ISIS SEPTEMBER 2012
Articles
Vol 103 No 3
Geoffrey Cantor: “Science, Providence, and Progress a the Great Exhibition”
Lukas Rieppel: “Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life: Exhibiting Prehistory at the American
Museum of Natural History”
HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Nancy G. Siraisi: “Medicine 1450-1620 and the History of Science”
Focus: Applied Science
Robert Bud: “Introduction”
Jennifer Karns Alexander: “Thinking Again About Science in Technology”
Paul Lucier: “The Origins of Pure and Applied Science in Gilded Age America”
Robert Bud: “Applied Science a Phrase in Search of a Meaning”
Graeme Gooday: “’Vague and Artificial’: the Historically Elusive
Distinction Between Pure and Applied Science”
Eric Schatzberg: “From Art to Applied Science”
Letters to the Editor
Anna De Pace; André Goddu
Book Reviews
General
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti (Editor), The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie, rev.
by LYNN K. NYHART
Timothy W. Knowlton, Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam,
rev. by BENJAMIN B. OLSHIN
Elaine Leong; Alisha Rankin (Eds.), Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science,
1500–1800, rev. by KATHLEEN CROWTHER
Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial
China, rev. by REIKO SHINNO
Antiquity
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Deborah
Lucas Schneider (Trans.), rev. by DOMINQUE RAYNAUD
Pierre Boaistuau, Histoires prodigieuses (Edition de 1561), Edited by Stephen
Bamforth, Annotated by Jean Céard, rev. by E. R. TRUITT
Thomas Bradwardine, Insolubilia. Edited and translated by Stephen Read, rev. by
JOKE SPRUYT
Philippe Glardon, L’histoire naturelle au XVIe siècle: Introduction, étude et édition
critique de La nature et diversité des poissons (1555) de Pierre Belon, rev. by GRÉGOIRE
HOLTZ
André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and
Philosophy in Copernicus’s Path to Heliocentrism, rev. by PATRICK J. BONER
Peter J. Grund, Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite: An Edition and Study of Humfrey
Lock’s Treatise on Alchemy, rev. by PETER FORSHAW
Margaret Healy, Shakespeare, Alchemy, and the Creative Imagination: The Sonnets and
A Lover’s Complaint, rev. by CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN
Cynthia Klestinec, Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of
Dissection in Renaissance Venice, rev. by ALEXANDRA BAMJI
Cesare S. Maffioli: La via delle acque (1500–1700): Appropriazione delle arti e
trasformazione delle matematiche, rev. by W. R. LAIRD
Laurence Moulinier-Brogi, Guillaume l’Anglais, le frondeur de l’uroscopie médiévale
(XIIIe siècle): Édition commentée et traduction du De urina non visa, rev. by STEFANO
RAPISARDA
Sabine Rommevaux (Ed.), Mathématiques et connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée,
rev. by WESLEY M. STEVENS
Carlos Solís, La medicina magnética: Del ungüento armario al polvo simpático de
Kenelm Digby, rev. by MAR REY-BUENO (Translated by Maria M. Portuondo)
Arnold of Villanova, Michael R. McVaugh (ed.), Tractatus de humido radicali, rev. by
FABIO CAVALLI
Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Horst Bredekamp (General Editor), Galileo’s O. Volume 1: The Sidereus Nuncius of
1610: A Comparison of the Proof Copy (New York) and Other Paradigmatic Copies
(Graz, Paris, Münster), Irene Brückle and Oliver Hahn (eds.), Vol 2: Galileo Makes a
Book: The First Edition of the Sidereus Nuncius, Venice 1610, rev. by EILEEN REEVES
Marco Bresadola, Luigi Galvani: Devozione, scienza e rivoluzione, rev. by WILLIAM R.
