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

36 161. Computer & information technologies
de l’Artillerie à l’origine d’une innovation cruciale dans la
Marine au XIX e siècle,” 385-410; S. R. EPSTEIN, “Journeyman
Mobility and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge in
Europe, 14th–18th centuries,” 411-429; Florence HACHEZ-
LEROY, “Du métal précieux au matériau invisible : la double
vie de l’aluminium,” 431-439; Anne-Françoise GARÇON,
“Conclusion : Comment retracer historiquement les chemins
de la novation,” 443-470.
628. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOL-
OGY AND SOCIETY. ISTAS ’04: International Symposium
on Technology and Society: Globalizing Technological
Education. 17-19 June 2004, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. (vi + 182
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) New York: IEEE Press Books,
2004. ISBN: 0780383907.
629. JACOBSEN, John Kurt. Technical Fouls: Democratic
Dilemmas and Technological Change. (ix +
196 pp.; bibl.; index.) Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
2000. ISBN: 0813319994.
630. JOHNSON, Ann. “Revisiting Technology as
Knowledge.” Perspect. Sci. 13 (2005): 554–573.
Essay review of SLATON [ref. 3373]; Emily THOMPSON,
The Soundscape of Modernity (2002); Sara E. WERMIEL,
The Fireproof Building (2000).
631. LANG, Mervin F. “Enfoques actuales del estudio
de la minería hispanoamericana.” Llull 26 (2003):
613–630.
632. LOADMAN, John. Tears of the Tree: The Story
of Rubber. (xxx + 336 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford/New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN:
0198568401.
633. LÓPEZ, José. “Bridging the Gaps: Science
Fiction in Nanotechnology.” Part of a special issue.
[ref. 3739]. HYLE 10 (2004): 129–152.
634. MIDDLETON, William D. Metropolitan Railways:
Rapid Transit in America. Railroads Past and
Present. (viii + 275 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.)
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2003. ISBN:
0253341795.
635. MOODY, Cyrus C. M. “Small, but Determined:
Technological Determinism in Nanoscience.” Part of
a special issue. [ref. 3739]. HYLE 10 (2004): 99–128.
636. OTTER, A. A. den. The Philosophy of Railways:
The Transcontinental Idea in British North America.
(xi + 292 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Toronto: Univ. of
Toronto Press, 1997. ISBN: 0802041612.
Reviews: [ref. R689]
637. PURSELL, Carroll W. (Ed.) A Hammer in Their
Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and
the African-American Experience. (xviii + 397 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
2005. ISBN: 0262162253.
A collection of primary source essays from the 18th century
to today.
638. SUZUKI Tsutomu. “The Study of Technology
Transfer for Historical Science and Engineering.”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist.
Sci.) 44 (2005): 143–147.
639. TRISCHLER, Helmuth, and Stefan ZEILINGER.
(Eds.) Tackling Transport. Artefacts Series: Studies
in the History of Science and Technology. (192
pp.; ill.) London: Science Museum, 2003. ISBN:
1900747537.
“Demonstrates the manifold ways in which automobiles,
aircraft, and railways can be employed in the study of transportation
history.” (from the publisher) Reviews: [ref. R926]
640. WHYTE, William. “How Do Buildings Mean?
Some Issues of Interpretation in the History of Architecture.”
Hist. Theory 45 (2006): 153–177.
641. WISNIAK, Jaime. “Dyes from Antiquity to
Synthesis.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 39 (2004): 75–100.
161. COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
642. AGALIANOS, Angelos, Geoff WHITTY, and
Richard NOS. “The Social Shaping of Logo.” Soc.
Stud. Sci. 36 (2006): 241–267.
On a family of computer languages used as an educational
theory, which were initially politically radical, but gradually
became more mainstream.
643. AGAR, Jon. “Medium Meets Message: Can
Media History and History of Technology Communicate?”
J. Contemp. Hist. 40 (2005): 793–803.
Essay review of Louis GALAMBOS and Eric John ABRA-
HAMSON, Anytime, Anywhere (2002); Malcolm GEE and
Tim KIRK (eds.), Printed Matters (2002); JOHN THEOBALD,
Media and the Making of History (2004); Angharad N. VAL-
DIVIA (ed.), A Companion to Media Studies (2003); Paul
S. BOYER, Purity in Print (2002); Asa BRIGGS and Peter
BURKE, A Social History of the Media (2002); Norbert
FINZSCH and Ursula LEHMKUHL (eds.), Atlantic Communications
(2004).
644. COPELAND, B. Jack. (Ed.) Alan Turing’s Automatic
Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker’s
Struggle to Build the Modern Computer. (xx + 553
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press,
2005. ISBN: 0198565933.
Contributors: Eileen MAGNELLO, Mary CROARKEN, James
H. WILKINSON, B. Jack COPELAND, Diane PROUDFOOT,
Martin CAMPBELL-KELLY, Teresa NUMERICO, Henry John
NORTON, J.G. HAYES, Robin A. VOWELS, Tom VICKERS,
Harry D. HUSKEY, Michael WOODGER, Benjamin WELLS,
David O. CLAYDEN, Maurice WILKES.
645. GERE, Charlie. “Brains-in-Vats, Giant Brains
and World Brains: The Brain as Metaphor in Digital
Culture.” Special Issue: The Brain in a Vat [ref. 142].
Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 35 (2004): 351–
366.
646. HAYLES, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a
Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. (x +
290 pp.; bibl.; index.) Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 2005. ISBN: 0226321479.
Philosophical and literary study of the interrelations between
human beings and computers.