History of Science

<p>Science is one of the main features of the contemporary world, and shapes our lives to an extent that has no precedents in history. Yet science as we know it today is the outcome of contingent social processes, and its global success is far from self-explanatory. How did it happen? How did science emerge in history and became the most authoritative source of knowledge available in late modern societies? This set of volumes address these crucial questions through a selection of exemplary publications spanning antiquity to the present day. The reader will find an effective survey of the best scholarship in this rapidly growing field, and a map of the main revolutions as well as the long-term continuities that have characterized our understanding the world and our attempts to control it. The volumes bring together areas of inquiry that have become increasingly distant and specialized - such as the history of antique science or Cold War studies - within broader narratives of the making of the modern world. They also reassess the traditional assumption of the exclusively Greek and Western origins of modern science, situating relevant knowledge, practices, and artifacts within the global networks that sustained them – in ancient as well as in modern times. The contributions will address key historiographical issues such as the relationship between science, magic, and religion; the role of science in nation-building processes; and the relationship between science and technology. Throughout the volumes, authors will also engage with broader theoretical issues such as the distribution of agency in the making of science; the way scientific knowledge is made universal; and the interplay of science, technology, and politics. </p> <p>Volume 4: Science in the Age of Enlightenment</p><p>48. Jan Golinski, ‘Science <i>in </i>the Enlightenment, Revisited’, <i>History of Science, </i>49, 2011, 49, 217-231. </p><p>49. Lissa Roberts, ‘Situating Science in Global History: Local Exchanges and Networks of Circulation’, <i>Itinerario</i>, 33, 2009, 9-30.</p><p>50. Simon Schaffer, ‘Enlightened Automata’, in W. Clark, J. Golinski and S. Schaffer (eds), <i>The Sciences in Enlightened Europe’, </i>(Chicago University Press, 1999), pp. 126-165.</p><p>51. Niccolo Guicciardini, ‘The Role of Musical Analogies in Newton’s Optical and Cosmological Work’, <i>Journal of the History of Ideas</i>, 74, 2013, 45-67. </p><p>52. Massimo Mazzotti, ‘Newton for Ladies: Gentility, Gender, and Radical Culture’, <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i>, 37, 2004, 119-146. </p><p>53. Jessica Riskin, ‘Machines in the Garden’, <i>Republic of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts</i>, 1, 2010, 16-43. </p><p>54. Ken Alder, ‘French Engineers become Professionals; or How Meritocracy Made Knowledge Objective’, in in W. Clark, J. Golinski and S. Schaffer (eds), <i>The Sciences in Enlightened Europe’, </i>(Chicago University Press, 1999), pp. 94-125.</p><p>55. Andre Wakefield, ‘The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened German Science’, in B. Schmidt and P. Smith (eds), <i>Knowledge and Its Making in Early Modern Europe</i> (University of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 273-287. </p><p>56. Lorraine Daston, ‘Enlightenment Calculations’, <i>Critical Inquiry</i>, 21, 1994, 182-202. </p><p>57. Neil Safier, ‘Global Knowledge on the Move; Itineraries, Amerindian Narratives, and Deep Histories of Science’, <i>Isis</i>, 101, 2010, 133-145. </p><p>58. Kapil Raj, ‘Colonial Encounters, and the Forging of New Knowledge and National Identities: Great Britain and India, 1760-1850’, in S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds), <i>Social History of Science in Colonial India </i>(Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 83-101. Originally published in <i>Osiris</i>, 15, 2001, 119-34.</p><p>59. Daniela Bleichmar, ‘Visible Empire: Scientific Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment’, <i>Postcolonial Studies</i>, 12, 2009, 441–466. </p><p>60. Londa Schiebinger, ‘Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World’, <i>Social History of Medicine</i>, 26, 2013, 364–382. </p><p>61. Mary Terrall, ‘Salon, Academy and Boudoir: Generation and Desire in Maupertuis’s Science of Life’, <i>Isis, </i>87, 1996, 217-229. </p><p>62. Staffan Mueller-Wille, ‘Nature as a Marketplace: The Political Economy of Linnaean Botany’, <i>History of Political Economy</i>, 35, 2003, 154-172. </p><p>63. Larry Stewart, ‘Experimental Spaces and the Knowledge Economy’, <i>History of Science</i>, 45, 2007, 1-23. </p><p>64. William J. Ashworth, ‘The Ghost of Rostow: Science, Culture and the British Industrial Revolution’, <i>History of Science</i>, 46, 2008, 249-274. </p>