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Gregory Radick Morgan's canon, Garner's phonograph, and
the evolutionary origins of language and
reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
Mark Harrison From medical astrology to medical
astronomy: sol-lunar and planetary
theories of disease in British medicine,
c. 1700--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--48
Theresa Levitt Editing out caloric: Fresnel, Arago and
the meaning of light . . . . . . . . . . 49--65
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Obligatory amateurs: Annie Maunder
(1868--1947) and British women
astronomers at the dawn of professional
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--84
Joe Cain Towards a `greater degree of
integration': the Society for the Study
of Speciation, 1939--1941 . . . . . . . 85--108
Ian Varcoe Comment: practical proposals by
scientists for reforming the machinery
of scientific advice, 1914--17 . . . . . 109--114
P. M. Harman Book Review: Ezio Vailati, Leibniz and
Clarke. A Study of Their Correspondence.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press/OUPusa, 1997. Pp. xii + 250. ISBN
0-19-5113993. \pounds 35.00 . . . . . . 115--124
Katherine Neal Book Reviews: Eric G. Forbes, Lesley
Murdin and Frances Willmoth (eds.), The
Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the
First Astronomer Royal. Vol. 1.
1666--1682. Bristol: Institute of
Physics, 1995. Pp. xlix + 955. ISBN
0-7503-01473-3. \pounds 140.00.
\$280.00. Eric G. Forbes, Lesley Murdin
and Frances Willmoth (eds.), The
Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the
First Astronomer Royal. Vol. 2.
1682--1703. Bristol: Institute of
Physics, 1997. Pp. xxxvii+1095. ISBN
0-7503-0391-3. \pounds 140.00, \$280.00 115--124
Katherine Neal Book Review: Frances Willmoth (ed.),
Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on
the Life and Work of the first
Astronomer Royal, 1646--1719.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press
in association with the National
Maritime Museum, 1997. Pp. xiv + 271.
ISBN 0-85115-706-8. \pounds 45.00 . . . 115--124
Gregory Radick Book Review: Stephen G. Alter, Darwinism
and the Linguistic Image: Language,
Race, and Natural Theology in the
Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii
+ 193. ISBN 0-8018-5882-8. \pounds 32.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Roger Smith Book Reviews: H. F. Augstein (ed.),
Race: The Origins of an Idea,
1760--1850. Key Issues, 14. Bristol:
Thoemmes Press, 1996. Pp. xxxiii + 260.
ISBN 1-85506-455-3, \pounds 45.00
(hardback); 1-85506-454-5, \pounds 14.95
(paperback). Graham Richards, `Race',
Racism and Psychology: Towards a
Reflexive History. London: Routledge,
1997, Pp. xvii+372. ISBN 0-415-10140-7,
\pounds 50.00 (hardback); 0-415-10141-7,
\pounds 10.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 115--124
Robinson M. Yost Book Reviews: Crosbie Smith, The Science
of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy
Physics in Victorian Britain. London and
Chicago: The Athlone Press and
University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp.
xi + 404. ISBN 0-485-11431-3, \pounds
55.00 (hardback); ISBN 0-485-12145-X;
\pounds 19.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 115--124
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous BJHS September 1999 issue . . . . . . . 127--127
Steven Shapin Descartes the doctor: rationalism and
its therapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--154
Jonathan R. Topham BJHS special section: book history and
the sciences Introduction . . . . . . . 155--158
Adrian Johns Miscellaneous methods: authors,
societies and journals in early modern
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
Leslie Howsam An experiment with science for the
nineteenth-century book trade: the
International Scientific Series . . . . 187--207
Nicolaas Rupke Translation studies in the history of
science: the example of Vestiges . . . . 209--222
D. W. Waters Obituary: Derek Howse (1919--1998) . . . 223--225
Geoffrey Cantor Obituary: Casper Hakfoort (1955--1999) 227--229
Jon Agar Book Review: Michael Riordan and Lillian
Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the
Information Age. New York and London: W.
W. Norton & Company, 1997. Pp. x + 352.
ISBN 0-393-04124-7. \pounds 27.50,
\$56.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Jim Bennett Book Review: I. S. Glass, Victorian
Telescope Makers: The Lives and Letters
of Thomas and Howard Grubb. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1997. Pp. xiii + 279. ISBN
0-7503-0454-5. \pounds 30.00, \$50.00} 231--254
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Isaac Newton. The
Principia: Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy, 3rd edition (1726).
Newly translated by I. Bernard Cohen and
Anne Whitman. With a supplement by I.
Bernard Cohen. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1999. Pp. 1025. ISBN
0-520-08816-6. \pounds 60.00, \$75.00
(cloth); 0-520-08817-4, \pounds 24.95,
\$35.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Alan Collins Book Review: Leila Zenderland, Measuring
Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the
Origins of American Intelligence
Testing. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 466. ISBN
0-521-44373-3. \pounds 45.00, \$64.95} 231--254
Frances Dawbarn Book Review: Andrea Carlino (Translated
by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi).
Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and
Renaissance Learning. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999 . . . 231--254
Fa-ti Fan Book Review: Masao Watanabe, Science and
Cultural Exchange in Modern History:
Japan and the West. Tokyo: Hokusen-Sha,
1997. Pp. xi + 406. ISBN 4-938424-73-8.
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
P. M. Harman Book Review: Charles Coulston Gillispie,
with the collaboration of Robert Fox and
Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Pierre-Simon
Laplace, 1749--1827. A Life in Exact
Science. Princeton University Press:
Princeton, New Jersey, 1998. Pp. xii +
322. ISBN 0-691-10850-0. \$49.50,
\pounds 35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Jeff Hughes Book Reviews: V. Y. Frenkel, Yakov Ilich
Frenkel. His Work, Life and Letters.
Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser,
1996. Pp. viii + 323. ISBN 3-7643-2741-3
(Basel); ISBN 0-8176-2741-3 (Boston).
DM198 (no sterling price given) . . . . 231--254
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: Charlotte Methuen, Kepler's
Tübingen: Stimulus to a Theological
Mathematics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
Pp. 288+xi. ISBN 1-85928-397-7. \pounds
45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
John M. MacKenzie Book Review: Deepak Kumar. Science and
the Raj, 1857--1905. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 273.
ISBN 0-19-564194-9. \pounds 4.50,
\$10.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Silvia Manzo Book Review: Francis Bacon,
Philosophical Studies, c. 1611 -- c.
1619, edited by Graham Rees. The Oxford
Francis Bacon, VI. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1996. Pp. cxvi + 503. ISBN
0-19-812290-X. \pounds 80.00 . . . . . . 231--254
Rosa Medina Book Review: José Ma López Piñero et al.
(eds.), Bibliographia Medica Hispanica,
1475--1950, Volumen V, Libros y
Folletos, 1851--1900, Caudemos
Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y
de la Ciencia, L. Valencia, Instituto de
Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre
la Clencia Valencia: Universitat de
Val\`encia-C.S.I.C., 1996. Pp. 956. ISBN
84-370-2349-1. No price given . . . . . 231--254
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Paul Thagard. How
Scientists Explain Disease. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp.
xviii + 263. ISBN 0-691-00261-4, \pounds
18.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
Diederick Raven Book Review: Klaas van Berkel,
Dijksterhuis: een biografie. Amsterdam:
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1996. Pp. 639.
ISBN 90-351-16941. HFL75 . . . . . . . . 231--254
Maria Yamalidou Book Review: Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Kipnis, Boris Efimovich Yavelov and John
Shipley Rowlinson, Van der Waals and
Molecular Science. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1996. Pp. ix + 313. ISBN
0-19-855210-6. \pounds 60.00 . . . . . . 231--254
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Massimo Mazzotti For science and for the Pope-king:
writing the history of the exact
sciences in nineteenth-century Rome . . 257--282
Roger Smith The embodiment of value: C. S.
Sherrington and the cultivation of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--311
Jim Endersby A garden enclosed: botanical barter in
Sydney, 1818--1839 . . . . . . . . . . . 313--334
Ronald L. Numbers and
John Stenhouse Antievolutionism in the Antipodes: from
protesting evolution to promoting
creationism in New Zealand . . . . . . . 335--350
Sally M. Horrocks A promising pioneer profession? Women in
industrial chemistry in inter-war
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--367
Lesley B. Cormack Book Review: Matthew H. Edney, Mapping
an Empire: The Geographical Construction
of British India, 1765--1843. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp.
xx + 480. ISBN 0-226-18487-0. \pounds
27.95, \$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--379
Tom Dixon Book Review: Penelope Gouk, Music,
Science and Natural Magic in
Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
Pp. xii + 308. ISBN 0-300-07383-6.
\pounds 30.00, \$35.00} . . . . . . . . 369--379
John M. MacKenzie Book Review: John Gascoigne, Science in
the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the
British State and the Uses of Science in
the Age of Revolution. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.
viii + 247. ISBN 0-521-55069-6. \pounds
40.00, \$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--379
Silvia A. Manzo Book Review: Miguel Angel Granada, El
debate cosmológico en 1588. Bruno, Brahe,
Rothmann, Ursus, Röslin. Istituto
Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici,
Lezioni della Scuola di Studi Superiori
in Napoli, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 1996.
Pp. 166 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--379
Maria Rentetzi Book Review: Peter Galison, Image and
Logic: A Material Culture of
Microphysics. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxv + 995. ISBN
0-226-27916-2. \pounds 63.00, \$90.00} 369--379
David Riley Book Review: Jack Morrell, Science,
Culture and Politics in Britain,
1750--1870. Variorum Collected Studies
Series, CS567. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
Pp. xii + 336. ISBN 0-86078-633-1.
\pounds 52.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--379
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--382
Jon Agar and
William J. Ashworth and
Jeff Hughes BJHS special issue: On time: history,
science and commemoration . . . . . . . 385--385
William Ashworth and
Jon Agar and
Jeff Hughes On time: history, science and
commemoration. Special issue . . . . . . 385--514
Ludmilla Jordanova Presidential address: remembrance of
science past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--406
Patricia Fara Isaac Newton lived here: Sites of memory
and scientific heritage . . . . . . . . 407--426
Rob Iliffe The masculine birth of time: temporal
frameworks of early modern natural
philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--453
Iwan Rhys Morus `The nervous system of Britain': space,
time and the electric telegraph in the
Victorian age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--475
Carlene Stephens and
Maggie Dennis Engineering time: inventing the
electronic wristwatch . . . . . . . . . 477--497
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the year
1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--514
Gordon Mcouat Cataloguing power: delineating
`competent naturalists' and the meaning
of species in the British Museum . . . . 1--28
Saba Bahar Jane Marcet and the limits to public
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--49
Michael Freeman Tracks to a new world: railway
excavation and the extension of
geological knowledge in
mid-nineteenth-century Britain . . . . . 51--65
Klaus B. Staubermann Tying the knot: skill, judgement and
authority in the 1870s Leipzig
spiritistic experiments . . . . . . . . 67--79
Barry Brundell Catholic Church politics and evolution
theory, 1894--1902 . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
Jon Agar Book Review: James C. Scott, Seeing Like
a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve
the Human Condition Have Failed. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1998. Pp. xiv + 445. ISBN 0-300-07016-0.
\pounds 27.50, \$37.50 (hardback);
0-300-07815-3. \pounds 11.95, \$16.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Jon Agar Book Review: Patrick Moore, The
Wandering Astronomer. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1999. Pp. 208. ISBN
0-7503-0693-9. \pounds 19.95 . . . . . . 97--124
William J. Ashworth Book Review: Michael J. Crowe, David R.
Dyck and James R. Kevin (eds.), A
Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir
John Herschel. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. Pp. 828. ISBN
0-521-63149-1. \pounds 100.00 . . . . . 97--124
Charlotte Bigg Book Review: Ileana Chinnici, La Carte
du ciel: Correspondance inédite conservée
dans les Archives de l'Observatoire de
Paris. Paris: Observatoire de Paris;
Palermo: Osservatorio Astronomico di
Palermo G. S. Vaiana (with the support
of the International Astronomical
Union), 1999. Pp. xviii + 475. ISBN
2-901057-40-3. FF 150.00, ECU 22.87 . . 97--124
Cristina Chimisso Book Review: Bernadette
Bensaude-Vincent, L'Opinion publique et
la science: \`a chacun son ignorance.
Paris: Sanofi-Synthélabo, 2000. Pp. 239.
ISBN 2-84324-141-3. FF 94.00 . . . . . . 97--124
Alan Collins Book Review: Jack D. Pressman, Last
Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of
Medicine. Studies in the History of
Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 555.
ISBN 0-521-35371-8. \pounds 40.00,
\$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Steve Fuller Book Review: Ziauddin Sardar, Thomas
Kuhn and the Science Wars. Postmodern
Encounters. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000.
Pp. 76. ISBN 1-84046-136-5. \pounds 2.99 97--124
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Ulrich Marsch, Zwischen
Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft:
Industrieforschung in Deutschland und
Grossbritannien 1880--1936. Publications
of the German Historical Institute,
London, Volume 47. Paderborn: Ferdinand
Schoeningh, 2000. Pp. 559. ISBN
3-506-72045-7. DM 168.00 . . . . . . . . 97--124
Jon Hodge Book Review: Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan
M. Porter, Joy Harvey and Jonathan R. T
Opham (eds.), The Correspondence of
Charles Darwin, Volume 10, 1862.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997. Pp. xl + 936. ISBN 0-521-59032-9.
