Isis Vol. 102, No. 4, December 2011 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660127>
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Frontispiece
Frontispiece Isis; Vol. 102 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664834>
Articles
The Making of an Entrepreneurial Science: Biotechnology in Britain, 1975–1995 By Soraya de Chadarevian DOI: 10.1086/663596 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 601-633. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663596>
The Paradoxes of Patenting at General Electric: Isador Ladoff's Journey from Siberian Exile to the Heart of Corporate Capitalism By David Philip Miller DOI: 10.1086/663597 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 634-658. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663597>
From Rodent Utopia to Urban Hell: Population, Pathology, and the Crowded Rats of NIMH By Edmund Ramsden DOI: 10.1086/663598 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 659-688. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663598>
Focus: The History of Scientific Instruments
Introduction: Reengaging with Instruments By Liba Taub DOI: 10.1086/663605 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 689-696. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663605>
Early Modern Mathematical Instruments By Jim Bennett DOI: 10.1086/663607 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 697-705. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663607>
Easily Cracked: Scientific Instruments in States of Disrepair By Simon Schaffer DOI: 10.1086/663608 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 706-717. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663608>
Medical Instruments in Museums: Immediate Impressions and Historical Meanings By Ken Arnold, Thomas Söderqvist DOI: 10.1086/663613 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 718-729. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663613>
News of the Profession
Eloge By Lawrence M. Principe DOI: 10.1086/664916 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 730-733. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664916>
Eloge By Stefano Gattei DOI: 10.1086/664837 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 734-737. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664837>
Erratum
Erratum DOI: 10.1086/663616 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 738. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663616>
Essay Review
Unifying Einstein By S. S. Schweber DOI: 10.1086/663617 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 739-742. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663617>
Book Reviews General
Jacalyn Duffin. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. by Jacalyn Duffin Review by: By Joel Howell DOI: 10.1086/664917 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 743. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664917>
Patricia Fara. Science: A Four Thousand Year History. by Patricia Fara Review by: By Lewis Pyenson DOI: 10.1086/664838 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 744-745. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664838>
Jürgen Hamel. Begriffe der Astrologie: Von Abendstern bis Zwillingsproblem. by Jürgen Hamel Review by: By H. Darrel Rutkin DOI: 10.1086/664839 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 746. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664839>
P. M. Harman. The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680–1860. by P. M. Harman Review by: By Michael S. Reidy DOI: 10.1086/664840 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 746-748. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664840>
Susan D. Jones. Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax. by Susan D. Jones Review by: By Karen Brown DOI: 10.1086/664841 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 748. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664841>
Svante Lindqvist. Changes in the Technological Landscape: Essays in the History of Science and Technology. by Svante Lindqvist Review by: By Terry S. Reynolds DOI: 10.1086/664842 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 748-749. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664842>
Margaret J. Osler. Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe. by Margaret J. Osler Review by: By Peter Harrison DOI: 10.1086/664843 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 749-750. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664843>
Jeremy Vetter, ed. Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences. by Jeremy Vetter Review by: By Sharon Kingsland DOI: 10.1086/664844 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 750-751. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664844>
Book Reviews Antiquity
Roger Hart. The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra. by Roger Hart Review by: By Christopher Cullen DOI: 10.1086/664845 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 751-752. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664845>
Mariska Leunissen. Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of Nature. by Mariska Leunissen Review by: By Sylvia Berryman DOI: 10.1086/664846 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 752-753. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664846>
Reviel Netz. Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic. by Reviel Netz Review by: By Michael N. Fried DOI: 10.1086/664847 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 753-754. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664847>
Francesca Rochberg. In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. by Francesca Rochberg Review by: By Eleanor Robson DOI: 10.1086/664848 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 754-755. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664848>
