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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers18
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines14
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture13
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science12
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 202312
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–191412
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)12
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. $10
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.10
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture9
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18509
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica9
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing7
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano6
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide6
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism6
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry5
Note from the Editors5
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706–18144
Warwick Anderson.  Spectacles of Waste . 184 pp., notes, index. New Jersey: Polity Press, 2024. £14.99 (paper); ISBN 9781509557417. C4
Front Cover4
: Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki4
“What Difference Does that Make to a Med?” The Sensory and Social Regimes of the Dissecting Room at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania4
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)3
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, 23
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs3
The Prenatal Gaze3
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)3
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 97814743
Front Matter3
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World3
Introduction2
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s2
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire2
Front Matter2
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2
Front Matter2
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity2
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene2
Front Cover2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography2
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
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 97802262
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan2
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.2
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges2
Greta LaFleur. The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. 304 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781421438849. Clot2
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
:Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
Letter to the Editors1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable: Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)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
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
Sara J. Schechner and Sofia Talas (eds.). Failed Historical Scientific Instruments . 237 pp. figs., tab., notes, index. Leiden, N1
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–19681
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
The Isis Bibliography: Information Practices from Sarton’s Vision to the Digital Age1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
Errata1
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
Front Matter1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
: Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
:A History of the Wind1
: Ciencia y diplomacia: Penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939–19451
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan1
: Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder and the Evolution of American Archaeology1
:Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
: Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Texts1
Acknowledgments1
: Cyclotron1
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Front Matter1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 14921
: Histoire de l’interdisciplinarité: Un mot, des pratiques1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)1
Front Matter1
:A Book of Waves1
:Wasp1
Ana Romero de Pablos. Las primeras centrales nucleares españolas: Actores, políticas y tecnologías. 135 pp., illus., bibl. Madrid: Sociedad Nuclear Española, 2019. Free e-book; ISBN 978840908491
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
: Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution: Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
Rereading Malthus: Darwin and the Historians1
Front Matter1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
: Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830–18801
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
Introduction1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
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
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
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
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
Contents of Isis , Volume 1161
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
Christianizing America, School District by School District1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17001
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
Rebecca Whiteley. Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body . 288 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago and Lo1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach1
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
:The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
Front Cover1
: Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy1
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
:Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy A. Greene, and Warwick Anderson (eds.), Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (C1
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
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–19201
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)1
: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull.  Energy's History Toward a Global Canon . 292 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025. 1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
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
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
: Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19601
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
Shaky Claims: Deception Island and the Geopolitics of Extinction1
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
Bernard Lightman and Efram Sera-Shriar (eds.), Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: rethinking the Specialization Thesis 1
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing1
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy1
A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
: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
Courtney E. Thompson. An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America. 248 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2020. $1201
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
In Reply1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
Front Matter1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
:Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene0
:Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development0
:Moving Crops and the Scales of History0
Elfed Huw Price.  William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The theology, medicine and politics of the brain . 207 pp. fig., tab., 0
:Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe’s Fin de Siècle0
Editors’ Note0
: Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism0
:Identity in a Secular Age: Science, Religion, and Public Perceptions0
:Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914–19450
:Showcasing Science: A History of Teylers Museum in the Nineteenth Century0
Rebecca K. Wright. Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb . 280 pp. illus., bibl., notes, index. Jo0
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