Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000591
Jonnie Penn
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Pub Date : 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000360
Kevin Matthew Jones
{"title":"Susanne Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvanist Cliché Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-226-63714-3. $89.00 (cloth).","authors":"Kevin Matthew Jones","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140966790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000396
Emily Webster
{"title":"Stig S. Frøland, Duel without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes (trans. John Irons) London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 632. ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2. £30.00 GBP (paperback).","authors":"Emily Webster","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140997584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000256
Yasmin Haskell
{"title":"Martin Korenjak, Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-886605-3. £120.00 (hardback).","authors":"Yasmin Haskell","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1017/s000708742400027x
Vivian Nutton
{"title":"Colin Webster, Tools and Organisms: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-82877-0. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"Vivian Nutton","doi":"10.1017/s000708742400027x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000708742400027x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000232
Tom Crook
{"title":"Roland Jackson, Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-8229-4790-5. $65.00 (hardcover).","authors":"Tom Crook","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1017/s0007087423001000
Robert G. W. Anderson
{"title":"Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Curious Devices and Mighty Machines: Exploring Science Museums London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-789-14639-4. £20.00 (hardback).","authors":"Robert G. W. Anderson","doi":"10.1017/s0007087423001000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087423001000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140259385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000189
Karl Hall
{"title":"David Zimmerman, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4875-4365-5. $85.00 (hardcover).","authors":"Karl Hall","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140258347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000177
M. Cooley
{"title":"Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-226-82312-6. $49.00 (cloth).","authors":"M. Cooley","doi":"10.1017/s0007087424000177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501834,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal for the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140088529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1017/s000708742300105x
Brit Shields
This essay explores how mid-twentieth-century mathematicians at New York University envisioned their discipline, cultural identities and social roles, and how these self-constructed identities materialized in the planning of their new academic building, Warren Weaver Hall. These mathematicians considered their research to be a ‘living part of the stream of science’, requiring a mathematics research library which they equated to a scientific laboratory and a complex of computing rooms which served as an interdisciplinary research centre. Identifying as ‘scientists’, they understood their societal value to be that of researchers, outputting mathematics research valuable to the natural sciences, the emerging field of computer science and the United States government and military, as well as educators. When the building opened in 1965, it was touted by the university administration as an ‘example of excellence’; it later, in 1970, became the site of heated negotiations when university student and faculty protestors staged a sit-in rebuking the Atomic Energy Commission's Computing Center housed on the second floor. A close study of the correspondence between the mathematicians and their peers in the university's administration, private foundations, government agencies and an architectural firm not only illuminates the day-to-day work practices of this eminent group of mathematicians, but also sheds light on their own self-constructed academic and social identities within their contemporaneous Cold War culture.
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