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June 01 2015
Book Review: “Command of Nature in Action”: From Experiment to Empire
Matthew C. Hunter.
Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London
. : University of Chicago Press
, 2013
. xviii + 329 pp., illus., bibl., index. ISBN: 9-780-2260-1729-7. $55.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9-780-2260-1732-7. $44.00 (e-book).Mary Terrall.
Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
. : University of Chicago Press
, 2014
. 275 pp., illus., bibl., index. ISBN: 9-780-2260-8860-0. $40.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9-780-2260-8874-7. $32.00 (e-book).Rosalind Williams.
The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World
. : University of Chicago Press
, 2013
. xii + 416 pp., illus., index. ISBN: 9-780-2268-9955-8. $30.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9-780-2268-9958-9. $18.00 (e-book).
Craig Ashley Hanson
Craig Ashley Hanson
Calvin College, Department of Art & Art History, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546; chanson@calvin.edu.
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2015) 45 (3): 493–500.
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Craig Ashley Hanson; Book Review: “Command of Nature in Action”: From Experiment to Empire. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 June 2015; 45 (3): 493–500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2015.45.3.493
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