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Nicholas Dew Scientific travel in the Atlantic world:
the French expedition to Gorée and the
Antilles, 1681--1683 . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
John Fisher Conjectures and reputations: The
composition and reception of James
Bradley's paper on the aberration of
light with some reference to a third
unpublished version . . . . . . . . . . 19--48
K. G. Valente Giving wings to logic: Mary Everest
Boole's propagation and fulfilment of a
legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--74
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen Postcolonial partnerships: deep sea
research, media coverage and
(inter)national narratives on the
Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950
to 1952 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--98
J. V. Field Obituaries: Alfred Rupert Hall (26 July
1920--5 February 2009) and Marie Boas
Hall (18 October 1919--23 February 2009) 99--103
Ivor Grattan-Guinness The role of an editor: some remarks on
Whiteside's edition of Newton's
mathematical papers . . . . . . . . . . 105--112
James Delbourgo Gardens of life and death . . . . . . . 113--118
Gordon McOuat Book Review: Adrian Desmond and James
Moore, \booktitleDarwin's Sacred Cause:
Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human
Origins. London: Allen Lane, 2009. Pp.
xxi + 485. ISBN 978-1-84614-035-8.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 119--121
Jack Morrell Book Review: Joe Bord, \booktitleScience
and Whig Manners: Science and Political
Style in Britain, c. 1790--1850.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Pp. ix + 213. ISBN 978-0-230-57484-7.
\pounds 50.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 121--122
John Henry Book Review: Lorraine Daston and Michael
Stolleis (eds.), \booktitleNatural Law
and Laws of Nature in Early Modern
Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral
and Natural Philosophy. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xii + 338. ISBN
978-0-7546-5761-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
John Gascoigne Book Review: Palmira Fontes Da Costa,
\booktitleThe Singular and the Making of
Knowledge at the Royal Society of London
in the Eighteenth Century.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2009. Pp. xvi + 214. ISBN
978-1-4438-0357-1. \pounds 39.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Michael A. Finn Book Review: Mike Jay, \booktitleThe
Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural
Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons
of Genius. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 294.
ISBN 978-0-300-12439-2. \pounds 20.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Thierry Hoquet Book Reviews: Jonathan Hodge and Gregory
Radick (eds.), \booktitleThe Cambridge
Companion to Darwin, Second Edition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2009. Pp. xiii + 548. ISBN
978-0-521-71184-5. \pounds 19.99
(paperback). Michael Ruse and Robert J.
Richards (eds.), \booktitleThe Cambridge
Companion to the `Origin of Species'.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2009. Pp. xxvii + 395. ISBN
978-0-521-87079-5. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Bernard Lightman,
\booktitleEvolutionary Naturalism in
Victorian Britain: The `Darwinians' and
Their Critics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
Pp. xx + 326. ISBN 978-0-7546-5987-7.
\pounds 70.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 129--130
Jacob Stegenga Book Review: Francesca Bordogna,
\booktitleWilliam James at the
Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the
Geography of Knowledge. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press.
2008. Pp. x + 382. ISBN
978-0-226-06652-3. \pounds 23.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Jacob Halford Book Review: Helge S. Kragh, Peter C.
Kjaergaard, Henry Nielsen and Kristian
Hvidfelt Nielsen, \booktitleScience in
Denmark: A Thousand Year History.
Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008.
Pp. 607. ISBN 978-87-7934-317-7. \pounds
37.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Matthew R. Goodrum Book Review: Sigrid Schmalzer,
\booktitleThe People's Peking Man:
Popular Science and Human Identity in
Twentieth-Century China. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2008. Pp. xix + 346. ISBN
978-0-226-73860-4. \$26.00 (paperback)} 132--134
Mary Tiles Book Review: Christina Chimisso,
\booktitleWriting the History of the
Mind: Philosophy and Science in France,
1900 to 1960s. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
Pp. ix + 209. ISBN 978-0-7546-5705-7.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 134--135
Roger Smith Book Review: Cathy Gere,
\booktitleKnossos and the Prophets of
Modernism. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x
+ 277. ISBN 978-0-226-28953-3. \pounds
19.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Andrew Hull Book Review: L. S. Jacyna,
\booktitleMedicine and Modernism: A
Biography of Sir Henry Head. London,
Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. viii +
353. ISBN 978-1-85196-907-4. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
John V. Pickstone Book Review: Robert Bud,
\booktitlePenicillin: Triumph and
Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008. Pp ix + 330. ISBN
978-0-19-954161-4. \pounds 16.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Graeme J. N. Gooday Book Review: Julie Anderson Francis
Neary and John V. Pickstone,
\booktitleSurgeons, Manufacturers and
Patients: A Transatlantic History of
Total Hip Replacement. Basingstoke and
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp.
xiv + 222. ISBN 0-230-55314-1. \pounds
45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
Christopher Hamlin Book Review: Warwick Anderson,
\booktitleThe Collectors of Lost Souls:
Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2008. Pp. 318. ISBN
978-0-8018-9040-6. \pounds 13.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Guy Ortolano, \booktitleThe
Two Cultures Controversy: Science,
Literature and Cultural Politics in
Postwar Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 295.
ISBN 978-0-521-89204-9. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b7
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Melissa Smith Architects of Armageddon: the Home
Office Scientific Advisers' Branch and
civil defence in Britain, 1945--1968 . . 149--180
Karin J. Ekholm Tartaglia's ragioni: a maestro d'abaco's
mixed approach to the bombardier's
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--207
Janet Vertesi Instrumental images: the visual rhetoric
of self-presentation in Hevelius's
\booktitleMachina Coelestis . . . . . . 209--243
Jaume Navarro Electron diffraction chez Thomson: early
responses to quantum physics in Britain 245--275
Jonathan Harwood Heredity reconceived? . . . . . . . . . 277--282
Sujit Sivasundaram Book Review: Helaine Selin (ed.),
\booktitleEncyclopaedia of the History
of Science, Technology, and Medicine in
Non-Western Cultures, Second Edition. 2
vols. Berlin, Heidelberg and New York:
Springer, 2008. Pp. xix + 2416. ISBN
978-1-4020-4559-2. \pounds 355.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Jahnavi Phalkey Book Reviews: Jagdish N. Sinha,
\booktitleScience, War and Imperialism:
India in the Second World War. Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xiv + 278.
ISBN 978-90-04-16645-5. EUR79.00
(paperback). Itty Abraham (ed.),
\booktitleSouth Asian Cultures of the
Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in
India and Pakistan. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 222.
ISBN 978-0-253-22032-5. \$24.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Alexander Jones Book Review: Eleanor Robson,
\booktitleMathematics in Ancient Iraq: A
Social History. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp.
xxvii + 441. ISBN 978-0-691-09182-2.
\pounds 35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 286--288
Eleanor Robson Book Review: Daryn Lehoux,
\booktitleAstronomy, Weather, and
Calendars in the Ancient World:
Parapegmata and Related Texts in
Classical and Ancient Near Eastern
Societies. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp.
xiv + 566. ISBN 978-0-521-85181-7.
\pounds 65.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 288--289
Josipa G. Petruni\'c Book Review: Eleanor Robson and
Jacqueline Stedall (eds.), \booktitleThe
Oxford Handbook of the History of
Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 918. ISBN
978-0-19-921312-2. \pounds 85.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
Margaret J. Osler Book Review: Robert Bartlett,
\booktitleThe Natural and the
Supernatural in the Middle Ages.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008. Pp. x + 170. ISBN
978-0-521-70255-3. \pounds 17.99 . . . . 291--292
Andrew Cunningham Book Review: Charles Webster,
\booktitleParacelsus: Medicine, Magic
and Mission at the End of Time. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
2008. Pp. xiv + 326. ISBN
978-0-300-13911-2. \pounds 30.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--295
Juliana Adelman Book Reviews: Peter M. J. Hess and Paul
L. Allen, \booktitleCatholicism and
Science. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2008. Pp. xxvi + 241. ISBN
978-0-313-33190-9. \$65.00 (hardback).
Don O'Leary, \booktitle{Roman
Catholicism and Modern Science: A
History}. London and New York:
Continuum, 2006. Pp. xx + 356. ISBN
0-8264-1868-6. \pounds 18.99 (hardback)} 295--296
Victor D. Boantza Book Review: Tony Volpe,
\booktitleScience et théologie dans les
débats savants de la seconde moitié du
XVIIe si\`ecle: La Gen\`ese dans les
Philosophical Transactions et le Journal
des savants(1665--1710). Preface by
Louis Châtellier. Biblioth\`eque de
l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences
Religieuses, 133. Turnhout: Brepols
Publishers, 2008. Pp. 467. ISBN
978-2-503-52584-6. EUR65.00 (paperback) 296--297
J. B. Shank Book Review: Kurt Ballstadt,
\booktitleDiderot: Natural Philosopher.
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. Pp.
viii + 246. ISBN 978-0-7294-0948-3.
\pounds 55.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 297--299
Lissa Roberts Book Review: Matthew D. Eddy,
\booktitleThe Language of Mineralogy:
John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh
Medical School, 1750--1800. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxi + 309. ISBN
978-0-7546-6332-4. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Sophie Forgan Book Review: David Knight, \booktitleThe
Making of Modern Science: Science,
Technology, Medicine, and Modernity,
1789--1914. Cambridge and Malden, MA:
Polity, 2009. Pp. xiv + 370. ISBN
978-0-7456-3676-4. \pounds 17.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Deborah R. Coen Book Reviews: Laura Dassow Walls,
\booktitleThe Passage to Cosmos:
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping
of America. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp.
xv + 404. ISBN 978-0-226-87182-0.
\pounds 24.00 (hardback). H. Walter
Lack, \booktitleAlexander von Humboldt
and the Botanical Exploration of the
Americas. London: Prestel, 2009. Pp.
278. ISBN 978-3-7913-4142-2. \pounds
125.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
John Holmes Book Review: Denise Gigante,
\booktitleLife: Organic Form and
Romanticism. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 302.
ISBN 978-0-300-13685-2. \pounds 27.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305
Gowan Dawson Book Review: John Holmes,
\booktitleDarwin's Bards: British and
American Poetry in the Age of Evolution.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2009. Pp. xiv + 288. ISBN
978-0-7486-3940-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis Book Reviews: Peter Ayres, \booktitleThe
Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the
Dawn of Plant Science. London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2008. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN
978-1-85196-970-8. \pounds 60.00
(hardback). David Kohn,
\booktitleDarwin's Garden: An
Evolutionary Adventure. New York: New
York Botanical Garden, 2008. Pp. 60.
ISBN 978-0-89327-970-7. \$17.99} . . . . 306--308
Berris Charnley Book Reviews: Philip J. Pauly,
\booktitleFruits and Plains: The
Horticultural Transformation of America.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 336,
ISBN 978-0-674-02663-6. \pounds 29.95
(hardback). Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W.
Rhode, \booktitleCreating Abundance:
Biological Innovation and American
Agricultural Development. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp.
xii + 467. ISBN 978-0-521-67387-7.
\pounds 15.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 308--309
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: J. F. M. Clark,
\booktitleBugs and the Victorians. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
2009. Pp. xiii + 322. ISBN
978-0-300-15091-9. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Patricia Fara Book Review: Faidra Papanelopoulu, Agustí
Nieto-Galan and Enrique Perdiguero
(eds.), \booktitlePopularizing Science
and Technology in the European
Periphery, 1820--2000. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xviii + 284. ISBN
978-0-7546-6269-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Aitor Anduaga,
\booktitleWireless and Empire:
Geopolitics, Radio Industry and
Ionosphere in the British Empire,
1918--1939. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2009. Pp. xxv + 386. ISBN
978-0-19-956272-5. \pounds 39.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Kristin C. Harper,
\booktitleWeather by the Numbers: The
Genesis of Modern Meteorology.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2008. Pp. xii + 308. ISBN
978-0-262-08378-2. \pounds 25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Maurizio Esposito Book Review: G. Richard Delisle,
\booktitleLes Philosophies du
néo-darwinisme. Preface by Jean Gayon.
Paris: Presses universitaires France,
2009. Pp. 456. ISBN 978-2-13-056626-7.
Canadian \$56.70 (paperback)} . . . . . 315--317
John V. Pickstone Book Reviews: Ruth Schwartz Cowan,
\booktitleHeredity and Hope: The Case
for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Pp. 292. ISBN 978-0-674-02424-3. \pounds
20.95 (hardback). S. Peter Harper,
\booktitleA Short History of Medical
Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 557. ISBN
978-0-19-518750-2. \pounds 22.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319
Steve Sturdy Book Review: Michael Lynch, Simon A.
Cole, Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan,
\booktitleTruth Machine: The Contentious
History of DNA Fingerprinting. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2009. Pp. xxii + 389. ISBN
978-0-226-49806-5. \pounds 22.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Roger Smith Book Review: Anne Harrington,
\booktitleThe Cure Within: A History of
Mind-Body Medicine. New York and London:
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Pp. 336.
ISBN 978-0-393-06563-3. \pounds 19.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--322
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b9
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Thomas F. Mayer The Roman Inquisition's precept to
Galileo (1616) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--351
Omar W. Nasim Observation, working images and
procedure: the `Great Spiral' in Lord
Rosse's astronomical record books and
beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--389
Michael Pettit The problem of raccoon intelligence in
behaviourist America . . . . . . . . . . 391--421
Cyrus C. M. Mody and
Michael Lynch Test objects and other epistemic things:
a history of a nanoscale object . . . . 423--458
Geoffrey Cantor and
Frank James Obituary: David Charles Gooding (21
November 1947--13 December 2009) . . . . 459--467
Janet Browne A field comes of age . . . . . . . . . . 469--473
Roberta Bivins Book Reviews: Christopher Hamlin,
\booktitleCholera: The Biography. Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp x + 344. ISBN
978-0-19-954624-4. \pounds 12.99
(hardback). Mark Jackson,
\booktitleAsthma: The Biography. Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp xi + 249.
ISBN 978-0-19-923795-1. \pounds 12.99
(hardback). Andrew Scull,
\booktitleHysteria: The Biography.
Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp vii +
223. ISBN 978-0-19-956096-7. \pounds
12.99 (hardback). Robert Tattersall,
\booktitleDiabetes: The Biography.
Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp x +
229. ISBN 978-0-19-954136-2. \pounds
12.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--478
Laurence Totelin Book Review: Christopher Gill, Tim
Whitmarsh and John Wilkins (eds.),
\booktitleGalen and the World of
Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 327.
ISBN 978-0-521-76751-4. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Stephanie Seavers Book Review: Leah DeVun,
\booktitleProphecy, Alchemy, and the End
of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late
Middle Ages. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 255.
ISBN 978-0-231-14538-1. \pounds 34.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
Paula Findlen Book Reviews: Pamela O. Long, David
McGee and Alan M. Stahl (eds.),
\booktitleThe Book of Michael of Rhodes:
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript.
Volume 1: Fascimile. Cambridge, MA and
London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xiv +
519. ISBN 978-0-262-13503-0. \$65.00
(hardback). Pamela O. Long, David McGee
and Alan M. Stahl (eds.). \booktitle{The
Book of Michael of Rhodes: A
Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript}.
Volume 2: Transcription and Translation.
Transcription by Franco Rossi.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press,
2009. Pp. lii + 679. ISBN
978-0-262-19590-4. \$75.00 (hardback).
Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M.
Stahl (eds.). \booktitleThe Book of
Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century
Maritime Manuscript. Volume 3: Studies.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press,
2009. Pp. xiii + 370. ISBN
978-0-262-12308-2. \$45.00 (hardback)} 481--482
J. R. Christianson Book Reviews: Nicholas Jardine and
Alain-Philippe Segonds, \booktitleLa
Guerre des Astronomes: La Querelle au
sujet de l'origine du syst\`eme
géo-héliocentrique \`a la fin du XVIe
si\`ecle. Volume 1: Introduction. Paris:
Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres,
2008. Pp. xxiv + 290. ISBN
978-2-251-34513-0. EUR40.00 (paperback).
Nicholas Jardine and Alain-Philippe
Segonds, \booktitleLa Guerre des
Astronomes: La Querelle au sujet de
l'origine du syst\`eme géo-héliocentrique
\`a la fin du XVIe si\`ecle. Volume 2/1:
LeContra Ursumde Jean Kepler,
Introduction et textes préparatoires and
Volume 2/2: LeContra Ursumde Jean
Kepler, Édition critique, traduction et
notes. Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles
Lettres, 2008. Pp. xx + 222 and 223-634.
