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- Mar 23, 2020
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- Karl Galle
- About My Library
- My primary training is in the history of science, but my professional career has been a mix of teaching, international development, and science & health policy. The library collections here are thus a mix of my and my wife's different professional and hobby interests over successive work areas and locations. At the moment I am researching and writing a book about the life & times of Nicholas Copernicus, which is reflected in the large number of volumes in the history of astronomy & mathematics. The fact that the largest number of book entries (and a handful of old reviews) all date from March 2020 is just a reflection that this is the date when I migrated everything from an older GoodReads account.
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- Washington DC and Cairo
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- Between Copernicus and Galileo : Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology by James M. LattisEvil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy ; with a new preface by the author by Susan NeimanMapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture (History of Text Technologies) by S. LeitchGermany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 by Helmut Walser SmithKiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World by Josh TickellNews from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945 (Harvard Historical Studies) by Heidi J. S. TworekThe Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair MintzkerEmperor of the world : Charlemagne and the construction of imperial authority, 800-1229 by Anne Austin LatowskyDivine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending (Material Texts) by Elizabeth L. EisensteinSilencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition by Michel-Rolph TrouillotThe poison trials : wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in Renaissance science by Alisha Michelle ̌RankinScandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe by C. Philipp E. Nothaft
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