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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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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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Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

Yeo Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226106564, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science", Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important...

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Global Communication Electric Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy

Hampf M. Michaela, Muller-Pohl Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783593399539, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
386 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and pattern...

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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...

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Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226078403, ISBN: HB: 9780226078373, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings

"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose prim...

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Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century

Nasim Omar W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226084374, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 colour plates

Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on hand...

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Chemistry

History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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Life Out of Sequence A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226080208, ISBN: HB: 9780226080178, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings

Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room...

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