科学史学会（History of Science Society）刊物 Isis 今年第1期于3月4日出刊。现撮录与古代至现代早期科学史主题有关的论文、书评信息等如下。
研究论文
- Hyeok Hweon Kang. Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–1635
书评部分所评图书
▸ 通史
- Nick Hopwood; Rebecca Flemming; Lauren Kassell, eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day.
- Rocío G. Sumillera; Jan Surman; Katharina Kühn, eds. Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation.
- Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age; Carolyn Merchant. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability.
▸ 中世纪与文艺复兴
- Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi, eds. Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement.
- Diana Luft. Medieval Welsh Medical Texts. Volume 1: The Recipes.
- Jennifer M. Rampling. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700.
▸ 现代早期
- Rienk Vermij. Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground.
- Philip Beeley; Yelda Nasifoglu; Benjamin Wardhaugh, eds. Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books.
- Phillip Reid. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology.
- Susan Wells. Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge.
- Lawrence M. Principe. The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royal des Sciences.
- Stefanie Gänger. A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1750–1820.
- Ursula Klein. Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750–1850.
- Dániel Bárth. The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar.
此外，值得博物学史研究者注意的还有 Fabian Kraemer 等人的研究论文 “Botany and the Science of History: Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Civilization, circa 1850–1900”，以及以下被评论的图书：
- A. Joan Saab. Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See.
- C. Pierce Salguero, ed. Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources.
- Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950.
- Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund. Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century.
- Henry M. Cowles. The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey.
- Mary Anne Andrei. Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species.
- Judith Farquhar; Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South.
本期的专题文章讨论作为编史学概念的“田野”（fields），涉及对现当代生态学的科学史研究，同样值得关注。