Volume 99; Issue 3

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Volume 99; Issue 3

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Volume 99; Issue 3

1

Introduction: Why What If?

By Gregory Radick

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

2

Ideology, Inevitability, and the Scientific Revolution

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2008

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english

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PDF, 114 KB

english, 2008

3

What Darwin Disturbed: The Biology That Might Have Been

Bowler, Peter J.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 114 KB

english, 2008

4

Genuine Possibilities in the Scientific Past and How to Spot Them

By Steven French

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2008

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english

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PDF, 112 KB

english, 2008

5

The Normative Turn: Counterfactuals and a Philosophical Historiography of Science

By Steve Fuller

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2008

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english

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PDF, 116 KB

english, 2008

6

Anthrax in Transit: Practical Experience and Intellectual Exchange

Jones, Susan D., Teigen, Philip M.

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2008

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english

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english, 2008

7

Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918–1929

By Nikolai Krementsov

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2008

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english

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PDF, 674 KB

english, 2008

8

Peter J. Bowler.Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design

Croce, Paul Jerome

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

9

Robert Bud.Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy

Review by: Reviewed by Christopher Lawrence

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

10

Florian Ebeling.The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times

Waddell, Mark A.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

11

Joseph S. Fruton.Fermentation: Vital or Chemical Process?

Ramberg, Peter J.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

12

I. S. Glass.Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists

Review by: Reviewed by James Evans

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

13

Edward Grant.A History of Natural Philosophy from the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

Turner, Frank M.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

14

Mark A. Largent.Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States

Larson, Edward J.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

15

Lawrence M. Principe (Editor).Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry

Dym, Warren Alexander

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

16

Judith Roof.The Poetics of DNA

Review by: Reviewed by Rena Selya

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2008

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english

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PDF, 100 KB

english, 2008

17

Gerardo Aldana.The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal: Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque

Review by: Reviewed by Stephen McCluskey

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

18

Michael A. B. Deakin.Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr

Review by: Reviewed by Elizabeth Burns

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

19

David Sider; Carl Wolfram Brunschön (Editors).Theophrastus of Eresus: On Weather Signs

Review by: Reviewed by Daryn Lehoux

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

20

Max Engammare.L'ordre du temps: L'invention de la ponctualité au XVIe siècle

Review by: Reviewed by Shana Worthen

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

21

Didier Kahn.Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567–1625)

Review by: Reviewed by Hiro Hirai

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

22

Maimonides.Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6–9: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition

Review by: Reviewed by Hagar Kahana-Smilansky

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Année:

2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

23

Claude Blanckaert; Michel Porret (Editors).L'Encyclopédie méthodique: Des Lumières au positivisme (1782–1832)

Review by: Reviewed by David Bates

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Année:

2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

24

Robert E. Bradley; Lawrence A. D'Antonio; C. Edward Sandifer (Editors).Euler at Three Hundred: An Appreciation

Review by: Reviewed by Craig Fraser

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2008

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

25

Fabien Chareix.La philosophie naturelle de Christiaan Huygens

Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan

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2008

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

26

Allen G. Debus.The Chemical Promise: Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550–1800

Review by: Reviewed by Didier Kahn

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

27

Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr.William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest

Malone, Robert J.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

28

Paola Govoni (Editor).Storia, scienza e società: Ricerche sulla scienza in Italia nell'età moderna e contemporanea

Review by: Reviewed by Angela Bandinelli

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2008

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

29

Boris Hessen.Les racines sociales et économiques desPrincipiade Newton: Une rencontre entre Newton et Marx à Londres en 1931

Review by: Reviewed by Geert Somsen

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2008

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

30

Othmar Keel.L'avènement de la médecine clinique moderne en Europe, 1750–1815: Politiques, institutions et savoirs

Staum, Martin S.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

31

Ursula Klein; Wolfgang Lefèvre.Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology

Review by: Reviewed by Lissa Roberts

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

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32

Judith Magee.The Art and Science of William Bartram

Gronim, Sara Stidstone

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2008

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english

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PDF, 96 KB

english, 2008

33

A. D. Morrison-Low.Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

Review by: Reviewed by Jim Bennett

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

34

Jeremy Schmidt.Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England

Review by: Reviewed by William Clark

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

35

Emilio Sergio.Verità matematiche e forme della natura da Galileo a Newton

Review by: Reviewed by Daniele Cozzoli

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

36

Ana Simões; Maria Paula Diogo; Ana Carneiro.Cidadão do mundo: Uma biografia científica do Abade Correia da Serra

Olshin, Benjamin B.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 103 KB

english, 2008

37

Ian Burney.Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination

Choi, Tina Young

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2008

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english

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PDF, 198 KB

english, 2008

38

Deborah R. Coen.Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Review by: Reviewed by Tatjana Buklijas

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

39

Peter Donhauser.Elektrische Klangmaschinen: Die Pionierzeit in Deutschland und Österreich

Review by: Reviewed by Julia Kursell

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

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40

Tina Gianquitto.“Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May

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2008

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english

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PDF, 95 KB

english, 2008

41

Zhang Jiuchen.Di zhi xue yu Minguo she hui: 1916–1950 [Geology and Society: A Study in Chinese National Geological Survey]

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2008

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english

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PDF, 100 KB

english, 2008

42

Richard C. Keller.Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa

Review by: Reviewed by Sloan Mahone

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

43

Ben A. Minteer.The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America

Elkind, Sarah S.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

44

Mark Patton.Science, Politics, and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind

