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Pandemics in South East Asia

The first bibliographical essay in our Pandemics series has arrived: Vivek Neelakantan’s very interesting “History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia: A Return of National Anxieties? “ and his bibliography. The […]

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Race and Science Word Cloud

Today I was able to complete a small visualization that I’ve been working on in conjunction with the Race and the History of Science project announced in my June 9 […]

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2019 Isis Current Bibliography

The 2019 issue of the Isis Current Bibliography is available at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/2019/110/S1. The bibliographical essay on archeaoastronomy is by one of our Contributing Editors, Luís Tirapicos. You can find his […]

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The Timeline for IsisCB Explore

This week we made public a new timeline feature for IsisCB Explore. The timeline is currently visible only on the authority record layouts. Below I’ll explain how to find these […]

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Dissertations in the IsisCB…and what they say about our history

Recently, I have been analyzing the dissertation data in the IsisCB, looking for information that might help us understand the history of our discipline. The dissertation records have a lot of […]

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Digital Humanities in History and Philosophy of Science

September 8, 2013 Stephen P. Weldon Leave a comment

This past weekend, I attended the Digital HPS conference hosted by Bill Newman and Wally Hooper on the beautiful Indiana University campus in Bloomington. The conference was, I believe, the fourteenth meeting of a group of historians and philosophers of science who are building digital tools and doing cutting edge “big data” research. They have formed the Digital HPS Consortium. […]

The Subject of Touch in the History of Science

August 31, 2013 Stephen P. Weldon Leave a comment

In my last post I mentioned that I recently came across a series of entries dealing with the sense of touch. Since 2000, this has been a rather uncommon topic. There were medically related works about such things as diagnostic touch and the healing power of touch but only about ten citations on the scientific study of touch or similar […]

Introducing “Citations” and the Social CB

August 27, 2013 Stephen P. Weldon Leave a comment

The Isis Current Bibliography (or Isis CB as it is colloquially known) becomes a century old this year, and as its current editor, I am introducing some changes that will modernize the bibliography and enrich its users. The first of these changes has been to refashion the Isis Bibliography website. After many years with a static and inactive web page, […]

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