Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

1625. WITHERS, Charles W. J. “Geography, Science,
and the Scientific Revolution.” In LIVINGSTONE and
WITHERS [ref. 414], 75–105.
1626. YAMADA Toshihiro. “Bernhard Varen’s Geographia
Generalis (1650) and Seventeenth-Century
Theories of the Earth.” [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43 (2004): 1–12.
340-122. NATURAL HISTORY
1627. PARRISH, Susan Scott. American Curiosity:
Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British
Atlantic World. (xvi + 321 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0807830097.
1628. SPARY, E. C. “Pierre Pomet’s Parisian Cabinet:
Revisiting the Invisible and the Visible in Early
Modern Collections.” In From Private to Public,
edited by Marco BERETTA (Sagamore Beach, Mass.:
Science History Publications, 2005), 59–80.
340-123. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
1629. MILLER, Shawn William. Fruitless Trees:
Portuguese Conservation and Brazil’s Colonial Timber.
(xiii + 325 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.) Stanford:
Stanford Univ. Press, 2000. ISBN: 0804733961.
Concerns forestry practices in colonial Brazil from about
1650 to 1850.
340-131. BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE
1630. HOPPE, Brigitte. “Kaempfers Forschungen
über japanische Pflanzen im Vergleich zu denen seiner
Vorgänger - Vom Sammeln zur wissenschaftlichen
Bearbeitung.” In HABERLAND [ref. 1424], 125–153.
340-132. ZOOLOGY, ANATOMY, AND
PHYSIOLOGY
1631. ALLCHIN, Douglas. “Why Respect for
History—and Historical Error—Matters.” Sci. and
Educ. 15 (2006): 91–111.
Case study of Harvey’s and Malpighi’s views on capillaries.
1632. ASÚA, Miguel de, and Roger FRENCH. A New
World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the
Creatures of Iberian America. (xvi + 257 pp.; ill.;
maps; bibl.; index.) Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing,
2005. ISBN: 0754607798.
1633. BIRKHEAD, T. R., E. BUTTERWORTH, and S.
van BALEN. “A Recently Discovered Seventeenth
Century French Encylopaedia of Ornithology.” Arch.
Natur. Hist. 33 (2006): 109–134.
340-134. MICROBIOLOGY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
1634. GEST, Howard. “The Remarkable Vision of
Robert Hooke (1635–1703): First Observer of the
Microbial World.” Perspect. Biol. Med. 48 (2005):
266–272.
1635. HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia. Commentary
by Brian J. FORD. Octavo Digital Editions. (1
CD-ROM.) Oakland, Calif.: Octavo, 2003. ISBN:
1891788027.
Digital images of each page in the original book. Reviews:
[ref. R434]
340. Seventeenth century 81
340-136. NEUROSCIENCES
1636. ARIKHA, Noga. “Form and Function in the
Early Enlightenment.” Perspect. Sci. 14 (2006):
153–188.
Examines attempts to map the seat of the soul during the
scientific revolution; focuses on Nicolaus Steno, Claude
Perrault and Thomas Willis.
1637. GOODEY, C. F. “Blockheads, Roundheads,
Pointy Heads: Intellectual Disability and the Brain
before Modern Medicine.” J. Hist. Behav. Sci. 41
(2005): 165–183.
1638. WADE, Nicholas J. “Vision and the Dimensions
of Nerve Fibers.” J. Hist. Neurosci. 14 (2005):
281–294.
340-137. PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE
PSYCHOLOGY
1639. ATHERTON, Margaret. “Descartes among
the British: The Case of the Theory of Vision.” In
SCHMALTZ [ref. 1526], 218–234.
1640. JUDOVITZ, Dalia. “Spiritual Passion and the
Betrayal of Painting in Georges de la Tour.” In GOUK
and HILLS [ref. 509], 109–122.
340-150. MEDICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL
1641. ARNI, Eric Gruber von. Hospital Care and
the British Standing Army, 1660–1714. The History
of Medicine in Context. (xviii + 226 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. ISBN:
075465463X.
1642. BOOTH, Emily. “A Subtle and Mysterious
Machine”: The Medical World of Walter Charleton
(1619–1707). Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science. (vii + 297 pp.; bibl.) Dordrecht: Springer,
2005. ISBN: 140203377X.
1643. BURY, Emmanuel. “Les lieux de
l’argumentation dans les discours médicaux du XVII e
siècle.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 35–54.
1644. CHANG, Ku-ming. “Motus Tonicus: Georg
Ernst Stahl’s Formulation of Tonic Motion and Early
Modern Medical Thought.” Bull. Hist. Med. 78
(2004): 767–803.
1645. CHURCHILL, Wendy D. “Bodily Differences?:
Gender, Race, and Class in Hans Sloane’s Jamaican
Medical Practice, 1687–1688.” J. Hist. Med. Allied
Sci. 60 (2005): 391–444.
1646. CHURCHILL, Wendy D. “Female Complaints:
The Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of British
Women, 1590–1740.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/10
(2006): 3772.
Dissertation at McMaster University (Canada), 2005. UMI
pub. no. NR07891. 291 pp.
1647. CRIGNON-DE OLIVEIRA, Claire. “La
mélancolie entre médecine et religion : d’une pathologie
des comportements religieux à une pratique
pathologique de la religion.” Theme issue: Melancholy
and Material Unity of Man, 17th–18th Centuries
[ref. 1648]. Gesnerus 63 (2006): 46–60.
1648. CRIGNON-DE OLIVEIRA, Claire, and Mariana
SAAD. “La mélancolie et l’unité matérielle de
l’homme - XVII e et XVIII e siècles : Introduction.”
Lead article of a theme issue: Melancholy and Material
Unity of Man, 17th–18th Centuries. Gesnerus 63
(2006): 6–11.