Table of Contents
Frontispiece Page viii
ARTICLES Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Marc J. Ratcliff, Page 555
Appreciated Abroad, Depreciated at Home. The Career of a Radiochemist in Norway: Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) Annette Lykknes; Lise Kvittingen; Anne Kristine BOrresen, Page 576
FOCUS: THE ELUSIVE ICON: EINSTEIN, 1905-2005
Introduction Peter Galison, Page 610
The Mystery of the Einstein-Poincare Connection Olivier Darrigol, Page 614
Einstein, Race, and the Myth of the Cultural Icon Fred Jerome, Page 627
The Relativity Revolution from the Perspective of Historical Epistemology Jürgen Renn, Page 640
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Eloge: Carolyn Eisele, 1902-2000 Mary Louise Gleason; Joseph W. Dauben, Page 649
Eloge: David K. van Keuren, 1950-2004 Keith R. Benson; Helen Rozwadowski, Page 652
HALIFAX KEYNOTE ADDRESS Knowledge in Transit James A. Secord, Page 654
BOOK REVIEWS Antonio Becchi; Massimo Corradi; Federico Foce; Orietta Pedemonte (Editors): Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto rev. by Jim Cross, Page 673
Jose Ramon Beromeu-Sanchez; Antonio Garcia-Belmar (Editors): Abriendo las cajas negras: Coleccion de instrumentos cientificos de la Universitat de Valencia rev. by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra Page 673
Jill Ker Conway; Kenneth Keniston; Leo Marx (Editors): Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment rev. by Donato Bergandi, Page 674
Lorraine Daston; Fernando Vidal (Editors): The Moral Authority of Nature rev. by Pamela H. Smith, Page 675
Joseph S. Fruton: Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry rev. by Mel Usselman, Page 677
John P. Jackson, Jr. (Editor): Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris rev. by Bonnie Ellen Blustein, Page 678
Martin Kusch: Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy rev. by William R. Woodward, Page 679
Keith J. Laidler: Energy and the Unexpected rev. by Catherine Rogers, Page 680
David Leverington: Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy rev. by Ursula B. Marvin, Page 681
David Levy; Wendee Wallach-Levy: Cosmic Discoveries: The Wonders of Astronomy rev. by David DeVorkin, Page 682
Jose Maria Lopez Pinero: La medicina en la historia rev. by Ana Cecilia Rodriguez de Romo, Page 683
Hermann-J. Rupieper (Editor): Beitrage zur Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg 1502-2002: Im Auftrag der Rektoratskommission fur das Universitatsjubilaum rev. by Denise Phillips, Page 684
Gerhard Saalmann; Heinrich Schlange-Schoningen: Die Psoriasis: Geschichte und Therapie vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart rev. by Albrecht Scholz, Page 685
Michael Williams: Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis rev. by Karen Jones, Page 685
Anthony Aveni: Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures rev. by Marvin Bolt, Page 686
Helen S. Lang: The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements rev. by Monte Johnson, Page 687
Jose Luis Calvo Martinez (Editor): Revista Internacional de Investigacion sobre Magia y Astrologia Antiguas rev. by Pablo A. Torijano , Page 688
Clive Ruggles: Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland rev. by Gail Higginbottom, Page 689
Liba Taub: Ancient Meteorology rev. by Craig Martin, Page 690
Beatrice Bakhouche; Frederic Fauquier; Brigitte Perez-Jean (Translators): Picatrix: Un traite de magie medieval rev. by Max Lejbowicz, Page 691
Douglas Biow: Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy rev. by Bruce T. Moran, Page 692
David Buisseret: The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe rev. by Charles W. J. Withers, Page 693
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe ed. by Sigmund Eisner, and Marijane Osborn: Time and the Astrolabe in The Canterbury Tales rev. by Keith Snedegar, Page 694
Minta Collins: Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions rev. by Alain Touwaide, Page 695
Natalia Lozovsky: "The Earth Is Our Book": Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400-1000 rev. by Victoria Morse, Page 697
Ann E. Moyer: The Philosopher's Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe rev. by David Sepkoski, Page 697
Zhang Baichun: The Europeanization of Astronomical Instruments in Ming and Qing China [in Chinese] rev. by Minghui Hu, Page 699
