Sara N. Hottinger. Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics. Albany: SUNY, 2016. 205 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6009-3.
Reviewed by Andrew Fiss (Michigan Technological University) Published on H-PhysicalSciences (April, 2017) Commissioned by Daniel Liu
Jan Rüger, Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds. Rewriting German History: New Perspectives on Modern Germany. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 336. pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-34778-7.
Reviewed by Ryan Dahn (University of Chicago, CHSS) Published on H-PhysicalSciences (March, 2017) Commissioned by Daniel Liu
Rebecca Priestley. Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. Illustrations, graphs. xii + 284 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-86940-727-8.
Reviewed by Maria Rentetzi (National Technical University of Athens) Published on H-PhysicalSciences (September, 2014) Commissioned by Marta Jordi Taltavull
Uncovering New Zealand’s nuclearity
Craig Martin. Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 224 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-0187-4.
Reviewed by Arianna Borrelli (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Published on H-PhysicalSciences (September, 2014) Commissioned by Marta Jordi Taltavull
Renaissance Aristotelianism and Meteorology
Monica Azzolini. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 370 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06663-2.
Reviewed by Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Published on H-PhysicalSciences (December, 2013) Commissioned by Marta Jordi Taltavull