\pounds 50.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Albert E. Moyer, Joseph
Henry: The Rise of an American
Scientist. Washington and London:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp.
xii + 348. ISBN 1-56098-776-6. \pounds
34.95, \$45.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Sharon Macdonald Book Review: Svante Lindqvist (ed.) with
Marika Hedin and Ulf Larsson (associate
eds.), Museums of Modern Science. Nobel
Symposium, 112. Canton: Science History
Publications, 2000. Pp. xii + 200. ISBN
0-88135-299-3. \$39.95} . . . . . . . . 97--124
Silvia Manzo Book Review: Francis Bacon, The New
Organon. Edited by Lisa Jardine and
Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge Texts in
the History of Philosophy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xxxv + 252. ISBN 0-521-56399-2. \$59.95
(hardback); 0--521--56483--2. \$18.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Agustí Nieto-Galan Book Review: Liliane Hilaire-Pérez,
L'Invention technique au si\`ecle des
lumi\`eres. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000.
Pp. 443. ISBN 2-226-11537-4. FF 140.00 97--124
Kevin Padian Book Review: Deborah Cadbury, The
Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of
Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of
the Prehistoric World. London: Fourth
Estate, 2000. Pp. x + 374. ISBN
1-85702-959-3. \pounds 15.99 . . . . . . 97--124
Diederick Raven Book Review: D. Van Dalen, Mystic,
Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of
L. E. J. Brouwer. Volume 1: The Dawning
Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1999. Pp. 456. ISBN 0-19-850297-4.
\pounds 75.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Marsha L. Richmond Book Review: Richard Keynes (ed.),
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and
Specimen Lists from HMS Beagle.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. xxxiv + 430. ISBN
0-521-46569-9. \pounds 95.00, \$150} . . 97--124
David Riley Book Review: James E. McLellan III and
Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in
World History: An Introduction. Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. viii
+ 404. ISBN 0-8018-5868-2, \pounds 48
(hardback); 0-8018-5869-0, \pounds 13
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
David Riley Book Review: Roy M. MacLeod, The `Creed
of Science' in Victorian England.
Variorum Collected Studies Series:
CS598. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp.
346. ISBN 0-86078-669-2. \pounds 57.50 97--124
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Simon Werrett Wonders never cease: Descartes's
\booktitleMétéores and the rainbow
fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--147
Jan Golinski `Exquisite Atmography': theories of the
world and experiences of the weather in
a diary of 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--171
Jimena Canales Exit the frog, enter the human:
physiology and experimental psychology
in nineteenth-century astronomy . . . . 173--197
Yakup Bektas Displaying the American genius: the
electromagnetic telegraph in the wider
world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--232
Kurt Danziger Book Review: L. S. Jacyna, Lost Words:
Narratives of Language and the Brain,
1825--1926. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. ix
+ 241. ISBN 0-691-00413-7. \pounds
28.50, \$45.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Nicholas Dew Book Review: Peter N. Miller, Peiresc's
Europe: Learning and Virtue in the
Seventeenth Century. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp.
xvi + 234. ISBN 0-300-08252-5. \pounds
30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Andrew Emmerson Book Review: Donald F. McLean, Restoring
Baird's Image. IEE History of Technology
Series, 27. London: Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 2000. Pp. xx +
295. ISBN 0-85296-795-0. \pounds 29.00,
\$55.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Paula Findlen Book Review: Lorraine Daston and
Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of
Nature, 1150--1750. New York: Zone
Books, 1998. Pp. 511. ISBN
0-942299-90-6. \pounds 24.95, \$36.50} 233--250
Graeme Gooday Book Review: John Ziman (ed.),
Technological Innovation as an
Evolutionary Process. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xvii + 379. ISBN 0-521-62361-8. \pounds
40.00, \$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Philip Hardie Book Review: Emma Gee, Ovid, Aratus and
Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti.
Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi
+ 226. ISBN 0-521-65187-5. \$54.95} . . 233--250
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: Serafina Cuomo, Pappus of
Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late
Antiquity. Cambridge Classical Studies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. ix + 234. ISBN 0-521-64211-6.
\$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Jack Morrell, Science at
Oxford, 1914--1939: Transforming an Arts
University. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1997. Pp. xx + 473. ISBN 0-19-820657-7.
\pounds 55.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Ian R. Bartky, Selling the
True Time: Nineteenth-Century
Timekeeping in America. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi
+ 310. ISBN 0-8047-3874-2. \pounds
27.50, \$45.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Buhm Soon Park Book Review: Anders Lundgren and
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (eds.),
Communicating Chemistry: Textbooks and
their Audiences, 1789--1939. Canton, MA:
Science History Publications, 2000. Pp.
vii + 465. ISBN 0-88135-274-8. \$56.00} 233--250
Roy Porter Book Review: Marina Frasca-Spada and
Nick Jardine (eds.), \booktitleBooks and
the Sciences in History. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xiv + 438. ISBN 0-521-65939-6. \pounds
18.95, \$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
James Sumner John Richardson, saccharometry and the
pounds-per-barrel extract: the
construction of a quantity . . . . . . . 255--273
E. P. Hamm Unpacking Goethe's collections: the
public and the private in
natural-historical collecting . . . . . 275--300
Maurice Crosland Popular science and the arts: challenges
to cultural authority in France under
the Second Empire . . . . . . . . . . . 301--322
David Burbridge Francis Galton on twins, heredity and
social class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--340
Jon Agar Book Review: James Gillies and Robert
Cailliau, How the Web was Born. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii +
372. ISBN 0-19-286207-3. \pounds 8.99,
\$15.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Barry Barnes Book Review: Thomas S. Kuhn, The Road
since Structure : Philosophical Essays,
1970--1993, with an Autobiographical
Interview. Edited by James Conant and
John Haugeland. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp.
viii + 335. ISBN 0-226-45798-2. \pounds
16.00, \$25.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 341--373
Mark Beecroft Book Review: Felix Driver, Geography
Militant: Cultures of Exploration and
Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Pp.
viii + 258. ISBN 0-631-20112-2. \pounds
16.99, \$29.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . 341--373
Ingemar Bohlin Book Review: Lorraine Daston (ed.),
Biographies of Scientific Objects.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. x + 308. ISBN
0-226-13672-8. \pounds 13.50, \$19.00} 341--373
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Paul Knights (ed.), The
Manuscripts of Michael Faraday
(1791--1867) from the Collections of the
Royal Institution -- the Institution of
Electrical Engineers -- the Guildhall
Library. Wakefield: Microform Academic
Publishers, 2001. 23 microfilm reels.
\pounds 1058.00 (complete), \pounds
46.00 (individual reels). Frank A. J. L.
James, Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
the Manuscripts of Michael Faraday
(1791--1867) from the Collections of the
Royal Institution -- the Institution of
Electrical Engineers -- the Guildhall
Library. Wakefield: Microform Academic
Publishers, 2000. Pp. 94. ISBN
1-851170-31-6. \pounds 10.00 (paperback) 341--373
Cristina Chimisso Book Review: Nicole Hulin (ed.),
Physique et humanités scientifiques:
autour de la réforme de l'enseignement de
1902. Etudes et documents. Villeneuve
d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du
Septentrion, 2000. Pp. 339. ISBN
2-85939-624-1. FF 170.00, Euro 24.92
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Brian Dolan Book Review: June Z. Fullmer, Young
Humphry Davy: The Making of an
Experimental Chemist. Memoirs of the
American Philosophical Society, 237.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 2000. Pp. xvi + 385. ISBN
0-87169-237-6. \$30.00 (hardback)} . . . 341--373
Steve Fuller Book Review: Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl
Popper -- The Formative Years,
1902--1945: Politics and Philosophy in
Interwar Vienna. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 610.
ISBN 0-521-47053-6. \pounds 35.00,
\$54.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
John Henry Book Review: Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas
Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii + 317.
ISBN 0-7546-0078-5. \pounds 47.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Arne Hessenbruch Book Review: Sven Widmalm (ed.),
Vetenskapsbärarna -- Naturvetenskapen i
det svenska samhället, 1880--1950.
Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag, 1999. Pp. 368.
ISBN 91-7844300-8. No price given.
Gustav Holmberg, Reaching for the Stars:
Studies in the History of Swedish
Stellar and Nebular Astronomy,
1860--1940. Lund Studies in the History
of Science and Ideas, 13. Lund: Ugglan,
1999. Pp. 243. ISBN 91-628-3837-7.
\pounds 10.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 341--373
Hester Higton Book Review: Gerard L'E. Turner,
Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The
Origins of the London Trade in Precision
Instrument Making. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 305.
ISBN 0-19-856566-6. \pounds 79.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Kevin C. Knox Book Review: Brian Dolan (ed.), Malthus,
Medicine, & Morality: `Malthusianism'
after 1798. Wellcome Institute Series in
the History of Medicine: Clio Medica,
59. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi,
2000. Pp. v + 232. ISBN 90-420-0851-2.
\pounds 42.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 341--373
Silvia Manzo Book Review: Peter Zigman (ed.),
Einblicke in eine sterbende Ära: Das Ende
des Mythos der guten alten Zeiten.
Philosophica XXXII. Bratislava:
Comenius-Universität, 2000. Pp. 191. ISBN
80-223-1425-0. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Peter Morris Book Review: Colin A. Russell (ed.),
Chemistry, Society and Environment: A
New History of the British Chemical
Industry. Cambridge: The Royal Society
of Chemistry, 2000. Pp. xvi + 360. ISBN
0-85404-599-6. \pounds 59.50 (hardback) 341--373
Ohad Parnes Book Review: Christoph Meinel (ed.),
Instrument--Experiment: historische
Studien. Berlin: GNT-Verlag für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und
der Technik, 2000. Pp. 423. ISBN
3-928186-51-5. \pounds 34.00 . . . . . . 341--373
James Risbey Book Review: James Rodger Fleming,
Historical Perspectives on Climate
Change. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 194.
ISBN 0-19-507870-5. No price given . . . 341--373
Angela Schwarz Book Review: E. C. Spary, Utopia's
Garden: French Natural History from Old
Regime to Revolution. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2000. Pp. xv + 321. ISBN 0-226-76863-5.
\pounds 16.00, \$25.00 (paperback)} . . 341--373
Roger Smith Book Review: Rick Rylance, Victorian
Psychology and British Culture
1850--1880. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000. Pp. x + 355. ISBN
0-19-812283-7. \pounds 45.00 (hardback) 341--373
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--378
Perez Zagorin Francis Bacon's concept of objectivity
and the idols of the mind . . . . . . . 379--393
Michael Ben-Chaim The discovery of natural goods: Newton's
vocation as an `experimental
philosopher' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--416
Ayval Ramati The hidden truth of creation: Newton's
method of fluxions . . . . . . . . . . . 417--438
Klaus B. Staubermann Making stars: projection culture in
nineteenth-century German astronomy . . 439--451
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Review: Simon J. Knell, The Culture
of English Geology, 1815--1851: A
Science Revealed Through its Collecting.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xxi + 377.
ISBN 1-84014-625-7. \pounds 59.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Mark V. Barrow, Jr. Book Review: Thomas R. Dunlap, Nature
and the English Diaspora: Environment
and History in the United States,
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Studies in Environment and History.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999. Pp. xv + 350. ISBN 0-521-65700-8.
\pounds 13.95, \$19.95 (paperback)} . . 453--481
Daniel Brownstein Book Review: Roger French, Dissection
and Vivisection in the European
Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
Pp. ix + 289. ISBN 1-85928-361-6.
\pounds 55.00, \$99.95 (hardback)} . . . 453--481
Ana Carneiro Book Review: Alan J. Rocke,
Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and
the Battle for French Chemistry.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2001. Pp. xiii + 443. ISBN
0-262-18204-1. \pounds 29.50 (hardback) 453--481
David Chart Book Review: James H. Fetzer (ed.),
Science, Explanation, and Rationality:
Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G.
Hempel. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2000. Pp. xxix + 342. ISBN
0-19-512137-6. \pounds 37.50 (hardback) 453--481
John F. M. Clark Book Review: Vladimir Jankovic, Reading
the Skies: A Cultural History of the
Weather, 1650--1820. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.
xiv + 272. ISBN 0-7190-5989-5. \pounds
16.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Colin Divall Book Review: Neil Cossons (ed.),
Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology.
London: Science Museum, 2000. Pp. 176.
ISBN 1-900747-31-6. \pounds 19.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Steve Fuller Book Review: Michael Friedman, A Parting
of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and
Heidegger. Chicago: Open Court Press,
2000. Pp. xv + 175. ISBN 0-8126-9425-2.
\$24.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Michael T. Ghiselin Book Review: Helena Gourko, Donald I.
Williamson and Alfred I. Tauber (eds.),
The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie
Metchnikoff. Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 212. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2000. Pp. x + 221. ISBN
0-7923-6067-2. \pounds 89.00 (hardback) 453--481
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Mikulá\vs Teich, Bier,
Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in
Deutschland 1800--1914: Ein Beitrag zur
deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte.
