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Natural History in the Age of Revolutions, 1776–1848
In the Shadow of the Tree: The Diagrammatics of Relatedness as Scientific, Scholarly and Popular Practice
The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby
Culture at the Macro-Scale: Boundaries, Barriers and Endogenous Change
Making Climate History
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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power
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From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security
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How Collections End: Objects, Meaning and Loss in Laboratories and Museums
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Epsilon: A Collaborative Digital Framework for Nineteenth-Century Letters of Science
Contingency in the History and Philosophy of Science
Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University
FlyBase: Communicating Drosophila Genetics on Paper and Online, 1970–2000
The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936
From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge in Germanic Lands and Beyond, 1300–2018
Medical Publishers, Obscenity Law and the Business of Sexual Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Kinds of Intelligence
Varieties of Social Knowledge
The Vesalius Census
Histories of Biodiversity and Agriculture
Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments in the Whipple Museum Collection
Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984
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Generation to Reproduction
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