Isis Vol. 102, No. 3, September 2011
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Frontispiece
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Vol. 102, No. 3: vi.
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Articles
Inspiration in the Harness of Daily Labor: Darwin, Botany, and the
Triumph of Evolution, 1859–1868
By Richard Bellon
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 393-420.
Trading in Birds: Imperial Power, National Pride, and the Place of
Nature in U.S.–Colombia Relations
By Camilo Quintero
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 421-445.
Who Owns What? Private Ownership and the Public Interest in Recombinant
DNA Technology in the 1970s
By Doogab Yi
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 446-474.
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Focus: The History of Science and the History of Mathematics
The Skeleton in the Closet: Should Historians of Science Care about the
History of Mathematics?
By Amir Alexander
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 475-480.
Between Timelessness and Historiality: On the Dynamics of the Epistemic
Objects of Mathematics
By Moritz Epple
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 481-493.
AfterMath: The Work of Proof in the Age of Human–Machine Collaboration
By Stephanie Dick
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 494-505.
“This Compendious Language”: Mathematics in the World of Augustus De
Morgan
By Joan L. Richards
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 506-510.
History of Mathematics and History of Science Reunited?
By Jeremy Gray
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 511-517.
History of Mathematics and History of Science
By Tony Mann
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 518-526.
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News of the Profession
Eloge: Lawrence Badash, 8 May 1934–23 August 2010
By Michael Osborne
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 527-529.
Eloge: John Murdoch, 10 May 1927–16 September 2010
By William Newman
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 529-532.
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Essay Reviews
The Ingenious Gentleman Galileo Galilei
By Eileen Reeves
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 533-536.
Apollonius's Conics: The Greek and Arabic Traditions
By Nathan Sidoli
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 537-542.
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Book ReviewsGeneral
Ahmad Dallal. Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History.
By Robert G. Morrison
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 543-544.
Jean-Claude Martzloff. Le calendrier chinois: Structure et calculs (104
av. J.-C.-1644): Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente: La
construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir
d'un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu.
By Benno van Dalen
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 544-545.
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and
the United States since 1800.
By Wendy Kline
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 545-546.
David Weatherall. Thalassaemia: The Biography.
By Dominique A. Tobbell
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 546-547.
Curtis Wilson. The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon's Motion: Its
Coming-to-Be and Short-Lived Ascendancy (1877–1984).
By Myles Standish
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 547-548.
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Book ReviewsAntiquity
Marco Beretta. The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and
Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking.
By Robert G. W. Anderson
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 548-549.
David Creese. The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science.
By Peter Pesic
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 549-550.
Galen ; Beate Gundert, eds. Über die Verschiedenheit der Symptome.
By Alain Touwaide
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 550-551.
Brooke Holmes. The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the
Physical Body in Ancient Greece.
By Laurence Totelin
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 551-552.
Wolfgang Kullmann. Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders
der Stoa: Eine Begriffsuntersuchung.
By Mariska Leunissen
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 552-553.
G. E. R. Lloyd. Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
on Elites, Learning, and Innovation.
By Peter Machamer
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 553-554.
Duane W. Roller. Eratosthenes' Geography.
By Klaus Geus
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 554.
John M. Steele, ed. Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the
Ancient Near East.<br />John M. Steele. A Brief Introduction to
Astronomy in the Middle East.
By Daryn Lehoux
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 554-555.
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Book ReviewsMiddle Ages and Renaissance
Carl F. Barnes; Nigel Hiscock; Stacey L. Hahn. The Portfolio of Villard
de Honnecourt: A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile.
By Wesley M. Stevens
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 555-557.
Kathleen M. Crowther. Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation.
By Scott Mandelbrote
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 557-558.
Hiro Hirai, ed. Cornelius Gemma: Cosmology, Medicine, and Natural
Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain.
By Steven Vanden Broecke
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 558-559.
Anna de Pace. Niccolò Copernico e la fondazione del cosmo eliocentrico:
Con testo, traduzione e commentario del Libro I de Le revoluzioni
celesti.
By André Goddu
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 559-560.
Alexander Marr, ed. The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments,
and Print in Renaissance France.
By Riccardo Bellé
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 560-561.
Robert G. Morrison. Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nīẓām
al-Dīn Nīsābūrī.
