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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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Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Galileo's Idol Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Wilding Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226166971, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 6 halftones

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, d...

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Baroque Science

Gal Ofer, Chen-Morris Raz

ISBN: PB: 9780226212982, ISBN: HB: 9780226923987, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that...

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Earth Sciences

History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science

Thomson Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...

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Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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Victorian Scientific Naturalism Community, Identity, Continuity

Lightman Bernard, Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226109503, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table

"Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species", wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professi...

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Liberty's Dawn A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

Griffin Emma

ISBN: PB: 9780300205251, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...

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