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

360. NINETEENTH CENTURY
360-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
1942. BISWAS, Arun Kumar. Father Eugene Lafont
of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and the Contemporary
Science Movement. Monograph Series, 33.
(xxviii + 331 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Kolkata: Asiatic
Society, 2001. ISBN: 8172361041.
1943. BOWKER, Geoffrey C. Memory Practices in
the Sciences. Inside Technology. (xi + 261 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0262025892.
On the way that the storage and retrieval of information has
converged with the production of scientific knowledge since
about 1800.
1944. BROCK, Claire. “The Public Worth of Mary
Somerville.” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 39 (2006): 255–272.
1945. BROWNE, Janet. “Presidential Address Commemorating
Darwin.” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 38 (2005):
251–274.
Explores Darwin’s fame and the ideologies of a scientific
hero.
1946. CHAPMAN, Allan. Mary Somerville and the
World of Science. (xv + 157 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Bristol: Canopus, 2004. ISBN: 0953786846.
1947. CROSLAND, Maurice. “A Science Empire in
Napoleonic France.” Hist. Sci. 44 (2006): 29–48.
1948. D’AGOSTINO, Salvo, and Arcangelo ROSSI.
“Introduzione.” Special Issue: Giovanni Giorgi nella
realtà del suo tempo. Physis 41 (2004): 309–317.
Contents: DE ROSA [ref. 2594]; MAIOCCHI [ref. 2684];
SCHETTINO [ref. 2043]; DRAGONI [ref. 2141]; LESCHIUTTA
[ref. 2039]; MORANDO [ref. 2152]; GUIDONE [ref. 2847];
Claudio EGIDI, “Giovanni Giorgi la metrologia dell’elettromagnetismo
e il Regio Istituto Industriale di Fermo,”
471–474.
1949. DHUMATKAR, Abhidha S. “Balaji Prabhakar
Modak—A Nineteenth Century Science Propagator
in Maharashtra.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 39 (2004):
307–334.
1950. DONG Guicheng. “Tentative Discussion on the
Understanding of Reformists about the Development
of Science and Technology.” [Translated title.] In
Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 60–71.
On the Chinese Reform Movement of 1898 and its understanding
of science and technology in the context of
Westernization.
1951. GEISON, Gerald. A ciencia particular de
Louis Pasteur. Translated from the English by
Vera RIBEIRO. (455 pp.; ilus.; tab.; bibl.; index.)
Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto/Fiocruz, 2002. ISBN:
8585910461.
Portuguese translation of Gerald L. GEISON, The Private
Science of Louis Pasteur (1995).
1952. HAMILTON, James. A Life of Discovery:
Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution.
(xxii + 465 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Random
House, 2002. ISBN: 1400060168.
1953. NOMURA Masao. “Finding a Dutch Science
Book as a Crucial Source of Kyuri-tsū Written in
Yedo Era.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002): 193–202.
On an early 19th-century textbook.
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1954. PHILLIPS, Allison Denise. “Building a Natural
Scientific Age: Science and Public Culture in Germany,
1770–1850.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/10 (2005):
3953.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2004. Adviser: Mendelsohn,
Everett. UMI pub. no. 3149585. 518 pp. “Traces
the history of the modern German word Naturwissenschaft.”
(from the abstract)
1955. SIRCAR, Mahendralal, and Eugene LAFONT.
Collected Works of Mahendralal Sircar, Eugene Lafont,
and the Science Movement, 1860–1910. Compiled
and edited by Arun Kumar BISWAS. (xxviii +
620 pp.; bibl.) Kolkata: Asiatic Society, 2003. ISBN:
8172361491.
1956. SNART, Jason. “Blake’s Awareness of ‘Blake
in a Newtonian World’: William Blake, Isaac Newton,
and Writing on Metal.” Hist. Europ. Ideas 31 (2005):
237–249.
On the contrast, established by Blake himself, between
Newton as systematizer and Blake as visionary, as well as
their similarities.
1957. SUGAWARA Kunika. “A Study of Abridged
Translations in Seimi Kaiso from Gt. Nieuwenhuis’s
Original Dutch Encyclopedia, Algemeen Woordenboek.”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken.
(Hist. Sci.) 42 (2003): 40–48.
1958. WATANABE Yoshiaki. “Visiting Justus von
Liebig’s Footsteps on the Two Hundredth Anniversary
of His Birth.” [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Kagakushi Ken. (Chem.) 32 (2005): 176–180.
360-2. NATIONAL CONTEXTS
1959. JANKO, Jan. “Böhmische Naturwissenschaft
und Naturphilosophie in der ersten Hälfte des 19.
Jahrhunderts.” In KANT and VOGT [ref. 17], 143–
163.
360-3. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
1960. JAMES, William. The Correspondence of
William James, Volumes 1–12. Edited by Ignas
K. SKRUPSKELIS, Elizabeth M. BERKELEY, and
Henry JAMES. (12 v.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Charlottesville:
Univ. Press of Virginia, 1992–2004.
ISBN: 0813923182.
360-12. STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC AND VISUAL
ASPECTS OF SCIENCE
1961. CROZET, Pascal, and Annick HORIUCHI.
(Eds.) Traduire, Transposer, Naturaliser: La formation
d’une langue scientifique moderne hors des
frontieres de l’Europe au XIX e siècle. (xxx + 262 pp.;
bibl.) Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004. ISBN: 2747561488.
Contents: MÉTAILIÉ [ref. 1856]; KURIYAMA [ref. 824]; HO-
RIUCHI [ref. 752]; MACÉ [ref. 2485]; RINGGER [ref. 2573];
BRÉARD [ref. 2081]; WRIGHT [ref. 2194]; CROZET
[ref. 2089]; GÜNERGUN [ref. 2168]; HABIB [ref. 850].
1962. SCHULZE, Elke. “Zeichnung und Fotografie
- Statusfragen: Universitäres Zeichnen und naturwissenschaftliche
Bildfindung.” Part of a special issue:
Fotografie und Wissenschaft [ref. 2602]. Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch.
28 (2005): 151–159.
1963. TUCKER, Jennifer. Nature Exposed: Photography
as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. (ix + 294
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0801879914.