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Volume 1, Number 1, 1936Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 E. N. da C. Andrade, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. The real character of Bishop Wilkins . . 4--12 N. H. de Vaudrey Heathcote, B.Sc. Early nautical charts . . . . . . . . . 13--28 M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.I.C., M.I.Chem.E. History of the Chile nitrate industry. I 29--47 Leonora D. Cohen, M.A. Descartes and Henry More on the beast-machine --- a translation of their correspondence pertaining to animal automatism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Richard Boyle, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., and --- Incidentally --- Some of his relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65 W. Cameron Walker, M.Sc., A.I.C. The detection and estimation of electric charges in the eighteenth century . . . 66--100 Douglas McKie, Ph.D., B.Sc. On Thos. Cochrane's ms. notes of Black's chemical lectures, 1767--8 . . . . . . . 101--110 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113 Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
R. A. Fisher, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Has Mendel's work been rediscovered? . . 115--137 Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. A Cullen chemical manuscript of 1753 . . 138--156 Hebbel E. Hoff, Ph.D. Galvani and the pre-Galvanian electrophysiologists . . . . . . . . . . 157--172 Raymond Phineas Stearns, A.M., Ph.D. The production of sugar in Barbados \em c. 1667 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--181 Harcourt Brown, M.A., Ph.D. The utilitarian motive in the age of Descartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--192 M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.I.C., M.I.Chem.E. History of the Chile nitrate industry. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216 E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. Early studies in radiant heat . . . . . 217--225 Robert S. Woodbury, S.B. The teaching of the History of Science in an engineering school . . . . . . . . 226--232 H. Brown The History of Science Society Report of the St. Louis meeting 1936 . . . . . . . 233--234 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
John F. Fulton, M.D. and Harvey Cushing, M.D. A bibliographical study of the Galvani and the Aldini writings on animal electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--268 Douglas McKie, Ph.D., B.Sc. Béraut's theory of calcination (1747) . . 269--293 Raymond Phineas Stearns, A.M., Ph.D. The course of Capt. Edmond Halley in the year 1700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--301 J. R. Morgan, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.I.C. The search for a safety-lamp in mines 302--329 Grant McColley, Ph.D. The second edition of \booktitleThe discovery of a world in the moone . . . 330--334 J. F. Scott, B.A., Ph.D., M.Sc. John Wallis as a historian of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--357
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Joan Baptista van Helmont . . . . . . . 359--384 Grant McColley, Ph.D. The seventeenth-century doctrine of a plurality of worlds . . . . . . . . . . 385--430 K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. A short sketch of the history of the Oxford medical school . . . . . . . . . 431--446 J. Pelseneer Notes on some unpublished letters from Faraday to Quetelet . . . . . . . . . . 447--452 Robert E. Schlueter, M.D. The first Aphorism of Hippocrates as explained by Paracelsus . . . . . . . . 453--461 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Van Helmont's ice and water experiments 462--467 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--470
F. J. Cole, D.Sc., F.R.S. Leeuwenhoek's zoological researches. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--46 Frank G. Young, Ph.D. Claude Bernard and the theory of the glycogenic function of the liver . . . . 47--83 W. Cameron Walker, M.Sc., A.I.C. Animal electricity before Galvani . . . 84--113 V. A. Eyles, B.Sc. John Macculloch, F.R.S., and his geological map: An account of the first geological survey of Scotland . . . . . 114--129 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
Henry Terry Obituary: Edward Turner, M.D., F.R.S. (1798--1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152 M. J. J. Laboulle, B.A. and H. Levy, M.A., D.Sc. Some questions of scientific method in the `Si\`ecle des Lumi\`eres' . . . . . 153--163 A. W. Humphreys, B.A.B.Sc. The development of the conception and measurement of electric current . . . . 164--178 Grant McColley, Ph.D. A facsimile of Salusbury's translation of Didacus \`a Stunica's \booktitleCommentary upon Job . . . . . 179--182 L. C. Ockenden, B.Sc. The great batteries of the London institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184 F. J. Cole, D.Sc., F.R.S. Leeuwenhoek's zoological researches. Part II. Bibliography and analytical Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--235 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Jean Beguin and his \booktitleTyrocinium Chymicum [Rudiments of chemistry] . . . 243--298 Marjorie Nicolson, Litt.D., Ph.D. and Nora M. Mohler, Ph.D. The scientific background of Swift's \booktitleVoyage to Laputa . . . . . . . 299--334 Charles Foster, M.A., B.Sc. One hundred years of science teaching in Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344 W. P. Jones, Ph.D. The vogue of natural history in England, 1750--1770 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--352 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--356 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston theory. I. The levity of phlogiston . . 361--404 Marjorie Nicolson, Litt.D., Ph.D. and Nora M. Mohler, Ph.D. Swift's `Flying Island' in the \booktitleVoyage to Laputa . . . . . . . 405--430 Muriel A. Bentham, M.Sc. Some seventeenth century views concerning the nature of heat and cold 431--450 Forsyth J. Wilson, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C. The Chemical Society of Glasgow: Minute book of 1800--1801 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--459 Dorothy Stimson, Ph.D. The teaching of the history of science in a liberal arts college for women . . 460--464 S. A. Dyment, M.Sc. Some eighteenth century ideas concerning aqueous vapour and evaporation . . . . . 465--473 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston theory. II. The negative weight of phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--58 H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I & II . . . . . . . . 59--118 E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. The radiant heat spectrum from Herschel to Melloni. I. The work of Herschel and his contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137 N. F. Newbury, M.A., M.Sc., A.I.C. The history of the common salt industry on Merseyside . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--148 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Grant McColley, Ph.D. The Ross--Wilkins controversy . . . . . 153--189 V. A. Eyles, B.Sc. and Joan M. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S. On the different issues of the first geological map of England and Wales . . 190--212 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. On `nitre' and `natron' . . . . . . . . 213--216 Albert Joseph George A seventeenth-century amateur of science: Jean Chapelain . . . . . . . . 217--236 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. A short history of the international congresses of physiologists . . . . . . 241--335
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston theory. III. Light and heat in combustion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--371 Albert J. George The genesis of the académie des sciences 372--401 E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. The radiant heat spectrum from Herschel to Melloni. II. The work of Melloni and his contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . 402--416 Edwin M. J. Kretzmann, M.A., Ph.D. German technological Utopias of the pre-war period . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. The discovery of the optical rotatory power of tartaric acid . . . . . . . . . 431--434 H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Part III . . . . . . . . . . 435--456 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--460
Marjorie Nicolson, Ph.D., Litt.D. English almanacs and the `new astronomy' 1--33 Oswald J. Walker, B.Sc., Ph.D. August Kekulé and the benzene problem . . 34--46 K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. An introduction to the earlier history of phlebitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Note on Blaise de Vigen\`ere, John Ferguson, and benzoic acid . . . . . . . 61--64 H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Part IV . . . . . . . . . . 65--106 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston theory. IV. Last phases of the theory 113--149 Grant McColley, Ph.D. The debt of Bishop John Wilkins to the \booktitleApologia pro Galileo of Tommaso Campanella . . . . . . . . . . . 150--168 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. The history of the manufacture of soap 169--190 Carl Grabo Science and the romantic movement . . . 191--205 L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. A history of Prussian blue . . . . . . . 206--211 D. Rutenberg, B.Sc. The early history of the potentiometer system of electrical measurement . . . . 212--243 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The origins of the atomic theory . . . . 245--282 K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. Some textual changes in successive editions of Richard Lower's \booktitleTractatus de corde item de motu & colore sanguinis et chyli in eum transitu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--294 Bradley T. Scheer The development of the concept of tissue respiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--305 William Ebenstein, Ll.D., Ph.D. The early reception of the doctrine of evolution in the United States . . . . . 306--318 Grant McColley, Ph.D. J. H. and the \booktitleAstronomia Crystallina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--324 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327
H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Part V . . . . . . . . . . . 329--389 Grant McColley, Ph.D. Nicholas Hill and the \booktitlePhilosophia Epicurea . . . . . 390--405
Sir Philip J. Hartog, K.B.E., C.I.E., Ll.D. The newer views of Priestley and Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--56 K. J. Franklin, D.M., F.R.C.P. A survey of the growth of knowledge about certain parts of the foetal cardio-vascular apparatus, and about the foetal circulation, in Man and some other mammals. Part I: Galen to Harvey 57--89
F. J. North, D.Sc., F.G.S. Paviland cave, the `Red Lady', the Deluge, and William Buckland . . . . . . 91--128 F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A., Ph.D. The origin of the thermometer . . . . . 129--156 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The early history of strontium . . . . . 157--166 E. C. Millington, M.Sc. History of the Young--Helmholtz theory of colour vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176 Edmund Anthony Spriggs, B.A. John Hunter and his approach to pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D., M.A., B.Sc. The evolution of the still . . . . . . . 185--202 K. J. Franklin, D.M., F.R.C.P. Jean Méry (1645--1722) and his ideas on the foetal blood flow . . . . . . . . . 203--228 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Some milestones in the study of hydrocarbon flames . . . . . . . . . . . 229--252 E. C. Millington, M.Sc., Ph.D. Theories of cohesion in the seventeenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--269 Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. The history of the discovery of phosgene 270--287 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations regarding the crystal form of sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, and potassium racemate --- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--295 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Archibald Clow, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. and Nan L. Clow, M.A., B.Sc. The natural and economic history of kelp 297--316 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations regarding the crystal form of sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, and potassium racemate. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324 H. Hamshaw Thomas, Sc.D., F.R.S. The rise of geology and its influence on contemporary thought . . . . . . . . . . 325--341 Angus Armitage, M.Sc. The deviation of falling bodies . . . . 342--351 E. C. Millington, M.Sc., Ph.D. Studies in capillarity and cohesion in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 352--369 K. J. Franklin An autograph letter by Gilbert White . . 370--372 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and J. D. Loudon, D.Sc., Ph.D. and Adeline O. M. Cook, M.A. Robertus Vallensis' \booktitleDe veritate et antiquitate artis chemicæ [The authentic and ancient art of chemistry] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The cosmology of Giordano Bruno . . . . 24--31 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. The furnaces and thermometers of Cornelis Drebbel . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--43 E. Weil, Ph.D. Andreas Albrecht, a seventeenth-century military surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45 J. Challinor, M.A. The beginnings of scientific palaeontology in Britain . . . . . . . . 46--53 A. C. Crombie, B.Sc., Ph.D. Some reflections on the history of science and its conception of nature . . 54--75 T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations regarding the crystal form of sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ --- and $l$-tartrate, and potassium racemate. Addendum on the isomorphism of potassium- and potassium-ammonium tartrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77 S. Lilley, M.Sc., Ph.D. `Nicholson's Journal' (1797--1813) . . . 78--101 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. Some letters from Jakob Samuel Wyttenbach to Sir James Edward Smith . . 105--114 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Thomas Thomson, 1773--1852 . . . . . . . 115--126 Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part I. Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--180 F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D., M.A., B.Sc. The invention of the hygroscope . . . . 181--185 J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. A biographical note on William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800) . . 186--196 H. J. J. Winter, M.Sc., Ph.D. The work of G. T. Fechner on the Galvanic circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--205 Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Combe--Varin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228 Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part II. Public health . . . . . . . . . . . 229--247 Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part III. Copley discourses . . . . . . . . . 248--261 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Sir John Eliot, Bart. (1736--86), and John Elliot (1747--87) . . . . . . . . . 262--267 Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. `Borell's hypothesis' and the rise of celestial mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 268--282 H. Whitmore Jones, M.A., Ph.D. Some reflections on the beginnings of experimental science . . . . . . . . . . 283--292 N. H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. Guericke's sulphur globe . . . . . . . . 293--305 E. Weil, Ph.D. An unpublished letter by Davy on the safety-lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307 M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., M.I.Chem.E., A.R.C.S. Burchard Kranich (\em c. 1515--1578), miner and queen's physician, Cornish mining stamps, antimony and, Frobisher's gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--322 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--326
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Johann Heinrich Hottinger's description of the ice-mountains of Switzerland, 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--360 J. A. Douglas, M.A., D.Sc. and J. M. Edmonds, M.A., B.Sc. John Phillips's geological maps of the British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375 Margaret E. Rowbottom, M.Sc. The earliest published writing of Robert Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--389 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. I. The tinplate workers . . . . . . . . . . 390--403 Herbert Dingle, D.Sc., D.I.C., A.R.C.S. Thomas Wright's astronomical heritage 404--415 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. I. The journal and its editors . . . . . . . . 416--421 J. S. Rowe, B.Sc. The life and work of George Fownes, F.R.S. (1815--49) . . . . . . . . . . . 422--435 J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800). I 436--447 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Edward Hughes, M.A. The early journal of Thomas Wright of Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. II. Early tinplate manufacture to 1700 . . . 25--42 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. III. John Hanbury (1664--1734) . . . . . . . 43--61 Robert S. Whipple, M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P. John Yarwell or the story of a trade card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69 H. E. Street, Ph.D. and G. E. Trease, B.Pharm., F.R.I.C., F.L.S. The discovery of asparagine . . . . . . 70--76 J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800). II 77--94 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The early history of strontium. Part II 95--100 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. II. The phlogiston theory . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., M.I.Chem.E., A.R.C.S. A further note on Burchard Kranich . . . 107--108 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. IV. An eighteenth century tinplate mill . . 113--127 R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Friedrich Accum (1769--1838). A biographical study . . . . . . . . . . . 128--143 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. III. Pierre Bayen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--148 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Robert Dossie (1717--1777) and the society of arts . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Jeremias Benjamin Richter and the law of reciprocal proportions. I . . . . . . . 173--198 J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800). III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206 I. Bernard Cohen, Ph.D. Guericke and Dufay . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Peter Shaw and the revival of chemistry 211--237 John L. Thornton, A.L.A. The history of physiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London . . . . . 238--247 Herbert Weisinger, A.M., Ph.D. English treatment of the relationship between the rise of science and the Renaissance, 1740--1840 . . . . . . . . 248--274 Lynn Thorndike, A.M., Ph.D. Astronomical and chronological calculations at Newminster in 1428 . . . 275--283 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. IV. C. L. Berthollet. V. [Unknown] . . . . . . . . 284--299 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. Master Georg Dörffel and the rise of cometary astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 303--315 V. A. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.S.E. and Joan M. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S. Some geological correspondence of James Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--339 Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D. Science in English encyclopædias, 1704--1875. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--370 R. C. Oldfield, M.A. and Lady Kathleen Oldfield, M.A. Hartley's \booktitleObservations on Man 371--381 Harold C. Passer, M.A., Ph.D. Electrical science and the early development of the electrical manufacturing industry in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's Journal. VI and VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--400 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Historical survey of the japanning trade. 1. Eastern and Western lacquer 401--416
Derek J. Price, Ph.D. The early observatory instruments of Trinity College, Cambridge . . . . . . . 1--12 Jean Jacquot Sir Charles Cavendish and his learned friends: a contribution to the history of scientific relations between England and the Continent in the earlier part of the 17th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--27 E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's Journal. VIII and IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--45 L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Francis Vigani: First Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge 46--60 Mary B. Hesse, M.Sc., Ph.D. Boole's philosophy of logic . . . . . . 61--81 F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. The teaching of science at Oxford in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 82--112
J. J. Keevil, D.S.O., M.D., F.S.A. Sir Charles Scarburgh . . . . . . . . . 113--121 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Lewis, M.B., F.R.S. (1708--1781) 122--151 George A. Foote, M.A., Ph.D. Mechanism, materialism, and science in England, 1800--1850 . . . . . . . . . . 152--161 Denis Duveen, F.R.I.C. An unpublished report on the waterproofing of shoe leather by Lavoisier and Hassenfratz . . . . . . . 162--164 L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Mickleburgh: Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, 1718--56 165--174 Jean Jacquot Sir Charles Cavendish and his learned friends: a contribution to the history of scientific relations between England and the Continent in the earlier part of the 17th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--191 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., A.Inst.P. Bartolomeo Telioux and the early history of the thermometer . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. A notebook of William Lewis and Alexander Chisholm . . . . . . . . . . . 202--220 Professor O. Neugebauer, Ph.D., Ll.D. and Olaf Schmidt, Ph.D. Hindu astronomy at Newminster in 1428 221--228 D. R. Newth, B.Sc., Ph.D. Lamarck in 1800: a lecture on the invertebrate animals and a note on fossils taken from the \booktitleSyst\`eme des Animaux sans Vert\`ebres by J. B. Lamarck . . . . . . 229--254 R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. (1768--1840) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Prelude to chemistry in industry . . . . 271--281 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. The chemical studies of John Evelyn . . 285--292 L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Hadley: Fourth Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge 293--301 Philip George, M.A., Ph.D. The scientific movement and the development of chemistry in England, as seen in the papers published in the \booktitlePhilosophical Transactions from 1664/5 until 1750 . . . . . . . . . 302--322 Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D. Science in English encyclopædias, 1704--1875. II. Theories of the elementary composition of matter . . . . 323--367 A. D. Atkinson, M.A. William Derham, F.R.S. (1657--1735) . . 368--392 Professor Sir Ernest Kennaway, F.R.S. Some recollections of Albrecht Kossel, Professor of Physiology in Heidelberg, 1901--1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--397 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--401
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Haller's \booktitleHistoria Stirpium . . 1--46 Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The pilgrimage of Pingré: An astronomer--monk of eighteenth-century France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63 S. F. Mason, Ph.D. The scientific revolution and the Protestant Reformation. I. Calvin and Servetus in relation to the new astronomy and the theory of the circulation of the blood . . . . . . . . 64--87 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning trade. II. Early British japanning . . . 88--95 J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Lavoisier's memoir on the composition of nitric acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Richard Watson, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, 1764--71 101--123 J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology. I. From Leland to Woodward, 1538--1728 124--153 S. F. Mason, Ph.D. The scientific revolution and the Protestant Reformation. II. Lutheranism in relation to iatrochemistry and the German nature-philosophy . . . . . . . . 154--175 Harry Woolf, B.S., M.A. Eighteenth-century observations of the transits of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . 176--190 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Robert Dossie (1717--77). A further bibliographical note . . . . . . . . . . 191--193 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning trade. III. Pontypool and Usk . . . . . 197--213 F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning trade. IV. The Midlands . . . . . . . . 214--232 Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D.Sc.D. Science in English encyclopædias, 1704--1875. III. Meteorology . . . . . . 233--264 G. H. Turnbull, M.A., Ph.D. Peter Stahl, the first public teacher of chemistry at Oxford . . . . . . . . . . 265--270 Owen Potter, M.Sc. Auguste Laurent's contributions to chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280 Sidney Melmore, B.Sc., F.R.A.S. Nathaniel Pigott's observatory 1781--1793 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Jeremias Benjamin Richter and the Law of Reciprocal Proportions. II . . . . . . . 289--314 J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., A.Inst.P. The zograscope or optical diagonal machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--322 G. R. de Beer, D.Sc., F.R.S. Bernhard Friedrich Kuhn's investigations on glaciers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--341 Kathleen Higgins, M.A.B.Sc. The classification of sundials . . . . . 342--358 Eric Robinson, M.A. The Derby Philosophical Society . . . . 359--367 Eric Robinson, M.A. Matthew Boulton, patron of the arts . . 368--376 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology. II. From Strachey to Michell, 1719--1788 1--19 L. L. Whyte, M.A. On the history of natural lengths . . . 20--27 H. Drubba, Dip.-Phys. and H. H. Rust, Dr.Phil. On the first echo-sounding experiment 28--32 M. F. M. Meiklejohn, M.A. The birds of Dante . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. Galileo's theory of the tides . . . . . 44--57 Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. A letter from Berthollet to Blagden relating to the experiments for a large-scale synthesis of water carried out by Lavoisier and Meusnier in 1785 58--62 Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794) and Christopher Columbus (1446?--1506) 63--68 Eric Robinson, M.A. Thomas Love Peacock: Critic of scientific progress . . . . . . . . . . 69--77 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--86
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The contributions of P.-J. Macquer, T. O. Bergman and L. B. Guyton de Morveau to the reform of chemical nomenclature 87--106 J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology. III. From Hutton to Playfair, 1788--1802 107--148 H. R. Thompson, M.A., M.Sc. The geographical and geological observations of Bernard Palissy the potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--165 E. Williams Some experiments on the expansive force of freezing water . . . . . . . . . . . 166--171 Derek J. Price, Ph.D. A collection of armillary spheres and other antique scientific instruments . . 172--187
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Hon.D.-\`es-L., F.R.S. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanist . . . . 189--223 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early history of laboratory instruction in chemistry at the ecole polytechnique, Paris, and elsewhere . . 224--233 L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Isaac Milner and the Jacksonian Chair of Natural Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 234--257 Colin Matheson, M.A., B.Sc., F.M.A. Thomas Pennant and the Morris brothers 258--271 R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Biographical note on John Symmons, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273 Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. Chappe d'Auteroche: a pathfinder for astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--293 Robert E. Schofield, M.S. James Watt's letter to Joseph Priestley, 26 April 1783 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--300 Eric Robinson, M.A. Training captains of industry: The education of Matthew Robinson Boulton [1770--1842] and the younger James Watt [1769--1848] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313 Eric Robinson, M.A. Erasmus Darwin's \booktitleBotanic Garden and contemporary opinion . . . . 314--320 Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. A bibliographical study of the introduction of Lavoisier's \booktitleTraité élémentaire de chimie into Great Britain and America . . . . . . . 321--338 Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. Augustin François Silvestre and the Société Philomathique . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341 Archibald Clow, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. Fiscal policy and the development of technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--358 Paul F. Cranefield, Ph.D. Clerk Maxwell's corrections to the page proofs of \booktitleA Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field . . . . . . 359--362
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Lignum nephriticum . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26 A. R. Hall, M.A., Ph.D. Further optical experiments of Isaac Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--43 Raymond Williamson, M.A., B.Sc., M.D. The germ theory of disease. Neglected precursors of Louis Pasteur, Richard Bradley, Benjamin Marten, Jean-Baptiste Goiffon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--57 A. Prince, B.Met., A.I.M. The significance of the early work of Fredrik Rudberg on alloy constitution 58--63 R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. Notes on some members of the Hanckwitz family in England . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73 Arthur Hughes, Sc.D. Science in English encyclopædias, 1704--1875. IV. Theories of the Earth 74--92 E. Williams Two metallurgical discoveries . . . . . 93--98 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794) Part I. Franklin and the new chemistry 103--128 W. H. G. Armytage Technology and Utopianism: J. A. Etzler in England 1840--44 . . . . . . . . . . 129--136 Eric Robinson, M.A. Thomas Beddoes, M.D., and the reform of science teaching in Oxford . . . . . . . 137--141 Eric Robinson, M.A. R. E. Raspe, Franklin's `Club of thirteen', and the Lunar Society . . . . 142--144 F. W. Gibbs, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The rise of the tinplate industry. V. Cockshutt on tinplate manufacture . . . 145--153 William P. D. Wightman, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Cullen and the teaching of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165 G. R. Cameron, D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Rudolf Albert v. Koelliker (1817--1905) 166--172 G. E. Owen, Ph.B., Ph.D. The discovery of the electron . . . . . 173--182
Archibald Clow, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. A re-examination of William Walker's \booktitleDistinguished Men of Science 183--193 J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. Galton's contribution to the theory of evolution with special reference to his use of models and metaphors . . . . . . 194--205 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. The contributions of Newton, Bernoulli and Euler to the theory of the tides . . 206--223 Michael Brook, M.A., A.L.A. Dr Warwick's chemistry lectures and the scientific audience in Sheffield (1799--1801) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--237 Joseph Turner, Ph.D. A note on Maxwell's interpretation of some attempts at dynamical explanation 238--245 D. Thompson, M.A., B.Sc. Queenwood College, Hampshire: a mid-19th century experiment in science teaching 246--254 Cecil A. Hoare, D.Sc., F.R.S. Erasmus Darwin in Russia . . . . . . . . 255--256 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early years of the Lycée and the Lycée des Arts. A chapter in the lives of A. L. Lavoisier and A. F. de Fourcroy . . . 257--267 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269 Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794). Part II. Joint investigations . . . . . 271--302 Anonymous Title pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--308 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early years of the Lycée and the Lycée des Arts. A chapter in the lives of A. L. Lavoisier and A. F. de Fourcroy . . . 309--319 W. J. Sparrow, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. Count Rumford as a spy . . . . . . . . . 320--330 John R. Brown and John L. Thornton William James Russell (1830--1909) and investigations on London fog . . . . . . 331--336 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. Descartes's theory of the tides . . . . 337--348 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. The first aeronaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--355 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356 Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.S.A. The history of the altimetry of Mont Blanc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29 E. B. Verney, M.A., M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Some aspects of the work of Ernest Henry Starling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--47 J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of Buffon. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--62 Richard S. Westfall, M.A., Ph.D. Unpublished Boyle papers relating to scientific method. I . . . . . . . . . . 63--73 E. Williams Hooke's law and the concept of the elastic limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Archibald Clow, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. and Nan L. Clow, M.A.B.Sc. The timber famine and the development of technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102 Richard S. Westfall, M.A., Ph.D. Unpublished Boyle papers relating to scientific method. II . . . . . . . . . 103--117 Robert E. Schofield, M.S., Ph.D. Membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--136 Rexmond C. Cochrane, M.A., Ph.D. Francis Bacon and the rise of the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Two unrecorded publications of the régie des poudres et salpêtres probably written by Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159 W. H. G. Armytage, M.A., Ph.D. Joseph Priestley and Edmund Burke: An unpublished letter . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The astronomical work of Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--191 William P. D. Wightman, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Cullen and the teaching of chemistry. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--205 Charles R. Metzger, Ph.D. Thoreau on science . . . . . . . . . . . 206--211 J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of Buffon. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--227 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the Société royale de médecine . . . . . . . . . . . 228--244
