Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
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D. Aspects <strong>of</strong> Scientific Practice and Organization<br />
40. SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS<br />
271. ALBERTI, Samuel J. M. M. “Objects and the<br />
Museum.” First essay <strong>of</strong> a focus section: Museums<br />
and the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>. <strong>Isis</strong> 96 (2005): 559–571.<br />
“Outlines a history <strong>of</strong> museums written through biographies<br />
<strong>of</strong> objects in their collections.” (from the abstract) Contents:<br />
FORGAN [ref. 273]; KOHLSTEDT [ref. 2020]; BENNETT<br />
[ref. 61].<br />
272. FARMELO, Graham, and Janet CARDING.<br />
(Eds.) Here and Now: Contemporary <strong>Science</strong> and<br />
Technology in Museums and <strong>Science</strong> Centres. Proceedings<br />
<strong>of</strong> a conference held at the <strong>Science</strong> Museum,<br />
London, 21-23 November, 1996. (294 pp.; ill.; index.)<br />
London: <strong>Science</strong> Museum, 19<strong>97</strong>. ISBN: 0901805<strong>97</strong>1.<br />
273. FORGAN, Sophie. “Building the Museum:<br />
Knowledge, Conflict, and the Power <strong>of</strong> Place.” Focus:<br />
Museums and the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> [ref. 271]. <strong>Isis</strong><br />
96 (2005): 572–585.<br />
274. HENNING, Eckart, and Marion KAZEMI.<br />
Dahlem – Domäne der Wissenschaft: Ein Spaziergang<br />
zu den Instituten der Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max-<br />
Planck-Gesellschaft im “deutschen Oxford” / Dahlem<br />
– Domain <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>. A Walking Tour <strong>of</strong> the Berlin<br />
Institutes <strong>of</strong> the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck <strong>Society</strong><br />
in the “German Oxford.” Veröffentlichungen aus dem<br />
Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,<br />
Band 16. (254 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Berlin: Max-<br />
Planck-Gesellschaft, 2002. ISBN: 3927579165.<br />
275. KÖPTCKE, Luciana Sepúlveda. “Carta do editore<br />
/ Editor’s Note.” Introduction to a special issue<br />
on Museums and the <strong>Science</strong>s. Manguinhos 12<br />
(supp.) (2005): 7–10.<br />
Partial contents: LOPES and MURRIELLO [ref. 2021]; PUPIO<br />
[ref. 3494]; PODGORNY [ref. 2024]; MUKHOPADHYAY<br />
[ref. 3492].<br />
276. LAGEMANN, Ellen Condliffe. (Ed.) Philanthropic<br />
Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities.<br />
Philanthropic Studies. (xviii + 420 pp.; ill.;<br />
bibl.; index.) Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press,<br />
1999. ISBN: 0253335000.<br />
277. UEBELE, Susanne. Institut im Bild, Teil 2:<br />
Bauten der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung<br />
der Wissenschaften. Veröffentlichungen aus dem<br />
Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,<br />
11. (292 pp.; ill.) Berlin: MPG, 1998. ISBN:<br />
3927579114.<br />
278. VACKIMES, Sophia. “Of <strong>Science</strong> in Museums:<br />
A Study <strong>of</strong> Contemporary Museology.” Diss. Abstr.<br />
Int. A 66/01 (2005): 233.<br />
Dissertation at New School University, 2005. Adviser:<br />
Zolberg, Vera. UMI pub. no. 3161886. 350 pp.<br />
41. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS; THE<br />
SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENT<br />
279. BARCLAY, R., and B. ZIOMKIEWICZ. “Historic<br />
Scientific Instruments Containing Mercury.”<br />
Rittenhouse 15 (2001): 21–30.<br />
280. BERETTA, Marco, Paolo GALLUZZI, and Carlo<br />
TRIARICO. (Eds.) Musa Musaei: Studies on Scientific<br />
Instruments and Collections in Honour <strong>of</strong> Mara<br />
Miniati. Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e testi, 49. (viii<br />
+ 486 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Firenze: Leo S. Olschki,<br />
2003. ISBN: 8822252381.<br />
281. BOURGUET, Marie-Noëlle, Christian LICOPPE,<br />
and Heinz Otto SIBUM. (Eds.) Instruments, Travel<br />
and <strong>Science</strong>: Itineraries <strong>of</strong> Precision from the Seventeenth<br />
to the Twentieth Century. Studies in the <strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, Technology and Medicine. (x + 303 pp.;<br />
ill.; bib.; index.) New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN:<br />
0415272955.<br />
Contents: Simon SCHAFFER,“Golden Means: Assay Instruments<br />
and the Geography <strong>of</strong> Precision in the Guinea Trade”;<br />
Christian LICOPPE, “The Project for a Map <strong>of</strong> Languedoc<br />
in Eighteenth-Century France at the Contested Intersection<br />
between Astronomy and Geography. The Problem <strong>of</strong><br />
Co-ordination between Philosophers, Instruments and Observations<br />
as a Keystone <strong>of</strong> Modernity”; Jim BENNETT, “The<br />
Travels and Trials <strong>of</strong> Mr. Harrison’s Timekeeper”; Marie-<br />
Noëlle BOURGUET, “Landscape With Numbers: Natural<br />
<strong>History</strong>, Travel and Instruments (Mid-18th to Early 19th<br />
Century)”; Giuliano PANCALDI, “Approaching Invention:<br />
The Reception <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Vol</strong>taic Battery in Europe”; Kapil RAJ,<br />
“When Human Travelers Become Instruments: The Indo-<br />
British Exploration <strong>of</strong> Central Asia in the 19th Century”;<br />
Christophe BONNEUIL, “The Manufacture <strong>of</strong> Species: Kew<br />
Gardens, the Empire, and the Standardization <strong>of</strong> Taxonomic<br />
Practices in Late 19th-Century Botany”; H. Otto SIBUM,<br />
“Exploring the Margins <strong>of</strong> Precision”; Richard STALEY,<br />
“Traveling Light”; David TURNBALL, “Traveling Knowledge:<br />
Narratives, Assemblage and Encounters”.<br />
282. BROOKS, Randall C. “Collection Pr<strong>of</strong>ile: New<br />
Metrology Collection Acquired by NMST.” Rittenhouse<br />
13 (1999): 20–24.<br />
At the National Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and Technology in<br />
Ottawa, Canada.<br />
283. FOURNIER, Marian. Early Microscopes: A<br />
Descriptive Catalogue. Museum Boerhaave Communications,<br />
300. (235 pp.; ill.; index.) Leiden:<br />
Museum Boerhaave, 2003. ISBN: 9062921434.<br />
On instruments in the Museum Boerhaave dating from 1675<br />
to 1835. Reviews: [ref. R296]<br />
284. FREIBURGER, Dana A. “Web Sightings and<br />
Reviews.” Rittenhouse 13 (1999): 29–32.<br />
First article in a regular column announcing web-based<br />
resources for historians <strong>of</strong> scientific instruments.<br />
285. HINE, Christine. “Databases as Scientific Instruments<br />
and Their Role in the Ordering <strong>of</strong> Scientific<br />
Work.” Soc. Stud. Sci. 36 (<strong>2006</strong>): 269–298.