Vienna: Böhlau, 2000. Pp. 353. ISBN
3-205-99239-3. DM 69.80 (hardback) . . . 453--481
Nick Hopwood Book Review: Heike Menz, Martin Heinrich
Rathke (1793--1860): Ein Embryologe des
19. Jahrhunderts. Acta Biohistorica, 7.
Marburg: Basilisken-Presse, 2000. Pp.
280. ISBN 3-925347-59-3. DM 78.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Frank A. J. L. James Book Reviews: Marc Rothenberg, Paul H.
Theerman, Kathleen W. Dorman, John C.
Rumm and Deborah Y. Jeffries (eds.), The
Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 7. The
Smithsonian Years, January
1847--December 1849. Washington and
London: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1996. Pp. xlviii + 707. ISBN
1-56098-533-X. No price given
(hardback). Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen W.
Dorman, Deborah Y. Jeffries and Frank R.
Millikan (eds.), The Papers of Joseph
Henry. Volume 8. The Smithsonian Years,
January 1850--December 1853. Washington
and London: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii+548. ISBN
1-56098-891-6. No price given (hardback) 453--481
Mark S. R. Jenner Book Reviews: Philip K. Wilson, Surgery,
Skin and Syphilis: Daniel Turner's
London (1667--1741). Wellcome Institute
Series in the History of Medicine: Clio
Medica 54. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA:
Rodopi, 1999. Pp. xv + 312. ISBN
90-420-0526-2. \pounds 48, \$88.50
(hardback); ISBN 90-420-0516-5. \pounds
13.50, \$22.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 453--481
Ludmilla Jordanova Book Review: William R. Shea (ed.),
Science and the Visual Image in the
Enlightenment. European Studies in
Science History and the Arts, IV.
Canton: Science History Publications,
2000. Pp. viii + 232. ISBN
0-88135-285-3. \$39.95 (hardback)} . . . 453--481
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: W. R. Laird, The Unfinished
Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti: An
Edition and English Translation of His
Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576. Toronto,
Buffalo and London: University of
Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 222. ISBN
0-8020-4699-1. \pounds 40.00, \$55.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Reviews: Michael Faraday,
Experimental Researches in Electricity.
Volume I, reprinted from the first
edition, 1839. With an introduction by
Howard Fisher. Santa Fe: Green Lion
Press, 2000. Pp. 10+viii + 574. ISBN
1-888009-09-8; Experimental Researches
in Electricity. Volume II, reprinted
from the first edition, 1844. Sante Fe:
Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp. 2+viii+302.
ISBN 1-888009-10-1; Experimental
Researches in Electricity. Volume III,
reprinted from the first edition, 1855.
Sante Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp.
viii+588. ISBN 1-888009-11-X. \$120.00
(three hardback volumes)} . . . . . . . 453--481
Falk Müller Book Review: B. Finn (ed.), with Robert
Bud and Helmuth Trischler (associate
eds.), Exposing Electronics. Artefacts:
Studies in the History of Science and
Technology, 2. Amsteldijk: Harwood
Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiv +
199. ISBN 90-5823-057-0. \pounds 15.00,
\$23.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Constantin Goschler (ed.),
Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit in
Berlin, 1870--1930. Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp. 232. ISBN
3-515-07778-2. DM 86.00 (paperback) . . 453--481
Dorinda Outram Book Review: Jonathan I. Israel, Radical
Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making
of Modernity 1650--1750. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Pp. xix + 810.
ISBN 0-19-820608-9. \pounds 30.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Sophie Page Book Review: Barbara Howard Traister,
The Notorious Astrological Physician of
London: Works and Days of Simon Forman.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 250.
ISBN 0-226-81140-9. \pounds 19.00,
\$30.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Marsha L. Richmond Book Review: Pnina G. Abir-Am and Clark
A. Elliott (eds.), Commemorative
Practices in Science: Historical
Perspectives on the Politics of
Collective Memory. Osiris, 14. Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 2000. Pp. xii
+ 383. ISBN 0-226-00092-3. \$39.00
(hardback); 0-226-00093-1. \$25.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Paul Lawrence Farber,
Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist
Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson.
Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in
the History of Science. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000. Pp. x + 136. ISBN 0-8018-6390-2.
\pounds 12.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 453--481
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--485
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--488
Jonathan Simon Analysis and the hierarchy of nature in
eighteenth-century chemistry . . . . . . 1--16
John Van Wyhe The authority of human nature: the
Schädellehre of Franz Joseph Gall . . . . 17--42
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings Analysis and synthesis in John
Playfair's \booktitleElements of
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--72
Greta Jones Alfred Russel Wallace, Robert Owen and
the theory of natural selection . . . . 73--96
Daniel Brownstein Book Review: Andrea Carlino, Paper
Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical
Fugitive Sheets 1538--1687. English
translation by Noga Arikha. Medical
History, Supplement 19. London: Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine,
1999. Pp. xvi + 352. ISBN 0-85484-069-9.
\$50.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Brian Dolan Book Review: R. R. Angerstein, R. R.
Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary,
1753--1755: Industry in England and
Wales from a Swedish Perspective.
Translated by Torsten and Peter Berg.
With an introduction by Marilyn Palmer.
London: Science Museum, 2001. Pp. xii +
378. ISBN 1-900747-24-3. \pounds 34.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Alex Dolby Book Reviews: Henry H. Bauer, Science or
Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic
Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies.
Urbana and Chicago: University of
Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 275.
ISBN 0-252-02601-2. \$29.95 (cloth).
Michael Shermer, The Borderlands of
Science: Where Science Meets Nonsense.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Pp. viii+360. ISBN 0-19-514326-4.
\pounds 17.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 97--123
Mark R. Finlay Book Review: Vaclav Smil, Enriching the
Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the
Transformation of World Food Production.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2001. Pp. xvii + 338. ISBN
0-262-19449-X. \pounds 23.95 (hardback) 97--123
Steve Fuller Book Review: Peter Machamer, Marcello
Pera and Aristides Baltas, Scientific
Controversies: Philosophical and
Historical Perspectives. New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Pp. x + 278. ISBN 0-19-511987-8. \pounds
32.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: David N. Livingstone, D. G.
Hart and Mark A. Noll (eds.),
Evangelicals and Science in Historical
Perspective. Religion in America. Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press,
1999. Pp. vi + 351. ISBN 0-19-511557-0.
\pounds 39.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 97--123
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Eric Higgs, Andrew Light
and David Strong (eds.), Technology and
the Good Life? Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp.
xii + 392. ISBN 0-226-33387-6. \pounds
16.00, \$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 97--123
John Henry Book Review: Francis Bacon, The
Instauratio Magna : Last Writings.
Edited with introduction, notes,
commentaries, and facing-page
translations by Graham Rees. The Oxford
Francis Bacon, XIII. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 2000. Pp. xcvi + 363. ISBN
0-19-818470-0. \pounds 80.00 (hardback) 97--123
Sean Johnston Book Review: Xiang Chen, Instrumental
Traditions and Theories of Light: The
Uses of Instruments in the Optical
Revolution. Science and Philosophy, 9.
Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiii +
211. ISBN 0-7923-6349-3. \pounds 60.00,
\$99.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Jeremy J. Gray, The Hilbert
Challenge. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 315. ISBN
0-19-850651-1. \pounds 20.00 (hardback) 97--123
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Myles W. Jackson, Spectrum
of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the
Craft of Precision Optics.
Transformations: Studies in the History
of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. x +
284. ISBN 0-262-10084-3. \pounds 23.95
(cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Gregory Radick Book Review: Ian Hacking, The Social
Construction of What? Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Pp. x + 261. ISBN 0-674-00412-4. \pounds
11.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Dave Riley Book Review: W. Clark, J. Golinski and
S. Schaffer (eds.), The Sciences in
Enlightened Europe. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp.
xiv + 566. ISBN 0-226-10939-9. \pounds
59.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Chandak Sengoopta Book Review: Simon A. Cole, Suspect
Identities: A History of Fingerprinting
and Criminal Identification. Cambridge,
MA and London: Harvard University Press,
2001. Pp. 369. ISBN 0-674-00455-8.
\pounds 23.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 97--123
Steven Shapin Book Review: Stephen Gaukroger, Francis
Bacon and the Transformation of
Early-Modern Philosophy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.
xii + 249. ISBN 0-521-80536-8. \pounds
14.95, \$21.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . 97--123
Paul Weindling Book Review: Daniel Gasman, Haeckel's
Monism and the Birth of Fascist
Ideology. Studies in Modern European
History, 33. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Pp. vii + 482. ISBN 0-8204-4108-2.
\$69.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Paul Weindling Book Review: Susanne Zimmermann, Die
Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Jena
während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus-Studien: Monographien
zur Geschichte der Biowissenschaften und
Medizin, Band 2. Berlin: VWB, 2000. Pp.
223. ISBN 3-86135-481-0. DM 48.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Chandak Sengoopta Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez Diderot's views on artists' and
inventors' rights: invention, imitation
and reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--150
Hannah Gay and
Anne Barrett Should the cobbler stick to his last?
Silvanus Phillips Thompson and the
making of a scientific career . . . . . 151--186
Kostas Gavroglu and
Ana Simões Preparing the ground for quantum
chemistry in Great Britain: the work of
the physicist R. H. Fowler and the
chemist N. V. Sidgwick . . . . . . . . . 187--212
Jim Bennett Book Review: Bruce Stephenson, Marvin
Bolt and Anna Felicity Friedman, The
Universe Unveiled: Instruments and
Images through History. Chicago: Adler
Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. 152. ISBN 0-521-79143-X.
\pounds 19.95, \$29.95 (hardback)} . . . 213--250
Steven Vanden Broecke Book Review: Anthony Grafton and Nancy
Siraisi (eds.), Natural Particulars:
Nature and the Disciplines in
Renaissance Europe. Dibner Institute
Studies in the History of Science and
Technology. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 426. ISBN
0-262-07193-2. \pounds 33.50 (hardback) 213--250
C. A. J. Chilvers Book Review: Raymond G. Stokes,
Constructing Socialism: Technology and
Change in East Germany, 1945--1990.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN
0-8018-6391-0. \pounds 33.00 (hardback) 213--250
R. G. A. Dolby Book Review: Ken Richardson, The Making
of Intelligence. Maps of the Mind. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Pp. viii + 210. ISBN 0-231-12004-4.
\$24.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Peter Elmer Book Review: Michael Hunter (ed.), The
Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and
Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century
Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's
The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001. Pp. vii
+ 247. ISBN 0-85115-801-3. \pounds
50.00, \$90.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 213--250
Fa-Ti Fan Book Review: Randall A. Dodgen,
Controlling the Dragon: Confucian
Engineers and the Yellow River in Late
Imperial China. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 243. ISBN
0-8248-2366-4. \$29.95 (paperback)} . . 213--250
Graeme Gooday Book Review: David A. Kirsch, The
Electric Vehicle and the Burden of
History. New Brunswick and London:
Rutgers University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii
+ 291. ISBN 0-8135-2809. \$20.00} . . . 213--250
David Goodman Book Review: José Chabás and Bernard R.
Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian
Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the
Transition from Manuscript to Print.
Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, 90, Part 2.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 2000. Pp. xii + 196. ISBN
0-87169-902-8 (paper). No price given 213--250
David Goodman Book Review: Nicolau Cop\`ernic, De les
Revolucions dels orbes celestes.
Translated into Catalan by Enrique
Rodríguez Galdeano and Víctor Navarro
Brotóns with introduction and notes by
Victor Navarro Brotóns. Cl\`assics de la
Ci\`encia, 3. Barcelona: Editorial
P\`ortic, l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans
and Eumo Editorial, 2000. Pp. l + 61.
ISBN 84-7306-626-X. No price given . . . 213--250
Michael John Gorman Book Review: Ingrid D. Rowland, The
Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in
Baroque Rome. With an introduction by F.
Sherwood Rowland. Chicago: University of
Chicago Library, 2000. Pp. xiii + 109.
ISBN 0-94-305625-X. \pounds 9.00,
\$15.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Lorenzo Magnani, Philosophy
and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical
Issues. Western Ontario Series in
Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht, Boston
and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2001. Pp. xix + 249. ISBN 0-7923-6933-5.
\pounds 59.00, \$88.00 (hardback)} . . . 213--250
Anna Greenwood Book Review: Saul Dubow (ed.), Science
and Society in Southern Africa. Studies
in Imperialism. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. x
+ 241. ISBN 0-7190-5812-0. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Colin A. Hempstead Book Review: Hugh R. Slotten, Radio and
Television Regulation: Broadcast
Technology in the United States,
1920--1960. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv +
308. ISBN 0-8018-6450-X. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Hester Higton Book Review: Peter de Clercq, Scientific
Instruments: Originals and Imitations.
