Isis 111 (2020), 2

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Motion to the Center or Motion to the Whole? Plutarch’s Views on Gravity and Their Influence on Galileo
Frederik Bakker and Carla Rita Palmerino
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 217–238.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709138?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Viral Imagery of Dengue Fever in the Age of Bacteriology
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 239–263.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708927?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

From the China Medical Board to the China Foundation: The Network of Interlocking Patronage and China’s New Scientific Community, 1920s–1930s
Wen Heng
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 264–283.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709136?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

“Most Unusual” Beauty Contests: Nordic Photographic Competitions and the Construction of a Public for German Race Science, 1926–1935
Andrew D. Evans
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 284–309.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709160?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Elise K. Burton, Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Terence Keel, Emily Merchant, Wangui Muigai, Ahmed Ragab, and Suman Seth
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 310–353.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2019
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 354–361.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708766?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Anna Carolina Krebs Pereira Regner (1947–2020)
Roberto deAndrade Martins, Cibelle Celestino Silva, and Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 362–364.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709410?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Nicolas Steno (1638–1686): A Polymath Reassessed
John Henry
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 365–367.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709409?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

The Making of a Man of Science: Darwin’s Development in a Transformative Time
Piers J. Hale
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 368–370.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709157?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Patrick Forterre; trans. by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Microbes from Hell.
Howard G. Barth
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 371–372.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708775?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Eric Schatzberg. Technology: Critical History of a Concept.
David F. Channell
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 372–373.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708773?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Helge Kragh; Malcolm S. Longair, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the
History of Modern Cosmology.
Pamela Gossin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 373–374.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708771?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

John Gascoigne. Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II.
David Cahan
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 375–376.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708774?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Johan Kärnfelt; Karl Grandin; Solveig Jülich, eds. Knowledge in Motion: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Making of Modern Society.
Olov Amelin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 376–377.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709401?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Amanda Jo Goldstein. Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life.
Maurizio Esposito
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 377–378.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708772?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jeff Hardin; Ronald L. Numbers; Ronald A. Binzley, eds. The Warfare between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn’t Die.
R. Clinton Ohlers
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 379–380.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708834?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

William Boos; Florence S. Boos, ed. Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition.
Lukas M. Verburgt
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 380–381.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709141?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ewen Bowie, ed. Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian.
Thomas Harrison
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 382–383.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708770?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Werner Albert Golder, ed. Celsus und die antike Wissenschaft.
Teun Tieleman
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 383–384.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709158?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

C. Philipp E. Nothaft. Walcher of Malvern, De lunationibus and De Dracone: Study, Edition, Translation, and Commentary.
David Runciman
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 384–385.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709406?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Sheila J. Nayar. Renaissance Responses to Technological Change.
Judy A. Hayden
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 386–387.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709321?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Todd Timberlake; Paul Wallace. Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution.
Nicholas A. Jacobson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 387–388.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708854?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Manuel Mertens. Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno: The Art of a Heroic Spirit.
Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Omar Del Nonno
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 388–390.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708769?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Horst Bredekamp; trans. by Mitch Cohen. Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism, and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science.
Eileen Reeves
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 390–391.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708911?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Raphaële Garrod; Paul J. Smith, eds. Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre.
Dorit Brixius
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 391–392.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708907?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Margaret E. Schotte. Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800.
William Rankin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 392–394.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709341?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

James Dougal Fleming. The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character.
Richard Oosterhoff
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 394–395.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708768?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

William R. Newman. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s “Secret Fire.”.
Tara Nummedal
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 395–396.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709344?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Margaret C. Jacob. The Secular Enlightenment.
Larry Stewart
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 396–397.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708853?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ane Ohrvik. Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway: Conceptualizing Knowledge.
Hilde Norrgrén
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 398–399.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708852?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Adriana Craciun; Mary Terrall, eds. Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Katharine Anderson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 399–400.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708850?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Suman Seth. Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire.
Jonathan Marks
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 400–401.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708851?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jürgen Goldstein; Anne Janusch. Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary.
Alan R. Kabat
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 401–402.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708909?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

David Philip Miller. The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine.
Hugh Torrens
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 402–403.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709340?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Maria Pia Donato, ed. Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World.
Jonathan Seitz
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 404–405.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708767?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Brent Maner. Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700.
Kathleen Sheppard
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 405–406.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709337?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Heinrich Hartmann; trans. by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War.
Morgane Labbé
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 406–407.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709345?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Michael Worboys; Julie-Marie Strange; Neil Pemberton. The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain.
Peter Hobbins
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 407–409.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709326?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Patrick Armstrong. Alfred Russel Wallace.
Alison M. Pearn
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 409–410.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709324?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Abigail Woods; Michael Bresalier; Angela Cassidy; Rachel Mason Dentinger. Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories.
Etienne S. Benson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 410–411.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709329?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Peter Roquette. The Riemann Hypothesis in Characteristic p in Historical Perspective.
Arkady Plotnitsky
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 411–412.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709333?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Thibaud Trochu. William James: Une autre histoire de la psychologie.
Florent Serina
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 412–413.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709331?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Andrew J. Vinchur. The Early Years of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Maarten Derksen
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 414–414.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709335?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jonathan Betts. Marine Chronometers at Greenwich: A Catalogue of Marine Chronometers at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Anthony Turner
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 415–416.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/708910?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Klaus Hentschel. Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta.
Olival Freire Jr.
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 416–417.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709405?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Daniel Kennefick. No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Tiffany Nichols
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 417–418.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709400?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

David Aubin. L’élite sous la mitraille: Les normaliens, les mathématiques et la Grande Guerre 1900–1925.
Christophe Eckes
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 418–419.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709404?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China.
Harry Yi-Jui
Wu
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 420–421.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709403?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Seth C. Rasmussen, ed. Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire: Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities of the Pacific Rim.
Jeffrey Allan Johnson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 421–422.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709116?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence.
Lara Freidenfelds
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 422–423.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709114?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

John L. Rudolph. How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, and Why It Matters.
Henry M. Cowles
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 424–425.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709156?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Robert E. Kohler. Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science.
Stephen Bocking
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 425–426.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709112?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Lee Vinsel. Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States.
Joseph J. Corn
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 426–428.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709422?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Mary Harris. Rocks, Radio, and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social, and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander.
Rebecca Priestley
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 428–429.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709402?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Hugo Iltis. Race, Genetics, and Science: Resisting Racism in the 1930s.
Elise K. Burton
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 429–430.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709348?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

John Krige, ed. How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology.
Néstor Herran
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 430–433.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709407?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Arthur P. Molella; Scott Gabriel Knowles, eds. World’s Fairs in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress.
Peter H. Hoffenberg
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 433–434.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709115?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

JPat Brown; B. C. D. Lipton; Michael Morisy, eds. Scientists under Surveillance: The FBI Files.
Paul Rubinson
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 434–435.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709110?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Ben Barres. The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist.
Heather Ellis
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 436–436.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709144?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Simone Turchetti. Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO’s Science and Environmental Initiatives.
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 437–438.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709111?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Onur Erdur. Die epistemologischen Jahre: Philosophie und Biologie in Frankreich, 1960–1980.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 438–439.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709143?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Subrata Dasgupta. The Second Age of Computer Science: From Algol Genes to Neural Nets.
Cyrus C. M. Mody
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 439–440.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709159?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

Bruno J. Strasser. Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology.
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Isis, Vol. 111, No. 2: 440–441.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709408?ai=u2&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T

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