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

BATIST; J. P. HENRIET; A. CLARKE; C. de BROYER; T.
KUYKEN
2229. CRAIB, Raymond B. Cartographic Mexico: A
History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes.
Latin America otherwise. (xviii + 300 pp.; ill.; maps;
bibl.; index.) Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0822334054.
Reviews: [ref. R177]
2230. GLASSMAN, Steve. On the Trail of the Maya
Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd
Stephens. (xii + 283 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
Tuscaloosa, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0817313036.
Reviews: [ref. R346]
2231. GODLEWSKA, Anne, Marcus R.
LÉTOURNEAU, and Paul SCHAUERTE. “Maps, Painting
and Lies Portraying Napoleon’s Battlefields in
Northern Italy.” Imago Mundi 57 (2005): 149–163.
2232. GOODMAN, Jordan. “Losing It in New
Guinea: The Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake.” Endeavour
29 (2005): 60–65.
2233. GOODMAN, Jordan. The Rattlesnake: A Voyage
of Discovery to the Coral Sea. (x + 357 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) London: Faber and Faber, 2005. ISBN:
0571210732.
Reviews: [ref. R358]
2234. HARDMAN, Francisco Foot, and Lorelai
KURY. “Nos confins da civilização: Algumas
histórias brasileiras de Hercule Florence.” Translated
title: [At the edges of civilization: Some Brazilian
stories, by Hercule Florence.] In Portuguese.
Manguinhos 11 (2004): 385–409.
Includes transcription in French and a Portuguese translation
with commentary.
2235. KENNEDY, Dane Keith. The Highly Civilized
Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World. (354
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0674018621.
2236. KWA, Chunglin. “Alexander von Humboldt’s
Invention of the Natural Landscape.” Eur. Legacy 10,
no. 2 (2005): 149–162.
“Humboldt projected painted landscapes on nature and found
its ecological unity.” (from the abstract)
2237. LAMM, Kimberly. “Reinventing Empire, Celebrating
Commerce: Two Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
Exhibitions.” Amer. Quart. 58 (2006): 181–203.
2238. LEWIS, Darrell. “The Fate of Leichhardt.”
Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci. 17 (2006): 1–30.
Details the exploration of Australia by German scientist
Ludwig Leichhardt.
2239. POOLE, Robert. Explorers House: National
Geographic and the World It Made. (357 pp.; ill.;
index.) London: Penguin Books, 2004. ISBN:
1594200327.
2240. RAMASWAMY, Sumathi. The Lost Land of
Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories.
(xvii + 334 pp.; maps; bibl.; index.) Berkeley:
Univ. of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 0520240324.
Explores this mythological place in 19th-century science,
Euro-American occultism, and colonial and postcolonial
India. Focuses on the notion of loss of and its central place in
modernity.
2241. REYNOLDS, William. Private Journal of
William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expe-
360. Nineteenth century 107
dition, 1838–1842. Edited by Nathaniel PHILBRICK
and Thomas PHILBRICK. Penguin Classics. (xvi +
334 pp.; bibl.) London: Penguin Books, 2004. ISBN:
0143039059.
2242. RONDA, James P., and Nancy Tystad KOUPAL.
(Eds.) Finding Lewis and Clark: Old Trails, New
Directions. (xiii + 212 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press,
2004. ISBN: 0971517193.
Contents: James P. RONDA, “Journeys—The Shaping of
America,” 1-9; W. Raymond WOOD, “Tribal Relations on the
Upper Missouri River before Lewis and Clark,” 10-24; Peter
J. KASTOR, “Gateways and Guardians: Lewis and Clark
and the Louisiana Purchase,” 25-44; William E. FOLEY,
“In Search of the Historical William Clark,” 45-57; Robert
McCracken PECK, “ ‘To acquire what knolege you can’: The
Scientific Contributions of Lewis and Clark,” 58-79; Joni
L. KINSEY, “ ‘I wished for the pencil of Salvator Rosa”:
The Artistic Legacy of Lewis and Clark,” 80-113; Richard
W. ETULAIN, “Telling Lewis and Clark Stories: Historical
Novelists as Storytellers,” 114-133; Greg MAC GREGOR,
“Photographing the Lewis and Clark Route of Discovery,”
134-151; Joseph A. MUSSULMAN, “Over, Above, and Beyond:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition as Hyperhistory,”
152-158; Robert J. MYERS, “Using Inquiry to Engage History
Students: The Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project,”
159-173; Elliott WEST, “Finding Lewis and Clark by Stepping
Away,” 174-190.
2243. RUPKE, Nicolaas. “Alexander von Humboldt
and Revolution: A Geography of Reception of the
Varnhagen von Ense Correspondence.” In LIVING-
STONE and WITHERS [ref. 414], 336–350.
2244. RYAN, James R. “Photography, Visual Revolutions,
and Victorian Geography.” In LIVINGSTONE
and WITHERS [ref. 414], 199–238.
2245. SACHS, Aaron Jacob. “The Humboldt Current:
Avant-Garde Exploration and Environmental Thought
in 19th-Century America.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/11
(2005): 4325.
Dissertation at Yale University, 2004. Adviser: Faragher,
John Mack. UMI pub. no. 3152980. 691 pp.
2246. SANTOS, Fabiane Vinente dos. “ ‘Brincos
de ouro, saias de chita’: mulher e civilização na
Amazônia segundo Elizabeth Agassiz em Viagem
ao Brasil (1865–1866).” Translated title: [“Gold
earrings, calico skirts”: images of women and their
role in the project to civilize the Amazon, as observed
by Elizabeth Agassiz in Viagem ao Brasil: 1865–
1866.] In Portuguese. Manguinhos 12 (2005): 11–32.
2247. SCHÄFER-WEISS, Dorothea, and Jens
VERSEMANN. “The Influence of Goethe’s Farbenlehre
on Early Geological Map Colouring: Goethe’s
Contribution to Christian Keferstein’s General Charte
von Teutschland (1821).” Imago Mundi 57 (2005):
164–184.
2248. SCHWARTZ, Joan W., and James R. RYAN.
(Eds.) Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical
Imagination. (xiv + 354 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) London: Tauris, 2003. ISBN: 1860647529.
Includes (from WorldCat): David E. NYE, “Visualizing
Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon”;
Derek GREGORY, “Emperors of the Gaze: Photographic
Practices and Productions of Space in Egypt, 1839–1914”;
Kathleen Stewart HOWE, “Mapping a Sacred Geography:
Photographic Surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy
Land, 1864–68”; William J. MITCHELL, “Wunderkammer to