New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
Published: 1/19/2021 -
Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Published: 1/19/2021 -
Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A New History" (Polity, 2020)
Published: 1/5/2021 -
Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
Published: 12/29/2020 -
David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Published: 12/22/2020 -
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Published: 12/22/2020 -
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Published: 12/18/2020 -
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Published: 12/15/2020 -
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling" (Duke UP, 2020)
Published: 12/11/2020 -
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Published: 11/25/2020 -
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Published: 11/17/2020 -
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Published: 11/16/2020 -
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Published: 10/21/2020 -
Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
Published: 10/12/2020 -
Kat Arney, "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal" (Benbella Books, 2020)
Published: 10/9/2020 -
M. del Pilar Blanco and J. Page, "Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America" (U Florida Press, 2020)
Published: 9/2/2020 -
Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Published: 8/26/2020 -
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Published: 8/24/2020 -
Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Published: 8/11/2020 -
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Published: 8/6/2020
Interviews with historians of science about their new books