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

Introductory matter in Portuguese. Text in French, Portuguese,
and English.
1816. DESPOIX, Philippe. Le monde mesuré : dispositifs
de l’exploration à l’âge des Lumières. Bibliothèque
des Lumières, 67. (271 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Genève: Librarie Droz, 2005. ISBN:
2600010130.
1817. DRIVER, Felix, and Luciana MARTINS. (Eds.)
Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. (xii + 279 pp.;
ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0226164713.
Contents: Luciana MARTINS and Felix DRIVER, “Views and
Visions of the Tropical World,” 3–20; Claudio GREPPI, “ ‘On
the Spot’: Traveling Artists and the Iconographic Inventory
of the World, 1769–1859,” 23–42; Michael DETTELBACH,
“The Stimulations of Travel: Humboldt’s Physiological
Construction of the Tropics,” 43–58; Felix DRIVER and
Luciana MARTINS, “ ‘The Struggle for Luxuriance’: William
Burchell Collects Tropical Nature,” 59–74; Peter HULME,
“Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical Islands Compared,” 77–
90; Felix DRIVER and Starr DOUGLAS, “Imagining the
Tropical Colony: Henry Smeathman and the Termites of
Sierra Leone,” 91–112; D. Graham BURNETT, “Matthew
Fontaine Maury’s ‘Sea of Fire’: Hydrography, Biogeography,
and Providence in the Tropics,” 113–134; David ARNOLD,
“Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the
Himalayas, 1848–1850,” 137–155; Leonard BELL, “Eyeing
Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” 156–174;
Rod EDMOND, “Returning Fears: Tropical Disease and
the Metropolis,” 175–194; Denis COSGROVE, “Tropic and
Tropicality,” 197–216.
1818. FARA, Patricia. “Joseph Banks: Pacific Pictures.”
Endeavour 27 (2003): 110–112.
1819. FINNIS, Bill. Captain James Cook: Seaman
and Scientist. (252 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
London: Chaucer Press, 2003. ISBN: 190444914X.
1820. GRIFFIN-SHORT, Rita. “The Ancient Mariner
and the Transit of Venus.” Endeavour 27 (2003):
175–179.
On William Wales and his 1796 expedition to Canada to
observe the transit.
1821. HEFFERNAN, Michael. “Edme Mentelle’s
Geographies and the French Revolution.” In LIVING-
STONE and WITHERS [ref. 414], 273–303.
1822. KRISTENSEN, L. Kahl. “Wessel as a Cartographer.”
In LÜTZEN [ref. 1754], 81–98.
1823. LIVINGSTONE, David N. “ ‘Risen into Empire’:
Moral Geographies of the American Republic.”
In LIVINGSTONE and WITHERS [ref. 414], 304–335.
1824. MARCHAND, Etienne. Journal de bord
d’Etienne Marchand: le voyage du Solide autour
du monde, 1790–1792. Edited by Odile GANNIER
and Cécile PICQUOIN. Géographie, 3. (2 vol., 599
pp.; ill.; maps; index.) Paris: CTHS, 2005. ISBN:
2735505952.
1825. OGBORN, Miles. Spaces of Modernity: London’s
Geographies, 1680–1780. (xi + 340 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) New York: Guilford Press, 1998. ISBN:
1572303433.
1826. PÁLSSON, Sveinn. Draft of a Physical, Geographical,
and Historical Description of Icelandic
Ice Mountains on the Basis of a Journey to the Most
Prominent of Them in 1792–1794 with Four Maps
350. Eighteenth century 89
and Eight Perspective Drawings. Edited by Richard
S. WILLIAMS, Jr. and Oddur SIGURðSSON. (xxxvi +
183 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) Reykjavik: Icelandic
Literary Society, 2004. ISBN: 9979661461.
Reviews: [ref. R695]
1827. PAPP, Júlia. “The Catalogue of Bernhard Paul
Moll (1697–1780) and His Atlas Hungaricus.” Imago
Mundi 57 (2005): 185–194.
1828. PEDLEY, Mary Sponberg. The Commerce
of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in
Eighteenth-Century France and England. The Kenneth
Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography.
(xv + 354 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN:
0226653412.
Reviews: [ref. R707]
1829. QUILLEY, Geoff, and John BONEHILL. (Eds.)
William Hodges, 1744–1797: The Art of Exploration.
(viii + 212 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.) New
Haven, Conn.; London: Yale Univ. Press for the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004. ISBN:
0948065583.
Catalogue to the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, 5 July–21 November 2004, and the Yale
Center for British Art, New Haven, 27 January–24 April
2005. Reviews: [ref. R739]
1830. STELLER, Georg Wilhelm. Briefe und Dokumente,
1740. Edited by Wieland HINTZSCHE,
Thomas NICKOL, and Olag Vladimirovna
NOVOCHATKO. Quellen zur Geschichte Sibiriens
und Alaskas aus russischen Archiven, 1. (xxxvi +
387 pp.; bibl.; index.) Halle: Verlag Franckesche
Stiftungen zu Halle, 2000. ISBN: 3930195615.
1831. STELLER, Georg Wilhelm, Stepan KRAS-
ENINNIKOV, and Johann Eberhard FISCHER. Reisetagebücher
1735 bis 1743. Quellen zur Geschichte
Sibiriens und Alaskas aus russischen Archiven, 2.
(xxxix + 627 pp.) Halle: Franckesche Stiftungen,
2000. ISBN: 393019564X.
1832. WARNER, Deborah Jean. “Stadia Surveying
Comes to the United States.” Rittenhouse 16 (2002):
15–26.
1833. WILLIAMS, Glyndwr. (Ed.) Captain Cook:
Explorations and Reassessments. Regions and regionalism
in history. (xiii + 266 pp.; ill.; bibl.; maps;
index.) Woodbridge, UK : Boydell Press, 2004. ISBN:
1843831007.
Abbreviated contents (From WorldCat): Richard ALLEN,
“James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers”; Rosalin
BARKER, “Whitby’s Eighteenth-Century Merchant Fleet”;
Daniel CLAYTON, “Captain Cook’s Command of Knowledge
and Space: Chronicles from Nootka Sound”; Andrew
COOK, “James Cook and the Royal Society”; Robin IN-
GLIS, “Successors and Rivals to Cook: The French and the
Spaniards”; Pauline Nawahineokala’i KING, “On Native
Hawaiian Attitudes Towards Captain Cook”; Andrew LAM-
BERT, “ ‘Extreme History’, Hard Tack and Scurvy”; Stuart
MURRAY, “Textuality and Authority at the Endeavour River,
June to August 1770”; John ROBSON, “A Comparison of the
Charts Produced during the Pacific Voyages of Louis-Antoine
de Bougainville and James Cook”; Anne SALMOND, “The
Impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook”; Sujit SIVASUN-
DARAM, “The Martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and
the Revd John Williams”; Simon WERRETT, “Responses to
Cook in Russia”; Glyndwr WILLIAMS, “Reassessing Captain
Cook”. Reviews: [ref. R987]