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ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs

These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...

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New Prometheans Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siecle

Raia Courtenay

ISBN: PB: 9780226635354, ISBN: HB: 9780226635217, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, tasked itself with finding scientific evidence for phenomena science had all but denied. The point was not to re...

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Naturalists at Sea Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

Williams Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300205404, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 colour illus.

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrati...

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Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Barrow Mark V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323657, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and worried about – the pr...

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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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