Isis Vol. 103, No. 1, March 2012 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664973>
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Frontispiece
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Articles
Metaphysics for an Enlightened Public: The Controversy over Monads in Germany, 1746–1748 Thomas Broman DOI: 10.1086/664974 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 1-23. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664974>
The Language of Objects: Christian Jürgensen Thomsen's Science of the Past Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen DOI: 10.1086/664975 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 24-53. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664975>
Senator Fred Harris's National Social Science Foundation Proposal: Reconsidering Federal Science Policy, Natural Science–Social Science Relations, and American Liberalism during the 1960s Mark Solovey DOI: 10.1086/664976 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 54-82. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664976>
Focus: Textbooks in the Sciences
Introduction: The Secret Lives of Textbooks Marga Vicedo DOI: 10.1086/664979 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 83-87. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664979>
Translating Textbooks: Russian, German, and the Language of Chemistry Michael D. Gordin DOI: 10.1086/664980 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 88-98. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664980>
Between Training and Popularization: Regulating Science Textbooks in Secondary Education Adam R. Shapiro DOI: 10.1086/664981 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 99-110. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664981>
Playing the Game: Psychology Textbooks Speak Out about Love Marga Vicedo DOI: 10.1086/664982 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 111-125. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664982>
A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre David Kaiser DOI: 10.1086/664983 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 126-138. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664983>
News of the Profession
Eloge: Ernan McMullin, 1924–2011 Phillip R. Sloan DOI: 10.1086/664984 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 139-143. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664984>
Eloge: John Colton Greene, 1917–2008 James Moore DOI: 10.1086/664985 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 144-148. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664985>
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Stephen Push DOI: 10.1086/664986 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 149. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664986>
Letters to the Editor Ian Nicholson DOI: 10.1086/666394 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 149-150. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666394>
Essay Review
Rowing Toward Success: A Fifteenth-Century Venetian Oarsman's Commonplace Book Bert S. Hall DOI: 10.1086/664988 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 151-154. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664988>
Book Reviews General
Ann M. Blair. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Review by: Chandra Mukerji DOI: 10.1086/666395 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 155-156. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666395>
John Hedley Brooke; Ronald L. Numbers, eds. Science and Religion around the World. Review by: Stephen P. Weldon DOI: 10.1086/666396 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 156-157. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666396>
Lorraine Daston; Elizabeth Lunbeck, eds. Histories of Scientific Observation. Review by: Yves Gingras DOI: 10.1086/666397 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 157-158. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666397>
Stephen Harris. Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden, 1501–1900. Review by: Ann Shteir DOI: 10.1086/666398 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 158-159. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666398>
Peter Harrison; Ronald L. Numbers; Michael H. Shank, eds. Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science. Review by: John Henry DOI: 10.1086/666399 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 159-160. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666399>
Christoph Hoffmann, ed. Daten sichern: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung.<br />Barbara Wittmann, ed. Spuren erzeugen: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Selbstaufzeichnung. Karin Krauthausen; Omar W. Nasim, eds. Notieren, Skizzieren: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs. Review by: Cornelius Borck DOI: 10.1086/666400 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 160-161. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666400>
David Kaiser, ed. Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. Review by: Ann Johnson DOI: 10.1086/666401 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 161-162. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666401>
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. Review by: Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Mark E. Kidwell DOI: 10.1086/666402 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 162-163. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666402>
David Serlin, ed. Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture. Review by: Delia Gavrus DOI: 10.1086/666403 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 163-164. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666403>
Edith Dudley Sylla; William R. Newman, eds. Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine: Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch. Review by: Gad Freudenthal DOI: 10.1086/666404 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 164-166. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666404>
Keith Wailoo. How Cancer Crossed the Color Line. Review by: Anne Pollock DOI: 10.1086/666405 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 166-167. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666405>
Book Reviews Antiquity
Theokritos Kouremenos. Heavenly Stuff: The Constitution of the Celestial Objects and the Theory of Homocentric Spheres in Aristotle's Cosmology. Review by: Andrea Falcon DOI: 10.1086/666406 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 167. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666406>
Book Reviews Middle Ages and Renaissance
H. L. L. Busard. Nicole Oresme: Questiones super geometriam Euclidis. Review by: Stefan Kirschner DOI: 10.1086/666407 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 168. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666407>
