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Table of contents of Isis, vol 90, no4, Dec 99, mentioning the review article about Le Secret de l'Occident (shortcut). Safety copy Jul 00.
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| Contents | |
| Volume 90, No. 4, December 1999 | |
| ARTICLES | |
| PATRICIA M. E. LORCIN: Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830-1870: The Role of the French Medical Corps | 653 |
| LISSA ROBERTS: Science Becomes Electric: Dutch Interaction with the Electrical Machine during the Eighteenth Century | 680 |
| LISA T. SARASOHN: Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society | 715 |
| RUSSELL OLWELL: Physical Isolation and Marginalization in Physics: David Bohm's Cold War Exile | 738 |
| CRITIQUES & CONTENTIONS | |
| DAVID TOPPER: Galileo, Sunspots, and the Motions of the Earth: Redux | 757 |
| NEWS OF THE PROFESSION | |
| JOHN LANKFORD: Eloge: Helen Wright, 1914-1997 | 768 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
| JAN BONDESON; DENNIS TODD | 770 |
| WILLIAM C. WATERHOUSE; PETER PESIC | 770 |
| PETER DEAR | 771 |
| ESSAY REVIEWS | |
| MARTHA BALDWIN:
Assaying Robert Boyle
Lawrence M. Principe: The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest: Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals |
772 |
| D. GRAHAM BURNETT: The History of
Cartography and the History of Science
Jeremy Black: Maps and Politics, Jerry Brotton: Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World, and Philip D. Burden: The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670 |
775 |
| SHEILA JASANOFF:
Not Proven: Truth by Exhaustion in the Baltimore Case
Daniel J. Kevles: The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character |
781 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| GENERAL | |
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Jean Barr; Lynda Birke: Common Science? Women, Science, and Knowledge, rev. by SHEILA TOBIAS |
784 |
| Paul G. Bahn (Editor): The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology, rev. by SUZANNE MARCHAND | 784 |
| Robert Poole: Time's Alteration: Calendar Reform in Early Modern England, rev. by JENNIFER MORETON | 786 |
| Joseph B. Lambert: Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology through Chemistry, rev. by ROBERT B. GORDON | 787 |
| David Cosandey: Le secret de l'Occident: Du miracle passé au marasme présent, rev. by LEWIS PYENSON | 787 |
| Jack R. Harlan: The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage, rev. by JOHN H. PERKINS | 788 |
| Paul H. Theerman; Karen Hunger Parshall (Editors): Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus, rev. by THOMAS L. HANKINS | 789 |
| James O'Connor: Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, rev. by KEITH R. BENSON | 790 |
| Terry S. Reynolds; Stephen H. Cutcliffe (Editors): Technology and the West: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture, and Stephen H. Cutcliffe; Terry S. Reynolds (Editors): Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture, rev. by DAVID W. NOBLE | 790 |
| Barry Hetherington: A Chronicle of Pre-Telescopic Astronomy, rev. by STEPHEN C. MCCLUSKEY | 792 |
| Brian Winston: Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet, rev. by MILTON MUELLER | 793 |
| Roy Porter; G. S. Rousseau: Gout: The Patrician Malady, rev. by KENNETH J. CARPENTER | 794 |
| Nicholas J. Wade: A Natural History of Vision, rev. by J. SCOTT HAUGER | 795 |
| Vaclav Smil: Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization, rev. by SARA TJOSSEM | 796 |
| ANTIQUITY | |
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Anthony Aveni: Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures, rev. by BERNARD R. ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO |
797 |
| Noel M. Swerdlow: The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, rev. by LIS BRACK-BERNSEN | 798 |
| John F. Nunn: Ancient Egyptian Medicine, rev. by GUENTER B. RISSE | 800 |
| MIDDLE AGES & RENAISSANCE | |
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Timothy J. Reiss: Knowledge, Discovery, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism, rev. by PAULA FINDLEN |
800 |
| Francesc Santcliment: Summa de l'art d'aritmètica, rev. by WARREN VAN EGMOND | 801 |
| Anne Tihon; Raymond Mercier (Editors): George Gémistus Pléthon: Manuel d'astronomie, rev. by ALEXANDER JONES | 802 |
| Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi: Arab Roots of Gemology: Ahmad ibn Yusuf al Tifashi's Best Thoughts on the Best of Stones, trans. by SAMAR NAJM ABUL HUBA, rev. by MAURO ZONTA | 803 |
| SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | |
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Michael Hunter (Editor): Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe, rev. by ALAN E. SHAPIRO |
804 |
| René Descartes: Oeuvres de Descartes, ed. by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, René Descartes: Principia philosophiae, and René Descartes: Meditationes de prima philosophia, rev. by ROGER ARIEW | 804 |
