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Department of History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

MARRIED: Patricia Gregory

EDUCATION:

  • B.S. Wheaton College, 1965
  • B.D. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1968
  • M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1970
  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973

CORRESPONDING MEMBER of the International Academy of the History of Science, Brussels

MEMBER, History of Science Society :

  • Newsletter Advisory Committee, 1971
  • HOSS Council, 1981-1984, 1989-1991
  • Program Co-Chairman, Norwalk Meeting, 1983
  • Member, Program Committee, 1982-1986
  • Chairman, Committee on Honors and Prizes, 1984-1987
  • Member, Nominating Committee, 1985-1986
  • Member, Programs and Priorities Committee, 1988-1989
  • Designated Lecturer, HOSS Visiting Historians of Science Lecture Program, 1988-89
  • Co-Chair, Local Arrangements, 1989 Annual Meeting
  • Member, Publications Committee, 1989-1994
  • Vice President and President Elect, 1995-1996
  • President, 1996-1997
  • Program co-chair (with Edith Sylla), 75th Anniversary meeting, 1999
  • Member, Pfizer Prize Committee, 2002-2003. Chair, 2003
  • Chair, Alumni Fund Campaign, NEH Matching Grant, 2007

DIBNER INSTITUTE, MIT

  • Visiting Fellow, 1995

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

  • Associate Chair, 1984-1988
  • Chair, 1991-1995

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

  • History of Science Editor, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 1977-1981.
  • History of Science Co-Editor (with Robert Hatch), The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 1982-90.
  • Contributing Editor, Science and Culture in the Western Tradition: Sources and Interpretations (Scottsdale: Scarisbrick, 1987)
  • Contributing Editor in the series, Geschichte der Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Köln: Dinter Verlag).

GRANTS:

Grants received from:

  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • American Philosophical Society (2)
  • University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research
  • National Science Foundation
  • Dibner Institute
  • Volkswagen Stiftung

TEACHING

  • Winner of the 1989 John Mahon Undergraduate Teaching Award
  • Winner of the 1989 Wilensky Graduate Teaching Award
  • Recipient (with Robert Hatch) of 2-year (1989-90) $260,000 NSF grant to train secondary teachers of science and of history in history of science
  • Chair, Committee on Teaching, Department of History, 1990-1991.
  • Recipient, University of Florida Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) award, 1995
  • Summer School, Florence, Italy, 2005
  • “History of Science, 1700-1900,” 36 audio/video lectures with The Great Courses (Chantilly, VA, 2004).
  • “The Darwinian Revolution,” 24 audio-video lectures with The Great Courses, (Chantilly, VA, 2009)

BOOKS:

  • Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany. Foreword by Marx Wartofsky. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1977.
  • Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic Sense by Jakob Fries. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gregory. Trans. Kent Richter (Düsseldorf: Dinter Verlag, 1989)
  • Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
  • History of Science: 1700-1900. Parts I, II, III. Transcripts of lectures produced by The Teaching Company. (Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Co, 2004).
  • Natural Science in Western Civilization, Vol. I: Ancient Times to Newton. Vol. II: Newton to the Present (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Co., 2008).
  • The Darwinian Revolution. Parts I, II. Transcripts of lectures produced by The Teaching Company. (Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Co, 2009).