ISBN 978-2-251-34512-3. EUR85.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--485
Stephen D. Snobelen Book Review: Michael Hunter,
\booktitleBoyle: Between God and
Science. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 366.
ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Andrew Pyle Book Review: Daniel Garber,
\booktitleLeibniz: Body, Substance,
Monad. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2009. Pp. xiii + 428. ISBN
978-0-19-956664-8. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Patricia Fara Book Review: Celina Fox, \booktitleThe
Arts of Industry in the Age of
Enlightenment. New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. viii +
576. ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0. \pounds
40.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Saul Dubow Book Review: Siegfried Huigen,
\booktitleKnowledge and Colonialism:
Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South
Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xii +
273. ISBN 978-90-04-17743-7. EUR99.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Galina Kichigina,
\booktitleThe Imperial Laboratory:
Experimental Physiology and Clinical
Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.
Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. ii +
374. ISBN 978-90-420-2658-2. \pounds
72.20 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Claire Jones Book Review: Julie K. Brown,
\booktitleHealth and Medicine on
Display: International Expositions in
the United States, 1876--1904.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press,
2009. Pp. xi + 326. ISBN
978-0-262-02657-4. \pounds 33.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Alison Adam Book Review: Claire G. Jones,
\booktitleFemininity, Mathematics and
Science, 1880--1914. Basingstoke and New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix +
264. ISBN 978-0-230-55521-1. \pounds
55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--496
Chris Renwick Book Reviews: Joachim Radkau,
\booktitleMax Weber: A Biography. Trans.
Patrick Camiller. Cambridge and Malden,
MA: Polity, 2009. Pp. xix + 683. ISBN
978-0-7456-4147-8. \pounds 25.00
(hardback). Fritz Ringer, \booktitleMax
Weber: An Intellectual Biography.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. ix + 307. ISBN
978-0-226-72005-0. \$21.00 (paperback)} 496--498
Ruth Schwartz Cowan Book Review: Graeme Gooday,
\booktitleDomesticating Electricity:
Technology, Uncertainty and Gender,
1880--1914. London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2008. Pp. ix + 292. ISBN
978-1-85196-975-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--500
Jesse Richmond Book Review: Joe Cain and Michael Ruse
(eds.), Descended from Darwin: Insights
into the History of Evolutionary
Studies, \booktitle1900--1970.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 2009. Pp. xxvi + 360. ISBN
978-1-60618-991-7. \$35.00 (paperback)} 500--501
Amanda Rees Book Review: Gavin Schaffer,
\booktitleRacial Science and British
Society, 1930--62. London and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x + 234.
ISBN 978-0-230-00892-2. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--502
Georgina M. Montgomery Book Review: Amanda Rees, \booktitleThe
Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and
the Art of Field Science. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp.
ix + 288. ISBN 978-0-226-70711-2.
\pounds 40.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 502--503
JoAnne Yates and
Craig N. Murphy Book Review: Graeme Gooday and James
Sumner (eds.), \booktitleBy Whose
Standards? Standardization, Stability
and Uniformity in the History of
Information and Electrical Technologies.
History of Technology, Volume 28. Series
editor Ian Inkster. London: Continuum,
2008. Pp. xiv + 171. ISBN
978-0-8264-3875-1. \pounds 90.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
Sarah Dry Book Review: Jennifer Karns Alexander,
\booktitleThe Mantra of Efficiency: From
Waterwheel to Social Control. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008. Pp. xvii + 233. ISBN
978-0-8018-8693-5. \pounds 33.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Thomas Söderqvist Book Reviews: Sherry Turkle (ed.),
\booktitleEvocative Objects: Things We
Think With. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 385. ISBN
978-0-262-20168-1. \pounds 19.95
(hardback). Sherry Turkle (ed.),
\booktitleFalling for Science: Objects
in Mind. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 318. ISBN
978-0-262-20172-8. \pounds 19.95
(hardback). Sherry Turkle (ed.),
\booktitleThe Inner History of Devices.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2008. Pp. x + 208. ISBN
978-0-262-20176-6. \pounds 19.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--508
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--512
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b7
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Kapil Raj Introduction: circulation and locality
in early modern science . . . . . . . . 513--517
Martha Few Circulating smallpox knowledge:
Guatemalan doctors, Maya Indians and
designing Spain's smallpox vaccination
expedition, 1780--1803 . . . . . . . . . 519--537
Catarina Madeira Santos Administrative knowledge in a colonial
context: Angola in the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--556
Jane H. Murphy Locating the sciences in
Eighteenth-Century Egypt . . . . . . . . 557--571
Mary Terrall Following insects around: tools and
techniques of Eighteenth-Century natural
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--588
Jakob Vogel Locality and circulation in the Habsburg
Empire: disputing the Carlsbad medical
salt, 1763--1784 . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--606
Steve Fuller Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd,
\booktitleDisciplines in the Making.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Pp. viii + 215. ISBN 978-0-19-956787-4.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 607--609
Ingrid D. Rowland Book Review: Samuel Y. Edgerton,
\booktitleThe Mirror, the Window, and
the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear
Perspective Changed Our Vision of the
Universe. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 199.
ISBN 978-0-8014-7480-4. \pounds 16.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
Boris Jardine Book Review: Marc J. Ratcliff,
\booktitleThe Quest for the Invisible:
Microscopy in the Enlightenment.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xv + 315.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Charlotte Bigg Book Review: Roger Hutchins,
\booktitleBritish University
Observatories 1772--1939. Aldershot and
Burlington: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxiii +
533. ISBN 978-0-7546-3250-4. \pounds
65.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg
and H. Otto Sibum (eds.), \booktitleThe
Heavens on Earth: Observatories and
Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science
and Culture. Durham, NC and London: Duke
University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 384.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4640-1. \pounds 16.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
Lucas G. Freire Book Review: Christopher Carter,
\booktitleMagnetic Fever: Global
Imperialism and Empiricism in the
Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 2009.
Pp. xxvi + 168. ISBN 978-1-60618-994-8.
\$35.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 614--616
Simon Knell Book Review: Pietro Corsi,
\booktitleFossils and Reputations. A
Scientific Correspondence: Pisa, Paris,
London, 1853--1857. Pisa: Edizioni Plus
--- Pisa University Press, 2008. Pp.
411. ISBN 978-88-8492-564-0. EUR25.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617
Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Sander Gliboff,
\booktitleH. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel,
and the Origins of German Darwinism: A
Study in Translation and Transformation.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2008. Pp. xii + 259. ISBN
978-0-262-07293-9. \pounds 25.95
(hardback). Robert J. Richards,
\booktitleThe Tragic Sense of Life:
Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over
Evolutionary Thought. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp.
xx + 551. ISBN 978-0-226-71214-7.
\pounds 27.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 617--619
Anne Harrington Book Review: Mark S. Micale,
\booktitleHysterical Men: the Hidden
History of Male Nervous Illness.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 366.
ISBN 978-0-674-03166-1. \pounds 22.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--620
Christine Macleod Book Review: Samuel J. M. M. Alberti,
\booktitleNature and Culture: Objects,
Disciplines and the Manchester Museum.
Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2009. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN
978-0-7190-8114-9. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--622
Michael A. Finn Book Review: Geoffrey Burnstock, Richard
Frackowiak, Uta Frith, Richard Gregory,
Terry Jones, Sir Peter Mansfield,
Salvador Moncada, Alan North, Roger
Ordidge, Sir Michael Rutter, Ann Silver
and Elizabeth Warrington,
\booktitleToday's Neuroscience,
Tomorrow's History: A Video Archive
Project, Interviews by Richard Thomas.
London: UCL and Wellcome Trust, 2009. 12
DVDs. No price given . . . . . . . . . . 622--623
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--627
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--629
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--634
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b8
Johannes Fritsche The biological precedents for medieval
impetus theory and its Aristotelian
character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Stephen Pumfrey `Your astronomers and ours differ
exceedingly': the controversy over the
`new star' of 1572 in the light of a
newly discovered text by Thomas Digges 29--60
Kevin Lambert The uses of analogy: James Clerk
Maxwell's `\booktitleOn Faraday's lines
of force' and early Victorian analogical
argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--88
David Baneke Synthetic technocracy: Dutch scientific
intellectuals in science, society and
culture, 1880--1950 . . . . . . . . . . 89--113
Frank W. Stahnisch Professor Margaret J. Osler (27 November
1942--15 September 2010) . . . . . . . . 115--118
Todd Meyers Book Review: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger,
\booktitleOn Historicizing Epistemology:
An Essay. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 114. ISBN
978-0-8047-6289-2. \$18.95 (paperback)} 120--121
Charles Burnett Book Review: Ruth Glasner,
\booktitleAverroes' Physics: A Turning
Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Pp. x + 229. ISBN 978-0-19-956773-7.
\pounds 37.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 121--122
Richard T. W. Arthur Book Review: Niccol\`o Guicciardini,
\booktitleIsaac Newton on Mathematical
Certainty and Method. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii +
422. ISBN 978-0-262-01317-8. \$55.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Brenda J. Buchanan Book Review: Simon Werrett,
\booktitleFireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts
and Sciences in European History.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 359. ISBN
978-0-226-89377-8. \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Patricia Fara Book Review: P. M. Harman, \booktitleThe
Culture of Nature in Britain 1680--1860.
New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 393. ISBN
978-0-300-15197-8. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Florence Grant Book Review: Peter Heering, Oliver
Hochadel and David J. Rhees (eds.),
\booktitlePlaying with Fire: Histories
of the Lightning Rod. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 2009.
Pp. xi + 290. ISBN 978-1-60618-995-5.
\$35.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Simon Mills Book Review: J. M. I. Klaver,
\booktitleScientific Expeditions to the
Arab World 1761--1881. London: Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN
978-0-19-956889-5. \pounds 95.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: Michael R. Lynn,
\booktitleThe Sublime Invention:
Ballooning in Europe, 1783--1820.
London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp.
ix + 240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 130--131
Jacqueline Carroy Book Review: Jan Goldstein,
\booktitleHysteria Complicated by
Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 246.
ISBN 978-0-691-01186-8. \pounds 20.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Steve Sturdy Book Reviews: A. W. Bates, \booktitleThe
Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad
Science and Medical Regulation in
Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton:
Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. ix +
228. ISBN 978-1-84519-381-2. \pounds
39.95 (hardback). Lisa Rosner,
\booktitleThe Anatomy Murders: Being the
True and Spectacular History of
Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and
of the Man of Science who Abetted Them
in the Commission of Their Most Heinous
Crimes. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. vi + 328.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4191-4. \pounds 19.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: Amir Alexander,
\booktitleDuel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs,
and the Rise of Modern Mathematics.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN
978-0-674-04661-0. \pounds 21.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Andrew Lambert,
\booktitleFranklin: Tragic Hero of Polar
Navigation. London: Faber and Faber,
2009. Pp. xii + 428. ISBN
978-0-571-23160-7. \pounds 20.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Clara Cullen Book Review: Juliana Adelman,
\booktitleCommunities of Science in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland. London:
Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi +
221. ISBN 978-1-85196-653-0. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Basil Mahon,
\booktitleOliver Heaviside: Maverick
Mastermind of Electricity. London:
Institution of Engineering and
Technology Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 183.
ISBN 978-0-86341-965-2. \pounds 15.00/
\$30.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
James E. Strick Book Review: Christoph Gradmann,
\booktitleLaboratory Disease: Robert
Koch's Medical Bacteriology, translated
by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 318.
ISBN 978-0-8018-9313-1. \pounds 18.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Max Stadler Book Review: Heiner Fangerau,
\booktitleSpinning the Scientific Web:
Jacques Loeb (1859--1924) und sein
Programm einer internationalen
biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung.
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2010. Pp. 280.
ISBN 978-3-05-004528-3. EUR59.80
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Olivier Darrigol Book Review: Suman Seth,
\booktitleCrafting the Quantum: Arnold
Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory,
1890--1926. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 378. ISBN
978-0-262-01373-4. \pounds 23.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Andreas Sommer Book Review: Heather Wolffram,
\booktitleThe Stepchildren of Science.
Psychical Research and Parapsychology in
Germany, c. 1870--1939. Amsterdam and
New York: Ropodi, 2009. Pp. 342. ISBN
978-90-420-2728-2. \pounds 70.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Jeff Wolf Book Review: Charles G. Gross,
\booktitleA Hole in the Head: More Tales
in the History of Neuroscience.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2009. Pp. x + 356. ISBN
978-0-262-01338-3. \pounds 25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Michael Richards Book Review: Amparo Gómez Rodríguez and
Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano (eds.),
\booktitleCiencia y fascismo: La ciencia
española de posguerra. Barcelona:
Laertes, 2009. Pp. 358. ISBN
978-84-7584-657-6. EUR19.50 (paperback) 148--149
Mark Walker Book Review: Matthias Berg, Jens Thiel
and Peter Th. Walther (eds.),
\booktitleMit Feder und Schwert: Militär
und Wissenschaft-Wissenschaftler und
Krieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2009. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-3-515-09606-5.
EUR46.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Margit Szöllösi-Janze Book Review: Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse
and Mark Walker (eds.), \booktitleThe
Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National
Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 477.
ISBN 978-0-521-87906-4. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Richard Dunn Book Review: Peter J. T. Morris (ed.),
\booktitleScience for the Nation:
Perspectives on the History of the
Science Museum. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xxi + 350. ISBN
978-0-230-23009-5. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Christine Macleod Book Review: Adrian Johns,
\booktitlePiracy: The Intellectual
Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 626. ISBN
978-0-226-40118-8. \$35.00 (hardback)} 153--155
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3
M. Alper Yalcinkaya Science as an ally of religion: a Muslim
appropriation of `the conflict thesis' 161--181
Hanna Hodacs Linnaeans outdoors: the transformative
role of studying nature `on the move'
and outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--209
Falk Müller Johann Wilhelm Hittorf and the material
culture of Nineteenth-Century gas
discharge research . . . . . . . . . . . 211--244
Ilana Löwy `Sexual chemistry' before the Pill:
science, industry and chemical
contraceptives, 1920--1960 . . . . . . . 245--274
Peter J. Bowler Complexity in practice . . . . . . . . . 275--280
Liba Taub Book Review: David Creese, \booktitleThe
Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic
Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 409. ISBN
978-0-521-84324-9. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Alun Withey Book Review: Ole Peter Grell, Andrew
Cunningham and Jon Arrizabalaga (eds.),
\booktitleCentres of Medical Excellence?
Medical Travel and Education in Europe,
1500--1789. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp.
xvi + 335. ISBN 978-0-7546-6699-8.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 283--284
Stefan Halikowski Smith Book Review: Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De
Vos, Kristin Huffine and Kevin Sheehan
(eds.), \booktitleScience in the Spanish
and Portuguese Empires, 1500--1800.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
2009. Pp. xxiii + 427. ISBN
978-0-8047-5358-6. \$65.00 (hardback)} 285--286
Harold J. Cook Book Review: Florike Egmond,
\booktitleThe World of Carolus Clusius:
Natural History in the Making
1550--1610. London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiv + 292. ISBN
978-1-84893-008-7. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287
Steven A. Walton Book Review: Anthony Gerbino and Stephen
Johnston, with a contribution by Gordon
Higgott, \booktitleCompass and Rule:
Architecture as Mathematical Practice in
England, 1500--1750. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp.
207. ISBN 978-0-300-15093-3. \pounds
30.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Alexander Wragge-Morley Book Review: William Poole,
\booktitleThe World Makers: Scientists
of the Restoration and the Search for
the Origins of the Earth. Oxford: Peter
Lang, 2010. Pp. xviii + 234. ISBN
978-1-906165-08-6. \pounds 30.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Peter N. Miller Book Review: Nicholas Dew,
\booktitleOrientalism in Louis XIV's
France. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2009. Pp. xvi + 301. ISBN
978-0-19-923484-4. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Carin Berkowitz Book Review: Andrew Cunningham,
\booktitleThe Anatomist Anatomis'd: An
Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment
Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xxiv
+ 443. ISBN 978-0-7546-6338-6. \pounds
65.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293
Adelheid Voskuhl Book Review: Theresa Levitt,
\booktitleThe Shadow of Enlightenment:
Optical and Political Transparency in
France, 1789--1848. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp. 192. ISBN
978-0-19-954470-7. \pounds 39.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Reviews: Diarmid A. Finnegan,
\booktitleNatural History Societies and
Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland.
