CENTAURUS The journal of the European Society for the History of Science, VOLUME 61, ISSUE 3

The latest issue of Centaurus is now available online. CONTENTS: Special issue: Technology and Information Propagation in a Propaganda War GUEST EDITOR: István Rév We examine the conditions of knowledge production, information transmission and both the uses and constraints of technology during the Cold War. Drawing on archives of Radio Free Europe, the Polish Radio, and Romanian secret police, the articles provide comparative perspectives on propaganda across the Iron Curtain with a particular focus on notions implying objective knowledge. The authors reflect on interactions between technology and politics in a historical context of the proliferation of deeply biased information. 1. István Rév, 'Neither objective nor subjective <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12235>' 2. Georgi Georgiev, 'Cold War atmosphere: Distorted information and facts in the case of Free Europe balloons <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12225>' 3. Ruxandra Petrinca, 'Radio waves, memories, and the politics of everyday life in socialist Romania: The case of Radio Free Europe <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12232>' 4. Joanna Walewska-Choptiany, 'Listening through the Iron Curtain: RFE and Polish Radio in the “fog of war” <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12227>' Articles 5. Jan Surman, 'Terminology between chemistry and philology: A Polish interdisciplinary debate in 1900? <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12237>' ESHS Contributions 6. Ana Simões, 'Looking back, stepping forward: Reflections on the sciences in Europe <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12215>' 7. Antonio Sánchez, 'Practical knowledge and empire in the early modern Iberian world. Towards an artisanal turn <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12217>' Book reviews 8. /Las “mentiras” científicas sobre las mujeres [Scientific “lies” about women]/, by S. García Dauder and Eulalia Pérez Sedeño (Editorial Catarata <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12218>) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498>, review by Mònica Balltondre Pla 9. /Urban Histories of Science. Making Knowledge in the City, 1820–1940/, eds Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan (Routledge) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12219>, review by Montserrat Cañedo‐Rodríguez