Aude Doody. Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History. Review by: Richard Yeo DOI: 10.1086/666408 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 169. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666408>
Alexander Marr. Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy. Review by: David R. Topper DOI: 10.1086/666409 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 169-171. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666409>
Martine Ostorero. Le diable au sabbat: Littérature démonologique et sorcellerie (1440–1460). Review by: Michael D. Bailey DOI: 10.1086/666410 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 171-172. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666410>
James Shaw; Evelyn Welch. Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence. Review by: Marco Beretta DOI: 10.1086/666411 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 172-173. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666411>
Anne-Marie Vlasschaert, ed. Le Liber mahameleth: Édition critique et commentaires. Review by: Edith Dudley Sylla DOI: 10.1086/666413 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 173-174. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666413>
Nathan Sivin. Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, with a Study of Its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of Its Records. Review by: Alexei Volkov, Yi-Long Huang DOI: 10.1086/666412 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 173. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666412>
Book Reviews Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Claudine Cohen. Science, libertinage et clandestinité à l'aube des Lumières: Le transformisme de Telliamed.<br />Francine Markovits, ed. Telliamed. Review by: Stéphane Schmitt DOI: 10.1086/666414 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 174-175. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666414>
Warren Alexander Dym. Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany. Review by: Andre Wakefield DOI: 10.1086/666415 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 175-177. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666415>
Anthony Gerbino. François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution. Review by: Matthew Walker DOI: 10.1086/666416 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 177-178. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666416>
Judy A. Hayden, ed. The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein. Review by: Suzanne Le-May Sheffield DOI: 10.1086/666417 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 178-179. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666417>
Toby E. Huff. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Review by: Sonja Brentjes DOI: 10.1086/666418 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 179-180. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666418>
Michael Hunter. Boyle: Between God and Science. Review by: Dane T. Daniel DOI: 10.1086/666419 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 180-181. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666419>
Andrew Janiak. Newton as Philosopher. Review by: Stephen D. Snobelen DOI: 10.1086/666420 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 181-182. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666420>
Rebecca Messbarger. The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini. Review by: Marta Cavazza DOI: 10.1086/666421 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 182-183. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666421>
Justin E. H. Smith. Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. Review by: Stephen Gaukroger DOI: 10.1086/666422 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 184-185. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666422>
Book Reviews Modern (Nineteenth Century to 1950)
Joachim Bauer; Olaf Breidbach; Hans-Werner Hahn, eds. Universität im Umbruch: Universität und Wissenschaft im Spannungsfeld der Gesellschaft um 1800. Review by: Charles E. McClelland DOI: 10.1086/666423 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 185. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666423>
Barbara J. Becker. Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy. Review by: Craig Fraser DOI: 10.1086/666424 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 186-187. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666424>
M. Brady Brower. Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France. Review by: Sebastian Normandin DOI: 10.1086/666425 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 187-188. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666425>
Paul A. Elliott; Charles Watkins; Stephen Daniels. The British Arboretum: Trees, Science, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Review by: Anya Zilberstein DOI: 10.1086/666426 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 188-189. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666426>
George Gale. Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine. Review by: Harry Paul DOI: 10.1086/666427 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 189-190. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666427>
Andrew Goss. The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia. Review by: Bert Theunissen DOI: 10.1086/666428 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 190-191. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666428>
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; Robert Pogue Harrison; Michael R. Hendrickson; Robert B. Laughlin. What Is Life? The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger. Review by: Steven French DOI: 10.1086/666429 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 191. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666429>
Ian Hesketh. The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak. Review by: Daniela Barberis DOI: 10.1086/666430 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 191-192. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666430>
Roger Hutchins. British University Observatories, 1772–1939. DOI: 10.1086/666431 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 192-193. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666431>
K. Maria D. Lane. Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet. Review by: Marc Rothenberg DOI: 10.1086/666432 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 193-194. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666432>
Andrew J. Lewis. A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic. Review by: Mark V. Barrow Jr. DOI: 10.1086/666433 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 194-195. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666433>
Laurent Loison. Qu'est-ce que le néolamarckisme? Les biologistes français et la question de l'évolution des espèces. Review by: Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. DOI: 10.1086/666434 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 195-196. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666434>