London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp.
xi + 254. ISBN 978-1-85196-658-5.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback). Simon Naylor,
\booktitleRegionalizing Science: Placing
Knowledges in Victorian England. London:
Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiv +
245. ISBN 978-1-85196-636-3. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
Roy MacLeod Book Review: Lawrence Dritsas,
\booktitleZambesi: David Livingstone and
Expeditionary Science in Africa. New
York: I. B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xii + 242.
ISBN 978-1-84511-705-4. \pounds 54.40
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Louise Miskell Book Review: Charles W. J. Withers,
\booktitleGeography and Science in
Britain 1831--1939: A Study of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 278.
ISBN 978-0-7190-7976-4. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Ian Hesketh, \booktitleOf
Apes and Ancestors: Evolution,
Christianity and the Oxford Debate.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2009. Pp. viii + 144. ISBN
978-0-8020-9284-7. CDN\$29.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Michael A. Finn Book Review: Laura Salisbury and Andrew
Shail (eds.), \booktitleNeurology and
Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous
Systems 1800--1950. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xiii +
298. ISBN 978-0-230-23313-3. \pounds
55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Robert Bud Book Review: Miriam R. Levin, Sophie
Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H.
Kargon and Maurice Low, \booktitleUrban
Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the
Second Industrial Revolution. Cambridge,
MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x +
272. ISBN 978-0-262-01398-7. \pounds
22.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Katie Proctor Book Review: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt,
\booktitleTeaching Children Science:
Hands-On Nature Study in North America
1890--1930. Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 363.
ISBN 978-0-226-44990-6 \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Timothy Boon Book Review: Peter J. Bowler,
\booktitleScience for All: The
Popularization of Science in Early
Twentieth-Century Britain. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2009. Pp. xi + 339. ISBN
978-0-226-06863-3. \pounds 31.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Nandini Bhattacharya Book Review: Neelam Kumar (ed.),
\booktitleWomen and Science in India: A
Reader. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2009. Pp. xxx + 351. ISBN
978-0-19-569705-6. \pounds 21.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Elisabeth Vaupel and Stefan
L. Wolff (eds.), \booktitleDas Deutsche
Museum in der Zeit des
Nationalsozialismus: Eine
Bestandsaufnahme. Göttingen: Wallstein,
2010. Pp. 710. ISBN 978-3-8353-0596-0.
EUR39.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Matthew Stanley Book Reviews: Kristian Camilleri,
\booktitleHeisenberg and the
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The
Physicist as Philosopher. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp.
xii + 199. ISBN 978-0-521-88484-6.
\pounds 45.00 (hardback). Cathryn
Carson, \booktitleHeisenberg in the
Atomic Age: Science and the Public
Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 541. ISBN
978-0-521-82170-4. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Melissa Smith Book Review: Richard Moore,
\booktitleNuclear Illusion, Nuclear
Reality: Britain, the United States and
Nuclear Weapons 1958--64. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xvi + 332.
ISBN 978-0-230-23067-5. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Ian James Kidd Book Review: Feyerabend Paul,
\booktitleAgainst Method. London and New
York: Verso, 2010. Pp. xxxii + 296. ISBN
1-84467-442-8. \pounds 10.24 (paperback) 311--312
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b4
Victor D. Boantza and
Ofer Gal The `absolute existence' of phlogiston:
the losing party's point of view . . . . 317--342
Chris Renwick From political economy to sociology:
Francis Galton and the social-scientific
origins of eugenics . . . . . . . . . . 343--369
Gildo Magalhães Santos A debate on magnetic current: the
troubled Einstein--Ehrenhaft
correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--400
Marga Vicedo The social nature of the mother's tie to
her child: John Bowlby's theory of
attachment in post-war America . . . . . 401--426
Arjan Van Rooij Knowledge, money and data: an integrated
account of the evolution of eight types
of laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--448
Diederick Raven What needs to be explained about modern
science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--454
Emilie Savage-Smith Book Review: Ahmad Dallal,
\booktitleIslam, Science, and the
Challenge of History. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp.
xii + 239. ISBN 978-0-300-15911-0.
\pounds 18.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 455--456
Amir Alexander Book Review: Benjamin Wardhaugh,
\booktitleHow to Read Historical
Mathematics. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp.
xii + 116. ISBN 978-0-691-14014-8.
\$22.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 456--458
Garry J. Tee Book Review: Paul Glennie and Nigel
Thrift, \booktitleShaping the Day: A
History of Timekeeping in England and
Wales 1300--1800. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 456.
ISBN 978-0-19-927820-6. \pounds 41.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Gwyndaf Garbutt Book Review: Andrew Cunningham and
Sachiko Kusukawa (eds.),
\booktitleNatural Philosophy Epitomised:
Books 8--11 of Gregor Reisch's
Philosophical Pearl (1503). Farnham:
Ashgate, 2010. Pp. lxxiv + 346. ISBN
978-0-7546-0612-3. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Stephen Johnston Book Review: Alexander Marr (ed.),
\booktitleThe Worlds of Oronce Fine:
Mathematics, Instruments and Print in
Renaissance France. Donington: Shaun
Tyas, 2009. Pp. xv + 224. ISBN
978-1-900289-96-2. \pounds 40.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Dario Tessicini Book Review: María Portuondo,
\booktitleSecret Science: Spanish
Cosmography and the New World. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2009. Pp. xiv + 335. ISBN
978-0-226-67534-3. \pounds 31.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Seth Suman Book Review: Alan Chalmers,
\booktitleThe Scientist's Atom and the
Philosopher's Stone: How Science
Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain
Knowledge of Atoms. Heidelberg, London
and New York: Springer, 2009. Pp. xii +
287. ISBN 978-90-481-2361-2. \pounds
90.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--465
Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth Book Review: Paul A. Elliott,
\booktitleEnlightenment, Modernity and
Science: Geographies of Scientific
Culture and Improvement in Georgian
England. London and New York: I. B.
Tauris, 2010. Pp. xii + 363. ISBN
978-1-84885-366-9. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
John Van Wyhe Book Reviews: Andrew Pattison,
\booktitleThe Darwins of Shrewsbury.
Stroud: The History Press, 2009. Pp.
127. ISBN 978-0-7524-4867-1. \pounds
14.99 (paperback). Mike Dixon and
Gregory Radick, \booktitleDarwin in
Ilkley. Stroud: The History Press, 2009.
Pp. 126. ISBN 978-0-7524-5283-8. \pounds
12.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
Caitlin Donahue Wylie Book Review: Paul D. Brinkman,
\booktitleThe Second Jurassic Dinosaur
Rush: Museums and Paleontology in
America at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 345.
ISBN 978-0-226-07472-6. \$49.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Christoph Mick Book Review: Helmuth Trischler and Mark
Walker (eds.), \booktitlePhysics and
Politics: Research Support in Twentieth
Century Germany in International
Perspective. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2010. Pp. 285. ISBN
978-3-515-09601-0. EUR44.00 (paperback) 470--472
Maria Björkman Book Review: Alison Bashford and
Philippa Levine (eds.), \booktitleThe
Oxford Handbook of the History of
Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010. Pp. xxi + 586. ISBN
978-0-19-537314-1. \pounds 85.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--478
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b7
Virginia Iommi Echeverría Hydrostatics on the fray: Tartaglia,
Cardano and the recovering of sunken
ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--491
John S. Croucher and
Rosalind F. Croucher Mrs Janet Taylor's `Mariner's
Calculator': assessment and reassessment 493--507
Pedro Ruiz-Castell Priority claims and public disputes in
astronomy: E. M. Antoniadi, J. Comas i
Sol\`a and the search for authority and
social prestige in the early twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--531
Henrik C. Aspengren Sociological knowledge and colonial
power in Bombay around the First World
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--548
Daniele Cozzoli and
Mauro Capocci Making biomedicine in Twentieth-Century
Italy: Domenico Marotta (1886--1974) and
the Italian Higher Institute of Health 549--574
Ian James Kidd Book Review: Paul Feyerabend, The
Tyranny of Science, ed. Eric Oberheim.
London: Polity, 2011. Pp. xii + 153.
ISBN 978-0-7456-5190-3. \pounds 12.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--577
Nick Tosh Book Review: Steve Fuller, Science.
Durham: Acumen, 2010. Pp. vi + 170. ISBN
978-1-84465-204-4. \pounds 9.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--578
Jacob Stegenga Book Review: Henk W. de Regt, Sabina
Leonelli and Kai Eigner (eds.),
Scientific Understanding: Philosophical
Perspectives. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 352.
ISBN 978-0-8229-4378-6. \$65.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--580
Michael H. Shank Book Review: Catherine Eagleton,
\booktitleMonks, Manuscripts and
Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval
England. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xi +
292. ISBN 978-90-04-27665-2. EUR99.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--581
Alun Withey Book Review: Daniel Schäfer, Old Age and
Disease in Early Modern Medicine.
London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp.
viii + 287. ISBN 978-1-84893-020-9.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 581--582
Charlotte Methuen Book Review: Kathleen M. Crowther, Adam
and Eve in the Protestant Reformation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010. Pp. xii + 293. ISBN
978-0-52119-236-1. \pounds 50.00 /
\$85.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 582--584
Alison Williams Book Review: Kirk D. Read, Birthing
Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories
of Gender and Reproduction. Farnham:
Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiii + 205. ISBN
978-0-7546-6632-5. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--585
Avner Ben-Zaken Book Review: Toby E. Huff, Intellectual
Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution:
A Global Perspective. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp.
xiii + 354. ISBN 978-0-521-17052-9.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 585--587
Steven Vanden Broecke Book Review: André Goddu, Copernicus and
the Aristotelian Tradition: Education,
Reading and Philosophy in Copernicus's
Path to Heliocentrism. Leiden: Brill,
2010. Pp. xxvii + 545. ISBN
978-90-04-18107-6. EUR129.00 (hardback) 587--588
Renée J. Raphael Book Review: Matteo Valleriani, Galileo
Engineer. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Pp.
xv + 320. ISBN 978-90-481-8644-0.
\pounds 90.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 589--590
Matteo Valleriani Book Review: J. L. Heilbron, Galileo.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Pp. xiv + 508. ISBN 978-0-19-958352-2.
\pounds 20.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 590--591
Nick Wilding Book Review: Marco Beretta, Antonio
Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe
(eds.), The Accademia del Cimento and
Its European Context. Sagamore Beach:
Science History Publications, 2009. Pp.
xiii + 257. ISBN 978-0-88135-387-7.
\$49.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 592--593
James A. T. Lancaster Book Review: Stephen Gaukroger, The
Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of
Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of
Modernity, 1680--1760. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 505.
ISBN 978-0-19-959493-1. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--595
Alexi Baker Book Review: Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth,
Selling Science in the Age of Newton:
Advertising and the Commoditization of
Knowledge. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp.
xiii + 203. ISBN 978-1-4094-0075-2.
\pounds 65.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 595--597
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: Kurt Mòller Pedersen and
Peter de Clercq (eds.), An Observer of
Observatories: The Journal of Thomas
Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and
England in 1777. Aarhus: Aarhus
Universitetsforlag, 2010. Pp. xxiv +
220. ISBN 978-87-7934-311-5. \pounds
25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--598
Simon Mills Book Review: Maurits H. van den Boogert,
Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria through
the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors,
Alexander and Patrick Russell. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 254.
ISBN 978-0-19-958856-5. \pounds 120.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--600
Emily Winterburn Book Review: Michael Hoskin, Discoverers
of the Universe: William and Caroline
Herschel. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp.
xvi + 237. \pounds 20.95 (hardback) . . 600--601
Thomas P. Weber Book Review: Janina Wellmann, Die Form
des Werdens. Eine Kulturgeschichte der
Embryologie, 1760--1830. Göttingen:
Wallstein, 2010. Pp. 429. ISBN
978-3-8353-0594-6. EUR39.00 (paperback) 601--603
Keir Waddington Book Review: Samuel J. M. M. Alberti,
\booktitleMorbid Curiosities: Medical
Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pp. xv + 238. ISBN 978-0-19-958458-1.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 603--604
Larrie D. Ferreiro Book Review: John Laurence Busch, Steam
Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the
Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier.
New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia LLC,
2010. Pp. xii + 726. ISBN
978-1-893616-00-4. \$35.00 (hardback)} 605--606
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Sally Shuttleworth, The
Mind of the Child: Child Development in
Literature, Science and Medicine
1840--1900. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 497. ISBN
978-0-19-958256-3. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--607
Roger Smith Book Review: Joel S. Schwartz, Darwin's
Disciple: George John Romanes, a Life in
Letters. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 2010. Pp. xxiv +
806. ISBN 978-1-60618-920-7. \$60.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
David Philip Miller Book Review: Bruce J. Hunt, Pursuing
Power and Light: Technology and Physics
from James Watt to Albert Einstein.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2010. Pp. x + 182. ISBN
978-0-8018-9359-9. \pounds 10.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
W. H. Brock Book Review: Roy MacLeod, Archibald
Liversidge, FRS: Imperial Science under
the Southern Cross. Sydney: The Royal
Society of New South Wales and Sydney
University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 637,
illustrated. ISBN 978-1-920898-80-9.
AU\$59.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Sander Gliboff Book Review: Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld,
Olaf Breidbach and Miklós Müller (eds.),
Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia,
1900--1930. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2010. Pp. 276. ISBN
978-3-515-09602-7. EUR48.00 (paperback) 611--612
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Helmut Rechenberg, Werner
Heisenberg --- Die Sprache der Atome.
Leben und Wirken --- Eine
wissenschaftliche Biographie. Die
`Fröhliche Wissenschaft' (Jugend bis
Nobelpreis). 2 vols. Heidelberg:
Springer, 2010. Pp. xxi + 603. ISBN
978-3-540-69221-8. \pounds 168.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--614
Steven J. Main Book Review: Paul R. Josephson,
\booktitleLenin's Laureate: Zhores
Alferov's Life in Communist Science.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2010. Pp. ii + 307. ISBN
978-0-262-01458-8. \pounds 22.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--615
James F. Stark Book Review: Susan D. Jones, Death in a
Small Package: A Short History of
Anthrax. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 329.
ISBN 978-0-8018-9696-5. \$24.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--617
Michael Ruse Book Review: Evelyn Fox Keller, The
Mirage of a Space between Nature and
Nurture. Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 2010. Pp. viii + 107.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6. \pounds 12.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--618
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--621
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--623
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--628
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b4
Stephen Dilley Charles Darwin's use of theology in the
Origin of Species . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Steindór J. Erlingsson Institutions and innovation:
experimental zoology and the creation of
the British Journal of Experimental
Biology and the Society for Experimental
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Graham Spinardi The limits to `spin-off': UK defence R&D
and the development of gallium arsenide
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ciaran Toal Preaching at the British Association for
the Advancement of Science: sermons,
secularization and the rhetoric of
conflict in the 1870s . . . . . . . . . ??
Carolyn Merchant Francis Bacon and the `vexations of
art': experimentation as intervention 1--49
Steven Shapin The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure
of speech and its cultural uses . . . . 1--27
Stephen Dilley Charles Darwin's use of theology in the
\booktitleOrigin of Species . . . . . . 29--56
Matthew Stanley By design: James Clerk Maxwell and the
evangelical unification of science . . . 57--73
Ciaran Toal Preaching at the British Association for
the Advancement of Science: sermons,
secularization and the rhetoric of
conflict in the 1870s . . . . . . . . . 75--95
Graham Spinardi The limits to `spin-off': UK defence R&D
and the development of gallium arsenide
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Daryn Lehoux Book Review: Aaron Poochigian (trans.),
\booktitleAratus: Phaenomena. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Pp. xxxiv + 72. ISBN 978-0-8018-9466-4.
\$50.00 (hardback), \$25.00 (paperback) 123--125
Debby Banham Book Review: Calvin B. Kendall and Faith
Wallis (trans.), \booktitleBede: On the
Nature of Things and On Times.
