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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Nature of Glass: Technologies of Transparency, Materials on the Move27
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science11
Jost Lemmerich. Max von Laue—Furchtlos und treu: Eine Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers für Physik. 591 pp., illus. Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2020. €68 (cloth); ISBN 9783941365568.10
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–172010
HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series9
:Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–19606
Front Matter6
:Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China5
Profession of Revulsion: Subjective Science and the Mobilization of Emotions in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Public Medicine5
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica4
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love4
Joel Faflak (Editor). Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution. x + 321 pp., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. $57.75 (cloth); ISBN 9781442644304.4
:Alexander Williamson: A Victorian Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan4
Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–19404
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing4
Reservations4
Making a Stable Sea: The Littorals of Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Origins of a Spatial Concept4
Note from the Editors3
HSS, the FBI, and the Unabomber3
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism3
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal3
To the Editors3
Introduction to the “Women Historians of Science: Report of the Committee on Women in the History of Science, December, 1973”3
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan3
Front Cover3
A Humble Genre: History of Isis Book Reviews3
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 9781423
:Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France3
Letter from the Editors of Osiris3
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India3
:Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry3
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, 20213
:A Few Acres of Ice: Environment, Sovereignty, and “Grandeur” in the French Antarctic3
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture2
Harun Küçük. Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. xv + 320 pp., apps., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. $50 (cloth); ISBN 2
Editors’ Note2
:Medical Case Studies (Consilia medica) of the Early Modern Period: Great Pox Documented2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20232
Acknowledgments2
Climate Conscious: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940s–1960s2
:Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe2
Eloge: Mary Terrall (1952–2023)2
He Bian. Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China. 264 pp. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780691179049. E-book available.2
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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)2
:Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1122
History of Epidemics: A Bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in Italian and on Italy2
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 (cloth2
Eloge: Juan José Saldaña González (1944–2022)2
Film ist. (1–6): An Exemplary Use of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica2
Moving across the Zoo–Field Border: Heini Hediger in Congo2
Anna Marie Roos. Goldfish. (Animal.) 206 pp., refs., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. £12.95 (paper); ISBN 9781789141351.2
:The Science of Bureaucracy: Risk Decision-Making and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency2
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible2
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object2
:The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh2
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers2
Elizabeth Reis. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. (Second Edition.) 296 pp., photos, illus., notes, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. $30 (paper); ISBN 9781
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
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
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
Eloge: Garland Edward Allen III (1936–2023): An Idiosyncratic, Dialectical Multilogue1
Front Matter1
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
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
Ernst Mach’s Popular Science1
:Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment1
The Complicated History of Science and Religion1
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence. xx + 278 pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. $32.99 (paper); ISBN 97811081
:The Age of Pandemics, 1817–1920: How They Shaped India and the World1
:The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade1
Punch-Drunk Slugnuts: Violence and the Vernacular History of Disease1
:Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
Letter to the Editor1
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
Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Public Health, 1890–19301
“Ambivalent Insects” as Tools and Targets1
:Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead1
Margery Fee. Polar Bear. (Animal.) 224 pp., figs., bibl., index. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. £12.95 (paper); ISBN 9781789141467.1
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
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:Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France1
:Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
:Erdöl: Ein Atlas der Petromoderne1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
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
:Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science1
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
:Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic, and Ancient Egypt1
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19141
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931–2022)1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
White Ants: Biotic Borders to Biocultural Frontiers1
Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–16351
:Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
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
:Irrtümer und Fälschungen der Archäologie: Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung1
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
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
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
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
A Short Introduction into the English-Language Historiography of Epidemiology1
Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: A Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19001
:Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic World: A New Perspective on the History of Modern Science1
:The Astronomer’s Chair: A Visual and Cultural History1
:Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India1
:The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World1
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
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The Origins of Modern Science in the Classroom1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
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
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
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
Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources1
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
A Darwinian Murder: The Role of the Barré-Lebiez Affair in the Diffusion of Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century France1
The Circulation of Morphological Knowledge: Understanding “Form” across Disciplines in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries1
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Placing Insects in Histories of Science1
:Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction1
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 20221
Gary Patterson. Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century New England. 102 pp. Berlin: Springer, 2020. $59.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030432607. E-book available.1
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
Eloge: Neale W. Watson (1934–2019)1
Pig Mentations: Race and Face in Radiobiology1
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
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
:Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
:Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens1
:Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon1
We Need to See Things1
:Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome1
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
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century1
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 Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
A “Truly International” Discipline: Adverbs, Ideals, and the Reinvention of International Mathematics, 1920–19501
Administration of Perception: Observing and Transcribing Dead Bodies in the Forensic Methodology of Qing China (1644–1912)1
:Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain1
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
:The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress1
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
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
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
A Feminist Physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676–1764) and His Advice for Those in Love1
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
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
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
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
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
Hermann Hunger; John Steele. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World.) viii + 245 pp., abbrev., bibl., index. London: Routledge1
:Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe1
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
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
:Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century1
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
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Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
Technical Chronology and Computus Naturalis in Twelfth-Century Lotharingia: A New Source1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
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
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:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
From the History of Science to Geoanthropology1
Zachary Dorner. Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century. 280 pp., halftones, tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 1
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Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice1
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture1
Reflections on the Knowledge of Shallow Waters1
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden1
:Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe1
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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
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
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life1
:Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico1
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
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
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
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
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19501
Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
Sabine Clarke. Science at the End of Empire: Experts and the Development of the British Caribbean, 1940–62. (Studies in Imperialism.) viii + 206 pp., figs., bibl., index. Manchester: Manchester1
:Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare1
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
“To Embrace and Protect”: Managing Wind, Water, and Trees in the Ryukyu Kingdom1
:Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth1
Mobilizing Moving Images: Reusing a German Flow Film of the 1920s for U.S. Science Education in the Cold War1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
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
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
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)1
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
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States1
“The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain”: Memory, MIT, Montreal, and the Origins of Neuroscience1
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
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
Kristie I. Macrakis (1958–2022)1
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
:A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine1
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
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:Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb1
:Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond1
:Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco1
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:The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral: Function and Significance1
A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World1
:Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life1
Rethinking Collaboration: Medical Research and Working Relationships at the Iranian Pasteur Institute1
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Moon Microbes? Interpretations of Risk and the Limits of Quarantine in NASA’s Apollo Program1
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s1
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
Sebastian Vehlken. Zootechnologies: A Media History of Swarm Research. 400 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. €119 (cloth); ISBN 9789462986206. E-book available.1
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
Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850–19001
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influence 20231
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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
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
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
The Science of Shallow Waters: Connecting and Classifying the Early Modern Atlantic1
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science1
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
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
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
:Bodies of Work: The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation1
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
:The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance1
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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20211
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene1
:Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health1
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
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
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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