Isis

Papers
(The TQCC of Isis 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers15
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture15
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)14
: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, 1880–191411
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18509
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture9
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica8
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide6
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing6
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal4
: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706–18144
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism4
Note from the Editors4
Front Cover4
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
: Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki3
Securing the Monkey Supply Chain: Toward a Critical Logistical History of Laboratory Animal Science3
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
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World3
Spectacles of Waste3
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)3
“What Difference Does that Make to a Med?” The Sensory and Social Regimes of the Dissecting Room at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania3
Jules Skotnes-Brown. Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in South  Africa, 1910-1948. 344 pp. notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. $64.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781423
The Prenatal Gaze3
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
Introduction2
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
Front Matter2
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity2
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
Front Cover2
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19601
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
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
:Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–19551
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
:The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy1
: Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
Energy’s History: Toward a Global Canon1
: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
:A History of the Wind1
Front Matter1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
Failed Historical Scientific Instruments1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
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
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
Front Matter1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17001
Cultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine, and Quantification in Early X-Ray Therapy1
: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 14921
The Deaf Right Stuff: Disability, Space Sickness, and the Making of the American Astronaut, 1955–19681
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
: Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact1
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
Front Matter1
Errata1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
Letter to the Editors1
: Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder and the Evolution of American Archaeology1
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan1
Introduction1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
: Histoire de l’interdisciplinarité: Un mot, des pratiques1
Rereading Malthus: Darwin and the Historians1
:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
Front Cover1
: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony: From Sound to Music1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
Acknowledgments1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine1
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography1
: Cyclotron1
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
: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology1
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
Front Matter1
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)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
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
Christianizing America, School District by School District1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Marta de Almeida. Ciências e Tecnologias num Brasil (in)dependente. 526 pp. Brasilia: Editora Ibict, 2025. Open Access (ebook); ISBN 9788570131737. Cloth available.1
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:Wasp1
: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–19201
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
Eloge: Michael Mark Sokal (1945-2025)1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
Contents of Isis , Volume 1161
Stephen Buono. The Province of All Mankind. 348 pp. illus., notes, index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9781501782923. Cloth and e-book available.1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Substitution, Confusion, and the Origins of Aloe Vera1
Jung Lee. Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea. 226 pp., figs., bibl., index. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2025. £155 (cloth); ISBN 9781032836256. E-book available.1
The Isis Bibliography: Information Practices from Sarton’s Vision to the Digital Age1
: Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
: Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830–18801
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
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. Clot1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe1
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
: The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano1
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942–2023)1
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
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
Front Matter1
Eloge: Jitendra Pal Singh (J. P. S.) Uberoi (1934–2024)1
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
: Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution: Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton1
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