| Joseph de Maistre: An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon: Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated, trans. and ed. by Richard A. Lebrun, rev. by GRAEME GARRARD | 806 |
| Simon Singh: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, rev. by COLIN R. FLETCHER | 806 |
| Gale E. Christianson: Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution, rev. by M. MEO | 807 |
| Oswaldus Crollius: De Signaturis internis rerum, ed. by Wilhelm Kúhlmann and Joachim Telle, and Oswaldus Crollius: Alchemomedizinische Briefe: 1585 bis 1597, ed. and trans. by Wilhelm Kúhlmann and Joachim Telle, rev. by WILLEM FRIJHOFF | 808 |
| Anna Battigelli: Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, rev. by LISA T. SARASOHN | 809 |
| EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | |
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Johan van der Zande; Richard Popkin: The Skeptical Tradition around 1800: Skepticism in Philosophy, Science, and Society, rev. by ERIC WATKINS |
810 |
| Leonhard Euler: Opera Omnia: Series Quarta A, Volume 2: Briefwechsel mit Johann (I) Bernoulli und Nikolaus (I) Bernoulli: Commercium Epistolicum, ed. by E. A. Fellmann and G. K. Mikhajlov, rev. by CRAIG FRASER | 811 |
| Walter Hauser: Die Wurzeln der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung: Die Verbindung von Glúcksspieltheorie und Statistischer Praxis vor Laplace, rev. by IVO SCHNEIDER | 812 |
| Jacques Roger: The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, ed. by Keith R. Benson, trans. by Robert Ellrich, rev. by ANITA GUERRINI | 813 |
| David R. Brigham: Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience, rev. by MONIQUE BOURQUE | 814 |
| De la situation du Trésor public au 1er juin 1791: Par les Commissaires de la Trésorerie Nationale Condorcet, Lavoisier, de Vaines, Dutremblay, Rouille de l'Étang Cornut de la Fontaine, ed. by Jean-Pierre Poirier, rev. by FREDERIC L. HOLMES | 815 |
| NINETEENTH CENTURY | |
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David M. Knight: Science in the Romantic Era, rev. by DAVID OLDROYD |
846 |
| E. A. Davis (Editor): Science in the Making: Scientific Development as Chronicled by Historic Papers in the Philosophical Magazine: With Commentaries and Illustrations, Volume 2: 1850-1900, rev. by L. PEARCE WILLIAMS | 817 |
| Michael J. Crowe; David R. Dyck; James J. Kevin: A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, rev. by SYDNEY ROSS | 817 |
| Thierry Martin (Editor): Bibliographie Cournotienne, with Jean-Philippe Massonie, rev. by PHILIPPE LE GALL | 818 |
| Hans Christian Ørsted: Selected Scientific Works of Hans Christian Ørsted, ed. and trans. by Karen Jelved, Andrew D. Jackson, and Ole Knudsen, rev. by KENNETH L. CANEVA | 819 |
| David Knight; Helge Kragh (Editors): The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914, rev. by LEO SLATER and DAVID C. BROCK | 820 |
| Alessandro Volpi: La "Filosofia della chimica": Un mito scientista nella Toscana di inizio Ottocento, rev. by MARCO BERETTA | 821 |
| Alexander Kipnis: August Friedrich Horstmann und die physikalische Chemie, rev. by MI GYUNG KIM | 821 |
| Leonard Warren: Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything, rev. by JAMES G. CASSIDY | 822 |
| David M. Bartholomew: Pioneer Naturalist on the Plains: The Diary of Elam Bartholomew, 1871 to 1934, rev. by RICHARD A. OVERFIELD | 823 |
| Rebecca Stefoff: Charles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution, rev. by PETER J. BOWLER | 824 |
| Ronald L. Numbers: Darwinism Comes to America, rev. by KARY DOYLE SMOUT | 825 |
| Ferdinand von Múller, 1825-1896: Spuren eines australischen Botanikers in seiner Geburtsstadt Rostock, rev. by JORG ILLI | 826 |
| Kai Torsten Kanz: Nationalismus und internationale Zusammenarbeit in den Naturwissenschaften: Die Deutsch-Französischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Revolution und Restauration, 1789-1832, rev. by BRIGITTE SCHROEDER-GUDEHUS | 826 |
| Lynn McDonald: The Women Founders of the Social Sciences, rev. by DESLEY DEACON | 827 |
| Janet Golden: A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle, rev. by VIRGINIA A. METAXAS | 828 |
| John I. Brooks III: The Eclectic Legacy: Academic Philosophy and the Human Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France, rev. by STEPHEN JACYNA | 831 |
|
TWENTIETH CENTURY |
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| Robert F. Mozley: The Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation, rev. by ROBERT A. DIVINE | 832 |
| Donald H. Avery: The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War, rev. by ROBIN HIGHAM | 832 |
| Nikolai Krementsov: Stalinist Science, rev. by KRISTIE MACRAKIS | 833 |
| Donald E. Stokes: Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, rev. by DANIEL LEE KLEINMAN | 834 |
| Lillian Hoddeson; Laurie Brown; Michael Riordan; Max Dresden (Editors): The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, rev. by JAMES T. CUSHING | 835 |
| Paul Lawrence Rose: Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture, rev. by CATHRYN CARSON | 835 |
