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

90 350. Eighteenth century
350-122. NATURAL HISTORY
1834. IANNINI, Christopher Paul. “Fatal Revolutions:
United States Natural Histories of the Greater
Caribbean, 1707–1856.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04
(2004): 1370.
Dissertation at City University of New York, 2004. Adviser:
William Kelly. UMI pub. no. 3127882. 315 pp.
1835. LEWIS, Andrew J. “A Democracy of Facts, An
Empire of Reason: Swallow Submersion and Natural
History in the Early American Republic.” William
Mary Quart. 62 (2005): 663–696.
1836. MAERKER, Anna. “The Tale of the
Hermaphrodite Monkey: Classification, State Interests
and Natural Historical Expertise between Museum
and Court, 1791–4.” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 39
(2006): 29–47.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany had a monkey evaluated by
Giovanni Fabbroni at the Royal Museum.
1837. PICK, Cecilia Mary. “Rhetoric of the Author
Presentation: The Case of Maria Sibylla Merian.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65 (2005): 3818.
Dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Adviser: Hess, Peter A. UMI pub. no. 3150920. 363 pp.
1838. RIEKE-MÜLLER, Annelore. “Von der lebendigen
Kunstkammer zur Liebhaberei. Fürstliche Menagerien
im deutschsprachigen Raum während des 18.
Jahrhunderts.” In DASTON and POMATA [ref. 1675],
137–161.
1839. ROOKMAAKER, L. C., P. A. MORRIS, I. E.
GLENN, and P. J. MUNDY. “The Ornithological
Cabinet of Jean-Baptiste Bécoeur and the Secret of
the Arsenical Soap.” Arch. Natur. Hist. 33 (2006):
146–158.
1840. SIEMER, Stefan. Geselligkeit und Methode:
Naturgeschichtliches Sammeln im 18. Jahrhundert.
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische
Geschichte Mainz, 192. (vii + 402 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Mainz: Von Zabern, 2005. ISBN: 3805329954.
1841. SPARY, Emma. “Forging Nature at the Republican
Muséum.” In DASTON and POMATA [ref. 1675],
163–180.
1842. VANE-WRIGHT, R. I., and H. W .D. HUGHES.
The Seymer Legacy: Henry Seymer and Henry Seymer
Jnr of Dorset and Their Entomological Paintings,
with a Catalogue of Butterflies and Plants (1755–
1783). (x + 320 pp.; ill.) Cardigan, UK: Forest Text,
2005. ISBN: 0955074037.
Reviews: [ref. R937]
350-123. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
1843. JUDD, Richard W. “A ‘Wonderfull Order and
Ballance’: Natural History and the Beginnings of Forest
Conservation in America, 1730–1830.” Environ.
Hist. 11 (2006): 8–36.
1844. PORTER, Roy. “The Environment and the Enlightenment:
The English Experience.” In DASTON
and POMATA [ref. 1675], 17–38.
350-124. PALEONTOLOGY
1845. CUNNINGHAM, Michael Doucette. “Seashells
on the Mountains: Antonio Vallisneri, Fossils, and
the Republic of Letters.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/06
(2005): 2363.
Dissertation at the University of Connecticut, 2005. Advisers:
Davis, John A., and Shirley A. Roe. UMI pub. no. 3180195.
215 pp.
1846. STILWELL, Jeffrey D. “Trilobites and Linnaeus:
The First Fossil Reconstruction from 1759.”
Arch. Natur. Hist. 33 (2006): 101–108.
350-130. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL
1847. CHEUNG, Tobias. “Charles Bonnets allgemeine
Systemtheorie organismischer Ordnung.” Hist.
Phil. Life Sci. 26 (2004): 177–207.
1848. CHEUNG, Tobias. “The Hidden Order of
Preformation: Plans, Functions, and Hierarchies in
the Organic Systems of Louis Bourguet, Charles
Bonnet and Georges Cuvier.” Early Sci. Med. 11
(2006): 11–49.
1849. HALLER, Albrecht von. Commentarius de
formatione cordis in ovo incubato. Edizione critica
a cura di Maria Teresa MONTI. Traduzione inglese,
Helen TOOKE. Studia Halleriana, 6. (clxxvii + 677
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index; 1 CD-ROM.) Basel: Schwabe,
2000. ISBN: 3796513247.
Reprint of Haller’s manuscript with accompanying commentary.
Manuscript in Latin; foreword, introduction, and
preface in both Italian and English; footnotes, bibliography
and indexes in Italian.
1850. KREINES, James. “The Inexplicability of
Kant’s Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation
and Biology.” Arch. Gesch. Phil. 87 (2005): 270–311.
1851. MONTI, Maria Teresa. “Le ‘réseau’ de
Spallanzani. Circulation de théories, procédures et
spécimens.” Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 26 (2004): 137–155.
1852. MONTI, Maria Teresa, and Marc RATCLIFF.
(Eds.) Figure dell’invisibilità: le scienze della vita
nell’Italia d’antico regime. Biblioteca di Nuncius,
Studi e testi, 54. (xxi + 303 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Firenze:
Leo S. Olschki, 2004. ISBN: 8822253744.
From symposium papers given in Milan and Geneva from
November 2002 to June 2003.
350-131. BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE
1853. DE VOS, Paula. “An Herbal El Dorado: The
Quest for Botanical Wealth in the Spanish Empire.”
Endeavour 27 (2003): 117–121.
1854. HALLOCK, Thomas. “Male Pleasure and the
Genders of Eighteenth-Century Botanic Exchange:
A Garden Tour.” William Mary Quart. 62 (2005):
697–718.
1855. HOFFMANN, Nancy E., and John C. Van
HORNE. (Eds.) America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial
Reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699–1777.
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 249.
(xxvii + 227 pp.; ill.; index.) Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 2004. ISBN: 087169249X.
Contents (from WorldCat): Alan W. ARMSTRONG, “John
Bartram and Peter Collinson: A Correspondence of Science
and Friendship”; Gene KRITSKY, “John Bartram and
the Periodical Cicadas: A Case Study”; Crystal A. POLIS
and Robert E. SAVAGE, “Calming John Bartram’s Passion:
Sweden’s Scientific Certification of Philadelphia’s Botanist”;
Stephanie VOLMER, “‘Taste,’ ‘Curiosity,’ and the Letters
of John Bartram and Peter Collinson”; Kathryn E. Holland
BRAUND, “‘The Congress Held in a Pavilion’: John Bartram
and the Indian Congress at Fort Picolata, East Florida”;
William H. GOETZMANN, “John Bartram’s Journey to