Isis 98 (2007), 3

Volume 98, Number 3
(September 2007)

is now available
at www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/contents?ISIS+v98n3

ARTICLES
Frontispiece
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Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye; or, Seeing and Knowing in Ptolemy and Galen
Daryn Lehoux
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Maintaining Continuity through a Scientific Revolution
A Rereading of E. B. Wilson and T. H. Morgan on Sex Determination and Mendelism
Sharon E. Kingsland
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Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800
Practices and Disciplines in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
John V. Pickstone
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FOCUS: SCIENCE AND MODERN CHINA
New Directions in the History of Modern Science in China
Global Science and Comparative History
Benjamin A. Elman
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Redrawing the Map
Science in Twentieth-Century China
Fa-ti Fan
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The Reception of Relativity in China
Danian Hu
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Science and the State in Modern China
Zuoyue Wang
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On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses
Reflections on Science in Socialist China
Sigrid Schmalzer
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Murky Waters
Thoughts on Desire, Utility, and the "Sea of Modern Science"
Grace Shen
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NEWS OF THE PROFESSION
News of the Profession
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Eloge: Sylvia Freeman Wallace Mcgrath, 1937-2006
Elizabeth Green Musselman and Karen A. Rader
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Eloge: David Pingree, 1933-2005
Kim Plofker
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor
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BOOK REVIEWS
Benjamin A. Elman: A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.),
rev. by Danian Hu
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Mikael Hard and Andrew Jamison: Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science.,
rev. by Joseph C. Pitt
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Christian Jacob: The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History.,
rev. by Susan Schulten
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David R. Oldroyd: Earth, Water, Ice, and Fire: Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in the English Lake District. (Geological Society Memoirs, 25.),
rev. by Christer Nordlund
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Richard G. Olson: Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin.,
rev. by Edward B. Davis
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John Waller: Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations.,
rev. by Andrew Ede
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Gabriela Roxana Carone: Plato's Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions.,
rev. by Gabor Betegh
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Angus Gowland: The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. (Ideas in Context.),
rev. by Jeremy Schmidt
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Sabine Rommevaux: Clavius: Une cle pour Euclide au XVIe siecle. (Mathesis.),
rev. by Jens Hoyrup
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Victoria Sweet: Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. (Studies in Medieval History and Culture.),
rev. by Faith Wallis
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Vincent Aucante: La philosophie medicale de Descartes.,
rev. by Justin E. H. Smith
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Michael Ben-Chaim: Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science: Boyle, Locke, and Newton,
rev. by Lisa Downing
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Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter: Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies.,
rev. by Catherine Wilson
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Maurice Crosland: The Language of Science: From the Vernacular to the Technical.,
rev. by Trevor Levere
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Lucia De Frenza: I sonnambuli delle miniere: Amoretti, Fortis, Spallanzani e il dibattito sull'elettrometria organica e minerale in Italia (1790-1816). (Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza, 50.),
rev. by Marco Segala
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James Delbourgo: A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.,
rev. by Jan Golinski
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Lipke B. Holthuis and Theodore W. Pietsch: Les planches inedites de poissons et autres animaux marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius/Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646-c. 1718) and His Paintings of Indo-West Pacific Fishes and Other Marine Animals.,
rev. by Sara T. Scharf
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Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart: Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851.,
rev. by Michael R. Lynn
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Matthew L. Jones: The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue.,
rev. by John Cottingham
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Michael R. Lynn: Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France.,
rev. by Sofie Lachapelle
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Bruce T. Moran: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.),
rev. by Nicholas Clulee
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Patrick Armstrong: Darwin's Other Islands.,
rev. by Sandra Herbert
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William J. Astore: Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America.,
rev. by Victoria Carroll
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Valeria P. Babini: Il caso Murri: Una storia italiana.,
rev. by Naomi Beck
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David S. Barnes: The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs,
rev. by Olga Amsterdamska
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Antonio Cadeddu: Les verites de la science: Pratique, recit, histoire: Le cas Pasteur. (Biblioteca di Nuncius: Studi e Testi, 57.),
rev. by Harry W. Paul
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Tony Crilly: Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age., and Karen Hunger Parshall: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World.,
rev. by Francine F. Abeles
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David Edgerton: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900.,
rev. by Thomas P. Hughes
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Jean Eisenstaedt: The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again.,
rev. by Gerald Holton
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Aant Elzinga: Einstein's Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed Doors: The Archival Evidence.,
rev. by Sven Widmalm
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Marianne P. Fedunkiw: Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 24.),
rev. by Christopher Lawrence
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Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann: (Editors). The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.),
rev. by Philippe Huneman
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Lluis Garrigos-Oltra, Carles Millan-Verdu and Georgina Blanes-Nadal: El color liquido: Instrumentos y utiles de la colorimetria en el siglo XIX.,
rev. by Pere Grapi
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Angelo Guerraggio and Pietro Nastasi: Italian Mathematics between the Two World Wars. (Science Networks Historical Studies, 29.),
rev. by Massimo Mazzotti
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Klaus Hentschel: Gaussens unsichtbare Hand: Der Universitats-Mechanicus und Maschinen-Inspector Moritz Meyerstein: Ein Instrumentenbauer im 19. Jahrhundert. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, Ser. 3, 52.),
rev. by Richard L. Kremer
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Robert E. Kohler: All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950.,
rev. by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
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Linda Lear: Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature.,
rev. by Barbara T. Gates
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Esther Leslie: Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art, and the Chemical Industry.,
rev. by Agusti Nieto-Galan
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David Philip Miller: Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth-Century "Water Controversy." (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945.),
rev. by Ursula Klein
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Kim Pelis: Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.),
rev. by Andrew Aisenberg
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Sujit Sivasundaram: Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850. (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, 7.),
rev. by Michael S. Reidy
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Laura J. Snyder: Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society.,
rev. by Richard Yeo
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Lester D. Stephens and Dale R. Calder: Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology.,
rev. by Gillian Gass
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Arleen Marcia Tuchman: Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.,
rev. by Marsha L. Richmond
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Brett L. Walker: The Lost Wolves of Japan.,
rev. by Julia Adeney Thomas
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Gerald Holton: Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others.,
rev. by Jan Faye
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Malcolm S. Longair: The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology.,
rev. by David H. DeVorkin
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Peter Broks: Understanding Popular Science.,
rev. by Vidar Enebakk
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Bernard d'Espagnat: On Physics and Philosophy.,
rev. by Thomas Oberdan
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Vittorio Hosle and Christian Illies: Darwinism and Philosophy.,
rev. by Sandra D. Mitchell
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Hans-Jorg Rheinberger: Epistemologie des Konkreten: Studien zur Geschichte der modernen Biologie. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft.),
rev. by Marcel Weber
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Eric R. Scerri: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance.,
rev. by Michael D. Gordin
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Edward R. Tufte: Beautiful Evidence.,
rev. by Laura Perini
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Notes on Contributors
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