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Evolution

History

Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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History

Materials of the Mind Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

Poskett James

ISBN: HB: 9780226626758, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe".Materials of the Mind" tells the story of how phrenology changed the wo...

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Evolution

History

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...

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History

Spanish Disquiet The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226592268, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, historian Maria M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet" – a preoccupation with the perceived sho...

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Biography & Memoires

History

Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

Goldstein Jurgen

ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...

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History

Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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History

Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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History

Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Ancient World

History

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Nummedal Tara

ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...

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How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology

Krige John

ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...

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