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Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United States by Baldwin, Melinda

“…This essay traces the history of refereeing at specialist scientific journals and at funding bodies and shows that it was only in the late twentieth century…”
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Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science by Raj, Kapil

“…This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context…”
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Trading Zones in Early Modern Europe by Long, Pamela O.

“…This essay adopts the concept of trading zones first developed for the history of science by Peter Galison and redefines it for the early modern period. The…”
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Knowledge in Transit by Secord, James A.

“…What big questions and large‐scale narratives give coherence to the history of science? From the late 1970s onward, the field has been transformed through a…”
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Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt’s Plant Geography and Vertical Cartography by Anthony, Patrick

“…By resituating Alexander von Humboldt in the “working world” of mining, this essay offers a case study of the way in which industry has shaped practice and…”
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History of Science and History of Philologies by Daston, Lorraine, Most, Glenn W.

“…While both the sciences and the humanities, as currently defined, may be too heterogeneous to be encompassed within a unified historical framework, there is…”
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The Reinvention of General Relativity: A Historiographical Framework for Assessing One Hundred Years of Curved Space-time by Blum, Alexander, Lalli, Roberto, Renn, Jürgen

“…The history of the theory of general relativity presents unique features. After its discovery, the theory was immediately confirmed and rapidly changed…”
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Nehruvian Science and Postcolonial India by Arnold, David

“…This essay uses the seminal figure of Jawaharlal Nehru to interrogate the nature and representation of science in modern India. The problem posed by Nehruvian…”
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The Experimenter's Museum: GenBank, Natural History, and the Moral Economies of Biomedicine by Strasser, Bruno J.

“…Today, the production of knowledge in the experimental life sciences relies crucially on the use of biological data collections, such as DNA sequence…”
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Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory by Sivasundaram, Sujit

“…This essay explores the mechanics of researching and writing globally oriented histories of science. Thinking about how to approach sources is vital,…”
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Introduction: Science and Practices of Translation by Dupré, Sven

“…Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life,…”
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Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe by Hanson, Marta, Pomata, Gianna

“…This essay deals with the medical recipe as an epistemic genre that played an important role in the cross-cultural transmission of knowledge. The article first…”
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The “Contemporary Synthesis”: When Politically Inclusive Genomic Science Relies on Biological Notions of Race by Fullwiley, Duana

“…This essay outlines the emergence of a contemporary synthesis regarding racial thinking in genetic science and in society more broadly. A departure from what…”
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The East India Company, the Company’s Museum, and the Political Economy of Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century by Ratcliff, Jessica

“…At the turn of the nineteenth century, at its headquarters in the City of London, the Honourable East India Company established a new museum and library. By…”
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On Scientific Observation by Daston, Lorraine

“…For much of the last forty years, certain shared epistemological concerns have guided research in both the history and the philosophy of science: the testing…”
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A “Precious Minority”: Constructing the “Gifted” and “Academically Talented” Student in the Era of Brown v. Board of Education and the National Defense Education Act by Porter, Jim Wynter

“…This essay investigates the emergence of a profusion of lay and specialist literature in the late 1950s United States advocating on behalf of “gifted” and…”
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The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science by Hicks, Daniel J., Stapleford, Thomas A.

“…“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular…”
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The Philosopher and the Craftsman: Francis Bacon’s Notion of Experiment and Its Debt to Early Stuart Inventors by Pastorino, Cesare

“…The key role that Francis Bacon played in the reevaluation of mechanical arts is a well-established tenet of the scholarship on the Scientific Revolution…”
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Making Expert Knowledge through the Image: Connections between Antiquarian and Early Modern Scientific Illustration by Moser, Stephanie

“…This essay examines drawings of antiquities in the context of the history of early modern scientific illustration. The role of illustrations in the…”
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A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century by Hess, Volker

“…This article introduces Turing’s idea of a “paper machine” to identify and understand one important mode of clinical research in the modern hospital, how that…”
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