Volume 98, Number 3 (September 2007)
is now available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/contents?ISIS+v98n3
ARTICLES Frontispiece Page vi [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980300 ]
Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye; or, Seeing and Knowing in Ptolemy and Galen Daryn Lehoux Page 447 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980301 ]
Maintaining Continuity through a Scientific Revolution A Rereading of E. B. Wilson and T. H. Morgan on Sex Determination and Mendelism Sharon E. Kingsland Page 468 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980302 ]
Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800 Practices and Disciplines in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine John V. Pickstone Page 489 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980303 ]
FOCUS: SCIENCE AND MODERN CHINA New Directions in the History of Modern Science in China Global Science and Comparative History Benjamin A. Elman Page 517 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980304 ]
Redrawing the Map Science in Twentieth-Century China Fa-ti Fan Page 524 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980305 ]
The Reception of Relativity in China Danian Hu Page 539 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980306 ]
Science and the State in Modern China Zuoyue Wang Page 558 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980307 ]
On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses Reflections on Science in Socialist China Sigrid Schmalzer Page 571 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980308 ]
Murky Waters Thoughts on Desire, Utility, and the "Sea of Modern Science" Grace Shen Page 584 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980309 ]
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION News of the Profession Page 597 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980310 ]
Eloge: Sylvia Freeman Wallace Mcgrath, 1937-2006 Elizabeth Green Musselman and Karen A. Rader Page 602 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980311 ]
Eloge: David Pingree, 1933-2005 Kim Plofker Page 605 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980312 ]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor Page 608 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980313 ]
BOOK REVIEWS Benjamin A. Elman: A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.), rev. by Danian Hu Page 613 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031401 ]
Mikael Hard and Andrew Jamison: Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science., rev. by Joseph C. Pitt Page 614 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031402 ]
Christian Jacob: The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History., rev. by Susan Schulten Page 615 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031403 ]
David R. Oldroyd: Earth, Water, Ice, and Fire: Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in the English Lake District. (Geological Society Memoirs, 25.), rev. by Christer Nordlund Page 616 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031404 ]
Richard G. Olson: Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin., rev. by Edward B. Davis Page 617 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031405 ]
John Waller: Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations., rev. by Andrew Ede Page 618 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031406 ]
Gabriela Roxana Carone: Plato's Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions., rev. by Gabor Betegh Page 619 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031407 ]
Angus Gowland: The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. (Ideas in Context.), rev. by Jeremy Schmidt Page 620 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031408 ]
Sabine Rommevaux: Clavius: Une cle pour Euclide au XVIe siecle. (Mathesis.), rev. by Jens Hoyrup Page 621 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031409 ]
Victoria Sweet: Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. (Studies in Medieval History and Culture.), rev. by Faith Wallis Page 622 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031410 ]
Vincent Aucante: La philosophie medicale de Descartes., rev. by Justin E. H. Smith Page 623 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031411 ]
Michael Ben-Chaim: Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science: Boyle, Locke, and Newton, rev. by Lisa Downing Page 625 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031412 ]
Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter: Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies., rev. by Catherine Wilson Page 626 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031413 ]
Maurice Crosland: The Language of Science: From the Vernacular to the Technical., rev. by Trevor Levere Page 627 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031414 ]
Lucia De Frenza: I sonnambuli delle miniere: Amoretti, Fortis, Spallanzani e il dibattito sull'elettrometria organica e minerale in Italia (1790-1816). (Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza, 50.), rev. by Marco Segala Page 628 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031415 ]
James Delbourgo: A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America., rev. by Jan Golinski Page 629 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031416 ]
Lipke B. Holthuis and Theodore W. Pietsch: Les planches inedites de poissons et autres animaux marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius/Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646-c. 1718) and His Paintings of Indo-West Pacific Fishes and Other Marine Animals., rev. by Sara T. Scharf Page 630 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031417 ]
Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart: Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851., rev. by Michael R. Lynn Page 631 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031418 ]
Matthew L. Jones: The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue., rev. by John Cottingham Page 632 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031419 ]
Michael R. Lynn: Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France., rev. by Sofie Lachapelle Page 633 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031420 ]
