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Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment

Whitmer Kelly Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226243771, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientif...

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Recombinant University Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology

Yi Doogab

ISBN: HB: 9780226143835, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's "The Recombinant University" draws us deeply into the academic community in the Sa...

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Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

De Bont Raf

ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...

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Technical Image A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery

Bredekamp Horst, Dunkel Vera, Schneider Birgit

ISBN: HB: 9780226258843, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 93 colour plates, 92 halftones

In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody – both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue betwe...

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Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Eddy Matthew D., Mauskopf Seymour H., Newman William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...

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Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English-Arabic Text

ISBN: HB: 9780842528405, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. About fourteen hundred...

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Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

Fors Hjalmar

ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...

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Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Tresch John

ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...

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Reforming Philosophy A Victorian Debate on Science and Society

Snyder Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214320, ISBN: HB: 9780226767338, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform". It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy –...

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