The Mensing Collection. Proceedings of a
Symposium, held at the Museum Boerhaave,
Leiden, 15--16 October 1999. Leiden:
Museum Boerhaave, 2000. Pp. 144. ISBN
90-6292-129-9. Dfl 75.00, ???30.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Sean Johnston Book Review: Russellburns, John Logie
Baird, Television Pioneer. History of
Technology Series, 28. London:
Institution of Electrical Engineers,
2000. Pp. xxv + 417. ISBN 0-85296-797-7.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 213--250
Claire Jones Book Review: Margaret A. M. Murray,
Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating
a Professional Identity in Post-World
War II America. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. vxiii +
277. ISBN 0-262-13369-5. \pounds 10.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
David Knight Book Review: Trevor H. Levere,
Transforming Matter: A History of
Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball.
Introductory Studies in the History of
Science. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. x +
215. ISBN 0-8018-6610-3. \pounds 12.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Jean-Paul Pier (ed.),
Development of Mathematics 1950--2000.
Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser,
2000. Pp. x + 1372. ISBN 3-7643-6280-4.
DM 298.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
David Philip Miller Book Review: Neil Chambers (ed.), The
Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A
Selection, 1768--1820. London: Imperial
College Press, 2001. Pp. xliii + 420.
ISBN 1-86094-204-0. \pounds 33.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Robert Olby Book Review: Peter J. Beurton, Raphael
Falk and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.),
The Concept of the Gene in Development
and Evolution: Historical and
Epistemological Perspectives. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xvi + 384. ISBN 0-521-77187-0. \$59.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Evelyn Fox Keller, The
Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Pp. 186. ISBN 0-674-00372-1. \pounds
15.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: Frederic L. Holmes and
Trevor H. Levere (eds.), Instruments and
Experimentation in the History of
Chemistry. Dibner Institute Studies in
the History of Science and Technology.
Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2000.
Pp. xxi + 415. ISBN 0-262-08282-9.
\pounds 34.50 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Angela Schwarz Book Review: Richard Drayton, Nature's
Government: Science, Imperial Britain,
and the `Improvement' of the World. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
2000. Pp. xxi + 346. ISBN 0-300-05976-0.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 213--250
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Michael T. Ghiselin and
Alan E. Leviton (eds.), Cultures and
Institutions of Natural History. Essays
in the History and Philosophy of
Science. Memoirs of the California
Academy of Sciences, 25. San Francisco:
California Academy of Sciences, 2000.
Pp. 363. ISBN 0-940228-48-3. \$40.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
A. Mark Smith Book Review: Johannes Kepler, Optics.
Paralipomena to Witelo & Optical Part of
Astronomy. English translation by
William H. Donahue. Sante Fe: Green Lion
Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 459. ISBN
1-888009-12-8. \$55.00} . . . . . . . . 213--250
E. C. Spary Book Review: Jeff Loveland, Rhetoric and
Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and
Literary Context. Studies on Voltaire
and the Eighteenth Century,
2001[ratio]03. Oxford: Voltaire
Foundation, 2001. Pp. ix + 214. ISBN
0-7294-0747-0. \pounds 45.00, \$67.50
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--250
Charles Thorpe Book Review: John S. Rigden, Rabi:
Scientist and Citizen. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Pp. xxix + 302. ISBN 0-674-00435-3.
\pounds 13.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 213--250
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi
War on Cancer. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x
+ 380. ISBN 0-691-07051-2. \pounds
10.50, \$16.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . 213--250
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
C. A. J. Chilvers Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Matthew R. Goodrum The meaning of ceraunia: archaeology,
natural history and the interpretation
of prehistoric stone artefacts in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 255--269
Bernard Lightman Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the
strange history of a failed rhetorical
strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--289
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Placing nature: natural history
collections and their owners in
nineteenth-century provincial England 291--311
Karen Oslund Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature
and history in the North Atlantic . . . 313--334
Peter Dear Book Review: Boyle in the bag! Robert
Boyle, The Works of Robert Boyle, edited
by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis,
14 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto,
1999--2000. ISBN 1-85196-109-7. \pounds
995.00, \$1,495.00} . . . . . . . . . . 335--340
Ludmilla Jordanova Book Reviews: And? J. V. Field and Frank
James (eds.), Science in Art: Works in
the National Gallery that Illustrate the
History of Science and Technology. BSHS
Monographs, 11. Stanford in the Vale:
British Society for the History of
Science, 1997. Pp. 110. ISBN
0-906450-13-6. \pounds 15.00, \$26.00
(paperback). James Hamilton (ed.),
Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of
Artists and Scientists 1815--1860.
Birmingham: University of Birmingham
Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 174. ISBN
0-902459-10-5. \pounds 20.00, \$35.00
(hardback). David Bindman, Fr\`edéric Ogée
and Peter Wagner (eds.), Hogarth:
Representing Nature's Machines. Barber
Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art
History. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp.
xvi+287. ISBN 0-7190-5919-4. \pounds
18.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: William Whewell, Of the
Plurality of Worlds. A Facsimile of the
First Edition of 1853: Plus Previously
Unpublished Material Excised by the
Author Just Before the Book Went to
Press; and Whewell's Dialogue Rebutting
His Critics, Reprinted from the Second
Edition. Edited and with new
introductory material by Michael Ruse.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. v + 510. ISBN
0-226-89436-3. \pounds 13.00, \$20.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Juliette Chung Book Review: David Wright, Translating
Science: The Transmission of Western
Chemistry into Late Imperial China,
1840--1900. Sinica Leidensia, 48.
Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. xxvi + 558.
ISBN 90-04-11776-8. No price given
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Serafina Cuomo Book Review: Michael N. Fried and
Sabetai Unguru, Apollonius of Perga's
Conica : Text, Context, Subtext.
Mnemosyne, supplement 222. Leiden:
Brill, 2001. Pp. xii + 499. ISBN
90-04-11977-9. ???105.00, \$122.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Randall Dodgen Book Review: Laura Hostetler, Qing
Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and
Cartography in Early Modern China.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 257. ISBN
0-226-35420-2. \pounds 22.50, \$35.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Aileen Fyfe Book Reviews: Andrew Hunter (ed.),
Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books,
Libraries and Collectors: A Study of
Bibliography and the Book Trade in
Relation to the History of Science.
Fourth Edition. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2000. Pp. xii + 405. ISBN 0-566-05481-7.
\pounds 80.00 (hardback). Alain Besson
(ed.), Thornton's Medical Books,
Libraries and Collectors: A Study of
Bibliography and the Book Trade in
Relation to the Medical Sciences. Third
Edition. Aldershot: Gower, 1990. Pp.
xxi+417. ISBN 0-566-05481-7. \pounds
65.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Piers J. Hale Book Review: Charles Elton, Animal
Ecology. With New Introductory Material
by Mathew A. Leibold and J. Timothy
Wootton. Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 2001. Pp. lvi + 209.
ISBN 0-226-20639-4. \pounds 13.00,
\$18.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Mark Harrison Book Review: Douglas M. Haynes, Imperial
Medicine: Patrick Manson and the
Conquest of Tropical Disease.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2001. Pp. 229. ISBN
0-8122-3598-3. \pounds 26.50, \$37.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Rainer Brömer, Uwe Hossfeld
and Nicolaas A. Rupke (eds.),
Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute.
Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie
der Biologie, 4. Berlin: VWB, 2000. Pp.
425. ISBN 3-86135-382-2. DM 68.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Colin A. Hempstead Book Review: Peter Galison and Alex
Roland (eds.), Atmospheric Flight in the
Twentieth Century. Archimedes: New
Studies in the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology, 3. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2000. Pp. xvi + 383. ISBN
0-7923-6037-0. \pounds 112.00 (hardback) 347--379
Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: Ken Beauchamp, History of
Telegraphy: Its Technology and
Application. IEE History of Technology
Series, 26. London: Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 2001. Pp. xxiii +
413. ISBN 0-85296-792-6. \pounds 55.00,
\$95.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Sean Johnston Book Review: P. Klaushentschel and Axel
D. Wittmann (eds.), The Role of Visual
Representations in Astronomy: History
and Research Practice. Acta Historica
Astronomiae, 9. Thun and Frankfurt am
Main: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2000. Pp.
148. ISBN 3-8171-1630-6. DM 24.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Lauren Kassell Book Review: Andrew Wear, Knowledge and
Practice in English Medicine,
1550--1680. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 496.
ISBN 0-521-55827-1. \pounds 16.95,
\$27.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Helge Kragh Book Review: Michael Heidelberger and
Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Experimental
Essays -- Versuch zum Experiment.
Interdisciplinary Studies, 3.
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft,
1998. Pp. xiii + 408. ISBN
3-7890-5367-8. DM 88.00 (paperback) . . 347--379
Cornelia Lambert Book Review: Edmund Russell, War and
Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with
Chemicals from World War I to Silent
Spring. Studies in Environment and
History. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001. Pp. xvii + 315. ISBN
0-521-79937-6. \pounds 12.95, \$19.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Kurt Locher Book Review: John M. Steele,
Observations and Predictions of Eclipse
Times by Early Astronomers. Archimedes:
New Studies in the History and
Philosophy of Science and Technology, 4.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2000. Pp. xi + 321. ISBN 0-7923-6298-5.
\pounds 84.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 347--379
Jill Murdoch Book Review: Ian Carter, Railways and
Culture in Britain: The Epitome of
Modernity. Studies in Popular Culture.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 338.
ISBN 0-7190-5966-6. \pounds 16.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Peter D. Smith, Metaphor
and Materiality. German Literature and
the World-View of Science 1780--1955.
Legenda/Studies in Comparative
Literature 4. Oxford: European
Humanities Research Centre, University
of Oxford, 2000. Pp. xii + 372. ISBN
1-900755-32-7. \pounds 27.50, \$49.50
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Chris Philippidis Book Review: Leah Ceccarelli, Shaping
Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of
Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 204. ISBN
0-226-09907-5. \pounds 13.00, \$20.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
Harriet Ritvo Book Review: Christine Kenyon-Jones,
Kindred Brutes: Animals in
Romantic-Period Writing. Nineteenth
Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp.
viii + 229. ISBN 0-7546-0332-6. \pounds
42.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
William Schupbach Book Review: Susan Wheeler, Five Hundred
Years of Medicine in Art: An Illustrated
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings from
the Clements C. Fry Collection in the
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical
Library at Yale University. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xxviii + 363. ISBN
0-85967-992-6. \pounds 79.50 (hardback) 347--379
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary
of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.
xxii + 249. ISBN 0-521-00000-9. \pounds
16.95, \$24.95 (paperback). Hans-Werner
Sch{\"u}tt, Auf der Suche nach dem Stein
der Weisen: Die Geschichte der Alchemie.
M{\"u}nchen: C. H. Beck, 2000. Pp. 602.
ISBN 3-406-46638-9. DM 68.50 (hardback)} 347--379
Jon Topham Book Review: James A. Secord, Victorian
Sensation: The Extraordinary
Publication, Reception, and Secret
Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural
History of Creation. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp.
xix + 624. ISBN 0-226-74410-8. \pounds
22.50, \$35.00 (hardcover)} . . . . . . 347--379
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Jean Medawar and David
Pyke, Hitler's Gift: Scientists who Fled
Nazi Germany. London: Piatkus Books,
2001. Pp. xx + 268. ISBN 0-7499-22-397.
\pounds 8.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 347--379
Karin Tybjerg Book Review: Andrew Barker, Scientific
Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. viii + 281. ISBN
0-521-55372-5. \pounds 45.00 (hardback) 347--379
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--382
Luciano Boschiero Natural philosophizing inside the late
seventeenth-century Tuscan court . . . . 383--410
M. D. Eddy Scottish chemistry, classification and
the early mineralogical career of the
`ingenious' Rev. Dr. John Walker (1746
to 1779) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--438
Alistair Sponsel Constructing a ``revolution in
science'': the campaign to promote a
favourable reception for the 1919 solar
eclipse experiments . . . . . . . . . . 439--467
Harry Collins Book Review: What the Tortoise said to
Achilles Donald Mackenzie, Mechanizing
Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust.
Inside Technology. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 427.
ISBN 0-262-13393-8. \pounds 30.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--474
Jon Agar Book Review: David H. De Vorkin, Henry
Norris Russell: Dean of American
Astronomers. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp.
xix + 499. ISBN 0-691-04918-1. \pounds
30.00, \$49.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 475--485
Rainer Brömer Book Review: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and
Feza Günergun, Science in Islamic
Civilisation: Proceedings of the
International Symposia `Science
Institutions in Islamic Civilisation'
and `Science and Technology in the
Turkish and Islamic World'. Studies and
Sources on the History of Science, 9.
Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic
History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) 2000.
Pp. vi + 289. ISBN 92-9063-095-7.
\$40.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Martin Campbell-Kelly Book Review: Jon Agar, Turing and the
Universal Machine: The Making of the
Modern Computer. Revolutions in Science.
Duxford: Icon Books, 2001. Pp. iv + 153.
ISBN 1-84046-250-7. \pounds 5.99, \$9.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Richard Coopey Book Reviews: Robert Bud and Philip
Gummett (eds.), Cold War, Hot Science:
Applied Research in Britain's Defence
Laboratories 1945--1990. Studies in the
History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, 7. Amsterdam: Harwood
Academic/Science Museum, 1999. Pp. xix +
426. ISBN 90-5702-481-0. \pounds 42.00,
\$62.00 (hardback); London: Science
Museum, 2002. Pp. xix+426. ISBN
1-900747-47-2. \pounds 34.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: Malcolm Macmillan, An Odd
Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2000. Pp. xiii + 562. ISBN
0-262-13363-6. \pounds 26.50 (hardback) 475--485
Mark Jenner Book Review: Peter Millard (ed.), Notes
of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North.
