Isis Vol. 101, No. 3, September 2010 is now available online

Isis
Volume 101, Number 3
(September 2010)

Frontispiece

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: vi.
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Articles

Making Mobile Knowledges: The Educational Cruises of the Revue Générale des Sciences Pures et Appliquées, 1897–1914

Veronica della Dora

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 467-500.
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Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number

Peter Pesic

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 501-530.
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Scientific Biography, Cognitive Deficits, and Laboratory Practice: James McKeen Cattell and Early American Experimental Psychology, 1880–1904

Michael M. Sokal

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 531-554.
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Focus: History of Science and Literature and Science: Convergences and Divergences

Making Knowledge: History, Literature, and the Poetics of Science

James J. Bono

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 555-559.
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Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench

Colin Milburn

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 560-569.
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Science Surveys and Histories of Literature: Reflections on an Uneasy Kinship

Laura Otis

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 570-577.
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Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on “Form”

Henry S. Turner

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 578-589.
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Of Atoms, Oaks, and Cannibals; or, More Things That Talk

Laura Dassow Walls

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 590-598.
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News of the Profession

Eloge: Ralph Colp, 1924–2008

James Moore

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 599-602.
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Eloge: Karin Figala, 1938–2007

Henk Kubbinga

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 603-606.
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Eloge: David Charles Gooding, 1947–2009

Ryan D. Tweney

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 607-609.
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2009 History of Science Society Prize Citations

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 610-614.
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Errata

Errata

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 614.
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Essay Reviews

Text, Context, and Conflict in Early Modern Cosmology

Daniel A. Di Liscia

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 615-617.
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Art History, History of Science, and Visual Experience

Sven Dupré

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 618-622.
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Book Reviews
GENERAL

Antoine Bousquet. The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity.

Bart Hacker

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 623-624.
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Fong-ching Chen. Heritage and Betrayal: A Treatise on the Emergence of Modern Science in Western Civilization

Minghui Hu

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 624-625.
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Harold J. Cook; Sanjoy Bhattacharya; Anne Hardy (Editors). History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates.

Dennis Raphael

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 625-626.
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Robert P. Crease. The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg.

Andrew Gregory

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 626-627.
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Michael J. Crowe (Editor). The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book.

Paul Fayter

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 627-628.
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Patrick Gautier Dalché. La Géographie de Ptolémée en Occident (IVe–XVIe siècle).

Piero Falchetta and Sara Scharf

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 628-629.
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics.

Peggy Aldrich Kidwell

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 629-630.
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Martina Kölbl-Ebert (Editor). Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility.

Ralph O'Connor

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 630-631.
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Henrika Kuklick (Editor). A New History of Anthropology.

Jesse Richmond

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 632.
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Donald S. Lopez Jr. Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Jill Lazenby

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 632-633.
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Alberto A. Martínez. Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein's Relativity.

Hubert Goenner

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 633-635.
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David Pingree. Eastern Astrolabes.

Ingrid Hehmeyer

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 635-636.
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Arthur M. Silverstein. A History of Immunology.

Alfred I. Tauber

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 636-637.
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Erwin Tomash; Michael R. Williams. The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalog.

Jon Agar

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 637-639.
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Book Reviews
ANTIQUITY

Adrienne Mayor. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy.

Laurence Totelin

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 639-640.
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Laurence M. V. Totelin. Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece.

Jennifer Clarke Kosak

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 640-641.
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Book Reviews
MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

Leah DeVun. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages.

Lauren Kassell

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 641-642.
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Fernand Hallyn. Gemma Frisius, arpenteur de la terre et du ciel.

Víctor Navarro-Brotons

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 642-643.
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Adolfo Tura. Fra Giocondo et les textes français de géométrie pratique.

Menso Folkerts

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 643-644.
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Book Reviews
EARLY MODERN (SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)

Galileo Galilei. Sidereus nuncius; or, A Sidereal Message.

Renée Raphael

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 644-645.
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Anthony Gerbino; Stephen Johnston. Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1750.

Wolfgang Lefèvre

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 645-646.
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Peter Harrison. The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science.

Kathleen Crowther

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 646-647.
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K. Theodore Hoppen (Editor). Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683–1709.

Mark A. Waddell

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 647-648.
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Richard W. Judd. The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840.

