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Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4
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The Accuracy of Ancient Cartography Reassessed: The Longitude Error in
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Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 687–706.
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Francis Bacon and Magnetical Cosmology
Xiaona Wang
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The Age of Methods: William Whewell, Charles Peirce, and Scientific
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Henry M. Cowles
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Species Complex: Classification and Conservation in American
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Peter S. Alagona
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Clocks to Computers: A Machine-Based “Big Picture” of the History of
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Frans van Lunteren
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Machines as “Mental Tools”
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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Agency
M. Norton Wise
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Object Lessons
Patricia Fara
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 785–788.
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Pluralism versus Periodization
Hasok Chang
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 789–792.
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Darnton’s Cats, Bacon’s Rifle, and History of Science 101
B. Harun Küçük
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Machine Metaphors: Some Reflections
Raf De Bont
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 796–799.
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Clocks to Computers: Some Clarifications
Frans van Lunteren
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Eloge: Faidra Papanelopoulou (1978–2016)
Kostas Gavroglu
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The Scientific Revolution: Five Books about It
John Henry
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 809–817.
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Melvin Santer. Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of
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Christopher Hamlin
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Howard Chiang, ed. Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern
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Mary Augusta Brazelton
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 819–820.
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Horst Bredekamp; Vera Dünkel; Birgit Schneider, eds. The Technical
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Katherine M. Reinhart
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Owen Gingerich. God’s Planet.
John Henry
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Raffaele Pisano, ed. A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences,
Society, and Technology Studies.
David Channell
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 823–824.
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John C. Burnham. Health Care in America: A History.
Deborah Levine
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Olivier Darrigol. Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the
Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present.
Christoph Lehner
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Barbara Larson; Sabine Flach, eds. Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics
and Cultural History.
Dana Carluccio
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 826–827.
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Robert Halleux; Geneviève Xhayet; Pascal Pirot; Rik Raedschelders; Jan
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Joris Vandendriessche
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Philip Ball. Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen.
Elmar Schenkel
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 829–830.
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E. R. Truitt. Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art.
Wenrui Zhao
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Katherine Eggert. Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of
Humanism in Renaissance England.
Vera Keller
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Justin E. H. Smith. Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race
in Early Modern Philosophy.
Devin Vartija
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Juliette Ferdinand, ed. From Art to Science: Experiencing Nature in
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John Dixon Hunt
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Pascal Duris. Quelle révolution scientifique? Les sciences de la vie
dans la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles).
Anita Guerrini
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 835–836.
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Brent Elliott; Luigi Guerrini; David Pegler. Flora: Federico Cesi’s
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Janice Neri
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Dmitri Levitin. Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science:
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Dirk van Miert
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Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science.
Sven Dupré
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Sabine Arnaud. On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category
between 1670 and 1820.
Olivia Weisser
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 840–841.
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Raymond Stephanson; Darren N. Wagner, eds. The Secrets of Generation:
Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Matthew Cobb
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 841–842.
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Kelly Joan Whitmer. The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community:
Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment.
Renate Dürr
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Klaas van Berkel; Bart Ramakers, eds. Petrus Camper in Context:
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Kelly J. Whitmer
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Russell McCormmach. The Personality of Henry Cavendish—A Great
Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities.
R. W. Home
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Christian Gilain; Alexandre Guilbaud, eds. Sciences mathématiques
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Athanase Papadopoulos
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 846–848.
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Haru Hamanaka. Erkenntnis und Bild: Wissenschaftsgeschichte der
Lichtenbergischen Figuren um 1800.
Angela Fischel
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Kathleen Hardesty Doig. From Encyclopédie to Encyclopédie méthodique:
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Wijnand Mijnhardt
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Ryan Tucker Jones. Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North
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Kari Aga Myklebost
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Ursula Klein. Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch.
Vera M. Kutzinski
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Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell. Travels into
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Jim Secord
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 853–854.
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Bernard Bolzano; Paul Rusnock; Rolf George. Theory of Science.
