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Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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Biography & Memoires

History

Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt

Meinhardt Maren

ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the hi...

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History

From Sight to Light The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics

Mark Smith A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528571, ISBN: HB: 9780226174761, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 58 line drawings

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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History

Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities

Milam Erika Lorraine, Nye Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...

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History

Anthropology

Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980

Morris-Reich Amos

ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones

"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...

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History

Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

Meltzer David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293226, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
680 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 18 halftones, 9 tables

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geologica...

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History

Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

Margocsy Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...

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Evolution

History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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Europe

Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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