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

  • “Scientific vs. Dielectical Materialism: A Clash of Ideologies in Nineteenth Century German Radicalism,” Isis, 68(1977), 206-23.
  • “Die Kritik von J.F. Fries an Schellings Naturphilosophie,” Sudhoffs Archiv, 67 (1983), 145-57.
  • “Regulative Therapeutics in the German Romantic Period,” Clio Medica, 18 (1983), 179-89.
  • “Foundations of Geometry in the German Romantic Era,” Historia Mathematica, 10 (1983), 184-201.
  • “Romantic Kantianism and the End of the Newtonian Dream in Chemistry,” Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 34 (1984), 108-23.
  • “Trail Blazing,” Essay review of Timothy Lenoir, The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in 19th Century German Biology, Isis, 75 (1984), 444-448.
  • “The Historical Investigation of Science in North America,” Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 16 (1985), 151-66.
  • “The Use and Abuse of the Western Scientific Heritage, ” pp. 218-29 in Joseph Konvitz, ed., What Americans Should Know (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1985).
  • “The Impact of Darwinian Evolution of Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century,” chapter 16 in God and Nature, ed. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
  • “Isaac Newton and the Magic of Science,” chapter 2 in Makers of Modern Europe, ed. William J. Baker (Lexington: Ginn Publishing Co., January, 1987).
  • Introduction to “Progress and Rationality in Science,” in Science and Culture in the Western Tradition, John G. Burke, ed., (Scottsdale: Scarisbrick, 1987).
  • “Kant’s Influence on Natural Science in the German Romantic Period,” pp. 53-66 in New Trends in the History of Science, (Dordecht: Reidel, 1988).
  • “Kant, Schelling and the Administration of Science in the German Romantic Era, Osiris, 5 (1989), pp. 17-35.
  • “Theology and the Sciences in the German Romantic Period,” pp. 69-81 in Romanticism and the Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  • “Darwin and the German Theologians,” pp. 269-278 in William Woodward and Robert Cohen, eds., World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation (Amsterdam: Kluwer Publications, 1991).
  • “Hat Müller Wirklich die Naturphilosophie Aufgegeben?”, pp. 143-154 in Michael Hagnar and Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt, ed. Johannes Müller und die Philosophie (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1992).
  • “Theologians, Science, and Theories of Truth in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” pp. 81-96, The Invention of Physical Science (Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992).
  • “‘Nature is an Organized Whole: J. F. Fries’s Neo-Kantian Reformulation of Kant’s Philosophy of Organism”, pp. 91-102 in Maurizio Bossi and Stefano Poggi, Romanticism in Science: Science in Europe 1790-1840 (Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994).
  • “G.H. Schubert and the Dark Side of Natural Science,” NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Science, Technology, and Medicine, III, No. 4 (1995), pp. 255-69.
  • “The Neo-Kantian Vitalism of J.F. Fries,” pp. 85-96 in Vitalisms: From Haller to Cell Theory, 1450-1850. Ed. G. Cimino and F. Duchesneau (Rome: Enciclopedia Italia, 1995).
  • “Science and Religion In Western History.” pp. 35-70 in Henry Steffens, ed., in Topical Essays for Teachers (Seattle: History of Scince Socieity, 1995).
  • “Embracing Polarization,” Essay Review of The Flight from Science and reason, ed. by Paul gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin Lewis in Isis, 88(1997), pp. 312-15.
  • “The Neo-Kantian Vitalism of J.F. Fries,” pp. 85-96 in G. Cimino and F. Duchesneau, eds. Vitalisms: From Haller to Cell Theory, (Florence: Olschki, 1997).
  • “Two Dogmas of Historiography,” pp. 211-21 in R. Dodel, E. Seidel, and L. Steindler, eds. Ideengeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Cologne: Dinter verlag, 1997).
  • “Materialism,” pp. 176-81 in Gary Ferngren et al, eds. Encyclopedia of the History of Science and Religion (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000).
  • “The Mysteries and Wonders of Natural Science: Bernstein’s Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbücher and the Adolescent Einstein”, pp. 23-41 in John Stachel and Donald Howard, eds. Einstein: The Formative Years 1879-1909 (Boston: Birkhauser, 2000).
  • “Naturalism’s Historical Assault on Religion,” pp. 19-37 in Hyung S. Choi, David F. Siemens, Jr., and Shirley Williams, eds., Naturalism: Its Impact on Science, Religion and Literature (Phoenix: Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001).
  • “Intersections of Physical Science and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Mary Jo Nye, ed., Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5: Modern Physical Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 36-53.
  • “Science and Religion,” Chapter 11 in David Cahan, ed. From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 329-58.
  • “Immanuel Kant,” in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Chicago: Macmillan Reference, 2004).
  • “Naturphilosophie,” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons).
  • “Entstehung und Voraussetzungen alternativer Wissenschaften,” pp. 83-97 in Klaus Vondung and Ludwig Pfeiffer, eds. Jenseits der enzauberten Welt: Naturwissenschaft und Mystik in der Moderne (Paderborn :Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006).
  • “Extending Kant: The Origins and Development of J.F. Fries’s Philosophy of Science,” pp. 81-100 in Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordman, eds., The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006).
  • “Mystik methodisch maskieren,” pp. 97-114 in Christoph F. E. Holzhey, ed. Biomystik: Natur – Gehirn – Geist. (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007).
  • “Hans Christian Oersted’s Spiritual Interpretation of Natural Science,” pp. 399-416 in R. M. Brain and O. Knudson, eds., Hans Christian Oersted and the Romantic Quest for Unity (New York: Springer Verlag, 2007).
  • “Questioning Scientific Faith in the Late Nineteenth century,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 43(2008), pp. 651-664.
  • With Neal Dawson, “Correspondence and Coherence in Science: A Brief Historical Perspective,” Judgment and Decision Making, 4, No. 2(2009), pp. 126-33.
  • “German Post-Darwinian Biology Reassessed,” Essay review of Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 and Robert J. Richards, The Tragic Sense of Science: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008 in Modern Intellectual History, 8(2011), 227-36.
  • “Proto-Monism in German Philosophy, Theology, and Science, 1800-1845,” in Todd Weir, ed., Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 45-69.
  • “Der Preis der Verwissenschaftlichung,” in Giovanni Maio, ed., Macht und Ohnmacht des Wortes: Ethische Grundfragen einer personalen Medizin (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012), pp. 78-96.
  • “Philosophy of Science,” in Michael N. Forster and Kristin Gjesdal, eds.,  The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 336-353.
  • “Nature,” in James H. Johnson, ed., A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), pp 89-104.  Vol 5 in Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck, gen. eds. A Cultural History of Ideas (London: Bloomsbury).

