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Isis
Volume 101, Number 1
(March 2010)
is now available at
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Volume 101, Number 1
(March 2010)
is now available at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/2010/101/1?ai=t8&ui=5gal&af=H
| Frontispiece | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: vii. | ||
| Articles | ||
| Organisms in Their Milieu: Alfred Giard, His Pupils, and Early Ethology, 1870–1930 | ||
| Raf De Bont | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 1-29. | ||
| History without Time: Buffon's Natural History as a Nonmathematical Physique | ||
| Thierry Hoquet | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 30-61. | ||
| A Brave New Animal for a Brave New World: The British Laboratory Animals Bureau and the Constitution of International Standards of Laboratory Animal Production and Use, circa 1947–1968 | ||
| Robert G. W. Kirk | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 62-94. | ||
| Focus: Global Histories of Science | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Sujit Sivasundaram | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 95-97. | ||
| When Science Became Western: Historiographical Reflections | ||
| Marwa Elshakry | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 98-109. | ||
| Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World? | ||
| Helen Tilley | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 110-119. | ||
| The Enchantment of Science in India | ||
| Shruti Kapila | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 120-132. | ||
| Global Knowledge on the Move: Itineraries, Amerindian Narratives, and Deep Histories of Science | ||
| Neil Safier | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 133-145. | ||
| Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory | ||
| Sujit Sivasundaram | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 146-158. | ||
| News of the Profession | ||
| Eloge: Allen George Debus, 16 August 1926–6 March 2009 | ||
| Ku‐Ming “Kevin” Chang and Karen Hunger Parshall | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 159-162. | ||
| Eloge: Martin Jesse Klein, 25 June 1924–28 March 2009 | ||
| A. J. Kox | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 163-165. | ||
| Eloge: A. Rupert Hall, 1920–2009, and Marie Boas Hall, 1919–2009 | ||
| Frank A. J. L. James | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 165-171. | ||
| Letters to the Editor | ||
| Letters to the Editor | ||
| Karl Wulff | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 172. | ||
| Letters to the Editor | ||
| Toby E. Huff | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 172-173. | ||
| Letters to the Editor | ||
| Henk Kubbinga | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 173. | ||
| Letters to the Editor | ||
| Klaas van Berkel | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 173-174. | ||
| Erratum | ||
| Erratum | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 174. | ||
| Essay Review | ||
| The War on Newton | ||
| Mordechai Feingold | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 175-186. | ||
| Book Reviews GENERAL | ||
| Poonam Bala (Editor). Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts. | ||
| Michael Worboys | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 187. | ||
| Richard Bronk. The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics. | ||
| Philip Mirowski | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 187-189. | ||
| Julian Chela‐Flores. A Second Genesis: Stepping‐Stones toward the Intelligibility of Nature. | ||
| Paul Fayter | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 189-190. | ||
| Tobias Cheung. Res vivens: Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600–1800. | ||
| Justin E. H. Smith | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 190-191. | ||
| Brian A. Curran; Anthony Grafton; Pamela O. Long; Benjamin Weiss. Obelisk: A History. | ||
| Jed Buchwald | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 191-192. | ||
| Jacalyn Duffin. Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World. | ||
| William H. York | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 192-193. | ||
| Pascal Duris (Editor). Traduire la science: Hier et aujourd'hui. | ||
| Scott Mandelbrote | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 194. | ||
| Tofigh Heidarzadeh. A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle to Whipple. | ||
| Helge Kragh | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 195-196. | ||
| Klaus Hentschel (Editor). Unsichtbare Hände: Zur Rolle von Laborassistenten, Mechanikern Zeichnern und Amanuenses in der physikalischen Forschungs‐ und Entwicklungsarbeit. | ||
| Roland Wittje | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 196-197. | ||
| Thomas Hockey (Editor). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. | ||
| N. M. Swerdlow | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 197-198. | ||
| Kim Plofker. Mathematics in India. | ||
| Agathe Keller | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 199-200. | ||
| Michael Ruse; Joseph Travis (Editors). Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. | ||
| Michael T. Ghiselin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 200-201. | ||
| Book Reviews ANTIQUITY | ||
| Eleanor Robson. Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. | ||
| Christine Proust | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 201-202. | ||
| Glen Van Brummelen. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry. | ||
| John Steele | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 203. | ||
| Book Reviews MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE | ||
| Joël Biard; Sabine Rommevaux (Editors). Mathématiques et théorie du mouvement (XIVe–XVIe siècles). | ||
| Jürgen Sarnowsky | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 204. | ||
| Guillelmi de Conchis. Glosae super Platonem. | ||
