Tag Archives: histsci

Apr – Jun 2020

Previous Isis Books Received Lists

NB: This limited list reveals how our ability to receive review copies from publishers has been severely hampered by the pandemic

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The Man Who Crucified Himself (Clio Medica) by Maria Böhmer
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science by David Brown
Janus Cornarius Et La Redecouverte D'Hippocrate a la Renaissance (de Diversis Artibus) (French Edition) (De Diversis Artibus: Collection De Travaux De ... Academy of the History of Science) by M-L Monfort
Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935 by Stephen Gaukroger
Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation) by Alison E. Martin
Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe by Katharina N. Piechocki
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian
Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain (Science in History) by Richard Noakes
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Jan – March 2020

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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jürgen Renn
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin
Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex From Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.) (ISAW Monographs) by Roger S. Bagnall
Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Jürgen P. Melzer
Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History) by Tinne Claes
Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies by Christian K. Kleinbub
Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by William Shea
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 by Harun Küçük
Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought by Durba Mitra
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Liba Taub
Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges) by Ulrike Kirchberger
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Paul J. Nahin
Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy (The Middle Ages Series) by G. Geltner
Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China by Eugenia Lean
Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment) by Andra Chastain
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of
Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice by Zeynep Çelik Alexander
A Human Garden: French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies) by Paul-André Rosental
Majorana Case, The: Letters, Documents, Testimonies by Erasmo Recami
The Italian Renaissance of Machines (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti) by Paolo Galluzzi
A Constant State of Emergency: Paul de Kruif: Microbe Hunter and Health Activist by Jan Peter Verhave
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Technology in the Industrial Revolution (New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine) by Barbara Hahn
Traveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond by Glen E Rodgers
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism (Global South Asia) by Eric Huntington
Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900-1948 (Science in History) by Amir Teicher
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe by Michael Brooks
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment) by Kenny Cupers
Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen: David Hilbert, Max Born, and Peter Debye in Context, 1900-1926 (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology) by Arne Schirrmacher
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization by On Barak
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (Histories of Economic Life (23)) by Arunabh Ghosh
Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century by Jeffrey Womack
Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory) by Karl S. Matlin
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Eugenia Lean
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
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Oct – Dec 2019

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The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Global Health Histories) by Laurence Monnais
The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Rossi
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science (The Early Modern Americas) by Jaime Marroquín Arredondo
Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier by Catherine L. Newell
Goldfish (Animal) by Anna Marie Roos
Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil
Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity by David S. Richeson
Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by Amelia Bonea
News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by Joshua Nall
The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Katelynn Robinson
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects) by Pankaj Sekhsaria
The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century by Jeff Loveland
The Market in Mind: How Financialization Is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine, and Innovation in Biotechnology (The MIT Press) by Mark Dennis Robinson
Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920 (Animals, History, Culture) by Jessica Wang
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (Irish Studies) by Kathryn Conrad
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: A Tour of His Botanical Legacy by Ken Thompson
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture by Lynn Festa
The Sense of Movement: An Intellectual History by Roger Smith
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by James C. Ungureanu
Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England (Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science) by Julie Orlemanski
Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle by Bernard Lightman
Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory by Brian P. Copenhaver
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea by Antony Adler
An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion by Charles H. Smith
The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists by Roger J. Lederer
Wasp (Animal) by Richard Jones
Polar Bear (Animal) by Margery Fee
Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan by Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by Tanya O'Sullivan
A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by Peter H. Hoffenberg
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (Cinema and Modernity) by Ian Christie
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (The Early Modern Americas) by Benjamin Breen
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) by Sharon T. Strocchia
Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources by C. Pierce Salguero
Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making by Nadine Ehlers
The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons by Felipe Rojas
Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography by Shawn Michelle Smith
The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can't Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News (History and Foundations of Information Science) by Antonio Badia
The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs: The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry (Science Studies) by Rebecca Mertens
Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by Alan C. Love
Journal Du Voyage En Hollande 1794: Lalandiana IV (Histoire Des Sciences - Textes) (French Edition) by Jerome Lalande
Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories by Tian Yu Cao
Oxygen, Acids, and Water: Eight Chapters from the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry by Howard J. Fisher
Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World (Writing the Early Americas) by Juan Carlos González Espitia
Kepler, Renovateur De L'optique (Histoire Et Philosophie Des Sciences) (French Edition) by Gerard Simon
Real Life Cryptology: Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary by Benedek Láng
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health by Donald A. Barr
Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion by Christopher Byrne
JER�NIMO MU�OZ by Victor Navarro Brotons
From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society by Hans Radder
186.¿entre el fiscal y el verdugo? by Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 by Mircea Pitici
Vital Forms: Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life by Jennifer Johung
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life (Renaissance Lives) by Bruce T. Moran
Hannah's War by Jan Eliasberg
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: New Beginnings, January 1885–December 1887 (Volume 8) by Thomas A. Edison
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 by Elizabeth Baigent
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 26, 1878 by Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 22, 1874 by Charles Darwin
Organisme Et Corps Organique De Leibniz a Kant (Mathesis) (French Edition) by Francois Duchesneau
Glacier: Nature and Culture (Earth) by Peter G. Knight
Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico by Alex Hidalgo
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Stephen P. Waring
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris
Richard Rufus: Sententia cum quaestionibus in libros De anima Aristotelis (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi) by Jennifer Ottman
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July – Sept 2019

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Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion
Experimental Selves: Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
Organisme Et Corps Organique De Leibniz a Kant (Mathesis) (French Edition)
An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation)
The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Richard Rufus: Sententia cum quaestionibus in libros De anima Aristotelis (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi)
Speculum Medicine
Familienkorrespondenz: August 1854 Bis Marz 1857 (German Edition)
Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology
JER�NIMO MU�OZ
Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Ydea astronomica de la fabrica del mundo y movimiento de los cuerpos celestiales
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology Book 23)
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (Feminist Technosciences)
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
How We Teach Science: What's Changed, and Why It Matters
Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution
Membranes to Molecular Machines: Active Matter and the Remaking of Life (Synthesis)
Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island (Carleton Library Series)
What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
Showcasing Science: A History of Teylers Museum in the Nineteenth Century (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands)
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing
Otto Blumenthal: Ausgewählte Briefe und Schriften I: 1897-1918 (Mathematik im Kontext) (German Edition)
A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine
Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution
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April – June 2019

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Love, Order, and Progress: The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte
Penser les mathématiques au XVIe siècle (Histoire Et Philosophie Des Sciences) (French Edition)
Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity
Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Buckets from an English Sea: 1832 and the Making of Charles Darwin
Optics, Ethics, and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Looking into Peter of Limoges's Moral Treatise on the Eye (Studies and Texts)
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures
Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)
Marine Chronometers at Greenwich: A Catalogue of Marine Chronometers at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word -)
Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700 (2 Vols.) (Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World, 43) (English and Dutch Edition)
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment
The Man Who Crucified Himself (Clio Medica)
The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
Denkstile und Schulenbildung in der Biologie/Biologie und Politik
Système analytique des connaissances positives de l'homme : Restrientes à celles qui proviennent directement ou indirectement de l'observation
Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie: Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933-1970
The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought: The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
Does America Need More Innovators? (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)
The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs
Heroes of the Space Age: Incredible Stories of the Famous and Forgotten Men and Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars
Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy (Energy Humanities)
The Second Age of Computer Science: From Algol Genes to Neural Nets
Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Servic)
Los enfermos en la España barroca y el pluralismo médico : espacios, estrategias y actitudes

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