W. H. G. Armytage, M.A. The early Utopists and science in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254 J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of Buffon. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--266 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the Société royale d'Agriculture and the Comité d'Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277 F. S. Bodenheimer, Ph.D. H. B. Tristram's collections in natural history, especially of Palestine . . . . 278--287 John L. Thornton and Anna Wiles William Odling, 1829--1921 . . . . . . . 288--295 Eric Robinson, M.A. The Lunar Society and the improvement of scientific instruments: I . . . . . . . 296--304
Eric Robinson, M.A. The Lunar Society and the improvement of scientific instruments: II . . . . . . . 1--8 D. Thompson, M.A., B.Sc. John Tyndall and The Royal Institution 9--22 E. Williams Some observations of Leonardo, Galileo, Mariotte and others relative to size effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29 Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794). Part III. Documentation . . . . . . . . 30--46 F. W. Gibbs, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.I.C. Boerhaave and the Botanists . . . . . . 47--61 A. Rupert Hall, M.A., Ph.D. Newton on the calculation of central forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. The ``\em Observations'' of the Abbé François Rozier (1734--93). I . . . . . . 73--89 R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. A summary of former accounts of the life and work of Robert Boyle . . . . . . . . 90--108 John Anthony Harrison Blind Henry Moyes, `An excellent lecturer in philosophy' . . . . . . . . 109--125
Anonymous Proceedings at Meetings . . . . . . . . 77--81 F. H. C. Butler Report of the Council for the Year 1956--57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82 H. R. Calvert and John Craggs and Co Accounts for the Year Ending 31st March, 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84 Anonymous Report of the Committee of the Philosophy of Science Group for the Year 1956--1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Sc.D., D.-\`es-L., F.R.S., F.S.A. Gregory Watt's Tour on the Continent, 1801 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136 Florence N. David, D.Sc. Mr Newton, Mr Pepys & Dyse: a Historical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--147 Robert E. Schofield, M.S., Ph.D. The Scientific Background of Joseph Priestley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--163 J. H. S. Green, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.I.C. Thomas Clark (1801--1867). A Biographical Study . . . . . . . . . . . 164--179 I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Clerk Maxwell's Apparatus for the Measurement of Surface Tension . . . . . 180--187 S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil The Development of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. I. Herapath . . . . . . . . . . . 188--198 N. H. de V. Heathcote and F. N. David and G. Burniston Brown Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
Pamela R. Barnett, M.A. Theodore Haak and the early years of the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. L'avant-coureur: The journal in which some of Lavoisier's earliest research was reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234 W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the assembly of representatives of the Commune of Paris, 1789--1790 . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary motions. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--264 I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance I. The determination of the absolute unit of resistance . . . . . . . . . . . 265--272 S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of gases II. Waterston . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. and Niels H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. William Cleghorn's \booktitleDe Igne (1779) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--82
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Sc.D., D.-\`es-L., F.R.S., F.S.A. Further unpublished letters of Charles Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--115 Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. A naturalist's vacation. The London letters of J. C. Fabricius . . . . . . . 116--131 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary motions. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--147 Lucien Scheler and W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. An account of Lavoisier's reconciliation with the Church a short time before his death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--153 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
W. H. G. Armytage, M.A. Richard Watson and the Marquess of Rockingham: An unpublished exchange in 1771 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary motions. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172 G. E. Fussell Crop nutrition in the late Stuart age (1660--1714) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--184 S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of gases III. Clausius . . . . . . . . . . 185--196 I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance. II. Proposals for the re-determination of the B.A. unit of 1863 . . . . . . . . 197--210
Anonymous Henry William Robinson 1888--1960 . . . 211--213 W. A. Osman, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Alessandro Volta and the inflammable-air eudiometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--242 S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of gases IV. Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . 243--255 Thomas P. Harrison, B.A., Ph.D. Longolius on birds . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., A.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Sir Humphry Davy. Part I: The voltaic pile and electrolysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., A.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Sir Humphry Davy. Part II: Electrical interpretations of chemistry . . . . . . 15--25 E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The Cartesian theory of gravity . . . . 27--49 I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance III. Improvement on Mance's method for the measurement of battery resistance 51--55 E. Williams Some historical notes on the `fusible metals' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. On some ms. copies of Black's chemical lectures. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73 M. P. Crosland, M.Sc., Ph.D. The use of diagrams as chemical `equations' in the lecture notes of William Cullen and Joseph Black . . . . 75--90 I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's determination of the number of electrostatic units in one electromagnetic unit of electricity . . 91--108 Michael W. Flinn, M.A. Timber and the advance of technology: a reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120 A. Coutts William Cruickshank of Woolwich . . . . 121--133 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Anonymous John Farquhar Fulton 1899--1960 . . . . 139--140 R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. The portraiture of the honourable Robert Boyle, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--214
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. On some ms. copies of Black's chemical lectures. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Nägeli's work on the fine structure of living matter. I . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--41 Radu R. Florescu, M.A., B.Litt., Ph.D. The origin and development of science in Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
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Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Robert Jameson in London, 1793 Excerpts from Robert Jameson's \booktitleJournal of a Voyage from Leith to London 1793 81--116 Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Berzelius. Part I: Origins of the theory . . . . . 117--126 Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Berzelius. Part II: An electrochemical view of matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--145 E. Rancke-Madsen, Dr.Phil. A painting of the Hon. Robert Boyle in Danish possession . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
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J. Z. Fullmer, M.S.Chem., Ph.D. Humphry Davy and the gunpowder manufactory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--194 N. G. Coley, M.Sc. The physico-chemical studies of Amedeo Avogadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--210 K. M. Baker, M.A., Ph.D. The early history of the term `social science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226 J. N. Hays, B.A. Science and Brougham's society . . . . . 227--241 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Matthew Guthrie (1743--1807): An eighteenth-century gemmologist . . . . . 245--302 Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.S.A., F.R.S. Other men's shoulders . . . . . . . . . 303--322 Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
John J. O'Brien, M.A.B.Sc. Samuel Hartlib's influence on Robert Boyle's scientific development Part I. The Stalbridge period . . . . . . . . . 1--14 R. G. Swinburne, M.A., B.Phil. Galton's law --- Formulation and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--31 K. M. Baker, M.A., Ph.D. and W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The origins and authorship of the educational proposals published in 1793 by the \em Bureau de Consultation des Arts et Métiers and generally ascribed to Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46 Harold L. Burstyn, M.S., Ph.D. The deflecting force of the Earth's rotation from Galileo to Newton . . . . 47--80
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Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.E. On some ms. Copies of Black's chemical lectures. V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--255 John J. O'Brien, M.A.B.Sc. Samuel Hartlib's influence on Robert Boyle's scientific development. Part II. Boyle in Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
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Laurens Laudan, M.A., Ph.D. The clock metaphor and probabilism: The impact of Descartes on English methodological thought, 1650--65 . . . . 73--104 Eric Gray Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. Tobias Mayer's lunar tables . . . . . . 105--116 A. J. Meadows, M.A., D.Phil. The discovery of an atmosphere on Venus 117--127 Gordon L. Davies, M.A. The eighteenth-century denudation dilemma and the Huttonian theory of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--144
Arnold W. Thackray, M.A.B.Sc. Fragmentary remains of John Dalton. Part I. Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--174 L. Gittins, B.Sc., (Econ.), Ph.D. The manufacture of alkali in Britain, 1779--1789 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190 Marianne Winder, M.A., A.L.A. A bibliography of German astrological works printed between 1465 and 1600, with locations of those extant in London libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--220 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
Diana M. Simpkins, B.Sc., A.L.A. Early editions of Euclid in England . . 225--249 F. C. Storrs, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Dip.Bact. (Lond.) Lavoisier's technical reports: 1768--1794 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 251--275 Leonard Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Newton's theological views . . . . . . . 277--294 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--301
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.E. On some MS. copies of Black's chemical lectures. VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33 E. Ashworth Underwood, M.A., B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P. Dumfries and the early history of surgical anaesthesia . . . . . . . . . . 35--75 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
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Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's new astrolabe (1759): Its principles and construction . . . . . . 109--116 Harcourt Brown, M.A., Ph.D. Doctor François Rabelais: Pantagruel and health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Science training for the Nineteenth Century English amateur: The Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society 135--141 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Education and training for English engineers in the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century . . . . . . 143--163 Hans Kangro Ultrarotstrahlung bis zur Grenze elektrisch erzeugter Wellen, das Lebenswerk von Heinrich Rubens. (German) [Infrared radiation at the border, electrically generated waves, the life's work of Heinrich Rubens] . . . . . . . . 165--200 J. J. Bikerman Forced marriage and love union: a romantic affair in the history of Russian chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Eric G. Forbes, B.Sc., Ph.D. The correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1802--5) . . . . . . . . . . 213--237 R. Derek Wood The involvement of Sir John Herschel in the photographic patent case, \em Talbot v. Henderson, 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264 Richard G. Olson, A.M., Ph.D. The Gould controversy at Dudley Observatory: Public and professional values in conflict . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276 Lewis S. Feuer, B.Sc., Ph.D. The social roots of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--309 Eric G. Forbes Book Review: \booktitlePhysics without Einstein, by Harold Aspden . . . . . . . 302--303 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Lewis S. Feuer, B.Sc., Ph.D. The social roots of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 313--344 I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Towards a biography of Georg Cantor . . 345--391 Joachim Thiele, Dr.rer.nat., Dr.phil. Zur Wirkungsgeschichte des Dopplerprinzips im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert. (German) [The historical impact of the Doppler principle in the Nineteenth Century] . . . . . . . . . . 393--407 J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. Wollaston, Malacrida, and the platinum thermometer An unsolved problem in the history of pyrometry . . . . . . . . . . 409--411 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--421 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--424
D. J. Bryden, B.Sc. George Brown, author of the \booktitleRotula . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29 Eric G. Forbes, B.Sc., Ph.D. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and the \booktitleOpera Inedita of Tobias Mayer 31--42 Nicholas Edwards, Ph.D. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster (\em circa 1772--1844), concerning the Royal Institution . . . . . . . . . . . 43--60 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Nineteenth century ventures in Liverpool's scientific education . . . . 61--86 J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. Hans Loeser's metallic thermometers of 1746 and 1747 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Nicholas Edwards, Ph.D. One of the last letters of Adam Sedgwick, geologist (1785--1873) . . . . 109--112 Ian Inkster, B.A. Charles Sylvester and the great railroad debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120 J. MacLean, D.Sc. On harmonic ratios in spectra . . . . . 121--137 Karin Figala, Dr.rer.nat. Tycho Brahe's elixier . . . . . . . . . 139--176 Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's method for calculating the circumstances of a solar eclipse . . 177--189 Piero Ariotti, Ph.D. From the top to the foot of a mast on a moving ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
John F. McDonald, M.A. Properties and causes: An approach to the problem of hypothesis in the scientific methodology of Sir Isaac Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233 Ian Inkster, B.A. A note on itinerant science lecturers, 1790--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Stanislaus Quan, M.A. Galileo and the problem of infinity. Part II. The dialectical arguments, and the solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--284 C. F. A. Marmoy, F.L.A. and John L. Thornton, F.L.A. The anatomical and physiological bibliography of George E. Day (1815--1872) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--291 Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Morten Wormskiold: Botanist: (1783--1845) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--318 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Norriss S. Hetherington, Ph.D. The first measurements of stellar parallax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--325 A. J. M. Szanser, M.Sc., Ph.D. F. G. W. Struve (1793--1864). Astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory . . . . . . . 327--346 J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. The platinum pyrometers of Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, F.R.S. (1737--1816) 347--368 I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. University mathematics at the turn of the century unpublished recollections of W. H. Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--384 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.C.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. The later Victorians and scientific and technical education . . . . . . . . . . 385--400 Peter Zacharias, Dipl.phys Zur Entstehung des Einteilchen-Schalenmodells. (German) [The emergence of the single-particle shell model] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--411 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
H. E. Le Grand, A.B., Ph.D. Lavoisier's oxygen theory of acidity . . 1--18 Herbert C. Winnik, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. A reconsideration of Henry A. Rowland --- the man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34 D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Two little known copies of Black's lecture notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37 D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Nineteenth century controversies concerning the mesozoic/tertiary boundary in New Zealand . . . . . . . . 39--57 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Supplementary education in a nineteenth-century British mining area 59--79 W. V. Farrar, B.Sc., Ph.D. The Society for the Promotion of Scientific Industry, 1872--1876 . . . . 81--86 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. British artisan scientific and technical education in the early nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. A mathematical union: William Henry and Grace Chisholm Young . . . . . . . . . . 105--185 J. MacLean, D.Sc. Science and theology at Groningen University (1698--1702) . . . . . . . . 187--201 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211
D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Edward Daniel Clarke, 1769--1822, and his rôle in the history of the blow-pipe 213--235 G. A. J. Rogers, Ph.D. Descartes and the method of English science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255 Walter E. Gross, Ph.D. Theory and invention: The case of Charles Tablot Porter and his steam engine governor . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269 Harold I. Sharlin, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. On being scientific: a critique of evolutionary geology and biology in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 271--285 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. The Muspratts of Liverpool . . . . . . . 287--311 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Walter E. Gross, Ph.D. The American Philosophical Society and the growth of meteorology in the United States: 1835--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 321--338 Allen Harder, M.A., Ph.D. The Copernican character of Einstein's cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--347 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Science, the working classes and Mechanics' Institutes . . . . . . . . . 349--360 Leonard Trengove, M.A., B.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. William Gregor (1761--1817) discoverer of titanium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--395 Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Instructions to collectors: John Walker (1973) and Robert Jameson (1817); with biographical notes on James Anderson (LL.D.) and James Anderson (M.D.) . . . 397--414 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--423 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Piero E. Ariotti, Ph.D. A little known early seventeenth century treatise on vision: Benedetto Castelli's \booktitleDiscorso sopra la Vista (1639, 1669). Translation and critical comments 1--30 Piero E. Ariotti, Ph.D. Toward absolute time: The undermining and refutation of the Aristotelian conception of time in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . . . . . . . 31--50 A. J. Turner, B.A. Mathematical instruments and the education of gentlemen . . . . . . . . . 51--88 Dennis R. Dean, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. James Hutton and his public, 1785--1802 89--105 H. M. Barkla, M.A.B.Sc. Benjamin Robins and the resistance of air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--122 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
J. A. Bennett, B.A. A study of \booktitleParentalia, with two unpublished letters of Sir Christopher Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--147 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., M.Inst.P. Changing attitudes to education in England & Wales 1833--1902: The governmental reports, with particular reference to science & technical studies 149--164 D. J. Schove, Ph.D., F.R.Met.S. and David Reynolds, B.A. Weather in Scotland, 1659--1660: The diary of Andrew Hay . . . . . . . . . . 165--177 John A. Cable, M.A., M.Ed., Dipl.Deutsch (Marburg), A.L.C.M. Early Scottish science: The vocational provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--199 Daniel Massa, M.A. Giordano Bruno and the top-sail experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211 Lotte Mulligan, Ph.D. Anglicanism, latitudinarianism and science in seventeenth century England 213--219 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--252 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
J. MacLean, D.Sc. Natural science in Japan. I. Before 1830 257--298 Henry M. Leicester, Ph.D. The electrical theories of M. V. Lomonosov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310 Lindsay Sharp, B.A. Walter Charleton's early life 1620--1659, and relationship to natural philosophy in mid-seventeenth century England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--340 Keith Hutchison, M.Sc., Dipl.Hist.Phil.Sc. Der ursprung der entropiefunktion bei Rankine und Clausius. (German) [The origin of the entropy by Rankine and Clausius] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--364 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--378 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
H. L. L. Busard and P. S. van Koningsveld Der \booktitleLiber de Arcubus Similibus des Ahmed Ibn Jusuf. (German) [The \booktitleBook of Arcubus Similibus by Ahmed Ibn Jusuf] . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--406 R. H. Nuttall, Ph.D. and A. Frank Makers of jewel lenses in Scotland in the early nineteenth century . . . . . . 407--416 Joachim Thiele Franz Walds Kritik der theoretischen Chemie (nach Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1902--1906 und unveröffentlichten Briefen). (German) [Franz Wald's critique of theoretical chemistry (according to works from the years 1902 to 1906 and unpublished letters)] . . . 417--433 Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. American and English attitudes to scientific education during the nineteenth-century . . . . . . . . . . . 435--456 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--464 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--468
T. H. Lodwig, M.Sc. and W. A. Smeaton, D.Sc. The ice calorimeter of Lavoisier and Laplace and some of its critics . . . . 1--18 Dott. Maurizio Farinelli and A. L. B. Gale, B.Sc. and A. J. B. Robertson, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. Ambrogio Fusinieri and the adsorption theory of heterogeneous catalysis . . . 19--20 Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Robert Jameson and the explorers: The search for the North-West Passage. Part I. 1. W. Scoresby (junior), C. L. Giesecke, M. Wormskiold and John Ross 21--47 Thaddeus J. Trenn, Ph.D. Rutherfords Alpha-Teilchen. (German) [Rutherford's alpha particles] . . . . . 49--72 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--91 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous A new editorial board for \booktitleAnnals of Science . . . . . . 93--93 J. Harris and W. H. Brock From Giessen to Gower street: Towards a biography of Alexander William Williamson (1824--1904) . . . . . . . . 95--130 Gordon W. Roderick and Michael D. Stephens Science and secondary education in nineteenth century Liverpool . . . . . . 131--163 Wade L. Robison Galileo on the moons of Jupiter . . . . 165--169 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Don C. Rawson The process of discovery: Mendeleev and the periodic law . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--204 Barnett J. Sokol Thomas Harriot --- Sir Walter Ralegh's tutor --- On population . . . . . . . . 205--212 H. E. Le Grand Ideas on the composition of muriatic acid and their relevance to the oxygen theory of acidity . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225 Stanislaus Quan Galileo and the Theorem of Pythagoras 227--261 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
D. R. Oldroyd Some phlogistic mineralogical schemes, illustrative of the evolution of the concept of `earth' in the 17th and 18th centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--305 H. W. Jones A seventeenth-century geometrical debate 307--333 Michael D. Stephens and Gordon W. Roderick Nineteenth century educational finance: The literary and philosophical societies 335--349 Allen J. Harder E. A. Milne, scientific revolutions and the growth of knowledge . . . . . . . . 351--363 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--370 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Otto Sonntag Liebig on Francis Bacon and the utility of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386 I. Grattan-Guinness The Russell Archives: Some new light on Russell's logicism . . . . . . . . . . . 387--406 Walter E. Gross The American Philosophical Society and the rise of astronomy in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--427 Walter E. Gross Geophysics in the American philosophical society 1835--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447 W. Benham The Gauss anagram: An alternative solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455 Piero E. Ariotti An overlooked autograph letter of Galileo on the thermometer . . . . . . . 457--462 Michael D. Stephens and Gordon W. Roderick Science, self improvement and the first industrial revolution . . . . . . . . . 463--470 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
G. Bowles Physical, Human and Divine attraction in the life and thought of George Cheyne 473--488 W. G. Tatham and K. A. Harwood Astronomers and other scientists on St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--510 John R. Millburn William Stukeley and the early history of the Orrery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--528 Walter E. Gross Relativity of motion: From Occam to Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545 Rosaleen Love Herman Boerhaave and the element-instrument concept of Fire . . . 547--559 Robin S. Fleming Newton, Gases, and Daltonian chemistry: The foundations of combination in definite proportion . . . . . . . . . . 561--574 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--578 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--584 Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--587
Lewis S. Feuer Is the `Darwin--Marx correspondence' authentic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 George B. Kauffman Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (1826--1897) Swedish chemist and mineralogist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--37 H. A. M. Snelders The reception in The Netherlands of the discoveries of electromagnetism and electrodynamics (1820--1822) . . . . . . 39--54 Harold Issadore Sharlin and Stephen G. Brush and Harold L. Burstyn and Sandra Herbert and Michael S. Mahoney and Nathan Sivin A study and critique of the teaching of the history of science and technology. Interim report by the Committee on Undergraduate Education of the History of Science Society (U.S.A.) . . . . . . 55--70 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--73 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84 I. Grattan-Guinness Some new policies for \booktitleAnnals of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Victor Lowe A. N. Whitehead on his mathematical goals: a letter of 1912 . . . . . . . . 85--101 I. Grattan-Guinness Wiener on the logics of Russell and Schröder. An account of his doctoral thesis, and of his discussion of it with Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--132 Harold Issadore Sharlin William Thomson's dynamical theory: An insight into a scientist's thinking . . 133--147 Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Caroline Herschel's contributions to astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161 Kurt Mòller Pedersen Argumente für und wider das heliozentrische Weltbild. (German) [Arguments for and against the heliocentric world view] . . . . . . . . 163--167 D. M. Knight Teaching the history of science in some British universities and polytechnics 169--173 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
Dennis R. Dean James Hutton on Religion and Geology: the unpublished preface to his \booktitleTheory of the Earth (1788) . . 187--193 G. N. Cantor The Edinburgh Phrenology Debate: 1803--1828 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--218 Steven Shapin Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--243 G. N. Cantor A critique of Shapin's social interpretation of the Edinburgh phrenology debate . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256 J. M. Edmonds The first geological lecture course at the University of London, 1831 . . . . . 257--275 A. D. Orange The idols of the theatre: The British Association and its early critics . . . 277--294 Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Mikulás Teich Born's amalgamation process and the international metallurgic gathering at Skleno in 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--340 Richard H. Schallenberg Evolution, adaptation and survival: the very slow death of the American charcoal iron industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--358 D. J. Bryden Sir Samuel Morland's account of the balance barometer, 1678 . . . . . . . . 359--368 Philip Chandler Clairaut's critique of Newtonian attraction: Some insights into his philosophy of science . . . . . . . . . 369--378 Otto Sonntag Albrecht von Haller on academies and the advancement of science: the case of Göttingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--391 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--414
