Scientific inquiry and experiment--and their effects on culture--are discussed in these essays. Topics include both the physical and the abstract sciences, in essays ranging from "Linnaeus' Floral Transplants" to "The Persistence of Feynman Diagrams."

John Bender, "Enlightenment Fiction and Scientific Hypothesis," Winter 1998, 61: 6-28.

Harry Berger, Jr., "Bodies and Texts," Winter 1987, 17: 144-66.

Giulia Calvi, "A Metaphor for Social Exchange: The Florentine Plague of 1630" (trans. Paul Ferrara), Winter 1986, 13: 139-63.

Alberto Cambrosio, Daniel Jacobi, and Peter Keating, "Arguing with Images: Pauling's Theory of Antibody Formation," Winter 2005, 89: 94-130.

Luis Campos, "The Birth of Living Radium," Winter 2007, 97: 1-27.

Lisa Cartwright, "'Experiments of Desctruction': Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," Fall 1992, 40, 129-52.

Sharon Corwin, "Picturing Efficiency: Precisionism, Scientific Management, and the Effacement of Labor," Fall 2003, 84, 139-65.

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "The Image of Objectivity," Fall 1992, 40: 81-128.

Whitney Davis, "Decadence and the Organic Metaphor," Winter 2005, 89: 131-149.

James Elkins, "On Visual Desperation and the Bodies of Protozoa," Fall 1992, 40: 33-56.

Laura Engelstein, "Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Russian Doctors View Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavior, 1890-1905," Spring 1986, 14: 169-208.

Regina Gagnier, "Mediums and the Media: A Response to Judith Walkowitz," Spring 1988, 22: 29-36.

Peter Galison, "The Suppressed Drawing: Paul Dirac's Hidden Geometry," Fall 2000, 72: 145-66.

Jan Goldstein, "The Uses of Male Hysteria: Medical and Literary Discourse in Nineteenth-Century France," Summer 1990, 31: 142-66.

Gérald Grunberg and Alain Giffard, "New Orders of Knowledge, New Technologies of Reading," Spring 1993, 42: 80-93.

Darcy Grimaldo Grisby, "Rumor, Contagion, and Colonization in Gros's Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (1804)," Summer 1995, 51: 1-46.

Glenn Harcourt, "Andreas Vesalius and the Anatomy of Antique Sculpture," Winter 1987, 17: 28-61. 

Marie-Hélène Huet, "Living Images: Monstrosity and Representation," Fall 1983, 4: 73-87. 

Christopher Herbert, "Rat Worship and Taboo in Mayhew's London," Summer 1988, 23: 1-24.

David Kaiser, "Stick-Figure Realism: Convention, Reification, and the Persistence of Feynman Diagrams, 1948-1964," Spring 2000, 70: 49-86.

David Kaiser, "The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War," Spring 2005, 90: 28-60.

Kathleen Kete, "La Rage and the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Context of Rabies in the French Nineteenth Century," Spring 1988, 22: 89-107.

Lisbet Koerner, “Linnaeus' Floral Transplants," Summer 1994, 47: 144-69.

James Krasner, "A Chaos of Delight: Perception and Illusion in Darwin's Scientific Writing," Summer 1990, 31: 118-41.

Thomas Laqueur, "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," Spring 1986, 14: 1-41.