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January – March 2019

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Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874
Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Servic)
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character
Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950 (Social Histories of Medicine MUP Series)
Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe
The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science
Worlds of Natural History
Heaven and Earth United: Instruments in Astrological Contexts (Scientific Instruments and Collections)
Atomistic Intuitions: An Essay on Classification (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)
Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940 (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
The Ark of Studies (De Diversis Artibus) (English and Latin Edition) (De Diversis Artibus: Collection de Travaux De L
Über die Medizin / De medicina (Sammlung Tusculum) (German Edition)
The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO
Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity (De Diversis Artibus) (English and French Edition)
ʿĪsā Ibn ʿalī
Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire: Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities of the Pacific Rim
The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine: A History of Production and Information Machines (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)
The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher: Henry Bate
Ether and Modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century
Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files (The MIT Press)
Von Professorenzirkeln, Studentenkneipen Und Akademischem Networking: Universitare Geselligkeiten Von Der Aufklarung Bis Zur Gegenwart (Abhandlungen Zum Studenten Und Hochschulwesen) (German Edition)
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
The Routledge Guidebook to James’s Principles of Psychology (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)
The Early Years of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Exobiologists, Rocketeers, and Engineers
Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta (The MIT Press)
The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta (The MIT Press)
Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology
Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics (Oxford Studies in History of Economics)
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (Media Origins)
Wladimir Köppen - Scholar for Life Wladimir Köppen - ein Gelehrtenleben für die Meteorologie
Who is the Scientist-Subject?: Affective History of the Gene (Science and Technology Studies)
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II: Enlightenment Bestsellers
Walcher of Malvern: De lunationibus and De Dracone: Study, Edition, Translation, and Commentary (De Diversis Artibus) (English and Latin Edition)
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science

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July – September 2018

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Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Science in History)
The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev
Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition
From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements: A Story of Dispute and Creation (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire
Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
The History of the Priority Di∫pute between Newton and Leibniz: Mathematics in History and Culture
William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History
Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (African Arguments)
The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine (Studies in Ancient Medicine)
Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Emergence of Natural History)
Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700) (English and Dutch Edition)
Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences
Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms
Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology
Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway: Conceptualizing Knowledge (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
Imagining Chinese Medicine (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian)
Compound Histories (Cultural Dynamics of Science)
Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science
The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire
Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel
Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700) (Studies on the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence)
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual
150 Jahre Mendelsche Regeln: Vom Erbsenzählen zum Gen-Editieren
A Codicological and Linguistic Study of the Voigts-Sloane Group of Middle English Manuscripts (Texts and Transitions)
Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia
The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
This Land Is Your Land: The Story of Field Biology in America
Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Bombing the Marshall Islands: A Cold War Tragedy
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle
Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine (Studies in Ancient Medicine)
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980
The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Synthesis)
Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude (Posthumanities)
Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America (Buell Center Books in the History and Theory of American Architecture)
What Is Information? (Electronic Mediations)
Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth
Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
Five Photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time
Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present (Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face)
Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders
Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
A Family History of Illness: Memory as Medicine
Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion
Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier (History of Communication)
Tears for My Sisters: The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
The Task Force for Child Survival: Secrets of Successful Coalitions
Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made
A Telephone for the World: Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age
Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion
Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Public Service, Distrust, and 'Projecting' in Early Modern England
Civilization and Disease (Messenger Lectures)
Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Ice: Nature and Culture (Earth)
Art and Science (Manuscripts in the Making)
Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects
Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (The United States in the World)
Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett
The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (Early American Studies)
Who Controls the Hunt?: First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire, A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution (Nuncius)
La Medecine De Guerre En Grece Ancienne (De Diversis Artibus: Collection de Travaux De L' Academie Internationale D'Historie Des Sciences / Collection ... Science) (French and Ancient Greek Edition)
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzos <i>Trattato dellArte della Pittura</i>: Color, Perspective and Anatomy (Nuncius)
The Lynx and the Telescope, The Parallel Worlds of Federico Cesi and Galileo (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions)
The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Helmholtz: A Life in Science
Venezia e la nuova oikoumene Venedig und die neue Oikoumene: Cartografia del Quattrocento Kartographie im 15. Jahrhundert (Venetiana) (German Edition)

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April – June 2018

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Eastern Mennonite University: A Century of Countercultural Education
Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science
State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950 (Social Histories of Medicine MUP Series)
Vom Neandertal nach Afrika
Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia
Histories of Human Engineering: Tact and Technology
Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid)
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Italian and Italian American Studies)
The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War
Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos (Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound)
The Moral Meaning of Nature: Nietzsche’s Darwinian Religion and Its Critics
From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity
Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College
The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China
Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Association for Women in Mathematics Series)
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Nova Stereometria Dolorium Vinariorum/ New Solid Geometry of Wine Barrels: Suivi De Accessit Stereometriae Archimedeae Svpplementvm/ a Supplement to ... Et Savoirs) (English and Latin Edition)
Service as Mandate: How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015 (NEXUS)
The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
History of Nonlinear Oscillations Theory in France (1880-1940) (Archimedes)
Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930
The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Science in History)
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 - 1923
The Epochs of Nature
Welt ohne Krankheit
Medizinisches Gutachten
Saved from the Cellar: Gerhard Gentzen’s Shorthand Notes on Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)
On Purpose
Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)
Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.-16. Jahrhundert
Biologie in der DDR
From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric)
The Correspondence of Charles Hutton: Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935
A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
Comets: Nature and Culture (Earth)
Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany
Rainbows: Nature and Culture (Earth)
Was wäre wenn?
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