Margaret Bradley Scientific education versus military training: The influence of Napoleon Bonaparte on the \em École Polytechnique 415--449 Ian Inkster Science and the Mechanics' Institutes, 1820--1850: The case of Sheffield . . . 451--474 F. W. J. McCosh Boussingault versus Ville: The social, political and scientific aspects of their disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--490 Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen and Manfred Porkert Problems of translation and modernisation of ancient Chinese technical terms . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502 Anonymous On Joseph Fourier: the man, the mathematician and the physicist . . . . 503--514 Anonymous Recent studies of medieval and Renaissance logic . . . . . . . . . . . 515--518 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--524
Michael Bartholomew Huxley's defence of Darwin . . . . . . . 525--535 B. Norton Metaphysics and population genetics: Karl Pearson and the background to Fisher's multi-factorial theory of inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--553 Nail Bezel Autobiography and `The Two Cultures' in the novels of C. P. Snow . . . . . . . . 555--571 J. J. Bikerman Payment of the learned, and lament of a moneyed, man. History of the commotion created by two letters to \booktitleScience 25 years ago . . . . . 573--577 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--582 Pietro Corsi Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--586 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--608
I. Grattan-Guinness An extension of the period covered by \booktitleAnnals of Science . . . . . . 1--1 Crosbie Smith `Mechanical philosophy' and the emergence of physics in Britain: 1800--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29 Norriss S. Hetherington Cleveland Abbe and a view of science in mid-nineteenth-century America . . . . . 31--49 Elizabeth Garber Thermodynamics and meteorology (1850--1900) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65 H. A. M. Snelders A. M. Mayer's experiments with floating magnets and their use in the atomic theories of matter . . . . . . . . . . . 67--80 Lotte Sauermann Eberhard Gieseler, Ingenieur und Physiker. (German) [Eberhard Gieseler, engineer and physicist] . . . . . . . . 81--103 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118
R. N. D. Martin The genesis of a mediaeval historian: Pierre Duhem and the origins of statics 119--129 Jon V. Pepper Harriot's manuscript on the theory of impacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--151 R. H. Naylor Galileo: the search for the parabolic trajectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--172 James MacLachlan Galileo's experiments with pendulums: Real and imaginary . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185 David Knight Agriculture and chemistry in Britain around 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--196 Robert P. Multhauf A history of magnesia alba . . . . . . . 197--200 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--228
W. Eccarius August Leopold Crelle als Herausgeber wissenschaftlicher Fachzeitschriften. (German) [August Leopold Crelle as a publisher of scientific journals] . . . 229--261 Charles H. Cotter George Biddell Airy and his mechanical correction of the magnetic compass . . . 263--274 B. R. Gossick Heaviside and Kelvin: a study in contrasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287 Rudolf Stenzel Begründung für die Verschmelzung der \booktitleReichsanstalt für Mass und Gewicht mit der \em Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt in Berlin im Jahre 1923. (German) [Rationale for the merger of the Imperial Institute of Weights and Measures of the Physical-Technical Institute in Berlin in 1923] . . . . . . 289--306 Alison R. Dorling The Graves Mathematical Collection in University College London . . . . . . . 307--309 J. L. Heilbron Moseley letters . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--330
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Ian Inkster Science and society in the metropolis: a preliminary examination of the social and institutional context of the Askesian Society of London, 1796--1807 1--32 Roy Porter and Kate Poulton Research in British geology 1660--1800: a survey and thematic bibliography . . . 33--42 Robin J. Spring A note on Thomas Graham, surgeon, author of botanical lectures delivered at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London 43--47 Cyril Stanley Smith A highly personal view of science and its history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56 Harold Issadore Sharlin and Robert A. Leacock A course in physics and history: matching an unlikely pair . . . . . . . 57--62 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--102
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John Hedley Brooke Natural theology and the plurality of worlds: Observations on the Brewster--Whewell debate . . . . . . . . 221--286 R. G. A. Dolby The transmission of two new scientific disciplines from Europe to North America in the late nineteenth century . . . . . 287--310 D. M. Knight A note on sumptuous natural histories 311--314 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
Nachum L. Rabinovitch The one and the many: Early stochastic reasoning in philosophy . . . . . . . . 331--344 Sarah Hutton Some Renaissance critiques of Aristotle's theory of time . . . . . . . 345--363 R. H. Naylor Galileo's theory of motion: Processes of conceptual change in the period 1604--1610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--392 R. C. H. Tanner Nathaniel Torporley's \booktitleCongestor analyticus [Concentrated analysis] and Thomas Harriot's \booktitleDe triangulis laterum rationalium [the sides of the rational triangle] . . . . . . . . . . . 393--428 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--448
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W. A. Smeaton The chemical work of Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740--1799), with the text of a letter written to him by madame Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 E. Robert Paul Alexander W. Williamson on the atomic theory: a study of nineteenth-century British atomism . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31 Trevor Levere S. T. Coleridge: a poet's view of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44 David H. Trevena Marcelin Berthelot's first publication in 1850, on the subjection of liquids to tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54 Peter J. Bowler Hugo de Vries and Thomas Hunt Morgan: The mutation theory and the spirit of Darwinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--73 Irena Stasiewicz-Jasiukowa The teaching of the history of science and technology in Polish higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102
John James Significance in sacred sites: The churches around Positano . . . . . . . . 103--130 Gillian R. Evans A commentary on Boethius's \booktitleArithmetica of the twelfth or thirteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141 S. A. Jayawardene Western scientific manuscripts before 1600: a checklist of published catalogues: To the memory of Carl B. Boyer (1906--1976) . . . . . . . . . . . 143--172 E. J. Aiton Kepler's path to the construction and rejection of his first oval orbit for Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--220
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Roy Porter George Hoggart Toulmin's theory of man and the Earth in the light of the development of British geology . . . . . 339--352 Ian Inkster Robert Goodacre's astronomy lectures (1823--1825), and the structure of scientific culture in Philadelphia . . . 353--363 Howard Plotkin Edward C. Pickering, the Henry Draper Memorial, and the beginnings of astrophysics in America . . . . . . . . 365--377 Ian Mitchell Marxism and German scientific materialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--400 John T. Blackmore Three autobiographical manuscripts by Ernst Mach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418 Gottfried Gabriel Implizite Definitionen --- Eine Verwechselungsgeschichte. (German) [Implicit definitions --- confusing story] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--423 Alfred Romer Liberal arts technology . . . . . . . . 425--426 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--431 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--440
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Melvyn C. Usselman The Wollaston/Chenevix controversy over the elemental nature of palladium: a curious episode in the history of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--579 Thaddeus J. Trenn Thoruranium (U-236) as the extinct natural parent of thorium: The premature falsification of an essentially correct theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--597 W. H. Brock The society for the perpetuation of Gmelin: The Cavendish Society, 1846--1872 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--617 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--622 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--654
Joyce Brown Guild organisation and the instrument-making trade, 1550--1830: the Grocers' and Clockmakers' Companies . . 1--34 Dennis R. Dean The word `geology' . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43 Luis M. Laita Influences on Boole's logic: The controversy between William Hamilton and Augustus De Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . 45--65 Virginia Berridge Morality and medical science: Concepts of narcotic addiction in Britain, 1820--1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--110
Lyndsay A. Farrall The history of eugenics: a bibliographical review . . . . . . . . . 111--123 D. MacKenzie Karl Pearson and the professional middle class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--143 Rosaleen Love `Alice in Eugenics-Land': Feminism and Eugenics in the scientific careers of Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton . . . . . . 145--158 G. R. Searle Eugenics and politics in Britain in the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169 R. W. Home Nollet and Boerhaave: a note on eighteenth-century ideas about electricity and fire . . . . . . . . . . 171--175 G. J. Tee Another link between Marx and Darwin . . 176--176 Arthur Donovan The history of science in undergraduate education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--181 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--204
W. D. Hackmann The relationship between concept and instrument design in eighteenth-century experimental science . . . . . . . . . . 205--224 Stephen G. Brush Nineteenth-century debates about the inside of the Earth: Solid, liquid or gas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--254 W. D. Hackmann Underwater acoustics and the Royal Navy, 1893--1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--278 Christoph Meinel Teaching the history of medicine, science and technology in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin 279--289 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--299 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
S. A. Jayawardene and Jennifer Lawes Biographical notices of historians of science: a checklist . . . . . . . . . . 315--394 George B. Kauffman History in the chemistry curriculum: pros and cons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--402 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--408 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--424
James E. Mcclellan, III The scientific press in transition: Rozier's journal and the scientific societies in the 1770s . . . . . . . . . 425--449 Margaret Bradley The financial basis of French scientific education and scientific institutions in Paris, 1790--1815 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--491 Richard Yeo William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain . . . . . . . 493--516 Malcolm J. Kottler Hugo de Vries and the rediscovery of Mendel's laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--538 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--542 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--548
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David Gooding Metaphysics versus measurement: The conversion and conservation of force in Faraday's physics . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29 David R. Topper `To reason by means of images': J. J. Thomson and the mechanical picture of nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--57 John Hendry The development of attitudes to the wave-particle duality of light and quantum theory, 1900--1920 . . . . . . . 59--79 Thaddeus J. Trenn The phenomenon of aggregate recoil: the premature acceptance of an essentially incorrect theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--100 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
R. C. H. Tanner The ordered regiment of the minus sign: Off-beat mathematics in Harriot's manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--158 R. C. H. Tanner The alien realm of the minus: Deviatory mathematics in Cardano's writings . . . 159--178 Augustine Ziggelaar How did the wave theory of light take shape in the mind of Christiaan Huygens? 179--187 W. Eccarius Der Gegensatz zwischen Julius Plücker und Jakob Steiner im Lichte ihrer Beziehungen zu August Leopold Crelle Hintergründe eines wissenschaftlichen Meinungsstreites. (German) [The contrast between Julius Plücker and Jakob Steiner in the light of their relations with August Leopold Crelle: backgrounds of a scientific opinion dispute] . . . . . . 189--213 Patrick H. Byrne Statistical and causal concepts in Einstein's early thought . . . . . . . . 215--228 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
Melvyn C. Usselman William Wollaston, John Johnson and Colombian alluvial platina: a study in restricted industrial enterprise . . . . 253--268 J. A. Bennett George Biddell Airy and horology . . . . 269--285 Howard Plotkin Henry Tappan, Franz Brünnow, and the founding of the Ann Arbor School of Astronomers, 1852--1863 . . . . . . . . 287--302 Lester D. Stephens Joseph LeConte and the development of the physiology and psychology of vision in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 303--321 Harold J. Cook and Nicholas H. Steneck and Arthur J. Vander and Gordon L. Kane Early research on the biological effects of microwave radiation: 1940--1960 . . . 323--351 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--356 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--362
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Brian P. Copenhaver Jewish theologies of space in the scientific revolution: Henry More, Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their predecessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--548 Graham Rees Atomism and `subtlety' in Francis Bacon's philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 549--571 Penelope Gouk The role of acoustics and music theory in the scientific work of Robert Hooke 573--605 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--614
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Piero E. Ariotti Benedetto Castelli's \booktitleDiscourse on the loadstone (1639--1640): the origin of the notion of elementary magnets similarly aligned . . . . . . . 125--140 E. L. Scott Richard Kirwan, J. H. de Magellan, and the early history of specific heat . . . 141--153 Arthur I. Miller Unipolar induction: a case study of the interaction between science and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--189 Patrick H. Byrne The origins of Einstein's use of formal asymmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--250
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John L. Greenberg Alexis Fontaine's integration of ordinary differential equations and the origins of the calculus of several variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36 Helge Kragh Julius Thomsen and 19th-century speculations on the complexity of atoms 37--60 John Hendry Mayer, Herschel and Prévost on the solar motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--75 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--114
J. D. North Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 J. Bruce Brackenridge Kepler, elliptical orbits, and celestial circularity: a study in the persistence of metaphysical commitment. Part I . . . 117--143 Barry Gower Astronomy and probability: Forbes versus Michell on the distribution of the stars 145--160 A. J. Turner `The accomplishment of many years': Three notes towards a history of the sand-glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 Charles D. Waterston John Farey's mineral survey of South-East Sutherland and the age of the Brora Coalfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--198 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--227
M. L. Cooper and V. M. D. Hall William Robert Grove and the London Institution, 1841--1845 . . . . . . . . 229--254 Jean Jones James Hutton and the Forth and Clyde canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--263 J. Bruce Brackenridge Kepler, elliptical orbits, and celestial circularity: a study in the persistence of metaphysical commitment. Part II . . 265--295 C. Hakfoort Nicolas Béguelin and his search for a crucial experiment on the nature of light (1772) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310 Robert B. Todd A note on Francesco Patrizi's use of Cleomedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--325
Silvio A. Bedini Obituary: Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli 1917--1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328 Guy Kitteringham Science in provincial society: The case of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348 O. Reinhardt and D. R. Oldroyd Kant's thoughts on the ageing of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--369 Jon M. Mallatt Dr Beringer's fossils: a study in the evolution of scientific world view . . . 371--380 James MacLachlan Note on R. H. Naylor's error in analysing experimental data . . . . . . 381--384 R. H. Naylor Galileo's law of fall: Absolute truth or approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--389 Stillman Drake Analysis of Galileo's experimental data 389--397 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--420 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--432
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Carleton E. Perrin Joseph Black and the absolute levity of phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--137 Mordechai Feingold and Penelope M. Gouk An early critique of Bacon's \booktitleSylva Sylvarum: Edmund Chilmead's treatise on sound . . . . . . 139--157 A. D. Farr Religious opposition to obstetric anaesthesia: a Myth? . . . . . . . . . . 159--177 Dennis R. Dean John Playfair and his books . . . . . . 179--187 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Une mythologie révolutionnaire dans la chimie française . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--216
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I. Grattan-Guinness Work for the workers: Advances in engineering mechanics and instruction in France, 1800--1830 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33 H. A. M. Snelders The electromagnetic experiments of the Utrecht physicist Gerrit Moll (1785--1838) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--55 Peter Honigmann Entstehung und Schicksal von Humboldts Magnetischen `Verein' (1829--1834) im Zusammenhang mit seiner Rußlandreise. (German) [Origin and fate of Humboldt's Magnetic `association' (1829--1834) in connection with his visit to Russia] . . 57--86 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
G. L'e. Turner Obituary: Derek John de Solla Price 1922--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107 David K. Hill The projection argument in Galileo and Copernicus: Rhetorical strategy in the defence of the new system . . . . . . . 109--133 Kostas Gavroglu and Yorgos Goudaroulis Some methodological and historical considerations in low temperature physics: The case of superconductivity 1911--57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--149 John L. Greenberg Degrees of longitude and the Earth's shape: The diffusion of a scientific idea in Paris in the 1730s . . . . . . . 151--158 Masao Watanabe and Ichiro Tanaka A Newton manuscript in Japan . . . . . . 159--164 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--169 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--177 G. J. Tee Religious opposition to obstetric anaesthesia: Hardly a myth . . . . . . . 179--179 A. D. Farr Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--202
O. Reinhardt and D. R. Oldroyd By analogy with the heavens: Kant's theory of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 203--221 Jean Jones The geological collection of James Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--244 Peter J. Bowler E. W. MacBride's Lamarckian eugenics and its implications for the social construction of scientific knowledge . . 245--260 Hideto Nakajima Two kinds of modification theory of light: Some new observations on the Newton--Hooke controversy of 1672 concerning the nature of light . . . . . 261--278 Ruth Wallis The glory of gravity --- Halley's Comet 1759 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--286 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--311
Karen Hunger Parshall Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding of a mathematical community in America, 1892--1902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--333 S. T. Keith Scientists as entrepreneurs: Arthur Tyndall and the rise of Bristol physics 335--357 John L. Davis Weather forecasting and the development of meteorological theory at the Paris Observatory, 1853--1878 . . . . . . . . 359--382 Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--393 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415
Allan Chapman Tycho Brahe in China: the Jesuit mission to Peking and the iconography of European instrument-making processes . . 417--443 Arthur P. Molella At the edge of science: Joseph Henry, `Visionary Theorizers', and the Smithsonian Institution . . . . . . . . 445--461 Daniel A. Beck Life on the Moon? A short history of the Hansen hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470 Owen G. Harry The Hon. Mrs Ward and `A windfall for the microscope', of 1856 and 1864 . . . 471--482 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--487 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--511
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Leo J. Klosterman A research school of chemistry in the nineteenth century: Jean Baptiste Dumas and his research students. Part I . . . 1--40 Leo J. Klosterman A research school of chemistry in the nineteenth century: Jean Baptiste Dumas and his research students. Part II . . . 41--80 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
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R. C. Olby and M. J. S. Hodge Editors' introduction . . . . . . . . . 187--188 Onno G. Meijer Hugo de Vries no Mendelian? . . . . . . 189--232 Lindley Darden Hugo de Vries's lecture plates and the discovery of segregation . . . . . . . . 233--242 Douglas R. Weiner The roots of `Michurinism': Transformist biology and acclimatization as currents in the Russian life sciences . . . . . . 243--260 Nils Roll-Hansen A new perspective on Lysenko? . . . . . 261--278 Jonathan Harwood Geneticists and the evolutionary synthesis in interwar Germany . . . . . 279--301 Paul Weindling Weimar eugenics: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in social context 303--318 David L. Hull Bias and commitment in science: Phenetics and cladistics . . . . . . . . 319--338 Michael H. MacRoberts Was Mendel's paper on \booktitlePisum neglected or unknown? . . . . . . . . . 339--345 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
Alan J. Rocke Hypothesis and experiment in the early development of Kekulé's Benzene theory 355--381 Robin Attfield Balthasar Bekker and the decline of the Witch-Craze: The old demonology and the new philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--395 John R. Millburn James Ferguson's lecture tour of the English Midlands in 1771 . . . . . . . . 397--415 Donald MacKenzie The political `implications' of scientific theories: a comment on Bowler 417--419 Peter J. Bowler Response to MacKenzie . . . . . . . . . 420--420 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--429 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--451
M. A. Crawforth Evidence from trade cards for the scientific instrument industry . . . . . 453--544 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Jack Meadows Obituary: Eric Gray Forbes 1933--1984 547--548 Susan Sheets-Pyenson Popular science periodicals in Paris and London: The emergence of a low scientific culture, 1820--1875 . . . . . 549--572 Jean Jones James Hutton's agricultural research and his life as a farmer . . . . . . . . . . 573--601 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--611 Anonymous Wisan on Galileo and the art of reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--616 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--630
Greta Jones The mushroom-shaped cloud: British scientists' opposition to nuclear weapons policy, 1945--57 . . . . . . . . 1--26 Stewart Richards Drawing the life-blood of physiology: Vivisection and the Physiologists' dilemma, 1870--1900 . . . . . . . . . . 27--56 Trevor H. Levere Magnetic instruments in the Canadian Arctic expeditions of Franklin, Lefroy, and Nares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--76 Stillman Drake Galileo and the projection argument . . 77--79 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--86 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--109 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
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Giovanna Cifoletti Kepler's \booktitleDe quantitatibus . . 213--238 John S. White William Harvey and the primacy of the blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--255 Anita McConnell The scientific life of William Scoresby Jnr, with a catalogue of his instruments and apparatus in the Whitby Museum . . . 257--286 Neil Morgan A note on the proposed amalgamation of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Medical Research Committee: Philanthropy and state support of medical research, 1914 . . . 287--289 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314
Jan A. van Maanen The refutation of Longomontanus' quadrature by John Pell . . . . . . . . 315--352 Maurice Whitehead The Jesuit contribution to science and technical education in late-nineteenth-century Liverpool . . . 353--368 Allan A. Mills Portable heliostats (solar illuminators) 369--406 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412
Bruce Eastwood Alhazen, Leonardo, and late-medieval speculation on the inversion of images in the eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--446 Joanneke de Bruin and Lewis Pyenson `Gentleman-scientist': Elie van Rijckevorsel and the Dutch overseas effort in exact sciences at the end of the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 447--473 Klaus Hentschel Die Korrespondenz Einstein--Schlick: Zum Verhältnis der Physik zur Philosophie. (German) [The Einstein--Schlick correspondence: On the relationship of physics to philosophy] . . . . . . . . . 475--488 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--510
Carleton E. Perrin Of theory shifts and industrial innovations: The relations of J. A. C. Chaptal and A. L. Lavoisier . . . . . . 511--542 Bert Theunissen The relevance of Cuvier's \em lois zoologiques for his palaeontological work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--556 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--561 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--607
Stephen Pumfrey Mechanizing magnetism in restoration England --- the decline of magnetic philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 Frances Willmoth John Flamsteed's letter concerning the natural causes of earthquakes . . . . . 23--70 Robert B. Gordon Sixteenth-century metalworking technology used in the manufacture of two German astrolabes . . . . . . . . . 71--84 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--105 Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Naum Kipnis Luigi Galvani and the debate on animal electricity, 1791--1800 . . . . . . . . 107--142 John Hendry The scientific origins of controlled fusion technology . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168 P. B. Wood Buffon's reception in Scotland: the Aberdeen connection . . . . . . . . . . 169--190 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213
R. W. Home and Masao Watanabe Physics in Australia and Japan to 1914: a comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--235 Vasilis Pappas and Ioannis Karas The printed book of physics: The dissemination of scientific thought in Greece 1750--1821 before the Greek revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244 Randall C. Brooks Magnetic influence on chronometers, 1798--1834: a case study . . . . . . . . 245--264 W. A. Smeaton Some large burning lenses and their use by eighteenth-century French and British chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276 Diana C. F. Smith The progress of the \booktitleOrcades survey, with biographical notes on Murdoch Mackenzie senior (1712--1797) 277--288 J. L. Greenberg Essay review: The Measurement of the Earth: Antonio Lafuente and Antonio J. Delgado, \booktitleLa Geometrizacion de la Tierra: Observaciones y Resultados de la Expedicion Geodesica Hispano--Francesca al Virreinato del Peru (1735--1744) . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--318
M. A. Crawforth Instrument makers in the London guilds 319--377 Ronald Curtis Darwin as an epistemologist . . . . . . 379--408 J. R. Moore Essay review: Born-again Social Darwinism: Michael Ruse, \booktitleTaking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy . . 409--417 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--438
E. Dekker Early explorations of the southern celestial sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--470 H. Floris Cohen Simon Stevin's equal division of the octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--488 C. B. Spurgin Gay-Lussac's gas-expansivity experiments and the traditional mis-teaching of `Charles's Law' . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--505 Brian P. Copenhaver Science and philosophy in early modern Europe: The historiographical significance of the work of Charles B. Schmitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--517 W. J. Hornix Essay review: The Tales of Hofmann: William Hodson Brock, editor, \booktitleJustus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen (1841--1873) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--524 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--544
Giora Hon On Kepler's awareness of the problem of experimental error . . . . . . . . . . . 545--591 P. K. Hoch and E. J. Yoxen Schrödinger at Oxford: a hypothetical national cultural synthesis which failed 593--616 D. Weaire and S. O'Connor Unfulfilled renown: Thomas Preston (1860--1900) and the anomalous Zeeman effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--644 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--656
Robert A. Stafford Roderick Murchison and the structure of Africa: a geological prediction and its consequences for British expansion . . . 1--40 Roger L. Emerson Sir Robert Sibbald, Kt, The Royal Society of Scotland and the origins of the Scottish enlightenment . . . . . . . 41--72 Klaus Hentschel Die Korrespondenz Duhem--Mach: Zur `Modellbeladenheit' von Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (German) [The Duhem--Mach correspondence: The `model laden' history of science] . . . . . . . 73--91 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--112
Peter de Clercq Science at court: the eighteenth-century cabinet of scientific instruments and models of the Dutch stadholders . . . . 113--152 J. B. Morrell The early Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society: a reconsideration 153--167 Frederic J. Baumgartner Galileo's French correspondents . . . . 169--182 Seymour L. Chapin Lalande and the length of the year; Or, how to win a prize and double publish 183--190 R. E. W. Maddison An unpublished letter of Justus Liebig 191--192 R. E. W. Maddison The life of Robert Boyle: Addenda . . . 193--195 R. E. W. Maddison `The portraiture of Robert Boyle': Addenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198 Anonymous Hofmann's appointment to the College of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--220
John R. Millburn The office of ordnance and the instrument-making trade in the mid-eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 221--293 Stillman Drake The tower argument in the \booktitleDialogue . . . . . . . . . . . 295--302 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--307 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--327
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E. J. Aiton Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--450 J. Bruce Brackenridge Newton's mature dynamics: Revolutionary or reactionary? . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--476 Domenico Bertoloni Meli Leibniz's excerpts from the \booktitlePrincipia mathematica . . . . 477--505 Michael J. Duck Newton and Goethe on colour: Physical and physiological considerations . . . . 507--519 R. W. Home Leonhard Euler's `anti-Newtonian' theory of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--533 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--554
J. F. Donnelly Chemical engineering in England, 1880--1922 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--590 Michel Blay Varignon ou la théorie du mouvement des projectiles `comprise en une Proposition générale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--618 Ida H. Stamhuis The mathematician Rehuel Lobatto advocates life insurances in The Netherlands in the period 1830--1860 . . 619--641 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--646 Anonymous Bookreviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--670
