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Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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Evolution

History

Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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Africa

History

Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Tilley Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...

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Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Fermilab Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

Hoddeson Lillian, Kolb Adrienne W., Westfall Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226346243, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 12 line illus.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years".Fermilab" is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point...

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Histories of Scientific Observation

Daston Lorraine, Lunbeck Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...

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Osiris, Volume 25 Expertise: Practical Knowledge and the Early Modern State

Ash Eric H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226029399, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This newest annual edition of "Osiris" brings together a variety of scholars to consider a topic of increasing interest in the history of science: expertise. Focusing specifically on the role expertise has played in the support, legitimation, and gro...

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Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226481197, ISBN: HB: 9780226481180, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 68 halftones

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time "The Origin of Species" was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gro...

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