Research article

Watching birds: observation, photography and the ‘ethological eye’
Sean Nixon
pp 1 - 19
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000353 Published Online on 19 September 2023

‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management
Rachel Dishington
pp 21 - 41
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000948 Published Online on 8 January 2024

Petty's instruments: the Down Survey, territorial natural history and the birth of statistics
Svit Komel
pp 43 - 64
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423001097 Published Online on 16 January 2024

A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of Vestiges in Russia
Alexander V. Khramov
pp 65 - 79
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000900 Published Online on 15 December 2023

‘Visible’ compulsions: OCD and the politics of science in British clinical psychology, 1948–1975
Eva Surawy Stepney
pp 81 - 97
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000328 Published Online on 25 September 2023

Scientizing the ‘environment’: Solly Zuckerman and the idea of the School of Environmental Sciences
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda
pp 99 - 112
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000936 Published Online on 27 December 2023

Essay Review

The end of an era
Peter J. Bowler
pp 113 - 117
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423001036 Published Online on 5 January 2024

Book review

Maria Rentetzi, Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. xi + 292. ISBN 978-0-8229-4706-6. $35.00 (hardback).
Robert Bud
pp 119 - 121
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423001048 Published Online on 5 January 2024

Cyrus C.M. Mody, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-0-262-54361-3. $65.00 (paperback).
Benjamin Gross
pp 121 - 123
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000857 Published Online on 23 November 2023

Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8229-4609-0. $35.00 (hardcover).
Christine Y. L. Luk, Longkai Zang
pp 123 - 125
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000766 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Milena Ivanova and Steven French, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-032-33718-0. £110.00 (hardback).
Chiara Ambrosio
pp 125 - 127
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423001024 Published Online on 11 January 2024

Fanny Gribenski, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-82326-3. $55.00 (cloth).
Joeri Bruyninckx
pp 127 - 129
doi: 10.1017/S000708742300081X Published Online on 3 November 2023

Victoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82328-7. $55.00 (cloth).
Maximilian Haberer
pp 129 - 131
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000869 Published Online on 17 November 2023

Omar W. Nasim, The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-262-04553-7. $60.00 (paperback).
Janna K. Müller
pp 131 - 132
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423001012 Published Online on 5 January 2024

Margarete Vöhringer, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics: Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-032-53264-6. £104.00 (hardback).
Roger Smith
pp 133 - 134
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000894 Published Online on 17 November 2023

Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (eds), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-032-13916-6. £96.00 (hardback).
Patrick Anthony
pp 134 - 136
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000961 Published Online on 21 December 2023

Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller (eds), Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-2-503-58806-3. €85.00 (hardback).
JC Niala
pp 136 - 138
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000821 Published Online on 22 December 2023

Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-226-82228-0. $112.50 (cloth).
Neil Tarrant
pp 138 - 140
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000729 Published Online on 6 November 2023

Marci R. Baranski, The Globalization of Wheat Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9. $55.00 (hardcover).
Timothy Lorek
pp 140 - 142
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000675 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Irina Podgorny, Florentino Ameghino y hermanos Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 978-987-628-598-8. AR$9,150.00 (softcover) - Irina Podgorny, Los Argentinos vienen de los peces: Ensayo de filogenia nacional Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2021. Pp. 184. ISBN 978-9500845-399-0. AR$3,978.00 (softcover).
Chris Manias
pp 142 - 144
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000778 Published Online on 21 December 2023

James J.A. Blair, Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5. $31.95 (paperback).
Alexander Stoeger
pp 144 - 146
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000997 Published Online on 21 December 2023

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-350-19582-0. £90.00 (hardback).
Robert Brown
pp 146 - 148
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000651 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 160. ISBN 978-1-9788-0326-8. $33.95 (paperback).
Suzanne Fischer
pp 148 - 150
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000742 Published Online on 8 November 2023

Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1800 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-108-49125-9. $29.99 (paperback).
Tim Lockley
pp 150 - 152
doi: 10.1017/S000708742300095X Published Online on 21 December 2023

Lina Zeldovich, The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-61557-8. $26.00 (cloth).
James F. Stark
pp 152 - 153
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000808 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4630-4. $55.00 (hardcover).
Emily Webster
pp 153 - 155
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000791 Published Online on 20 December 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 306. ISBN 978-1-5017-6977-1. $56.95 (hardcover).
Andy Byford
pp 155 - 157
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000833 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Rachel E. Walker, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-2268-2256-3. $45.00 (cloth).
Amanda E. Herbert
pp 158 - 159
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000730 Published Online on 3 November 2023

Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-82676-9. $35.00 (paperback).
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
pp 159 - 161
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000870 Published Online on 17 November 2023

Efran Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-8229-4707-3. $50.00 (hardcover).
Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha
pp 161 - 163
doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000705 Published Online on 3 November 2023