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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
:German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers14
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines11
:Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture11
:Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–19149
Eloge: Paul Farber (1944–2021)9
:Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science9
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20239
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.8
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. $8
:Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture6
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. $6
:Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing6
:Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–18506
:The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica6
:Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide5
:Science Studies Meets Colonialism5
Provincializing Krakatau: Local Politics and Global Conservation at a World Heritage Volcano5
:The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal4
Introduction: Rethinking History of Science in the Anthropocene4
Front Cover4
Note from the Editors4
An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics4
:Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry4
Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–19004
Reservations4
:A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science3
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 Univ3
The Prenatal Gaze3
Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s3
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
Stabilizing Local Knowledge: The Installation of a Meridian Circle at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1908–1913)3
The Post-Heroic Field3
Eloge: Gabriele Oropallo (1976–2021)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
:Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States2
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 Env2
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–17002
Front Matter2
Front Matter2
Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World2
Oriental Chronology: Chinese Astronomy and the Politics of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Britain2
COVID-19 Response in South Asia: Case Studies from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan2
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
:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire2
:The Campaign: How a European Big Science Facility Ended Up on the Peripheral Farmlands of Southern Sweden2
:The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–19502
:Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions2
:Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences2
Introduction2
Front Matter2
Contents of Isis, Volume 1152
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
Front Matter2
:A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century2
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
No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society2
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 20212
:Maria Sibylla Merian y Alida Withoos: Mujeres, Arte y Ciencia en la Edad Moderna2
Astronomy as a Science in the Archive in Imperial China (221 BC–AD 1911)2
:Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs2
Front Cover2
“Famine Foods” and the Values of Biodiversity Preservation in Israel-Palestine2
:Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography2
:Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges2
:Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible1
The Isis Bibliography: Information Practices from Sarton’s Vision to the Digital Age1
“A Vitious Way of Observing”: Kinnebrook and the Prehistory of the Personal Equation1
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary1
:Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society1
:Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism1
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
:Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar1
The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty1
:Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento1
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910). 240 pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paper); ISBN 9780826521
:Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Between Hearing and Touch: The Global Discovery of the Vibratory Sense through a “Deaf Ability”1
Hidden, Lost, and Forgotten Labor: A Tour of the Society’s Archival Record1
:Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation1
Performative Politics at Parícutin Volcano in Michoacán, Mexico (1943–1952)1
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
:The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century1
:Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 19001
:Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics1
:Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea1
Sophie Brockmann. The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838. xiv + 268 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre1
:The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France1
Jennifer M. Rampling The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700. (Synthesis.) 416 pp., 19 halftones, 2 tables. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $35 (cloth); I1
Thinking the Earth with the Body: How the Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata1
:Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology1
:Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation1
Zvipukanana: “Tiny Animals with No Bones”1
Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks1
:The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem1
Mark Boyer Adams (1944–2024)1
Epidemic Histories in East Asia1
:Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction1
:Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe1
:The Poetry of John Tyndall1
:The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology1
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties?1
The Harpsichord Brain: Instrumental Models of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century France1
:Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–17501
:Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages1
:DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible1
:Code: From Information Theory to French Theory1
:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment1
:Picturing Ecology: Photography and the Birth of a New Science1
:Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts1
:Science for Governing Japan’s Population1
:Latin as the Language of Science and Learning1
Brazilian Dromedaries: A History of Acclimatization, Agricultural Modernization, and Camelids, 1857–18671
:A Book of Waves1
Ido Hartogsohn. American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century. 432 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2020. $35 (paper); ISBN 978026251
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy1
Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp. 1
Inventing the Scientific Revolution1
Animals, Film, Audiences: Regulating Cruelty and Morality through Science and Law in Interwar Britain1
:The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines1
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy1
Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941–2021)1
:Accounting for Health: Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–20001
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes1
:150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium1
:Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–17201
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:The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia1
Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools1
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America1
:Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine1
:Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/20201
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
Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh (Editors). Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books. (Material Reading1
The Submerged Nation: Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines1
:Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–20001
Introduction: Redrawing the Map of Science in Modern China1
:Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear1
:States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19451
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia1
Editors’ Note1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition1
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland1
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust1
:Darwin’s Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection1
:Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–19451
:Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object1
Letter to the Editors1
Early Modern Resources: An Introduction1
:The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History1
Mediterraneanizing Europe: The Project of Subaltern Race and the Postimperial Search for Hybridity1
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
The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable: Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)1
:The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure1
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
:Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education1
Phillip Reid. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology. (Technology and Change in History, 18.) xiv + 308 pp., illus. Leiden: Brill, 21
:Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine1
Introduction: Launching a Labor History of Science1
Front Matter1
:Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain1
:Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things1
Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors1
The Jesuit Culture of Correlation in Observatory Sciences1
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge1
Teaching with Isis: From The Cultural Turn to TikTok1
:David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World1
:The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth1
:Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age1
:Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy1
:Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal1
:The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution1
Open-Access Resource for Instructors and Students of History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean1
:The Age of Mammals: International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Eloge: Trevor Pinch (1952–2021)1
Rebekah Lee. Health, Healing, and Illness in African History. 272 pp., illus., notes, index. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. £58.50 (cloth); ISBN 9781474254380. Paper and e-book available.1
:Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions1
:On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief1
:The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion1
:The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.”1
:The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam1
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
David Trippett; Benjamin Walton (Editors). Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination. xv + 381 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90 (1
:Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America1
:Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada1
Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology1
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution1
Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”1
Whose Home Is the Field?1
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution1
:Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India1
:World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge1
Vaccination and Pandemics1
Introduction: Engagement or Rejection? Conservative Religion and Science in America Since 19601
Morris Low. Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiii + 260 pp., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. $11
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
:Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War1
The Product of Practices: How Natural History and Mathematical Physics Gave Meaning to Cartography’s Depth Contour Lines1
Mutual Aid: The Workers’ History of Science1
:From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World1
Ways of Knowing a Former Insect1
:The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s “Naturalis Historia.”1
From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love1
In Reply1
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century1
Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023)1
:The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–19201
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life1
:Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond1
:Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–18301
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Dark Degenerations: Life, Light, and Transformation beneath the Earth, 1840–circa 19001
:Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis1
:Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America1
:The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
:Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan1
The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science1
When a Wonder Is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge1
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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
:Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–661
:Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate1
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:How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
Winds of Fate: Giulio Romano’s Camera dei Venti at the Palazzo Te and Astral Magic in the Gonzaga Court1
:A History of the Wind1
Flower Breeding in Early Modern Istanbul: A Science of Seeds1
Negotiating Pearls in the Early Jesuit Missions of California1
:China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy1
An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya1
:Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity1
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century1
Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology1
Felipe Rojas. The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. xvii + 244 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75 (cloth); ISBN 978110848481
:Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming1
:The Doctor Who Would Be King1
:Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling1
:The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration1
:Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity1
:The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health1
David A. Guba Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. (Intoxicating Histories.) 384 pp., notes, index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. $37.95 (paper1
Hybrid Seeds in History and Historiography1
The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines1
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:Wasp1
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, 20211
Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment1
:Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance1
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