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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A River Is Not a Pendulum: Sediments of Science in the World of Tides27
Troubling (Post)colonial Histories of Medicine: Toward a Praxis of the Human19
The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge: Understanding “Form” across Disciplines in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries11
Black Science: Amílcar Cabral’s Agricultural Survey and the Seeds of African Decolonization10
Taxonomy, Race Science, and Mexican Maize10
Slicing Sound: Speaker Identification and Sonic Skills at the Stasi, 1966–19899
Constructing the Field in Interwar Social Anthropology: Power, Personae, and Paper Technology7
Inventing the Scientific Revolution6
“The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain”: Memory, MIT, Montreal, and the Origins of Neuroscience6
Duplicating Nature and Elements of Subjectivity in The Ethology of the Greylag Goose5
A Planetary Anthropocene? Views From Africa5
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology4
The Way We Live Now?4
From the History of Science to Geoanthropology4
Eloge: Frances Coulborn Kohler (1938–2021)4
Whose Home Is the Field?4
Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–16354
Knowing the Littoral: Perception and Representation of Terraqueous Spaces in a Global Perspective4
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography4
Planetary Health Histories: Toward New Ecologies of Epidemiology?4
Science Shaping Modernity: Stephen Gaukroger’s Four-Volume Series Completed3
Mind the Gap: Acoustical Answers to Cosmological Concerns in First-Century b.c.e. China3
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century3
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute3
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19003
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines3
Introduction: Reusing Research Film and the Institute for Scientific Film3
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science3
An Epidemic for Sale: Observation, Modification, and Commercial Circulation of the Danysz Virus, 1890–19103
Earth System Science, Anthropocene Historiography, and Three Forms of Human Agency3
The Science of Shallow Waters: Connecting and Classifying the Early Modern Atlantic3
Using LoGart to Uncover a New Spatiality of Science in China3
Mathematical Selves and the Shaping of Mathematical Modernism: Conflicting Epistemic Ideals in the Emergence of Enumerative Geometry (1864–1893)3
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China3
Punch-Drunk Slugnuts: Violence and the Vernacular History of Disease3
Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice3
:Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya2
How Western Science Corrupts Class Consciousness: East Germany’s Presence at IIASA2
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.,2
Remaking “Michotte”: Reusing and Remaking Moving Images in the History of Perception Research2
So Who Cares? Taking Livingston out of Africa2
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools2
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Moon Microbes? Interpretations of Risk and the Limits of Quarantine in NASA’s Apollo Program2
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty2
Making Place in the Field2
Michael Brooks. The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe. 256 pp. Melbourne/L2
Moving across the Zoo–Field Border: Heini Hediger in Congo2
Generating Fields2
Learning to Live with the Virus2
Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, circa 1800–19302
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge2
Sickness and Sweetness and Power2
A Feminist Physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676–1764) and His Advice for Those in Love2
From the Radio Shack to the Cosmos: Listening to Sputnik during the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)2
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics2
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)2
Film ist. (1–6): An Exemplary Use of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica2
Mental Hygiene, Psychoanalysis, and Interwar Psychology: The Making of the Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis2
Between History and Earth System Science2
Flipping the Field2
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
Pig Mentations: Race and Face in Radiobiology2
Recovering Hygienic Modernity in the World of COVID-192
The Myth of the “One-Sex” Body2
The Simple and Courageous Course: Industrial Patronage of Basic Research at the University of Chicago, 1945–19532
:The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance1
Making a Stable Sea: The Littorals of Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Origins of a Spatial Concept1
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Public Health, 1890–19301
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19001
The Post-Heroic Field1
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850–19001
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, 21
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
Margery Fee. Polar Bear. (Animal.) 224 pp., figs., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. £12.95 (paper); ISBN 9781789141467.1
A Darwinian Murder: The Role of the Barré-Lebiez Affair in the Diffusion of Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century France1
Angela Ki Che Leung; Izumi Nakayama (Editors). Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. ix + 315 pp., illus., bibl., index. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. $50 (cloth); ISB1
:Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages1
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
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
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
Timothy Paul Grove. Christ Came Forth from India: Georgian Astrological Texts of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. (Eurasian Studies Library, 15.) xxii + 463 pp. Leiden: Br1
David Pingree. Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca. (Magic in History.) xii + 364 pp., tables, notes, bibl., index. U1
:Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–19501
:Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic World: A New Perspective on the History of Modern Science1
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.1
Mobilizing Moving Images: Reusing a German Flow Film of the 1920s for U.S. Science Education in the Cold War1
Daniel A. Barber. Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning. 336 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. $60 (cloth); I1
Dolores L. Augustine. Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present. (Protest, Culture, and Society, 24.) xiii + 286 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York/Oxford: Be1
Kären Wigen; Caroline Winterer (Editors). Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era. 272 pp., illus., maps, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $45 (cloth1
Between Aspiration and Reality: Folklore Film Work in Times of Upheaval1
Ursula Klein. Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750–1850. 336 pp., 24 figs. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $40 (paper); ISBN 9780262539296. E-book available.1
:Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities1
Lucia Raggetti. ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, Translation, and Study of a Fluid Tradition. (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 6.) 1
Dániel Bárth. The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar. (Microhistories.) 304 pp. New York: Routledge, 2020. $160 (cloth); ISBN 9780367356798. E-book avai1
Joel Faflak (Editor). Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution. x + 321 pp., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. $57.75 (cloth); ISBN 9781442644304.1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
:Wasp1
