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Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
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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£20,00
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Making "Nature" The History of a Scientific Journal
ISBN: HB: 9780226261454, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables
"Making 'Nature'" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark fo...
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£36,00
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Courtiers' Anatomists Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris
ISBN: HB: 9780226247663, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
"The Courtiers' Anatomists" is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris – and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connect...
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Pure Intelligence The Life of William Hyde Wollaston
ISBN: HB: 9780226245737, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2015
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 32 line drawings, 10 tables
William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the ph...
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Egyptian Oedipus Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9780226273273, ISBN: HB: 9780226924144, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones
A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology,...
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£47,00
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Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226243771, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientif...
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£32,00
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Recombinant University Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology
ISBN: HB: 9780226143835, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings
The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's "The Recombinant University" draws us deeply into the academic community in the Sa...
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Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930
ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...
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£32,00
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£76,00
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Technical Image A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery
ISBN: HB: 9780226258843, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 93 colour plates, 92 halftones
In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody – both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue betwe...
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£37,50
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Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...
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