New Books in the History of Science
A podcast by New Books Network
747 Episodes
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Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Published: 9/4/2023 -
Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)
Published: 9/1/2023 -
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Published: 8/29/2023 -
Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Published: 8/28/2023 -
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Published: 8/25/2023 -
Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Published: 8/23/2023 -
Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 8/22/2023 -
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Published: 8/20/2023 -
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Published: 8/15/2023 -
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Published: 8/11/2023 -
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
Published: 8/10/2023 -
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Published: 8/6/2023 -
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Published: 8/3/2023 -
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Published: 8/2/2023 -
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Published: 8/1/2023 -
Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Published: 7/29/2023 -
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
Published: 7/29/2023 -
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Published: 7/21/2023 -
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Published: 7/21/2023 -
Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Published: 7/16/2023
Interviews with historians of science about their new books