VISITING LECTURER:

  • Scholar in Residence, Virginia Tech, Science Studies Center, March 2-6, 1987
  • HOSS Visiting Lecturer:
    • Loyola University of New Orleans, March, 1988
    • Birmingham Southern College, March, 1988
    • University of Houston, November, 1988
    • University of Arkansas, November, 1988
    • Shorter College, November, 1989
    • Lamar University, November, 1989
  • Madison, Wisconsin, November, 1991: “Is There an Integrated History of Science?” (HSS Annual Meeting)
  • Harvard University, April, 1993: “G. H. Schubert and the Dark Side of Natural Science” (Conference – “Science nd Religion: NOT”)
  • Yale University, April, 1993: “Natural Science and the Theater of Political Dissent: Early Years of Oken’s Isis” (Conference – “Crisis of German Romantic Science”)
  • MIT, November, 1995: “Naturphilosophie as Alternative Science” (Dibner Institute)
  • Boston University, December, 1995: “Who Were the Naturphilosophen?” (Boston Colloquium)
  • Yale University, December, 1995: “Naturphilosophie and the Crisis of Reason” ( Yale Seminar)
  • University of Leeds, September, 1997: “An American View of British Historiography,” (BSHS Annual Meeting)
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1998: “The World of 1848” (AAAS Annual Meeting)
  • University of Southern Mississippi, March, 1999: “Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going” (Southern Regional Meeting, History of Medicine)
  • Templeton Foundation Seminars on Science and Religion
    • Tallahassee, Florida, January, 1998: “19th Century Scientists and Theologians on Divine Action in the World”
    • Raleigh, North Carolina, April, 1998: “Historical Narratives of Creation”
    • Waco, Texas, October, 1998: “The Discovery of Origins”
    • Tallahassee, FLorida, 1999 “Historical Writing about Science and Religion”
    • New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1999: “History’s Surprising Dialogue Between Science and Religion”
    • Berkeley, California, June,1999: “When (and Why) did Theology Lose Nature to Science?”
    • Toronto, Ontario, July, 1999: “The Science Wars as Holy Wars”
    • Houghton, New York, November, 1999 “The Science Wars as Holy Wars”
    • Phoenix, Arizona, April, 2000: “Naturalism’s Historical Challenge to Religion”
  • University of Leeds, June, 2001: “The Science Wars as Holy Wars”
  • Stanford University, May 2008, May 2009

TELEVISION:

  • “Darwin and the Creationists,” Conversations, WUFT-TV, 1981.
  • “Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe,” (with Robert Hatch), Conversations, WUFT-TV, 1986.
  • “Enlightenment and Industrialization,” half-hour commentary in telecourse, Science and Culture in the Western Tradition, South Carolina ETV, 1986.
  • “Scientific Medicine and Social Statistics,” 15 minute commentary in telecourse, Science and Culture in the Western Tradition, South Carolina ETV, 1986.
  • “Darwinism as Science and Ideology,” 15 minute commentary in telecourse, Science and Culture in the Western Tradition, South Carolina ETV, 1986.