Lydie Touret Charles--François Exchaquet (1746--1792) et les Plans en Relief du Mont-Blanc . . 1--20 Yang Jing Yi and David Oldroyd The introduction and development of continental drift theory and plate tectonics in China: a case study in the transference of scientific ideas from west to east . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--43 Roy M. MacLeod The `Arsenal' in the strand: Australian chemists and the British munitions effort 1916--1919 . . . . . . . . . . . 45--67 Eikoh Shimao Some aspects of Japanese science, 1868--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--91 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
Luigi Indorato and Guido Masotto Poincaré's role in the Crémieu--Pender controversy over electric convection . . 117--163 Carole Stott and David W. Hughes Two Piazzi Smyth comet paintings . . . . 165--172 A. A. Mills and M. L. Jones Three lenses by Constantine Huygens in the possession of the Royal Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182 Bruno Carazza and Helge Kragh Adolfo Bartoli and the problem of radiant heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219
John S. Reid A new look at old linear measures . . . 221--248 John P. Swann Manuscript resources in the history of chemistry at the national library of medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--262 Ian Inkster Appropriate technology, alternative technology and the Chinese model: Terminology and analysis . . . . . . . . 263--276 Eberhard Knobloch Leonhard Eulers Mathematische Notizbücher. (German) [Leonhard Euler's mathematical notebooks] . . . . . . . . 277--302 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--307 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
Mayling Stubbs John Beale, philosophical gardener of Herefordshire. Part II. The improvement of agriculture and trade in the Royal Society (1663--1683) . . . . . . . . . . 323--363 John L. Russell and Sj Catholic astronomers and the Copernican system after the condemnation of Galileo 365--386 Susann Hensel Zu einigen Aspekten der Berufung von Mathematikern an die Technischen Hochschulen Deutschlands im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts. (German) [On some aspects of the vocation of mathematicians at the technical universities in Germany in the last third of the 19th century] . . . . . . . 387--416 József Illy Einstein und der Eötvös-Versuch: Ein Brief Albert Einsteins an Willy Wien. (German) [Einstein and the Eötvös Experiment: a letter between Albert Einstein and Willy Wien] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--422 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435
Timothy L. Alborn Negotiating notation: Chemical symbols and British Society, 1831--1835 . . . . 437--460 Mary Jo Nye Chemical explanation and physical dynamics: Two research schools at the First Solvay Chemistry Conferences, 1922--1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480 Dennis R. Dean Benjamin Franklin and earthquakes . . . 481--495 Robert Olby Scientists and bureaucrats in the establishment of the John Innes horticultural institution under William Bateson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--510 Edvige Schettino A new instrument for infrared radiation measurements: the thermopile of Macedonio Melloni . . . . . . . . . . . 511--517 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--548
Dennis R. Dean New light on William Maclure . . . . . . 549--574 Marian Fournier Huygens' designs for a simple microscope 575--596 S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina The introduction of scientific rationality into India: a study of Master Ramchandra --- Urdu journalist, mathematician and educationalist . . . . 597--610 Anita McConnell Aluminium and its alloys for scientific instruments, 1855--1900 . . . . . . . . 611--620 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--625 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--639
J. Bruce Brackenridge Newton's unpublished dynamical principles: a study in simplicity . . . 3--31 Peter Lundgreen Engineering education in Europe and the U.S.A., 1750--1930: The rise to dominance of school culture and the engineering professions . . . . . . . . 33--75 W. H. Brock The Cavendish Society's wonderful repertory of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 77--80 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--109
Audrey B. Davis American medicine in the gilded age: The first technological era . . . . . . . . 111--125 Russell C. Maulitz In the clinic: Framing disease at the Paris hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 Neil Morgan The strategy of biological research programmes: Reassessing the `dark age' of biochemistry, 1910--1930 . . . . . . 139--150 David Cahan From dust figures to the kinetic theory of gases: August Kundt and the changing nature of experimental physics in the 1860s and 1870s . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--172 Margarida Archinard The diagram of unequal hours . . . . . . 173--190 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
Barbara Whitney Keyser Between science and craft: The case of Berthollet and dyeing . . . . . . . . . 213--260 Pierre Quédec Itinéraire de Louis Néel des aimants aux grenats ferrimagnétiques. (French) [The route of Louis Néel to magnets of ferrimagnetic garnets] . . . . . . . . . 261--275 Klaus Schillinger The development of Saxon scientific instrument-making skills from the Sixteenth Century to the Thirty Years War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--312 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
R. W. Home and Masao Watanabe Forming new physics communities: Australia and Japan, 1914--1950 . . . . 317--345 Morris Fraser Low Japan's secret war? `Instant' scientific manpower and Japan's World War II. Atomic bomb project . . . . . . . . . . 347--360 Charles S. F. Burnett A new source for Dominicus Gundissalinus's account of the science of the stars? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374 John H. Appleby Erasmus King: Eighteenth-century experimental philosopher . . . . . . . . 375--392 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--409 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
Clara Silvia Roero Leibniz and the Temple of Viviani: Leibniz's prompt reply to the challenge and the repercussions in the field of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--443 D. J. Bryden The Edinburgh Observatory 1736--1811: a story of failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--474 Harold J. Cook Sir John Colbatch and Augustan medicine: Experimentalism, character and entrepreneurialism . . . . . . . . . . . 475--505 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--512 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--528
Elly Dekker The light and the dark: a reassessment of the discovery of the Coalsack Nebula, the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--560 Antonio Clericuzio A redefinition of Boyle's chemistry and corpuscular philosophy . . . . . . . . . 561--589 A. J. Kox H. A. Lorentz's contributions to kinetic gas theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--606 Mansel Davies W. T. Astbury, Rosie Franklin, and DNA: a memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--618 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--628
Anita McConnell La Condamine's scientific journey down the River Amazon, 1743--1744 . . . . . . 1--19 Silvana Galdabini and Giuseppe Giuliani Magnetic field effects and dualistic theory of metallic conduction in Italy (1911--1926): cultural heritage, creativity, epistemological beliefs, and national scientific community . . . . . 21--37 Dennis R. Dean Robert Mallet and the founding of seismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--67 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102
W. A. E. McBryde Petroleum deodorized: Early Canadian history of the `doctor sweetening' process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111 Patrice Bret Le Dépôt général de la guerre et la formation scientifique des ingénieurs-géographes militaires en France (1789--1830). (French) [The General Ministry of War and the scientific formation of the military engineer-geographers in France (1789--1830)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--157 Bruce H. Pourciau On Newton's proof that inverse-square orbits must be conics . . . . . . . . . 159--172 Allan A. Mills Canada balsam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185 Mariano Hormogón History of science and technology today in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
Satio Hayakawa and Morris F. Low Science policy and politics in post-war Japan: the establishment of the KEK high energy physics laboratory . . . . . . . 207--229 Edward J. Larson Science in the American South through the eyes of four natural historians, 1750--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--240 Eric L. Mills The oceanography of the Pacific: George F. McEwen, H. U. Sverdrup and the origin of physical oceanography on the west coast of North America . . . . . . . . . 241--266 David B. Wilson P. G. Tait and Edinburgh natural philosophy, 1860--1901 . . . . . . . . . 267--287 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--293 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--304 I. Grattan-Guinness Eric Aiton: an appreciation . . . . . . 305--308
Anonymous `Measuring of all maner of lands': Some aspects of the history of surveying . . 311--311 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312 G. L'E. Turner Introduction: Some notes on the development of surveying and the instruments used . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--317 Stephen Johnston Mathematical practitioners and instruments in Elizabethan England . . . 319--344 J. A. Bennett Geometry and surveying in early-seventeenth-century England . . . 345--354 Frances Willmoth `The genius of all arts' and the use of instruments: Jonas--Moore (1617--1679) as a mathematician, surveyor, and astronomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--365 W. F. Ryan Scientific instruments in Russia from the middle ages to Peter the Great . . . 367--384 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--389 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain: Part I. The Rocks of St David's . . . . 407--452 Dennis R. Dean John Muir and the origin of Yosemite Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--485 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--508 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--508
Robert Olby Social imperialism and state support for agricultural research in Edwardian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--526 Michael Chayut J. J. Thomson: The discovery of the electron and the chemists . . . . . . . 527--544 Ian Inkster Science, technology and economic development --- Japanese historical experience in context . . . . . . . . . 545--563 Geoffrey Tresise `\em Chirotherium herculis' --- Problems posed by the first finds . . . . . . . . 565--576 J. C. Deiman A myth revealed: The case of the `Beeldsnyder achromatic objective' . . . 577--581 R. D. Hill Some comments on \booktitleForming new physics communities: Australia and Japan, 1914--1950, by R. W. Home and M. Watanabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--587 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--595 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--606
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Phillips Salman William Harvey and art misplaced . . . . 3--19 Klaus Hentschel Grebe/Bachems photometrische Analyse der Linienprofile und die Gravitations-Rotverschiebung: 1919 bis 1922. (German) [Grebe/Bachem's photometric analysis of the line profiles and the gravitational redshift: 1919 to 1922] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--46 Lotte Mulligan Robert Hooke's \booktitleMemoranda: Memory and natural history . . . . . . . 47--61 Philip K. Wilson `Out of sight, out of mind?': The Daniel Turner--James Blondel dispute over the power of the maternal imagination . . . 63--85 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
John Brooks The circular dividing engine: Development in England 1739--1843 . . . 101--135 Margaret Bradley Engineers as military spies? French engineers come to Britain, 1780--1790 137--161 Masao Watanabe Francis Bacon: Philanthropy and the instauration of learning . . . . . . . . 163--173 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--200
I. Grattan-Guinness Counting the notes: Numerology in the works of Mozart, especially \booktitleDie Zauberflöte . . . . . . . . 201--232 Thomas Wright Scale models, similitude and dimensions: Aspects of mid-nineteenth-century engineering science . . . . . . . . . . 233--254 Malcolm Oster The scholar and the craftsman revisited: Robert Boyle as aristocrat and artisan 255--276 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--300
D. J. Bryden Evidence from advertising for mathematical instrument making in London, 1556--1714 . . . . . . . . . . . 301--336 A. D. C. Simpson Grain packing in early standard capacity measures: Evidence from the Scottish dry capacity standards . . . . . . . . . . . 337--350 Mansel Davies Frederick Soddy: The scientist as prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--367 Herman Erlichson The instantaneous impulse construction as a formula for central force motion on an arbitrary plane curve with respect to an arbitrary force centre in the plane of that curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--375 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--399 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain: Part II. The Malverns and Shropshire . . 401--460 Susan Sheets-Pyenson Horse race: John William Dawson, Charles Lyell, and the competition over the Edinburgh natural history chair in 1854--1855 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--477 D. S. L. Cardwell On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde, and the dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--487 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--502 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Rienk H. Vermij and Jan A. van Maanen An unpublished autograph by Christiaan Huygens: His letter to David Gregory of 19 January 1694 . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--523 C. Hakfoort Science deified: Wilhelm Osstwald's energeticist world-view and the history of scientism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--544 Ton van Helvoort The controversy between John H. Northrop and Max Delbrück on the formation of bacteriophage: Bacterial synthesis or autonomous multiplication? . . . . . . . 545--575 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--583 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--588 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--600
D. J. Bryden and D. L. Simms Spectacles improved to perfection and approved of by the Royal Society . . . . 1--32 Jan Todd Science at the periphery: An interpretation of Australian scientific and technological dependency and development prior to 1914 . . . . . . . 33--58 Janusz Sysak Coleridge's construction of Newton . . . 59--81 Allan A. Mills Seasonal-hour sundials on vertical and horizontal planes, with an explanation of the scratch dial . . . . . . . . . . 83--93 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Brian Gee The early development of the magneto-electric machine . . . . . . . . 101--133 Ido Yavetz Oliver Heaviside and the significance of the British electrical debate . . . . . 135--173 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--181 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--200
Silvio A. Bedini Of `science and liberty': The scientific instruments of King's College and Eighteenth Century Columbia College in New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--227 Anthony N. Stranges Synthetic fuel production in prewar and World War II. Japan: a case study in technological failure . . . . . . . . . 229--265 Davis Baird Analytical chemistry and the `big' scientific instrumentation revolution 267--290 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--301
Elly Dekker Epact tables on instruments: Their definition and use . . . . . . . . . . . 303--324 Patrice Bret Le Dernier des procédés révolutionnaires: La fabrication et l'expertise de la Poudre Ronde (1795--1830). (French) [The last of the revolutionary processes: Manufacturing and expertise of Round Powder (1795--1830)] . . . . . . . . . . 325--347 Robert J. Manning John Elliot and the inhabited sun . . . 349--364 W. H. Brock Humboldt and the British: a note on the character of British science . . . . . . 365--372 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--381 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--388 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402
Gerard L'E. Turner and Elly Dekker An astrolabe attributed to Gerard Mercator, \em c. 1570 . . . . . . . . . 403--443 Zdislav Síma Prague sextants of Tycho Brahe . . . . . 445--453 Roy MacLeod The chemists go to war: The mobilization of civilian chemists and the British war effort, 1914--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . 455--481 I. Grattan-Guinness Cottage industry or ghetto? The British Society for the History of Mathematics, 1971--1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--490 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--500
Dennis R. Dean The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 . . 501--521 D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain: Part III. The rocks of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--584 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--599 Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--600
B. J. Sokol The problem of assessing Thomas Harriot's \booktitleA briefe and true report of his discoveries in North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Adel A. Ziadat Early reception of Einstein's Relativity in the Arab periodical press . . . . . . 17--35 David Strauss Percival Lowell, W. H. Pickering and the founding of the Lowell Observatory . . . 37--58 Peter Barker and Bernard R. Goldstein Distance and velocity in Kepler's astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--73 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--102
I. Grattan-Guinness Some numerological features of Beethoven's output . . . . . . . . . . . 103--135 Eric R. Scerri Prediction of the nature of hafnium from chemistry, Bohr's theory and quantum theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150 Richard Dunn The true place of astrology among the mathematical arts of late Tudor England 151--163 Trevor H. Levere Chronometers on the Arctic expeditions of John Ross and William Edward Parry: With notes on a letter from Messrs. William Parkinson & William James Frodsham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--199 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Marjorie Malley Thermodynamics and cold light . . . . . 203--224 Bert Theunissen Closing the door on Hugo de Vries' Mendelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--248 Penha Maria Cardoso Dias Clausius and Maxwell: The statistics of molecular collisions (1857--1862) . . . 249--261 Herman Erlichson Galileo's pendulums and planes . . . . . 263--272 Anita McConnell Bankruptcy proceedings against William Harris, Optician, of Cornhill, 1830 . . 273--279 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--328
Gerard L'E. Turner The three astrolabes of Gerard Mercator 329--353 Giuseppe Giuliani and Paolantonio Marazzini The Italian physics community and the crisis of classical physics: New radiations, quanta and Relativity (1896--1925) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--390 Giovanni Boato and Natalia Moro Bancalari's role in Faraday's discovery of diamagnetism and the successive progress in the understanding of magnetic properties of matter . . . . . 391--412 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--452
Margaret Bradley Bonaparte's plans to invade England in 1801: The fortunes of Pierre Forfait . . 453--475 Anne C. van Helden Theory and practice in air-pump construction: The cooperation between Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and Jan van Musschenbroek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--495 Helmut Pulte C. G. J. Jacobis Vermächtnis einer `konventionalen' analytischen Mechanik: Vorgeschichte, Nachschriften und Inhalt seiner letzten Mechanik-Vorlesung. (German) [C. G. J. Jacobi's legacy of a conventional analytical mechanics: history, transcripts and content of his last mechanics lecture] . . . . . . . . 497--516 Yadong Li The introduction of chemical theories into nineteenth-century China . . . . . 517--530 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--538 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--540 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--570 Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain: Part IV. Some general theoretical and social issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--592 Keith Vernon Microbes at work. Micro-organisms, the D.S.I.R. and industry in Britain, 1900--1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--613 Douglas Allchin James Hutton and phlogiston . . . . . . 615--635 Jean Jones and Hugh S. Torrens and Eric Robinson The correspondence between James Hutton (1726--1797) and James Watt (1736--1819) with two letters from Hutton to George Clerk-Maxwell (1715--1784): Part I . . . 637--653 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--687 Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
Elly Dekker An unrecorded medieval astrolabe quadrant from c. 1300 . . . . . . . . . 1--47 Sungook Hong Efficiency and authority in the `Open versus closed' transformer controversy 49--76 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102
Silvio A. Bedini and Arthur G. Bennett \booktitleA treatise on optics by Giovanni Christoforo Bolantio . . . . . 103--126 Mark E. Ehrlich Mechanism and activity in the scientific revolution: The case of Robert Hooke . . 127--151 Dan Ch. Christensen The Òrsted--Ritter partnership and the birth of Romantic natural philosophy . . 153--185 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192 D. R. Oldroyd and G. McKenna A note on Andrew Ramsay's unpublished report on the St David's area, recently discovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--212 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
J. Williams Mathematics and the alloying of coinage 1202--1700: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 213--234 J. Williams Mathematics and the alloying of coinage 1202--1700. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 235--263 Nadia Robotti J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory: The history of an electric charge measurement . . . . . . . . . . . 265--284 Helge Kragh From curiosity to industry: The early history of cryolite soda manufacture . . 285--301 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305 J. A. Bennett Obituary: R. E. W. Maddison (1901--93) 306--306 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
J. L. Davis The research school of Marie Curie in the Paris faculty, 1907--14 . . . . . . 321--355 Jean Jones and Hugh S. Torrens and Eric Robinson The correspondence between James Hutton (1726--1797) and James Watt (1736--1819) with two letters from Hutton to George Clerk-Maxwell (1715--1784). Part II . . 357--382 Dong-Won Kim The emergence of theoretical physics in Japan: Japanese physics community between the two World Wars . . . . . . . 383--402 John L. Russell What was the crime of Galileo? . . . . . 403--410 B. R. Coles An absolute zero of temperature: Locke's enunciation of the concept . . . . . . . 411--412 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430
Allan Chapman Out of the meridian: John Bird's equatorial sector and the new technology of astronomical measurement . . . . . . 431--463 Paul Brassley Agricultural research in Britain, 1850--1914: Failure, success and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--480 Greta Jones Women and eugenics in Britain: The case of Mary Scharlieb, Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, and Stella Browne . . . . . . . 481--502 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--507 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--517 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
Niccol`o Guicciardini Johann Bernoulli, John Keill and the inverse problem of central forces . . . 537--575 Nathan M. Brooks Russian chemistry in the 1850s: a failed attempt at institutionalization . . . . 577--589 Aparajito Basu Chemical research in India (1876--1918) 591--600 Michael Barth Huygens at work: Annotations in his rediscovered personal copy of Hooke's \booktitleMicrographia . . . . . . . . . 601--613 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--618 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--628
John H. Appleby A new perspective on John Rowley, Virtuoso Master of mechanics and hydraulic engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 Charles W. J. Withers Geography, science and national identity in early modern Britain: The case of Scotland and the work of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641--1722) . . . . . . . . . . 29--73 Allan A. Mills Altitude sundials for seasonal and equal hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--106 P. M. Harman The collected papers of Albert Einstein, vol 5, The Swiss years: Correspondence, 1902--1914 --- M. J. Klein, A. J. Kox, R. Schulmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
David Oldroyd and Yang Jing-Yi On being the first Western geologist in China: The work of Raphael Pumpelly (1837--1923) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--136 Ad Meskens Mathematics education in late sixteenth-century Antwerp . . . . . . . 137--155 Robert Fox Thomas Edison's Parisian campaign: Incandescent lighting and the hidden face of technology transfer . . . . . . 157--193 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
George Molland Addressing ancient authority: Thomas Bradwardine and \booktitlePrisca Sapientia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233 Katherine H. Tachau Logic's God and the natural order in late medieval Oxford: The teaching of Robert Holcot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--267 Klaus Hentschel Measurements of gravitational redshift between 1959 and 1971 . . . . . . . . . 269--295 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--318 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--322
Sherrie Cross Prestige and Comfort: The development of Social Darwinism in early Meiji Japan, and the role of Edward Sylvester Morse 323--344 Morris F. Low Medical representations of the body in Japan: Gender, class, and discourse in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 345--359 Carsten Flohr The Plague Fighter: Wu Lien-teh and the beginning of the Chinese public health system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380 Michael Berger Henry David Thoreau's science in \booktitleThe Dispersion of Seeds . . . 381--397 B. J. Sokol Poet in the atomic age: Robert Frost's \booktitleThat Millikan Mote expanded 399--411 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebii--ebii
Sungook Hong Styles and credit in early radio engineering: Fleming and Marconi on the first transatlantic wireless telegraphy 431--465 Luis Fermín Capitán Vallvey Export and smuggling of Spanish platina in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . 467--487 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--488 Edgar Nitsch Keuper 1820--34: Geburt eines stratigraphischen Begriffes. (German) [Keuper 1820--34: Birth of a stratigraphic term] . . . . . . . . . . 489--500 Christine Brandon-Jones Charles Darwin and the repugnant curators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--510 Penha Maria Cardoso Dias William Thomson and the heritage of caloric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--520 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--540
Elly Dekker The Copernican globe: a delayed conception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--566 William R. Newman The alchemical sources of Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy . . . . . . . . . 567--585 Bruno Carazza and Nadia Robotti The first molecular models for an electromagnetic Theory of dispersion and some aspects of physics at the end of the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 587--607 Gustav Holmberg Mechanizing the astronomer's vision: On the role of photography in Swedish astronomy, \em c. 1880--1914 . . . . . . 609--616 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--625 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--631 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--654
Agustí Nieto-Galan Calico printing and chemical knowledge in Lancashire in the early nineteenth century: the life and `colours' of John Mercer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28 Anthony N. Stranges The US Bureau of Mines's synthetic fuel programme, 1920--1950s: German connections and American advances . . . 29--68 David Oldroyd Some youthful beliefs of Sir Archibald Geikie, PRS, and the first publication of his \booktitleOn the study of the sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
John P. Lamprey An examination of two groups of Georg Hartmann sixteenth-century astrolabes and the tables used in their manufacture 111--142 Ad Meskens Michiel Coignet's contribution to the development of the sector . . . . . . . 143--160 Silvio A. Bedini The transit in the tower: English astronomical instruments in Colonial America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--196 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220
David Oldroyd and Beryl Hamilton Geikie and Judd, and controversies about the igneous rocks of the Scottish Hebrides: Theory, practice, and power in the geological community . . . . . . . . 221--268 Daniel Carey Compiling nature's history: Travellers and travel narratives in the early Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--292 Jacob Adler J. S. Delmedigo and the liquid-in-glass thermometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--299 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--326 Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Kim Pelis Blood clots: the nineteenth-century debate over the substance and means of transfusion in Britain . . . . . . . . . 331--360 Robert Tattersall Frederick Pavy (1829--1911) and his opposition to the glycogenic theory of Claude Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374 Jane Wess The logic demonstrators of the 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753--1816) . . . . . . . . . 375--395 Michael Duck A question of faith: Goethe's belief in the immutability of light . . . . . . . 397--406 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--421 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
Frederick Kurzer Samuel Parkes: Chemist, author, reformer --- a biography . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--462 Mary Mosher Flesher Repetitive order and the human walking apparatus: Prussian military science versus the Webers' locomotion research 463--487 R. Derek Wood A state pension for L. J. M. Daguerre for the secret of his Daguerreotype technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--506 Ruth Wallis Edward Cocker (1632?--1676) and his \booktitleArithmetick: De Morgan demolished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--522 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--531
Ana Carneiro and Natalie Pigeard Chimistes alsaciens \`a Paris au 19\`eme si\`ecle: un réseau, une école?. (French) [Alsace chemists in Paris in the 19th Century: a network, a school?] . . . . . 533--546 Frank Dittmann and Jérôme Ségal Hermann Schmidt (1894--1968) et la théorie générale de la régulation: Une cybernétique allemande en 1940?. (French) [Hermann Schmidt (1894--1968) and the general theory of regulation: a German cybernetics in 1940?] . . . . . . . . . 547--565 Jutta Berger Chemische Mechanik und Kinetik: die Bedeutung der mechanischen Wärmetheorie für die Theorie chemischer Reaktionen. (German) [Chemical mechanism and kinetics: the importance of the mechanical theory of heat for the theory of chemical reactions] . . . . . . . . . 567--584 David E. Cartwright Robert Paul de Lamanon: An unlucky naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--596 I. Grattan-Guinness Benjamin Peirce's \booktitleLinear Associative Algebra (1870): New light on its preparation and `publication'. In fond memory of Max H. Fisch (1900--95) 597--606 Christina Oedingen and Joseph W. Staerk First cure for diphtheria by antitoxin as early as 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--610 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--622 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--634
Ruth Barton Just before \booktitleNature: The purposes of science and the purposes of popularization in some English popular science journals of the 1860s . . . . . 1--33 M. Eileen Magnello Karl Pearson's mathematization of inheritance: From ancestral heredity to Mendelian genetics (1895--1909) . . . . 35--94 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Paul Forman Molecular beam measurements of nuclear moments before magnetic resonance. Part I: I. I. Rabi and deflecting magnets to 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--160 Nadia Robotti and Francesca Pastorino Zeeman's discovery and the mass of the electron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--183 Oscar Sheynin Stochastic thinking in the Bible and the Talmud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--198 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218
