Isis 102 (2011), 2

Isis
Vol. 102, No. 2, June 2011
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Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece

Frontispiece
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Articles

Vivisecting Major: A Victorian Gentleman Scientist Defends Animal Experimentation, 1876–1885
By Rob Boddice
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 215-237.
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“Shocking” Masculinity: Stanley Milgram, “Obedience to Authority,” and the “Crisis of Manhood” in Cold War America
By Ian Nicholson
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 238-268.
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Popularizing the Ancestry of Man: Robert Ardrey and the Killer Instinct
By Nadine Weidman
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 269-299.
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Focus: Alchemy and the History of Science

Introduction
By Bruce T. Moran
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 300-304.
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Alchemy Restored
By Lawrence M. Principe
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 305-312.
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What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy?
By William R. Newman
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 313-321.
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Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter: Reconsidering the Place of Vitalism in Early Modern Chymistry
By Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 322-329.
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Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
By Tara E. Nummedal
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 330-337.
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News of the Profession

2010 History of Science Society Prize Citations
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 338-342.
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Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor
By James Schwartz
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Letter to the Editor
By Staffan Mueller-Wille
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Letter to the Editor
By Dwayne A. Day
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 343-344.
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Letter to the Editor
By Kristie Macrakis
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 344-345.
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Book Reviews General

Robert B. Baker; Laurence B. McCullough, eds. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics.
By Kirstin Borgerson
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 346-347.
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John Bender; Michael Marrinan. The Culture of Diagram.
By Robert M. Brain
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 347-348.
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Peter Harrison, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion.
By Jitse M. van der Meer
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 348-349.
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Jeffrey M. Jentzen. Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty.
By Janet A. Tighe
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 349-350.
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Adrian Johns. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.
By Larry Stewart
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 350-351.
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Juan Pimentel, ed. El Rinoceronte y el Megaterio: Un ensayo de morfología histórica.
By Helen Cowie
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 351-352.
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Erika Lorraine Milam. Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology.
By Marga Vicedo
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 352-353.
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Book Reviews Antiquity

Sylvia Berryman. The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural
Philosophy.
By Courtney Roby
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 353-354.
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Book Reviews Medieval

Elaine Hobby, ed. The Birth of Mankind: Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book.
By Lisa Wynne Smith
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 354-355.
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Book Reviews Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)

François Duchesneau. Leibniz: Le vivant et l'organisme.
By Raphaële Andrault
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 355-356.
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Ursula Klein; E. C. Spary, eds. Materials and Expertise in Early Modern
Europe: Between Market and Laboratory.
By Jan Golinski
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 356-357.
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Bernhard Kuhn. Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau.
By Noah Heringman
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 357-358.
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Stefano Miniati. Nicholas Steno's Challenge for Truth.
By John Henry
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 358-359.
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William Poole. The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth.
By Lydia Barnett
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 359-360.
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Lisa T. Sarasohn. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution.
By Deborah Boyle
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 360-361.
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Simon Werrett. Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History.
By Pamela O. Long
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 361-362.
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Claus Zittel. Theatrum philosophicum: Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft.
By Christoph Lüthy
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 362-364.
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Book Reviews Modern (Nineteeth Century to 1950)

Guido Bacciagaluppi; Antony Valentini, eds. Quantum Theory at the
Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference.
By Tilman Sauer
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 364-365.
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David Baneke. Synthetisch denken: Natuurwetenschappers over hun rol in een moderne maatschappij, 1900–1940.
By Ilja Nieuwland
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 365-366.
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Heiner Fangerau. Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung.
By Silvia Berger
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 366-367.
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Gabriel Galvez-Behar. La république des inventeurs: Propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France (1791–1922).
By Patrice Bret
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 367-368.
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Catherine Goldstein; Norbert Schappacher; Joachim Schwermer, eds. The Shaping of Arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae.
By Thomas Archibald
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 368-369.
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David Knight. The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Modernity, 1789–1914.
By David B. Wilson
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 369-371.
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Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890–1930.
By Kim Tolley
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 371-372.
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Barbara Larson; Fae Brauer, eds. The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture.
By Constance Areson Clark
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 372-373.
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João Magueijo. A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age.
By Jaume Navarro
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 373-374.
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Peter Paret. The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia, 1806.
By Alex Roland
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 374.
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Nicolaas Rupke. Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin.
By John M. Lynch
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 374-375.
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Suman Seth. Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of
Theory, 1890–1926.
By Kristian Camilleri
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 375-376.
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Woodruff T. Sullivan. Cosmic Noise: A History of Early Radio Astronomy.
By Robert W. Smith
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 377-378.
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Heather Wolffram. The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870–1939.
By Sofie Lachapelle
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 378.
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Book Reviews Recent (1950—)

Robert A. Jacobs. The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age.
By Lisa Rumiel
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 378-379.
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Nancy Langston. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES.
By Sheldon Krimsky
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 379-380.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/661698

David E. Nye. When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America.
By Bruce Sinclair
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 380-381.
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Amy E. Slaton. Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line.
By Joyce Tang
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 381-382.
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Tom Sriver. True Jacob: A Novel.
By Diane Greco Josefowicz
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 382-383.
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Book Reviews Sociology and Philosophy of Science

Evelyn Fox Keller. The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture.
By Jane Maienschein
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 383-384.
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Martha Lampland; Susan Leigh Star, eds. Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life.
By Michael Lynch
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 384-385.
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Sandra D. Mitchell. Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy.
By Hans Radder
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 385-386.
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Sherry Turkle; William J. Clancey; Stefan Helmreich; Yanni A. Loukissas; Natasha Myers. Simulation and Its Discontents.
By Thomas Malaby
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Vol. 102, No. 2: 387-388.
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Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
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