Scientia Canadensis
Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Revue canadienne d'histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine

Volume 44, Number 1, 2022 Photography: Science, Technology and Practice Guest-edited by Joan M. Schwartz

Table of contents (18 articles)

Introduction: Special Issue

Articles

  1. “Coils of Sunshine”: Charles Smeaton’s Magnesium-Wire Photography in the Catacombs of Rome, 1866-1867
  2. At the Cutting Edge of Halftone Printing: William Augustus Leggo and George Edward Desbarats
  3. “Perfect Dry Plates for Canada”: Gelatine Dry-Plate Manufacturing in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century
  4. Photography in the Arctic Archipelago during the First International Polar Year, 1882–1883
  5. Early Canadian Aerial Photography: The St Croix River and the International Boundary, 1921
  6. Seeing, Saving, and Remembering Barnardo’s Children: Technologies of Access and Preservation in Historical Research
  7. Conceptualizing ‘Science’ in the Photography Collections at the National Science and Media Museum
  8. Photography: Science, Technology, and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Book Reviews / Comptes rendus

  1. Alan MacEachern. The Miramichi Fire: A History. Xiv + 288 pp. 9 photos, 23 maps, bibl., index. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780228001492. Also available in e-book formats. https://www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fire--the-products-9780228001485.php
  2. Johanne Collin. Nouvelle ordonnance. Quatre siècles d’histoire de la pharmacie au Québec. Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020. 408 p. 36.00 $, ISBN 978-2-7606-4217-1
  3. Daniel Macfarlane. Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall. 332pp., index. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020. $89.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9780774864220; $34.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780774864237. Also available in e-book formats. https://www.ubcpress.ca/fixing-niagara-falls
  4. Gabriel Galvez-Behar. Posséder la science. La propriété scientifique au temps du capitalisme industriel. Paris : Éditions de l’EHESS, 2020, coll. « En temps & lieux », 320 p. 25,00 €. ISBN 978-2-7132-2853-7
  5. Peter Kasurak. Canada’s Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920-2012. 251 pp., plus figs., bibl., index. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-7748-6273-8. Also available in e-book formats. https://www.ubcpress.ca/canadas-mechanized-infantry
  6. François Jarrige et Alexis Vrignon (dir.). Face à la puissance. Une histoire des énergies alternatives à l’âge industriel avec une postface d’Alain Gras. Paris : Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 400 p. 25,00 € ISBN : 978-2-348-05752-6
  7. Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott & Sara Wilmshurst. Be Wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns. Xii + 208 pp., plus figs., notes, index. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780774837194. Also available in e-book formats
  8. Robert Gagnon et Pierre Frigon. Augustin Frigon. Sciences, techniques et radiodiffusion. Montréal : Éditions du Boréal, 2019. 246 p. 27.95$. ISBN 978-2-7646-2583-5
  9. Bryce Evans. Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century: The Pan American Ideal. Londres et New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 164 p. 173.58$. ISBN 978-1-3500-9884-8

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