Richard A. Jarrell Visionary or bureaucrat? T. H. Huxley, the Science and Art Department and Science teaching for the working class 219--240 Joost Mertens From the lecture room to the workshop: John Frederic Daniell, the constant battery and electrometallurgy around 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--261 Laurent Mucchielli Aux origines de la psychologie universitaire en France (1870--1900): enjeux intellectuels, contexte politique, réseaux et stratégies d'alliance autour de la \booktitleRevue philosophique de Théodule Ribot . . . . . 263--289 John L. Davis Artisans and savants: The role of the Academy of Sciences in the process of electrical innovation in France, 1850--1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--328
Charles Burnett King Ptolemy and Alchandreus the Philosopher: The earliest texts on the astrolabe and Arabic astrology at Fleury, Micy and Chartres . . . . . . . 329--368 Maria Yamalidou Molecular ideas in hydrodynamics . . . . 369--400 Xiang Chen Dispersion, experimental apparatus, and the acceptance of the wave theory of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--448
G. L'E. Turner A New Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Silke Ackermann and John Cherry Richard II, John Holland and Three Medieval Quadrants . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23 Elizabeth Henry Bellmer The Statesman and the Ophthalmologist: Gladstone and Magnus on the Evolution of Human Colour Vision, One Small Episode of the Nineteenth-century Darwinian Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45 Patti Wilger Hunter An Unofficial Community: American Mathematical Statisticians before 1935 47--68 Anne C. van Helden and Rob H. van Gent The Lens Production by Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens . . . . . . . . . . 69--79 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Atomism and Positivism: a Legend about French Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94 Jean Jones Essay Review: Priestley Enlightened . . 95--98 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--109
Trevor Levere More Introductions . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111 Frederick Kurzer The Life and Work of Edward Charles Howard FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--141 Robinson M. Yost Pondering the Imponderable: John Robison and Magnetic Theory in Britain (c.1775--1805) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--174 David Oldroyd Early Ideas About Glaciation in the English Lake District: The Problem of Making Sense of Glaciation in a Glaciated Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--203 Anonymous Essay Review: Suspension and Belief . . 205--209 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Guido Tagliaferri and Pasquale Tucci Carlini and Plana on the Theory of the Moon and their Dispute with Laplace . . 221--269 June Barrow-Green 'A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure Mathematics': Robert Smith (1689--1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge University . . . . . . . . . . 271--316 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
Nicholas Kollerstrom The Path of Halley's Comet, and Newton's Late Apprehension of the Law of Gravity 331--356 Martin Hilbert Herschel's Investigation of the Nature of Radiant Heat: The Limitations of Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--378 Reinier Plomp A Longitude Timekeeper by Isaac Thuret with the Balance Spring Invented by Christiaan Huygens . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394 David Oldroyd Non-written Sources in the Study of the History of Geology: Pros and Cons, in the Light of the Views of Collingwood and Foucault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415 Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Geological Museums and their Collections: Rich Sources for Historians of Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--431 Gerard Sierksma and Wybe Sierksma The Great Leap to the Infinitely Small. Johann Bernoulli: Mathematician and Philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--449 Yung Sik Kim Towards a 'Comparative History of the Foundations of Science': Language and Logic in Traditional China . . . . . . . 451--460 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--464
Ruth Benschop and Douwe Draaisma In Pursuit of Precision: The Calibration of Minds and Machines in Late Nineteenth-century Psychology . . . . . 1--25 Jacqueline Anne Stedall Ariadne's Thread: The Life and Times of Oughtred's \booktitleClavis [mathematicae] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--60 Paul Elliott The Birth of Public Science in the English Provinces: Natural Philosophy in Derby, c. 1690--1760 . . . . . . . . . . 61--100 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
Frederick Kurzer A History of the Surrey Institution . . 109--141 John Stewart 'Science Fights Death': David Stark Murray, Science, and Socialism in Interwar Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--161 Ezio Vaccari Mining and Knowledge of the Earth in Eighteenth-century Italy . . . . . . . . 163--180 Paul Kunitzsch A Note on Ascelinus' \booktitleTable of Astrolabe Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--185 Charles Burnett Addendum to ``King Ptolemy and Alchandreus the Philosopher: The Earliest Texts on the Astrolabe and Arabic Astrology at Fleury, Micy and Chartres'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187 Gordon McOuat Networks, Hybrids and Forms of Life . . 189--195 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--217
Ruth Wallis Cross-currents in Astronomy and Navigation: Thomas Hornsby, FRS (1733--1810) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--240 Matteo Leone and Nadia Robotti Stellar, Solar and Laboratory Spectra: The History of Lockyer's Proto-elements 241--266 Donata Brianta Education and Training in the Mining Industry, 1750--1860: European Models and the Italian Case . . . . . . . . . . 267--300 K. Hentschel Essay Review: Heisenberg, German Culture, and Other Such Horrifying Things. Paul Lawrence Rose, \booktitleHeisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939--1945, ISBN 0-520-21077-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--327
Erik Zevenhuizen Keeping and Scrapping: The Story of a Mendelian Lecture Plate of Hugo de Vries 329--352 Helge Kragh The Chemistry of the Universe: Historical Roots of Modern Cosmochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--368 Hannah Gay Association and Practice: The City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education . . . 369--398 Gerard L'E. Turner The Government and the English Optical Glass Industry, 1650--1850 . . . . . . . 399--414 Frank Horstmann Hobbes und das Sinusgesetz der Refraktion. (German) [Hobbes and the sine law of refraction] . . . . . . . . 415--440 Brian Vickers Essay Review: Looking for the Rhetoric of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--446 Sergio L. Sanabria Essay Review: Perils of Certitude in the Structural Analysis of Historic Masonry Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--453 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--462
Danny J. Beckers Definitely Infinitesimal: Foundations of the Calculus in The Netherlands, 1840--1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Christer Nordlund 'On Going Up in the World': Nation, Region and the Land Elevation Debate in Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--50 Peter J. Ramberg and Geert J. Somsen The Young J. H. van 't Hoff: The Background to the Publication of his 1874 Pamphlet on the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, Together with a New English Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--74 Stephen D. Snobelen Mathematicians, Historians and Newton's \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 75--84 Bruce Pourciau A New Translation of and Guide to Newton's \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . 85--91 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
Pere Grapí The Marginalization of Berthollet's Chemical Affinities in the French Textbook Tradition at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 111--135 Nadia Robotti and Massimiliano Badino Max Planck and the 'Constants of Nature' 137--162 Frederick Kurzer Chemistry and Chemists at the London Institution 1807--1912 . . . . . . . . . 163--201 Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
Steven Vanden Broecke Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551) . . . . . . . 219--240 Didier Kahn Entre atomisme, alchimie et théologie: La réception des th\`eses d'Antoine de Villon et Étienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les cabalistes' (24--25 août 1624). (French) [Between atomism, alchemy, and theology. The reception of the theses of Antoine de Villon and Étienne de Clave against Aristotle, Paracelsus, and the cabalists (24--25 August 1624)] . . . . . . . . . 241--286 Sacha Tomic L'Analyse chimique des végétaux: Le cas du quinquina. (French) [The chemical analysis of vegetables: the case of quinquina] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--309 E. P. Hamm Of 'histories written by the hand of nature itself' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--317 Robert Fox Science at Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . 319--322 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--326
Marco Beretta Lavoisier and his Last Printed Work: The \booktitleMémoires de physique et de chimie (1805) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--356 Steven A. Walton Theophrastus on \em Lyngurium: Medieval and Early Modern Lore from the Classical Lapidary Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 357--379 Rolf Willach The Development of Telescope Optics in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 381--398 Hanna E. H. Martinsen Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century . . . . 399--402 Eric L. Mills Enlightened Natural History or the Beginnings of Oceanic Science? . . . . . 403--408 Iwan Rhys Morus Henry's House: The Smithsonian Institution and the Making of American Public Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--416 Theodore M. Porter Modern Facts and Postmodern Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--422 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--452
Robert H. Kargon and Scott G. Knowles Knowledge for Use: Science, Higher Learning, and America's New Industrial Heartland, 1880--1915 . . . . . . . . . 1--20 Roger L. Emerson The Scientific Interests of Archibald Campbell, 1st Earl of Ilay and 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682--1761) . . . . . . . . . 21--56 Klaus Hentschel Spectroscopic Portraiture . . . . . . . 57--82 Maurice A. Finocchiaro Drake on Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88 I. Grattan-Guinness Truths and Contradictions about Karl Popper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108 Anonymous Annals of Science Prize . . . . . . . . 109--109
Matthew Cobb Malpighi, Swammerdam and the Colourful Silkworm: Replication and Visual Representation in Early Modern Science 111--147 David Philip Miller 'Distributing Discovery' between Watt and Cavendish: a Reassessment of the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy' 149--178 Giovanni Ferraro Convergence and Formal Manipulation of Series from the Origins of Calculus to About 1730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--199 Sabetai Unguru \booktitleAmicus Plato sed\ldots: Fowler's New Mathematical Reconstruction of the Mathematics of Plato's Academy 201--210 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Robert L. Carneiro and Robert G. Perrin Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology: a Centennial Retrospective and Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--261 Andrew J. Hull Food for Thought?: The Relations between the Royal Society Food Committees and Government, 1915--19 . . . . . . . . . . 263--298 Bruno Carazza and Nadia Robotti Explaining Atomic Spectra within Classical Physics: 1897--1913 . . . . . 299--320 Rose-Mary Sargent A New Way to Read Boyle's Works . . . . 321--326 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Roberto Moreno and Koenraad Van Cleempoel and David King A Recently Discovered Sixteenth-Century Spanish Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . 331--362 Deborah Jean Warner Political Geodesy: The Army, the Air Force, and the World Geodetic System of 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--389 Richard J. Howarth Fitting Geomagnetic Fields before the Invention of Least Squares: I. Henry Bond's Predictions (1636, 1668) of the Change in Magnetic Declination in London 391--408 Charles C. Gillispie Some Recent 'Big Pictures' in the History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 409--412 M. T. Bravo The Geography of an Empire Licensed by Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418 Alexei Kojevnikov The Last Century of Physics . . . . . . 419--422 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--446
David Oldroyd and Yang Jing-Yi Bailey Willis (1857--1949): Geological Theorizing and Chinese Geology . . . . . 1--37 Phillip R. Sloan Whewell's Philosophy of Discovery and the Archetype of the Vertebrate Skeleton: The Role of German Philosophy of Science in Richard Owen's Biology . . 39--61 Richard J. Howarth Fitting Geomagnetic Fields before the Invention of Least Squares: II. William Whiston's Isoclinic Maps of Southern England (1719 and 1721) . . . . . . . . 63--84 Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--106
Antoni Malet Kepler and the Telescope . . . . . . . . 107--136 Frederick Kurzer William Hasledine Pepys FRS: a Life in Scientific Research, Learned Societies and Technical Enterprise . . . . . . . . 137--183 Frederick G. Page Lime in the Early Bleaching Industry of Britain 1633--1828: Its Prohibition and Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--200 Giles Hudson Essay Review of \booktitleThe Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance by John North 201--205 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--218
Buhm Soon Park The `Hyperbola of Quantum Chemistry': the Changing Practice and Identity of a Scientific Discipline in the Early Years of Electronic Digital Computers, 1945--65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--247 Gerard L'E. Turner The Italian-Hour Nocturnal . . . . . . . 249--268 Michael Hunter and Lawrence M. Principe The Lost Papers of Robert Boyle . . . . 269--311 N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Ptolemy's Guide to Drawing a Map of the Earth. J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones, \booktitlePtolemy's Geography, An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters, ISBN 0-691-09259-1 (hbk), ISBN 0-691-01042-0 (pbk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320 A. E. Slaton Essay Review: \booktitleTechnology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941--1999 by C. G. Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325 M. F. Low Book Review: \booktitleCurrent Perspectives in the History of Science in East Asia, edited by Y. S. Kim and F. Bray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Luciano Boschiero Natural Philosophical Contention Inside the Accademia del Cimento: the Properties and Effects of Heat and Cold 329--349 R. Richard Hamerla Edward Williams Morley and the Atomic Weight of Oxygen: the Death of Prout's Hypothesis Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 351--372 Allan A. Mills Early Voltaic Batteries: an Evaluation in Modern Units and Application to the Work of Davy and Faraday . . . . . . . . 373--398 Maurice Crosland Difficult Beginnings in Experimental Science at Oxford: the Gothic Chemistry Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--421 Anonymous A Manichean View of the History of Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--436 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--458 Anonymous The Annals of Science Prize . . . . . . 459--459 E. A. Fellmann Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Carsten Reinhardt Chemistry in a Physical Mode: Molecular Spectroscopy and the Emergence of NMR 1--32 D. L. Simms Newton's Contribution to the Science of Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--77 Martin Edwards Good, Bad or Offal? The Evaluation of Raw Pancreas Therapy and the Rhetoric of Control in the Therapeutic Trial, 1925 79--98 Christine Garwood Green Crusaders or Captives of Industry? The British Alkali Inspectorate and the Ethics of Environmental Decision Making, 1864--95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--117 Charles J. Mozzochi Essay Review: Quest and Conquest: Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem . . . . . . . . 119--126 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
John C. Waller Becoming a Darwinian: the Micro-politics of Sir Francis Galton's Scientific Career 1859--65 . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Once Snell Breaks Down: From Geometrical to Physical Optics in the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--185 Jeremy Vetter Science along the Railroad: Expanding Field Work in the US Central West . . . 187--211 Brian Vickers Essay Review: \booktitle`Neither Proper nor Useful': Jesuit Orthodoxy and Galilean Science, Mordechai Feingold, editor, \booktitleThe New Science and Jesuit Science: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives Dordrecht, Boston, MA, and London: Kluwer, 2003. ix + 270 pp. EUR118, US\$113, \pounds 76. ISBN 1-4020-0848-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218 Keith J. Laidler Essay Review: \booktitleFrom Classical to Modern Chemistry: The Instrumental Revolution, Edited by Peter J. T. Morris, editor, Royal Society of Chemistry in association with the Science Museum. London: xvi + 347 pp. ISBN 0-85404-479-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 219--225 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--269
Jeremy Vetter Science along the Railroad: Expanding Field Work in the US Central West . . . 271--271 Allan A. Mills The Lodestone: History, Physics, and Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--319 A. D. C. Simpson and R. D. Connor The Mass of the English Troy Pound in the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 321--349 Jean-François Auger Le régime de recherche utilitaire du professeur-consultant au cours de la Seconde Révolution industrielle. (French) [The utilitarian research program of the professor consultant in the Second Industrial Revolution] . . . . . . . . . 351--374 David A. King Book Reviews: \booktitleTowards a History from Antiquity to the Renaissance of Sundials and Other Instruments for Reckoning Time by the Sun and Stars, by Hester Higton, \booktitleSundials --- An Illustrated History of Portable Dials, London: Philip Wilson, 2001, with contributions from Silke Ackermann, Richard Dunn, Kiyoshi T. Akada and Anthony Turner, \booktitleSundials at Greenwich --- A Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 2002 . . . . . 375--388 Michael Ruse Book Reviews: \booktitleI May Be Old Fashioned but\ldots, Evelyn Fox Keller, \booktitleMaking Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
Huib J. Zuidervaart Reflecting `Popular Culture': The Introduction, Diffusion, and Construction of the Reflecting Telescope in The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . 407--452 Allan A. Mills The Early History of Insulated Copper Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--467 Clifford Cunningham Discovery of the Missing Correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1802--5) . . . . . 469--481 Anonymous Essay Review: Romanticism and Science 483--487 Anonymous Essay Review: The Way of Galton in the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--493 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--520
Melvyn Usselman and Alan Rocke and Christina Reinhart and Kelly Foulser Restaging Liebig: a Study in the Replication of Experiments . . . . . . . 1--55 David Pantalony Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones . . . . . . . . . 57--82 Anita McConnell Origins of the marine barometer . . . . 83--101 Anonymous Essay Review: The Historicity of Sound and Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105 Anonymous Essay Review: What Does Science Have to Do with Music? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120 Anonymous Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--139
Ana Carneiro Outside Government Science, `Not a Single Tiny Bone to Cheer Us Up!' The Geological Survey of Portugal (1857--1908), The Involvement of Common Men, and the Reaction of Civil Society to Geological Research . . . . . . . . . 141--204 Sumiko Otsubo Between Two Worlds: Yamanouchi Shigeo and Eugenics in Early Twentieth-Century Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--231 Maurice Crosland Early Laboratories c. 1600--c. 1800 and the Location of Experimental Science . . 233--253 Anonymous Essay review: Janis Langins on the Corps Royal du Génie Militaire . . . . . . . . 255--263 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279
Hasok Chang and Sang Wook Yi The Absolute and Its Measurement: William Thomson on Temperature . . . . . 281--308 Margarida Archinard Les Cadrans Solaires Analemmatiques. (French) [The analemmatic sundials] . . 309--346 Jean Eisenstaedt \booktitleLight and Relativity, a Previously Unknown Eighteenth-Century Manuscript by Robert Blair (1748--1828) 347--376 Anonymous Romantic Life and Science . . . . . . . 377--385 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--415 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Daniela Monaldi Life of $ \mu $: The Observation of the Spontaneous Decay of Mesotrons and its Consequences, 1938--1947 . . . . . . . . 419--455 Raf De Bont Rome and Theistic Evolutionism: The Hidden Strategies behind the `Dorlodot Affair', 1920--1926 . . . . . . . . . . 457--478 Andreas-Holger Maehle The Quantification and Differentiation of the Drug Receptor Theory, c. 1910--1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--500 Danielle Fauque Organisation des laboratoires de chimie \`a Paris sous le minist\`ere Duruy (1863--1869): Cas des laboratoires de Fremy et de Wurtz. (French) [Organization of the chemistry laboratories in Paris under the Dury ministry (1863--1869): case of the laboratories of Fremy and Wurtz] . . . . 501--531 Anonymous To Have, to Hold, and to Share: Compiling Scientific Knowledge in the Information Age of Enlightenment . . . . 533--538 Anonymous Technology and Engineering . . . . . . . 539--554
Anonymous Seventy Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Kärin Nickelsen The Challenge of Colour: Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the Hand-Colouring of Illustrations . . . . 3--23 A. M. Lucas and Sara Maroske and Andrew Brown-May Bringing Science to the Public: Ferdinand von Mueller and Botanical Education in Victorian Victoria . . . . 25--57 Monica Ugaglia The Science of Magnetism Before Gilbert Leonardo Garzoni's \booktitleTreatise on the Loadstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--84 Isabel Amaral The Emergence of New Scientific Disciplines in Portuguese Medicine: Marck Athias's Histophysiology Research School, Lisbon (1897--1946) . . . . . . 85--110 Anonymous New Trends in Newtonian Scholarship: Benefits and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . 111--117 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137
James A. Marcum `Soup' vs. `Sparks': Alexander Forbes and the Synaptic Transmission Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--156 Trienke M. van der Spek Selling a Theory: The Role of Molecular Models in J. H. van 't Hoff's Stereochemistry Theory . . . . . . . . . 157--177 Kristine C. Harper Meteorology's Struggle for Professional Recognition in the USA (1900--1950) . . 179--199 B. D. Newbury and M. R. Notis and B. Stephenson and G. S. Cargill III and G. B. Stephenson The Astrolabe Craftsmen of Lahore and Early Brass Metallurgy . . . . . . . . . 201--213 Gerard L'E. Turner A Novel Italian-Hour Nocturnal by Michiel Coignet . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219 Anonymous The Remarkable Fecundity of Leibniz's Work on Infinite Series . . . . . . . . 221--225 Anonymous `Models': Diverse but Limited . . . . . 227--234 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
Alexander Jones Ptolemy's Ancient Planetary Observations 255--290 Mi Gyung Kim `Public' Science: Hydrogen Balloons and Lavoisier's Decomposition of Water . . . 291--318 Elizabeth Cavicchi Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction . . . . . . . 319--361 Anonymous Artful Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370 Anonymous Gravitational Waves under the Microscope 371--375 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393
Ja Hyon Ku British Acoustics and its Transformation from the 1860s to the 1910s . . . . . . 395--423 Sabine Rommevaux Un exemple de \booktitleQuestion mathématique au Moyen Âge. (French) [An example of mathematical \booktitleQuestion of the Middle Ages] 425--445 Shaul Katzir Thermodynamic deduction versus quantum revolution: The failure of Richardson's theory of the photoelectric effect . . . 447--469 Thomas Lepeltier Edward Milne's influence on modern cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--481 Anonymous Ex Oriente Lux Mundi . . . . . . . . . . 483--492 Anonymous `The Geohistorical Revolution': The Emergence of Geology as an Historical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--501 Anonymous Exploration, Ecology and Earth and Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
M. Eugene Rudd Chromatic aberration of eyepieces in early telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Teresa Salomé Alves Da Mota A Mere Shadow of an Institution: the Unhappy Story of the Portuguese Geological Survey (PGS) in the Period Between the Two World Wars . . . . . . . 19--40 Klaus Hentschel Gauss, Meyerstein and Hanoverian Metrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--75 Gustav Holmberg Taming tempests through telegraphy and media appearances: Science communication and the construction of a Swedish storm-warning system before the Great War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Anonymous (Stop) Talking About Victorian Science 93--100 Anonymous State of the Medical Historical Art Versus Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 Anonymous Making the History of Science Matter in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--146
Deborah Jean Warner How Sweet It Is: Sugar, Science, and the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--170 S. Müller-Wille and V. Orel From Linnaean Species to Mendelian Factors: Elements of Hybridism, 1751--1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--215 Hiro Hirai Interprétation chymique de la création et origine corpusculaire de la vie chez Athanasius Kircher. (French) [Chemical interpretation of the corpuscular creation and origin of life according to Athanasius Kircher] . . . . . . . . . . 217--234 Stephen G. Alter The Advantages of Obscurity: Charles Darwin's Negative Inference from the Histories of Domestic Breeds . . . . . . 235--250 Anonymous A Lot About a Little Bit of England . . 251--279 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291
J. M. Steele Celestial Measurement in Babylonian Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--325 Benjamin Wardhaugh The Logarithmic Ear: Pietro Mengoli's Mathematics of Music . . . . . . . . . . 327--348 Gillian Gass Spheres of Influence: Illustration, Notation, and John Dalton's Conceptual Toolbox, 1803--1835 . . . . . . . . . . 349--382 Ian Wills Instrumentalizing Failure: Edison's Invention of the Carbon Microphone . . . 383--409 Anonymous Seeds Sprouting Everywhere . . . . . . . 411--420 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--442 Anonymous Essay Review: \booktitleA Lot About a Little Bit of England . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Helge S. Kragh and Dominique Lambert The Context of Discovery: Lema\^\itre and the Origin of the Primeval-Atom Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--470 Margarida Archinard Une Classification des Cadrans Solaires 471--524 Nathan Sidoli What We Can Learn from a Diagram: The Case of Aristarchus's \booktitleOn The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon 525--547 Giora Hon and Yaakov Zik Geometry of Light and Shadow: Francesco Maurolyco (1494--1575) and the Pinhole Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--578 Christophe Genin Le Dosage Spectrométrique du Mercure dans l'Air vers 1930. (French) [The spectrometric dosage of mercury in the air around 1930] . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--593 Anonymous Priestley and Lavoisier . . . . . . . . 595--605 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--620
Jed Z. Buchwald Descartes's Experimental Journey Past the Prism and Through the Invisible World to the Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . 1--46 David Philip Miller Seeing the Chemical Steam through the Historical Fog: Watt's Steam Engine as Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--72 Sloan Evans Despeaux Mathematics Sent Across the Channel and the Atlantic: British Mathematical Contributions to European and American Scientific Journals, 1835--1900 . . . . 73--99 Galina Granek and Giora Hon Searching for Asses, Finding a Kingdom: The Story of the Invention of the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) . . 101--125 Anonymous The `New Historiography' and the Limits of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--156 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Jonathan Hird and Jonathan Betts and Derek Pratt The Diamond Pallets of John Harrison's Fourth Longitude Timekeeper --- H4 . . . 171--200 Elly Dekker `With his sharp lok perseth the sonne': a new quadrant from Canterbury . . . . . 201--220 Donald Cotter A disciplinary immigrant. Alexander Smith at the University of Chicago, 1894--1911 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--256 Claudia Schweizer Stratigraphy in the early nineteenth century: a transdisciplinary approach, with special reference to Central Europe 257--274 Anonymous Voyaging in Strange Seas of Thought . . 275--279 Anonymous Texts, Illustrations and Artifacts: Intertextuality in the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 281--285 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--308
Victor Boantza The Phlogistic Role of Heat in the Chemical Revolution and the Origins of Kirwan's \booktitleIngenious Modifications\ldots Into the Theory of Phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--338 Dirk van Delft Zero-Point Energy: The Case of the Leiden Low-Temperature Laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes . . . . . . . . . 339--361 Abraham C. Flipse Against the Science--Religion Conflict: the Genesis of a Calvinist Science Faculty in The Netherlands in the Early Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 363--391 Ileana Chinnici The `Societ\`a degli Spettroscopisti Italiani': birth and evolution . . . . . 393--438 Anonymous Cultures of Dissection and Anatomies of Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--444 Anonymous Blessed are the Cheesemakers . . . . . . 445--451 Anonymous Social Aspects of Science . . . . . . . 453--455 Anonymous Medicine and Health . . . . . . . . . . 455--457 Anonymous Physical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 458--460 Anonymous History of Chemistry and Alchemy . . . . 461--464
Georgette Taylor Marking out a disciplinary common ground: The role of chemical pedagogy in establishing the doctrine of affinity at the heart of British chemistry . . . . . 465--486 Gordon S. Lawson Benjamin Moore, Science, and Medical Planning in early Twentieth-Century Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--517 Pedro Ruiz-Castell Scientific Instruments for Education in Early Twentieth-Century Spain . . . . . 519--527 Albert Presas i Puig On a Lecture Trip to Spain: the Scientific Relations Between Germany and Spain During the Entente Boycott (1919--1926) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--546 Danny C. K. Leung Thomas Clifford Allbutt and Comparative Pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--571 Anonymous On Sociological Biographies . . . . . . 573--578 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--597
T. H. Levere Journals under threat: a joint response from history of science, technology and medicine editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 N. M. Swerdlow The Lunar Theories of Tycho Brahe and Christian Longomontanus in the \booktitleProgymnasmata and \booktitleAstronomia Danica . . . . . . 5--58 Palmira Fontes da Costa Secrecy, Ostentation, and the Illustration of Exotic Animals in Sixteenth-Century Portugal . . . . . . . 59--82 Brian Regal Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science, and Sasquatch . . . . . . . . . 83--102 Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Anna E. Simmons British Chemists Abroad, 1887--1971: the Dynamics of Chemists' Careers . . . . . 103--128 Anonymous A Time of Air and Place . . . . . . . . 129--134 Anonymous Theory and Action in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Other Alchemists 135--139 Robert J. Deltete Mathematics and Logic . . . . . . . . . 141--143 Cay-Rüdiger Prüll Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145 Peter J. Bowler Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147 Ana Carden-Coyne Medicine and Health . . . . . . . . . . 147--150 Marco Beretta Technology and Engineering . . . . . . . 150--151 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Trevor Levere Editor's Introduction to the Cumulative Index Volumes 44--64 . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Anonymous \booktitleAnnals of Science Cumulative Index Volumes 44 to 64 (1987--2007) . . 3--4 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--77 Anonymous Reviewed Authors Index . . . . . . . . . 79--140 Anonymous Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--269