Nikolai Krementsov. With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia. xxv + 666 pp., illus., notes, index. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2018. £22.95 (paper); I1
Sam White; Christian Pfister; Franz Mauelshagen (Editors). The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. xxv + 656 pp., figs., tables, index. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. $210 (cloth); ISBN 971
Thomas Dodman. What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion. xi + 275 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $35 (paper); ISBN 9780226492940.1
Joachim Schummer; Tom Børsen (Editors). Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering. 568 pp., indexes. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific, 2021. $198 (cloth); ISBN 97898112335311
Michael D. Gordin. Einstein in Bohemia. vii + 343 pp., notes, index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780691177373.1
:Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century1
José Chabás. Computational Astronomy in the Middle Ages: Sets of Astronomical Tables in Latin. (Estudios sobre la Ciencia, 72.) 456 pp., illus., bibl., index. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Invest1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
:Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications1
Perrin Selcer. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. xiv + 379 pp., notes, bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. $65 (c1
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19141
M. Susan Lindee. Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War. 296 pp., notes, refs., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9780674919181.1
Arne Schirrmacher. Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen: David Hilbert, Max Born, and Peter Debye in Context, 1900–1926. ix + 120 pp., figs., app. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019. €51.99 (pape1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
Steven R. Gullberg. Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and Night Sky. (Historical and Cultural Astronomy.) 370 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cham: Springer International,1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
Editors’ Note1
Rohan Deb Roy. Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine, and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. xv + 332 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £75 (cloth); ISBN1
Jinee Lokaneeta. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. 262 pp., bibl., index. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. $95 (cloth); ISBN 978047201
Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics1
Ronald S. Coddington. Faces of Civil War Nurses. 424 pp., illus., notes, refs., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $32.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781421437941. E-book available.1
Philip Steadman. Renaissance Fun: The Machines behind the Scenes. 418 pp., bibl., index. London: UCL Press, 2021. £50 (cloth); ISBN 9781787359178. Paper and e-book available.1
Lydia Barnett. After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe. xi + 250 pp., notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781421
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defense of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914. x + 204 pp., illus., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75 (cloth); ISBN 9781108490092. E-boo1
:Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France1
A Moral Obligation to Proper Experimentation: Research Ethics as Epistemic Filter in the Aftermath of World War II1
Someday a Big Plague Will Come: Laurie Garrett’sThe Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance1
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
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17001
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 Univ1
Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. 280 pp., illus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $54.95 (cloth); ISBN 9781421438740. E-b1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. When Maps Become the World. 336 pp., color plates, halftones, app., refs., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $37.50 (paper); ISBN 97802266747281
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series1
M. Norton Wise. Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. 432 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $45 (c1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
Karl S. Matlin; Jane Maienschein; Rachel A. Ankeny (Editors). Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory.) 344 pp., figs., index. Chicago/Lo1
Christopher Byrne. Aristotle’s Science of Matter and Motion. x + 196 pp., notes, bibl., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. $59 (cloth); ISBN 9781487503963. E-book available.1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
Karena Kalmbach. The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France. 236 pp., bibl., index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. $120 (cloth); ISBN 9781789207026. E-book 1
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
:The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World1
Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850. (Global Health Histories.) 258 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. $75 (cloth); ISBN 971
Edward J. Gillin. Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 320 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $501
Jennifer Johung. Vital Forms: Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life. 200 pp., figs., notes, index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. $27 (paper); ISB1
Letter to the Editor1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
Jonathan Rees. The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley’s Fight for Pure Food. 320 pp., illus., notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. $34.95 (cloth); ISBN 97811421439952. E-1
Nara B. Milanich. Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father. 352 pp., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780674980686. E-book available.1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
Theokritos Kouremenos. Plato’s Forms, Mathematics, and Astronomy. (Trends in Classics—Supplementary Volumes, 67.) vi + 152 pp., bibl., index. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. €99.95 (cloth); ISBN 97831
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)1
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
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. $1
Eva Dolezel; Rainer Godel; Andreas Pečar; Holger Zaunstöck (Editors). Ordnen—Vernetzen—Vermitteln: Kunst- und Naturalienkammern der Frühen Neuzeit als Lehr- und Lernorte. (Acta Historica Leopol1
Dean Rickles. Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916–1956). 320 pp., illus., app., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £65 (cloth); ISBN 9780199602957. E-boo1
Pankaj Sekhsaria. Nanoscale: Society’s Deep Impact on Science, Technology, and Innovation in India. 182 pp., notes, refs. Bombay: AuthorsUpFront, 2020. ₹495 (cloth); ISBN 9387280705. E-book ava1
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
Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. 296 pp., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $25 (paper); ISBN 9780226732862. Cloth and e-book availa1
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
The Origins of Modern Science in the Classroom1
Bharat Jayram Venkat. At the Limits of Cure. 304 pp., bibl., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. $27.95 (paper); ISBN 9781478014720. Cloth available.1
Ulrike Kirchberger; Brett M. Bennett (Editors). Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges.) xii + 278 pp., tables, index. Chapel Hill: 1
Francesco G. Sacco. Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke’s Natural Philosophy. (International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, 231.) xiv +1
A “Menace” or a Martyr to the Public’s Health?1
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life1
