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Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English-Arabic Text

ISBN: HB: 9780842528405, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. About fourteen hundred...

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Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

Fors Hjalmar

ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...

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Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Tresch John

ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...

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Reforming Philosophy A Victorian Debate on Science and Society

Snyder Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214320, ISBN: HB: 9780226767338, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform". It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy –...

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Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

Margocsy Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...

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Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Galileo's Idol Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Wilding Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226166971, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 6 halftones

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, d...

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Baroque Science

Gal Ofer, Chen-Morris Raz

ISBN: PB: 9780226212982, ISBN: HB: 9780226923987, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that...

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