Toronto, Buffalo and London: University
of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xix + 353.
ISBN 0-8020-4471-9. \pounds 42.00,
\$65.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Peter Morris Book Review: Denis Hogan and Bryce
Williamson (eds.), New Zealand is
Different: Chemical Milestones in New
Zealand History. Revised edition.
Christchurch: Clerestory Press for New
Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 2000.
Pp. xii + 308. ISBN 0-9583706-7-2.
\pounds 20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 475--485
Sean M. Quinlan Book Review: Nicolaas A. Rupke (ed.),
Medical Geography in Historical
Perspective. Medical History, Supplement
20. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine at UCL, 2000.
Pp. xii + 227. ISBN 0-85484-072-9.
\pounds 32.00, \$50.00 (hardback)} . . . 475--485
Allen G. Debus Obituary: Walter Pagel, M.D.: 12
November 1898--25 March 1983 . . . . . . 83--84
S. Schaffer Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Richard Coopey Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--508
Fa-Ti Fan Victorian naturalists in China: science
and informal empire . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
David N. Livingstone Science, religion and the geography of
reading: Sir William Whitla and the
editorial staging of Isaac Newton's
writings on biblical prophecy . . . . . 27--42
Silvia Manzo The arguments on void in the Seventeenth
Century: the case of Francis Bacon . . . 43--61
Brian Garrett Vitalism and teleology in the natural
philosophy of Nehemiah Grew (1641--1712) 63--81
Janet Browne Obituary: Roy Sydney Porter (1946--2002) 83--86
Jon Agar Book Reviews: Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze, Rockefeller and the
Internationalization of Mathematics
between the Two World Wars: Documents
and Studies for the Social History of
Mathematics in the 20th Century. Science
Networks -- Historical Studies, 25.
Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser
Verlag, 2001. Pp. xiii + 341. ISBN
3-7643-6468-8. US\$94.95 (hardback)} . . 87--127
Helen Blackman Book Reviews: Carl Djerassi, This Man's
Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday
of the Pill. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 308. ISBN
0-19-850872-7. \pounds 12.99, US\$22.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Janet Browne Book Review: John C. Greene, Debating
Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar.
Claremont: Regina Books, 1999. Pp. vi +
288. ISBN 0-941690-85-7. No price given
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Janet Browne Book Review: Peter Hamilton and Roger
Hargreaves, The Beautiful and the
Damned: The Creation of Identity in
Nineteenth-Century Photography.
Aldershot: Lund Humphries in association
with the National Portrait Gallery,
2001. Pp. vi + 122. ISBN 0-85331-821-2.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 87--127
David Chart Book Review: Michael Friedman, Dynamics
of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at
Stanford University. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications, 2001. Pp. xiv + 141. ISBN
1-57586-292-1. \pounds 12.50, \$19.50
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Cristina Chimisso Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and Christine Blondel (eds.), Des
Savants face \`a l'occulte 1870--1940.
Sciences et société. Paris: Editions la
découverte, 2002. Pp. 233. ISBN
2-7071-3616-6. \EURO17.50 (paperback) 87--127
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio Book Review: Helaine Selin (ed.),
Astronomy Across Cultures: The History
of Non-Western Astronomy. Science Across
Cultures: The History of Non-Western
Science, 1. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 665. ISBN
0-7923-6363-9. \pounds 215.00, \$345.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Felix Driver Book Review: Nancy Leys Stepan,
Picturing Tropical Nature. Picturing
History. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.
Pp. 283. ISBN 1-86189-084-2. \pounds
25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
M. D. Eddy Book Review: Charles W. J. Withers,
Geography, Science and National
Identity: Scotland since 1520. Cambridge
Studies in Historical Geography, 33.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001. Pp. xvii + 310. ISBN
0-521-64202-7. \pounds 45.00 (hardback) 87--127
M. D. Eddy Book Review: David L. Cowen,
Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in
Britain and America, 1618--1847.
Variorum Collected Studies Series,
CS700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. ix
+ 296. ISBN 0-86078-842-3. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Sophie Forgan Book Review: Christine Stevenson,
Medicine and Magnificence: British
Hospital and Asylum Architecture,
1660--1815. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press for the Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art, 2000.
Pp. viii + 312. ISBN 0-300-08536-2.
\pounds 30.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 87--127
Steve Fuller Book Reviews: Jay A. Labinger and Harry
Collins, The One Culture? A Conversation
about Science. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp.
xi + 329. ISBN 0-226-46723-6. \pounds
11.00, \$17.00 (paperback). James Robert
Brown, Who Rules in Science? An
Opinionated Guide to the Wars.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+236.
ISBN 0-674-00652-6. \pounds 17.95,
\$26.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: Arne Hessenbruch (ed.),
Reader's Guide to the History of
Science. London and Chicago: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2000. Pp. xxix + 934. ISBN
1-884964-29-X. \pounds 95.00 (hardback) 87--127
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: William J. Astore,
Observing God: Thomas Dick,
Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in
Victorian Britain and America.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. ix + 303.
ISBN 0-7546-0202-8. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Christine Garwood Book Reviews: Andrew Berry (ed.),
Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel
Wallace Anthology. With a preface by
Stephen Jay Gould. London and New York:
Verso, 2002. Pp. xvii + 430. ISBN
1-85984-652-1. \pounds 19.00, \$27.00
(hardback). Jane R. Camerini (ed.), The
Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A
Selection of Writings from the Field.
Foreword by David Quammen. Center Books
in Natural History. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002. Pp. xix+221. ISBN 0-8018-6789-4.
\pounds 13.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . 87--127
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Michael Thad Allen and
Gabrielle Hecht (eds.), Technologies of
Power. Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke
Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2001. Pp. xx + 339. ISBN 0-262-51124-X.
\pounds 16.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 87--127
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Jamie C. Kassler, Music,
Science, Philosophy: Models in the
Universe of Thought. Variorum Collected
Studies Series, CS713. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xvi + 301. ISBN
0-86078-862-8. \pounds 55.00 (hardback) 87--127
Paula Gould Book Review: Roddey Reid and Sharon
Traweek (eds.), Doing Science+Culture:
How Cultural and Interdisciplinary
Studies are Changing the Way We Look at
Science and Medicine. New York and
London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. viii + 339.
ISBN 0-415-92112-0. \pounds 16.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Book Review: M. Chisholm, Such Silver
Currents: The Story of William and Lucy
Clifford 1845--1929. Cambridge:
Lutterworth Press, 2002. Pp. x + 198.
ISBN 0-7188-3017-2. \pounds 17.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Colin A. Hempstead Book Review: Sungook Hong, Wireless:
From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion.
Transformations: Studies in the History
of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xv +
248. ISBN 0-262-08298-5. \pounds 23.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Ursula Klein (ed.), Tools
and Modes of Representation in the
Laboratory Sciences. Boston Studies in
the Philosophy of Science, 222.
Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xv + 259.
ISBN 1-4020-0100-2. \pounds 59.00,
\$89.00, {\EURO}95.00 (hardback)} . . . 87--127
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: John Peyton, Solly
Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the
Ordinary. With a foreword by Roy
Jenkins. London: John Murray, 2001. Pp.
xviii + 252. ISBN 0-7195-6283-X. \pounds
22.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Frank A. J. L. James Book Reviews: Colin A. Russell, Michael
Faraday: Physics and Faith. Oxford
Portraits in Science. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000. Pp. 124. ISBN
0-19-511763-8. \pounds 15.20, \$24.00
(hardback). Ann Fullick, Michael
Faraday. Groundbreakers. Oxford:
Heinemann Library, 2000. Pp. 48. ISBN
0-431-10443-3. \pounds 11.25.
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Sean Johnston Book Review: Klaus Hentschel, Mapping
the Spectrum: Techniques of Visual
Representation in Research and Teaching.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pp. xiii + 562. ISBN 0-19-850953-7.
\pounds 75.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 87--127
David Knight Book Review: Marco Beretta, Imaging a
Career in Science: The Iconography of
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Bologna
Studies in Scientific Heritage, 1.
Uppsala Studies in History of Science,
29. Canton, MA: Science History
Publications, 2001. Pp. xvii + 126. ISBN
0-88135-294-2. \$29.95 (hardback)} . . . 87--127
Sophie Page Book Review: William R. Newman and
Anthony Grafton (eds.), Secrets of
Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early
Modern Europe. Transformations: Studies
in the History of Science and
Technology. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 2001. Pp. 443. ISBN
0-262-14075-6. \pounds 34.50 (hardcover) 87--127
Henning Schmidgen Book Review: Stephen Hilgartner, Science
on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama.
Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 214.
ISBN 0-8047-3646-4. \pounds 11.95,
\$18.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Steven Shapin Book Review: David N. Livingstone,
Science, Space and Hermeneutics.
Hettner-Lectures, 5. Heidelberg:
Department of Geography, University of
Heidelberg, 2002. Pp. 116. ISBN
3-88570-505-2. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
David F. Smith Book Review: Jeannette Ewin, Fine Wines
and Fish Oils: The Life of Hugh
Macdonald Sinclair. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 338.
ISBN 0-19-262927-1. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--127
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Jordan Goodman and Vivien
Walsh, The Story of Taxol: Nature and
Politics in the Pursuit of an
Anti-Cancer Drug. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 282.
\pounds 18.95, \$27.95 (hardback)} . . . 87--127
Carsten Timmermann Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh,
\booktitleThe Story of Taxol: Nature and
Politics in the Pursuit of an
Anti-Cancer Drug. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 282.
\pounds 18.95, US\$27.95 (hardback)} . . 87--127
Jim Bennett Knowing and doing in the Sixteenth
Century: what were instruments for? . . 129--150
Ron Naylor Galileo, Copernicanism and the origins
of the new science of motion . . . . . . 151--181
Rienk Vermij The formation of the Newtonian
philosophy: the case of the Amsterdam
mathematical amateurs . . . . . . . . . 183--200
Mark Brown Ethnology and colonial administration in
Nineteenth-Century British India: the
question of native crime and criminality 201--219
Richard Staley Book Reviews: Interdisciplinary atomism?
Exploring twentieth-century culture
through Einstein Marcia Bartusiak,
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony:
Listening to the Sounds of Space--Time.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press,
2000. Pp. xii + 249. ISBN 0-309-06987-4.
\pounds 17.95 (hardback). Alice
Calaprice (ed.), The Expanded Quotable
Einstein. With a foreword by Freeman
Dyson. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2000. Pp. xliii+407.
ISBN 0-691-07021-0. \pounds 11.95,
\$18.95 (cloth). Klaus Hentschel (ed.),
Physics and National Socialism: An
Anthology of Primary Sources. Ann M.
Hentschel, Editorial Assistant and
Translator. Erwin Hiebert and Hans
Wussing (eds.), Science Networks:
Historical Studies, 18. Basel, Boston
and Berlin: Birkh{\"a}user, 1996. Pp.
ci+406+civ. ISBN 3-7643-5312-0. DM
178.00, SFR 148.00, {\EURO}98.00
(cloth). Gerald Holton, Einstein,
History, and Other Passions: The
Rebellion Against Science at the End of
the Twentieth Century. Cambridge and
London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Pp. xii+240. ISBN 0-674-00433-7. \pounds
12.50 (paperback). Don Howard and John
Stachel (eds.), Einstein: The Formative
Years, 1879--1909. Einstein Studies, 8.
Boston, Basel and Berlin:
Birkh{\"a}user, 2000. Pp. xi+258. ISBN
0-8176-4030-4. DM 128.00, {\EURO}83.00,
SFR 124.00. Arthur I. Miller, Einstein,
Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that
Causes Havoc. New York: Basic Books,
2001. Pp. x+357. ISBN 0-465-01859-9.
\$30.00, CAN\$44.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . 221--230
Paula Gould Book Review: Catharine M. C. Haines with
Helen M. Stevens, International Women in
Science: A Biographical Dictionary to
1950. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford:
ABC-CLIO, 2001. Pp. xix + 383. ISBN
1-57607-090-5. \pounds 44.95 (hardback) 231--233
John Sutton Book Review: Dennis Des Chene, Spirits
and Clocks: Machine and Organism in
Descartes. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 181.
ISBN 0-8014-3764-4. \pounds 25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
Bob Press Book Review: Carolyn Rasmussen, A Museum
for the People: A History of Museum
Victoria and its Predecessors,
1854--2000. Melbourne: Scribe
Publications, 2001. Pp. xvi + 423. ISBN
0-908011-69-5. AU\$49.95 (hardback)} . . 235--236
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Review: Stephen T. Asma, Stuffed
Animals & Pickled Heads: The Culture and
Evolution of Natural History Museums.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Pp. xv + 302. ISBN 0-19-513050-2.