| Henrik Lagerlund | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 205. | ||
| Marilyn Nicoud. Les régimes de santé au Moyen Âge: Naissance et diffusion d'une écriture médicale (XIIIe–XVe siècle). | ||
| Pedro Gil‐Sotres | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 205-207. | ||
| Jonathan Sawday. Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine. | ||
| Steven A. Walton | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 207-208. | ||
| Jérôme Torrella (Hieronymus Torrella). Opus praeclarum de imaginibus astrologicis. | ||
| Monica Azzolini | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 208-209. | ||
| Konrad Gruter von Werden. De machinis et rebus mechanicis: Ein Maschinenbuch aus Italien für den König von Dänemark, 1393–1424. Volume 1: Einleitung. | ||
| Bert Hall | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 209-211. | ||
| Laurence Wuidar. Musique et astrologie après le concile de Trente. | ||
| Sheila J. Rabin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 211-212. | ||
| Book Reviews EARLY MODERN (SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES) | ||
| Reid Barbour; Claire Preston (Editors). Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed. | ||
| Charles Webster | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 212-213. | ||
| Jacob Bernoulli. The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis. | ||
| James Franklin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 213-214. | ||
| Daniela Bleichmar; Paula De Vos; Kristin Huffine; Kevin Sheehan (Editors). Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800. | ||
| Richard L. Kagan | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 214-215. | ||
| Bruce Stanley Burdick. Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700. | ||
| Peggy Aldrich Kidwell | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 215-216. | ||
| Emidio Campi; Simone De Angelis; Anja‐Silvia Goeing; Anthony T. Grafton (Editors). Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe. | ||
| Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 216-217. | ||
| Dominik Collet. Die Welt in der Stube: Begegnungen mit Auβereuropa in Kunstkammern der Frühen Neuzeit. | ||
| Anke te Heesen | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 217-218. | ||
| Matthew D. Eddy. The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry, and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. | ||
| David Philip Miller | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 218-219. | ||
| Galileo Galilei. Lettera a Cristina di Lorena / Brief an Christine von Lothringen. | ||
| Thomas F. Mayer | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 219-220. | ||
| Craig Ashley Hanson. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism. | ||
| Patricia Fara | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 220-221. | ||
| Helge Kragh. The Moon That Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite. | ||
| Rienk Vermij | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 221-222. | ||
| Alessandro Ottaviani; Oreste Trabucco. Theatrum naturae: La ricerca naturalistica tra erudizione e nuova scienza nell'Italia del primo Seicento. | ||
| Brendan Dooley | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 222-223. | ||
| Book Reviews MODERN (NINETEENTH CENTURY TO 1950) | ||
| James R. Akerman (Editor). The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. | ||
| David Buisseret | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 223-224. | ||
| Thomas Bach; Jonas Maatsch; Ulrich Rasche (Editors). “Gelehrte” Wissenschaft: Das Vorlesungprogramm der Universität Jena um 1800. | ||
| Kalil Oldham | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 224-225. | ||
| Francesca Bordogna. William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge. | ||
| Alan Richardson | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 225-227. | ||
| Frederick Burkhardt (Editor). Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters. | ||
| Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 227-228. | ||
| Kristian Camilleri. Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Physicist as Philosopher. | ||
| Mélanie Frappier | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 228-229. | ||
| Constance Areson Clark. God—or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. | ||
| A. Bowdoin Van Riper | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 229-230. | ||
| Pietro Corsi. Fossils and Reputations: A Scientific Correspondence: Pisa, Paris, London, 1853–1857. | ||
| Luca Ciancio | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 230-231. | ||
| Christopher E. Cosans. Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. | ||
| Stephen Jacyna | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 231-232. | ||
| Gregory Michael Dorr. Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. | ||
| Alexandra Minna Stern | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 232-233. | ||
| Andreas D. Ebert. Jüdische Hochschullehrer an preuβischen Universitäten (1870–1924): Eine quantitative Untersuchung mit biografischen Skizzen. | ||
| Eric J. Engstrom | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 233-234. | ||
| Loren Graham; Jean‐Michel Kantor. Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Certainty. | ||
| Jeremy Gray | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 234-235. | ||
| Noel Jackson. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry. | ||
| Elinor Shaffer | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 235-236. | ||
| Peggy Aldrich Kidwell; Amy Ackerberg‐Hastings; David Lindsay Roberts. Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000. | ||
| Glen Van Brummelen | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 236-237. | ||
| Hadwig Kraeutler. Otto Neurath: Museum and Exhibition Work: Spaces (Designed) for Communication. | ||
| Thomas Uebel | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 237-238. | ||