BOOK REVIEWS:

  • Klaus-Dietwardt Buchholtz. Isaac Newton als Theologe. Ein Beitrag zum Gesprach zwischen Naturwissenschaft und Theologie, in Zygon, 5 (1970), 93-95.
  • Jacques Monod. Chance and Necessity. An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, in The Christian Scholar’s Review, 5 (1976), 413-15.
  • Robert Cohen and Marx Wartofsky, eds. Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences, in Annals of Science, 33 (1976).
  • Frank Turner, Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England, in Zygon, 11 (1976), 75-76.
  • Maurice Crosland, ed. The Emergence of Science in Western Europe, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 2 (1976), 111-12.
  • Michael Hoare. The Tactless Philosopher: Johann Reinhold Forster, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 2 (1976), 124-25. This journal is hereafter cited as ECCB.
  • Alan Kors. D’Holbach’s Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris, in Isis, 68 (1977), 331-32.
  • Reinhard Riese. Die Hochschule auf dem Wege zum wissenschaftlichen Grossbetrieb, in Annals of Science, 35 (1978).
  • John O’Manique. Energy in Evolution, in The Christian Scholar’s Review, 1 (1970), 92-93.
  • Roy Meador. Franklin – Revolutionary Scientist, in ECCB, n.s. 2 (1976), 275-76.
  • Owen Chadwick. The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century, in The Christian Scholar’s Review, 8 (1979), 266-68.
  • Richard Burckhardt. The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology, in ECCB, n.s. 3 (1977), 77-78.
  • Roy Porter. The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1600-1815, in ECCB, n.s. 4 (1978), 165.
  • Rita Shenton. Christopher Pinchback and His Family, in ECCB, n.s. 4 (1978), 178-79.
  • Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 1, in Isis, 71 (1980), 305-06.
  • Joachim Thiele. Wissenschaftliche Kommunikation. Die Korrespondenz Ernst Machs, in Isis, 71 (1980), 689.
  • John Heilbron. Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries, in ECCB, n.s. 5 (1979), 174-75.
  • Kurt Biermann, ed. Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Heinrich Christian Schumacher, in Isis, 72 (1981), 323-24.
  • Rudolf Schmitz, ed. Die Naturwissenschaften an der Philipps-Universitat Marburg, in The History of Universities, 2 (1981), 154-55.
  • Michael Ruse. The Darwinian Revolution. Science Red in Tooth and Claw, in Zygon, 16 (1981), 296-97.
  • Reinhard Low. Die Philosophie des Lebendigen. Der Begriff des Organischen bei Kant, in Journal of the History of medicine and Allied Sciences, 37 (1981), 344-46.
  • Eric Forbes. Tobias Mayer: Pioneer of Enlightened Science, in Archives Internationales d’histoire des sciences, 32 (1982), 337.
  • E. Mendelsohn and Y. Elkana, eds. Sciences and Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences, in Archives Internationales d’histoire des sciences, 32 (1982), 294-95.
  • Lester D. Stephens. Joseph LeConte, Gentle Prophet of Evolution, in Florida Historical Quarterly, 62 (1983), 220-221.
  • Nelly Tsouyopoulos. Die Philosophischen Grundlagen der Modernen Medizin, in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 38 (1983), 234-35.
  • Harry Paul. The Edge of Contingency. French Catholic Reaction to Scientific Change from Darwin to Duhem, in Sudhoffs Archiv, 67 (1983), 234-35.
  • Karl Hufbauer. The Formation of the German Chemical Community, in ECCB, n.s. 8 (1982), 200-01.
  • Lothar Knatz. Utopie und Wissenschaft im Fruhen Deutschen Socialismus, in Isis, 77 (1986), 197-98.
  • J. Uberoi. The Other Mind of Europe. Goethe as a Scientist, in Isis, 78 (1987), 132.
  • Gunter Mann, Jost Benedum, Werner F. Kummel, eds. Samuel Thomas Soemmerring und die Gelehrten der Goetheziet, in Isis, 77 (1986), 723-24.
  • Frederick Amrine, et. al., eds. Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal, ISIS, 78 (1987), 638-39.
  • Collin Russell. Science and Social Change in Britain and Europe, 1700-1900, in ECCB, n.s. 10(1989), pp. 289-90.
  • Robert Spaemann, et. al., eds. Evolutionismus und Christentum, in ISIS, 79(1988), 149-50.
  • Michael John Perty, ed. Hegel und die Naturwissenschaften, in ISIS, 80(1989), 188-89.
  • Peter Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea, in ECCB (1989), pp. 233-34.
  • F. W. J. Schelling, Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, in Isis.
    81(1990), 355-56.
