New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

   Published: 10/28/2022
2. Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 10/17/2022
3. Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)

   Published: 10/11/2022
4. The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital

   Published: 10/3/2022
5. On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"

   Published: 9/30/2022
6. Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 9/29/2022
7. On Einstein's Discoveries

   Published: 9/29/2022
8. On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

   Published: 9/28/2022
9. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

   Published: 9/27/2022
10. The Future of Brainwashing: A Discussion with Daniel Pick

    Published: 9/27/2022
11. Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

    Published: 9/26/2022
12. History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong

    Published: 9/14/2022
13. Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/13/2022
14. Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 9/12/2022
15. On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"

    Published: 9/8/2022
16. The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory

    Published: 9/8/2022
17. William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)

    Published: 9/8/2022
18. Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)

    Published: 9/7/2022
19. On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"

    Published: 9/5/2022
20. On "Encyclopédie"

    Published: 9/2/2022