| Susan E. Lederer. Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth‐Century America. | ||
| Aryn Martin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 238-239. | ||
| Wolfgang Lefèvre. Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie. | ||
| Sander Gliboff | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 239-240. | ||
| Theresa Levitt. The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France, 1789–1848. | ||
| Klaus Hentschel | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 240-241. | ||
| Paul Lucier. Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. | ||
| David Spanagel | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 241-243. | ||
| Gregor Schiemann. Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty. | ||
| R. Steven Turner | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 243-244. | ||
| Phillip Thurtle. The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870–1920. | ||
| Garland E. Allen | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 244-246. | ||
| William H. Tucker. The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology. | ||
| Christopher Green | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 246-247. | ||
| Dirk van Delft. Freezing Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Quest for Cold. | ||
| Kostas Gavroglu | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 247-249. | ||
| Brenda Weeden. The Education of the Eye: History of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, 1838–1881. | ||
| Gowan Dawson | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 249. | ||
| Book Reviews RECENT (1950–) | ||
| Mariano Artigas; Melchor Sánchez de Toca. Galileo y el Vaticano: Historia de la Comisión Pontificia de Estudio del Caso Galileo (1981–1992). | ||
| Michael Segre | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 249-250. | ||
| Joshua Blu Buhs. Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. | ||
| Paul Lucier | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 250-251. | ||
| Paul E. Ceruzzi. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005. | ||
| Greg Downey | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 251-252. | ||
| Hubert L. Dreyfus. On the Internet. | ||
| Janet Abbate | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 252-253. | ||
| John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin. James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia. | ||
| Peter S. Alagona | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 253-254. | ||
| David Paul Haney. The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States. | ||
| Mark Solovey | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 254-255. | ||
| Kristine C. Harper. Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. | ||
| Robert Marc Friedman | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 255-257. | ||
| Christopher R. Henke. Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. | ||
| Paolo Palladino | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 257-258. | ||
| David Herzberg. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac. | ||
| Erika Dyck | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 258-259. | ||
| Lillian Hoddeson; Adrienne W. Kolb; Catherine Westfall. Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. | ||
| Edward Jones‐Imhotep | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 259-260. | ||
| Michael Lynch; Simon A. Cole; Ruth McNally; Kathleen Jordan. Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting. | ||
| Bruno J. Strasser | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 260-261. | ||
| Jo Marchant. Decoding the Heavens: A Two‐Thousand‐Year‐Old Computer—and the Century‐Long Search to Discover Its Secrets. | ||
| Jacqueline Feke | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 261-262. | ||
| Guy Ortolano. The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain. | ||
| Mary Jo Nye | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 262-263. | ||
| Joanna S. Ploeger. The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. | ||
| Robert P. Crease | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 263-264. | ||
| Wiktor Stoczkowski. Anthropologies rédemptrices: Le monde selon Lévi‐Strauss. | ||
| Daniela S. Barberis | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 264-266. | ||
| Andrea Tone. The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. | ||
| Judy Z. Segal | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 266-267. | ||
| Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. | ||
| Thomas Haigh | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 267-268. | ||
| Zuoyue Wang. In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. | ||
| David H. DeVorkin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 268-270. | ||
| Robert S. Westman; David Biale (Editors). Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein. | ||
| Amnon Raz‐Krakotzkin | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 270-271. | ||
| Book Reviews SOCIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | ||
| Sandra Harding. Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities. | ||
| Nancy Tuana | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 271-272. | ||
| Andrew Janiak. Newton as Philosopher. | ||
| Alan E. Shapiro | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 272-273. | ||
| Mark Johnson. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. | ||
| Lorenzo Magnani | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 273-274. | ||
| Stephen H. Kellert. Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines: The Case of Chaos Theory. | ||
| Thomas Nickles | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 274-276. | ||
| Roger Smith. Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature. | ||
| John H. Zammito | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 276-277. | ||
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Isis March 2010, Vol. 101, No. 1: 278-283. | ||