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

A. Tools for Historians of Science
1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
1. BOWLER, Peter, and Iwan Rhys MORUS. Making
Modern Science: A Historical Survey. (viii + 464 pp.;
ill.; index.) Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0226068609.
Reviews: [ref. R93]
2. BRENNER, Anastasios. “Genèse, évolution et
continuité du développement scientifique selon Pierre
Duhem.” Special Issue: La Pensée Scientifique en
Question: Autour de Pierre Duhem [ref. 104]. Rev.
Quest. Sci. 175 (2004): 37–58.
3. BRYSON, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything.
(ix + 544 pp.; bibl.; index.) New York:
Broadway Books, 2003. ISBN: 0767908171.
Reviews: [ref. R110]
4. CHAYUT, Michael. “From the Periphery to Scientific
Revolutions.” Hist. Scientiarum 15 (2005):
1–22.
Argues that science done on the periphery is instrumental in
scientific revolutions. Examples from the 17th to the 20th
centuries.
5. DASTON, Lorraine. “Scientific Error and the Ethos
of Belief.” Special Issue: Errors: Consequences of
Big Mistakes in the Natural and Social Sciences
[ref. 13]. Soc. Res. 72 (2005): 1–28.
6. DEAR, Peter. “What Is the History of Science
the History Of ?” Focus: Natural Philosophy and
Instrumentality. Isis 96 (2005): 390–406.
7. FARA, Patricia. Scientists Anonymous: Great
Stories of Women in Science. (213 pp.; ill.) Thriplow:
Wizard Books, 2005. ISBN: 1840465743.
Ranges from the 17th century to the present.
8. FISHER, Len. Weighing the Soul: Scientific Discovery
from the Brilliant to the Bizzare. (xi + 248
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Arcade Publishers,
2004. ISBN: 1559707321.
9. GALISON, Peter. “Author of Error.” Special Issue:
Errors: Consequences of Big Mistakes in the Natural
and Social Sciences [ref. 13]. Soc. Res. 72 (2005):
63–76.
On the difference between how scientists and engineers deal
with mistakes.
10. GREEN, Adam. “Matter and Psyche: Lewis
Mumford’s Appropriation of Marx and Jung in his
Appraisal of the Condition of Man in Technological
Civilization.” Hist. Hum. Sci. 19, no. 3 (2006):
33–64.
11. GUAN Hong. “Science vs. Philosophy and
Philosophy of Science—Reflections on Weinberg’s
Facing Up: Science and It’s Cultural Adversaries.”
[In Chinese.]. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 269–
279.
Essay review of Steven WEINBERG, Facing Up (2001).
12. H ˚ARD, Mikael. Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural
History of Technology and Science. (xv + 335 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN:
0415949386.
13. HOLTON, Gerald. “Guest Editor’s Introduction.”
Special Issue: Errors: Consequences of Big Mistakes
in the Natural and Social Sciences. Soc. Res. 72
(2005): vii-xi.
Partial contents: DASTON [ref. 5]; BADASH [ref. 2131];
GALISON [ref. 9]; GINGERICH and VOELKEL [ref. 1309];
HONG [ref. 3384]; ROCKE [ref. 2182]; WILSON [ref. 3598];
PREWITT [ref. 3135]; SMELSER [ref. 524].
14. HOLTON, Gerald James. Victory and Vexation
in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others.
(224 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0674015193.
15. ISRAEL, Giorgio. “The Science of Complexity:
Epistemological Problems and Perspectives.” Sci.
Context 18 (2005): 479–509.
“The aim of the present article is to analyze the epistemological
status attributed in the science of complexity to several
fundamental ideas, such as those of scientific law, objectivity,
and prediction.” (from the abstract)
16. JACOB, Margaret C., and Larry STEWART. Practical
Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of
Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. New histories of
science, technology, and medicine. (201 pp.; ill.; index.)
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0674014979.
Reviews: [ref. R456]
17. KANT, Horst, and Annette VOGT. (Eds.) Aus
Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -theorie: Hubert Laitko
zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden, Kollegen
und Schülern. (538 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Berlin:
Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte,
Dr. Michael Engel, 2005. ISBN: 3929134497.
Contents: RICHTER and SCHMETZKE [ref. 1984]; SCHNECK
[ref. 2511]; HENNING [ref. 42]; Wolfgang KÜTTLER, “Max
Webers Antrittsvorlesung: Kritische Wissenschaft in der Perspektive
des liberalen Imperialismus,” 75-89; KAHLOW
[ref. 2601]; GUNTAU [ref. 398]; KRÜGER [ref. 2214];
JANKO [ref. 1959]; FOLTA [ref. 2599]; SCHÜTT [ref. 1795];
Michael ENGEL, “Die Pringsheims. Zur Geschichte einer
schlesischen Familie (18. - 20. Jahrhundert),” 189-219;
GIRNUS [ref. 2166]; ZOTT [ref. 2198]; ˇSTRBÁŇOVÁ
[ref. 2187]; NEUBAUER [ref. 2719]; KANT [ref. 2906];
VOGT [ref. 2756]; KAZEMI [ref. 3024]; PARTHEY [ref. 309];
MOCEK [ref. 3437]; Bruno HARTMANN, “Wider die Losung:
Freiheit statt Sozialismus! Ein exemplarisches Angebot
zum Begreifen des Bildung/Politik-Zusammenhangs?” 413-
440; Ekkehard HÖXTERMANN, “ ‘(pv)/T = const., d. h.
Entmachtung der Politik durch die Vernunft’ (1947): Über
das Wissenschaftsideal des Herrn stud. math. nat. Herbert
Stachowiak und einen beispielgebenden Universitätslehrer,”
441-449; HOFFMANN [ref. 2856]; Helmut STEINER, “Zu
den Beziehungen zwischen den Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern