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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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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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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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History of Art

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Alexander von Humboldt The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries

Ette Ottmar, Maier Julia

ISBN: HB: 9783791383545, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
736 pp., 34x24 cm, 600 colour illus.

This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmenta...

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Aesthetics, Industry, and Science Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

Wise M. Norton

ISBN: HB: 9780226531359, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 73 halftones, 6 tables

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psych...

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Artisanal Enlightenment Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

Bertucci Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300227413, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists,...

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Anthropology

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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science

Flandreau Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226360447, ISBN: HB: 9780226360300, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, "Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange" tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of gl...

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Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English-Arabic Text

ISBN: HB: 9780842528405, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. About fourteen hundred...

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Acolytes of Nature Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850

Phillips Denise

ISBN: HB: 9780226667379, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science...

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America

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American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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