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Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Riskin Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories

Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226538778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's...

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Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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Biography & Memoires

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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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Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

Rothman Aviva

ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...

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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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Military

Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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Literary Criticism

History

Refracted Muse Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain

Santo-Tomas Enrique Garcia

ISBN: PB: 9780226465739, ISBN: HB: 9780226376462, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in "The Refracted Muse", the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence – not just among Spaniards working in the developing scienc...

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Stepping in the Same River Twice Replication in Biological Research

Shavit Ayelet, Ellison Aaron M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209549, Yale University Press, June 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological and biomedical research. Without replication, the trustworthiness of scientific research remains in d...

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