\pounds 22.99, \$30.00 (hardback)} . . . 236--237
Katharine Anderson Book Review: Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary
Somerville: Science, Illumination, and
the Female Mind. Cambridge Science
Biographies. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 263.
ISBN 0-521-62672-2. \pounds 14.95,
\$23.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Michael H. Whitworth,
Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor,
and Modernist Literature. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 254.
ISBN 0-19-818640-1. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Roger J. Wood and Vitezslav
Orel, Genetic Prehistory in Selective
Breeding: A Prelude to Mendel. Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press,
2001. Pp. xvii + 323. ISBN
0-19-850584-1. \pounds 49.50 (hardback) 239--241
Gregory Radick Book Reviews: James E. Strick, Sparks of
Life: Darwinism and the Victorian
Debates over Spontaneous Generation.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 283.
ISBN 0-674-00292-X. \pounds 30.95
(hardback). James E. Strick (ed.),
Evolution and the Spontaneous Generation
Debate. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001.
Pp. 8007. 6 vols. ISBN 1-85506-872-9.
\pounds 395.00, \$630.00 (hardback)} . . 241--244
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: E. Fuller Torrey and Judy
Miller, The Invisible Plague: The Rise
of Mental Illness from 1750 to the
Present. New Brunswick and London:
Rutgers University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi
+ 418. ISBN 0-8135-3003-2. \$28.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--246
Mathew Thomson Book Review: David Wright, Mental
Disability in Victorian England: The
Earlswood Asylum 1847--1901. Oxford
Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 244. ISBN
0-19-924639-4. \pounds 40.00 (hardback) 246--247
John C. Waller Book Review: Gerald Sweeney, `Fighting
for the Good Cause': Reflections on
Francis Galton's Legacy to American
Hereditarian Psychology. Transactions of
the American Philosophical Society, 91,
Part 2. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 2001. Pp. x +
136. ISBN 0-87169-912-5. \$18.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Piers J. Hale Book Review: Peder Anker, Imperial
Ecology: Environmental Order in the
British Empire, 1895--1945. Cambridge,
MA and London: Harvard University Press,
2001. Pp. vii + 343. ISBN 0-674-00595-3.
\pounds 41.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 248--250
Charles Thorpe Book Review: Edward Teller with Judith
Shoolery, \booktitleMemoirs: A
Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and
Politics. Oxford: Perseus Press, 2001.
Pp. xii + 628. ISBN 1-903985-12-9.
\pounds 24.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 250--251
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Kirk Jeffrey, Machines in
our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the
Implantable Defibrillator, and American
Health Care. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii
+ 370. ISBN 0-8018-6579-4. \pounds 33.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Gillian Cookson Book Review: Bernard Cronin, Technology,
Industrial Conflict and the Development
of Technical Education in 19th-Century
England. Modern Economic and Social
History Series, 11. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2001. Pp. xiv + 301. ISBN 0-7546-0313-X.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 252--253
Peter J. T. Morris Book Review: Fred Aftalion, A History of
the International Chemical Industry:
From the `Early Days' to 2000. Second
revised edition. Translated by Otto
Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: Chemical
Heritage Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 442.
ISBN 0-941901-29-7. \$24.95 (paperback)} 253--254
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--259
Gabriel Finkelstein M. du Bois-Reymond goes to Paris . . . . 261--300
Katharine Anderson Looking at the sky: the visual context
of Victorian meteorology . . . . . . . . 301--332
Maurice Crosland Research schools of chemistry from
Lavoisier to Wurtz . . . . . . . . . . . 333--361
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: Jürgen Helm and Annette
Winkelmann (eds.), Religious Confessions
and the Sciences in the Sixteenth
Century. Studies in European Judaism, 1.
Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xiv + 161. ISBN
90-04-12045-9. \$58.00, {\EURO}49.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
Adrian Johns Book Review: Richard Yeo, Encyclopaedic
Visions: Scientific Discoveries and
Enlightenment Culture. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.
xxi + 336. ISBN 0-521-65191-3. \pounds
40.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
E. C. Spary Book Review: Louise E. Robbins, Elephant
Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic
Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Animals, History, Culture. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002. Pp. xiv + 349. ISBN 0-8018-6753-3.
\pounds 33.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 367--368
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: Patricia Fara, Newton: The
Making of Genius. London, Basingstoke
and Oxford: Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xvi +
347. ISBN 0-333-90735-3. \pounds 20.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Ralph Harrington Book Review: R. Angus Buchanan, Brunel:
The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom
Brunel. London and New York: Hambledon
and London, 2002. Pp. xxiv + 294. ISBN
1-85285-331-X. \pounds 25.00 (hardback) 370--371
Elizabeth Green Musselman Book Review: Roger Luckhurst and
Josephine McDonagh (eds.), Transactions
and Encounters: Science and Culture in
the Nineteenth Century. Manchester and
New York: Manchester University Press,
2002. Pp. ix + 239. ISBN 0-7190-5911-9.
\pounds 15.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 371--372
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Review: Nick Hopwood, Embryos in
Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio.
With a Reprint of Embryological Wax
Models by Friedrich Ziegler. Cambridge:
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
and Bern: Institute of Medical History,
2002. Pp. ix + 206. ISBN 0-906271-18-5.
\pounds 13.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 372--373
Cristina Chimisso Book Review: Nicole Hulin, Les Femmes et
l'enseignement scientifique. Science,
histoire, société. Paris: Presses
universitaires de France, 2002. Pp. xi +
227. ISBN 2-13-052659-4. \EURO23.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Roger Smith Book Review: Graham Richards, Putting
Psychology in its Place: A Critical
Historical Overview. Second edition. New
York: Routledge and Hove: Psychology
Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 368. ISBN
1-84169-234-4. \pounds 16.60 (paperback) 374--375
Thomas Dixon Book Review: G. C. Bunn, A. D. Lovie and
G. D. Richards (eds.), Psychology in
Britain: Historical Essays and Personal
Reflections. Leicester: British
Psychological Society, 2001. Pp. xvi +
495. ISBN 1-85433-332-1. \pounds 26.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Nikolai Krementsov, The
Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics
from the Annals of the Cold War. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xvi + 261. ISBN 0-226-45284-0.
\pounds 16.50, \$26.00 (hardback)} . . . 377--378
Charles Thorpe Book Review: Richard Polenberg (ed.), In
the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The
Security Clearance Hearing. Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Pp. xxxii + 409. ISBN 0-8014-8661-0.
\$13.50 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Arne Hessenbruch Book Review: G. I. Brown, Invisible
Rays: The History of Radioactivity.
Stroud: Sutton, 2002. Pp. viii + 248.
ISBN 0-7509-2667-8. \pounds 19.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: E. Roy Weintraub, How
Economics Became a Mathematical Science.
Science and Cultural Theory. Durham, NC
and London: Duke University Press, 2002.
Pp. xiii + 313. ISBN 0-8223-2871-2.
\pounds 14.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 380--381
Theodore M. Porter Book Review: Philip Mirowski and
Esther-Mirjam Sent (eds.), Science
Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics
of Science. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp.
ix + 573. ISBN 0-226-53857-5. \pounds
21.00, \$33.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 381--383
Cornelius Borck Book Review: Stephen P. Turner,
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social
Theory after Cognitive Science. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. ix + 214. ISBN 0-226-81740-7.
\pounds 12.00, \$19.00 (paperback)} . . 383--384
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--387
Simone Turchetti Atomic secrets and governmental lies:
nuclear science, politics and security
in the Pontecorvo case . . . . . . . . . 389--415
C. A. J. Chilvers The dilemmas of seditious men: the
Crowther--Hessen correspondence in the
1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--435
Rebekah Higgitt `Newton dépossédé!' The British response to
the Pascal forgeries of 1867 . . . . . . 437--453
A. J. Pacey Emerging from the museum: Joseph Dawson,
mineralogist, 1740--1813 . . . . . . . . 455--469
Aileen Fyfe and
Paul Smith Telling stories . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--476
John Henry Book Review: Diderick Raven, Wolfgang
Krohn and Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Edgar
Zilsel: The Social Origins of Modern
Science. Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 200. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2000. Pp. lix + 267. ISBN
0-7923-6457-0. \pounds 89.00, \$143.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Paula Findlen Book Review: Andrew C. Scott and David
Freedberg, Fossil Woods and Other
Geological Specimens. The Paper Museum
of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B: Natural
History, Part Three. Turnhout: Harvey
Miller Publishers, 2000. Pp. 424. ISBN
1-872501-91-5. \EURO232.00 (hardback) 478--480
David Shotter Book Review: Tim Murray (ed.),
Encyclopaedia of Archaeology: The Great
Archaeologists. Santa Barbara:
ABC--CLIO, 1999. Pp. xxii + 950. ISBN
1-57607-199-5. \$150.00 (hardback)} . . 480--480
John Friesen Book Review: Anita Guerrini, Obesity and
Depression in the Enlightenment: The
Life and Times of George Cheyne.
Oklahoma Project for Discourse and
Theory. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2000. Pp. xx + 283. ISBN
0-8061-3201-9. \$19.95 (paperback)} . . 481--482
John Friesen Book Reviews: A NITA Guerrini, Obesity
and Depression in the Enlightenment: The
Life and Times of George Cheyne.
Oklahoma Project for Discourse and
Theory. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2000. Pp. xx + 283. ISBN
0-8061-3201-9. US\$19.95 (paperback)} 481--482
Jack Morrell Book Review: S. M. Walters and E. A.
Stow, Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens
Henslow 1796--1861. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 338.
ISBN 0-521-59146-5. \pounds 40.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Michael B. Roberts Book Review: John M. Lynch (ed.),
Creationism and Scriptural Geology,
1817--1857. Bristol: Thoemmes Press,
2002. Pp. xxiv + 2994. ISBN
1-85506-928-8. \pounds 595.00 (hardback) 483--485
Jon Agar Book Review: Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas
P. Hughes (eds.), Systems, Experts, and
Computers: The Systems Approach in
Management and Engineering, World War II
and After. Dibner Institute Studies in
the History of Science and Technology.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2000. Pp. ii + 513. ISBN 0-262-08285-3.
\pounds 34.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 485--487
Brian C. Shipley Book Review: Naomi Oreskes (ed.) with
Homer L E Grand, Plate Tectonics: An
Insider's History of the Modern Theory
of the Earth. Boulder and Oxford:
Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv + 424.
ISBN 0-8133-3981-2. \$35.00 (hardback)} 487--488
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--491
Brian C. Shipley Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
Avner Ben-Zaken The heavens of the sky and the heavens
of the heart: the Ottoman cultural
context for the introduction of
post-Copernican astronomy . . . . . . . 1--28
Diarmid A. Finnegan The work of ice: glacial theory and
scientific culture in early Victorian
Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--52
Marianne Sommer `An amusing account of a cave in Wales':
William Buckland (1784--1856) and the
Red Lady of Paviland . . . . . . . . . . 53--74
Geoffrey Cantor Creating the Royal Society's Sylvester
Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92
M. D. Eddy Book Review: Fallible or inerrant? A
belated review of the `constructivist's
bible' Jan Golinski, Making Natural
Knowledge: Constructivism and the
History of Science. Cambridge History of
Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 236. ISBN
0-521-44913-8. \pounds 15.95 (paperback) 93--98
Jim Bennett Book Review: Sharon Macdonald, Behind
the Scenes at the Science Museum.
Materializing Culture. Oxford and New
York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xiii + 293. ISBN
1-85973-571-1. \pounds 14.00 (paperback) 99--100
Enda Leaney Book Review: Charles Mollan, William
Davis and Brendan Finucane (eds.), Irish
Innovators in Science and Technology.
Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. Pp.
xv + 256. ISBN 1-874045-88-7. \pounds
28.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Catherine Eagleton and
Karin Tybjerg and
Koen Vermeir Book Review: Pamela O. Long, Openness,
Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and
the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity
to the Renaissance. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001. Pp. xiii + 364. ISBN
0-8018-6606-5. \pounds 38.00 (hardback) 101--103
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: Antonio Clericuzio,
Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A
Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the
Seventeenth Century. International
Archives of the History of Ideas, 171.
Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi + 223.
ISBN 0-7923-6782-0. \pounds 65.00,
\$103.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Sean M. Quinlan Book Review: Lisa Silverman, Tortured
Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in
Early Modern France. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp.
xv + 264. ISBN 0-226-75754-4. \$20.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
William H. Brock Book Review: Trevor H. Levere and Gerard
L'E. Turner, Discussing Chemistry and
Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House
Philosophical Society 1780--1787. With
contributions from Jan Golinski and
Larry Stewart. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 284. ISBN
0-19-851530-8. \pounds 65.00 (hardback) 106--107
A. Bowdoin Van Riper Book Review: Claudine Cohen, The Fate of
the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History.
Translated by William Rodarmor with a
foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xxxiv + 297. ISBN
0-226-11292-6. \pounds 19.00, \$30.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Jim Endersby Book Review: David Elliston Allen,
Naturalists and Society: The Culture of
Natural History in Britain, 1700--1900.
Variorum Collected Studies Series:
CS724. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xiv
+ 298. ISBN 0-86078-863-6. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Richard Noakes Book Review: Roger Luckhurst, The
Invention of Telepathy, 1870--1901.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pp. ix + 324. ISBN 0-19-924962-8.
