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Polymath A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

Burke Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300250022, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.

From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....

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Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Csiszar Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...

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About Method Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically

Schickore Jutta

ISBN: PB: 9780226759890, ISBN: HB: 9780226449982, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged...

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Before Nature Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

Rochberg Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226759586, ISBN: HB: 9780226406138, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has – but "Before Nature" explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature" – no word, reference, or sense fo...

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Making Modern Science Second Edition

Bowler Peter J., Rhys Morus Iwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226365763, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 14 line drawings

In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its infl...

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Making Spirit Matter Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France

Sommer McGrath Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226699820, ISBN: HB: 9780226699790, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 table

The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's "Making Spirit Matter" s...

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Europe

Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History

Buckland Adelene, Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...

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Aesthetic Science Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720

Wragge-Morley Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226680866, ISBN: HB: 9780226680729, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it reall...

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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain Constructing Scientific Communities

Dawson Gowan, Lightman Bernard, Shuttleworth Sally, Topham Jonathan R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226676517, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metro...

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