Translated Texts for Historians 56.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2010. Pp. xiv + 222. ISBN
978-1-8463-1496-4. \pounds 16.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Renée Raphael Book Review: Alexander Marr,
\booktitleBetween Raphael and Galileo:
Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture
of Late Renaissance Italy. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2011. Pp. xvii + 359. ISBN
978-0-226-50628-9. \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Christopher M. Parsons Book Review: Daniela Bleichmar and Peter
C. Mancall (eds.), \booktitleCollecting
across Cultures: Material Exchanges in
the Early Modern Atlantic World.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 361. ISBN
978-0-8122-4305-5. \pounds 32.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
James A. T. Lancaster Book Review: Peter R. Anstey,
\booktitleJohn Locke and Natural
Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 252. ISBN
978-0-19-958977-7. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Stephanie Eichberg Book Review: Justin E. H. Smith,
\booktitleDivine Machines: Leibniz and
the Sciences of Life. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2011. Pp. xii + 380. ISBN
978-0-691-1478-7. \pounds 30.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Anna Maerker Book Review: Rebecca Messbarger,
\booktitleThe Lady Anatomist: The Life
and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 234. ISBN
978-0-226-52081-0. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Norberto Serpente Book Review: John Bender and Michael
Marrinan, \booktitleThe Culture of
Diagram. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2010. Pp. xx + 264. ISBN
978-0-8047-4504-8. \$60.00 (hardback)} 133--135
Matthew R. Goodrum Book Review: B. Ricardo Brown,
\booktitleUntil Darwin: Science, Human
Variety and the Origin of Race. London:
Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix + 199.
ISBN 978-1-84893-100-8. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Casper Andersen Book Review: David N. Livingstone and
Charles W. J. Withers (eds.),
\booktitleGeographies of
Nineteenth-Century Science. London and
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2011. Pp. x + 526. ISBN
978-0-226-48726-7. \pounds 35.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Nathalie Richard Book Review: Ian Hesketh, \booktitleThe
Science of History in Victorian Britain:
Making the Past Speak. London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2011. Pp. xii + 229. ISBN
978-1-84893-126-8. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Roger Smith Book Review: Alfred I. Tauber,
\booktitleFreud, the Reluctant
Philosopher. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xx
+ 318. ISBN 978-0-691-14552-5. \$24.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Julie Anderson Book Review: Vanessa Heggie, \booktitleA
History of British Sports Medicine.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 222.
ISBN 978-0-7190-8261-0. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Donald Gillies Book Review: Erling Norrby,
\booktitleNobel Prizes and Life
Sciences. London and Singapore: World
Scientific Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 317.
ISBN 978-981-4299-37-4. \pounds 25.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Nathan Ensmenger Book Review: Mark Priestley, \booktitleA
Science of Operations: Machines, Logic,
and the Invention of Programming.
London, Heidelberg and New York:
Springer, 2011. Pp. ix + 341. ISBN
978-1-84882-554-3. \pounds 90.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Amanda Mordavsky Caleb Book Review: Charlotte Sleigh,
\booktitleLiterature and Science.
Outlining Literature Series. Basingstoke
and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Pp. 232. ISBN 978-0-230-21817-8. \pounds
16.99/\$27.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . 145--146
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon Book Review: David A. Kirby,
\booktitleLab Coats in Hollywood:
Science, Scientists, and Cinema.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2011. Pp. xiv + 265. ISBN
978-0-262-01478-6. \pounds 20.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--148
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3
Koen Vermeir and
Dániel Margócsy States of secrecy: an introduction . . . 153--164
Koen Vermeir Openness versus secrecy? Historical and
historiographical remarks . . . . . . . 165--188
Vera Keller Mining Tacitus: secrets of empire,
nature and art in the reason of state 189--212
Mario Biagioli From ciphers to confidentiality:
secrecy, openness and priority in
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
Peter Galison Blacked-out spaces: Freud, censorship
and the re-territorialization of mind 235--266
Stephen Hilgartner Selective flows of knowledge in
technoscientific interaction:
information control in genome research 267--280
David Beck Book Review: Peter Harrison, Ronald L.
Numbers and Michael H. Shank (eds.),
\booktitleWrestling with Nature: From
Omens to Science. Chicago and London:
Chicago University Press, 2011. Pp. x +
416. ISBN 978-0-226-31783-0. \pounds
22.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Jörgen L. Pind Book Review: Fernando Vidal,
\booktitleThe Sciences of the Soul: The
Early Modern Origins of Psychology.
Chicago and London: Chicago University
Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 413. ISBN
978-0-226-85586-8. \pounds 35.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
David M. Turner Book Review: C. F. Goodey, \booktitleA
History of Intelligence and
`Intellectual Disability': The Shaping
of Psychology in Early Modern Europe.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. x + 381.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2021-7. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Robert Goulding,
\booktitleDefending Hypatia: Ramus,
Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery
of Mathematical History. Heidelberg,
London and New York: Springer, 2010. Pp.
xx + 201. ISBN 978-90-481-3541-7.
\pounds 90.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 286--288
N. Kaoukji Book Review: Volker Remmert,
\booktitlePicturing the Scientific
Revolution. Philadelphia: St Joseph's
University Press, 2011. Pp. 295. ISBN
978-0-916101-67-1. \$65.00 (hardback)} 288--290
Stephanie Eichberg Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
\booktitleMechanism, Experiment,
Disease: Marcello Malpighi and
Seventeenth-Century Anatomy. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Pp. xii + 439. ISBN 978-0-8018-9904-1.
\pounds 23.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 290--291
Anna Marie Roos Book Review: P. H. Oswald and C. D.
Preston (eds.), \booktitleJohn Ray's
Cambridge Catalogue (1660). London: The
Ray Society, 2011. Pp. ix + 612. ISBN
978-0903874-43-4. \pounds 75.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293
Palmira Fontes Da Costa Book Review: Anna Marie Roos,
\booktitleWeb of Nature: Martin Lister
(1639--1712), the First Arachnologist.
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xx +
478. ISBN 978-90-04-20703-5. EUR129.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Rachel L. Dunn Book Reviews: Joanna Stalnaker,
\booktitleThe Unfinished Enlightenment:
Description in the Age of the
Encyclopedia. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 240.
ISBN 978-0-8014-4864-5. \pounds 27.95
(hardback). Jeff Loveland, \booktitleAn
Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de
Coetlogon's Universal History (1745).
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010. Pp.
xiii + 256. ISBN 978-0-7294-0992-6.
\pounds 60.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 294--296
Jane Murphy Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane
Greco Josefowicz, \booktitleThe Zodiac
of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy
over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact
Provoked a Modern Debate between
Religion and Science. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2010. Pp. vii + 428. ISBN
978-0-691-14576-1. \pounds 25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--298
Ben Marsden Book Review: David Philip Miller,
\booktitleJames Watt, Chemist:
Understanding the Origins of the Steam
Age. Science and Culture in the
Nineteenth Century. London: Pickering &
Chatto, 2009. Pp. viii + 241. ISBN
978-1-85196-974-6. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Julia Elton Book Review: A. D. Morrison-Low,
\booktitleNorthern Lights: The Age of
Scottish Lighthouses. Edinburgh:
National Museums Scotland in conjunction
with The Royal Scottish Society of Arts,
2010. Pp. xxvi + 262. ISBN
978-1-905267-47-7. \pounds 17.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
S. Karly Kehoe Book Review: Emily Steel, \booktitleHe
Is No Loss: Robert McCormick and the
Voyage of HMS Beagle. BSHS Monograph 14.
Norwich: British Society for the History
of Science, 2011. Pp. x + 63. ISBN
978-0-906450-18-5. \pounds 10.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Melanie Keene Book Review: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
(ed.), \booktitleScience in the Nursery:
The Popularisation of Science in Britain
and France, 1761--1901. Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pp.
xii + 309. ISBN 978-1-4438-2680-8.
\pounds 44.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 302--303
Sander Gliboff Book Reviews: Michal Simunek, Uwe
Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler and Olaf
Breidbach (eds.), \booktitleThe
Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of
Armin with Erich von
Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898--1951. Studies
in the History of Sciences and
Humanities 27. Prague: Institute of
Contemporary History of the Academy of
Sciences, Prague, and Department of
Genetics/`Mendelianum' of the Moravian
Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp. 259. ISBN
978-80-87378-67-0. Price unknown
(paperback). Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld,
Florian Thümmler, and Jirí Sekerák (eds.),
\booktitleThe Letters on G. J. Mendel:
Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo
Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg
with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler,
1902--1935. Studies in the History of
Sciences and Humanities 28. Prague:
Institute of Contemporary History of the
Academy of Sciences, Prague, and
Department of Genetics/`Mendelianum' of
the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp.
131. ISBN 978-80-87378-73-1. Price
unknown (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 303--305
Steven J. Main Book Review: Anthony Heywood,
\booktitleEngineer of Revolutionary
Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876--1952)
and the Railways. Farnham: Ashgate,
2011. Pp. xxvi + 400. ISBN
978-0-7546-553908. \pounds 75.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Jacob V. Pearce Book Review: Robert H. Sanders,
\booktitleThe Dark Matter Problem: A
Historical Perspective. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp.
viii + 205. ISBN 978-0-521-11301-4.
\pounds 35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 306--307
Timothy Boon Book Review: Louis Niebur,
\booktitleSpecial Sound: The Creation
and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. New York and London: Oxford
University Press, 2010. Pp. 259. ISBN
978-0-19-536841-3. \pounds 17.99
(paperback); 978-0-19-536840-6. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--309
Alison E. Martin Book Review: Donna Spalding Andréolle and
Véronique Molinari (eds.),
\booktitleWomen and Science, 17th
Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists
and Protagonists. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars, 2011. Pp. xxv + 272.
ISBN 978-1-4438-2918-2. \pounds 44.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Richard Dunn Book Review: Peter Heering and Roland
Wittje (eds.), \booktitleLearning by
Doing: Experiments and Instruments in
the History of Science Teaching.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011.
Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7.
EUR49.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 310--312
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi
and Martha Woodmansee (eds.),
\booktitleMaking and Unmaking
Intellectual Property: Creative
Production in Legal and Cultural
Perspective. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp.
vii + 466. ISBN 978-0-226-90709-3.
\pounds 26.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front
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Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back
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Leslie Tomory Fostering a new industry in the
Industrial Revolution: Boulton & Watt and
gaslight 1800--1812 . . . . . . . . . . 199--229
Simone Turchetti and
Néstor Herran and
Soraya Boudia Introduction: have we ever been
`transnational'? Towards a history of
science across and beyond borders . . . 319--336
John Krige Hybrid knowledge: the transnational
co-production of the gas centrifuge for
uranium enrichment in the 1960s . . . . 337--357
Mark Walker The `national' in international and
transnational science . . . . . . . . . 359--376
Lewis Pyenson Athena's retinue: Nineteenth-Century
scientists embedded in the army . . . . 377--400
Christopher Sellers and
Joseph Melling Towards a transnational
industrial-hazard history: charting the
circulation of workplace dangers,
debates and expertise . . . . . . . . . 401--424
Dominique Pestre Debates in transnational and science
studies: a defence and illustration of
the virtues of intellectual tolerance 425--442
Rohan Deb Roy Science, medicine and new imperial
histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--450
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon Book Review: Michael H. Graham, Joan
Parker and Paul K. Dayton (eds.),
\booktitleThe Essential Naturalist:
Timeless Readings in Natural History.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 534.
ISBN 978-0226-30570-7. \$39.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--453
T. E. Rihll Book Review: Daryn Lehoux,
\booktitleWhat Did the Romans Know? An
Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 275. ISBN
978-0-226-47114-3. \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Neil Tarrant Book Review: Elaine Leong and Alisha
Rankin (eds.), \booktitleSecrets and
Knowledge in Medicine and Science
1500--1800. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp.
ix + 247. ISBN 978-0-7546-6854-1.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 454--455
Anke Timmermann Book Review: Peter J. Grund,
\booktitle`Misticall Wordes and Names
Infinite': An Edition and Study of
Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2011. Pp. xii +
350. ISBN 978-0-86698-415-7. \$72.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--457
Richard Oosterhoff Book Review: Patrick J. Boner (ed.),
\booktitleChange and Continuity in Early
Modern Cosmology. Heidelberg, London and
New York: Springer, 2011. Pp. xii + 181.
ISBN 978-94-007-0036-9. \pounds 90.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--459
Florike Egmond Book Review: Lissa Roberts (ed.),
\booktitleCentres and Cycles of
Accumulation in and around the
Netherlands during the Early Modern
Period. Zurich and Berlin: LIT Verlag,
2011. Pp. ii + 290. ISBN
978-3-643-90095-1. EUR34.95 (paperback) 459--460
Anna Marie Roos Book Review: John C. Powers,
\booktitleInventing Chemistry: Herman
Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical
Arts. Chicago and London: The University
of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 260.
ISBN 978-0-226-67760-6. \pounds 26.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Maria Semi, \booktitleMusic
as a Science of Mankind in
Eighteenth-Century Britain. Farnham:
Ashgate, 2012. Pp. x + 185. ISBN
978-1-4094-2868-8. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
James F. Stark Book Review: Michael Brown,
\booktitlePerforming Medicine: Medical
Culture and Identity in Provincial
England, c. 1760--1850. Manchester:
University of Manchester Press, 2011.
Pp. ix + 254. ISBN 978-0-7190-7797-5.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 463--464
Victor D. Boantza Book Review: John G. McEvoy, The
Historiography of the Chemical
Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation
in the History of Science. London:
Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiii + 328.
ISBN 978-1-84893-030-8. \pounds
60.00/\$99.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 464--465
David Philip Miller Book Review: Leslie Tomory, Progressive
Enlightenment: The Origins of the
Gaslight Industry, 1780--1820.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2012. Pp. xii + 348. ISBN
978-0-262-01675-9. \pounds 19.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Karin Reich and Elena
Roussanova (eds.), \booktitleCarl
Friedrich Gauss und Russland: Sein
Briefwechsel mit in Russland wirkenden
Wissenschaftlern. Berlin and Boston: De
Gruyter, 2012. Pp. xxiii + 905. ISBN
978-3-11-025306-1. EUR149.95 (hardback) 467--468
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Harriet Ritvo,
\booktitleNoble Cows and Hybrid Zebras:
Essays on Animals and History.
Charlottesville and London: University
of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. x + 239.
ISBN 978-0-8139-3060-2. \$39.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Geoffrey Belknap Book Review: Christopher Pinney,
Photography and Anthropology. London:
Reaktion Books, 2011. Pp. 174. ISBN
978-1-86189-804-3. \pounds 17.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Viviane Quirke Book Review: Christoph Gradmann and
Jonathan Simon (eds.), Evaluating and
Standardizing Therapeutic Agents
1890--1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN
978-0-230-20281-8. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
Peter J. Westwick Book Review: David C. Cassidy, A Short
History of Physics in the American
Century. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. 211.
ISBN 978-0-674-04936-9. \pounds 22.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Martin Underwood Book Review: Andrew Brown, Keeper of the
Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of
Joseph Rotblat. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 347.
ISBN 978-0-19-958658-5. \pounds 18.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Dmitriy Myelnikov Book Review: Duncan Wilson, Tissue
Culture in Science and Society: The
Public Life of a Biological Technique in
Twentieth Century Britain. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. x + 182.
ISBN 978-0-230-28427-2. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2
Jonathan Hogg and
Christoph Laucht Introduction: British nuclear culture 479--493
Jeff Hughes What is British nuclear culture?
Understanding Uranium 235 . . . . . . . 495--518
Richard Maguire `Never a credible weapon': nuclear
cultures in British government during
the era of the H-bomb . . . . . . . . . 519--533
Jonathan Hogg `The family that feared tomorrow':
British nuclear culture and individual
experience in the late 1950s . . . . . . 535--549
Paige Johnson Safeguarding the atom: the nuclear
enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth . . . . . . 551--571
Ralph Desmarais Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual
for an atomic age, 1946--1956 . . . . . 573--589
Christoph Laucht Atoms for the people: the Atomic
Scientists' Association, the British
state and nuclear education in the Atom
Train exhibition, 1947--1948 . . . . . . 591--608
Adrian Bingham `The monster'? The British popular press
and nuclear culture, 1945--early 1960s 609--624
Jodi Burkett The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and
changing attitudes towards the Earth in
the nuclear age . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--639
David Seed Seven Days to Noon: containing the
atomic threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--652
Daniel Cordle Protect/Protest: British nuclear fiction
of the 1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--669
John V. Pickstone Observations on observations . . . . . . 671--675
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Book Reviews: Oliver Darrigol,
\booktitleA History of Optics: From
Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth
Century. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 327. ISBN
978-0-19-964437-7. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--679
Serafina Cuomo Book Review: Reviel Netz, William Noel,
Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson
(eds.), \booktitleThe Archimedes
Palimpsest. 2 volume set. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press for the
Walters Art Museum, 2011. Pp. viii +
342; x + 344. ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2.
\pounds 150/\$215.00 (hardback)} . . . . 679--681
Claire Fanger Book Reviews: Stuart McWilliams,
\booktitleMagical Thinking: History,
Possibility and the Idea of the Occult.
London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. x + 187.