Book Reviews Middle Ages and Renaissance
William Eamon. The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy. by William Eamon Review by: By Jacalyn Duffin DOI: 10.1086/664849 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 756. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664849>
Cynthia White, ed. From the Ark to the Pulpit: An Edition and Translation of the “Transitional” Northumberland Bestiary (Thirteenth Century). by Cynthia White Review by: By Gwyndaf Garbutt DOI: 10.1086/664850 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 757-758. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664850>
Book Reviews Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Avner Ben-Zaken. Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660. by Avner Ben‐Zaken Review by: By B. Harun Küçük DOI: 10.1086/664851 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 758-759. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664851>
Pratik Chakrabarti. Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest, and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century. by Pratik Chakrabarti Review by: By Timothy Walker DOI: 10.1086/664852 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 759-760. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664852>
Jeff Horn; Leonard N. Rosenband; Merritt Roe Smith, eds. Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. by Jeff Horn; Leonard N. Rosenband; Merritt Roe Smith Review by: By James E. McClellan III DOI: 10.1086/664853 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 760-761. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664853>
Lynn Hunt; Margaret C. Jacob; Wijnand Mijnhardt. The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's. by Lynn Hunt; Margaret C. Jacob; Wijnand Mijnhardt Review by: By Dorinda Outram DOI: 10.1086/664854 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 761-762. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664854>
Eric Jorink; Peter Mason. Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715. by Eric Jorink; Review by: By Margaret C. Jacob DOI: 10.1086/664855 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 763. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664855>
Joanna Picciotto. Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England. by Joanna Picciotto Review by: By Sachiko Kusukawa DOI: 10.1086/664856 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 763-765. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664856>
Jacob Soll. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System. by Jacob Soll Review by: By Nicholas Dew DOI: 10.1086/664857 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 765. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664857>
Matteo Valleriani. Galileo Engineer. by Matteo Valleriani Review by: By Wolfgang Lefèvre DOI: 10.1086/664858 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 766. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664858>
Živa Vesel; Sergeï Tourkin; Yves Porter; A. Beschaouch, eds. Images of Islamic Science. by Živa Vesel; Sergeï Tourkin; Yves Porter; A. Beschaouch Review by: By Nahyan Fancy DOI: 10.1086/664859 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 766-768. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664859>
Nathalie Vuillemin. Les beautés de la nature à l'épreuve de l'analyse: Programmes scientifiques et tentations esthétiques dans l'histoire naturelle du XVIIIe siècle (1744–1805). by Nathalie Vuillemin Review by: By Xavier Carteret, Sara Scharf DOI: 10.1086/664860 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 768-769. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664860>
David Wootton. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies. by David Wootton Review by: By Ivano Dal Prete DOI: 10.1086/664861 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 769-770. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664861>
Book Reviews Modern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)
Saulo de Freitas Araujo. O projeto de uma psicologia científica em Wilhelm Wundt: Uma nova interpretação. by Saulo de Freitas Araujo Review by: By Annette Mülberger DOI: 10.1086/664862 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 770-771. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664862>
Paul D. Brinkman. The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Lowell Dingus; Mark A. Norell. Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered. Review by: By Jeremy Vetter DOI: 10.1086/664863 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 771-772. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664863>
B. Ricardo Brown. Until Darwin: Science, Human Variety, and the Origins of Race. by B. Ricardo Brown Review by: By Paul Lawrence Farber DOI: 10.1086/664864 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 772-773. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664864>
John Laurence Busch. Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. by John Laurence Busch Review by: By A. Bowdoin Van Riper DOI: 10.1086/664865 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 773-774. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664865>
Jimena Canales. A Tenth of a Second: A History. by Jimena Canales Review by: By Theodore Arabatzis DOI: 10.1086/664866 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 774-775. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664866>
François Delaporte; Emmanuel Fournier; Bernard Devauchelle, eds. La fabrique du visage: De la physionomie antique à la première greffe, avec un inédit de Duchenne de Boulogne by François Delaporte; Emmanuel Fournier; Bernard Devauchelle Review by: By Brigitte Hoppe DOI: 10.1086/664867 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 775-776. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664867>