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Jan-March 2018

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Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy (Renaissance Lives)
Madness
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography
Star Theatre: The Story of the Planetarium
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (Toronto Italian Studies)
The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Perspectives on Global Health)
Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars: Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany (passagem)
The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor
Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Fringe Discourses
The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948: Facing the Temple Mount
A Lab of One
Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays, (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions)
David Heinrich M|ller und die s|darabische Expedition der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1898/99: Eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche ... Klasse) (German Edition)
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age
Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius (Routledge Early Modern Translations)
Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948: Facing the Temple Mount
Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations into the History of Knowledge
Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s: Diagnosing Deviance
Einstein
Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Science and Technology Studies)
Complete Works of Voltaire 65B: Des Singularites de la Nature (French Edition)
Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science (Springer Biographies)
Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (The MIT Press)
Modernism, Science, and Technology (New Modernisms)
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals
Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology
Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (Warburg Institute Colloquia)
AKAN - Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption (Band XXVII)
THOMAS S. KUHN.LA BUSQUEDA DE LA ESTRUCTURA
From Arithmetic to Zeta-Functions: Number Theory in Memory of Wolfgang Schwarz
Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo
Eugenics and Protestant Social Reform: Hereditary Science and Religion in America, 1860-1940
Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb
History, Big History, Metahistory
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume I: The Correspondence, May 1840–August 1843
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 2: The Correspondence, September 1843–December 1849
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 3: The Correspondence, January 1850–December 1852
Neglected Perspectives on Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Relations
Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body Parts, Sicknesses, Instruments, and Medicinal Preparations
Landmarks in the History of Science: Great Scientific Discoveries From a Global-Historical Perspective (Vernon Series on the History of Science)
Tending Mothers and the Fruits of the Womb
Game Changers: Stories of the Revolutionary Minds behind Game Theory
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity
Suspicious Moderate: The Life and Writings of Francis à Sancta Clara (1598–1680)
A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960 (California World History Library)
Schmetterlinge und Leidenschaft
The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science)
Ars Natura
Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
Schmetterlinge und Leidenschaft
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
Systèmes expérimentaux et choses épistémiques (Histoire et philosophie des sciences) (French Edition)
Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
Medicine at Michigan: A History of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial
The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God
The Many Lives of Carbon
The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)
De fumées et de sang
Über die Notwendigkeit einer Zweiten Aufklärung
Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science (The MIT Press)
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics
Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking
This Green and Growing Land: Environmental Activism in American History (American Ways)
The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (The MIT Press)

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October – December 2017

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1668: The Year of the Animal in France (Zone Books)
True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin, the Most Influential Scientist You
Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
The Voynich Manuscript
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin
Forster - Humboldt - Chamisso: Weltreisende Im Spannungsfeld Der Kulturen (Chamisso-Studien) (German Edition)
The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence: With Selections from the Correspondence with Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels (The Yale Leibniz Series)
The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein
Humboldt
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (The MIT Press)
Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815 (Science in History)
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era
Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
Vaccine Nation: America
For the Love of Science: The Correspondence of J. H. de Magellan (1722–1790), in two volumes
Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament (Science in History)
Fearful Asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization of Language, Paris, 1825-1879
Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
The Continuation of Ancient Mathematics: Wang Xiaotong’s "Jigu suanjing", Algebra and Geometry in 7th-Century China (NIAS Reports)
Jacob Moleschott – A Transnational Biography: Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Histoire)
Familienkorrespondenz
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
Contagionism Catches On: Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800
Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
La technologie générale : Johann Beckmann, Entwurf der algemeinen Technologie, Projet de technologie générale (1806)
Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
The Great Apes: A Short History
Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy (The Past and Present Book Series)
Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