ISBN 978-1-4411-1697-0. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--682
Anna Marie Roos Book Review: Hiro Hirai,
\booktitleMedical Humanism and Natural
Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on
Matter, Life, and the Soul. Leiden:
Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN
978-90-04-21871-0. EUR99.00 (hardback) 682--683
Daniel Stolzenberg Book Review: John Edward Fletcher,
\booktitleA Study of the Life and Works
of Athanasius Kircher, `Germanus
Incredibilis'. With a Selection of His
Unpublished Correspondence and an
Annotated Translation of His
Autobiography. Leiden and Boston: Brill,
2011. Pp. xxxiv + 607. ISBN
978-90-04-20712-7. EUR184.00 (hardback) 683--685
Patricia Fara Book Reviews: Ferreiro,
\booktitleMeasure of the Earth: The
Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped
the World. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
Pp. xix + 353. ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2.
\$28.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 685--686
Alison E. Martin Book Reviews: Kutzinski and Ette (eds.),
\booktitleAlexander von Humboldt.
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A
Critical Edition. Chicago and London:
The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Pp. xxvi + 519. ISBN 978-0-226-46568-5.
\pounds 45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 686--687
Gowan Dawson Book Reviews: Fyfe,
\booktitleSteam-Powered Knowledge:
William Chambers and the Business of
Publishing, 1820--1860. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2012. Pp. xvi + 313. ISBN
978-0-226-27651-9. \pounds 32.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--688
Robert G. W. Anderson Book Reviews: Colin A. Russell and John
A. Hudson, \booktitleEarly Railway
Chemistry and Its Legacy. Cambridge:
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012. Pp.
xiii + 193. ISBN 978-1-84973-326-7.
\pounds 29.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 688--690
Efram Sera-Shriar Book Reviews: Sadiah Qureshi,
\booktitlePeoples on Parade:
Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in
Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2011. Pp. vii + 382 ISBN
978-0-226-70096-0. \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--691
William Carruthers Book Reviews: Jeffrey Abt,
\booktitleAmerican Egyptologist: The
Life of James Henry Breasted and the
Creation of His Oriental Institute.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 510. ISBN
978-0-226-00110-4. \pounds 29.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--692
Joshua Nall Book Reviews: K. Maria D. Lane,
\booktitleGeographies of Mars: Seeing
and Knowing the Red Planet. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2011. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN
978-0-226-47078-8. \$45.00 (hardback)} 692--694
Neeraja Sankaran Book Reviews: Phillip R. Sloan and
Brandon Fogel (eds.), \booktitleCreating
a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper
and Early Molecular Biology. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2011. Pp. ix + 319. ISBN
978-0-226-76783-3. \pounds 22.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--695
Dominic Berry Book Reviews: Margaret E. Derry,
\booktitleArt and Science in Breeding:
Creating Better Chickens. Toronto,
Buffalo and London: University of
Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 281.
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Jane Maienschein Book Reviews: Angus McLaren,
\booktitleReproduction by Design: Sex,
Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 235.
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Sebastian Normandin Book Reviews: Brian Regal,
\booktitleSearching for Sasquatch:
Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 699--700
Frank A. J. L. James Book Reviews: Michael Bentley,
\booktitleThe Life and Thought of
Herbert Butterfield: History, Science
and God. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 381. ISBN
978-1-107-00397-2. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--701
Howard Chiang Book Reviews: Thomas S. Mullaney,
\booktitleComing to Terms with the
Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern
China. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University of California Press, 2010.
Pp. xiv + 232. ISBN 978-0-520-26278-2.
\pounds 41.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 702--703
Mark Priestley Book Reviews: Michael Sean Mahoney,
\booktitleHistories of Computing.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 250.
ISBN 978-0-674-05568-1. \pounds 36.95
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Nancy Anderson Book Reviews: Eden Medina,
\booktitleCybernetic Revolutionaries:
Technology and Politics in Allende's
Chile. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 326. ISBN
978-0-262-01649-0. \pounds 22.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--706
Duncan Wilson Book Reviews: Sally Smith Hughes,
\booktitleGenentech: The Beginnings of
Biotech. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp.
xv + 215. ISBN 978-0-226-35918-2.
\$25.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 706--707
Max K. Wallis Book Reviews: Brian Wynne,
\booktitleRationality and Ritual:
Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear
Decision-Making. London and Washington,
DC: Earthscan, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 228.
ISBN 978-1-84971-161-6. \pounds 24.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--709
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--713
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--715
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--719
Anonymous BJH volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Front
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Don Leggett Replication, re-placing and naval
science in comparative context, c.
1868--1904 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Marcia H. M. Ferraz Gur, Ghur, Guhr or Bur? The quest for a
metalliferous prime matter in early
modern times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--37
Jesús Catalá-Gorgues and
Ana Carneiro Like birds of a feather: the cultural
origins of Iberian geological
cooperation and the European Geological
Map of 1896 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--70
Jesús Catalá-Gorgues and
Ana Carneiro Corrigendum: \booktitleLike birds of a
feather: the cultural origins of Iberian
geological cooperation and the European
Geological Map of 1896 . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Steindór J. Erlingsson Institutions and innovation:
experimental zoology and the creation of
the British Journal of Experimental
Biology and the Society for Experimental
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--95
Mary E. Sunderland Teaching natural history at the Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology . . . . . . . . . 97--121
Vanessa Heggie Experimental physiology, Everest and
oxygen: from the ghastly kitchens to the
gasping lung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--147
Stephen Dilley Charles Darwin's use of theology in the
\booktitleOrigin of Species --- Erratum 149--149
Steven Vanden Broecke The Copernican Question:
Prognostication, Skepticism, and
Celestial Order . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159
Penelope Gouk Book Reviews: C. U. M. Smith, Eugenio
Frixione, Stanley Finger and William
Clower, \booktitleThe Animal Spirit
Doctrine and the Origins of
Neurophysiology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 277.
ISBN 978-0-19-976649-9. \pounds 75.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Margaret Small Book Review: Zur Shalev,
\booktitleSacred Words and Worlds:
Geography, Religion and Scholarship,
1550--1700. Leiden and Boston: Brill,
2012. Pp. xxi + 319. 978-90-04-20935-0.
EUR99.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Rebekah Higgitt Book Reviews: Jeremiah Horrocks and
Wilbur Applebaum (trans.),
\booktitleVenus Seen on the Sun: The
First Observation of a Transit of Venus
by Jeremiah Horrocks. Leiden: Brill,
2012. Pp. xxiv + 82. ISBN
978-90-04-22193-2. EUR99.00 (hardback) 164--165
Patricia Fara Book Reviews: Gregory Lynall,
\booktitleSwift and Science: The Satire,
Politics and Theology of Natural
Knowledge, 1690--1730. London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012. Pp. ix + 209. ISBN
978-0-230-34364-1. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Chris Manias Book Reviews: Claudine Cohen,
\booktitleLa méthode du Zadig: La trace,
le fossile, la preuve. Paris: Editions
de Seuil, 2011. Pp. 342. ISBN
978-2-02-040298-9. EUR23.00 (paperback) 166--168
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Reviews: Frank A. J. L. James,
\booktitleMichael Faraday: A Very Short
Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 162. ISBN
978-0-19-957431-5. \pounds7.99
(paperback). Frank A. J. L. James (ed.),
\booktitleMichael Faraday. The Chemical
History of a Candle. Oxford: Oxford
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152. ISBN 978-0-19-969491-4. \pounds
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Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Frank Uekötter,
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978-3-525-31705-1. EUR49.95 (hardback) 170--172
Martin Underwood Book Reviews: Ray Monk, \booktitleInside
the Centre: The Life of J. Robert
Oppenheimer. London: Jonathan Cape.
2012. Pp. xiv + 818. ISBN
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Gideon Manning Descartes and the Bologna affair . . . . 1--13
Elise S. Lipkowitz Seized natural-history collections and
the redefinition of scientific
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Kathleen S. Murphy To make Florida answer to its name: John
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Donald L. Opitz `The sceptre of her pow'r': nymphs,
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Victorian science . . . . . . . . . . . 67--94
Menachem Fisch Babbage's two lives . . . . . . . . . . 95--118
Richard Noakes Industrial research at the Eastern
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Alan R. Rushton William Bateson and the chromosome
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R. Allen Shotwell Book Review: Manfred Horstmanshoff,
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Tayra M. C. Lanuza-Navarro Book Review: Monica Azzolini,
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Fred Gibbs Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi,
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Jakob Bek-Thomsen Book Review: Germano Maifreda,
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Alexi Baker Book Review: Alison D. Morrison-Low,
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978-90-04-21150-6. EUR99.00 (hardback) 181--182
Rina Knoeff Book Review: Catherine Packham,
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Darren N. Wagner Book Review: Piers Mitchell (ed.),
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Alison E. Martin Book Review: Vera M. Kutzinski, Ottmar
Ette and Laura Dassow Walls (eds.),
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EUR19.80 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Courtney Salvey Book Review: Roger S. Wotton,
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2012. Pp. viii + 214. ISBN
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Jean-Baptiste Gouyon Book Review: Kristian H. Nielsen,
Michael Harbsmeier and Christopher J.
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Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012.
Pp. 476. ISBN 978-87-7124-014-6. \pounds
50.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Tim Boon Book Review: Marcel Chotkowski
LaFollette, \booktitleScience on
American Television: A History. Chicago
and London: The University of Chicago
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Norberto Serpente Book Review: Nathaniel Comfort,
\booktitleThe Science of Human
Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart
of American Medicine. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp.
xvii + 316. ISBN 978-0-300-16991-1.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 191--192
Alexander Hall Book Review: Spencer R. Weart,
\booktitleThe Rise of Nuclear Fear.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 367.
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Andrew Gregory William Harvey, Aristotle and astrology 199--215
Kostas Tampakis Onwards facing backwards: the rhetoric
of science in nineteenth-century Greece 217--237
Michael J. Barany Savage numbers and the evolution of
civilization in Victorian prehistory . . 239--255
Melinda Baldwin `Keeping in the race': physics,
publication speed and national
publishing strategies in
\booktitleNature, 1895--1939 . . . . . . 257--279
Erik Peterson The conquest of vitalism or the eclipse
of organicism? The 1930s Cambridge
organizer project and the social network
of mid-twentieth-century biology . . . . 281--304
Michael Bresalier and
Michael Worboys `Saving the lives of our dogs': the
development of canine distemper vaccine
in interwar Britain . . . . . . . . . . 305--334
Jenny Bangham Writing, printing, speaking: Rhesus
blood-group genetics and nomenclatures
in the mid-twentieth century . . . . . . 335--361
Jim Endersby Unsuitable for ladies? . . . . . . . . . 363--367
Anna Dysert Book Reviews: Anne Van Arsdall and
Timothy Graham (eds.), \booktitleHerbs
and Healers from the Ancient
Mediterranean through the Medieval West:
Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xvi + 377.
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Lydia Wilson Book Reviews: Avner Ben-Zaken,
\booktitleReading Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A
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Autodidacticism. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv
+ 191. ISBN 978-0-8018-9739-9. \pounds
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Neeraja Sankaran Book Reviews: Lawrence M. Principe,
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Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. v + 281. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Steven Vanden Broecke Book Reviews: Mary Quinlan-McGrath,
\booktitleInfluences: Art, Optics, and
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Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN
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Mihnea Dobre Book Reviews: Gideon Manning (ed.),
\booktitleMatter and Form in Early
Modern Science and Philosophy. Leiden
and Boston, MA: Brill, 2012. Pp. x +
248. ISBN 978-90-04-21870-3. EUR105.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Diana Garrisi Book Reviews: Julia Allen,
\booktitleSwimming with Dr Johnson and
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Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2012.
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\pounds 20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 376--378
Alexandra Cook Book Reviews: Michael Keevak,
\booktitleBecoming Yellow: A Short
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Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. ix
+ 219. ISBN 978-0-691-14301-5. \pounds
24.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Nanna Katrine and
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Rochester, NY: University of Rochester
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Sean Johnston Book Reviews: József Illy, \booktitleThe
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Andy Hammond Book Reviews: Peter Ayres,
\booktitleShaping Ecology: The Life of
Arthur Tansley. Chichester:
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Robert W. Smith Book Reviews: Peter J. Westwick (ed.),
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Aerospace Century in Southern
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Jayita Sarkar Book Reviews: Gabrielle Hecht,
\booktitleBeing Nuclear: Africans and
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Catriona Gilmour Hamilton Book Reviews: Carsten Timmermann and
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Maria Björkman Book Reviews: Peter Mansfield,
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Iain P. Watts `We want no authors': William Nicholson
and the contested role of the scientific
journal in Britain, 1797--1813 . . . . . 397--419
Guy Claessens A sixteenth-century Neoplatonic
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theory of mathematics and imagination in
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Maeve Olohan Gate-keeping and localizing in
scientific translation publishing: the
case of Richard Taylor and Scientific
Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--450
Gabriel Moshenska Unrolling Egyptian mummies in
nineteenth-century Britain . . . . . . . 451--477
Kevin Donnelly On the boredom of science: positional
astronomy in the nineteenth century . . 479--503
Kristian H. Nielsen `What things mean in our daily lives': a
history of museum curating and visiting
in the Science Museum's Children's
Gallery from c. 1929 to 1969 . . . . . . 505--538
Helen Anne Curry From garden biotech to garage biotech:
amateur experimental biology in
historical perspective . . . . . . . . . 539--565
James Poskett Book Reviews: Bernard Lightman, Gordon
McOuat and Larry Stewart (eds.),
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between Britain, India and China: The
Early-Modern World to the Twentieth
Century. Leiden: Brill, 2013. pp. xxi +
339. ISBN: 978-90-04-24441-2. \$146.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--569
Peter Rowlands Book Reviews: Robert Fox (ed.),
\booktitleThomas Harriot and His World:
Mathematics, Exploration and Natural
Philosophy in Early Modern England.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xviii + 255.
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570
Sheldon Richmond Book Reviews: Joseph Agassi,
\booktitleThe Very Idea of Modern
Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.
Heidelberg, New York and London:
Springer, 2013. Pp. xvii + 315. ISBN
978-94-007-5350-1. \pounds90.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--572
Antonio Clericuzio Book Reviews: Sean Cocco,
\booktitleWatching Vesuvius: A History
of Science and Culture in Early Modern
Italy. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp.
xi + 332. ISBN 978-0-226-92371-0.
\pounds29.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 572--573
Ole Peter Grell Book Reviews: Daniel Stolzenberg,
\booktitleEgyptian Oedipus: Athanasius
Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 307. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
Kostas Tampakis Book Reviews: Sanja Perovic,
\booktitleThe Calendar in Revolutionary
France: Perceptions of Time in
Literature, Culture, Politics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012. Pp. xiv + 276. ISBN
978-1-107-02595-0. \pounds55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--575
Lorena B. Valderrama Book Reviews: Deborah R. Coen,
\booktitleThe Earthquake Observers:
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 348.
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--577
Georgette Taylor Book Reviews: James O'Brien,
\booktitleThe Scientific Sherlock
Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science
and Forensics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013. Pp. xx + 175. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--579
Jaume Navarro Book Reviews: Silvan S. Schweber,
\booktitleNuclear Forces: The Making of
the Physicist Hans Bethe. Cambridge, MA
and London: Harvard University Press,
2012. Pp. viii + 579. ISBN
978-0-674-06587-1. \pounds25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--580
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\booktitleThe Visioneers: How a Group of
Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies,
Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless
Future. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 351.
ISBN 978-0-691-13983-8. \pounds19.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--581
Norberto Serpente Book Reviews: Heiner Fangerau, Rethy
Chhem, Irmgard Müller and Shih-Chang Wang
(eds.), \booktitleMedical Imaging and
Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections and
Actions. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2012. Pp. 190. ISBN
978-3-515-10046-5. EUR38.00 (paperback) 581--583
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Vidar Enebakk Hansteen's magnetometer and the origin
of the magnetic crusade . . . . . . . . 587--608
Rebekah Higgitt A British national observatory: the
building of the New Physical Observatory
at Greenwich, 1889--1898 . . . . . . . . 609--635
Michael Kershaw `A thorn in the side of European
geodesy': measuring Paris--Greenwich
longitude by electric telegraph . . . . 637--660
Ron Naylor Paolo Sarpi and the first Copernican
tidal theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--675
Doris T. Zallen The power of partnerships: the Liverpool
school of butterfly and medical genetics 677--699
Allan Jones Elite science and the BBC: a 1950s
contest of ownership . . . . . . . . . . 701--723
Michael Edwards Book Reviews: Rhodri Lewis,
\booktitleWilliam Petty on the Order of
Nature: An Unpublished Manuscript
Treatise. Tempe: Arizona Centre for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012.