Helge Kragh The Solar Element: a Reconsideration of Helium's Early History . . . . . . . . . 157--182 Matteo Valleriani The Transformation of Aristotle's \booktitleMechanical Questions: a Bridge Between the Italian Renaissance Architects and Galileo's First New Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--208 Peter Broughton The Accuracy and Use of Sextants and Watches in Rupert's Land in the 1790s 209--229 Harald Siebert Peirescs Nebel im Sternbild Orion --- eine neue Textgrundlage für die Geschichte von M42. (German) [Peiresc nebula in the Constellation Orion --- a new textual basis for the story of M42] 231--246 Maurice Crosland The French Academy of Sciences As a Patron of the Medical Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . 247--265 Anonymous A Tulip for a Cup of Tea? Commerce and Nature in the Dutch Golden Age . . . . . 267--276 David Pantalony The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge . . . . . . 277--279 Niccol\`o Guicciardini Corsi Salviati Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 279--281 A. Goddu Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period . . . . . . . . 281--284 L. Daston The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210--1685 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--288 Akihito Suzuki Science and the Building of a New Japan 288--290 Hanna E. H. Martinsen Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700--c. 1870 . . 290--292 Anita Guerrini Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294 Steffen Ducheyne The Secret History of Hermes: Hermeticism from Ancient Times to Modern Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--295 Martin Edwards Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy . . . . 295--297 John M. Steele Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299 M. Emrah Aktunç Book Review: Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters, editors, \booktitleScientific Pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. XIX. ISBN 0-8166-4763-1 299--302 Tom Quick On the Nature of Limbs: a Discourse . . 302--304 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Antoni Malet José María Albareda (1902--1966) and the formation of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 307--332 Aitor Anduaga Sydney Chapman on the Layering of the Atmosphere: Conceptual Unity and the Modelling of the Ionosphere . . . . . . 333--344 Faidra Papanelopoulou The International Association of Refrigeration through the correspondence of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Charles-Édouard Guillaume, 1908--1914 . . 345--370 Ja Hyon Ku Uses and Forms of Instruments: Resonator and Tuning Fork in Rayleigh's Acoustical Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--395 Martina Becvárová How to Fix an Election Honestly! Ivan Petrov Salabashev's Novel Voting Procedure in Bulgaria, 1879--1880 . . . 397--406 Christopher Lawrence The Grand Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--417 Mark R. Finlay Fermentation: Vital or Chemical Process? 419--421 Maurice Crosland Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science. A Historical Ontology . . . . . . . . . 421--422 Andrew Wear Modernizing Nature. Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development 1800--1950 . . 423--424 L. Schiebinger The Correspondence of Dr. William Hunter, 1740--1783 . . . . . . . . . . . 424--426 A. Cambrosio La fabrique d'une nouvelle science. La biologie moléculaire \`a l'âge atomique (1945--1964). (French) [The factory of a new science. Molecular biology in the atomic age] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--429 Raymond E. Fancher Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design . . . . . . . . . 429--431 L. S. Jacyna Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433 Robert J. Deltete Book Review: \booktitleThe End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Scientist who Ignited the Quantum Revolution . . . . . 433--436 Elizabeth Edwards Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science . . . . 436--439 William R. Shea The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution . . . . . . . 439--441 A. J. Meadows Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism . . . 441--444 John M. Steele Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy . . . 444--445 J. Caramalho Domingues Book Review: Mathematics and Logic. Robert E. Bradley and C. Edward Sandifer, editors, \booktitleLeonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, 5. ISBN-13 978-0-444-52728-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 446--448 David Arnold Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company 448--451 Ivano Dal Prete and Dario Generali On the inventory of Antonio Vallisneri's correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Christopher Lawrence Degeneration under the Microscope at the fin de si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--471 Leslie Tomory The Origins of Gaslight Technology in Eighteenth-Century Pneumatic Chemistry 473--496 Agustí Nieto-Galan `\ldots not fundamental in a state of full civilization': The Sociedad Astronómica de Barcelona (1910--1921) and its Popularization Programme . . . . . . 497--528 Helge Kragh Contemporary History of Cosmology and the Controversy over the Multiverse . . 529--551 David Oldroyd A Skeleton's `Biography' . . . . . . . . 553--558 Guy Attewell Medieval Islamic Medicine . . . . . . . 559--561 Richard Barnett From Witchcraft to Wisdom: a History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563 Alice N. Walters Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . 563--565 Jim Bennett Apr\`es Gassendi: son influence et sa réputation, essai, avec l'histoire des collections scientifiques et un catalogue des instruments et appareils concernant les sciences exactes appartenant au Musée Gassandi \`a Digne-les-Bains. (French) [After Gassendi: his influence and reputation, with the history of the scientific collections and an catalog of instruments and tools on the exact sciences belonging to the Gassandi Museum in Digne-les-Bains] . . . . . . . 565--566 Carla Nappi Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--568 Iwan Rhys Morus The Papers of Joseph Henry . . . . . . . 568--570 Victor D. Boantza The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle . . . . . . 570--572 David Branagan Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--575 Steve Sturdy Suffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners' Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends: The Extreme Life of Dr. J. S. Haldane . . . 575--578 Klaus Hentschel Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit. Der Physiker James Franck 1882--1964. (German) [Upright in stormy times. The physicist James Franck 1882--1964] . . . . . . . . 578--580 Roger Cooter Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--582 Donald R. Franceschetti The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity . . . . . . . . . . . 582--584 Charles Burnett Volkstümliche Astronomie im islamischen Mittelalter Zur Bestimmung der Gebetszeiten und der Qibla bei, Ibn und al-Farisi. (German) [Popular Astronomy in the Islamic Middle Ages to determine the prayer times and the Qibla bei, Ibn, and al-Farisi] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--585 Olivia Harvey Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--588
David Cahan Helmholtz in Gilded-Age America: The International Electrical Congress of 1893 and the Relations of Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38 Edward Jurkowitz Helmholtz's early empiricism and the \booktitleErhaltung der Kraft [Conservation of Energy] . . . . . . . . 39--78 Hannah Gay Chemist, entomologist, Darwinian, and man of affairs: Raphael Meldola and the making of a scientific career . . . . . 79--119 Jason M. Rampelt Religion as a Cause in Scientific Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130 Charles Burnett Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics 131--132 Charles Burnett Expounding the Mathematical Seed: a Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya 132--134 David Kaiser Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945--1975 . . . . . . . . 135--137 Richard H. Beyler William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science . . . . . . . . 137--139 Ryan Johnson The Making of a Tropical Disease: a Short History of Malaria . . . . . . . . 139--142 Sally Frampton The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune and Fame . . . . 142--144 Robyn Braun Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . 145--147 Anonymous Cover Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Duane H. Jaecks An investigation of the eighteenth-century achromatic telescope 149--186 Andreas Blank Material souls and imagination in Late Aristotelian embryology . . . . . . . . 187--204 François Wesemael `Unaffected by Fortune, Good or Bad': Context and Reception of Chandrasekhar's Mass--Radius Relationship for White Dwarfs, 1935--1965 . . . . . . . . . . . 205--237 I. Grattan-Guinness How to take over a journal without trying: \booktitleAnnals of Science 1974 239--242 Peter E. Pormann Arabic Astronomy and the Copernican `Revolution' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248 David Oldroyd Geohistory Revisited and Expanded . . . 249--259 Elizabeth Garber The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity: a Study in Mundane Physics . . . . . . . . 261--265 Angela N. H. Creager Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA 265--268 Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Earth Sciences. Donata Brianta, \booktitleEuropa mineraria. Circolazione delle élites e trasferimento tecnologico (secoli XVIII--XIX), ISBN-13 978-88-464-8818-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270 Dennis Danielson Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England . . . . . . . . . . 270--272 Claudia Stein Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England . . . . 273--274 Alfred I. Tauber Crafting Immunity. Working Histories of Clinical Immunology . . . . . . . . . . 274--277 Ian Burney Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady 277--281 Maria Rosa Antognazza Protogaea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283 Geoffrey Cantor Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London 284--285 Katherine Arens Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life 285--288 Eleanor Robson Book Review: Mathematics and Logic. Christine Proust, \booktitleTablettes mathématiques de Nippur Varia Anatolica, XVIII, ISBN-13 978-2-906-05392-9 . . . . 288--290 Oliver Kahl Ibn Baklarish's \booktitleBook of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain . . . . 291--294 Juliana Adelman It's Part of What We Are: Some Irish Contributors to the Development of the Chemical and Physical Sciences . . . . . 294--295 Matthew R. Goodrum Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins . . . . . 296--298 Anonymous Front Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Domenico Bertoloni Meli and Anita Guerrini The representation of animals in the early modern period . . . . . . . . . . 299--301 S. Kusukawa The sources of Gessner's pictures for the \booktitleHistoria animalium . . . . 303--328 Karin J. Ekholm Fabricius's and Harvey's representations of animal generation . . . . . . . . . . 329--352 Sarah R. Cohen Searching the animal psyche with Charles Le Brun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--382 Anita Guerrini The king's animals and the king's books: the illustrations for the Paris Academy's \booktitleHistoire des animaux 383--404 Domenico Bertoloni Meli The representation of insects in the seventeenth century: a comparative approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--429 Anonymous Cover page pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
P. Duris L'introuvable révolution scientifique. Francesco Redi et la génération spontanée. (French) [The unreachable scientific revolution. Francesco Redi and spontaneous generation] . . . . . . . . 431--455 Gérald Péoux Atmospheric Refraction and the Ramus Circle: Aspects of a Late Sixteenth-Century Dispute . . . . . . . 457--484 Hans Henrik Hjermitslev Danes commemorating Darwin: apes and evolution at the 1909 anniversary . . . 485--525 Maurice Crosland Pensions for `Cultivators of Science' 527--559 Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen We Have Never Been Scientists . . . . . 561--567 Keynyn Brysse Cryptozoology, Archaeology and Palaeontology: Histories Near the High Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--575 Amit Prasad Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--578 Johan Alfredo Linthorst Chemistry: The Impure Science . . . . . 579--581 John G. McEvoy Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--583 Katy Price Pythagoras' Revenge: a Mathematical Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--585 Anonymous Front Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Gianna Pomata A Word of the Empirics: The Ancient Concept of Observation and its Recovery in Early Modern Medicine . . . . . . . . 1--25 David Philip Miller The Political Economy of Discovery Stories: The Case of Dr Irving Langmuir and General Electric . . . . . . . . . . 27--60 Nikolai Krementsov From `Beastly Philosophy' to Medical Genetics: Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--92 Terje Brundtland After Boyle and the Leviathan: the Second Generation of British Air Pumps 93--124 Deanne Dunbar and Howard I. Kushner Universalism in Context . . . . . . . . 125--132 I. Grattan Guinness Mathematics Emerging. A Sourcebook 1540--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134 W. H. Schmidt Von der Bernoullischen Brachistochrone zum Kalibrator-Konzept. (German) [On the Bernoulli brachistochrone for calibrator concepts] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136 Daniel J. Nicholson Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life . . . . . 136--139 Ann F. La Berge The Microscope and the Eye: a History of Reflections, 1740--1870. . . . . . . . . 139--141 Edward S. Slowik Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein . . 142--144 Katrina Gatley Cancer in the Twentieth Century. . . . . 144--146 Nick Wilding Book Review: Instruments and Measurements: Eileen Reeves, \booktitleGalileo's Glassworks. The Telescope and the Mirror, ISBN-13 978-0-674-02667-4; ISBN-10 0-674-02667-5 146--148 Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
A. E. Hui Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Hermann von Helmholtz's Musical Practices, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--177 Kleber Cecon Chemical Translation: The Case of Robert Boyle's Experiments on Sensible Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--198 Algimantas Grigelis and Zbigniew Wójcik and Wojciech Narebski and Leonora Zivile Gelumbauskaite and Jan Kozák Stanis\law Staszic: An Early Surveyor of the Geology of Central and Eastern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--228 Mark Solovey and Jefferson D. Pooley The Price of Success: Sociologist Harry Alpert, the NSF's First Social Science Policy Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--260 Robert Deltete Essay Review: How Relativity Got Accepted and How Einstein Came to be Regarded as its Author. Richard Stayley, \booktitleEinstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution, ISBN-13 978-0-226-77057-5 . . . . . . . 261--265 Alberto A. Martínez Essay Review: The Myriad Pieces of Einstein's Remains: John Stachel, Robert Schulmann, Diana Kormos Buchwald, et al, editors, \booktitleThe Collected Papers of Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . 267--280 I. Grattan-Guinness 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Eine kulturgeschichtliche Zeitreise. (German) [6000 years of mathematics. A cultural and historical journey through time] . . 281--282 Menso Folkerts Jacopo da Firenze's \booktitleTractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284 Richard H. Beyler William Crookes (1832--1919) and the Commercialization of Science . . . . . . 284--286 Harriet Ritvo Picturing Animals in Britain 1750--1850 286--288 Richard Barnett Book Review: John S. Partington, editor, \booktitleH. G. Wells in \booktitleNature. A Reception Reader. ISBN-13 978-3-631-57110-1 . . . . . . . 288--290 Barry Milligan The Poet as Botanist . . . . . . . . . . 290--291 Sven Dupré The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialization . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294 Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Warren Alexander Dym Freiberg and the Frontier: Louis Janin, German Engineering, and `Civilisation' in the American West . . . . . . . . . . 295--323 Chen-Pang Yeang Engineering Entanglement, Conceptualizing Quantum Information . . 325--350 Christopher M. Graney and Timothy P. Grayson On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: a Review and Analysis of Stellar Observations from the Early Seventeenth through the Middle Nineteenth Centuries 351--373 Maria Rentetzi Packaging Radium, Selling Science: Boxes, Bottles and Other Mundane Things in the World of Science . . . . . . . . 375--399 Ximo Guillem-Llobat The sugar industry, political authorities, and scientific institutions in the regulation of saccharin: Valencia (1888--1939) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--424 Anonymous Navigating the History of Mathematics 425--433 J.-F. Auger The Rise and Decline of Colloid Science in North America, 1900--1935: The Neglected Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 435--437 Helge Kragh Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier & Megascience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--440 Malcolm Nicolson Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas . . . . . . 440--441 J. H. Tannenbaum Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: a Short History of Failing Kidneys . . . . . . . 441--443 Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Benno van Dalen Between Orient and Occident: Transformation of Knowledge . . . . . . 445--451 J. M. Steele Visual Aspects of the Transmission of Babylonian Astronomy and its Reception into Greek Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 453--465 Kim Plofker `Yavana' and `Indian': Transmission and Foreign Identity in the Exact Sciences 467--476 Hidemi Takahashi The Mathematical Sciences in Syriac: From Sergius of Resh-`Aina and Severus Sebokht to Barhebraeus and Patriarch Ni`matallah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--491 Peter E. Pormann The Formation of the Arabic Pharmacology Between Tradition and Innovation . . . . 493--515 D. Juste Non-transferable Knowledge: Arabic and Hebrew Onomancy into Latin . . . . . . . 517--529 Martin Gansten and Ola Wikander Sahl and the Tajika Yogas: Indian transformations of Arabic astrology . . 531--546 Jennifer C. Sarrett and Howard I. Kushner A Case for Preserving the Diversity of Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--554 Jeff Loveland Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--558 Charles Thorpe Book Review: Silvan S. Schweber, \booktitleEinstein and Oppenheimer, ISBN-13 978-0-674-02828-9 . . . . . . . 558--561 Niccol\`o Guicciardini John Wallis. Una vita per un progetto. (Italian) [John Wallis. A life for a project] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563 David Philip Miller The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 563--565 Roger Cooter Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--567 Christina Matta H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism . . . . . . 568--570 Lawrence Badash Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna . . . . . . 571--573 William R. Shea The Accademia del Cimento and its European Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--575 Matthew R. Goodrum God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--577 Charles Burnett Book Review: Medieval Science. Avicenna Latinus, \booktitleLiber primus naturalium. Tractatus secundus de motu et de consimilibus, ISBN 2-8031-0231-5 577--578 Charles Burnett Book Review: Aristoteles Latinus, X 2.1. \booktitleMeteorologica. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka, ISBN-13 978-2-503-53078-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 579--580 Robert J. Deltete Book Review: Fulvio Melia, \booktitleCracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics, ISBN-13 978-0-226-51951-7 . . . 581--583 Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Animal Experiments, Vital Forces and Courtrooms: Mateu Orfila, François Magendie and the Study of Poisons in Nineteenth-Century France . . . . . . . 1--26 Ursula Klein The Prussian Mining Official Alexander von Humboldt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--68 Julia R. Bursten Pauling's Defence of Bent-Equivalent Bonds: a View of Evolving Explanatory Demands in Modern Chemistry . . . . . . 69--90 Sebastian Whitestone Christian Huygens' Lost and Forgotten Pamphlet of his Pendulum Invention . . . 91--104 Gabriel Thirion L'\booktitleEnsei kansho zusetsu (1823) de Yoshio Nanko: une fenêtre sur la science classique. (French) [The \booktitleEnsei kansho zusetsu (1823) of Yoshio Nanko: a window into classical science] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126 William Kimler Case Studies, Controversy and the `Fieldworker's Regress' . . . . . . . . 127--132 Charles Burnett The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmid . . . 133--135 Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics and Culture 1500--1870 136--137 Stephen Jacyna Marking the Mind: a History of Memory 138--139 Charles Burnett Les Alchandreana Primitifs: Études sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d'origine arabe (Xe si\`ecle). (French) [The primitive Alchandreana: Studies on the oldest Roman astrological treatises of Arab origin (tenth century)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141 Ivor Grattan-Guinness Of the Human Heart. A Biography of Benjamin Peirce . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142 Victor D. Boantza Alchimie et paracelsisme en France \`a la fin de la Renaissance (1567--1625). (French) [Alchemy and Paracelsism in France at the end of the Renaissance (1567--1625)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145 Jeff Loveland Oeuvres compl\`etes . . . . . . . . . . 145--149 Mark Finlay Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison . . . . . . . 149--152 Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Roberto Lalli The Reception of Miller's Ether-Drift Experiments in the USA: The History of a Controversy in Relativity Revolution . . 153--214 Luís Miguel Carolino and Ana Simões The Eclipse, the Astronomer and his Audience: Frederico Oom and the Total Solar Eclipse of 28 May 1900 in Portugal 215--238 Stephen T. Swinfin Chemists Employed in the Manchester Area, 1902--1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256 Elena Serrano The \booktitleSpectacle de la Nature in Eighteenth-Century Spain: From French Households to Spanish Workshops . . . . 257--282 Robert Deltete Essay Review: Einstein's Quest for Unity: Jeroen van Dongen, \booktitleEinstein's Unification, ISBN 978-0-521-88346-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288 Lawrence Dritsas Geography and Revolution . . . . . . . . 289--291 Christa Binder Book Review: Mathematics and Logic. Kirsti Andersen, \booktitleThe Geometry of an Art, The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, ISBN-10 0-387-25961-9 . . . . 291--294 S. A. Walton Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297 Anonymous Winner of the \em Annals of Science Prize for 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299 D. Juste Non-transferable Knowledge: Arabic and Hebrew Onomancy into Latin . . . . . . . 301--301 Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ursula Klein Artisanal-scientific Experts in Eighteenth-century France and Germany 303--306 Christine Lehman Pierre-Joseph Macquer: an Eighteenth-Century Artisanal-Scientific Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--333 Peter Konecný The Hybrid Expert in the `Bergstaat': Anton von Ruprecht as a Professor of Chemistry and Mining and as a Mining Official, 1779--1814 . . . . . . . . . . 335--347 Ursula Klein Savant Officials in the Prussian Mining Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--374 Marco Beretta The Rise and Fall of the Glassmaker Paul Bosc d'Antic (1753--1784) . . . . . . . 375--393 Bruno Belhoste A Parisian Craftsman Among the Savants: The Joiner André-Jacob Roubo (1739--1791) and his Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--411 Marcus Popplow Knowledge Management to Exploit Agrarian Resources as Part of Late-eighteenth-century Cultures of Innovation: Friedrich Casimir Medicus and Franz von Paula Schrank . . . . . . 413--433 Jean-François Gauvin Toward a Theory of Practice (but not yet there) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--440 Matthew James Crawford Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America . . . . . . . 441--443 Shang-Jen Li People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446 Charles Burnett Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447 Joel Chandelier Book Review: Renaissance and Reformation. Hiro Hirai, editor. \booktitleCornelius Gemma. Cosmology, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Louvain. ISBN-13 978-88-6227-118-9; ISSN 1127-6045 . . . 447--449 Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Rob Iliffe and Trevor Levere Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451 Daniel Jon Mitchell Measurement in French Experimental Physics from Regnault to Lippmann. Rhetoric and Theoretical Practice . . . 453--482 Renée J. Raphael Printing Galileo's \booktitleDiscorsi: a Collaborative Affair . . . . . . . . . . 483--513 Jean-François Gauvin The Instrument That Never Was: Inventing, Manufacturing, and Branding Réaumur's Thermometer During the Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--549 Bettina Dietz Contribution and Co-production: The Collaborative Culture of Linnaean Botany 551--569 Brian Vickers Essay Review: Library of a Polymath: Urs B. Leu, Raffael Keller, and Sandra Weimann, \booktitleConrad Gessner's Private Library, ISBN-13 978-90-04-16723-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 571--574 Karim Bschir Book Review: Philosophical Aspects of Science: Alan Chalmers, \booktitleThe Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms, ISBN-13 978-90-481-2361-2 . . . . 575--577 Ayako Sakuri Book Review: Life Sciences: Lynn K. Nyhart, \booktitleModern Nature. The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, ISBN-13 978-0-226-61089-4 . . . 577--579 Victor D. Boantza Book Review: History of Chemistry and Alchemy: Mathew D. Eddy, \booktitleThe Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750--1800, ISBN-13 978-0-7546-6332-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581 David Philip Miller Book Review: John G. McEvoy, \booktitleThe Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science, ISBN-13 978-1-84893-030-8 . . . 581--584 Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: The Nineteenth Century: Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, editors, \booktitleScience in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences/Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, ISBN-13 978-0-226-27650-2 and Bernard Lightman, \booktitleVictorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, ISBN-13 978-0-226-48119-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 584--586 Paolo Palmieri Book Review: Editions and Selections: William R. Shea and Tiziana Bascelli, editors, \booktitleGalileo's Sidereus Nuncius or Sidereal Message, ISBN-13 978-0-88135-375-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 586--587 Tom Quick Book Review: Biographies: Nicolaas A. Rupke, \booktitleRichard Owen: Biology without Darwin, ISBN-13 978-0-226-73177-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 587--588 Christer Nordlund Book Review: Institutions: Education, Libraries, Museums: Håkon With Andersen, Britta Brenna, Magne Njåstad, and Astrid Wale, \booktitleÆemula lauri: The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 1760--2010, ISBN-13 978-0-88135-383-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 589--590 David F. Channell Book Review: Technology and Engineering: Aitor Anduaga [Egaña], \booktitleWireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918--1939, ISBN-13 978-0-19-956272-5 591--592 Anonymous Corrigendum: Essay Review: Einstein's Quest for Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--593 Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
John A. Schuster and Judit Brody Descartes and Sunspots: Matters of Fact and Systematizing Strategies in the \em Principia Philosophiae . . . . . . . . . 1--45 Janet Martin-Nielsen `The Deepest and Most Rewarding Hole Ever Drilled': Ice Cores and the Cold War in Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70 Natalie Pigeard Micault The Curie's Lab and its Women (1906--1934). Le laboratoire Curie et ses Femmes (1906--1934) . . . . . . . . 71--100 Ian James Kidd Essay Review: Science and the Making of Modernity. D. M. Knight, \booktitleThe Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789--1914. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. xii + 370 pp. 30 plts. \$25.75 / \pounds 24.99. ISBN-13 978-0-7456-3676-4. S. F. Johnson, \booktitle{History of Science: A Beginner's Guide}: Oxford: Oneworld, 2009. viii + 218 pp. \$14.95 / \pounds 9.99. ISBN-13 978-1-85168-681-0 . . . . 101--104 Tom Quick Book Review: Christopher E. Cosans, \booktitleOwen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2009. xxi + 162 pp. 29 plts. \$21.95. ISBN-13 978-0-253-22051-6} . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107 John H. Eddy Book Review: Marc J. Ratcliff, \booktitleThe Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment. Farnham, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Pub. Limited, 2009. xii + 315 pp. 6 charts. 14 tables. 34 reprints. \$124.95. ISBN-13 978-0-7546-6150-4} . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109 Doogab Yi Book Review: Robert H. Carlson, \booktitleBiology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. vii + 279 pp. \$39.95. ISBN-13 978-0-674-03544-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111 Thad Parsons Book Review: Sam Alberti, \booktitleNature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. xiii + 239 pp. 28 figures. \$89.95 / \pounds 60.00. ISBN-13 978-0-7190-8114-9} . . . . . . . 111--114 Paul D. Brinkman Book Review: John M. MacKenzie, \booktitleMuseums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. xv + 286 pp. 15 figs. \$89.95. ISBN-13 978-0-7190-8022-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115 Rienk Vermij Book Review: \booktitleThe Disordered Police State. German Cameralism as Science and Practice, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 226 pp. illus. \$45.00. ISBN-13 978-0-226-87020-5}} . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 Jeff Wolf Book Review: David B. Wilson, \booktitleSeeking Nature's Logic: Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2009. xvi + 344 pp. \$55.00. ISBN-13 978-0-271-03525-3} 117--119 Paul R. Jones Book Review: \booktitleThe Early Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, 2009. xiii + 307 pp., \pounds 65.00 / EUR 76 / \$104. ISBN-13 978-0-7294-0981-0}} . . . . . . 119--122 Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Jimena Canales, \booktitleA Tenth of a Second. A History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. 288 pp. Illus. \$35.00. ISBN-13 978-0-226-09318-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123 Robert W. Seidel Book Review: Lawrence Badash, \booktitleA Nuclear Winter's Tale. Science and Politics in the 1980s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009. 424 pp. \$40.00 / \pounds 29.95. ISBN-13 978-0-262-01272-0} . . . . . . . 124--126 Bernard Langer Book Review: Simon Werrett, \booktitleFireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Maps / viii + 359 pp. \$45.00 (cloth), ISBN-13 978-0-226-89377-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129 Peter J. Bowler Book Review: P. M. Harman, \booktitleThe Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680--1890. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xi + 392 pp. 17 plts. \pounds 45.00. ISBN-13 978-0-300-15197-8 129--131 Roland Wittje Book Review: David Pantalony, \booktitleAltered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth Century Paris. Archimedes --- New Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Volume 24. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2009. xxxvi + 372 pp. EUR 149.75 / \$189.00 / \pounds 126.00. ISBN-13 978-90-481-2815-0; e-ISBN-13 978-90-481-2816-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133 Sally Frampton Book Review: Christoph Gradmann, \booktitleLaboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology. Translated from the German by Elborg Forster. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 318 pp. \$35.00 / \pounds 18.00. ISBN-13 978-0-801-89313-1} . . . 133--136 Roger Cooke Book Review: Amir Alexander, \booktitleDuel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. 307 pp. \$28.95. ISBN-13 978-0-674-04661-0} . . . . . . . 136--138 Eric Mills Book Reviews: Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang, editors, \booktitleCommunications under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and its Implications. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. vii + 303 pp. \$40.00. ISBN-13 978-0-262-01286-7. Ted Rowe, \booktitle{Connecting the Continents: Heart's Content and the Atlantic Cable}. St. John's, NL: Creative Publishers, 2009. vii + 158 pp. \$19.95 (Canadian) pbk. ISBN-13 978-1-897174-42-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141 Helge Kragh Book Review: Michael Eckert, \booktitleHeinrich Hertz. Hamburg: Ellert & Richter Verlag, 2010. 168 pp. 45 figures. EUR 14.00. ISBN-13 978-3-8319-0371-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143 Jeff Loveland Book Review: Aude Doody, \booktitlePliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii + 194 pp. \$95.00 / \pounds 55.00. ISBN-13 978-0-521-49103-7} . . . 143--146 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Hannah Gay A Questionable Project: Herbert McLeod and the Making of the Fourth series of the \em Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1901--25 . . . . . . 149--174 Michael Elazar A Dispute Over Superposition: John Wallis, Honoré Fabri, and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--195 Cesare S. Maffioli A Fruitful Exchange/Conflict: Engineers and Mathematicians in Early Modern Italy 197--228 Ja Hyon Ku Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America . . . . . . . 229--256 Helge Kragh and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen Spreading the Gospel: a Popular Book on the Bohr Atom in its Historical Context 257--283 Lis Brack-Bernsen What and How Can We Learn from the Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN? [Book Review: \booktitleWriting science before the Greeks: a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--289 Sarah Chaney Book Review: \booktitleThe Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease . . . . 291--293 I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleThe Development of Modern Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294 I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleNumerical Notation: a Comparative History . . . . 294--295 Richard Staley Book Review: \booktitleDomesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880--1914 . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297 Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Justin E. H. Smith and James Delbourgo In Kind: Species of Exchange in Early Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304 S. Müller-Wille Systems and How Linnaeus Looked at Them in Retrospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317 Justin E. H. Smith `A Series of Generations': Leibniz on Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--335 Kelly Joan Whitmer What's in a Name? Place, Peoples and Plants in the Danish--Halle Mission, c. 1710--1740 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--356 Daniel Carey Locke's Species: Money and Philosophy in the 1690s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--380 Dániel Margócsy The Fuzzy Metrics of Money: The Finances of Travel and the Reception of Curiosities in Early Modern Europe . . . 381--404 Paolo Palladino Biopolitics Between History and Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415 Lindley Darden The \booktitleAnnotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of \booktitleOn the Origin of Species, by James T. Costa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--419 Robert J. Deltete Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere . . . . . . . . . 419--422 Richard L. Kremer European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550--1750 . . . . . . . . 423--425 Lesley A. Hall Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War . . . 425--428 Andreas W. Daum Ein `Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko': Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich. (German) [A `diplomat from the forests of the Orinoco': Alexander von Humboldt as a mediator between Prussia and France] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--431 Peter K. Benbow Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434 Anonymous Online cover 70:3 . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Etienne Stockland `La Guerre aux Insectes': Pest Control and Agricultural Reform in the French Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--460 Efram Sera-Shriar Observing Human Difference: James Hunt, Thomas Huxley and Competing Disciplinary Strategies in the 1860s . . . . . . . . 461--491 Christophe Schmit Sur l'origine du `Principe Général' de Jean Le Rond D'Alembert . . . . . . . . 493--530 Phil Senter and LaRhonda C. Hill and Brandon J. Moton Solution to a 440-year-old Zoological Mystery: The Case of Aldrovandi's Dragon 531--537 Paul Richard Blum Essay Review: Theories of Life in the Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--543 Philip K. Wilson Book Review: \booktitleScientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820--1890, by Paul Lucier . . 545--547 David M. Knight Book Review: \booktitleGeography and Science in Britain, 1831--1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, by Charles W. Withers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--550 Anita Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleKnowing Global Environments. New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences, edited by Jeremy Vetter . . . . . . . . 550--551 Keynyn Brysse Book Review: \booktitleThe Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Paul D. Brinkman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--554 Daniel J. Nicholson Book Review: \booktitleLife Explained, by Michel Morange . . . . . . . . . . . 554--557 Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Book Review: \booktitleThe Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science, by Arun Bala . . . . . . . . . 557--559 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Book Review: \booktitleMaterials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe. Between Market and Laboratory, edited by Ursula Klein and Emma C. Spary . . . . . 559--562 Pingyi Chu Book Review: \booktitleSojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China, by Florence C. Hsia . . . . . . . 562--564 Jonathan Simon Book Review: \booktitleAux origines de la chimie organique: Méthodes et pratiques des pharmaciens et des chimistes (1785--1835), by Sacha Tomic 564--566 Arie Leegwater Book Review: \booktitleCollected Papers on the Philosophy of Chemistry, by Eric R. Scerri; \booktitleSelected Papers on the Periodic Table, by Eric R. Scerri 567--568 Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleObserving and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters, by Wolfgang Steinicke . . . . . . . . . 569--570 Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleAn Observer of Observatories: The Journal of Thomas Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777, edited by Kurt Mòller Pedersen and Peter De Clercq . . . . . . 570--573 Steffen Ducheyne Book Review: \booktitleMathématiques et connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée. Series: Histoire des savoirs, by Sabine Rommevaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--575 Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleScience, libertinage et clandestinité \`a l'aube des Lumi\`eres: Le transformisme de Telliamed, by Claudine Cohen . . . . . . 575--577 William Schupbach Book Review: \booktitleDeath Defied. The Anatomy Lessons of Frederik Ruysch, by L. Kooijmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--580 Morrice McCrae Book Review: \booktitleMedicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800--2000, edited by J. T. H. Connor and Stephen Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--582 Bradford Bouley Book Review: \booktitleHistories of Scientific Observation, edited by L. Daston and E. Lunbeck . . . . . . . . . 582--585 Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleThe English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics. Volume 1: The interpretation. Volume 2: Sources, by Matthias Schemmel . . . . . 585--588 Etienne Benson Book Review: \booktitleConsidering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations, edited by Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette Watt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--590 Rachel Dunn Book Review: \booktitlePopularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800--2000, edited by F. Papanelopoulou, A. Nieto-Galan, and E. Perdiguero; \booktitleScience for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth Century Britain, by P. J. Bowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--593 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--594 Anonymous Online cover 70:4 . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Trevor H. Levere A new editorial team . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Simon Schaffer Swedenborg's Lunars . . . . . . . . . . 2--26 Jürgen Teichmann and Arthur Stinner From William Hyde Wollaston to Alexander von Humboldt --- Star Spectra and Celestial Landscape . . . . . . . . . . 27--60 Leslie Tomory Science and the arts in William Henry's research into inflammable air during the Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . 61--81 Ivano Dal Prete Brokering Instruments in Napoleon's Europe: The Italian Journeys of Franz Xaver von Zach (1807--1814) . . . . . . 82--101 Stephen Gaukroger Book Review: \booktitleHow Modern Science Came into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough, by H. Floris Cohen . . . . 102--104 Steffen Ducheyne Book Review: \booktitleLa via delle acque (1500--1700). Appropriazione delle arti e trasformazione delle matematiche, by Cesare Maffioli . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105 Richard Barnett Book Review: \booktitleEvolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection, by Mark E. Borrello . . 106--107 Somaditya Banerjee Book Review: \booktitleNucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India, by Robert S. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110 Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleQuaestiones super libros. De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis, by John Buridan . . . . . . 110--111 Charles Burnett Book Review: Nicole Oresme, \booktitleQuestiones super geometriam Euclidis, edited by H. L. L. Busard . . 111--113 Lesley A. Hall Book Review: \booktitleManaging the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880--1939, by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska . . . . . . . . . 113--116 Michael Moss Book Review: \booktitleWar and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793--1830, by Catherine Kelly . . . . . 116--118 Andreas W. Daum Book Review: \booktitleNature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt, by Donald McCrory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121 Jeffrey Allan Johnson Book Review: \booktitleImage and Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination, by Alan J. Rocke . . . . . 121--123 Henry Folse \booktitleHigher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology, by Helge Kragh 123--127 Isabelle Charmantier Book Review: \booktitleScience, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment. British and Global Contexts, by John Gascoigne . . . . . . 127--129 Karim Bschir Book Review: \booktitleCosmopolitics I, by Isabelle Stengers . . . . . . . . . . 129--132 Liba Taub Book Review: \booktitleScience for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum, edited by P. J. T. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135 Mark Walker Book Review: \booktitleDas Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Bestandaufnahme, edited by Elisabeth Vaupel and Stefan Wolff . . . . . . . . 135--138 Benjamin Wardhaugh Book Review: \booktitleDefending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History, by Robert Goulding . . . . . . 138--140 J. L. Heilbron Book Review: \booktitleBetween Raphael and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy, by A. Marr . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142 Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleInvestigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853--1931, by Sofie Lachapelle . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144 Karim Bschir Book Review: \booktitleWrestling with Nature. From Omens to Science, by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147 Anonymous Online cover 71:1 . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Dmitri Levitin The Experimentalist as Humanist: Robert Boyle on the History of Philosophy . . . 149--182 Canay Ozden The Pontifex Minimus: William Willcocks and Engineering British Colonialism . . 183--205 Mary Orr Fish with a Different Angle: \booktitleThe Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain, by Mrs Sarah Bowdich (1791--1856) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--240 Wei Yu Wayne Tan Science, Politics and Networks: Shibukawa Harumi and the Birth of the New Almanac in Seventeenth-Century Japan 241--270 Richard H. Beyler Book Review: \booktitleScience Secrets: The Truth about Darwin's Finches, Einstein's Wife and, Other Myths, by Alberto A. Martínez . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273 Ulrich Reich Book Review: \booktitleFrom Cardano's Great Art to Lagrange's Reflections: Filling a Gap in the History of Algebra, by Jacqueline Stedall . . . . . . . . . 273--275 Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleHonoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks, by Michael Elazar 276--277 Henry Folse Book Review: \booktitleThought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts, edited by K. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux . . . . . . . . 277--280 Morrice McCrae Book Review: \booktitleCradle to Grave, by A. Levene, M. Powell, J. Stewart, and B. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--283 Sally Frampton Book Review: \booktitlePossessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy, by Helen MacDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--286 Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleLe Liber Mahameleth: Édition critique et commentaires, edited by Anne-Marie Vlasschaert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287 James Lattis Book Review: \booktitleOn Sunspots, by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner 288--289 Peter K. Benbow Book Review: \booktitleMistical Wordes and Names Infinite: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy, by Peter J. Grund . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291 Ari Gross Book Review: \booktitleFeynman, by J. Ottaviani and L. Myrick . . . . . . . . 292--294 I. Grattan-Guinness \booktitleIris Runge: A Life at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Science, and Industry, by Renate Tobies . . . . . . . 294--295 Greg Lusk Book Review: \booktitleA Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming, by P. N. Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298 Anonymous Online cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Viktoria Tkaczyk Listening in Circles. Spoken Drama and the Architects of Sound, 1750--1830 . . 299--334 Michael Nauenberg Barrow, Leibniz and the Geometrical Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of the Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--354 Luisa Bonolis International Scientific Cooperation During the 1930s. Bruno Rossi and the Development of the Status of Cosmic Rays into a Branch of Physics . . . . . . . . 355--409 David Nofre Managing the Technological Edge: The UNESCO International Computation Centre and the Limits to the Transfer of Computer Technology, 1946--61 . . . . . 410--431 Doogab Yi Book Review: \booktitleGenentech: The Beginnings of Biotech . . . . . . . . . 432--434 Daniel J. Nicholson Book Review: \booktitleKnowledge of Life 434--437 David Boersema Book Review: \booktitleMichael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science . . . . . 437--439 Andreas W. Daum Book Review: \booktitleAlexander von Humboldt--August Böckh: Briefwechsel . . 439--441 Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleHistory of Virtual Work Laws. A History of Mechanics Prospective . . . . . . . . . 441--442 Carole Reeves Book Review: \booktitleScottish Medicine: An Illustrated History . . . . 443--445 Patti Wilger Hunter Book Review: \booktitleMathematics in Victorian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 445--448 Anonymous Online cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Johan Kärnfelt Knut Lundmark, Meteors and an Early Swedish Crowdsourcing Experiment . . . . 449--473 Yuto Ishibashi In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping: Liverpool and Victorian Electrical Horology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--496 Aitor Anduaga Spanish Jesuits in the Philippines: Geophysical Research and Synergies between Science, Education and Trade, 1865--1898 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--521 Hans-Joachim Petsche The `Chemistry of Space': The Sources of Hermann Grassmann's Scientific Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--576 Adam Mosley Book Review: \booktitleSacred Words and Worlds: Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550--1700 . . . . . . . . 577--579 Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleFrom Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581 Vivian Nutton Book Review: \booktitleRegimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern \em Cultura Animi Tradition . . . . . . 581--583 Jacqueline Wernimont Book Review: \booktitleFictions of the Cosmos. Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 583--585 L. S. Jacyna Book Review: \booktitleThe Sciences of the Soul: the Early Modern Origins of Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--586 Klaus Hentschel Book Review: \booktitleA History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 586--588 James Strick Book Review: \booktitleVision, Science and Literature, 1870--1920: Ocular Horizons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--590 Craig Fraser Book Review: \booktitleTurbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal . . 590--592 Carole Reeves Book Review: \booktitleNervous Disease in Late Eighteenth Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder / Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945--1970 . . . . 592--595 Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Book Review: \booktitleThe History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 595--597 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . eb1--eb1
Anonymous David Roger Oldroyd (20 January 1936--7 November 2014): An Appreciation . . . . 1--1 Jeff Loveland and Stéphane Schmitt Poinsinet's Edition of the \booktitleNaturalis historia (1771--1782) and the Revival of Pliny in the Sciences of the Enlightenment . . . 2--27 C. N. Brown Ruling Engines, Diffraction Gratings and Wavelength Measurements before the Rowland Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--74 Jérôme Lamy and Frédéric Soulu L'émergence contrariée du chronographe imprimant dans les observatoires français (fin 19$^e$--début 20$^e$ s.) . . . . . . 75--98 Renee Jennifer Raphael Galileo's \booktitleDiscorsi as a Tool for the Analytical Art . . . . . . . . . 99--123 Peter Susalla Book Review: \booktitleUnravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy . . . 124--126 James Lattis Book Review: Horst Bredekamp, general editor, \booktitleGalileo's O. Volume 1: Irene Brückle and Oliver Hahn, editors, \booktitleGalileo's \booktitleSidereus Nuncius: A Comparison of the Proof Copy (New York) with other Paradigmatic Copies. Volume 2: Paul Needham, \booktitleGalileo Makes a Book: The First Edition of \booktitleSidereus Nuncius. Venice 1610. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005095-9 . . 126--128 Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleFemale Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130 Mark A. Waddell Book Review: \booktitleArt and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands . . . . 131--133 Sheldon Lee Gosline Book Review: \booktitleA Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston . . . . . . . . . . 133--134 David E. Hahm Book Review: \booktitleWhat Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--137 Tom Treasure Book Review: \booktitleA History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141 Mat Savelli Book Review: \booktitleCompeting with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America . . . . . 141--142 Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitleToxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945 . . . . . . . 143--144 Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleScience in Medieval Jewish Cultures . . . . . . . . 144--147
Peter J. Ramberg and Mary Jo Nye Introduction: Atomism and Organic Chemistry in Context: Essays in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152 Melvyn C. Usselman and Todd A. Brown Atomic Theory and Multiple Combining Proportions: The Search for Whole Number Ratios: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke 153--169 Peter J. Ramberg Chemical Research and Instruction in Zürich, 1833--1872: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--186 Catherine M. Jackson Chemical Identity Crisis: Glass and Glassblowing in the Identification of Organic Compounds: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205 Seymour H. Mauskopf William Barlow and the Determination of Atomic Arrangement in Crystals: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . 206--223 Jeffrey Allan Johnson Dilemmas of 19th-century Liberalism among German Academic Chemists: Shaping a National Science Policy from Hofmann to Fischer, 1865--1919: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--241 Stephen J. Weininger Benzene and Beyond: Pursuing the Core of Aromaticity: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--257 Christopher Lawrence Today, Will T. H. Huxley Dig the Garden or Paper the Parlour? . . . . . . . . . 258--261 Paul Wood Book Review: \booktitleAn Enlightened Duke: The Life of Archibald Campbell (1682--1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264 Peder Anker Book Review: \booktitleThe Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain . . . . . . . 264--266 Warwick Anderson Book Review: \booktitleScience in the Twentieth Century and Beyond . . . . . . 266--267 Jonathan Smith Book Review: \booktitleNovel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology . . . . . . . 268--270 Jeffrey Allan Johnson Book Review: \booktitleProgressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780--1820 . . . . . 270--272 James Everest Book Review: \booktitleThe Secrets of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Rob Iliffe and David Miller Winner of the \em Annals of Science Prize for 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275 David Philip Miller and Rob Iliffe and Trevor Levere Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (1941--2014) 276--278 Pedro M. P. Raposo Time, Weather and Empires: The Campos Rodrigues Observatory in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1905--1930) . . . . 279--305 Dominique Raynaud Un Fragment du \booktitleDe speculis comburentibus de Regiomontanus Copié par Toscanelli et Inséré dans les Carnets de \booktitleLeonardo (\booktitleCodex Atlanticus, 611rb/915ra) . . . . . . . . 306--336 Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome: The Annotated Edition of the \booktitlePrincipia by Calandrini, Le Seur and Jacquier . . . . . . . . . . . 337--380 Marij van Strien Vital Instability: Life and Free Will in Physics and Physiology, 1860--1880 . . . 381--400 Efram Sera-Shriar The Correspondence of Michael Faraday 401--406 Dániel Margócsy Book Review: \booktitleAndroids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self . . . . . . . . . . 407--409 Kelsey Jackson Williams Book Review: \booktitleNotebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411 Alison Bashford Book Review: \booktitlePolitical Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413 Oliver Hill-Andrews Book Review: \booktitleUncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Stephen Case `Land-marks of the universe': John Herschel against the background of positional astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 417--434 Roland Jackson John Tyndall and the Early History of Diamagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--489 José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Chemistry, microscopy and smell: bloodstains and nineteenth-century legal medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--516 Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church Leibniz's Observations on Hydrology: An Unpublished Letter on the Great Lombardy Flood of 1705 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532
Shaul Katzir Pursuing frequency standards and control: the invention of quartz clock technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--39 Lukas M. Verburgt Duncan F. Gregory, William Walton and the development of British algebra: `algebraical geometry', `geometrical algebra', abstraction . . . . . . . . . 40--67 Yael Kedar The nomological image of nature: explaining the tide in the thirteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--88 Peter J. Bowler Discovering Science from an Armchair: Popular Science in British Magazines of the Interwar Years . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107 Christopher D. Preston Book Review: \booktitleMethodus Plantarum Nova: John Ray (1682) . . . . 108--110 David Philip Miller Book Review: \booktitleThe Limits of Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment 110--112 Emily Thomas Book Review: \booktitleDescartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism 1618--33 . . . . . 112--114 Sophie Weeks Book Review: \booktitleVoyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Bettina Dietz Introduction: Special Issue `Translating and translations in the history of science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Patrice Bret The letter, the dictionary and the laboratory: translating chemistry and mineralogy in eighteenth-century France 122 Bettina Dietz Linnaeus' restless system: translation as textual engineering in eighteenth-century botany . . . . . . . 143 Alison E. Martin Outward bound: women translators and scientific travel writing, 1780--1800 157 Yulia Frumer Before words: reading Western astronomical texts in early nineteenth-century Japan . . . . . . . . 170 Jenny Beckman The publication strategies of Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779--1848): negotiating national and linguistic boundaries in chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Michael D. Gordin The Dostoevsky Machine in Georgetown: scientific translation in the Cold War 208
Aaron Sidney Wright A beautiful sea: P. A. M. Dirac's epistemology and ontology of the vacuum 225--256 Huib J. Zuidervaart and Douglas Anderson Antony van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes and other scientific instruments: new information from the Delft archives . . 257 Ignacio Suay-Matallana Between chemistry, medicine and leisure: Antonio Casares and the study of mineral waters and Spanish spas in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Hyung Wook Park Constructing Failure: Leonard Hayflick, Biomedicine, and the Problems with Tissue Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Victor D. Boantza The Enlightenment of Joseph Black . . . 328 Jacob Norris Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860--1950 . . 333 Melissa Charenko Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters . . . . . 335 Jim Endersby Charles Darwin's Looking Glass: The Theory of Evolution and the Life of its Author in Contemporary British Fiction and Non-Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Anna Gielas Book Review: Melinda Baldwin, \booktitleMaking ``\booktitleNature''. The History of a Scientific Journal. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2015. 309 pp + plates. \$45.00; \pounds 31.50, ISBN 978-0-226-26145-4} . . . . . 338 Anna Winterbottom Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context . . . . 340 Anonymous Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of Science Prize for 2015 . . . . . . . . . 344
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii Alberto A. Martinez Giordano Bruno and the heresy of many worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--374 Daniel Spelda Veritas filia temporis: The origins of the idea of scientific progress . . . . 375--391 Mark F. Watson and Henry J. Noltie Career, collections, reports and publications of Dr Francis Buchanan (later Hamilton), 1762--1829: natural history studies in Nepal, Burma (Myanmar), Bangladesh and India. Part 1 392--424 Bill Jenkins The platypus in Edinburgh: Robert Jameson, Robert Knox and the place of the \bionameOrnithorhynchus in nature, 1821--24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--441 Lynn K. Nyhart Essay Review: Interpreting Visual Cultures of Science . . . . . . . . . . 442--446 Peter Susalla Book Review: \booktitleSelected Correspondence of William Huggins, Barbara J. Becker, Pickering and Chatto, London (2014) ISBN 1-84893-415-7 (two volumes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448 Alper Bilgili Book Review: \booktitleScience Among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge, by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn, University of Texas Press, Austin (2015), ISBN 978-1-4773-0359-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450 Theodore M. Porter Book Review: \booktitleKuhn's \booktitleStructure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic, Robert J. (Robert John) Richards and Lorraine Daston, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2016), ISBN 978-0-226-31703-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 450--452
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Astronomy and calendar reform at the curia of Pope Clement VI: a new source 1--24 Cecilia Veracini and Dante Martins Teixeira Perception and description of New World non-human primates in the travel literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: a critical review 25--63 Alexander Pavuk Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin and the idea of the religious direction of human evolution in the early 1920s . . . . . . 64--82 David Knight Book Review: \booktitleThe History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction . . 83--84 Don Leggett Book Review: \booktitleScientists' expertise as performance: between state and society, 1860--1960 . . . . . . . . 84--86 Emily Herring Book Review: \booktitleThe Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time . . . . . . . . . 86--87 Jon Agar Book Review: \booktitleThe cybernetics moment: or why we call our age the information age / Moore's Law: the life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's quiet revolutionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Craft, money and mercy: an apothecary's self-portrait in sixteenth-century Bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--107 Steffen Ducheyne Different shades of Newton: Herman Boerhaave on Newton \em mathematicus, \em philosophus, and \em optico-chemicus 108--125 Helge Kragh `Let the stars shine in peace!' Niels Bohr and stellar energy, 1929--1934 . . 126--148 Matthew Holmes Changing techniques in crop plant classification: molecularization at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany during the 1980s . . . . . . . . 149--164 Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: \booktitleA Companion to the History of Science, by, Bernard Lightman, editor, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. 624 pp. \$150.00, \pounds 120.00, ISBN 978-1-118-62077-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166 Maryam M. Patton Book Review: \booktitleSuccess and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance . . . . . 167--169 John Henry Book Review: \booktitleCopernicus: A Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . 169--171 Waqar Zaidi Book Review: \booktitleScientific Governance in Britain 1914--79 . . . . . 171--172 Jon Agar Book Review: \booktitleEurope's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 John Holmes Book Review: \booktitleCharles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth . . . . . . 174--176 Jim Endersby Book Review: \booktitleHeredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850--1930 . . . . 176--178
Max Kemeny What motion \em is: William Neile and the laws of motion . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Ana Simões Horticulture in Portugal 1850--1900: The role of science and public utility in shaping knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 192--213 Rebekah Higgitt Framing the transit: expeditionary culture and identities in Lieutenant E. J. W. Noble's caricatures of the 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Honolulu 214--239 Matthew Stanley Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age 240--241 Alison Adam Murder and the Making of English CSI . . 241--243 Ann Shteir Orchid: A Cultural History . . . . . . . 243--245 Michael D. Gordin Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247 Nicolas Rasmussen Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code . . . . . . . . . 247--248 Richard E. Ashcroft Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science . . . . . . . . . . 248--250 Lydia Braunack-Mayer How to Do Science with Models: A Philosophical Primer . . . . . . . . . . 250--252 Rob Iliffe and David Philip Miller Winner of the \em Annals of Science Prize for 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
