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History of Science publishes analytically oriented articles that combine original research and critical engagement with up-to-date secondary literature in the history of science, technology and medicine. The journal also publishes articles that focus on relevant historiographical issues and matters related to teaching the history of science, technology and medicine... View full journal description

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Correcting art with science: Victorian painting in Nature

  • Julie Codell
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Amazonian cosmologies, plant–human relations and the colonial entanglements of Indigenous artifacts

  • Raphael Uchôa
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Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers

  • Luís Miguel Carolino
  • Ana Simões
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Bionomic historicism: Darwinian ichthyology and non-Needhamian histories of Indian science

  • Projit Bihari Mukharji
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The crisis in American science

  • Kathryn M. Olesko
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Cruel works of many wheels: Prison treadmills and nineteenth-century sciences of productive labor

  • Simon Schaffer
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Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities

  • Lissa Roberts
  • Seth Rockman
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Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’

  • Sadiah Qureshi
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The crisis in American science

  • Kathryn M. Olesko
  • Anthony Eames
  • Cyrus C. M. Mody
  • Ilana Löwy
  • Thomas Zeller
  • Mark Walker
  • Mitchell G. Ash
  • Donna Haraway
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Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology

  • Matthew Vollgraff
  • Marco Tamborini
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(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus

  • Patrick Anthony
  • Juliana Broad
  • Xan Chacko
  • Zachary Dorner
  • Judith Kaplan
  • Duygu Yıldırım
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Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany

  • Bettina Dietz
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