SHEA
Alix Cohen, Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology, and History, rev. by
RAFAEL ZIEGLER
Sven Dupré; Christoph Lüthy (Eds.), Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material
Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, rev. by MARCO BERETTA
James Dougal Fleming (Editor), The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700, rev. by
MATTEO VALLERIANI
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad, rev. by GEOFFREY GORHAM
Vladimir Janković, Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of
Environmental Medicine, rev. by KATHARINE ANDERSON
Martin Kjellgren, Taming the Prophets: Astrology, Orthodoxy, and the Word of God in
Early Modern Sweden, rev. by PATRICK J. BONER
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and
Seventeenth-Century Anatomy, rev. by MARIA PIA DONATO
Howard Marchitello, The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of
Shakespeare and Galileo, rev. by PAMELA GOSSIN
Mary Ashburn Miller, A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the
French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794, rev. by E. C. SPARY
Alexander J. P. Raat, The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710–1789): A
Personal History of a Dutch Virtuoso, rev. by SUSIE PROTSCHKY
Kurt Smith, Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period,
rev. by JOSEPH ZEPEDA
Thomas Sturm, Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, rev. by RICCARDO POZZO
Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the
Commoditization of Knowledge, rev. by BRENDAN DOOLEY
Charles T. Wolfe; Ofer Gal (Eds.), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:
Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science, rev. by IAN STEWART
Modern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)
Sokhieng Au, Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia, rev.
by MITCH ASO
Olaf Breidbach; Wolfgang Neuser (Eds.), Hegels Naturphilosophie in der Dritten
Moderne: Bestimmungen, Probleme und Perspektiven, rev. by BERNHARD FRITSCHER
Karen Brown, Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern
Africa, rev. by NEIL PEMBERTON
Jed Z. Buchwald; Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable
Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between
Religion and Science, rev. by JAMES EVANS
John P. Herron, Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865–
1965, rev. by STEPHEN BOCKING
John Jenkin, William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary
Collaboration in Science, rev. by BRUCE R. WHEATON
Frank-Peter Kirsch, “Götter in deren Hand Donner und Blitz liegt”: Ausbildung und
Forschung der Berliner Militärärzte von 1870 bis 1895, rev. by AXEL C. HÜNTELMANN
Sofie Lachapelle. Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to
Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931
Bernard Linsky, The Evolution of Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell’s
Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition, rev. by I. GRATTAN-GUINNESS
Marjorie C. Malley, Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science, rev. by
MATTHEW LAVINE
Richard Noll, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox, rev. by JOHN
C. BURNHAM
Josep Simon, Communicating Physics: The Production, Circulation, and Appropriation
of Ganot’s Textbooks in France and England, 1851–1887, rev. by FRANK A. J. L. JAMES
Martin S. Staum, Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and
Beyond, rev. by MICHAEL PETTIT
Recent (1950-)
Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Margaret Mead: A Biography, rev. by GERALD SULLIVAN
David C. Cassidy, A Short History of Physics in the American Century, rev. by WILLIAM
THOMAS
David Kinkela, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics,
and the Pesticide That Changed the World, rev. by JOSHUA BLU BUHS
David A. Kirby, Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema, rev. by
PETER WEINGART
George H. Ludwig, Opening Space Research: Dreams, Technology, and Scientific
Discovery, rev. by DAVID DEVORKIN
Ian Miller, A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine, and British
Society, 1800–1950, rev. by CHRISTOPHER CRENNER
Thomas Misa; Robert W. Seidel (Editors), College of Science and Engineering: The
Institute of Technology Years (1935–2010), rev. by JUDITH GOODSTEIN
Curtis Peebles (Ed.), The Spoken Word II: Recollections of Dryden History, Beyond the
Sky, rev. by RICHARD P. HALLION
Heather Munro Prescott, The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in
the United States, rev. by ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM
Sharon K. Weiner, Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons Expertise, rev. by JOHN KRIGE
Sociology and Philosophy of Science
Robert H. Carlson, Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of
Engineering Life, rev. by PHILLIP THURTLE
Michael Gorman (Ed.), Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds
of Collaboration, rev. by MARIA RENTETZI
Feza Günergun; Dhruv Raina (Eds.), Science between Europe and Asia: Historical
Studies on the Transmission, Adoption, and Adaptation of Knowledge, rev. by DAGMAR
SCHAEFER
Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, rev. by ROSALIND WILLIAMS
Lydia H. Liu, The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious,
rev. by ORIT HALPERN
Gregory J. Morgan (Editor), Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter
Achinstein, rev. by DAVID HARKER
Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of
Humanity, rev. by FERNANDO VIDAL
Derek Turner, Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction, rev. by CHRIS HAUFE
Cover: AMNH preparators posing the limbs of Brontosaurus (1904). Image no.
17506, American Museum of Natural History Library, From Rieppel: “Bringing
Dinosaurs Back to Life”.