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ISIS BOOKS RECEIVED
History of Science Society Newsletter July 2005
Prior to the publication of each Newsletter, the HSS Executive Office receives from the Isis Editorial Office a list of books received by that office for potential review. This list appears
here quarterly; it is not compiled from the annual Current Bibliography. You may also view this list and prior lists online at http://www.hssonline.org/society/isis/mf_isis.html.
Addison, Paul; Jones, Harriet (Editors). A Companion
to Contemporary Britain 1939-2000. Blackwell Companions
To British Histories. xvi+583pp. Illus., figs., tables, bibls., indexes.
USA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. $124.95 (cloth). 631220402.
Alter, Stephen G. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of
Language. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and
Political Science.) xiii + 339 pp., apps., index. Baltimore/London:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. $49.95 (cloth). 801880203.
Alvarez, Adriana; Molinari, Irene; Reynoso, Daniel
(Editors). Historias De Enfermedades, Salud y Medicina En
la Argentina de Los Siglos XIX-XX. 297 pp. frontis., bibl. Mar del
Plata: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2005. 987544104x.
Amundson, Ron. The Changing Role of the Embryo in
Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo. Cambridge Studies in
Philosophy and Biology. Xiii+280pp. Index. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. $75.00 (cloth). 521806992.
Anatolios, Khaled. Athanasius. (The Early Church Fathers.)
viii + 293 pp., bibl., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2004.
0-415-20203-5.
Anderson, Katharine. Predicting the Weather: Victorians
and the Science of Meteorology. x + 331 pp., illus., bibl.,
index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $45
(cloth). 0-226-019683.
Archer, Mary; Haley, Christopher (Editors). The 1702
Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and
Change. xxi+318pp. Illus., Index. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. 521828732.
Armstrong, Carol; de Zegher, Catherine (Editors).
Ocean Flowers: Impressions From Nature. 288 pp., table,
plates, illus. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2004. 49.95, £32.50 (cloth). 691119481.
Bach, Thomas (Editor). Schelling in Russland: Die frühen
naturphilosophischen Schriften von Daniil Michajlovic Vellanskij
(1774-1847). xviii + 344 pp., apps; bibl., index. Marburg:
Basilisken-Presse, 2005. 64 (paper). 3925347755.
Baldwin, Peter. Disease and Democracy: The
Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Foreword by Daniel M. Fox
and Samuel L. Milbank. Xii+465pp. Index. Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2005. 520243501.
Barnhart, Terry A. Ephraim George Squier and the
Development of American Anthropology. xvi+425pp. Illus.,
Bibl., Index. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press,
2005. $59.95 (cloth) 803213212.
Beeley, Philip; Scriba, Christoph J. (Editors).
Correspondence of John Wallis. Volume II (1660-September
1668). With the Assistance of Uwe Mayer. xxxvii + 682 pp.,
bibl., indexes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. $229,
£120 (cloth). 198566018.
Behrendt, John C. The Ninth Circle: A Memoir of Life and
Death in Antarctica, 1960-1962. xiv + 240 pp., illus., bibl.,
index. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. $29
(cloth). 826334253.
Blanckaert, Claude. La Nature de la Société:
Organicisme et sciences sociales au XIXe siècle. Histoire des
Sciences Humaines.158 pp., bibl., index. Paris: L’Harmattan,
2004. 14 (paper). 2747576914.
Borck, Cornelius. Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der
Elektroenzephalographie. 384pp. Illus., Index. Germany:
Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 34 3892448930.
Bowler, Peter J.; Morus, Iwan Rhys. Making Modern
Science: A Historical Survey. viii + 464 pp., illus., index.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $25 (paper). 0-
226-06860-9.
Brotóns, Victor Navarro (Editor). Jerónimo Muñoz:
Introducción a la Astronomía y la Geografía. 354 pp., apps.,
bibl., index. Valencia: Consel Valencia de Cultura, 2004. (hardcover.)
8448237099.