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Laura Sòvsò Thomasen and
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Book Reviews: Rüdiger Campe,
\booktitleThe Game of Probability:
Literature and Calculation from Pascal
to Kleist. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 486. ISBN
978-0-8047-6865-8. \$35.00 (paperback)} 727--728
Meghan C. Doherty Book Reviews: Alison Walker, Arthur
MacGregor and Michael Hunter (eds.),
\booktitleFrom Books to Bezoars: Sir
Hans Sloane and His Collections. London:
The British Library, 2012. Pp. x + 310.
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Palmira Fontes da Costa Book Reviews: Alexandra Cook,
\booktitleJean-Jacques Rousseau and
Botany: The Salutary Science. Oxford:
Voltaire Foundation, 2012. Pp. xxi +
436. ISBN 978-0-7294-1055-7. \pounds
70.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 730--731
Larry Stewart Book Reviews: E. C. Spary,
\booktitleEating the Enlightenment: Food
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Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 366. ISBN
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Richard Dunn Book Reviews: Jim Bennett and Sofia
Talas (eds.), \booktitleCabinets of
Experimental Philosophy in
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Brill, 2013. Pp. xxxvii + 253. ISBN
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Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Anna Echterhölter,
\booktitleSchattengefechte:
Genealogische Praktiken in Nachrufen auf
Naturwissenschaftler (1710--1860).
Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012. Pp. 365. ISBN
978-3-8353-1071-1. EUR 39.90
(paperback). Denise Phillips,
\booktitleAcolytes of Nature: Defining
Natural Science in Germany 1770--1850.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 356. ISBN
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Gowan Dawson Book Reviews: Anne Dewitt,
\booktitleMoral Authority, Men of
Science, and the Victorian Novel.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2013. Pp. ix + 273. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--737
Rebekah Higgitt Book Reviews: Louise Miskell,
\booktitleMeeting Places: Scientific
Congresses and Urban Identity in
Victorian Britain. Farnham: Ashgate,
2013. Pp. xi + 192. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--738
Donald L. Opitz Book Reviews: Tatiana Holway,
\booktitleThe Flower of Empire: An
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Pp. xiv + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-537389-9.
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Ahren Lester Book Reviews: Ted Benton,
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Times? Manchester: Siri Scientific
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Oliver Hochadel Book Reviews: Mitchell G. Ash and Jan
Surman (eds.), \booktitleThe
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in the Habsburg Empire, 1848--1918.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Peter Reed Book Reviews: Kenneth Bertrams, Nicholas
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\booktitleSolvay: History of a
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Anna Simmons Book Reviews: Jean-Paul Gaudilli\`ere
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Gregory Radick Book Reviews: Staffan Müller--Wille and
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, \booktitleA
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and London: The University of Chicago
Press, 2012. Originally published in
German in 2009. Pp. xiii + 323. ISBN
978-0-226-54570-7. \$50.00 (hardback).
Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan
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(eds.), \booktitle{Human Heredity in the
Twentieth Century}. Studies for the
Society for the Social History of
Medicine, 15. London: Pickering & Chatto,
2013. Pp. xviii + 302. ISBN
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Tatjana Buklijas Book Reviews: Annette Lykknes, Donald L.
Opitz and Brigitte van Tiggelen (eds.),
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Heidelberg, New York and London:
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Andrew S. Balmer Book Reviews: Alison Winter,
\booktitleMemory: Fragments of a Modern
History. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. x
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21.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--751
Audra J. Wolfe Book Reviews: Sevan G. Terzian,
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Searches for American Youth, 1918--1958.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp.
xv + 235. ISBN 978-1-137-03186-0.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 752--753
Kenneth E. Hendrickson Book Reviews: Ted R. Anderson,
\booktitleThe Life of David Lack: Father
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--756
Kristan Stoddart Book Reviews: John R. Walker,
\booktitleBritain and Disarmament: The
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1956--1975. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp.
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Jon Agar Book Reviews: John Krige, Angelina Long
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\booktitleNASA in the World: Fifty Years
of International Collaboration in Space.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp.
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\pounds 22.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 757--759
Mauro Capocci Book Reviews: Renato G. Mazzolini and
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.),
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2012. Pp. 271. ISBN 978-3-428-13849-4.
EUR 22.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . 759--760
Christopher Hollings Book Reviews: Scott L. Montgomery,
\booktitleDoes Science Need a Global
Language? Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp.
xiii + 226. ISBN 978-0-226-53503-6.
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Ross L. Jones and
Warwick Anderson Wandering anatomists and itinerant
anthropologists: the antipodean sciences
of race in Britain between the wars . . 1--16
Richard J. Spiegel John Flamsteed and the turn of the
screw: mechanical uncertainty, the
skilful astronomer and the burden of
seeing correctly at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich . . . . . . . . . 17--51
Huib J. Zuidervaart and
Marlise Rijks `Most rare workmen': optical
practitioners in early
seventeenth-century Delft . . . . . . . 53--85
Timothy Boon The televising of science is a process
of television': establishing Horizon,
1962--1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--121
Florin-Stefan Morar Reinventing machines: the transmission
history of the Leibniz calculator . . . 123--146
Floris Heukelom A history of the Allais paradox . . . . 147--169
Neeraja Sankaran Essary Review: Far from depleted\ldots.
Michael Ruse (ed.), \booktitleThe
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and
Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp.
xvii + 568. ISBN 978-0-521-19531-7.
\pounds 124.99 (hardback). Peter Bowler,
\booktitleDarwin Deleted: Imagining a
World without Darwin. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2013. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-226-06867-1.
\pounds 21.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 171--174
Katy Barrett Book Reviews: \booktitleCoral: Something
Rich and Strange. Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 2013. Pp. 128. ISBN
978-1-84631-959-4. \pounds 19.99
(paperback). Marion Endt-Jones (ed.) . . 175--176
Megha Rajaram Book Reviews: \booktitleBreast Cancer in
the Eighteenth Century. London:
Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 181.
ISBN 978-1-84893-364-4. \pounds 60.00
(hardback). Marjo Kaartinen . . . . . . 177--178
Alexi Baker Book Reviews: \booktitleScholars in
Action: The Practice of Knowledge and
the Figure of the Savant in the 18th
Century. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Pp. xxx + 501 and x + 425. ISBN
978-90-04-24390-3. EUR229.00 (hardback).
André Holenstein, Hubert Steinke and
Martin Stuber (eds.) . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Allison Ksiazkiewicz Book Reviews: \booktitleGeographies of
the Romantic North: Science,
Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790--1830.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Pp. ixv + 265. ISBN 978-1-137-31131-3.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback). Angela Byrne 180--181
Victor Boantza Book Reviews: \booktitleIs Water H$_2$O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism.
Heidelberg, London and New York:
Springer, 2012. Pp. xxi + 316. ISBN
978-94-007-3931-4. \pounds 126.00
(hardback). Hasok Chang . . . . . . . . 181--183
Roland Jackson Book Reviews: \booktitleThe Age of
Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His
Contemporaries. London: Pickering &
Chatto, 2014. Pp. xv + 256. ISBN
978-1-84893-463-1. \pounds 60.00
(hardback). Bernard Lightman and Michael
S. Reidy (eds.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Alice White Book Reviews: \booktitleThe Science of
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Hård, \booktitleConsumers, Tinkerers,
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Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440.
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Mauro Capocci Book Reviews: Angela N. H. Creager,
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Chicago: The University of Chicago
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Camilla Mòrk Ròstvik Book Reviews: Catherine Jolivette (ed.),
\booktitleBritish Art in the Nuclear
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Jon Agar Book Reviews: Naomi Oreskes and John
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Victoria Lee Book Reviews: John P. DiMoia,
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in South Korea since 1945. Stanford, CA:
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Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Nicolas Rasmussen,
\booktitleGene Jockeys: Life Science and
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Press, 2014. Pp. 264. ISBN
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Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Reviews: Karen A. Rader and
Victoria E. M. Cain, \booktitleLife on
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Oliver Marsh Book Reviews: Francis Graham-Smith,
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Melissa Lo Book Reviews: Catelijne Coopmans, Janet
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Ángel R. Rodriguez Book Reviews: Sarah Ferber,
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Jenny Bulstrode The industrial archaeology of deep time 1--25
Noah Moxham An experimental `Life' for an
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biography of Robert Hooke (1705) . . . . 27--51
Dmitri Levitin Newton and scholastic philosophy . . . . 53--77
Matthew Adamson Les liaisons dangereuses: resource
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Federica Turriziani Colonna Heredity, evolution and development in
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turn of the nineteenth century . . . . . 107--113
Allison Ksiazkiewicz Book Reviews: Martin J. S. Rudwick,
\booktitleEarth's Deep History: How It
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Adam Mosley Book Reviews: Craig Martin,
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Penelope Gouk Book Reviews: Jacomien Prins,
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Mason Tattersall Book Reviews: Dennis Danielson,
\booktitleParadise Lost and the
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Francesco G. Sacco Book Reviews: Meredith K. Ray,
\booktitleDaughters of Alchemy: Women
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Cornelis J. Schilt Book Reviews: David Beck (ed.),
\booktitleKnowing Nature in Early Modern
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Sarah Easterby-Smith Book Reviews: Mary Terrall,
\booktitleCatching Nature in the Act:
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Jennifer Adlem Book Reviews: Margaret E. Derry,
\booktitleMasterminding Nature: The
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
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Jennifer Wallis Book Reviews: Rina Knoeff and Robert
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Efram Sera-Shriar Book Reviews: Timothy Larsen,
\booktitleThe Slain God: Anthropologists
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John Hedley Brooke Book Reviews: Stefaan Blancke, Hans
Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard
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Gowan Dawson Book Reviews: Mark Francis and Michael
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Patricia Fara Book Reviews: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén,
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Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 223. ISBN
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\$35.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Daniel Volmar Book Reviews: Katherine C. Epstein,
\booktitleTorpedo: Inventing the
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Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
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Alex Mankoo Book Reviews: Ulf Schmidt,
\booktitleSecret Science: A Century of
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Alice White Book Reviews: Jamie Cohen-Cole,
\booktitleThe Open Mind: Cold War
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(hardback). Mark Solovey,
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Michael J. Barany Book Reviews: Christopher Hollings,
\booktitleMathematics across the Iron
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Alexander von Lünen Book Reviews: Orit Halpern,
\booktitleBeautiful Data: A History of
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NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. ix
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Peter Reed Book Reviews: James Rodger Fleming and
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Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 284.
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Pierre Verschueren Book Reviews: Pieter Dhondt (ed.),
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Gregory Radick Presidential address: Experimenting with
the scientific past . . . . . . . . . . 153--172
Tom Quick A capital Scot: microscopes and museums
in Robert E. Grant's zoology
(1815--1840) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--204
Jim Endersby Deceived by orchids: sex, science,
fiction and Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . 205--229
Edward Deveson Parasites, politics and public science:
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Allan Jones J. G. Crowther's War: Institutional
strife at the BBC and British Council 259--278
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Film lessons: early cinema for
historians of science . . . . . . . . . 279--286
Omar W. Nasim Book Reviews: Klaus Hentschel,
\booktitleVisual Cultures in Science and
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pp. x + 496. ISBN 978-0-19-871781-4.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 288--289
Toby E. Huff Book Reviews: H. Floris Cohen,
\booktitleThe Rise of Modern Science
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\pounds 18.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 289--291
Luís Miguel Carolino Book Reviews: Miguel A. Granada, Adam
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\booktitleChristoph Rothmann's Discourse
on the Comet of 1585. An Edition and
Translation with Accompanying Essays.
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. Pp. xx +
379. ISBN 978-90-04-26023-4. \pounds
115.00 (hardback). Víctor Navarro Brotóns,
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Época Moderna. Val\`encia: Universitat de
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David Knight Book Reviews: Susannah Gibson,
\booktitleAnimal, Vegetable, Mineral?
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Eleni Loukopoulou Book Reviews: Innes M. Keighren, Charles
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Cristiana Oghina-Pavie Book Reviews: Sarah Dewis, \booktitleThe
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Oliver Hochadel Book Reviews: Helen Cowie,
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(hardback). Takashi Ito,
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Cristiano Turbil Book Reviews: David Gillott,
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Matthew Wale Book Reviews: Melinda Baldwin,
\booktitleMaking Nature: The History of
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328. ISBN 978-0-226-26145-4. \$45.00
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William Thomas Book Reviews: Joris Vandendriessche,
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Kostas Tampakis Book Reviews: M. Alper Yalçinkaya,
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Scott Johnston Book Reviews: Vanessa Ogle,
\booktitleThe Global Transformation of
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Aya Homei Book Reviews: Lynne Fallwell,
\booktitleModern German Midwifery,
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\booktitleThe Pulse of Modernism:
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Boris Jardine Book Reviews: Edward Juler,
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Peter Reed Book Reviews: Kathryn Steen,
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Kristine C. Harper Book Reviews: Simone Turchetti and Peder
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Daniele Cozzoli Book Reviews: Scott H. Podolsky,
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Jaume Navarro Book Reviews: Stephen G. Brush,
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Kanta Dihal Book Reviews: Olivier Darrigol,
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\booktitleSeeing Like a Rover: How
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304. ISBN 978-0-226-15596-8.
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Jessica Ratcliff Travancore's magnetic crusade:
geomagnetism and the geography of
scientific production in a princely
state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--352
Janis Antonovics and
Jacobus Kritzinger A translation of the Linnaean
dissertation \booktitleThe Invisible
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--382
Amanda Rees Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--386
Matthew R. Goodrum The beginnings of human palaeontology:
prehistory, craniometry and the `fossil
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Paige Madison The most brutal of human skulls:
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Neanderthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--432
Amanda Rees Stories of stones and bones:
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in British popular prehistory,
1911--1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--451
Oliver Hochadel Spain's magic mountain: narrating
prehistory at Atapuerca . . . . . . . . 453--472
Massimiliano Badino Book Review: J. L. Heilbron,
\booktitlePhysics: A Short History from
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Richard Dunn Book Review: Brian P. Copenhaver,
\booktitleMagic in Western Culture: From
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Adam Mosley Book Review: Pietro Daniel Omodeo,
\booktitleCopernicus in the Cultural
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Stephanie Shiflett Book Review: Ayesha Ramachandran,
\booktitleThe Worldmakers: Global
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Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2015. Pp. 299. ISBN:
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Adam Fix Book Review: Amir Alexander,
\booktitleInfinitesimal: How a Dangerous
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Noah Moxham Book Review: Michael Hunter,
\booktitleBoyle Studies: Aspects of the
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63.00 (hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E.
H. Smith (eds.), \booktitleThe Life
Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-19-998731-3. \pounds
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Caroline Gillan Book Review: Marie-Christine Skuncke,
\booktitleCarl Peter Thunberg: Botanist
and Physician --- Career-Building across
the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century.
Uppsala: Swedish Collegium for Advanced
Study, 2014. Pp. 376. ISBN
978-91-981948-0-7. Kr 275.00 (hardback) 484--485
Katherine Mcalpine Book Review: Caroline Grigson,
\booktitleMenagerie: The History of
Exotic Animals in England, 1100--1837.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Alex Csiszar How lives became lists and scientific
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\booktitleA Short History of Medicine.
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Matthew Goodman Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan and
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Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Robert J. Richards and
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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Stefano Gattei Galileo's legacy: a critical edition and
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Monumenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--228
Caitlín Róisín Doherty `Transporting thought': cultures of
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Stephen Courtney `A very diadem of light': exhibitions in
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Andrea Gambarotto Lorenz Oken (1779--1851):
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler Book Review: Georgina M. Montgomery and
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to the History of American Science.
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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\booktitleAn Alchemical Quest for
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Liza Blake Book Review: Claire Preston,
\booktitleThe Poetics of Scientific
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Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN
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Katrina Maydom Book Review: Martha Few, \booktitleFor
All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and
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Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Melvyn C. Usselman,
\booktitlePure Intelligence: The Life of
William Hyde Wollaston. Chicago: The
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Chris Manias Book Review: Marianne Sommer,
\booktitleHistory Within: The Science,
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Neeraja Sankaran Book Review: Staffan Müller--Wille and
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 472.
