Masthead
Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: i–i. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698888?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Criticizing Chrysopoeia? Alchemy, Chemistry, Academics, and Satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650–1750 Marieke M. A. Hendriksen Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 235–253. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698233?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Theory versus Practice in German Chemistry: Erlenmeyer beyond the Flask Alan J. Rocke Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 254–275. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698147?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
A Neurotic Dog’s Life: Experimental Psychiatry and the Conditional Reflex Method in the Work of W. Horsley Gantt Edmund Ramsden Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 276–301. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698241?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Focus: Translating Science over Time
Introduction: Science and Practices of Translation Sven Dupré Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 302–307. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698234?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Let Us Make the Effort: Science into Latin in Antiquity Daryn Lehoux Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 308–312. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698235?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Mobilities of Science: The Era of Translation into Arabic Scott L. Montgomery Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 313–319. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698236?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Arabic into Turkish in the Seventeenth Century B. Harun Küçük Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 320–325. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698237?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Translating Words, Building Worlds: Meteorology in Japanese, Dutch, and Chinese Yulia Frumer Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 326–332. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697993?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Translating, Adapting, Mutilating: Or, How to Make an Enlightenment Classic Rienk Vermij Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 333–338. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698238?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Alexander Ellis’s Translation of Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone Julia Kursell Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 339–345. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698239?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
News of the Profession
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2017 Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 346–353. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698240?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
News of the Profession: Eloge
Frederick Barton Churchill (1932–2017) Paul Lawrence Farber Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 354–355. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697994?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Tore Frängsmyr (1938–2017) J. L. Heilbron Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 356–359. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697995?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Essay Review
Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn: Historical Figures with Future Significance Bart Karstens Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 360–364. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698247?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
General
Brendan Larvor, ed. Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings, 2012–2014. Danny Beckers Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 365–366. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698246?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Edward Bever; Randall Styers, eds. Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization. Steven P. Marrone Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 366–367. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698245?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Patrick Popescu-Pampu. What Is the Genus?. Henrik Kragh Sørensen Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 367–368. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698244?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Peter Marren. Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight. Brian W. Ogilvie Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 369–370. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698243?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Volker R. Remmert; Martina R. Schneider; Henrik Kragh Sørensen, eds. Historiography of Mathematics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Tom Archibald Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 370–372. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697911?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gregg Mitman; Kelley Wilder, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record. Geoffrey Belknap Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 372–373. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698242?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David F. Channell. A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology. Robert W. Seidel Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 373–374. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698157?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples. Dora Vargha Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 374–375. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698158?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Antiquity
Alexander Jones, ed. Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Colin Guthrie King Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 376–377. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697908?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Daniela Dueck, ed. The Routledge Companion to Strabo. Robert J. Mayhew Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 377–378. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697910?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Orly Lewis. Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse, and Pneuma. Vivian Nutton Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 378–379. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697909?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Michiel Meeusen. Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems: A Study with Commentary on “Quaestiones Naturales.”. Robert Lamberton Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 379–380. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697907?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Kellie Robertson. Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy. Pilar Herráiz Oliva Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 380–381. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698294?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jacques Sesiano. Magic Squares in the Tenth Century: Two Arabic Treatises by Anṭākī and Būzjānī. Mónica Blanco Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 381–382. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698299?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gilles de Corbeil; Mireille Ausécache, eds. Liber de uirtutibus et laudibus compositorum medicaminum. Michael McVaugh Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 383–384. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698295?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Zachary A. Matus. Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages. James Hannam Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 384–385. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698161?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Guillaume Gosselin; Odile Le Guillou-Kouteynikoff. De arte magna libri IV: Traité d’algèbre, suivi de Praelectio / Leçon sur la mathématique. Giovanna C. Cifoletti Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 385–386. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698293?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Rivka Feldhay; F. Jamil Ragep, eds. Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century. Sonja Draxler Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 386–387. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698298?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jana Madlen Schütte. Medizin im Konflikt: Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen Universitätsstädten des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Hans-Uwe Lammel Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 387–388. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698296?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Battista Agnese; Ingrid Baumgärtner, eds. Der Portulan-Atlas des Battista Agnese: Das Kasseler Prachtexemplar von 1542. Thomas Horst Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 389–390. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698297?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Robert S. Westman. Copernicus and the Astrologers: Dibner Library Lecture, December 12, 2013. Jonathan Regier Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 390–391. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698162?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Early Modern