Burian, Richard M. The Epistemology of Development,
Evolution, and Genetics. Selected Essays. xiii + 274 pp.,
bibls., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75
(cloth). 521836751.
Burkhardt, Jr., Richard W. Patterns of Behaviour:
Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of
Ethnology. xii + 636 pp., illus., bibl., Index. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. $80 (cloth); $29 (paper).
226080900.
Burkhardt, Frederick; Porter, Duncan M.; Dean,
Sheila Ann; Evans, Samantha; Innes, Shelley;
Sclater, Andrew; Pearn, Alison; White, Paul
(Editors). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume
14, 1866. xxvii+ 655pp. illus.,bibl., index. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. 521844592.
Canziani, Guido (Editor). Storia Della Scienza, Storia
Della Filosofia: Interferenze. 202pp. Index. Milano Italy:
FrancoAngeli S. R.L., 2005. 884646379x.
Carnes, Mark C. (Editor). American National
Biography Supplement 2. vii+835pp. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005. $150 195222024.
Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The
New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal
Kingdom. xi+350pp. Illus,. Index. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company Inc., 2005. 393060160.
Cassell, Joan. Life and Death in Intensive Care.
x+235pp. apps., index. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2005. 1592133363.
Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. Shaping the Industrial Century:
The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. (Harvard Studies
in Business History, 46.) viii + 366 pp., tables, index.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth).
067401720X.
Clericuzio, Antonio. La macchina del mondo: Teorie e
pratiche scientifiche dal Rinascimento a Newton. 378 pp.,
bibl., index. Rome: Carocci editore, 2005. 25 (paper).
8843034146.
Coombs, Jan Gregoire. The Rise and Fall of HMOs: An
American Health Care Revolution. xviii + 412 pp., bibl.,
index, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. $35
(cloth). 299202402.
Corbey, Raymond. The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating
the Animal - Human Boundary. x + 227 pp., illus., bibl.,
index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $65
(cloth); $23.99 (paper). 521836832.
Crenner, Christopher. Private Practice: In the Early
Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. xv
+ 303 pp., index. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2005. $48 (cloth). 080188117X.
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter. Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds
of Reason in Modern America. xi + 420 pp., app., index.
Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
$49.95 (cloth). 801880254.
Dal Sasso, Cristiano. Dinosaurs of Italy. With the collaboration
of Guiseppe Brillante. Translated by Barbara Ferrett
Rogers. (Life of the Past.) xiv + 213 pp., illus., bibl.
Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004.
$35 (cloth). 253345146.
DeGregori, Tom (Editor). Origins of the Organic
Agriculture Debate. Iowa: Blackwell Publishing Company,
2004. $56.99 (cloth) 81380342.
DeGroot, Gerard J. The Bomb: A Life. xiii + 397 pp., illus.,
bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
$27.95 (cloth). 674017242.
Delaney, William. Discrete Event Physics: Space and
Time. x + 215 pp., table, bibl., index. Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc.,
2004. $17.95 (paper). 595331459.
Derickson, Alan. Health Security for All: Dreams of
Universal Health Care in America. xii + 240 pp., table, bibl.,
index. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2005. $30
(cloth). 801880815.
DeVorkin, David; Smith, Robert W. The Hubble Space
Telescope: Imaging the Universe. 192 pp., table, bibl., index.
Washington: National Geographic Society, 2004. (cloth.)
792268695.
Diardi, Marco; Taddia, Marco (Editors). Antoine-
Laurent Lavoisier: Opuscoli fisici e chimici. lxiv + 285 pp.,
apps., index. Bologna: Bononia Unversity Press, 2005. 45
(paper). 8873950124.
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Dimand, Robert W.; Geanakoplos, John (Editors).
Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist.
xv + 456 pp., tables, bibls., index. Malden: Blackwell
Publishing Ltd., 2005. $74 (hardcover). 1405133066.
Dowe, Phil. Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay
of Science, Reason, and Religion. viii + 205 pp., table, bibl.,
index. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 2005. $21 (paper). 802826962.
