Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall spans from January 1867 to December 1868. It begins with Tyndall publicly enmeshed in a controversy that revealed his views on race, politics, and justifiable violence. Further pressure is exerted on him personally by the death of his mother Sarah, and the numerous ...

A Much-Needed Study ofInfrastructures and How Technologies of Modernity Enriched Scientific Knowledge

Tells the Unknown Story of How Women Shaped Scientific Culture in Eighteenth-Century Spain