Alison E. Martin. Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt’s Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation.) 280 pp., figs., bibl., index. Edinburgh:1
John H. Evans. The Human Gene Editing Debate. 216 pp., notes, bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £22.99 (cloth); ISBN 978-0197519561. E-book available.1
Materializing COVID1
Antoine Traisnel. Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition. 256 pp., illus., bibl., index. Minnesota/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. $27 (paper); ISBN 971
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
:Erdöl: Ein Atlas der Petromoderne1
Julie Orlemanski. Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England. (Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science.) ix + 333 pp., notes, inde1
Editors’ Introduction1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
The Prenatal Gaze1
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
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture1
Hannah Murphy. A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg. x + 262 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. $50 (cloth); ISBN 971
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
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
The European Perspective on Pandemics1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
:The Age of Pandemics, 1817–1920: How They Shaped India and the World1
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; Barbara Zipser (Editors). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen. (Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, 17.) xxvi + 684 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Leiden:1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
Robert J. Mayhew; Charles W. J. Withers (Editors). Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century. (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) x1
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
:Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
Reservations1
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences1
Curtis N. Johnson. Darwin’s “Historical Sketch”: An Examination of the “Preface” to the Origin of Species. xxx + 472 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. £22.99 (cloth); IS1
:The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade1
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
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
:Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology1
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.1
Daniela Finzi; Herman Westerink (Editors). Dora, Hysteria, and Gender: Reconsidering Freud’s Case Study. (Figures of the Unconscious, 16.) 152 pp., notes. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018.1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
Rocío G. Sumillera; Jan Surman; Katharina Kühn (Editors). Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation. viii + 272 pp., index. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. $143 (cloth); ISBN 978902721
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene1
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c. 1275–c. 1330). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) 368 pp., illus. Oxford: Oxford Universit1
Jeremy Adelman (Editor). Empire and the Social Sciences: Global Histories of Knowledge. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. $79.80 (cloth); ISBN 9781350102514. Paperback and e-book available.1
:Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking: Constructions of a Dutch Polymath1
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
Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950. 433 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $1
Vincenzo Galilei’s Musicology and Galileo’s Science: Methodological Comparison and Contrast1
Ron Broglio. Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism. (Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.) xiii + 163 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Albany: SUNY Pr1
Andreas Mayer. The Science of Walking: Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century. Translated by Tilman Skowroneck and Robin Blanton. 232 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Ch1
Glen E. Rodgers. Traveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond. 551 pp., app., indexes. Croydon: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019. £29.99 (paper); ISBN 9781788015288. E-book 1
:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) x + 232 pp., notes, bibl., index. Stanford1
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
Joan Steigerwald. Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.) 472 pp., bibl., notes, illus., index. Pittsb1
Epidemic Years: A Third Look1
Stefanie GängerA Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1750–1820. xv + 238 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £75 (cloth); ISBN 9781101
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19401
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
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 97814741
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 Pres1
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
Peter Ayres. Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain: In Search of Fellowship. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xix + 228 pp., illus., app., bibl., index1
:Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb1
African Indigo in the French Atlantic: Michel Adanson’s Encounter with Senegal1
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
Water and Planetary History1
:Irrtümer und Fälschungen der Archäologie: Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung1
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)1
Margaret Willes. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. xx + 282 pp., illus., app., notes, bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2017. £10.99 (paper); ISBN 91
George E. Smith; Raghav Seth. Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality: A Study in Theory-Mediated Measurement. (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science.) 468 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford Uni1
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)1
Hanna Roman. The Language of Nature in Buffon’s “Histoire naturelle.” (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 10.) xi + 210 pp., bibl., index. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press on 1
Jacqueline Mitton; Simon Mitton. Vera Rubin: A Life. x + 310 pp., figs., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. $29.95 (cloth); ISBN 978067491911
:Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon1
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. $1
Anna Marie Roos. Goldfish. (Animal.) 206 pp., refs., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. £12.95 (paper); ISBN 9781789141351.1
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Matthew Shindell. The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey. (Synthesis.) 248 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $27.50 (cloth); ISBN 9780226662081
Cornel Zwierlein. Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750. xiii + 400 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £29.99 (paper); IS1
Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
The Giant Remains: Mesoamerican Natural History, Medicine, and Cycles of Empire1
Danielle Giffort. Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy. xiv + 240 pp., bibl., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. $25 (pape1
:Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead1
Whither Natural Magic? Science, Witchcraft, and the Decline of Magic in Henry More1
Esha Shah. Who Is the Scientist-Subject? Affective History of the Gene. (Science and Technology Studies.) xii + 173 pp., notes, bibl., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2018. £115 (cloth); ISB1
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