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
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Wythe Marschall Book Review: B. Estella Leopold,
\booktitleStories from the Leopold
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Laura Dawes Book Review: Helen Valier, \booktitleA
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Tiffany Nichols Book Review: Chris Bernhardt,
\booktitleTuring's Vision: The Birth of
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Ksenia Tatarchenko Book Review: Marie Hicks,
\booktitleProgrammed Inequality: How
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 342.
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Jon Agar Book Review: Jonathan Coopersmith,
\booktitleFaxed: The Rise and Fall of
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Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: Amparo Gómez, Antonio Fco.
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Fabian Link Book Review: Paul Betts and Stephen A.
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Steve Sturdy Book Review: Richard Tutton,
\booktitleGenomics and the Reimagining
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Tal Arbel Book Review: Aaron Panofsky,
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\booktitleQBism: The Future of Quantum
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Alex Aylward Book Review: Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio
and Andrew Pickering (eds.),
\booktitleScience as It Could Have Been:
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability
Problem. Pittsburgh: The University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. 462. ISBN
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Anonymous BJH volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front
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Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and
Patrick Ellis `A machine for recreating life': an
introduction to reproduction on film . . 383--409
Patrick Ellis A cinema for the unborn: moving
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Caitjan Gainty `Items for criticism (not in sequence)':
Joseph DeLee, Pare Lorentz and
\booktitleThe Fight for Life (1940) . . 429--449
David A. Kirby Regulating cinematic stories about
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1930--1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--472
Salim Al-Gailani `Drawing aside the curtain': natural
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Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Thin blue lines: product placement and
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British cinema and television . . . . . 495--520
Janina Wellmann Animating embryos: the in toto
representation of life . . . . . . . . . 521--535
David K. Hecht Why we write (nuclear) history . . . . . 537--543
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Andrew Hicks,
\booktitleComposing the World Harmony in
the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii
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M. Alper Yalcinkaya Book Review: Miri Shefer-Mossensohn,
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Melanie Keene Book Review: Donald L. Opitz, Staffan
Bergwik and Brigitte van Tiggelen
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Geoff Bil Book Review: Tom Kennett, \booktitleThe
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Geoffrey Belknap Book Review: Sarah K. Gillespie,
\booktitleThe Early American
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Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2016, Pp. x + 213. ISBN 978 0 2620 3410
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James R. Hall Book Review: Peter Hobbins,
\booktitleVenomous Encounters: Snakes,
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Colonial Australia. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp.
xiii + 202. ISBN 978-1-5261-0144-0.
\pounds 70.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 552--554
Ian Miller Book Review: Rob Boddice, \booktitleThe
Science of Sympathy: Morality,
Evolution, and Victorian Civilization.
Springfield: University of Illinois
Press, 2016. Pp. iv + 179. ISBN
978-0-252-08205-4. EUR28.00 (paperback) 554--555
Peter Reed Book Review: Raymond G. Stokes and Ralf
Banken, \booktitleBuilding on Air: The
International Industrial Gases Industry,
1886--2006. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 465.
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64.99/\$99.99 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 555--556
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Book Review: David Aubin and Catherine
Goldstein (eds.), \booktitleThe War of
Guns and Mathematics: Mathematical
Practice and Communities in France and
Its Western Allies around World War I.
Providence, RI: American Mathematical
Society, 2014. Pp. xviii + 391. ISBN
978-1-4704-1469-6. \$126.00 (hardback)} 557--558
Tom Kelsey Book Review: Hermione Giffard,
\booktitleMaking Jet Engines in World
War II: Britain, Germany, and the United
States. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 349. ISBN
978-0-226-38859-5. \$45.00 (cloth)} . . 558--560
Tim Boon Book Reviews: Thomas W. Patteson,
\booktitleInstruments for New Music:
Sound, Technology, and Modernism.
Oakland: University of California Press,
2016. Pp. xii + 236. ISBN
978-0-520-28802-7 \pounds 32.95
(paperback). Andrew J. Nelson,
\booktitleThe Sound of Innovation:
Stanford and the Computer Music
Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2015. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-0-262-02876-9.
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Gregory Radick Book Review: Robert J. Richards and
Lorraine Daston (eds.), Kuhn's Structure
of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty:
Reflections on a Science Classic.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--563
Anna Marie Roos Taking Newton on tour: the scientific
travels of Martin Folkes, 1733--1735 . . 569--601
Oded Rabinovitch A learned artisan debates the system of
the world: Le Clerc versus Mallemant de
Messange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--636
Steffen Ducheyne and
Pieter Present Pieter van Musschenbroek on laws of
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Mark I. Grossman John Dalton and the origin of the atomic
theory: reassessing the influence of
Bryan Higgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--676
Matthew Daniel Eddy The politics of cognition: liberalism
and the evolutionary origins of
Victorian education . . . . . . . . . . 677--699
Dmitriy Myelnikov Cuts and the cutting edge: British
science funding and the making of animal
biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh . . . . 701--728
Richard Dunn Book Review: Michael Hunter,
\booktitleThe Image of Restoration
Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas
Sprat's History of the Royal Society
(1667). Abingdon and New York:
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Edwin Rose Book Review: James Delbourgo,
\booktitleCollecting the World: The Life
and Curiosity of Hans Sloane. London:
Allen Lane, 2017. Pp. xxxi + 504. ISBN
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Efram Sera-Shriar Book Review: Jonathan Lamb,
\booktitleScurvy: The Disease of
Discovery. Princeton and Oxford:
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328. ISBN 978-0-691-14782-6. \pounds
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Shannon Draucker Book Review: Benjamin Morgan,
\booktitleThe Outward Mind: Materialist
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Literature. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp.
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Raffaele Pisano Book Review: Robert Fox,
\booktitleScience without Frontiers:
Cosmopolitanism and National Interests
in the World of Learning, 1870--1940.
Corvallis: Oregon State University
Press, 2016, Pp. 168. ISBN
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Norman Aselmeyer Book Review: Maria Paula Diogo and Dirk
van Laak, \booktitleEuropeans
Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting,
Exchanging. London and New York:
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Jennifer Wallis Book Review: Jonathan Sadowsky,
\booktitleElectroconvulsive Therapy in
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Boris Jardine Book Review: Erik L. Peterson,
\booktitleThe Life Organic: The
Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots
of Epigenetics. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xvi +
334. ISBN 978-0-8229-4466-9. \$45.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--741
Farrah Mary Lawrence Book Review: Christine Holmberg, Stuart
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\booktitleThe Politics of Vaccination: A
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Jon Agar Book Review: David Kaiser and W. Patrick
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of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 426. ISBN
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Tiffany Nichols Book Review: Harry Collins,
\booktitleGravity's Kiss: The Detection
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and London: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 416.
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(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--746
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Patricia Fara The past as a work in progress . . . . . 1--15
Alexander Wragge-Morley Robert Boyle and the representation of
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Richard McMahon The history of transdisciplinary race
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Marissa H. Petrou Apes, skulls and drums: using images to
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Petra Svatek Ethnic cartography and politics in
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Jaipreet Virdi and
Coreen McGuire Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the
science of audiometric standardization
in Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--146
Jim Endersby Utopian biologies . . . . . . . . . . . 147--152
Paolo Bussotti Book Review: Michel Blay,
\booktitleCritique de l'histoire des
sciences. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017.
Pp. 302. ISBN 978-2-271-09184-0.
EUR22.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Danny Beckers Book Review: Ronald S. Calinger,
\booktitleLeonhard Euler: Mathematical
Genius in the Enlightenment. Princeton,
NJ and Oxford: Princeton University
Press, 2016. Pp. 669. ISBN
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Vittoria Feola Book Review: Sarah R. Kyle,
\booktitleMedicine and Humanism in Late
Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in
Padua. Abingdon and New York: Routledge,
2017. Pp. xiii + 243. ISBN
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Ubiratan D'Ambrosio Book Review: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
(ed.), \booktitleVisual Culture and
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Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017.
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Timothy Duffy Book Review: Meredith K. Ray,
\booktitleMargherita Sarrocchi's Letters
to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and
Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy.
London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016. Pp. 98. ISBN 978-1-137-59769-4.
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Rob Boddice Book Review: Susan Broomhall (ed.),
\booktitleSpaces for Feeling: Emotions
and Sociabilities in Britain,
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Tim Fulford Book Review: Trevor Levere, Larry
Stewart and Hugh Torrens, with Joseph
Wachelder, \booktitleThe Enlightenment
of Thomas Beddoes: Science, Medicine,
and Reform. Abingdon and New York:
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Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus,
\booktitleWilliam Robert Grove:
Victorian Gentleman of Science. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 2017. Pp.
172. ISBN 978-1-78683-004-3. \pounds
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Michalis Sialaros Book Review: Volker R. Remmert, Martina
R. Schneider and Henrik Kragh Sòrensen
(eds.), \booktitleHistoriography of
Mathematics in the 19th and 20th
Centuries. Cham: Birkhäuser and Springer,
2016. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-39647-7.
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Elliott Bowen Book Review: Anne R. Hanley,
\booktitleMedicine, Knowledge and
Venereal Diseases in England,
1886--1916. London and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 318. ISBN
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(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Roger Smith Book Review: Brian J. McVeigh,
\booktitleThe History of Japanese
Psychology: Global Perspectives,
1875--1950. London and New York:
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Ruth Wainman Book Review: Rebecca Onion,
\booktitleInnocent Experiments:
Childhood and the Culture of Popular
Science in the United States. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2016. Pp. 226. ISBN
978-1-4696-2947-6. \$29.95 (paperback)} 170--171
Peter Reed Book Review: Hallam Stevens,
\booktitleBiotechnology and Society: An
Introduction. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 397. ISBN
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(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Michael J. Neuss Blood money: Harvey's \booktitleDe motu
cordis (1628) as an exercise in
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Edwin D. Rose Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel
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museum, 1753--1768 . . . . . . . . . . . 205--237
Kit Heintzman A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating
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Fenneke Sysling Science and self-assessment:
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Sebastián Gil-Riaño Relocating anti-racist science: the 1950
UNESCO Statement on Race and economic
development in the global South . . . . 281--303
Deepak Kumar Book Review: Pankaj Jain,
\booktitleScience and Socio-religious
Revolution in India: Moving the
Mountains. Abingdon and New York:
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Victor D. Boantza Book Review: Jan Golinski, \booktitleThe
Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the
Making of a Man of Science. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp.
259. ISBN 978-0-226-35136-0. \$30.00
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Peter J. T. Morris Book Review: Hannah Gay and William P.
Griffith, \booktitleThe Chemistry
Department at Imperial College: A
History, 1845--2000. London: World
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Thomas P. Weber Book Review: Courtney Fullilove,
\booktitleThe Profit of the Earth: The
Global Seeds of American Agriculture.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
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978-0-226-45486-3. \$40.00 (hardback)} 311--313
Yvan Prkachin Book Review: Tara H. Abraham,
\booktitleRebel Genius: Warren S.
McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in
Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
Press, 2016. Pp. 305. ISBN
978-0-262-03509-5. \$40.00 (hardcover)} 313--314
David Peace Book Review: J. David Archibald,
\booktitleOrigins of Darwin's Evolution:
Solving the Species Puzzle through Time
and Place. New York and Chichester:
Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. xii
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Sarah Murphy-Young Book Review: Tania Anne Woloshyn,
\booktitleSoaking Up the Rays: Light
Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain,
c.1890--1940. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 273.
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\booktitleAluminum Upcycled: Sustainable
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2017. Pp. 199. ISBN
978-1-4214-2186-5. \$39.95 (hardcover)} 317--319
Gemma Curto Book Review: Lisa Vox,
\booktitleExistential Threats: American
Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological
Era. Philadelphia: University of
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Rebecca Martin Book Review: Rana A. Hogarth,
\booktitleMedicalizing Blackness: Making
Racial Difference in the Atlantic World,
1780--1840. Chapel Hill: University of
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Anup Kumar Das Book Review: J. Benjamin Hurlbut,
\booktitleExperiments in Democracy:
Human Embryo Research and the Politics
of Bioethics. New York: Columbia
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Graeme Gooday Book Review: Andreas Marklund and Mogens
Rüdiger (eds.), \booktitleHistoricizing
Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg
University Press, 2017. Pp. 235. ISBN
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(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--326
Annie Jamieson Book Review: Roland Wittje,
\booktitleThe Age of Electroacoustics:
Transforming Science and Sound.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2016. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2.
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Isobel Falconer Book Review: Friedrich Steinle,
\booktitleExploratory Experiments:
Amp\`ere, Faraday and the Origins of
Electrodynamics. Translated by Alex
Levine. Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN
978-0-8229-4450-8. \$65.00 (hardcover)} 328--329
Fabrizio Bigotti Book Review: Cristiano Casalini,
\booktitleAristotle in Coimbra: The
\booktitleCursus Conimbricensis and the
Education at the College of Arts.
Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon
and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii
+ 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. \pounds
110.00 (hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Daniel Jon Mitchell From corps to discipline, part one:
Charles d'Almeida, Pierre Bertin and
French experimental physics, 1840--1880 333--368
Katharine Anderson Reading and writing the scientific
voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies
Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--394
Geoffrey Belknap Illustrating natural history: images,
periodicals, and the making of
nineteenth-century scientific
communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--422
Jim Endersby A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and
gardening in the early twentieth century 423--455
Hilary Buxton Health by design: teaching cleanliness
and assembling hygiene at the
nineteenth-century sanitation museum . . 457--485
Natasha Szuhan Sex in the laboratory: the Family
Planning Association and contraceptive
science in Britain, 1929-1959 . . . . . 487--510
Andrea Gambarotto Lorenz Oken (1779--1851):
Naturphilosophie and the reform of
natural history --- Erratum . . . . . . 511
Stefano Gulizia Book Review: Joyce van Leeuwen,
\booktitleThe Aristotelian Mechanics:
Text and Diagrams. Berlin: Springer,
2016. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-3-3192-5925-3.
\$119.00 (hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . 513--515
Luís Miguel Carolino Book Reviews: Pietro Daniel Omodeo
(ed.), in collaboration with Karin
Friedrich, \booktitleDuncan Liddel
(1561--1613): Networks of Polymathy and
the Northern European Renaissance.
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xii
+ 322. ISBN 978-9-0043-1065-0,
EUR135.00, \$175.00 (hardback). --- Kuni
Sakamoto, \booktitle{Julius Caesar
Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of
Aristotelianism: A Study of His
\booktitle{Exotericae Exercitationes}}.
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii
+ 213. ISBN 978-9-0043-1009-4,
EUR104.00, \$135.00 (paperback) . . . . 515--518
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: Henrietta McBurney, Ian
Rolfe, Caterina Napoleone and Paula
Findlen, with Carlo Violani, Onno
Wijnands, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Eufrasia
Roselló-Izquierdo, Arthur McGregor and
Kathie Way, \booktitleBirds, Other
Animals and Natural Curiosities (Volumes
One and Two). London: Royal Collection
Trust (in association with Harvey Miller
Publishers), 2017. Pp. 927. ISBN
978-1-9094-0060-3. EUR170.00 (hardcover) 518--520
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: Sabrina Minuzzi,
\booktitleSul filo dei segreti:
Farmacopea, libri e pratiche
terapeutiche a Venezia in et\`a moderna.
Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, 2016. Pp. 349.
ISBN 978-8-8400-1869-0. EUR25.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--521
Alexander Wragge-Morley Book Review: Florike Egmond,
\booktitleEye for Detail: Images of
Plants and Animals in Art and Science.
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 280.
ISBN 978-1-7802-3640-7. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522
Richard T. Bellis Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
\booktitleVisualizing Disease: The Art
and History of Pathological
Illustrations. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp.
xvi + 294. ISBN 978-0-2261-1029-5.
\$55.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--524
Allen Shotwell Book Review: Anita Guerrini,
\booktitleThe Courtiers' Anatomists:
Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 343. ISBN:
978-0-2262-4766-3. \$35.00 (hardback)} 524--525
Marlene L. Eberhart Book Review: James Q. Davies and Ellen
Lockhart (eds.), \booktitleSound
Knowledge: Music and Science in London,
1789--1851. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp.
257. ISBN 978-0-2264-0207-9. \$55.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--527
Dominic J. Berry Book Review: Annie Tindley and Andrew
Wodehouse, \booktitleDesign, Technology
and Communication in the British Empire,
1830--1914. London and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 131. ISBN
978-1-1375-9797-7. \pounds 37.99
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--529
Emily Hayes Book Review: Michael Boulter,
\booktitleBloomsbury Scientists: Science
and Art in the Wake of Darwin. London:
UCL Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 175. ISBN
978-1-7873-5005-2. \pounds 35.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--530
Roger Smith Book Review: Stephen T. Casper and Delia
Gavrus, \booktitleThe History of the
Brain and Mind Sciences. Rochester, NY:
University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp.