El-Hai, Jack. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius
and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. v +
362 pp., bibl., index. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
$27 (cloth). 471232920.
Elman, Benjamin A. On Their Own Terms: Science in
China, 1550-1900. xxxviii + 567 pp., illus., tables, apps.,
bibl., index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. $55
(cloth). 674016858.
Feingold, Mordechai. The Newtonian Moment: Isaac
Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. (Companion
volume to the exhibition by the New York Public Library,
October 8, 2004 - February 5, 2005.) xv + 218 pp., illus., index.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. $45 (cloth);
$22.50 (paper). 195177347.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo 1633-1992.
xii+485pp. Bibl., index. Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 2005. 520242610.
Fischer-Cripps, A. C. The Mathematics Companion:
Essential and Advanced Mathematics for Scientists and
Engineers. v + 203 pp., Apps., index. Bristol: Institute of
Physics Publishing, Ltd., 2005. $17.00 (paper). 750310200.
Francastel, Pierre. Art and Technology in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries. Translated by Randall Cherry.
Foreword by Yve-Alain Bois. 336 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass.:
The MIT Press, 2003. $32, £20.95 (cloth) 1890951021.
Gardner, Martin. Martin Gardner’s Mathematical
Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American
Columns. Washington: The Mathematical Association of
America, 2005. $55 (DVD). 883855453.
Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The
Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. 387 pp., table, index.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. $26 (cloth). 674017145.
Glacken, Clarence J. Histoire de la pensée géographique.
III. Les Temps moderns (Xve-XVIIe siècle. Édité et présenté
par Ph. Pinchemel. 278 pp., bibl. Paris: Éditions du CTHS,
2005. 15 (paper). 2735505812.
Gontier, Thierry. Descartes et la Cuasa Sui:
Autoproduction divine, autodétermination hum-aine.
Philologie et Mercure. 220 pp., bibl. Index. Paris: Librairie
Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. 25 (paper). 2711617246.
Gough, Douglas (Editor). The Scientific Legacy of Fred
Hoyle. xv + 249 pp., illus., bibls., index. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). 521824486.
Granada, Miguel Ángel. La Reivindicación de la Filosofía
en Giordano Bruno. 285 pp., table, bibl., index. Barcelona:
Herder Editorial, S.L., 2005. 17,79 (paper). 8425423848.
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Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in
America. x + 349 pp., index. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2005. $19.95 (paper). 674017579.
Grootenboer, Hanneke. The Rhetoric of Perspective:
Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch
Still-Life Painting. xiii + 207 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 2005. $35 (cloth).
226309681.
Gundling, Tom. First in Line: Tracing Our Ape Ancestry.
xiii + 204 pp., apps., bibl., index. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2005. $25 (cloth). 300104146.
Halbwachs, Maurice; Sauvy, Alfred. Le Point de Vue
du Nombre 1936. vi + 469 pp., apps., tables., bibl., illus.,
indexes. Paris: Éditions de l’Institut national d’études démographiques,
2005. 48 (cloth). 2733210327.
Halioua, Bruno; Ziskind, Bernard. Medicine in the
Days of the Pharaohs. Forward by Donald B. Redford.
Translated by M. B. BeBevoise. Originally published in 2002. x
+ 276 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2005. $24.95 (cloth). 674017021.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Oceanographers and the Cold
War: Disciples of Marine Science. xxix+346pp. Bibl., index.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 295984821.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (Editor). Dictionary of Gnosis &
Western Exotericism. 2 Volumes. xxix + 1228 pp., indexes.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2005. $289, 289 (cloth). 9004141871.
Hashagen, Ulf; Keil-Slawik, Reinhard; Norberg,
Arthur (Editors). History of Computing: Software
Issues. International Conference on the History of
Computing. viii + 283 pp., table. New York: Springer-Verlag,
2002. $44.95 (cloth). 3540426647.
