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

24 123. Environmental sciences
by Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN:
0807830003.
Spans the early American period from the 1680s to the 1820s.
409. EGMOND, Marco Van. “The 21st International
Conference on the History of Cartography.” Imago
Mundi 58 (2006): 90–94.
Conference report.
410. EVANS, Rand. “Morse’s Register and the American
Method.” Rittenhouse 16 (2002): 65–83.
On a method of using telegraphy for longitude measurements.
411. GIORDANO, Raymond V. “Some Notes on the
Two Extant Rowland Houghton New Theodolates.”
Rittenhouse 15 (2001): 93–97.
412. HOARE, Michael Rand. The Quest for the True
Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four
Centuries of Geodesy. Science, Technology, and Culture,
1700-1945. (xii + 275 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Burlington,
VT: Ashgate Pub., 2004. ISBN: 0754650200.
413. LEFORT, Jean. L’aventure cartographique.
Bibliothèque scientifique. (319 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Belin:
Pour la science, 2004. ISBN: 2842450698.
414. LIVINGSTONE, David N., and Charles W. J.
WITHERS. (Eds.) Geography and Revolution. (viii +
440 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0226487334.
Contents: David N. LIVINGSTONE and Charles W. J.
WITHERS, “On Geography and Revolution,” 1-21; Peter
DEAR, “Space, Revolution, and Science,” 27-42; HENRY
[ref. 36]; WITHERS [ref. 1625]; MOORE [ref. 2310]; BROT-
TON [ref. 1355]; GLENNIE and THRIFT [ref. 626]; RYAN
[ref. 2244]; MAYHEW [ref. 1624]; HEFFERNAN [ref. 1821];
LIVINGSTONE [ref. 1823]; RUPKE [ref. 2243]; Peter BURKE,
“Afterword: Revolutions and their Geographies,” 351-362.
415. NEBENZAHL, Kenneth. Mapping the Silk Road
and Beyond: 2000 Years of Exploring the East. (176
pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) London: Phaidon, 2004.
ISBN: 0714844098.
Reviews: [ref. R656]
416. RICE, A. L. “Discovery at Sea: A Heady Mix
of Scientists, Ships and Sailors.” Arch. Natur. Hist.
32 (2005): 177–191.
On the difficulties scientists encounter in adapting to conditions
of sailing and interacting with sailors.
417. RIZZO, Gerald J. “The Patterns and Meaning
of a Great Lake in West Africa.” Imago Mundi 58
(2006): 80–89.
Study of 400 maps from the years 900 to 1900 to find
references to a great lake in Africa.
122. NATURAL HISTORY
418. BRUNNER, Bernd. The Ocean at Home: An
Illustrated History of the Aquarium. (144 pp.; ill.;
bibl.) Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
ISBN: 1568985029.
On the development of aquariums since ancient times, including
discussion of commerce and marketing necessary for
sustaining them.
419. GALERA GÓMEZ, Andrés. Ciencia a la sombra
del Vesubio: Ensayo sobre el conocimiento de la
naturaleza. Estudios sobre la ciencia, 31. (250 pp.;
ill.) Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, 2003. ISBN: 8400081374.
420. LEE, Keekok. Zoos: A Philosophical Tour.
(viii + 174 pp.; bibl.; index.) Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 140398624X.
421. LEVITON, Alan E., and Michele L. ALDRICH.
(Eds.) Museums and Other Institutions of Natural
History: Past, Present, and Future. A symposium
held on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the
California Academy of Sciences, June 16-17, 2003.
(iii + 329 pp.; ill.) San Francisco, Calif.: California
Academy of Sciences, 2004. ISBN: 0940228602;
ISSN 0068574X.
Contents: Alan E. LEVITON and Michele L. ALDRICH,
“Introduction to Symposium and Volume,” 1-6; KOHLST-
EDT and BRINKMAN [ref. 2264]; Pamela M. HENSON, “A
National Science and a National Museum,” 34-57; ERT-
TER [ref. 2968]; Hanna Rose SHELL, “Skin Deep: Taxidermy,
Embodiment and Extinction in W. T. Hornaday’s
Buffalo Group,” 88-112; YOCHELSON [ref. 2277]; DUTRO
[ref. 3543]; RAINGER [ref. 2945]; LIPPS [ref. 3015]; John
FARNUM, “In Search of Relevance: The Museum of the
Twenty-first Century,” 244-250; Warren D. ALLMON, “Opening
a New Natural History Museum in Twenty-first Century
America: A Case Study in Historic Perspective,” 251-274;
Peter RAVEN, “Botanical Gardens and the 21st Century,”
275-282; Sarah B. GEORGE and Scott D. SAMPSON, “Reinventing
a Natural History Museum for the 21st Century,”
283-294; David H. KAVANAUGH, “Planning for Research
in the 21st Century at a Large Natural History Museum,”
295-306; KOCIOLEK [ref. 2019].
422. OWEN, David. Thylacine: The Tragic Tale of
the Tasmanian Tiger. (xii + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2003. ISBN:
1865087580; 1741151899 (ebook).
423. SCHRATTER, Dagmar, and Gerhard HEINDL.
(Eds.) Von Kaiser bis Känguru: Neues zur Geschichte
des ältesten Zoos der Welt. Tiergarten Schönbrunn–
Geschichte, 1. (viii + 296 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Wien:
Braumüller, 2005. ISBN: 3700314973.
Reviews: [ref. R814]
123. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
424. ADLER, Judith. “Cultivating Wilderness: Environmentalism
and Legacies of Early Christian Ascenticism.”
Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist. 48 (2006): 4–37.
425. BALDWIN, Peter C. “How Night Air Became
Good Air, 1776–1930.” Environ. Hist. 8 (2003):
412–429.
426. BOCKING, Stephen. “Constructing Wildlife,
Consuming Nature: Three Books in Canadian Environmental
History.” Sci. Canadensis 27 (2003):
85–94.
Essay review of BURNETT [ref. 3559]; MACEACHERN
[ref. 2990]; COLPITTS [ref. 429].