Ann Fabian. The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead. by Ann Fabian Review by: By Jim Endersby DOI: 10.1086/664868 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 776-777. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664868>
Jörn Henrich. Die Fixierung des modernen Wissenschaftsideals durch Laplace. by Jörn Henrich Review by: By Craig Fraser DOI: 10.1086/664869 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 777-778. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664869>
Jonathan Hodge; Gregory Radick, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. by Jonathan Hodge; Gregory Radick Review by: By Richard Bellon DOI: 10.1086/664870 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 778-779. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664870>
Nick Hopwood; Simon Schaffer; Jim Secord, eds. Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century. by Nick Hopwood; Simon Schaffer; Jim Secord Review by: By Graeme Gooday DOI: 10.1086/664871 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 779-780. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664871>
Michael Hoskin. Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel. by Michael Hoskin Review by: By Michael J. Crowe, Stephen Case DOI: 10.1086/664872 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 780-781. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664872>
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland; Stephen T. Jackson; Sylvie Romanowski, eds. Essay on the Geography of Plants. by Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland; Review by: By Andreas W. Daum DOI: 10.1086/664873 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 781-782. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664873>
Bruce J. Hunt. Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein. by Bruce J. Hunt Review by: By Suman Seth DOI: 10.1086/664874 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 782-783. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664874>
David Hyder; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, eds. Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's “Crisis of European Sciences.”. by David Hyder; Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger Review by: By Alan Richardson DOI: 10.1086/664875 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 783-784. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664875>
Ad Maas; Hans Hooijmaijers, eds. Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War. by Ad Maas; Hans Hooijmaijers Review by: By David Zimmerman DOI: 10.1086/664876 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 784-785. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664876>
Simon Naylor. Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England. by Simon Naylor Review by: By Donald L. Opitz DOI: 10.1086/664877 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 785-786. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664877>
Adriana Novoa; Alex Levine. From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina, 1870–1920. by Adriana Novoa; Alex Levine Review by: By Julia Rodriguez DOI: 10.1086/664878 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 786-787. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664878>
David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris. by David Pantalony Review by: By Tacye Phillipson DOI: 10.1086/664879 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 787-788. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664879>
Johan Schot; Harry Lintsen; Arie Rip, eds. Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890–1970. by Johan Schot; Harry Lintsen; Arie Rip Review by: By Per Högselius DOI: 10.1086/664880 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 788-789. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664880>
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact. by Reinhard Siegmund‐Schultze Review by: By Della D. Fenster DOI: 10.1086/664881 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 789-790. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664881>
Renate Tobies. “Morgen möchte ich wieder 100 herrliche Sachen ausrechnen”: Iris Runge bei Osram und Telefunken. by Renate Tobies Review by: By Elizabeth Neswald DOI: 10.1086/664882 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 790-791. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664882>
Sacha Tomic. Aux origines de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785–1835). by Sacha Tomic Review by: By Ursula Klein DOI: 10.1086/664883 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 791-793. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664883>
Takahiro Ueyama. Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London. by Takahiro Ueyama Review by: By Robert Bud DOI: 10.1086/664884 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 793-794. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664884>
Elisabeth Vaupel; Stefan L. Wolff, eds. Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. by Elisabeth Vaupel; Stefan L. Wolff Review by: By Thomas Steinhauser DOI: 10.1086/664885 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 794-795. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664885>
Julia Voss; Lori Lantz. Darwin's Pictures: Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837–1874. by Julia Voss; Review by: By Gregory Radick DOI: 10.1086/664886 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 795-796. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664886>
Sheila Faith Weiss. The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich. by Sheila Faith Weiss Review by: By Nils Roll-Hansen DOI: 10.1086/664887 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 796-797. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664887>