Hellyer, Marcus. Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural
Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. 392 pp., Notre Dame,
Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. $50.00 (cloth)
268030715.
Henderson, John. A Life of Ernest Starling. xvi + 227 pp.,
Illus., apps., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press,
2005. $59 (cloth). 195177800.
Hirai, Hiro. Le concept de semence dans les théories de la
matière à la Renaissance : de Marsile Ficin à Pierre
Gassendi. Collection of Studies from the International
Academy of the History of Science, 72.576pp. Apps., Bibl., Index.
Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2005. $69.00 (cloth).
2503515614.
Holton, Gerald. Victory and Vexation in Science:
Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others. xi + 229 pp., illus.,
index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. $35
(cloth). 0-674-01519-3.
Holtzmann Kevles, Bettyann. Almost Heaven: Women
on the Frontiers of Space. xiii + 274 pp., bibl., table., index.
New York: Basic Books, 2004. $25 (cloth). 738202096.
Hoßfeld, Uwe; Breidbach, Olaf. Haeckel-
Korrespondenz: Übersicht über den Breifbestand des ernst-
Haeckel-Archivs. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus-Studien. Monographien
zur Geschichte der Biowissenschaften und Medizin.xxi + 810
pp., bibl. Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2005. 98
(paper). 3861354896.
Hu, Danian. China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of
the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979. xiv +
257 pp., table, index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2005. $39 (cloth). 067401538X.
Huerta, Santiago. Arcos, bóvedas y cúpulas. Geometría
y equilibrio en el cálculo tradicional de estructuras de
fábrica. (Textos Sobre Teoría e Historia de las
Construcciones.) xiv + 623 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Madrid:
Instituto Juan de Herrera, 2004. 32 (cloth); 24 (paper).
8497281292.
Janiak, Andrew (Editor). Isaac Newton: Philosophical
Writings. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.)
xxxix + 148 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004. $60 (cloth); $23.99 (paper). 521538483.
Kaiser, David. Drawing Theories Apart: The
Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics.
xix + 469 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Chicago/London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. $80 (cloth); 30 (paper).
0-226-42266-6.
Kamil, Neil. Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics,
and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517-
1751. Early American History, Context, Culture. xxiv +
1058 pp., figs., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). 801873908.
Kay, W.D. Defining NASA: The Historical Debate Over the
Agency’s Mission. xii + 247 pp., index. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2005. $24 (paper). 791463826.
Keen, Robin. The Life and Work of Friedrich Wöhler
(1800-1882). Edited by Johannes Büttner. Edition Lewicki-
Büttner. Vol. 2. vi + 495 pp., apps., bibl., illus., indexes.
Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2005. 120
(cloth). 388309224X.
Keller, Olivier. The Paleolithique: Le Monde des
Chausseurs-Cueilleurs. Prehistoire des Sciences. 233pp.
Pref., Biblio., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2004. 2711753700.
Kelly, Cynthia C. (Editor). Remembering the
Manhattan Project: Perspectives on the Making of the
Atomic Bomb and its Legacy. xi + 188 pp., table, index.
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2004. $45
(hardcover). 9812560408.
Kloppenburg, Jr, Jack Ralph. The First Seed: The
Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology.xxii + 425 pp.,
tables, figs., bibl., index. Second Edition. Madison: The
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 029919244X.
Knell, Simon J. (Editor). Museums and the Future of
Collecting. vii + 266 pp., illus., figs., index. Second Edition.
Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. $34.95
(paper). 754630056.
Knocke, Melanie Melton. From Blue Moons to Black
Holes: A Basic Guide to Astronomy, Outer Space, and Space
Exploration. 313pp. Index. New York: Prometheus Books,
2005. 591022886.

Lang, Philippa (Editor). Re-inventions: Essays on
Hellenistic and Early Roman Science. vi + 135 pp., indexes.
Kelowna, B.C.: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005.
$64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). 0-920980-88-0.
Laurioux, Bruno. Une histoire culinaire du Moyen Âge.