  • Frederick L. Holmes. Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity, in ECCB, n.s. 11 (1990), 217-19.
  • Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell, Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture (1750-1850), in ECCB, n.s. 11 (1990), 224-25
  • Johann Heinrich Lambert, Texte zur Systematologie und zur Theorie der Wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis, in Isis, 81(1990), 575-76.
  • Jon H. Roberts, Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 27(1991), 185- 86.
  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Schelling und Hegel’s Verhältnis zur Naturwissenschaft, in Isis, (1991), 572-73.
  • Robert Gascoigne, A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900, in ECCB, m.s. 13 (1992), 163-64.
  • John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991) in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 29 (1993), 177-78.
  • Nancy Smith Midgette, To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism: Southern Scientists and State Academies of Sciences, in The Florida Historical Quarterly, (1993) pp. 215-16.
  • Kenneth Caneva, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy, in Isis, 85(1994), pp. 341-42
  • Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism, in The Historian (1994), pp. 176-177.
  • David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, in International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 66(1998), pp. 107-08.
  • Anne Harrington, Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, in American Historical Review, (February, 1998), pp. 216-17.
  • Hans Christian Oersted, Selected Scientific Writings of Hans Christian Oersted, trans. and ed. by K. Jelved, A.D. Jackson, and O. Knudson (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999), in Annals of Science, 57(2000), pp. 197-98.
  • John R. Williams, The Life of Goethe: A Critical Biography. [Blackwell: Critical Biographies, 10.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) in Isis, 92(2001)pp. 188-89.
  • Peter Bowler, Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, in Catholic Historical Review, (October, 2002), pp. 793-94.
  • Robert Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) in Journal of the History of Biology, (2003), pp. 618-19.
  • David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., When Christianity and Science Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), June 16, 2004; 291: 2875 – 2876.
  • Thomas Howard, Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 in American Historical Review Vol. 112 (2) (April, 2007), pp. 604-05.
  • Helge S. Kraugh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2008 in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 40(2009), 238-39.
  • Nelly Tsouyopoulos, Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstadt: frommann-holzboog, 2008 in Isis, 100(September, 2009), 681-82.
  • James T. Costa, The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Annotated by James T. Costa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Belknap), 2009, in BioScience, 59(November, 2009), 2-3.
  • Martin J. S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, in the Journal of Modern History, 82(March 2010), 161-63..
  • (With John R. Sabin and Naja Jeppesen) Sheilla Jones, The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 in International Journal for Quantum Chemistry, 110(2010), 960-61.
  • Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008 in American Scientist, 98(2010), 250-52.
  • Sander Gliboff, H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008 in NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Science, Technology, and Medicine, 18(2010), 257-59..
  • Tilman Matthias Schr�der, Naturwissenschaften und Protestantismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich. Die Versammlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und �rzte und ihre Bedeutung f�r die Evangelische Theologie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008 in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 61(2010), 877-78.
  • Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong. Grand Rapids, MI/ Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmanns, 2010 in Isis, 103, No. 2(June, 2012), pp. 429-31.
  • Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
  • Susanne Lettow, Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014 in Isis.