Clark, J. F. M.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

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45

Michael F. Robinson.The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Friedman, Robert Marc

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2008

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english

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PDF, 96 KB

english, 2008

46

Marc Rothenberg; Kathleen W. Dorman; Frank R. Millikan (Editors). Deborah Y. Jeffries; Sarah Schoenfeld (Assistants).The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 10: January 1858–December 1865: The Smithsonian Years

Elliott, Clark A.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 106 KB

english, 2008

47

Patrick B. Sharp.Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

Review by: Reviewed by Hamilton Cravens

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

48

Marius Turda; Paul J. Weindling (Editors).“Blood and Homeland”: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940

Ash, Mitchell G.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 100 KB

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49

Atsushi Akera.Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research

Review by: Reviewed by Jon Agar

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

50

Craig Brown.A Generation of Excellence: A History of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Fedunkiw, Marianne P.

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 106 KB

english, 2008

51

Steven Epstein.Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

Review by: Reviewed by Alberto Cambrosio

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

52

Jeremy A. Greene.Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease

Review by: Reviewed by Marcia Meldrum

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2008

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english

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PDF, 164 KB

english, 2008

53

Kenneth Lipartito; Orville R. Butler.A History of the Kennedy Space Center

Weitekamp, Margaret A.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

54

Morris Low.Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor

Review by: Reviewed by Shigeru Nakayama

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

55

Joseph Masco.The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico

Review by: Reviewed by Peter Westwick

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2008

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english

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PDF, 171 KB

english, 2008

56

Roger A. Pielke, Jr.The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

Doel, Ronald E.

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2008

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english

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PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

57

Carroll Pursell.Technology in Postwar America: A History

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

58

Penelope J. Corfield.Time and the Shape of History

Review by: Reviewed by Cristina Chimisso

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2008

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english

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PDF, 105 KB

english, 2008

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Hans Harbers (Editor).Inside the Politics of Technology: Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society

Review by: Reviewed by Park Doing

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2008

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english

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PDF, 114 KB

english, 2008

60

Valeria Mosini (Editor).Equilibrium in Economics: Scope and Limits

Review by: Reviewed by Harro Maas

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2008

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english

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PDF, 102 KB

english, 2008

61

Terry Shinn; Pascal Ragouet.Controverses sur la science: Pour une sociologie transversaliste de l'activité scientifique

Review by: Reviewed by Yves Gingras

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2008

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english

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PDF, 100 KB

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62

Letter to the Editor

By Anne Davenport and Peter Machamer

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2008

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english

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PDF, 88 KB

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Letter to the Editor

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2008

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english

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PDF, 88 KB

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64

Letter to the Editor

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2008

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english

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PDF, 88 KB

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65

Frontispiece

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2008

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english

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PDF, 198 KB

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Stephen Gaukroger.The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685

Review by: Reviewed by Wolfgang Lefèvre

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 45 KB

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67

Alexander Friedmann.Die Welt als Raum und Zeit

Review by: Reviewed by Klaus Hentschel

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2008

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english

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PDF, 36 KB

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68

Scott W. Palmer.Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia

Review by: Reviewed by Paul Josephson

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2008

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english

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PDF, 34 KB

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69

Notes on Contributors

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2008

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english

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PDF, 53 KB

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70

Ken Alder.The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession

Review by: Reviewed by Carroll Pursell

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 40 KB

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71

Tian Miao.Zhongguo shuxue de xihua licheng [The Westernization of Mathematics in China]

Review by: Reviewed by Yibao Xu

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 47 KB

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72

Henry S. Turner.The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630

Review by: Reviewed by Stephen Pumfrey

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2008

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english

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PDF, 42 KB

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73

Peter Lynch.The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson's Dream

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2008

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english

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PDF, 40 KB

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Jiang Xiaoyuan; Wu Yan.Zijin shan tian wen tai shi gao: Zhongguo tian wen xue xian dai hua ge an. [History of Purplemountain Observatory.]

Review by: Reviewed by Li-Zhi Fang

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 41 KB

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75

Bruno J. Strasser.La fabrique d'une nouvelle science: La biologie moléculaire à l'âge atomique (1945–1964)

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2008

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english

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PDF, 42 KB

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Angela N. H. Creager; Elizabeth Lunbeck; M. Norton Wise (Editors).Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, and Exemplary Narratives

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2008

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english

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PDF, 40 KB

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Outposts of Science: The Knowledge Trade and the Expansion of Scientific Community in Post–Civil War America

By Daniel Goldstein

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2008

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english

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PDF, 6.28 MB

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78

Maurice Halbwachs; Alfred Sauvy.Le point de vue du nombre, 1936: Précédé de l'avant-propos au Tome VII de l'Encyclopédie française de Lucien Febvre et suivi de trois articles de Maurice Halbwachs

Review by: Reviewed by Libby Schweber

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2008

Langue:

english

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PDF, 42 KB

english, 2008

79

Hanne Andersen; Peter Barker; Xiang Chen.The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Review by: Reviewed by David Gooding

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2008

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english

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PDF, 41 KB

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80

Letter to the Editor

By Vidar Enebakk

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2008

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english

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PDF, 25 KB

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Staffan Müller-Wille; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Editors).Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870

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2008

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english

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PDF, 46 KB

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In Search of the Bourgeois Self

Review by: By John Carson

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2008

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english

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PDF, 36 KB

english, 2008