New Books in the History of Science

747 Episodes

1. Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/15/2024
2. Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

   Published: 4/15/2024
3. Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 4/15/2024
4. Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/14/2024
5. Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 4/13/2024
6. James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/9/2024
7. Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/1/2024
8. Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/1/2024
9. Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

   Published: 3/31/2024
10. Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/30/2024
11. Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)

    Published: 3/24/2024
12. Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/21/2024
13. Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 3/16/2024
14. Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)

    Published: 3/10/2024
15. Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)

    Published: 3/8/2024
16. Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/6/2024
17. Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/2/2024
18. Sara J. Grossman, "Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy" (Duke UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/28/2024
19. Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/14/2024
20. Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)

    Published: 1/30/2024