Book Reviews Recent (1950 —)
Robert S. Arrighi. Revolutionary Atmosphere: The Story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and the Space Power Chambers. by Robert S. Arrighi Review by: By Erik M. Conway DOI: 10.1086/664888 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 797-798. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664888>
Safia Azzouni; Christina Brandt; Bernd Gausemeier; Julia Kursell; Henning Schmidgen; Barbara Wittmann, eds. Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert: Hommage à/Zu Ehren von/In Honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. by Safia Azzouni; Christina Brandt; Bernd Gausemeier; Julia Kursell; Henning Schmidgen; Barbara Wittmann Review by: By Robert Michael Brain DOI: 10.1086/664889 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 798-799. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664889>
Etienne Benson. Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife. by Etienne Benson Review by: By Stephen Bocking DOI: 10.1086/664890 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 799-800. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664890>
Massimo Bucciantini, ed. Italo Calvino e la scienza: Gli alfabeti del mondo. by Massimo Bucciantini Review by: By Paola Govoni DOI: 10.1086/664891 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 800-801. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664891>
Krishna Dronamraju. Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics. by Krishna Dronamraju Review by: By Joeri Witteveen DOI: 10.1086/664892 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 801-802. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664892>
Nathan L. Ensmenger. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise. by Nathan L. Ensmenger Review by: By Jon Agar DOI: 10.1086/664893 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 802-803. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664893>
James Rodger Fleming. Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. by James Rodger Fleming Review by: By Vladimir Jankovic DOI: 10.1086/664894 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 803-804. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664894>
Robert Henson. Weather on the Air: A History of Broadcast Meteorology. by Robert Henson Review by: By Greg Myers DOI: 10.1086/664895 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 805. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664895>
Stephen B. Johnson, ed. Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia. by Stephen B. Johnson Review by: By Jordan D. Marché II DOI: 10.1086/664896 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 805-806. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664896>
Paul R. Josephson. Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science. by Paul R. Josephson Review by: By Alexander A. Gurshtein DOI: 10.1086/664897 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 807-808. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664897>
Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. by Gabriela Soto Laveaga Review by: By Stuart McCook DOI: 10.1086/664898 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 808-809. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664898>
Sara B. Pritchard. Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône. by Sara B. Pritchard Review by: By Jacob Darwin Hamblin DOI: 10.1086/664899 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 809-810. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664899>
S. M. Reid-Henry. The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science. by S. M. Reid‐Henry Review by: By Yolanda Eraso DOI: 10.1086/664900 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 810-811. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664900>
Roy Rosenzweig; Anthony Grafton. Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. by Roy Rosenzweig; Review by: By Robert Alan Hatch DOI: 10.1086/664901 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 811-812. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664901>
George W. Stocking Jr. Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction. by George W. Stocking Jr Review by: By Henrika Kuklick DOI: 10.1086/664902 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 812-813. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664902>
Helmuth Trischler; Mark Walker, eds. Physics and Politics: Research and Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in International Perspective. by Helmuth Trischler; Mark Walker Review by: By John Krige DOI: 10.1086/664903 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 813-814. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664903>
Book Reviews Sociology & Philosophy of Science
Teresa Castelão; Jean-Jacques Wunenburger. Gaston Bachelard et les études critiques de la science. by Teresa Castelão; Review by: By Cristina Chimisso DOI: 10.1086/664904 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 814-815. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664904>
Harry Collins. Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. by Harry Collins Review by: By Massimo Mazzotti DOI: 10.1086/664905 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 815-816. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664905>
Andrew Pickering. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. by Andrew Pickering Review by: By Cathy Gere DOI: 10.1086/664906 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 816-818. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664906>
Elizabeth A. Wilson. Affect and Artificial Intelligence. by Elizabeth A. Wilson Review by: By Frank W. Stahnisch DOI: 10.1086/664907 Isis Vol. 102, No. 4: 818-819. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664907>