\pounds 35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 110--112
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Benjamin H. Yandell, The
Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and
Their Solvers. Natick, MA: A. K. Peters,
2002. Pp. ix + 486. ISBN 1-56881-141-1.
\pounds 28.00, \EURO46.00, \$39.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Neil Pemberton Book Review: Emily Thompson, The
Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural
Acoustics and the Culture of Listening
in America, 1900--1933. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. ix +
500. ISBN 0-262-20138-0. \pounds 30.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--118
Massimo Mazzotti Newton for ladies: gentility, gender and
radical culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--146
Hester Higton Portrait of an instrument-maker:
Wenceslaus Hollar's engraving of Elias
Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--166
Agustí Nieto-Galan Free radicals in the European periphery:
`translating' organic chemistry from
Zurich to Barcelona in the early
twentieth century . . . . . . . . . . . 167--191
Karin Tybjerg Book Review: J. Lennart Berggren and
Alexander Jones, Ptolemy's Geography :
An Annotated Translation of the
Theoretical Chapters. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2000. Pp. xiii + 192. ISBN
0-691-01042-0. \pounds 24.95, \$39.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Evelyn Edson Book Review: Natalia Lozovsky, `The
Earth is Our Book': Geographical
Knowledge in the Latin West ca.
400--1000. Recentiores: Latin Texts and
Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 182. ISBN
0-472-11132-9. \pounds 28.00, \$44.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Daniel Brownstein Book Review: David Cantor (ed.),
Reinventing Hippocrates. The History of
Medicine in Context. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2002. Pp. x + 341. ISBN 0-7546-0528-0.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 197--199
John Henry Book Review: Peter Dear, Revolutionizing
the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its
Ambitions, 1500--1700. Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii + 208. ISBN
0-333-71574-8. \pounds 14.99 (paperback) 199--200
John Henry Book Review: Paolo Rossi, Logic and the
Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal
Language. Translated with an
Introduction by Stephen Clucas, London:
The Athlone Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii +
333. ISBN 0-485-11468-2. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: Marie Boas Hall, Henry
Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pp. xii + 369. ISBN 0-19-851053-5.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 201--203
David Philip Miller Book Review: Richard L. Hills, James
Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland,
1736--1774. Landmark Collector's
Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing,
2002. Pp. 480. ISBN 1-84306-045-0.
\pounds 29.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 203--206
Martin Rudwick Book Reviews: René Sigrist (ed.), H.-B.
de Saussure (1740--1799): Un Regard sur
la terre. Biblioth\`eque d'histoire des
sciences, 4. Geneva and Paris: Georg
Editeur, 2001. Pp. x + 540. ISBN
2-8257-0740-6. No price given
(paperback). Albert V. Carozzi and John
K. Newman (eds.), Lectures on Physical
Geography given in 1775 by Horace-Bénédict
de Saussure at the Academy of
Geneva/Cours de géographie physique donné
en 1775 par Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
\`a l'Académie de Gen\`eve. Geneva:
Éditions Zoé, 2003. Pp. xxii+527. ISBN
2-88182-481-1. No price given
(paperback). Horace-Bénédict de Saussure,
Voyages dans les Alpes: Augmentés des
Voyages en Valais, au Mont Cervin et
autour du Mont Rose. With a Foreword by
Albert V. Carozzi. Geneva: Editions
Slatkine, 2002. Pp. xviii+300. ISBN
2-8321-0047-3. No price given (hardback) 206--207
Richard Yeo Book Review: Ankete Heesen, The World in
a Box: The Story of an
Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia.
Translated by Ann M. Hentschel. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xii + 237. ISBN 0-226-32287-4.
\pounds 13.00, \$20.00 (paperback)} . . 208--209
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: David Boyd Haycock, William
Stukeley: Science, Religion and
Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century
England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press,
2002. Pp. xiii + 290. ISBN
0-85115-864-1. \pounds 40.00, \$70.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Dorinda Outram Book Review: Jessica Riskin, Science in
the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental
Empiricists of the French Enlightenment.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 338.
ISBN 0-226-72079-9. \pounds 17.70,
\$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
David Knight Book Review: Michel Chaouli, The
Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and
Poetics in the Work of Friedrich
Schlegel. Parallax. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-8018-6884-X.
\pounds 33.50, \$45.00 (hardback)} . . . 211--212
Michael H. Whitworth Book Review: George Levine, Dying to
Know: Scientific Epistemology and
Narrative in Victorian England. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xi + 326. ISBN 0-226-47536-0.
\pounds 31.50, \$45.00 (hardback)} . . . 212--213
Ursula Klein Book Review: Agustí Nieto-Galan,
Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural
Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe. Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
217. Dordrecht, Boston and London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp.
xxv + 246. ISBN 0-7923-7022-8. \pounds
59.00, \$84.00, {\EURO}97.00 (hardback)} 214--215
Piers J. Hale Book Review: Stuart McCook, States of
Nature: Science, Agriculture, and
Environment in the Spanish Caribbean,
1760--1940. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 201. ISBN
0-292-75257-1. \pounds 17.50 (paperback) 215--216
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Paola Govoni, Un pubblico
per la scienza: La divulgazione
scientifica nell'Italia in formazione.
Studi storici Carocci, 27. Rome: Carocci
editore, 2002. Pp. 351. ISBN
88-430-2321-7. \EURO23.50 (paperback) 216--217
Jim Endersby Book Review: R. W. Home, A. M. Lucas,
Sara Maroske, D. M. Sinkora and J. H.
Voigt (eds.), Regardfully Yours:
Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von
Mueller. Volume II: 1860--1875. Bern:
Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 865. ISBN
3-906757-09-9. \pounds 36.00 (hardback) 217--219
Piers J. Hale Book Review: Douglas R. Weiner, Models
of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and
Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia.
With a New Afterword. Pitt Series in
Russian and East European Studies.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 324. ISBN
0-8229-5733-7. \$17.95 (paperback)} . . 219--220
Steven French Book Review: Helge Kragh, Quantum
Generations: A History of Physics in the
Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 494.
ISBN 0-691-09552-3. \pounds 13.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Sean Johnston Book Review: Antony Kamm and Malcolm
Baird, John Logie Baird: A Life.
Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland
Publishing, 2002. Pp. xii + 465. ISBN
1-901663-76-0. \pounds 25.00 (hardback) 221--222
Joel B. Hagen Book Review: Robin L. Chazdon and T. C.
Whitmore (eds.), Foundations of Tropical
Forest Biology: Classic Papers with
Commentaries. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp.
xvii + 862. ISBN 0-226-10225-4. \pounds
24.50, \$35.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 223--223
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Stephen Jay Gould, I Have
Landed: Splashes and Reflections in
Natural History. London: Vintage, 2002.
Pp. 418. ISBN 0-09-974971-8. \pounds
7.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Rainer Brömer Book Review: Henry Harris, Things Come
to Life: Spontaneous Generation
Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2002. Pp. ix + 168. ISBN
0-19-851538-3. \pounds 20.00 (hardback) 224--225
Cristina Chimisso Book Review: Hél\`ene Gispert (ed.), `Par
la Science, pour la patrie':
L'Association française pour l'avancement
des sciences (1872--1914), un projet
politique pour une société savante.
Collection Carnot. Rennes: Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. Pp. 372.
ISBN 2-86847-681-3. \EURO23.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Robert Fox Book Review: Henry L E Chatelier,
Science et industrie: Les Débuts du
taylorisme en France. With a preface by
Michel Letté. Format, 46. Paris: Editions
du CTHS, 2001. Pp. xxxi + 283. ISBN
2-7355-0487-5. \EURO14.00 (paperback) 227--227
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (ed.),
Science in the Third Reich. German
Historical Perspectives, 12. Oxford and
New York: Berg, 2001. Pp. vii + 289.
ISBN 1-85973-421-9. \pounds 14.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--229
C. A. J. Chilvers Book Review: Vadim J. Birstein, The
Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story
of Soviet Science. Boulder: Westview
Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 492. ISBN
0-8133-3907-3. \$32.50 (hardback)} . . . 229--230
David Edgerton Book Review: Guy Hartcup, The Effect of
Science on the Second World War.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Pp. xvii + 214. ISBN 1-4039-0643-2.
\pounds 17.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 230--230
Arne Hessenbruch Book Review: Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki
Daitch, True Genius: The Life and
Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner
of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press,
2002. Pp. xi + 467. ISBN 0-309-08408-3.
\pounds 20.95, \$27.95 (hardback)} . . . 230--231
Jon Agar Book Reviews: Stephen B. Johnson, The
Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in
American and European Space Programs.
New Series in NASA History. Baltimore
and London: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 290. ISBN
0-8018-6898-X. \pounds 30.50 (hardback).
John M. Logsdon (ed.), Exploring the
Unknown: Selected Documents in the
History of the U.S. Civil Space Program.
Volume V: Exploring the Cosmos. NASA
History Series. Washington: NASA, 2001.
Pp. xxviii+796. ISBN 0-16-061774-X. No
price given (hardback). Douglas J.
Mudgway, Uplink-Downlink: A History of
the Deep Space Network 1957--1997. NASA
History Series. Washington, DC: National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of External Relations, 2001. Pp.
xlviii+674. ISBN 0-16-066599-X. \$82.00
(US domestic postpaid), \$102.50
(internationally) (hardback) . . . . . . 231--233
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Helen Ross and Cornelis
Plug, The Mystery of the Moon Illusion:
Exploring Size Perception. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix +
277. ISBN 0-19-850862-X. \pounds 29.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Matthew R. Edwards (ed.),
Pushing Gravity: New Perspectives on Le
Sage's Theory of Gravitation. Montreal:
Apeiron, 2002. Pp. iv + 316. ISBN
0-9683689-7-2. \$25.00 (paperback)} . . 234--235
Friedrich Steinle Book Review: Ernest B. Hook (ed.),
Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On
Resistance and Neglect. Berkeley, Los
Angeles and London: University of
California Press, 2002. Pp. xx + 378.
ISBN 0-520-23106-6. \pounds 55.00,
\$80.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Alex Dolby Book Review: John Waller, Fabulous
Science: Fact and Fiction in the History
of Scientific Discovery. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 308.
ISBN 0-19-280404-9. \pounds 18.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Alex Dolby Book Review: Rosalind Williams,
Retooling: A Historian Confronts
Technological Change. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 252.
ISBN 0-262-23223-5. \pounds 18.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Keith Vernon Book Review: Colin Divall and Andrew
Scott, Making Histories in Transport
Museums. Making Histories in Museums.
London and New York: Leicester
University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 221.
ISBN 0-7185-0106-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
Anthony Coulls Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Henry Atmore Railway interests and the `rope of air',
1840--8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--279
Michael Bulmer Did Jenkin's swamping argument
invalidate Darwin's theory of natural
selection? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--297
Ana Simões Textbooks, popular lectures and sermons:
the quantum chemist Charles Alfred
Coulson and the crafting of science . . 299--342
Vivian Nutton Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd, The
Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding
the World in Ancient Greece and China.
Ideas in Context Series, 64. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp.
xvi + 175. ISBN 0-521-89461-1. \pounds
15.95, \$22.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 344--344
Aude Doody Book Review: John F. Healy, Pliny the
Elder on Science and Technology. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv +
467. ISBN 0-19-814687-6. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
John Henry Book Reviews: Malcolm Oster (ed.),
Science in Europe, 1500--1800: A Primary
Sources Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave,
2002. Pp. xix + 282. ISBN 0-333-97002-0.
\pounds 14.99 (paperback). Malcolm Oster
(ed.), Science in Europe, 1500--1800: A
Secondary Sources Reader. Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii+307. ISBN
0-333-97006-3. \pounds 14.99 (paperback) 346--347
Hester Higton Book Review: M. Barlow Pepin, The
Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen,
Lipperhey, and the Unknown Man.
Duncanville, TX: T. Tauri Productions,
2002. Pp. 41. No ISBN. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Rudolph Gamper and Thomas
Hofmeier, Das Alchemiehandbuch des
Appenzeller Wundarztes Ulrich Ruosch.
Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Pp. 158. ISBN
3-7965-1975-X. \EURO33.50, SFr 48.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
John Friesen Book Review: Scott Mandelbrote,
Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at
Work. Exhibition at Cambridge University
Library 9 October 2001--23 March 2002.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Library,
2001. Pp. 142. ISBN 0-902205-58-7.
\pounds 7.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 349--350
William Ashworth Book Reviews: Michael Hoskin (ed.),
Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies.
Cambridge: Science History Publications,
2003. Pp. viii + 147. ISBN
0-905193-06-7. \pounds 25.00 (hardback).
Michael Hoskin, The Herschel Partnership
as Viewed by Caroline. Cambridge:
Science History Publications, 2003. Pp.
viii+182. ISBN 0-905193-05-9. \pounds
25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Mary Croarken Book Review: Doron Swade, The Cogwheel
Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to
Build the First Computer. London:
Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Pp. x +
342. ISBN 0-316-64847-7. \pounds 14.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Gillian Cookson Book Review: Richard L. Hills, Life and
Inventions of Richard Roberts,
1789--1864. Landmark Collector's
Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing,
2002. Pp. 255. ISBN 1-84306-027-2.
\pounds 29.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 352--353
John Cantrell Book Review: Bridget Howard, Mr Lean and
the Engine Reporters. Redruth:
Trevithick Society, 2002. Pp. 99. ISBN
0-904040-56-9. \pounds 9.99 (paperback) 353--353
Peter Skelton Book Review: Randal Keynes, Annie's Box:
Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human
Evolution. London: Fourth Estate, 2001.