310. ISBN 978-1-5800-46595-3. \pounds
95.00 (hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . 531--532
Nicoletta I. Fotinos Book Review: Paul Weindling (ed.),
\booktitleFrom Clinic to Concentration
Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and
Racial Research, 1933--1945. London:
Routledge, 2017. Pp. 376. ISBN
978-1-4724-8461-1. \pounds 105.00
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--533
Alex Aylward Book Review: Hans--Jörg Rheinberger and
Staffan Müller--Wille, \booktitleThe
Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics.
Translated by Adam Bostanci. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2017. Pp. 147. ISBN 978-0-2265-1000-2.
\$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 534--535
Sebestian Kroupa and
Stephanie J. Mawson and
Dorit Brixius Science and islands in Indo-Pacific
worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--558
Martin Mahony The `genie of the storm': cyclonic
reasoning and the spaces of weather
observation in the southern Indian
Ocean, 1851--1925 . . . . . . . . . . . 607--633
Geoff Bil Imperial vernacular: phytonymy,
philology and disciplinarity in the
Indo-Pacific, 1800--1900 . . . . . . . . 635--658
Katherine Parker Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping
stone: the struggle to capture islands
on early modern maps . . . . . . . . . . 659--677
Pablo F. Gómez and
Sujit Sivasundaram Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--686
H. Floris Cohen Stock and bulk in the latest Newton
scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--701
Emily E. Beck Book Review: Zachary A. Matus,
\booktitleFranciscans and the Elixir of
Life: Religion and Science in the Later
Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 203. ISBN
978-0-8122-4921-7. \pounds 52.00 (cloth) 703--705
James Everest Book Review: A. Mark Smith,
\booktitleFrom Sight to Light: The
Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2017. Pp xi + 457. ISBN
978-0-226-52857-1. \$36.00 (paperback)} 705--706
Brian Richardson Book Review: Mel Gooding, David
Mabberley and Joe Studholme,
\booktitleJoseph Banks' Florilegium:
Botanical Treasures from Cook's First
Voyage. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017.
Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-500-51936-3. \pounds
65.00 (hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . 706--708
Carlos Gámez-Pérez Book Review: Emily B. Stanback,
\booktitleThe Wordsworth--Coleridge
Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv
+ 337. ISBN 978-1-137-51139-3. \pounds
90.00 (hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . 708--709
Matthew Wale Book Review: Henry A. McGhie,
\booktitleHenry Dresser and Victorian
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Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2017. Pp. xxiv + 341. ISBN
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Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund Book Review: Heather Ellis,
\booktitleMasculinity and Science in
Britain, 1831--1918. London and New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 240.
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(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--711
John Lidwell-Durnin Book Review: Janet Browne (ed.),
\booktitleThe Quotable Darwin.
Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix + 348.
ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4. \$24.95
(hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--713
Mason Tattersall Book Review: Olivier Darrigol,
\booktitleAtoms, Mechanics, and
Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's
Statistico-Mechanical Writings --- An
Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 612. ISBN
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Thomas P. Weber Book Review: Laura J. Miller,
\booktitleBuilding Nature's Market: The
Business and Politics of Natural Food.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN
978-0-22650-123-9. \$105.00 (cloth
cover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--716
Danny Beckers Book Review: Daniel Warner,
\booktitleLive Wires: A History of
Electronic Music. London: Reaktion
Books, 2017. Pp. 208. ISBN
978-1-78023-824-1. \pounds 16.00 (cloth
cover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--717
Catherine Abou-Nemeh Book Review: Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia
Goeing (eds.), \booktitleFor the Sake of
Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony
Grafton. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill,
2016. Pp. lxxvii + 1082. ISBN
978-90-04-26330-7. EUR248.00 (hardcover) 717--719
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S. V. Weeks Francis Bacon's doctrine of idols: a
diagnosis of `universal madness' . . . . 1--39
Fabrizio Baldassarri The mechanical life of plants: Descartes
on botany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--63
Jim Bennett Mathematicians on board: introducing
lunar distances to life at sea . . . . . 65--83
David Stack Charles Darwin and the scientific mind 85--115
Xiaoxing Jin Translation and transmutation: the
\booktitleOrigin of Species in China . . 117--141
Stephen M. Davies Rothschild reversed: explaining the
exceptionalism of biomedical research,
1971--1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--163
Emma Stirling-Middleton Book Review: Hilary A. Smith,
\booktitleForgotten Disease: Illness
Transformed in Chinese Medicine.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
2017. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-5036-0344-8.
\$24.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
Cornelis J. Schilt Book Review: Aviva Rothman,
\booktitleThe Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler
on Cosmos, Confession, and Community.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 355.
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cover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Peter Reed Book Review: Carin Berkowitz and Bernard
Lightman (eds.), \booktitleScience
Museums in Transition: Cultures of
Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain
and America. Pittsburgh, PA: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 375.
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(hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--170
Bárbara Jiménez Book Review: Charles Morris Lansley,
\booktitleCharles Darwin's Debt to the
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Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape
Darwin's View of Nature. Oxford: Peter
Lang, 2018. Pp. 273. ISBN
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Amy Sue Bix Book Review: Patricia Fara, \booktitleA
Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage
in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 319.
ISBN 978-0-19-879-498-1. \pounds 18.99
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Jaume Navarro (ed.),
\booktitleEther and Modernity: The
Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in
the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 272.
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(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Eleni Loukopoulou Book Review: Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas
E. Haynes and Ryan M. Jones (eds.),
\booktitleA Global History of Sexual
Science 1880--1960. Oakland, CA:
University of California Press, 2018.
Pp. 477. ISBN 978-0-520-29339-7. \$34.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Maria Rentetzi Book Review: Gayle Greene, \booktitleThe
Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart
and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2017. 2nd
edn. Pp. xxvi + 321. ISBN
978-0-472-05356-8. \$21.95 (paperback)} 176--178
Tiffany Nichols Book Review: Roberto Lalli,
\booktitleBuilding the General
Relativity and Gravitation Community
during the Cold War. Cham: Springer,
2017. Pp. xiv + 168. ISBN
978-3-319-54653-7. \pounds 49.99
(softcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Aaron van Neste Book Review: Ben A. Minteer, Jane
Maienschein and James P. Collins (eds.),
\booktitleThe Ark and Beyond: The
Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium
Conservation. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp.
xiv + 454. ISBN 978-0-226-538446-4.
\$35.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
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Jim Bennett and
Rebekah Higgitt London 1600--1800: communities of
natural knowledge and artificial
practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--196
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin `A place of great trust to be supplied
by men of skill and integrity': assayers
and knowledge cultures in late
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--223
Philip Beeley Practical mathematicians and
mathematical practice in later
seventeenth-century London . . . . . . . 225--248
Noah Moxham Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal
Society as a metropolitan corporation 249--271
Anna Simmons Trade, knowledge and networks: the
activities of the Society of
Apothecaries and its members in London,
c. 1670--c. 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--296
Rebekah Higgitt `Greenwich near London': the Royal
Observatory and its London networks in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 297--322
Anna Winterbottom An experimental community: the East
India Company in London, 1600--1800 . . 323--343
James E. Strick Metaphors and other slippery creatures 345--352
Mordechai Feingold Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay
review on Newtonian scholarship . . . . 353--357
Marius Stan Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay
review on Newtonian scholarship . . . . 359--360
Jacomien Prins Book Review: Karsten Mackensen,
\booktitleMusik und die Ordnung der
Dinge im ausgehenden Mittelalter und in
der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 353. ISBN
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Renny Thomas Book Review: Yves Gingras,
\booktitleScience and Religion: An
Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge: Polity
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Daniella McCahey Book Review: David Alff, \booktitleThe
Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in
British Culture, 1660--1730. Alembics.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2018. Pp. 239. ISBN
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Patricia Fara Book Review: Tita Chico, \booktitleThe
Experimental Imagination: Literary
Knowledge and Science in the British
Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 242.
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Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda Book Review: Susanna Gibson,
\booktitleThe Spirit of Inquiry: How One
Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern
Science. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN
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Alex Aylward Book Review: Efram Sera-Shriar (ed.),
\booktitleHistoricizing Humans: Deep
Time, Evolution, and Race in
Nineteenth-Century British Sciences.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2018. Pp. 326. ISBN
978-0-8229-4529-1. \$45.00 (hardcover)} 369--370
Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: Helge Kragh,
\booktitleLudvig Lorenz: A
Nineteenth-Century Theoretical
Physicist. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige
Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2018. Pp.
280. ISBN 978-8-7730-4417-9. DKK 240,00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
Colin Hempstead Book Review: David Cahan,
\booktitleHelmholtz: A Life in Science.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2018. Pp. 937. ISBN
978-0-226-48114-2. \$55.00 (cloth)} . . 372--373
Ovanes Akopyan Book Review: Gerrit Jasper Schenk (ed.),
\booktitleHistorical Disaster
Experiences: Towards a Comparative and
Transcultural History of Disasters
across Asia and Europe. Cham: Springer,
2017. Pp. ix + 436. ISBN
978-3-3194-9162-2. \$139.00 (paperback)} 374--375
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Jeff Hardin, Ronald L.
Numbers and Ronald A. Binzley (eds.),
\booktitleThe Warfare between Science
and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't
Die. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2018. Pp. 355. ISBN
978-1-4214-2618-1. \$39.95 (paperback)} 375--376
Keir Waddington Book Review: Tiago Saraiva,
\booktitleFascist Pigs: Technoscientific
Organisms and the History of Fascism.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2016. Pp 326. ISBN 978-0-2620-3503-2.
\$40.00 (hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . 376--378
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Jared S. Buss,
\booktitleWilly Ley: Prophet of the
Space Age. Gainesville: University of
Florida Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 321.
ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8. \$34.95
(hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Joseph D. Martin,
\booktitleSolid State Insurrection: How
the Science of Substance Made American
Physics Matter. Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Pp. ix + 280. ISBN 978-0-8229-4538-3.
\$49.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
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Daryn Lehoux Why does Aristotle think bees are
divine? Proportion, triplicity and order
in the natural world . . . . . . . . . . 383--403
Matthew Wale Editing entomology: natural-history
periodicals and the shaping of
scientific communities in
nineteenth-century Britain . . . . . . . 405--423
Felix Lüttge Whaling intelligence: news, facts and
US--American exploration in the Pacific 425--445
Coreen McGuire `X-rays don't tell lies': the Medical
Research Council and the measurement of
respiratory disability, 1936--1945 . . . 447--465
Oliver Marsh Life cycle of a star: Carl Sagan and the
circulation of reputation . . . . . . . 467--486
Michael Wintroub The pharmakon of `If': working with
Steven Shapin's \booktitleA Social
History of Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--514
Vittoria Feola Agnes Arber, historian of botany and
Darwinian sceptic . . . . . . . . . . . 515--523
Jim Bennett Book Review: Cristiano Zanetti,
\booktitleJanello Torriani and the
Spanish Empire: A Vitruvian Artisan at
the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution.
Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore:
Brill, 2018. Pp. xii + 450. ISBN
978-9-0043-2089-5. EUR95.00/\$110.00
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Michael A. Flannery Book Review: Patrick Armstrong,
\booktitleAlfred Russel Wallace. London:
Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 175, ISBN
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Chris Pearson Book Review: Michael Worboys,
Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton,
\booktitleThe Invention of the Modern
Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian
Britain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 282.
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Matthew Wale Book Review: Ruth Barton, \booktitleThe
X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian
Science. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 576. ISBN
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(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--530
Kristen Starkowski Book Review: Graeme Gooday and Karen
Sayer, \booktitleManaging the Experience
of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830--1930.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx
+ 126. ISBN 978-1-1374-0687-3. \pounds
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Jaume Sastre-Juan Book Review: Rachel Plotnick,
\booktitlePower Button: A History of
Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of
Pushing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
Pp. ix + 394. ISBN 978-0-2620-3823-2.
\$40.00\slash \pounds 30.00 (cloth)} . . 532--533
Rob Boddice Book Reviews: Susan Lanzoni,
\booktitleEmpathy: A History. New Haven,
CT and London: Yale University Press,
2018. Pp. ix + 392. ISBN
978-0-3002-2268-5. \$30.00 (hardcover).
--- Cathy Gere, \booktitle{Pain,
Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the
Panopticon to the Skinner Box and
Beyond}. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp.
282. ISBN 978-0-2265-0185-7. \$30.00
(cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--535
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: Anthony Chaney,
\booktitleRunaway: Gregory Bateson, the
Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological
Consciousness. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press,
2017. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-4696-3173-8.
\$32.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--537
Sydney Lane Book Review: Lisa M. Osbeck,
\booktitleValues in Psychological
Science: Re-imagining Epistemic
Priorities at a New Frontier. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix
+ 145. ISBN 978-1-1071-3490-4. \pounds
80.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--539
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Amanda Rees Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541
Clare Hickman `The want of a proper Gardiner': late
Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as
intermediaries of medical and scientific
knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--567
Emily Hayes Fashioned in the light of physics: the
scope and methods of Halford Mackinder's
geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--594
Pierre Verschueren Cécile Morette and the Les Houches summer
school for theoretical physics; or, how
Girl Scouts, the 1944 Caen bombing and a
marriage proposal helped rebuild French
physics (1951--1972) . . . . . . . . . . 595--616
Eilís Kempley Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric
Guttmann: drawing the boundary between
psychiatry and art at the Maudsley
Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--643
Oliver Hill-Andrews `A new and hopeful type of social
organism': Julian Huxley, J. G. Crowther
and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt's New
Deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--671
Paul Merchant What oral historians and historians of
science can learn from each other . . . 673--688
Jonathan Simon Retrospectives: History of science in
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--695
Anita Guerrini Retrospectives: Unconventional paths . . 696--706
Simon Dumas Primbault Book Review: Flavia Marcacci,
\booktitleCieli in contraddizione:
Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo
sistema del mondo. Perugia: Aguaplano,
2018. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-8-8858-0311-4.
EUR20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 707--709
Adam Fix Book Review: Davide Crippa,
\booktitleThe Impossibility of Squaring
the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate
among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz.
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019. Pp. ix + 184.
ISBN 978-3-0300-1637-1. \$54.99
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--711
Hanh Bui Book Review: Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis
van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
(eds.), \booktitleThe Hurt(ful) Body:
Performing and Beholding Pain,
1600--1800. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 311.
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9516-4. \pounds 80.00
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--712
Germaine Warkentin Book Review: Adriana Craciun and Mary
Terrall (eds.), \booktitleCurious
Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting and
Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth
Century. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 244. ISBN
978-1-4875-0367-3. \$75.00 (cloth)} . . 713--714
James Kennaway Book Review: Lynda Payne, \booktitleThe
Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott,
1713--88. New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN
978-1-4331-2319-1. \pounds 64.00
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--716
Jane Insley Book Reviews: David Philip Miller,
\booktitleThe Life and legend of James
Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy,
and the Improvement of the Steam Engine.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 420. ISBN
978-0-8229-4558-1. \$50.00 (cloth). -
Simon Werrett, \booktitle{Thrifty
Science: Making the Most of Materials in
the History of Experiment}. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2019. Pp. 315. ISBN 978-0-2266-1025-2.
\$45.00 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--717
Nicholas Danne Book Review: Pere Grapí,
\booktitleInspiring Air: A History of
Air-Related Science. Wilmington: Vernon
Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 352. ISBN
1-62273-738-5. \pounds 44.00 (paperback) 717--719
Snait Gissis Book Review: Charles Wolfe, \booktitleLa
philosophie de la biologie avant la
biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme.
Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. Pp.
514. ISBN 978-2-4060-8072-5. EUR93.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--721
Massimiliano Badino Book Review: Eric Johnson,
\booktitleAnxiety and the Equation:
Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix +
179. ISBN 978-0-2620-3861-4.
\$22.95/\pounds 17.99 (cloth)} . . . . . 721--722
Francesco Sacco Book Review: Nasser Zakariya,
\booktitleA Final Story: Science, Myth
and Beginnings. Chicago and London, The
University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp.
554. ISBN 978-0-2264-7612-4. \$34.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--723
Molly Tun Book Review: Pablo Calvi,
\booktitleLatin American Adventures in
Literary Journalism. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
Pp. ix + 276. ISBN 978-0-8229-4565-9.
\$45.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 723--725
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