New issue | HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology Volume 19, Issue 2 (December 2025)

Contents of Issue 19.2

Thematic Dossier: “Small Science: Perspectives on Contemporary Small-Scale Research”

  • Introduction: Why Small Science
    Xavier Roqué, Gemma Cirac-Claveras

  • Small by Design? Acting, Being, and Feeling Small in the History of Quantum and Mechanical Computation
    Eóin Phillips

  • Jugaad As Small Science: The ‘e-Rickshaw’ Conundrum in Delhi
    Shekhar Jain, Saradindu Bhaduri

  • Small Science, Little Fraud? Scale and Misconduct in Contemporary Science
    Eduard Aibar

  • Is Small Science Cargo Cult? Mimicry, Dependency and Agency in the Margins of Big Science
    David Aubin

Varia

  • Before the “Fascist Labscapes”: Origin and Development of Plant Breeding in Portugal, 1862–1926
    Carlos Manuel Faísca

Book Reviews

  • William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
    Review by Robert Brown

  • José Maria Moreno Madrid; Henrique Leitão, A Longitude do Mundo – Viagens Oceânicas, Cosmografia Matemática e a Construção de uma Terra Global
    Review by José Braga

  • Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Leonor de Oliveira (eds.), Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire. From the 18th to the 20th Century
    Review by Catarina Simões