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

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2736. STANLEY, Matthew George. “Practical Mystic:
Religion and Science in the Life and Work of A.
S. Eddington.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/05 (2004): 1937.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2004. Adviser: Galison,
Peter. UMI pub. no. 3131997. 397 pp.
370-29. SCIENCE AND WAR
2737. CAFFENTZIS, George. “Terror and the Source
of Reason.” Sci. Cult. 12 (2003): 263–268.
Essay review of Dominick JENKINS, The Final Frontier
(2002).
2738. CORNWELL, John. Hitler’s Scientists: Science,
War, and the Devil’s Pact. (xvi + 535 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Penguin, 2004. ISBN:
0142004804.
2739. GRUNDEN, Walter E., Yutaka KAWA-
MURA, Eduard KOLCHINSKY, Helmut MAIER, and
Masakatsu YAMAZAKI. “Laying the Foundation
for Wartime Research: A Comparative Overview
of Science Mobilization in National Socialist Germany,
Japan, and the Soviet Union.” Volume title:
Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International
Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
[ref. 2690]. Osiris 20 (2005): 79–106.
2740. GRUNDEN, Walter E., Mark WALKER, and
Masakatsu YAMAZAKI. “Wartime Nuclear Weapons
Research in Germany and Japan.” Volume title:
Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International
Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
[ref. 2690]. Osiris 20 (2005): 107–130.
2741. HUGHES, Jeff. The Manhattan Project: Big
Science and the Atomic Bomb. Revolutions in Science.
(170 pp.; ill.) New York: Columbia Univ.
Press, 2003. ISBN: 0231131526.
Winner of the HSS Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis
Prize in 2004. Reviews: [ref. R446]
2742. JACOBS, Robert Alan. “Ground Zero: Nuclear
Weapons and Social Transformation.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 65/04 (2004): 1515.
Dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 2004. Adviser: Hoddeson, Lillian. UMI pub.
no. 3130940. 293 pp.
2743. KATZ, Eric. (Ed.) Death by Design: Science,
Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany. (xxiv
+ 312 pp.; ill.; bibl.) New York: Pearson Longman,
2006. ISBN: 0321276345.
This is a textbook consisting of excerpts from both primary
and secondary sources, with introductions to each work by
Katz.
2744. PALAZZO, Albert. Seeking Victory on the
Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare
in World War I. (xii + 239 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000. ISBN:
0803237251.
2745. RAU, Erik P. “Combat Science: The Emergence
of Operational Research in World War II.”
Endeavour 29 (2005): 156–161.
2746. SATOFUKA, Fumihiko. “Science, War, and
Colonization in East Asia: An Introduction.” Special
Issue: Science, War, and Colonization in East Asia.
Hist. Scientiarum 15 (2006): 209–212.
Contents: Hiroaki TANAKA, “The Science and Technology
Mobilization System in Imperial Japan,” 213–221; YAJIMA
[ref. 2957]; Bo LIANG, “The Transmission of Science and
Technology from Japan to China before the Second World
War,” 233–246; Sung Kyu LEE, “Imperialism and Colonial
Science: A Case Study of Keijo Imperial University, 1924–
1945,” 247–267; HONG [ref. 730].
2747. SUZUKI Fujio. “The Report of the Department
of the Army Ordnance on Radio Weapons—At the
Outbreak of the Pacific War.” [Translated title.] In
Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002):
221–230.
2748. VILENSKY, Joel A. Dew of Death: The Story
of Lewisite, America’s World War I Weapon of Mass
Destruction. Foreword by Richard BUTLER. (xxiii
+ 213 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0253346126.
370-40. SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
2749. ALVES, Ana Maria de Alencar. O Ipiranga
apropriado: ciência, política e poder: O Museu
Paulista, 1893–1922. Série Teses. (213 pp.; ill.)
São Paulo: Humanitas/FFLCH-USP, 2001. ISBN:
857506018X.
2750. BRIGGS, Asa. A History of the Royal College
of Physicians of London, Volume 4. (504 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
for the Royal College of Physicians, 2005. ISBN:
019925334X.
2751. EPPLE, Moritz, Andreas KARACHALIOS, and
Volker R. REMMERT. “Aerodynamics and Mathematics
in National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy:
A Comparison of Research Institutes.” Volume title:
Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International
Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
[ref. 2690]. Osiris 20 (2005): 131–158.
2752. GIERYN, Thomas F. “City as Truth-Spot: Laboratories
and Field-Sites in Urban Studies.” Soc. Stud.
Sci. 36 (2006): 5–38.
2753. GUO Jin-hai. “Election of the First Batch of
Academicians of Academia Sinica in 1948.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 25
(2006): 33–49.
2754. PAN Xun. “The Origin and Establishment of
the West China Academy of Sciences.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 26
(2005): 19–26.
2755. RENTETZI, Maria. “Designing (for) a New
Scientific Discipline: The Location and Architecture
of the Institut für Radiumforschung in Early
Twentieth-Century Vienna.” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 38
(2005): 275–306.
2756. VOGT, Annette. “Die Gastabteilungen in
der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft – Beispiele internationaler
Zusammenarbeit.” In KANT and VOGT
[ref. 17], 321–343.
2757. WANG Jia-chuan and WANG Shan. “Addendum
on the Haongho-Paiho Museum in Tientsin.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao
25 (2004): 37–48.
A scientific institution for collection, preservation, and research
founded in 1922.
370-41. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS; THE
SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENT
2758. BETTS, Jonathan. Time Restored: The Harrison
Timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the Man Who
Knew (Almost) Everything. (xvi + 464 pp.; ill.; bibl.;