The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume …
The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration …
The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the …
This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is …
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the …