Sciences, Techniques et Civilisations du Moyen Âge À L’Aube
des Lumières. Collection dirigée par Danielle Jacquart et
Claude Thomasset, 8. 476 pp., table, bibl., figs., illus., index.,
Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2005. 65 (clothe)
2745310852.
Lautrup, B. Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and
Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World. xiv + 608
pp., illus., bibl., index. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing,
2004. $45, £29.99 (paper). 750307528.
Leven, Karl-Heinz (Editor). Antike Medizin: Ein
Lexikon. xliv+966pp. Frontis., index. München: Verlag C. H.
Beck oHG, 2005. 3406528910.
Lloyd, Elisabeth A. The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias
in the Science of Evolution. 311 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2005. $27 (cloth). 674017064.
Macbeth, Danielle. Frege’s Logic. x + 206 pp., notes,
index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. $45 (cloth).
674017072.
Maio, Marcos Chor (Editor). Ciência, Política e
Relações Internacionais: Ensaios sobre Paulo Carneiro.
340 pp., bibl., index, photographs. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de
Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz and UNESCO, 2004. $20 (paper) .
Manuel, Diana E. (Editor). Walking the Paris Hospitals:
Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835. xii +
211 pp., tables, illus., bibl., index. London: The Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004. $50
(cloth). 854840745.
Martin, Geoffrey J. All Possible Worlds: A History of
Geographical Ideas. 4th ed. xvi+ 605 pp. Figs., index. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005. $80 (cloth). 0-19-516870-4.
McLoughlin, Catherine; Taji, Acram (Editors).
Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered Approaches.
xx+228pp. Intro., Index. New York: Food Products Press,
2005. 1560222646.
McTavish, Lianne. Childbirth and the Display of
Authority in Early Modern France. Woman and Gender in
the Early Modern World. xiv + 257 pp., figs., bibl., index.
Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. $79.95
(cloth). 754636194.
Nagy, Joseph Falaky; Jones, Leslie Ellen
(Editors). Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic
Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford. 416 pp., bibl.,
index. Portland: Four Courts Press, 2005. $85 (cloth).
1851828494.
Nester, Eugene; Gordon, Milton P.; Kerr, Allan
(Editors). Agrobacterium tumefaciens: From Plant
Pathology to Biotechnology. xiv + 320 pp., illus., figs., bibls.,
St. Paul: The American Phytopathological Society, 2005.
$119.00 (hardcover). 890543224.
Park, David. The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth,
Number, and Chance. xi+325pp. Illus., Bibl., Index.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005.
$29.95 (cloth). 691121338.
Pedley, Mary Sponberg. The Commerce of Cartography:
Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century
France and England. xv + 345 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. $40
(cloth). 0-226-6541-2.
Phillips, Helen (Editor). Robin Hood: Medieval and
Post-Medieval. 197 pp., app., index. Portland: Four Courts
Press, 2005. $65 (cloth). 1851829318.
Pighetti, Clelia. Il Vuoto e la Quiete: Scienza e mistica
nel ‘600 Elena Cornaro e Carlo Rinaldini. 142pp. Bibl.,
index. Milano Italy: FrancoAngeli s.r.l., 2005. 8846463331.
Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental
Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago.
xvi + 628 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of
Chicago Press, 2005. $49 (cloth). 0-226-6707607.
Popov, I. Orthogenesis versus Darwinism: A historical
Issue [In Russian]. 202 pp., bibl., index. Saint-Petersburg:
Saint-Petersburg State University, 2005 5-288-03597-0.
Porter, Jean. Nature as Reason: A Thomist Theory of the
Natural Law. xii + 420 pp. Bibl., indexes. Grand Rapids.:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co , January 2005. $32 (paper).
0-8028-4906-7.
Preston, Claire. Thomas Browne and the Writing of
Early Modern Science. xiv + 250 pp., illus., bibl., index. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).
521837944.