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July-September 2017

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New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)
Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge (Inside Technology)
""Krieg der Gelehrten"" und die Welt der Akademien 1914-1924
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
The Routledge Companion to Strabo
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character
Der Portulan-Atlas des Battista Agnese
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West
Von Professorenzirkeln, Studentenkneipen Und Akademischem Networking: Universitare Geselligkeiten Von Der Aufklarung Bis Zur Gegenwart (Abhandlungen Zum Studenten Und Hochschulwesen) (German Edition)
Nature
Die Menagerie der Medusa
Quand Albert devient Einstein : 1895-1901
Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma (Studies in Ancient Medicine) (English, Ancient Greek and Latin Edition)
A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology (History and Philosophy of Technoscience)
The Life and Works of John Napier
New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)
Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) (English and Arabic Edition)
200 Jahre Parkinsonsyndrom: 1817-2017 (German Edition)
Les identités multiples d
Sign or Symptom?: Exceptional Corporeal Phenomena in Religion and Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries (KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico
Magic Squares in the Tenth Century: Two Arabic Treatises by Anṭākī and Būzjānī (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) (English and Arabic Edition)
Silicosis: A World History
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952 (Inside Technology)
Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Medicine and Society)
Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany (Intellectual History of the Modern Age)
A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel
Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Id)
Science Is Not What You Think: How It Has Changed, Why We Can
Project Apollo: The Early Years, 1961-1967 (America in Space Series)
The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (Inside Technology)
Dionysios Von Alexandria, de Natura: Ubersetzung, Kommentar Und Wurdigung: Mit Einer Einleitung Zur Geschichte Des Epikureismus in Alexandria ... (German, Ancient Greek and Latin Edition)
Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (Magic in History)

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April-June 2017

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The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation
Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
The Birth of the Academic Article: Le Journal Des Scavans and the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1700
American Eclipse: A Nation
Nuclear Reactions: Documenting American Encounters with Nuclear Energy (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)
Popularizing Science: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane
Murder and the Making of English CSI
Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea (Inside Technology)
Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics
Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes: The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr.
The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States
Turing
Cavendish: The Experimental Life
The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland
ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (History of Computing)
Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
Gravity
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
It
Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison (Joukowsky Institute Publication)
The Experiential Caribbean
Religion Within Reason
Savant Relics
Pushing Limits: From West Point to Berkeley & Beyond
William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity
Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial
New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine (The MIT Press)
Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
Éphémérides romaines: 24 mars - 24 octobre 1775 (Le dix-huitieme siecle) (French Edition)
Louis Couturat (1868-1914): Mathématiques, langage, philosophie (Histoire et philosophie des sciences) (French Edition)
Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature
The History of Japanese Psychology (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan)
Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (The Middle Ages Series)
How Not to Network a Nation (Information Policy)
Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in your Hand
Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants
Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity (New Studies in the Age of Goethe)
The Birth of the Past
The Economization of Life
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts (Albert Schweitzer Library)
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse: The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura (Sources and Studies in the ... Sciences) (English, Arabic and Greek Edition)
Embodiments of Mind (The MIT Press)
System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge (Infrastructures)
Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)
The Structures of Practical Knowledge
The Long Arm of Moore
Profession explorateur: Alfred Grandidier 1836-1921
Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (Inside Technology)
Wombs with a View: Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code (The MIT Press)
The Gland Illusion: Early Attempts at Rejuvenation Through Male Hormone Therapy
Le Temps Des Astronomes: L
Medizin im Konflikt (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance) (German Edition)
Global Marine Science and Carlsberg - The Golden Connections of Johannes Schmidt (1877-1933)
The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
Plutarch
Democratic Experiments: Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Inside Technology)
Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Spatial Thinking and External Representation
Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny (The MIT Press)
Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist (Cultural Dynamics of Science)
A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences

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January-March 2017

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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Compound Solutions
American Eclipse: A Nation
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630
Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Histoire des techniques : Mondes, sociétés, cultures - XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870-1940
Ressourcenmobilisierung
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Humanités environnementales: Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia (The History of Medicine in Context)
The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World)
The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Italian and Italian American Studies)
Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History
The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano (MEDIEVAL & RENAIS TEXT STUDIES)
The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (History of Emotions)
Le Mathématicien renaissant et son savoir: Le statut des mathématiques selon Oronce Fine (Histoire Et Philosophie Des Sciences) (French Edition)
de Arte Magna -Libri Quatuor (Sciences Et Savoirs) (French Edition)
The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Carpenter Lectures)
Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study of the extant formularies (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)
Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)
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Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)
The Baroulkos and the Mechanics of Heron (Biblioteca Di Nuncius Studie Testi)
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, THE: A HISTORY, 1845-2000
Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period (Trends in the History of Science)
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count
A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight
Network Medicine: Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics
The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent
Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures)
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
Der Fall Paul Kammerer
Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics
Berlin, the Mother of All Research Universities: 1860–1918
Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Concept to Success (Springer Praxis Books)
Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
The Globalization of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Freuds Traum Von Einer Neuen Wissenschaft: Chemie Und Bakteriologie Im Traum Von Irmas Injektion (Jahrbuch Der Psychoanalyse. Beihefte) (German Edition)
Testing Fate
Materia médica: Rareza, singularidad y accidente en la España temprano-moderna (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (Spanish Edition)
Pompa E Intelletto: Formen Der Ordnung Und Inszenierung Botanischen Wissens Im Späten Großherzogtum Der Medici (Phoenix) (German Edition)
Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Trends in the History of Science)
Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)
Impressions de Chine : L

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