David Philip Miller The story of `Scientist: The Story of a Word' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261 Geir Hestmark Tracings of the north of Europe: Robert Chambers in search of the Ice Age . . . 262--281 Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund A frosty disagreement: John Tyndall, James David Forbes, and the early formation of the X-Club . . . . . . . . 282--298 Sybil Gertrude De Clark Qualitative vs quantitative conceptions of homogeneity in nineteenth century dimensional analysis . . . . . . . . . . 299--325 Catriona Sandilands Essay Review: Making Kin, Making Trouble: Donna Haraway's Critical Ongoingness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--330 Wolfgang Köberer Book Review: \booktitleNavigation. A Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . 331--332 Margaret Carlyle Book Review: \booktitleThe Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--335 Gregory Tate Book Review: \booktitleThe Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336 Carolyn Burdett Book Review: \booktitleThe Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization . . . . . . . . . 337--339 Antony Adler Book Review: \booktitleField Life: Science in the American West During the Railroad Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341 Deborah Fitzgerald Book Review: \booktitleEvolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America 341--342 Peter J. Bowler Book Review: \booktitleThe Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Zhaoyuan Wan Newton in China: Translating the \booktitlePrincipia into Chinese (c. 1855--2015) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20 Carolyn Ann Cobbold The rise of alternative bread leavening technologies in the nineteenth century 21--39 Emily Herring `Great is Darwin and Bergson his poet': Julian Huxley's other evolutionary synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54 Maria Rentetzi Book review: Analogies that shape the recent history of radiation: \booktitleStrange Glow: The Story of Radiation, by Timothy Jorgensen, Princeton University Press, 2016, 512 pp., \$35.00, \pounds 27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16503-5. \booktitle{Radium and the Secret of Life}, by Luis Campos, University of Chicago Press, 2015, 352 pp., \$35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-41874-2 . . 55--59 Boris Jardine Book Review: \booktitleHow Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands, by A. D. Morrison-Low, Sara Schechner, and Paolo Brenni, Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxxii + 239 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-32492-3 . . . . . . 60--61 Vitaly Pronskikh Book Review: \booktitleWhat Makes a Good Experiment? Reasons and Roles in Science, A. Franklin, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 384 pp. \$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4441-6} 62--64 Geoff Bil Book Review: \booktitleNatures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History, by Alan Bewell, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, xvii + 393 pp., ISBN 978-1-4214-2096-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65 Emilie J. Raymer Book Review: \booktitleDarwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, edited by Samantha Evans, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, xxviii + 270 pp, ISBN 978-1-107-15886-3 . . . . . . . . . 66--67 Jonathan Smith Book Review: \booktitleDarwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, by E. Richards, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2017, xxxiv + 672 pp., 48 halftones, \$47.50, \pounds 35.50, ISBN 978-0-226-43690-6} . . . . . . . . 67--69 David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleEinstein and Twentieth-Century Politics: `A Salutary Moral Influence', R. Crockatt, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. \$40.00, \pounds 25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-878549-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
Richard Yeo Hippocrates' complaint and the scientific ethos in early modern England 73--96 Sean F. Johnston Vaunting the independent amateur: \booktitleScientific American and the representation of lay scientists . . . . 97--119 Dominic Lusinchi `The Great Fiasco' of the 1948 presidential election polls: status recognition and norms conflict in social science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--144 John Schuster Book Review: \booktitleOne Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton, by Alan F. Chalmers, Dordrecht, Springer, 2017, ix + 197 pp., \$99.99, \pounds 72.00, ISBN 978-3-319-56528-6 (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, vol. 51, ISSN 1385-0180)} 145--148 Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: \booktitleEye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science 1500--1630, by Florike Egmond, London: Reaktion Books, 288 pp., ISBN 978-1-78023-640-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150 Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleThe Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art, by Charlotte Sleigh, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 256 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-44712-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151 Stefano Gattei Book Review: \booktitleReading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences, by Renée Raphael, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, xii + 266 pp., \$54.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-2177-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153 Margaret Carlyle Book Review: \booktitleThe Use of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17$^{th}$ to the 20$^{th}$ Century, edited by E. Dyck and L. Stewart, Leiden, Brill, 2016, xii + 297 pp., EUR 115.00, \$149.00, ISBN 978-90-04-28670-2} . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156 Piers J. Hale Book Review: \booktitleGlobal Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist, edited by B. Lightman, Leiden: Brill, 2016. xiv + 409 pp., EUR 115, \$149, ISBN 978-90-04-26399-4} . . . . . . . . 156--159 Oliver Hill-Andrews Book Review: \booktitleBloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin, by Michael Charles Boulter, London: UCL Press, 188 pp., ISBN 978-1-78735-005-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160 Rhodri Hayward Book Review: \booktitleRuling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire, by Erik Linstrum, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2016. viii + 309 pp., \$41.00, \pounds 32.95, EUR 37.00, ISBN 978-0-674-08866-5} . . . . . 161--163
Jeremy Robin Schneider The first mite: insect genealogy in Hooke's \booktitleMicrographia . . . . . 165--200 Lee T. Macdonald The origins and early years of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department at Greenwich Observatory, 1834--1848 . . 201--233 Gabriel Henderson Resurrecting Maunder's ghost: John `Jack' Eddy, the Maunder Minimum, and the rise of a dilettante astrophysicist 234--254 Matthew Mauger Writing tea's empire . . . . . . . . . . 255--259 Andrew S. Lea The Chinese Typewriter: A History . . . 260--262 Xiaona Wang John Wilkins (1614--1672): New Essays 262--265 Paul Lawrence Farber Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business . . . . . . . 265--266 Robert A. Nye Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1830--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268 Anja-Silvia Goeing Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270 Karen Rader Science museums in transition: cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272 Anonymous Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of Science Prize for 2017 . . . . . . . . . 273--273
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Henry Bate's \booktitleTabule Machlinenses:the earliest astronomical tables by a Latin author . . . . . . . . 275--303 Boris Jardine Instruments of statecraft: Humphrey Cole, Elizabethan economic policy and the rise of practical mathematics . . . 304--329 C. N. Brown Ruling engines and diffraction gratings before Rowland: the work of Lewis Rutherfurd and William Rogers . . . . . 330--360 Jim Endersby Of making many Darwins . . . . . . . . . 361--367 Carlos M. N. Eire Levitation: The Science, Myth, and Magic of Suspension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369 S. Ducheyne Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371 Patricia Seed Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires, 1730--1850 . . . . . . . . 371--373 Christiana Payne The pre-Raphaelites and science . . . . 373--375 Jörg Matthias Determann The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377 Natasha Silk Medicine in First World War Europe: soldiers, medics, pacifists . . . . . . 377--379
Michael Nauenberg Visiting Newton's atelier before the \booktitlePrincipia, 1679--1684 . . . . 1--16 Kenneth L. Caneva Helmholtz, the conservation of force and the conservation of \em vis viva . . . . 17--57 Katharine Anderson An `experimental' instrument: testing the torsion balance in Britain, Canada and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--86 John A. Schuster The young René Descartes --- lawyer, military engineer, courtier, diplomat \ldots and, we might add, ambitious `savant' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95 Kathleen Long The voyage of thought: navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98 Elizabeth Hyde Cultivating commerce: cultures of botany in Britain and France, 1760--1815 . . . 98--100 Michael Berger Henry David Thoreau: A life . . . . . . 100--103 Jon Agar Science without frontiers: cosmopolitanism and national interests in the world of learning, 1870--1940 . . 103--105 John M. Kinder Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820--1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107 Oliver Hill-Andrews Eugenics: a very short introduction . . 107--109 Yulia Egorova History within: the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Robert Haas Maligned for mathematics: Sir Thomas Urquhart and his \em Trissotetras . . . 113--156 Anna Svensson `And \em Eden from the \em Chaos rose': utopian order and rebellion in the Oxford Physick Garden . . . . . . . . . 157--183 Andreas Blank Instrumental causes and the natural origin of souls in Antonio Ponce Santacruz's theory of animal generation 184--209 Mordechai Feingold The religion of the young Isaac Newton 210--218 Larry Stewart Reading Newton in early modern Europe 219--221 Georges Farhat Can diplopia reshape our views of perspective? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227 Lee T. Macdonald Making stars physical: the astronomy of Sir John Herschel . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230 Claire L. Jones The patent medicines industry in Georgian England . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233 Johannes Wietzke Science writing in Greco-Roman antiquity 233--236 Anna Gielas The scientific journal. Authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238 Anonymous Winner of the \em Annals of Science Prize for 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Ofer Gal and Cindy Hodoba Eric Between Kepler and Newton: Hooke's `principles of \em congruity and \em incongruity ' and the naturalization of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--266 Alberto A. Martinez Melchior Inchofer, Giordano Bruno, and the soul of the world . . . . . . . . . 267--302 Longfei Chu and Haohao Zhu Re-examining the impact of European astronomy in seventeenth-century China: a study of Xue Fengzuo's system of thought and his integration of Chinese and Western knowledge . . . . . . . . . 303--323 Charis Charalampous `One common matter' in Descartes' physics: the Cartesian concepts of matter quantities, weight and gravity 324--339 Jonathan Shaheen Essay Rview: \booktitleThe well-ordered universe: the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, by D. Boyle, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, x + 273 pp., \$74.00, \pounds 53.00, ISBN 978-0-19-023480-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 340--346 Marius Stan Standing colossus: Newton and the French: Essay review of J. B. Shank, \booktitleBefore Voltaire: the French Origins of ``Newtonian'' Mechanics, 1680--715. University of Chicago Press, 2018. Cloth, x + 444 pp., ill. ISBN 978-0-226-50929-7. \$55.00} . . . . . . 347--354 Andy Byford Russian eugenics in transnational and transhistorical perspective: from comparison to translation: Review of \booktitleWith and without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the fate of eugenics in Russia, by N. Krementsov, Cambridge, UK, Open Book Publishers, 2018, xxvi + 666 pp., \pounds 32.95 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-78374-512-8 . . . 355--364 Aaron Van Neste Book Review: \booktitleWorlds of natural history, edited by H. A. Curry, N. Jardine, J. A. Secord, and E. C. Spary, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xxv + 656 pp., 16 plts, \$48.00; \pounds 36.99, ISBN 978-1-316-64971-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367 Sharon Kingsland Book Review: \booktitleInside science: Stories from the field in human and animal science, by R. E. Kohler, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2019, 245 pp., \$35.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-61798-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 367--369 Olivia Weisser Book Review: \booktitleRecipes and everyday knowledge: medicine, science, and the household in early modern England, by Elaine Leong, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 pp., 19 halftones, \$90.00 (cloth); \$32.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-58366-2 369--371 Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitleThe circulation of penicillin in Spain: health, wealth and authority, by María Jesús Santesmases, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, i--x; 1--238 pp., \$99.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-3-319-69717-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Jole Shackelford Book Review: \booktitleBurned alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition, by Alberto A. Martínez, London, Reaktion Books, 2018, 348 pp., 21 illustrations, \pounds 25.00 (hbk), ISBN 976-1-78023-8968 . . . . . . . . . 372--375 Jonathan Regier Book Review: \booktitleThe pursuit of harmony: Kepler on cosmos, confession, and community, by Aviva Rothman, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017, vii + 355 pp., \$55.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-226-49697-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377 John Slater Book Review: \booktitleThe Spanish disquiet: the biblical natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, by M. M. Portuondo, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2019, xv + 426 pp., 13 plts, \$65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-59226-8} . . . . . . . . 377--380 Victor D. Boantza Book Review: \booktitleFor the love of science: the correspondence of J. H. de Magellan (1722--1790), edited by R. W. Home, I. M. Malaquias and M. F. Thomaz, Bern, Peter Lang, 2017, 2002 pp. (2 volumes), \pounds 157 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-0343-1294-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 380--382 Jan Golinski Book Review: \booktitleThe life and legend of James Watt: collaboration, natural philosophy, and the improvement of the steam engine, by David Philip Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, xix + 420 pp., 24 b&w illus., \$50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8229-4558-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384 Joshua Howe Book Review: \booktitleThe ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual, by Roland Jackson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 556 pp., 26 plts, \pounds 25.00, ISBN 0-19-878895-9 385--387 J. L. Heilbron Book Review: \booktitlePhotons. The history and mental models of light quanta, Klaus Hentschel, Cham, Switzerland, Springer International, 2018, xiii + 231 pp. EUR 69,99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-3-319-95251-2 . . 387--389 Roger Luckhurst Book Review: \booktitleA history of the future: prophets of progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov, by Peter J. Bowler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, x + 287 pp., 9 colour plts, 18 black and white plts, \pounds 19.99, ISBN 978-1-316-60262-1 . . . . . . . . . 389--391 John Krige Book Review: \booktitleGreening the alliance: the diplomacy of NATO's science and environmental initiatives, by S. Turchetti, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2019, 256 pp., 19 plts, \$37.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-59579-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393
Francisco Malta Romeiras The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Helena Avelar de Carvalho Preludes to the Inquisition: self-censorship in medieval astrological discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--25 Neil Tarrant Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the papal bull \booktitleCoeli et terrae . . . . . . . 26--49 Luís Campos Ribeiro The bounded heavens: defining the limits of astrological practice in the Iberian indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--70 Francisco Malta Romeiras Putting the \booktitleIndices into practice: censoring science in early modern Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--95 Luís Tirapicos On the censorship of Tycho Brahe's books in Iberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--107 Daniele Macuglia Newtonianism and information control in Rome at the wake of the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--126 Henrique Leitão Inquisition and science: where do we stand now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
John R. R. Christie Atlantic chemistries, 1600--1820 . . . . 135--138 Mariana Sánchez Daza Alchemical and Paracelsian ideas in the \booktitleArte de los Metales . . . . . 139--154 John Stewart Chemistry and slavery in the Scottish Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--168 Christopher Halm `Enquiries on \em Plaister of Paris': a material history of early agrochemical knowledge in the United States of America, 1785--1812 . . . . . . . . . . 169--188 Thomas Apel `Revolutions, philosophical as well as civil': French chemistry and American science in Samuel Latham Mitchill's \booktitleMedical Repository . . . . . . 189--214 J. Marc Macdonald Failed utopias and practical chemistry: the Priestleys, the Du Ponts, and the transmission of transatlantic science, 1770--1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--252
Mordechai Feingold and Andrej Svoren\vcík A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton's \booktitlePrincipia (1687) . . . . . . . 253--348 Joachim L. Dagg and J. F. Derry Charles Darwin did not mislead Joseph Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst von Baer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365 Ursula Klein Science, industry, and the German \em Bildungsbürgertum . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--376 Jon Agar What is technology? . . . . . . . . . . 377--382 Klaus Hentschel Weighing light and pondering historiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387 Bettina Dietz Knowledge in translation: global patterns of scientific exchange, 1000--1800 CE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389 David Dunér From influence to inhabitation: the transformation of astrobiology in the early modern period . . . . . . . . . . 389--392 Alexi Baker Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment 392--394 Bonnie Effros Germany's ancient pasts: archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700 . . 394--397
John P. McCaskey History of `temperature': maturation of a measurement concept . . . . . . . . . 399--444 Craig Martin Francis Bacon, José de Acosta, and Traditions of Natural Histories of Winds 445--468 Vincent Roy-Di Piazza `Ghosts from other planets': plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg's \booktitleDe Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758) 469--494 Henry-James Meiring Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--523 Ian Hesketh The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--548 John Henry Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature's `secret fire' 549--552 Helge Kragh Constructing quantum mechanics, volume 1: The Scaffold 1900--1923 . . . . . . . 552--554 Jed Z. Buchwald (Co-Editor) and Mordechai Feingold (Co-Editor) Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of Science Best Paper Prize for 2019 . . . 555--555
Norman Biggs Linear Programming from Fibonacci to Farkas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 Miguel Palomo New insight into the origins of the calculus war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--40 Justin Begley John Hill (1714?--1775) on `Plant Sleep': experimental physiology and the limits of comparative analysis . . . . . 41--63 Xi Ma Mineral and mineralogy in late Qing China: translations and conceptualizations, 1860s--1910s . . . . 64--91 Alan R. Rushton Counting human chromosomes before 1960: preconceptions, perceptions and predilections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--116 Kirill Rossiianov The problem of Lysenkoism: why we cannot explain it away? . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125 Ovanes Akopyan After the flood. Imagining the global environment in early modern Europe . . . 126--128 Margaret Carlyle Malleable Anatomies. Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131 Matthew Stanley Book Review: \booktitleEinstein in Bohemia, by M. Gordin, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, xi + 343 pp., \$29.95. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-691-17737-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Dmitri Levitin Isaac Newton's `\booktitleDe gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum': its purpose in historical context . . . 133--161 E. Chassefi\`ere Aurora borealis systems in the German--Russian world in the first half of the eighteenth century: the cases of Friedrich Christoph Mayer and Leonhard Euler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--196 Miguel de Asúa Traces on a Muddy Shore. Science and religion in Colonial and Early Independent Río de la Plata . . . . . . . 197--220 William H. Brock and David E. Lewis A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society's mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein 221--245 Michael Mcvaugh Book Review: \booktitleGalen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome, by Vivian Nutton, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, xiii + 209 pp., 12 plts., \$39.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-35723-8} . . 246--248 Vivian Nutton Book Review: \booktitleCutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen's anatomical experiments. Studies in Ancient Medicine 55, by Luis Alejandro Salas, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2020, x + 328 pp., EUR 119.00 (Hardback); \$143.00, ISBN 978-90-04-43918-4} . . . 248--250 Stefan Laube Book Review: \booktitleAnna Zieglerin and the Lion's blood: alchemy and end times in reformation Germany, by Tara Nummedal, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, xi + 288 pp., 16 fig., \pounds 37.00 (Hardback); \$39.95, ISBN 978-0-81225-089-3} . . . . 250--252 Elizabeth W. Mellyn \booktitleHealers, innovators, entrepreneurs: women in early modern healthcare: \booktitleForgotten Healers: women and the pursuit of health in late Renaissance Italy, by Sharon Strocchia, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2020, ix + 330 pp., \$49.95, \pounds 39.95, EUR 45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-24174-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 252--259 Katrina Maydom Book Review: \booktitleDrugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World, edited by M. J. Crawford and J. M. Gabriel, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019, ix + 374 pp., \$50.00, ISBN 0-822-94562-2} . . . . . . 259--261 Craig Martin Book Review: \booktitleForbidden knowledge: medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy, by Hannah Marcus, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2020, xi + 356 pp., 36 fig., \$45.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-73658-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 261--264
Ivana Gambaro Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius's resistance to Dechales's \booktitleMathesis Regia . . 265--294 Sergio H. Orozco-Echeverri and Sebastián Molina-Betancur A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá's \booktitleTratado (\em c. 1696) . . . . 295--333 Bert Hansen Pasteur's lifelong engagement with the fine arts: uncovering a scientist's passion and personality . . . . . . . . 334--386 N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: \booktitleTheoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l'histoire de l'astronomie, Michela Malpangotto, CNRS Éditions, 2020. 751pp. 65.00 EUR. ISBN-10: 2-271-13458-7, ISBN-13: 978-2-271-13458-5 . . . . . . . 387--392 Mark J. Geller Medicine in ancient Assur, a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Ki\dsir-Assur. Ancient magic and divination 18 . . . . 393--395 Lyke de Vries The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300--1700 . . . . . . . . . . 395--397 Anita Guerrini The transmutations of chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Guillaume des Moustiers' treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--417 Susanna Berger and Sara J. Schechner Observations on Niccol\`o Tornioli's \booktitleThe Astronomers . . . . . . . 418--462 Mark Adrian Govier Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society's 3rd Charter of 1669 463--483 Jutta Schickore The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800 . . . 484--503 Adriana Minor Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 504--530 Christopher Lawrence The sense of movement. An intellectual history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--533 Nathaniel Comfort Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--535
Andrea Sangiacomo and Raluca Tanasescu and Silvia Donker and Hugo Hogenbirk Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement . . . . . 1--39 Raphael Uchôa From the state of nature to the state of ruins: `American race' and `savage knowledge' according to Carl von Martius 40--59 Anna Kvicalova Purkyne's \booktitleOpistophone: the hearing `Deaf', auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s . . 60--80 C. N. Brown The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland . . . 81--130 Kirsten Moore-Sheeley Book Review: \booktitleImmunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, 2nd ed., by Stuart Blume, London, Reaktion Books, Ltd., 2021, 280 pp., \pounds 9.99 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-78914-504-5 . . 131--133 M. Susan Lindee Book Review: \booktitleScience on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean, by Naomi Oreskes, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2021, 738 pp., \$40.00 (hardback), ISBN 978--0-226-73238-I} . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Gábor Almási Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577 . . . . . 137--163 Robert Goulding The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--214 Fernando B. Figueiredo and Guy Boistel Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille's lunar-distance method . . . . 215--258 François Gendron The M de Jussieu's `mirror of the Incas': an Ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743--1822) . . . . . . 259--273
Rienk Vermij and Paul Vieth Confessionalization and comets. John Bainbridge on the comet of 1618 . . . . 275--291 Yijie Huang Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King's analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--319 James Greener Offering themselves by chance: Newcomen's starting materials . . . . . 320--363 M. Alper Yalçinkaya Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--385 Jan Potters Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn's history of the quantum . . . . . 386--405 Evan Hepler-Smith The elements: a visual history of their discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--408 Georgiana D. Hedesan The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science . . . . . . . . . 408--410 Sophie Roux Mechanism. A visual, lexical and conceptual history . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413 Margaret Carlyle Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France . . . . 413--415 John Krige Cold War social science: transnational entanglements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Fabrizio Bigotti Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine . . . . . 419--441 Nuno Castel-Branco Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s--1680s . . . . . . 442--467 Alan R. Rushton Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--496 C. S. Leedham and V. L. Allan Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--512 Paula Findlen On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--515 Pamela H. Smith Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature --- 1450--1750 515--518
Maria Rentetzi and Donatella Germanese Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the Cold War: Introduction to Special Issue . . . . . 1--9 Donatella Germanese The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy . . . . . . 10--37 Michaela Smidrkalová Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from `Atoms for Peace' to Expo 58 . . . . . . 38--61 Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz The photographers' gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960--1965) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--76 Michael Hunter Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 Kathryn M. Olesko Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Jia Hui Lee Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--111 Giulia Giannini Establishing an experimental agenda at the \em Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini's book lists . . . . . . . . . 112--142 Michael Wiescher A German physicist's travels in Great Britain: Julius Plücker's visits from 1853 to 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--194 Ian Maclean Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
Luís Campos Ribeiro Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--231 John Henry Newton's `\booktitleDe Aere et Aethere' and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics . . . . . . . . 232--267 Nathan Edward Charles Smith Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--292 Jens Hòyrup A new history of Greek mathematics . . . 293--296 Carol Pal Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle's sister . . . . . . . . . 296--299 Robert Goulding The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: \booktitleThe Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688--1717 . . . . . 299--302
Siobhan Moira Ryan Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment . . 303--336 Shaul Katzir The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz . . . . . . . . . 337--356 Mary Pickard Winsor Darwin's dark matter: utter extinction 357--389 Christoffer Leber and Claus Spenninger The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany 390--417 Anita Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleMaking physicians. Tradition, teaching, and trials at Leiden University, 1575--1639, vol. 1, by Evan Ragland, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2022, Clio Medica, vol. 106, xiv + 457 pp., 13 plts., \$143.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-90-04-46511-4} . . 418--420 Catherine Wilson Book Review: \booktitleAnalytical essay on the faculties of the soul, by Charles Bonnet, translated with an introductory essay by Stephen Gaukroger, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 234 + xxxiv, \$85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-284677-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 420--423 Giles Scott-Smith Book Review: \booktitleKnowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach, d. John Krige, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 368 pp., \$135 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-226-81994-5; \$45 (Paperback), IBSN: 978-0-226-82038-5 . . . . . . . . 423--425
Sibylle Gluch Promises of precision: questioning precision in `precision' instruments . . 1--9 Arthur Harris and Liba Taub Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts . . . . . 10--29 Samuel Gessner `Si te omnimoda delectat precisio': early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century . . . 30--59 Richard L. Kremer Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt's \booktitleTabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler . . 60--78 Dana Jalobeanu Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--99 Boris Jardine The social life of precision instruments: artisans' trials in early-modern England, 1550--1700 . . . . 100--123 Luís Tirapicos Directions of precision: George Graham's instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks . . . . . . . . . . 124--138 David Aubin Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris Observatory, 1667--1742 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--159 Sibylle Gluch Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--188 Rossella Baldi How to ensure a chronometer's accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users 189--207 Richard Dunn On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 208--234 Emily Akkermans Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea . . . . . 235--257 Miguel Ohnesorge The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800--1910 . . . . . . . . . 258--284
Marlis Hinckley `Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy': glass beehives and English society, 1650--1680 . . . . . . . . . . 285--308 Cristiano Zanetti A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility . . 309--358 Bernardo Gonçalves Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing's construction of machine intelligence . . . . . . . . . . 359--389 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze The two `strongest pillars of the empiricist wing': the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916--1939) 390--419 Xiao Liu Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918--1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--439 Steven Nadler Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy . . . . . 440--442 Tom Archibald Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts . . 442--444 Michael Olson Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 444--446 Jiemin Tina Wei The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth 447--449