"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism." Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @vicmanch.bsky.social

"Reading the book, one can simply enjoy being taken on a tour through the bewildering diversity of projects and ideas that preoccupied Linnaeus throughout his life [...] The biography, however, also challenges some widely held assumptions about Linnaeus."

"Lab Dog is a landmark study. Brad Bolman’s history of what might seem a niche subject is, in fact, an original and illuminating exploration of key aspects of the biological and biomedical sciences in the twentieth century." Read Michael Worboys' review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Neil Barton's main thesis in Iterative Conceptions of Set is that there is a tension at the heart of the iterative conception, whose resolution requires us to decide between at least two independently plausible but mutually exclusive principles of set-construction."

In Matthew Wiseman's Frontier Science, "the Arctic – or the more nebulous geographical term “the North” (33–35) – takes centre stage as the crux in the relationship between science and the Canadian military […] both as a natural laboratory and as a borderland that required protection."

Myles W. Jackson's "Broadcasting Fidelity" is "a beautiful academic study on the genesis and life of a complex technical object, well located in the interweaving of its scientific, technical, social, cultural and political contexts and attentive to the play of its various actors."

"Finding longitude at sea vexed navigators and captains for centuries [...] Now five distinguished historians have sought to understand how the difficult quest to discover a workable technology developed from there."

"Roby hypothetically imagines three historical contexts—Ptolemaic, Early Roman, and later Imperial Alexandria—and explores which aspects of Hero’s corpus would align with each of these settings."

"These findings put one more nail in the by-now well-sealed coffin of the myth of the disembodied, disengaged scientist who gains knowledge through contemplation alone." Rose Trappes on an attempt to centre bodies in our conception of the scientific enterprise: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From the print edition of the current issue of Metascience, here's a version of the Table of Contents that lists the books under review in each essay as well as the essay titles:

Metascience is excited to announce the publication of Volume 34, Issue 2, featuring an editorial introduction from our new Editor-in-Chief, Gregory Radick. See the full issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1101...

Anniversary review alert! Suman Seth reviews Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's, "Leviathan and the Air-Pump" for Metascience. Check out the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alltoosuman.bsky.social

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