科学史学会(History of Science Society)刊物 Isis 今年第2期于6月初出刊。现撮录与古代至现代早期科学史、博物学史有关的论文、书评信息等如下。
研究论文
- Magdaléna Jánošíková. United in Scholarship, Divided in Practice: (Re)Translating Smallpox and Measles for Seventeenth-Century Jews.
- Kyoungjin Bae. Export Furniture and Artisanal Translation in Eighteenth-Century Canton.
书评部分所评图书
▸ 通史
- Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. When Maps Become the World.
- Philip Ball. The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery.
- Anna Reser; Leila McNeill. Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science.
▸ 古代
- Christopher Byrne. Aristotle’s Science of Matter and Motion.
▸ 中世纪与文艺复兴
- David Pingree. Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic.
- Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c. 1275–c. 1330).
- Seb Falk. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science.
▸ 现代早期
- Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiments, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science.
- Hannah Marcus. Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy.
- Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850.
- Timothy M. Harrison. Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England.
- Zachary Dorner. Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century.
- Joan Steigerwald. Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800.
▸ 现代
- Steven Turner. The Science of James Smithson: Discoveries from the Smithsonian Founder.
- Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity.
- Bill Jenkins. Evolution before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834.