Science / History

Explores How Early Modern Europeans Experienced Ingenuity as Innate Powers of Matter, Crafty Technique, or a Maker’s Character

How the Circulation of Tropical Bodies Changed Victorian Understandings of Race, Gender, Disease, and Climate

How Five Celebrity Scientists Used the Art of Public Speech to Advocate for Science as a Powerful Agent for Cultural Change

Illuminates the Importance of the Early History of Cloning for the Biosciences

Letters Detailing Highly Productive and Wide-Ranging Research

A Relatable, Complex Examination of the History of Health and Healing in Latin America across Five Centuries

Sheds New Light on the Stakes in the Conflict between Religion and the Sciences in the Age of Revolution and Reform

An Engaging History of the Less Glamorous but Equally Essential Aspects of Space Travel: Sanitation, Food Supply, and Waste Disposal

Presents A New Way of Looking at Peripheral Scientists and Demonstrates Their Creativity and Impact on the Larger Scientific Community

An Argument for Art and Science as Practices and Knowledges that Emerge from Shared Epistemologies Rather than Compartmentalized Disciplines

Reconsidering the Distinction between Scientific Discovery and Travel Writing in International Arctic Explorations

A History of Early International Preservationist Groups and the Natures They Sought to Preserve

The First Study of Medical Virology to Compare the History of Bacteriophages and Sarcoma Agents, Two Distinct but Equally Important Groups of Viruses

Public Disputes, Tyndall’s Dramatic Mountain Climbing Escapades, Efforts to Promote Science to a Wide Audience, and More