Eloge: Aaron S. Moore (1972–2019)1
Domenico Bertoloni Meli. Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History. xii + 188 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. $45 (cloth). E-book availabl1
Gerson S. Sher. From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of U.S.-Soviet Scientific Cooperation. xiii + 306 pp., figs., bibl., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. $40 (paper); I1
Ori Sela. China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century. xi + 314 pp., notes, apps., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. $65 (cloth1
Jaime Marroquín Arredondo; Ralph Bauer (Editors). Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. (The Early Modern Americas.) vi + 355 pp., notes, index. Philadelphia: Un1
Pamela O. Long. Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome. xi + 369 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: 1
Max Jammer. Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. ix + 308 pp., illus., figs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $49.95 (paper).1
Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editor). The Correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737–1823): Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain. xxxv + 221 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £71
Roger H. Stuewer. The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars. x + 484 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £39.99 (cloth). ISBN 9780198821
Klaas van Berkel. Universiteit van het Noorden: Vier Eeuwen Academisch Leven in Groningen. Volume 1: De Oude Universiteit, 1614–1876. (Studies over de Geschiedenis van de Gronings1
Christian Bracco. Quand Albert devient Einstein. 231 pp., bibl. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2017. €22 (paper). ISBN 9782271091895.1
Mark Blacklock. The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siècle. vi + 233 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £55 (cloth). ISBN1
Carla Bittel; Elaine Leong; Christine von Oertzen (Editors). Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. x + 310 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University 1
Janet L. Beery; Sarah J. Greenwald; Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin; Maura B. Mast (Editors). Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America. (Associati1
Michael R. Finn. Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust. x + 242 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £75 (cloth). ISBN 9781107184565.1
Sigrid Schmalzer; Daniel S. Chard; Alyssa Botelho (Editors). Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists. ix + 236 pp., index. Amherst/Boston: University of 1
Peter Adamson; Peter E. Pormann (Editors). Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam. (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 31.) vi + 308 pp., index. London: Warburg Institute, 2017. £451
Catherine L. Newell. Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier. xii + 292 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. $45 (1
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20191
The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. Georges Ifrah , David Bellos , E. F. Harding , Sophie Wood , Ian Mark1
Élisabeth Roudinesco. Freud in His Time and Ours. Translated by Catherine Porter. viii + 580 pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2016. $35 (cloth). ISBN1
Historical UnityIntellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. Christa Jungnickel , Russell McCormmach1
The Modern Paradigms of Explanation: Significance, Agency, and Writing History in the Era of Climate Change1
Anthony Chaney. Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. 304 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 1
From Science to Industry?Karl  Grandin;, Nina  Wormbs;, Sven  Widmalm (Editors). The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. (Nobel Symposium, 123.) xvii + 457 pp., illus., index1
Roel Nicolai. The Enigma of the Origin of Portolan Charts: A Geodetic Analysis of the Hypothesis of a Medieval Origin. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 52.) xxv + 544 pp., figs., table1
Sidney  Ochs. A History of Nerve Functions: From Animal Spirits to Molecular Mechanisms. ix + 438 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $100 (cloth).1
Maurizio Meloni. Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics. xi + 284 pp., tables, bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. $105 (cloth1
Alexander Pechenkin. The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes. (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology.) xiv + 93 pp., figs., bibl. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018.1
Todd Timberlake; Paul Wallace. Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution. xvii + 378 pp., apps., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge Univers1
Karsten Mackensen. Musik und die Ordnung der Dinge im ausgehenden Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. (Musica Poetica, 1.) 353 pp., figs., bibl., index. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. 1
Per F.  Dahl. From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932–1939. xii + 304 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Bristol, U.K., 2002. $75 (cloth).1
David Quammen. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. xvi + 461 pp., notes, bibl., illus., index. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. $30 (cloth). ISBN 9781476776620.1
The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann. Ivor Grattan-Guinness1
Rüdiger Campe. The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist. Translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr. viii + 486 pp., bibl. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Universit1
Finn Aaserud; Helge Kragh (Editors). One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom: Proceedings from a Conference. (Scientia Danica: Series M: Mathematica et Physica, 1.) 560 pp., illus., figs., index. Co1
Eloge: Peter Hanns Reill (1938–2019)1
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