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 392–393. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698154?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham, eds. Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia. Rina Knoeff Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 393–394. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698155?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Miguel Á. Granada; Patrick J. Boner; Dario Tessicini, eds. Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology. Franco Giudice Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 394–395. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698156?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Brian Rice; Enrique González-Velasco; Alexander Corrigan. The Life and Works of John Napier. David Bellhouse Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 396–397. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698248?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Renée Raphael. Reading Galileo: Scribal Technology and the “Two New Sciences.”. Abram Kaplan Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 397–398. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698153?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Lesley B. Cormack; Steven A. Walton; John A. Schuster, eds. Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Catherine Abou-Nemeh Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 398–400. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698152?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gregorio Baldin, ed. Hobbes e Galileo: Metodo, materia e scienza del moto. Guido Frilli Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 400–401. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698149?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Amber Brian. Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 401–402. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698148?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Clifford J. Cunningham. Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research. Omar W. Nasim Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 403–404. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698150?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Alan Bewell. Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History. Lewis Pyenson Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 404–405. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698151?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Modern
Jürgen Teichmann. Der Geheimcode der Sterne: Eine neue Landschaft des Himmels und die Geburt der Astrophysik. Horst Kant Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 405–406. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698249?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Courtney Fullilove. The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture.; Helen Anne Curry. Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America. Sharon Kingsland Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 406–409. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697914?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Tine van Osselaer; Henk de Smaele; Kaat Wils, eds. Sign or Symptom? Exceptional Corporeal Phenomena in Religion and Medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Jacalyn Duffin Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 409–410. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698259?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Krister Dylan Knapp. William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity. Andreas Sommer Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 410–411. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698252?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Staffan Müller-Wille; Christina Brandt, eds. Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930. Michael Yudell Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 412–413. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698251?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Uwe Hoßfeld. Geschichte der biologischen Anthropologie in Deutschland: Von den Anfängen bis in die Nachkriegszeit. Hanna Engelmeier Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 413–414. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698257?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gisela Parak. Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s–1970s. D. Graham Burnett Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 414–415. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698261?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Hoi-Eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Howard Chiang Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 416–417. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697912?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Geoffrey Belknap. From a Photograph: Authenticity, Science, and the Periodical Press, 1870–1890. Beatriz Pichel Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 417–418. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698250?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David Baron. American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World. Pamela Gossin Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 418–419. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698254?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945. David Arnold Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 420–421. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698264?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Marianne Sommer. History Within: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules. John Durant Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 421–422. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698258?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Roland Wittje. The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. Paolo Brenni Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 423–424. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698262?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Holly Folk. The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland. Susan E. Cayleff Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 424–425. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698260?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David N. Schwartz. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. Leonardo Gariboldi Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 425–427. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698255?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Matthew J. James. Collecting Evolution: The Galápagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin. Martin Fichman Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 427–428. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698256?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Michael Sappol. Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject. Cornelius Borck Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 428–429. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698263?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Tiago Saraiva. Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Heiko Stoff Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 430–431. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698159?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Johannes Feichtinger; Herbert Matis; Stefan Sienell; Heidemarie Uhl; Nick Somers; Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek, eds. The Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 1938 to 1945. Klaas van Berkel Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 431–432. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697913?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Daniel E. Bender. The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Takashi Ito Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 432–433. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698253?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Recent
Kristine C. Harper. Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America. Matthew Shindell Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 434–435. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697918?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Margot Lee Shetterly. . Christopher J. Phillips Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 435–436. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697917?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Marie Hicks. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. David Alan Grier Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 436–437. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698160?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Roberto Lalli. Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War. Paul Halpern Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 437–438. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697916?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Kristine C. Harper Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 439–440. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697920?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Steven J. Diner. Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America. Robert B. Townsend Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 440–441. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697915?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
J. Benjamin Hurlbut. Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. Duncan Wilson Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 441–442. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697919?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Duncan Wilson. The Making of British Bioethics.; Sarah Ferber. Bioethics in Historical Perspective. David J. Rothman Isis, Vol. 109, No. 2: 442–443. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697921?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T