Bruce T. Moran: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.), rev. by Nicholas Clulee Page 634 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031421 ]
Patrick Armstrong: Darwin's Other Islands., rev. by Sandra Herbert Page 635 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031422 ]
William J. Astore: Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America., rev. by Victoria Carroll Page 636 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031423 ]
Valeria P. Babini: Il caso Murri: Una storia italiana., rev. by Naomi Beck Page 637 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031424 ]
David S. Barnes: The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs, rev. by Olga Amsterdamska Page 638 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031425 ]
Antonio Cadeddu: Les verites de la science: Pratique, recit, histoire: Le cas Pasteur. (Biblioteca di Nuncius: Studi e Testi, 57.), rev. by Harry W. Paul Page 639 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031426 ]
Tony Crilly: Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age., and Karen Hunger Parshall: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World., rev. by Francine F. Abeles Page 641 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031427 ]
David Edgerton: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900., rev. by Thomas P. Hughes Page 642 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031428 ]
Jean Eisenstaedt: The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again., rev. by Gerald Holton Page 643 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031429 ]
Aant Elzinga: Einstein's Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed Doors: The Archival Evidence., rev. by Sven Widmalm Page 644 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031430 ]
Marianne P. Fedunkiw: Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 24.), rev. by Christopher Lawrence Page 645 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031431 ]
Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann: (Editors). The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.), rev. by Philippe Huneman Page 646 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031432 ]
Lluis Garrigos-Oltra, Carles Millan-Verdu and Georgina Blanes-Nadal: El color liquido: Instrumentos y utiles de la colorimetria en el siglo XIX., rev. by Pere Grapi Page 647 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031433 ]
Angelo Guerraggio and Pietro Nastasi: Italian Mathematics between the Two World Wars. (Science Networks Historical Studies, 29.), rev. by Massimo Mazzotti Page 648 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031434 ]
Klaus Hentschel: Gaussens unsichtbare Hand: Der Universitats-Mechanicus und Maschinen-Inspector Moritz Meyerstein: Ein Instrumentenbauer im 19. Jahrhundert. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, Ser. 3, 52.), rev. by Richard L. Kremer Page 649 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031435 ]
Robert E. Kohler: All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950., rev. by Mark V. Barrow, Jr. Page 650 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031436 ]
Linda Lear: Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature., rev. by Barbara T. Gates Page 651 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031437 ]
Esther Leslie: Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art, and the Chemical Industry., rev. by Agusti Nieto-Galan Page 652 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031438 ]
David Philip Miller: Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth-Century "Water Controversy." (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945.), rev. by Ursula Klein Page 653 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031439 ]
Kim Pelis: Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.), rev. by Andrew Aisenberg Page 654 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031440 ]
Sujit Sivasundaram: Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850. (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, 7.), rev. by Michael S. Reidy Page 655 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031441 ]
Laura J. Snyder: Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society., rev. by Richard Yeo Page 656 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031442 ]
Lester D. Stephens and Dale R. Calder: Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology., rev. by Gillian Gass Page 658 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031443 ]
Arleen Marcia Tuchman: Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D., rev. by Marsha L. Richmond Page 658 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031444 ]
Brett L. Walker: The Lost Wolves of Japan., rev. by Julia Adeney Thomas Page 659 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031445 ]
Gerald Holton: Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others., rev. by Jan Faye Page 660 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031446 ]
Malcolm S. Longair: The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology., rev. by David H. DeVorkin Page 661 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031447 ]
Peter Broks: Understanding Popular Science., rev. by Vidar Enebakk Page 662 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031448 ]
Bernard d'Espagnat: On Physics and Philosophy., rev. by Thomas Oberdan Page 663 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031449 ]
Vittorio Hosle and Christian Illies: Darwinism and Philosophy., rev. by Sandra D. Mitchell Page 664 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031450 ]
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger: Epistemologie des Konkreten: Studien zur Geschichte der modernen Biologie. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft.), rev. by Marcel Weber Page 665 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031451 ]
Eric R. Scerri: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance., rev. by Michael D. Gordin Page 666 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031452 ]
Edward R. Tufte: Beautiful Evidence., rev. by Laura Perini Page 667 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS98031453 ]
Notes on Contributors Page 669 [ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?ISIS980315 ]