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Back to SearchSandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Sandra Harding‘s new book Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research (University of Chicago Press, 2015) raises new questions ab…
10 years, 9 months ago
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Tom Jackson‘s Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again (Bloomsbury, 2015) is a completely engrossing look into the history …
10 years, 10 months ago
Raf De Bont, “Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
While museums, labs, and botanical gardens have been widely studied by historians of science, field stations have received comparatively little atten…
10 years, 11 months ago
James A. Secord, “Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
James A. Secord‘s new book is both deeply enlightening and a pleasure to read. Emerging from the 2013 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at the Cambrid…
10 years, 11 months ago
Tom McLeish, “Faith and Wisdom in Science” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Much of the public debate about the relationship between science and theology has been antagonistic or adversarial. Proponents on both sides argue th…
11 years, 1 month ago
Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
While there are many well known cult television shows still revered by fans, MST3K continues to have an incredibly large following with a thriving fo…
11 years, 2 months ago
A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
A. Mark Smith‘s new book is a magisterial history of optics over the course of two millennia. From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern…
11 years, 3 months ago
Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Nick Wilding's new book is brilliant, thoughtful, and an absolute pleasure to read. Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and The Politics of Knowled…
11 years, 3 months ago
Nick Wilding, “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
Nick Wilding‘s new book is brilliant, thoughtful, and an absolute pleasure to read. Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and The Politics of Knowled…
11 years, 3 months ago
Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (
Evolution is among the most powerful ideas in the natural sciences. Indeed, the evolutionary theoristTheodosius Dobzhansky famouslysaid nothing in bi…
11 years, 3 months ago