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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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Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

Goldstein Jurgen

ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...

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Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Ancient World

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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Nummedal Tara

ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...

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How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology

Krige John

ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...

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Scientific Revolution

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226398341, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now upd...

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X Club Power and Authority in Victorian Science

Barton Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226551616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 3 tables

In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine...

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Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories

Rieppel Lukas, Deringer William, Lean Eugenia

ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...

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