New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/12/2025
2. Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

   Published: 4/30/2025
3. Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)

   Published: 4/23/2025
4. Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)

   Published: 4/17/2025
5. Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/2/2025
6. William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/28/2025
7. Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/18/2025
8. Anne Greenwood Mackinney, "Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/15/2025
9. M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/10/2025
10. Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/8/2025
11. Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/2/2025
12. Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/9/2025
13. Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/28/2025
14. Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/27/2025
15. Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/21/2025
16. Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/19/2025
17. Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 1/18/2025
18. Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)

    Published: 1/18/2025
19. Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/17/2025
20. Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/15/2025