Annals of Science, Volume 78, Issue 2 (2021)

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Annals of Science, Volume 78, Issue 2 (2021)

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Isaac Newton’s ‘De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum’: its purpose in historical context
Dmitri Levitin
Pages: 133-161
Published online: 11 Apr 2021
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Aurora borealis systems in the German-Russian world in the first half of the eighteenth century: the cases of Friedrich Christoph Mayer and Leonhard Euler
E. Chassefière
Pages: 162-196
Published online: 01 Mar 2021
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Traces on a Muddy Shore. Science and religion in Colonial and Early Independent Río de la Plata
Miguel de Asúa
Pages: 197-220
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society’s mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein
William H. Brock & David E. Lewis
Pages: 221-245
Published online: 23 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome
by Vivian Nutton, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, xiii + 209 pp., 12 plts., $39.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-35723-8
Michael Mcvaugh
Pages: 246-248
Published online: 15 Feb 2021
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Cutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen’s anatomical experiments. Studies in Ancient Medicine 55
by Luis Alejandro Salas, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2020, x + 328 pp., €119.00 (Hardback); $143.00, ISBN 978-90-04-43918-4
Vivian Nutton
Pages: 248-250
Published online: 25 Feb 2021
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Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s blood: alchemy and end times in reformation Germany
by Tara Nummedal, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, xi + 288 pp., 16 fig., £37.00 (Hardback); $39.95, ISBN 978-0-81225-089-3
Stefan Laube
Pages: 250-252
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Healers, innovators, entrepreneurs: women in early modern healthcare
Forgotten Healers: women and the pursuit of health in late Renaissance Italy, by Sharon Strocchia, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2020, ix + 330 pp., $49.95, £39.95, €45.00, ISBN 978-0674241749
Elizabeth W. Mellyn
Pages: 252-259
Published online: 18 Feb 2021
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Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
edited by M. J. Crawford and J. M. Gabriel, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019, ix+374 pp., $50.00, ISBN 0-822-94562-2
Katrina Maydom
Pages: 259-261
Published online: 13 Jan 2021
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Forbidden knowledge: medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy
by Hannah Marcus, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2020, xi + 356 pp., 36 fig., $45.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-73658-7
Craig Martin
Pages: 261-264
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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