By Scott Trigg
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 561-562.
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Book ReviewsEarly Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Vlad Alexandrescu, ed. Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the
Unity of Knowledge.
By Jane Jenkins
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 562-563.
Cătălin Avramescu; Alistair Ian Blyth. An Intellectual History of
Cannibalism.
By David W. Bates
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 563-565.
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. I fari di Halle: Georg Ernst Stahl, Friedrich
Hoffmann e la medicina europea del primo Settecento.
By Marco Bresadola
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 565-566.
Galileo Galilei; Christoph Scheiner; Eileen Reeves; Albert Van Helden.
On Sunspots.
By Thomas F. Mayer
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 566.
Siegfried Huigen. Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-Century
Travellers in South Africa.
By Alette Fleischer
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 567-568.
Joanna Stalnaker. The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age
of the Encyclopedia.
By Jeff Loveland
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 568-569.
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Book ReviewsModern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)
James H. Cassedy. John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded
Age.
By J. T. H. Connor
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 569-570.
Marianne Hänseler. Metaphern unter dem Mikroskop: Die epistemische Rolle
von Metaphorik in den Wissenschaften und in Robert Kochs Bakteriologie.
By Christoph Gradmann
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 570-571.
Dirk R. Johnson. Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism.
By Benjamin Mitchell
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 571-572.
Gérard Jorland. Une société à soigner: Hygiène et salubrité publiques en
France au XIXe siècle.
By Cherilyn Lacy
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 572-573.
Timothy J. LeCain. Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired
America and Scarred the Planet.
By Paul Lucier
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 573-574.
Robert Leonard. Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game
Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960.
By Philip E. Mirowski
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 574-575.
Marta C. Lourenço; Ana Carneiro, eds. Spaces and Collections in the
History of Science: The Laboratorio Chimico Overture.
By Hannah Gay
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 575-576.
Lewis Pyenson. The Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and Its
Discipline.
By Mott Greene
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 576-577.
Helga Satzinger. Differenz und Vererbung: Geschlechterordnungen in der
Genetik und Hormonforschung 1890–1950.
By Sander Gliboff
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 577-578.
Henning Schmidgen. Die Helmholtz-Kurven: Auf der Spur der verlorenen
Zeit.
By Robert M. Brain
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 578-579.
Joel S. Schwartz. Darwin's Disciple: George John Romanes, a Life in
Letters.
By Donald R. Forsdyke
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 579-580.
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Book ReviewsRecent (1950—)
Peder Anker. From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design.
By Finis Dunaway
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 580-581.
Leo Beranek. Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and
Industry.<br />George A. Cowan. Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe
Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan.
By William Thomas
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 581-582.
Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly
Persistence of the Product That Defined America.
By Ann La Berge
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 582-584.
Stephen G. Brush. Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection
in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930–1970.
By Marsha L. Richmond
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 584-585.
Roderick D. Buchanan. Playing with Fire: The Controversial Career of
Hans J. Eysenck.
By William Tucker
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 585-586.
Paul N. Edwards. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the
Politics of Global Warming.
By Paul Erickson
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 586-587.
Thomas S. Mullaney; Benedict Anderson. Coming to Terms with the Nation:
Ethnic Classification in Modern China.
By Leon Antonio Rocha
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 587-588.
Nils J. Nilsson. The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of
Ideas and Achievements.
By Nathan Ensmenger
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 588-589.
Naomi Oreskes; Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of
Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global
Warming.
By Peder Anker
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 589-590.
Hans Radder, ed. The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and
the Modern University.
By William Clark
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 590-591.
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Book ReviewsSociology and Philosophy of Science
Harry Collins. Gravity's Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first
Century.
By Klaus Hentschel
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 591-592.
Andrew Feenberg; Brian Wynne; Michel Callon. Between Reason and
Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity.
By Adelheid Voskuhl
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 592-593.
Matthew D. Lund; Hasok Chang. N. R. Hanson: Observation, Discovery, and
Scientific Change.
By Jutta Schickore
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 593-594.
Isabelle Stengers; Robert Bononno. Cosmopolitics I.
By Jeff Kochan
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 594-595.
Andrew Robinson. Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative
Breakthroughs.
By David R. Topper
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Vol. 102, No. 3: 595-596.
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Notes on Contributors
Notes on Contributors
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