Antje Rumberg
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James Lequeux. François Arago: A 19th Century French Humanist and
Pioneer in Astrophysics.
David Aubin
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 856–857.
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Karen L. Walloch. The Antivaccine Heresy: Jacobson v. Massachusetts
and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United
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Bernice L. Hausman
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 857–858.
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Tamson Pietsch. Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks, and the
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William H. Brock
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Dana Simmons. Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern
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Richard Olson
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Carin Berkowitz. Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform.
Harriet Palfreyman
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 861–862.
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Wolfgang König. Der Gelehrte und der Manager: Franz Reuleaux
(1829–1905) und Alois Riedler (1850–1936) in Technik, Wissenschaft und
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Adelheid Voskuhl
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W. Bruce Fye. Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of
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Todd M. Olszewski
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Nick Hopwood. Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud.
Robert J. Richards
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Robert Michael Brain. The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics
in Fin-de-Siècle Europe.
Boris Jardine
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Sarah C. Alexander. Victorian Literature and the Physics of the
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Ian Hesketh
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 868–869.
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Melanie Keene. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of
Victorian Britain.
Barbara T. Gates
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 869–870.
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Mott T. Greene. Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory
of Continental Drift.
James Lawrence Powell
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 871–872.
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Stephen T. Casper. The Neurologists: A History of a Medical Speciality
in Modern Britain, c. 1789–2000.
Samuel H. Greenblatt
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James E. Strick. Wilhelm Reich, Biologist.
Andreas Mayer
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Alex Wright. Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the
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Sven Widmalm
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A. M. Glazer; Patience Thomson, eds. Crystal Clear: The
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Finn Aaserud
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 876–877.
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Howard J. Fisher. Maxwell’s “Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”:
The Central Argument.
Robert Rynasiewicz
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Anna Greenwood; Harshad Topiwala. Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895–1940:
The Forgotten History.
William Bynum
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Gerald V. O’Brien. Framing the Moron: The Social Construction of
Feeble-Mindedness in the American Eugenic Era.
Marius Turda
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 879–881.
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Marcia Bartusiak. Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians,
Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved.; Andrew
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Roberto Lalli
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Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the
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Rachel Core
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Georgina M. Montgomery. Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate
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Raf De Bont
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 884–885.
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Helge Kragh. Varying Gravity: Dirac’s Legacy in Cosmology and
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Hubert Goenner
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 885–887.
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Matthis Krischel. Urologie und Nationalsozialismus: Eine Studie zu
Medizin und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander.
Ralf Forsbach
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 887–888.
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Matthew Smith. Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy.
Rachel A. Ankeny
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Anthony R. Rees. The Antibody Molecule: From Antitoxins to Therapeutic
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Neeraja Sankaran
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 889–890.
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Ulf Schmidt. Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human
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M. Girard Dorsey
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 890–891.
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Jeremy A. Greene. Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine.
Nils Kessel
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 892–893.
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Paul Erickson. The World the Game Theorists Made.
Roger E. Backhouse
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Jiri Hudecek. Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics,
History, and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun.
Karine Chemla
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 894–896.
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István Hargittai; Magdolna Hargittai. Budapest Scientific: A
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Autobiographical Reflections Including Post–Nobel Prize Years and the
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Pierre Laszlo
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Douglas A. Vakoch; Matthew F. Dowd, eds. The Drake Equation:
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Greg Eghigian
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Bruce Clarke, ed. Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a
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Lisa Ruth Rand
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John M. Logsdon. After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space
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Steven J. Dick
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 901–902.
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Anne Marcovich; Terry Shinn. Toward a New Dimension: Exploring the
Nanoscale.
Julia R. Bursten
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 902–903.
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Myles Jackson. The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race.
Nicolas Rasmussen
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 903–905.
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Phillip R. Sloan; Gerald McKenny; Kathleen Eggleson, eds. Darwin in
the Twenty-First Century: Nature, Humanity, and God.
Allan Larson
Isis, Vol. 107, No. 4: 905–906.
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