P. Kevin MacKeown. Early China Coast Meteorology: The Role of Hong Kong. Review by: Danian Hu DOI: 10.1086/666435 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 196-197. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666435>
Michel Meulders; Laurence Garey, eds. Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience. Review by: David Cahan DOI: 10.1086/666436 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 197-199. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666436>
Christer Nordlund. Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970. Review by: Nicolas Rasmussen DOI: 10.1086/666437 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 199-200. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666437>
Jessica Ratcliff. The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain. Review by: Iwan Rhys Morus DOI: 10.1086/666439 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 200-202. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666439>
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Marie Curie: A Biography. Review by: Martha Harris DOI: 10.1086/666438 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 200. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666438>
F. Scott Scribner. Matters of Spirit: J. G. Fichte and the Technological Imagination. Review by: Joan Steigerwald DOI: 10.1086/666440 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 202-203. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666440>
Jessica B. Teisch. Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. Review by: Kristine C. Harper DOI: 10.1086/666441 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 203-204. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666441>
Paul J. Weindling. John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Review by: Eric J. Engstrom DOI: 10.1086/666442 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 204-205. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666442>
Janina Wellmann. Die Form des Werdens: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Embryologie, 1760–1830. Review by: Tobias Cheung DOI: 10.1086/666443 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 205-206. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666443>
Stephen S. Witte; Marsha V. Gallagher; William J. Orr; Paul Schach; Dieter Karch, eds. The North American Journals of Maximilian of Wied. Stephen S. Witte; Marsha V. Gallagher; William J. Orr; Paul Schach; Dieter Karch, eds. The North American Journals of Maximilian of Wied. Review by: Clark A. Elliott DOI: 10.1086/666444 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 206-207. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666444>
Book Reviews Recent (1950 —)
Roger E. Backhouse; Philippe Fontaine, eds. The History of the Social Sciences since 1945. Review by: Alexandra Rutherford DOI: 10.1086/666445 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 207-208. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666445>
John A. Bindernagel; Leila Hadj-Chikh. The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process. Review by: Joshua Blu Buhs DOI: 10.1086/666446 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 208-209. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666446>
Nancy Langston. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES. Review by: Elizabeth Siegel Watkins DOI: 10.1086/666447 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 209-210. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666447>
Christophe Lécuyer; David C. Brock; Jay Last. Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor. Review by: Cyrus C. M. Mody DOI: 10.1086/666448 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 210-211. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666448>
Philip Mirowski. Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science. Review by: Steve Fuller DOI: 10.1086/666449 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 211-212. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666449>
Helga Nowotny; Giuseppe Testa; Mitch Cohen. Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age. Review by: John Dupré DOI: 10.1086/666450 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 212-213. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666450>
Nancy G. Slack. G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology. David K. Skelly; David M. Post; Melinda D. Smith, eds. The Art of Ecology: Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Review by: Sara Tjossem DOI: 10.1086/666451 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 213-214. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666451>
Richard York; Brett Clark. The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould. Review by: Mark E. Borrello DOI: 10.1086/666452 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 214-215. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666452>
Mei Zhan. Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames. Review by: Angela Ki Che Leung DOI: 10.1086/666453 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 215-216. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666453>
Book Reviews Sociology and the Philosophy of Science
Michel Armatte. La science économique comme ingénierie: Quantification et modélisation. Review by: Theodore M. Porter DOI: 10.1086/666454 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 216-217. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666454>
Alan Chalmers. The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Review by: Victor D. Boantza DOI: 10.1086/666455 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 217-218. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666455>
Mara J. Goldman; Paul Nadasdy; Matthew D. Turner, eds. Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies. Review by: Sarah Tracy DOI: 10.1086/666456 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 218-219. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666456>
Peter Howlett; Mary S. Morgan, eds. How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge. Review by: Jan Golinski DOI: 10.1086/666457 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 219-220. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666457>
Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion. Michael Ruse. Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science. Review by: Fraser Watts DOI: 10.1086/666458 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 220-222. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666458>
Elliott Sober. Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory. Review by: Richard A. Richards DOI: 10.1086/666459 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 222-223. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666459>
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Contributors DOI: 10.1086/664990 Isis Vol. 103, No. 1: 224-228. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664990>