Jim Bennett; Michael Cooper; Michael Hunter; Lisa Jardine: London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke rev. by Ofer Gal, Page 700
David Bindman: Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the Eighteenth Century rev. by Joan Steigerwald, Page 701
Judith A. Carney: Black Rice: The African Origins of White Rice Cultivation rev. by Lawrence S. Dritsas, Page 702
Ted Dadswell: The Selborne Pioneer: Gilbert White as Naturalist and Scientist: A Re-examination rev. by M. D. Eddy, Page 703
Patricia Fara: Newton: The Making of a Genius and James Gleick: Isaac Newton rev. by Margaret C. Jacob, Page 703
James E. McClellan III: Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Academie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793 rev. by Maurice Crosland, Page 704
Stuart McCook: States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940 rev. by Juan Pimentel, Page 705
Jose Correia da Serra: Itinerarios historico-naturais ed. by Ana Simoes, Ana Carneiro, and Maria Paula Diogo rev. by Silvia Figueiroa, Page 706
Astrida Orle Tantillo: The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature rev. by Julie D. Prandi, Page 707
Caroline Jean Acker: Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control rev. by Andrea Balis, Page 708
Brian Austin: Schonland, Scientist and Soldier: From Lightning on the Veld to Nuclear Power at Harwell: The Life of Field Marshal Montgomery's Scientific Advisor rev. by Kristine C. Harper, Page 709
Gerard N. Burrow: A History of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing Torches to Others rev. by Thomas P. Gariepy, Page 709
George W. Bruyn; Charles M. Poser: The History of Tropical Neurology: Nutritional Disorders rev. by Kenneth J. Carpenter, Page 710
Linda L. Clark: The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 rev. by Joy Harvey, Page 711
Luigi Cerruti: Bella e potente: La chimica del Novecento fra scienza e societa rev. by Ferdinando Abbri, Page 712
Marcos Cueto: The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century and Marcos Cueto: Culpa y coraje: Historia de las politicas sobre el VIH/Sida en el Peru rev. by Ruth Iguiniz, Page 713
Per F. Dahl: From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939 rev. by Lawrence Badash, Page 714
Steven J. Dick: Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 rev. by Marc Rothenberg,Page 715
Patrice Debre: Louis Pasteur trans. by Elborg Foster, rev. by Ilana Lowy, Page 716
Georges Didi-Huberman: Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere trans. by Alisa Hartz rev. by Sander L. Gilman, Page 716
Joel Peter Eigen: Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London rev. by Sally Shuttleworth, Page 717
Gail Fishman: Journeys through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast rev. by Julie R. Newell, Page 718
Deborah Fitzgerald: Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture rev. by Michael Strauss, Page 719
Benedikt Foger; Klaus Taschwer: Die andere Seite des Spiegels: Konrad Lorenz und der Nationalsozialismus rev. by Hugo Lagercrantz, Page 719
Jan Frercks: Die Forschungspraxis Hippolyte Fizeaus: Eine Charakterisierung ausgehend von der Replikation seines Atherwindexperiments von 1852 rev. by Jurgen Teichmann, Page 720
David Gugerli; Daniel Speich: Topografien der Nation: Politik, kartografische Ordnung und Landschaften im 19. Jahrhundert rev. by Hans-Uli Feldmann, Page 721
Rolf Hellebust: Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution rev. by James T. Andrews, Page 722
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi: The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp rev. by Paul Weindling, Page 723
Diana Hook; Jeremy Norman: Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking, and Telecommunications rev. by Michael S. Mahoney, Page 723
Susan D. Jones: Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America rev. by Katherine Albro Houpt, Page 724
Martin Kirschke: Liebigs Lehrer Karl W. G. Kastner (1783-1857): Eine Professorenkarriere in Zeiten naturwissenschaftlichen Umbruchs rev. by Hartmut Bettin, Page 725
Timothy W. Kneeland; Carol A. B. Warren: Pushbutton Psychiatry: A History of Electroshock in America rev. by Iwan Rhys Morus, Page 726