Pursell, Carroll (Editor). A Companion to American
Technology. (Blackwell Companions To American History.)
x+463 pp., bibls., index. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing,
2005. $134 (cloth). 631228446.
History of Science Society Newsletter July 2005
Rhys Morus, Iwan. When Physics Became King. xii + 303 pp.,
table, illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2005. $25, £17 (paper). 226542025.
Riedweg, Christian C. Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching,
and Influence. xi + 184 pp., Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2005. $29.95 (cloth). 801442400.
Rozwadowski, Helen M. Fathoming the Ocean: The
Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Foreword by
Sylvia A. Earle.xii+276pp. Index. Cambridge: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 674016912.
Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber; Rudolph, Lloyd I.;
Kanota, Mohan Singh (Editors). Reversing the Gaze:
Amar Singh’s Diary, A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of
Imperial India. xii + 633 pp., illus., apps., indexes. Boulder:
Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2002.
$40 (cloth). 813336260.
Rudwick, Martin J. S. Lyell and Darwin, Geologists:
Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution.
(Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xviii + 316 pp., illus.,
index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2004. $111.95
(cloth). 860789586.
Ruse, Michael. The Evolution-Creation Struggle. 327 pp.,
bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
$25.95 (cloth). 0-674-01687-4.
Saikku, Mikko. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental
History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. xvii + 373pp.,
illus., tables, bibl., index. London/Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2005. $54.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). 820326739.
Saraiva, Luis; Leitao, Henrique (Editors). The
Practice of Mathematics in Portugal (Papers from the
International Meeting held at Obidos, 16-18 November
2000). xiii+758pp. Apps.Portugal: Imprensa da
Universidade de Coimbra, 2004. 9728704380.
Schirrmeister, Albert (Editor). Zergliederungen -
Anatomie und Wahrnehmung in der Frühen Neuzeit. 363
pp., Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2005. 61
(paper). 3465033833.
Schulkin, Jay. Curt Richter: A Life in the Laboratory.
xii+185pp. Index. Baltimore and London: The John’s Hopkins
University Press, 2005. $49 (cloth). 801880734.
Scull, Andrew. Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of
Megalomania and Modern Medicine. xiii+360pp. Illus.,
Index. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.
$30 (cloth). 300107293.
Morrell, Jack. John Phillips and the Business of Victorian
Science. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) xix +
437 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2005. $109.95 (cloth). 1840142391.
Morton, Leslie T.; Moore, Robert J. A Bibliography of
Medical and Biomedical Biography Third Edtion. ix+425pp.
Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 754650693.
Naddaf, Gerard. The Greek Concept of Nature. (SUNY Series in
Ancient Greek Philosophy.) x + 265 pp., bibl., indexes. Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press, 2005. $70 (cloth). 791463737.
Rapport, Richard. Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the
Synapse. 240 pp., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 2005. $23.95 (cloth). 393060195.
Ravage, Barbara. Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the
Flames. xvii + 302 pp., index. Cambridge: Da Capo Press,
2004. $16 (paper). 306814196.
Restivo, Sal (Editor). Science, Technology, and
Society: An Encyclopedia. xxiv + 701 pp., bibl., index. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005. $150 (cloth).
195141938.
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HSS Election
Results
The results of the 2005 election appear below. We
extend a warm thank you to all the candidates and
congratulate those who will be serving the HSS. We
also wish to thank the members of the Nominating
Committee (Cathryn Carson, James Fleming, Anita
Guerrini (chair), Lynn Nyhart, and Jim Secord).
Their efforts are much appreciated.
Vice President
(Term: 1 Jan. 2006 to 31 Dec. 2007)
Jane Maienschein
HSS Council
(Term: 1 Jan. 2006 to 31 Dec. 2008)
Ken Alder
Katherine Pandora
Marsha Richmond
Alan Rocke
James Strick
Nominating Committee at large
(Term: 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006)
Robert Kohler
Pamela Mack
Lawrence Principe
Nominating Committee from Council
(Term: 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006)
Bruce Hunt
Diane Paul
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