| Stefan Rozental: Niels Bohr: Memoirs of a Working Relationship, rev. by OVE NATHAN | 836 |
| E. A. Davis (Editor): Nevill Mott: Reminiscences and Appreciations, rev. by JEFF A. HUGHES | 837 |
| Helga Nowotny; Ulrike Felt: After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field, rev. by KOSTAS GAVROGLU | 838 |
| Gerit von Leitner: Wollen wir unsere Hande in Unschuld waschen? Gertrud Woker (1878-1968), Chemikerin und Internationale Frauenliga (1915-1968), rev. by RUTH LEWIN SIME | 839 |
| Margit Szöllösi-Janze: Fritz Haber 1868-1934: Eine Biographie, rev. by JEFFREY ALLAN JOHNSO | 840 |
| Yasu Furukawa: Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry, rev. by KATHRYN STEEN | 841 |
| Petra Werner: Otto Warburgs Beitrag zur Atmungstheorie: Das Problem der Sauerstoffaktivierung, rev. by HELGA SATZINGER | 842 |
| Ellis L. Yochelson: Charles Doolittle Walcott: Paleontologist, rev. by RONALD RAINGER | 843 |
| Philippe Taquet: Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist, trans. by Kevin Padian, rev. by ELLIS L. YOCHELSON | 844 |
| Errol C. Friedberg: Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, rev. by ALBERTO CAMBROSIO | 844 |
| William J. Haas: China Voyager: Gist Gee's Life in Science, rev. by ZUOYUE WANG and JEDIDIAH KRONCKE | 845 |
| Fritz Redlich: Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, rev. by CHANDAK SENGOOPTA | 846 |
| Marvin Lieberman; Leon J. Warshaw: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1947-1997: Enhancing the Health of the Public, rev. by EARL R. THAYER | 847 |
| Robert A. Trennert: White Man's Medicine: The Navajo and Government Doctors, 1863-1955, rev. by EDWARD D. CASTILLO | 848 |
| David J. Rothman: Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care, rev. by ELLEN KOCH | 849 |
| Joel Braslow: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, rev. by KATHLEEN W. JONES | 850 |
| Diane B. Paul: The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate, rev. by GRETA JONES | 851 |
| Don Finley: Mad Dogs: The New Rabies Plague, rev. by JOHN D. BLAISDELL | 852 |
| Martin A. Miller: Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, rev. by NATHAN G. HALE, JR. | 852 |
| Jacques Lautman: Bernard-Pierre Lécuyer (Editors): Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976): La sociologie de Vienne à New York, rev. by LEWIS A. COSER | 853 |
| Perry G. Mehrling: The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970, rev. by ROBERT E. PRASCH | 854 |
| Lee D. Baker: From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954, rev. by JOHN P. JACKSON, JR. | 855 |
| Anke Jobmann: Familientreffen versus Professionselite? Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Neustrukturierung in der deutschen Wissenschaftsgeschichte der 60er Jahre, rev. by MARSHA L. RICHMOND | 855 |
| T. A. Heppenheimer: Countdown: A History of Space Flight, rev. by JAMES R. HANSEN | 856 |
| SOCIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | |
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Randall Collins: The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, rev. by WOLFGANG KROHN |
857 |
| Timothy Lenoir (Editor): Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, rev. by JOAN STEIGERWALD | 858 |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | |
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Joseph S. Fruton: A Bio-Bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences since 1800, rev. by MIKULÊ TEICH |
859 |
| COLLECTIONS | |
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P. Eisenhardt; F. Linhard; K. Petanides (Editors): Der Weg der Wahrheit: Aufsätze zur Einheit der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstag von Walter G. Saltzer |
859 |
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS |
861 |
| Cover: Frontispiece from Andreas Bonn, Redevoering ter inwijding der volbouwde gehoorzaal en schouwplaats voor het departement der natuurkunde (Amsterdam, 1789). Courtesy of the University of Amsterdam Library. | |
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Errata: Isis wishes to correct a mistake introduced during the editing of Antonino Poppi's review of Heinrich C. Kuhn, Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt (Isis, 1997, 89:538-539). In the final paragraph of the review, Poppi's Cremonini, Galilei e gli inquisitori del Santo a Padova (1993) should have been cited rather than Poppi's Scienza e filosofia all'Università di Padova nel Quattrocento (1983). We regret the error. Isis would also like to correct a citation in Cong Cao's article "The Changing Dynamic between Science and Politics" (Isis, 1999, 90:298-324). In footnote 6, on page 300, the citation of the article "Botany in Republican China" should read "William J. Haas, "Botany in Republican China: The Leading Role of Taxonomy," in Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education, ed. John Z. Bowers, William Hess, and Nathan Sivin (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, Univ. Michigan, 1988), pp. 31-64. We also regret this error. |
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