history of science & technology
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Martin Paul Eve. Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History.
Eve unravels networks of conceptual, political, and technological premises embedded in the metaphors we use to label digital technologies of textual production.
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Scott B. Guthery. Practical Purposes: Readers in Experimental Philosophy at the Boston Athenaeum (1827-1850)
Guthery’s objective is “to inquire as to what the books Athenaeum members borrowed can tell us about the influence they had on their community” during the period 1827 to 1850…
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Elizabeth Yale. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
Elizabeth Yale. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 360p., 9 illus. ISBN 9780812247817. US $69.95 /£45.50 (hardback). It is…