Volume 96, Number 4 (December 2005)
is now available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/contents?ISIS+v96n4
Table of Contents
Frontispiece Page vi
ARTICLES Geographers of Mars K. Maria D. Lane Page 477
The Influence of Niels Bohr on Max Delbruck Daniel J. McKaughan Page 507
On the Co-Creation of Classical and Modern Physics Richard Staley Page 530
FOCUS: MUSEUMS AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Objects and the Museum Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Page 559
Building the Museum Sophie Forgan Page 572
"Thoughts in Things" Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Page 586
Museums and the History of Science Jim Bennett Page 602
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Eloge: John L. Greenberg, 1945-2004 I. Grattan-Guinness; Daniel Siegel Page 609
Eloge: Thomas Malcolm Smith, Jr., 1921-2005 Kenneth L. Taylor Page 612
Eloge: Stephen Straker, 1942-2004 Ernst Hamm; Alan Richardson; Catherine Crawford Page 615
Eloge: Rene Taton, 1915-2004 Henk Kubbinga Page 618
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor Gerald Sweeney Page 621
In Reply Mary Mosher Flesher Page 622
To the Editor Henk Kubbinga Page 622
In Reply Pierre Laszlo Page 623
ESSAY REVIEWS One Hundred Years of the Nobel Science Prizes Elisabeth Crawford (Editor): Historical Studies in the Nobel Archives: The Prizes in Science and Medicine Elisabeth Crawford: The Nobel Population, 1901-1950: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry Mauro Dardo: Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics Robert Marc Friedman: The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science Istvan Hargittai: The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists George Thomas Kurian The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia James R. Bartholomew Page 625
Games Editors Played or Knowledge Readers Made? Geoffrey Cantor; Sally Shuttleworth (Editors): Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Louise Henson; Geoffrey Cantor; Gowan Dawson; Richard Noakes; Sally Shuttleworth; Jonathan R. Topham (Editors): Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media Geoffrey Cantor; Gowan Dawson; Graeme Gooday; Richard Noakes; Sally Shuttleworth; Jonathan R. Topham: Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature Christopher Hamlin Page 633
BOOK REVIEWS Miguel de Asua: Ciencia y literatura: Un relato historico rev. by Pablo Brescia Page 643
Maurice A. Finocchiaro: Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 rev. by William R. Shea Page 644
Owen Gingerich: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus rev. by Adam Mosley Page 644
Augustin Udias: Searching the Heavens and the Earth: The History of Jesuit Observatories rev. by Steve Harris Page 645
Virginia M. Walsh: Global Institutions and Social Knowledge: Generating Research at the Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1900s-1990s rev. byJennifer Hubbard Page 646
Robert Mayhew: The Female in Aristotle's Biology: Reason or Rationalization rev. by R. J. Hankinson Page 647
Gotthard Strohmaier: Avicenna rev. by Amos Bertolacci Page 649
Steven Vanden Broecke: The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology rev. by Koen Vermeir Page 650
Neil Chambers (Editor): The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820 rev. by Paul Wood Page 651
Robert Crocker: Henry more, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist rev. by Jean-Michel Vienne Page 651
Charles Coulston Gillispie: Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years rev. by Roger Hahn Page 652
Jurgen Helm; Karin Stukenbrock (Editors): Anatomie: Sektionen einer medizinischen Wissenschaft im 18. Jahrhundert rev. by Sebastian Pranghofer Page 653
Robert D. Huerta: Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers: The Parallel Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery rev. by Alexander Marr Page 654
Rina Knoeff: Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician rev. by Stephen D. Snobelen Page 655
Ayval Leshem: Newton on Mathematics and Spiritual Purity rev. by Robert Markley Page 656
Chikara Sasaki: Descartes's Mathematical Thought rev. by Michel Serfati Page 657
Hereward Tilton: The Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622) rev. by Dane T. Daniel Page 658
Andrew Wear: Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 rev. by Helen Dingwall Page 659
Stephane Castonguay: Protection des cultures, construction de la nature: Agriculture, foresterie et entomologie au Canada, 1884-1959 rev. by Matthew Evenden Page 661
Einar-Arne Drivenes; Harald Dag Jolle (Editors): Norsk polarhistorie rev. by Peder Anker Page 662
Eric J. Engstrom: Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice rev. by Arleen Marcia Tuchman Page 662
Silvia Fernanda de Mendonca Figueiroa: As ciencias geologicas no Brasil: Uma historia social e institucional, 1875-1934 rev. by Adolfo Olea-Franco Page 663
Peter Galison: Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time rev. by Dominique Pestre Page 664
John D. Greenwood: The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology rev. by Jill G. Morawski Page 665
Cesare Lombrosso; Guglielmo Ferrero: Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal, edited and translated by Nichole Hahn Raftner and Mary Gibson rev. by Garland E. Allen Page 666
Vadim Menzhulin: Drugoi Sikorskii: Neudobnye starnitsy istorii psikhiatrii rev. by Yakov M. Rabkin Page 667
William Tobin: The Life and Science of Leon Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth Rotates rev. by Michael F. Conlin Page 668
Richard Weikart: From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany rev. by Nils Roll-Hansen Page 669
Jon Cohen: Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine and Patricia Thomas: Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine rev. by Andrea Balis Page 671
Peter Goodchild: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove rev. by Paul Henriksen Page 672
Giuseppe Giuliani (Editor): Per una storia della fisica italiana, 1945-1965, Vol. 1 rev. by Matteo Leone Page 673
Mariana Ben Plotkin: Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina rev. by Hugo Klappenbach Page 674
Feliks Shtilmark: History of the Russian Zapovedniks, 1895-1995, trans. by G. H. Harper rev. byDouglas R. Weiner Page 675
Steven C. Ward: Modernizing the Mind: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society rev. by Nadine Weidman Page 676
Margaret A. Weitekamp: Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program rev. by Bayla Singer Page 677
M. Norton Wise (Editor): Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science rev. by Catherine Westfall Page 678
Philip Kitcher: Science, Truth, and Deomocracy rev. by Mario Bunge Page 679
John Polkinghorne: Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality rev. by Thaddeus J. Trenn Page 680
Notes on Contributors Page 682
Index to Isis, Volume 96, 2005 Page 685
Contents, Volume 96 Page 699