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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings

This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts

Propst David, Williams Jack, Bestgen Kevin, Hoagstrom Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones

North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...

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Astronomy

Celestial Mirror The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II

Perlus Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300246278, Yale University Press, June 2020
168 pp., 26.6x22.8 cm, 163 colour illus.

Between 1724 and 1730, Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining...

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Cartography

Indies of the Setting Sun How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West

Padron Ricardo

ISBN: HB: 9780226455679, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Narratives of Europe's sixteenth-century westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct land mass, a continent separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geo...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

Prager Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...

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Cartography

Europe

Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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Popular Science

Artificial Intelligence From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks (An Illustrated History)

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781454933595, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2019
224 pp., 22.2x17.2 cm, colour illus.

From medieval robots and Boolean algebra to facial recognition, artificial neural networks, and adversarial patches, this fascinating history takes readers on a vast tour through the world of artificial intelligence. Award-winning author Clifford A....

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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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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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Popular Science

Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy 250 Milestones in the History of Science

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781454930068, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2018
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Collected into one volume, this is a compilation of the most important thinkers and ideas throughout the history of science. Fully illustrated, it includes 250 entries selected by Pickover from "The Math Book", "The Physics Book", "The Medical Book",...

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