E. I. Kolchinskii; K. V. Manoilenko; M. B. Konashev (Editors): U istokov akademicheskoi genetiki v Sankt-Peterburge [At the roots of academic genetics in St. Petersburg] rev. by Nikolai Krementsov, Page 726
Henk Kubbinga: L'histoire du concept de molecule 3 vols., rev. by Pierre Laszlo, Page 728
Ellen Leopold: A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century and Barron H. Lerner: The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America rev. by Shobita Parthasarathy, Page 728
Frank Linhard: Historische Elemente einer Prinzipienphysik, rev. by David E. Rowe, Page 730
Mark S. Micale (Editor): The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940 rev. by Robert M. Brain, Page 731
Frank Mort: Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 rev. by Ivan Crozier, Page 732
Sioban Nelson: Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century rev. by Hermi Hyacinth Hewitt, Page 733
Peter Pesic: Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability rev. by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Page 733
Theodore Porter: Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age rev. by George Levine, Page 734
Dick Ringler: Bard of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist rev. by Richard S. Williams, Jr., Page 736
Sandra L. Singer: Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868-1915 rev. by Renate Tobies, Page 736
Jean-Francois Stoffel: Bibliographie d'Alexandre Koyre rev. by Cristina Chimisso, Page 737
John van Wyhe: Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism rev. by Sharrona Pearl, Page 738
Alexander Vucinich: Einstein and Soviet Ideology rev. by Slava Gerovitch, Page 739
Heiko Weber: Monistische und antimonistische Weltanschauung: Eine Auswahlbibliographie rev. by Marsha L. Richmond, Page 740
Davis A. Young: N. L. Bowen and Crystallization-Differentiation: The Evolution of a Theory rev. by C. Michael B. Henderson, Page 741
Stephen M. Barr: Modern Physics and Ancient Faith rev. by Stephen P. Weldon, Page 742
Michel Bess: The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 rev. by Peder Anker, Page 743
Johan A. M. Bleeker; Johannes Geiss; Martin C. E. Huber (Editors): The Century of Space Science rev. by Virginia P. Dawson, Page 743
Richard Fardon: Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography rev. by Mary Mosher Flesher, Page 744
Jurgen Kocka; Renate Mayntz (Editors): Wissenschaft und Wiedervereinigung: Disziplinen im Umbruch rev. by William R. Woodward, Page 745
Dean W. Kohlhoff: Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska rev. by Douglas Dasher, Page 746
W. T. Liberson: Collected Writings Vol. 1: 1941-1959 comp. by Cathryn Liberson and Wladimir Theodore Liberson: Brain, Nerves, Muscles, and Electricity: My Life in Science ed. by Robert Cohn and Cathryn W. Liberson rev. by Patricia B. Swan, Page 747
Cynthia A. Needham; Richard Canning: Global Disease Eradication: The Race for the Last Child rev. by William Muraskin, Page 748
T. F. Peterson: Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT rev. by Ross Bassett, Page 749
Richard Polenberg (Editor): In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing rev. by Zuoyue Wang, Page 750
Jeffrey T. Richelson: The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology rev. by Ronald E. Doel, Page 751
Thomas Schlich: Surgery, Science, and Industry: A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s rev. by Augusto Sarmiento, Page 752
Ben Shephard: A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century rev. by Wade Pickren, Page 753
Andrew Abbott: Chaos of Disciplines rev. by Hamilton Cravens, Page 754
Dusan I. Bjelic: Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link rev. by Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Page 754
Cristina Chimisso: Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination rev. by Oscar R. Marti, Page 755
Steven Darian: Understanding the Language of Science rev. by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Page 756
Ernest B. Hook (Editor): Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect rev. by Mott Greene, Page 757
Janet V. Dohner: The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds rev. by Katherine Albro Houpt, Page 758
Notes on Contributors, Page 760
Index to ISIS, Volume 95, 2004, Page 767
Contents, Volume 95, Page 787