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Scientific Families: Biographies and "Labographies" in the History of Science

Scientific Families: Biographies and "Labographies" in the History of Science Scientific Families: Biographies and “Labographies” in the History of Science BY M A RY J O N Y E ∗ Deborah R. Coen. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 380 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-226111-72-8. $45 (cloth). Michael Hoskin. The Herschels of Hanover. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2007. x + 182 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-905193-07-6. $52 (cloth). Laura Otis. Müller’s Lab. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xix + 316 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-195306-97-2. $55 (cloth). Most of us like to hear family stories. Some of us (my mother) remember without effort the names of the ten children of great-grandparents and their order of birth, marriages, occupations, and personalities. Others (Honoré Balzac) write, with coffee-fired imagination, of the intricacies of family greed and vice. Histories of science sometimes are histories of biological families and often of intellectual families. Among the many biological families who come to mind are the Cassinis, the Bernoullis, the Becquerels, the Curies, the Darwins, and the Huxleys. Husbands and wives have been scientific collaborators, like William and Margaret Huggins or Pierre and Marie Curie, as have parents and their offspring, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences University of California Press

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University of California Press
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Copyright © by the University of California Press
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
1939-1811
eISSN
1939-182X
DOI
10.1525/hsns.2009.39.1.104
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Scientific Families: Biographies and “Labographies” in the History of Science BY M A RY J O N Y E ∗ Deborah R. Coen. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 380 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-226111-72-8. $45 (cloth). Michael Hoskin. The Herschels of Hanover. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2007. x + 182 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-905193-07-6. $52 (cloth). Laura Otis. Müller’s Lab. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xix + 316 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-195306-97-2. $55 (cloth). Most of us like to hear family stories. Some of us (my mother) remember without effort the names of the ten children of great-grandparents and their order of birth, marriages, occupations, and personalities. Others (Honoré Balzac) write, with coffee-fired imagination, of the intricacies of family greed and vice. Histories of science sometimes are histories of biological families and often of intellectual families. Among the many biological families who come to mind are the Cassinis, the Bernoullis, the Becquerels, the Curies, the Darwins, and the Huxleys. Husbands and wives have been scientific collaborators, like William and Margaret Huggins or Pierre and Marie Curie, as have parents and their offspring,

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Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesUniversity of California Press

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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