Mark V. Barrow

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 648-649.
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Peter Machamer; J. E. McGuire. Descartes's Changing Mind.

John Cottingham

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 649-650.
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Chandra Mukerji. Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi.

James E. McClellan

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 651-652.
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Sergio Pagano (Editor). I documenti vaticani del processo di Galileo Galilei (1611–1741).

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 652-653.
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Ryan J. Stark. Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.

Eve Keller

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 653-654.
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Chenxi Tang. The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism.

Joan Steigerwald

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 654-655.
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Merry Wiesner-Hanks. The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds.

Adriana S. Benzaquén

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 655-656.
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David B. Wilson. Seeking Nature's Logic: Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment.

Roger Emerson

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 656-657.
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Book Reviews
MODERN (NINETEENTH CENTURY TO 1950)

Julie K. Brown. Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904.

J. T. H. Connor

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 657-658.
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Luca Ciancio. Le colonne del tempo: Il “tempio di Serapide” a Pozzuoli nella storia della geologia, dell'archeologia e dell'arte (1750–1900).

Pietro Corsi

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 658-660.
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Paul Crook. Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism.

Mark Francis

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 660.
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Graham Farmelo. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom.

David C. Cassidy

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 661.
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René Foellmer. Naturlehre: Die Entwicklung des Physikunterrichts an den Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz (1815–1968).

Suman Seth

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 662.
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Oleg A. Godin; David R. Palmer (Editors). History of Russian Underwater Acoustics.

Elena Aronova and Naomi Oreskes

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 662-663.
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Frank A. J. L. James (Editor). The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Volume 5: November 1855–October 1860, Letters 3033–3873.

Geoffrey Cantor

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 664.
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Sandra Linguerri; Raffaella Simili (Editors). Einstein parla italiano: Itinerari e polemiche.

Daniela Monaldi

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 665.
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Lynn K. Nyhart. Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany.

Andreas W. Daum

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 665-667.
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Faidra Papanelopoulou; Augustí Nieto-Galan; Enrique Perdiguero (Editors). Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000.

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 667-668.
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Maria Rentetzi. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early Twentieth Century Vienna.

Soraya Boudia

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 668-669.
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Thomas A. Stapleford. The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000.

Timothy Alborn

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 669-670.
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Ross Thomson. Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790–1865.

Carroll Pursell

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 670-671.
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Randall T. Wakelam. The Science of Bombing: Operational Research in RAF Bomber Command.

William Thomas

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 671-672.
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Book Reviews
RECENT (1950–)

Erik M. Conway. Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History.

Roger Turner

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 672-673.
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Robert W. Duffner. The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History.

Robert W. Smith

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 673-674.
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David Golumbia. The Cultural Logic of Computation.

Nathan Ensmenger

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 674-675.
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Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the Twenty-first Century.

Guy Ortolano

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 675-676.
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Michèle Lamont. How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.

Elihu M. Gerson

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 676-677.
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Li Chengzhi. A Draft History of Space Technology in China [Zhongguo hangtian jishu fazhan shi gao].

John W. Lewis and Xue Litai

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 677-678.
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Maurice Olender. Race and Erudition.

Suzanne Marchand

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 678-679.
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Adriana Petryna. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects.

Alberto Cambrosio

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 679-680.
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Nicolas Rasmussen. On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine.

Sarah W. Tracy

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 681-682.
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Richard Rottenburg. Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid.

Steve Breyman

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 682-683.
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Alexandra Rutherford. Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s–1970s.

Jill G. Morawski

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 683-684.
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David Sepkoski; Michael Ruse (Editors). The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology.

Keynyn Brysse

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 684-685.
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Zhang Baichun; Zhang Jiuchun; Yao Fang. Sulian ji shu xiang Zhongguo de zhuan yi: 1949–1966 [Technology Transfer from the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China, 1949–1966].

Odd Arne Westad

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 685-686.
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Book Reviews
SOCIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Mark B. Brown. Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation.

Matthew J. Brown

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 686-687.
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Hasok Chang; Catherine Jackson (Editors). An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology, and War.

Buhm Soon Park

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 687-688.
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Park Doing. Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science.

Soraya de Chadarevian

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 688-689.
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Helga Nowotny. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future.

John Pickstone

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 689-690.
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Notes on Contributors

Isis September 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3: 691-695.
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