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Critiques of Big Science (2023)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2023). Critiques of Big Science. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris, & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts. IOP Publishing

The name “big science,” like “big bang” or “big pharma,” began as a slur. Big science, that is, has been the subject of critique for at least as long as we have had a name for it. This chapter explores that legacy. It demonstrates how big science bec... Read More about Critiques of Big Science.

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873 (2023)
Book
Barton, M. D., Martin, J. D., Radick, G., & MacLeod, R. (Eds.). (2023). The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from June 1, 1872, to September 28, 1873, much of which was consumed by Tyndall’s lecture tour of the United States. We meet him in the midst of the Ay... Read More about The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873.

“In the shape of a cooking pot over the fire”: Records of solar prominences in the 1180s (2023)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2023). “In the shape of a cooking pot over the fire”: Records of solar prominences in the 1180s. Endeavour, 47(3), Article 100875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100875

The second half of the 1180s witnessed an unusual number of solar eclipses visible within Europe in quick succession. These were recorded or referenced in a wide range of sources, from chronicles in Latin and Old Church Slavonic to the earliest epic... Read More about “In the shape of a cooking pot over the fire”: Records of solar prominences in the 1180s.

The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study (2023)
Book
Gameson, R., Beeby, A., Fiorillo, F., Nicholson, C., Ricciardi, P., & Reynolds, S. (2023). R. Gameson (Ed.), The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study. Archetype

This comprehensive and richly illustrated volume is the first-ever history of British medieval illuminators’ pigments. It rests on first-hand investigation, with optimal scientific techniques, of a wide selection of manuscripts, ranging in date from... Read More about The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study.

Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870 (2023)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2023). Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870. In P. Stewart, & C. M. Anderson (Eds.), Connoisseurship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923587.003.0005

This chapter asks: how far can we better understand the function and meaning of museums by a history of what they did not acquire? It explores the extraordinarily rich accession records for the Louvre, working through the often eccentric postbag of l... Read More about Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c.1848–1870.

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: the Written and the World, 711-1031 (2023)
Book
Barrett, G. (2023). Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: the Written and the World, 711-1031. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895370.001.0001

This book is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall... Read More about Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: the Written and the World, 711-1031.