Pp. xiv + 331. ISBN 1-84115-060-6.
\pounds 16.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 353--354
Ian Higginson Book Review: Susan E. Lederer,
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of
Nature. New Brunswick, NJ and London:
Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. ix +
78. ISBN 0-8135-3200-0. \$30.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Benno Artmann Book Review: Roger Herz-Fischler, The
Shape of the Great Pyramid. Waterloo:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000.
Pp. xii + 293. ISBN 0-88920-324-5.
\$29.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Nick Hopwood Book Review: Andreas W. Daum,
Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19.
Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur,
naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die
deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848--1914.
Second edition. Munich: Oldenbourg,
2002. Pp. xii + 619. ISBN 3-486-56551-6.
\EURO59.80 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Maria Yamalidou Book Review: J. S. Rowlinson, Cohesion:
A Scientific History of Intermolecular
Forces. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 333. ISBN
0-521-81008-6. \pounds 65.00 (hardback) 358--359
Richard Staley Book Review: Michael Eckert and Karl
Märker (eds.), Arnold Sommerfeld:
Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel. Band 1:
1892--1918. Berlin, Diepholz and München:
Deutsches Museum and Verlag für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und
der Technik, 2000. Pp. 694. ISBN
3-928186-49-3. \EURO68.00 (hardback) . . 360--361
Suman Seth Book Review: Erhard Scholz (ed.),
Hermann Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and a
General Introduction to His Scientific
Work. DMV Seminar, 30. Basel, Boston and
Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2001. Pp. vii + 403.
ISBN 3-7643-6476-9. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Hugh Pennington Book Review: David Tyrrell and Michael
Fielder, Cold Wars: The Fight Against
the Common Cold. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 253.
ISBN 0-19-263285-X. \pounds 17.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Allen B. Weisse, Heart to
Heart: The Twentieth-Century Battle
Against Cardiac Disease. New Brunswick
and London: Rutgers University Press,
2002. Pp. xvii + 415. ISBN
0-8135-3157-8. \$35.00 (hardback)} . . . 363--364
Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson Book Review: Michael Bravo and Sverker
Sörlin (eds.), Narrating the Arctic: A
Cultural History of Nordic Scientific
Practices. Canton, MA: Science History
Publications/USA, 2002. Pp. ix + 373.
ISBN 0-88135-385-X. \$39.95 (hardback)} 364--365
Alex Dolby Book Review: Gregory N. Derry, What
Science Is and How It Works. Princeton
and Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2002. Pp. xi + 311. ISBN 0-691-09550-7.
\pounds 13.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 365--366
Mary Tiles Book Review: Cristina Chimisso, Gaston
Bachelard: Critic of Science and the
Imagination. Routledge Studies in
Twentieth-Century Philosophy, 9. London
and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xi +
285. ISBN 0-415-26905-9. \pounds 71.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
M. D. Eddy Scottish chemistry, classification and
the late mineralogical career of the
`ingenious' Professor John Walker
(1779--1803) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--399
Ben Marsden `The progeny of these two ``Fellows''':
Robert Willis, William Whewell and the
sciences of mechanism, mechanics and
machinery in early Victorian Britain . . 401--434
Anne Scott `Visible incarnations of the unseen':
Henry Drummond and the practice of
typological exegesis . . . . . . . . . . 435--454
J. Hughes Deconstructing the bomb: recent
perspectives on nuclear history . . . . 455--464
Maria Yamalidou Book Reviews: Peter Harman and Simon
Mitton (eds.), Cambridge Scientific
Minds. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 343. ISBN
0-521-78612-6. \pounds 14.95
(paperback). David Millar, Ian Millar,
John Millar and Margaret Millar, The
Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists.
Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+428.
ISBN 0-521-00062-9. \pounds 14.95,
\$20.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
Laurence M. V. Totelin Book Review: Maria Michela Sassi, The
Science of Man in Ancient Greece.
Translated by Paul Tucker. With a
Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2001. Pp. xxx + 224. ISBN 0-226-73530-3.
\pounds 21.50, \$34.00 (hardback)} . . . 467--468
Jackie Stedall Book Review: H. L. L. Busard, Johannes
de Tinemue's Redaction of Euclid's
Elements, the So-called Adelard III
Version. Volume I: Introduction, Sigla
and Descriptions of the Manuscripts,
Editorial Remarks, Euclides, Elementa.
Volume II: Conspectus Siglorum,
Apparatus Criticus, Addenda. Boethius,
45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2001. Pp. 632. ISBN 3-515-07975-0.
\EURO100.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 468--469
Simon Werrett Book Review: Gerhard W. Kramer, The
Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval
Germany. The Journal of the Arms and
Armour Society, 17(1). London: Arms and
Armour Society, 2001. Pp. 89. ISSN
00004-2439. \pounds 10 (paperback) . . . 469--470
Scott Mandelbrote Book Review: Robert Crocker (ed.),
Religion, Reason and Nature in Early
Modern Europe. International Archives of
the History of Ideas, 180. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix + 228. ISBN
1-4020-0047-2. \pounds 65.00, \$103.00,
{\EURO}93.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . 470--471
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Rienk Vermij, The Calvinist
Copernicans: The Reception of the New
Astronomy in the Dutch Republic,
1575--1750. History of Science and
Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1.
Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse
Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. x
+ 433. ISBN 90-6984-340-4. \EURO49.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
Georgette Ironside Book Review: Rina Knoeff, Herman
Boerhaave (1668--1738): Calvinist
Chemist and Physician. History of
Science and Scholarship in the
Netherlands, 3. Amsterdam: Koninklijke
Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
2002. Pp. xvi + 237. ISBN 90-6984-342-0.
\EURO35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Book Review: J. Christiaan Boudri, What
was Mechanical about Mechanics: The
Concept of Force between Metaphysics and
Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, 224. Dordrecht, Boston and
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002. Pp. xvi + 276. ISBN 1-4020-0233-5.
\pounds 75.00, \$112.00, {\EURO}112.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Ken Alder, The Measure of
All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey that
Transformed the World. London: Little,
Brown, 2002. Pp. xiv + 466. ISBN
0-316-85989-3. \pounds 15.99 (hardback) 474--475
J. F. M. Clark Book Review: Berit Pedersen (ed.), A
Guide to the Archives of the Royal
Entomological Society. Ashgate:
Aldershot, 2002. Pp. x + 198. ISBN
0-7546-0106-4. \pounds 42.50 (hardback) 476--477
Leigh D. Bregman Book Review: Richard Yeo, Science in the
Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in
British Culture 1800--1860. Variorum
Collected Studies Series, CS726.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. 324. ISBN
0-86078-865-2. \pounds 57.50 (hardback) 477--478
Nick Fisher Book Review: Louise Purbrick (ed.), The
Great Exhibition of 1851: New
Interdisciplinary Essays. Texts in
Culture. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp.
xii + 217. ISBN 0-7190-5592-X. \pounds
15.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Sophie Forgan Book Review: Hermione Hobhouse, The
Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition:
Art, Science and Productive Industry. A
History of the Royal Commission for the
Exhibition of 1851. London and New York:
Athlone, 2002. Pp. xx + 451. ISBN
0-485-11575-1. \pounds 40.00 (hardback) 479--480
Kenneth F. Kiple Book Review: Michael Worboys, Spreading
Germs: Disease Theories and Medical
Practice in Britain, 1865--1900.
Cambridge History of Medicine.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. xvi + 327. ISBN 0-521-77302-4.
\pounds 37.50, \$59.95 (hardback)} . . . 480--481
Juliana Adelman Book Review: Greta Jones, `Captain of
All these Men of Death': The History of
Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century Ireland. Wellcome Institute
Series in the History of Medicine: Clio
Medica, 62. Amsterdam and New York:
Rodopi, 2001. Pp. ii + 263. ISBN
90-420-1031-2. \$22.50, {\EURO}24.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Hazel Hutchison Book Review: Christopher Herbert,
Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought
and Scientific Discovery. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2001. Pp. xv + 302. ISBN 0-226-32733-7.
\pounds 10.50, \$16.00 (paperback)} . . 482--483
Peter Zigman Book Review: Paul Ziche (ed.), Monismus
um 1900: Wissenschaftskultur und
Weltanschauung. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
Studien: Monographien zur Geschichte der
Biowissenschaften und Medizin, 4.
Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und
Bildung, 2000. Pp. 200. ISBN
3-86135-483-7. \EURO24.00 (paperback) 484--484
Sean Johnston Book Review: Maggie Mort, Building the
Trident Network: A Study of the
Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and
Machines. Inside Technology. Cambridge,
MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. x +
217. ISBN 0-262-13397-0. \pounds 22.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Book Review: A. M. Moulin and A.
Cambrosio (eds.), Singular Selves:
Historical Issues and Contemporary
Debates in Immunology/Dialogues entre
soi: Questions historiques et débats
contemporains en immunologie. Amsterdam:
Elsevier/Musée Claude Bernard, 2001. Pp.
303. ISBN 2-84-299-210-5. \EURO59.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Claire Jones Book Review: Ioan James, Remarkable
Mathematicians: From Euler to von
Neumann. Spectrum Series of the
Mathematical Association of America.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. Pp. xiv + 433. ISBN 0-521-52094-0.
\pounds 19.95, \$25.00 (paperback)} . . 487--488
Adrian Rice Book Review: Joseph W. Dauben and
Christoph J. Scriba (eds.), Writing the
History of Mathematics: Its Historical
Development. Historical Studies: Science
Networks, 27. Basel, Boston and Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 2002. Pp. xxvii + 689. ISBN
3-7643-6167-0. \EURO73.83, SFr 186.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Leigh Clayton Book Review: Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth
Keniston and Leo Marx (eds.), Earth,
Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of
the Environment. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts, 1999. Pp. ix + 349. ISBN
1-55849-221-6. \pounds 17.00 (paperback) 490--491
Steven French Book Review: Steven Weinberg, Facing Up:
Science and Its Cultural Adversaries.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 283.
ISBN 0-674-00647-X. \pounds 17.95,
\$26.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--499
Steven French Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
Simon Naylor Introduction: historical geographies of
science --- places, contexts,
cartographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Hayden Lorimer and
Nick Spedding Locating field science: a geographical
family expedition to Glen Roy, Scotland 13--33
Lawrence Dritsas From Lake Nyassa to Philadelphia: a
geography of the Zambesi Expedition,
1858--1864 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52
Diarmid A. Finnegan Natural history societies in late
Victorian Scotland and the pursuit of
local civic science . . . . . . . . . . 53--72
Robert Mayhew Mapping science's imagined community:
geography as a Republic of Letters,
1600--1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--92
David N. Livingstone Text, talk and testimony: geographical
reflections on scientific habits. An
afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100
Kim Plofker Book Review: Helaine Selin (ed.) and
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (advisory ed.),
Mathematics across Cultures: The History
of Non-Western Mathematics. Science
across Cultures: The History of
Non-Western Science, 2. Dordrecht and
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2000. Pp. xx + 479. ISBN 0-7923-6481-3.
\pounds 135.00, \$217.00 (hardback)} . . 102--103
Donald B. Wagner Book Review: H. T. Huang, Science and
Civilisation in China. Volume 6: Biology
and Biological Technology. Part V:
Fermentations and Food Science. Joseph
Needham: Science and Civilisation in
China. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 741. ISBN
0-521-65270-7. \pounds 95.00 (hardback) 103--104
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Owen Gingerich, An
Annotated Census of Copernicus' De
revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and
Basel, 1566). Studia Copernicana --
Brill's Series, 2. Leiden, Boston, MA
and Köln: Brill, 2002. Pp. xxxi + 402.
ISBN 90-04-11466-1. \$132.00,
{\EURO}113.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 104--105
Wilbur Applebaum Book Review: Ladina Bezzola Lambert,
Imagining the Unimaginable: The Poetics
of Early Modern Astronomy.
Internationale Forschungen zur
allgemeinen und vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft, 58. Amsterdam and
New York: Rodopi, 2002. Pp. ix + 182.
ISBN 90-420-1578-0. \$34.50,
{\EURO}37.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . 105--106
David C. Lindberg Book Review: Richard S. Brooks and David
K. Himrod, Science and Religion in the
English-Speaking World, 1600--1727: A
Bibliographic Guide to the Secondary
Literature. American Theological Library
Association Bibliography Series, 46.
Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press,
2001. Pp. xxxiv + 620. ISBN
0-8018-4011-1. \$85.00 (hardback)} . . . 107--107
Jackie Stedall Book Review: Amir R. Alexander,
Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of
Discovery and the Transformation of
Mathematical Practice. Writing Science.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2002. Pp. xvii + 293. ISBN
0-80473-260-4. \pounds 46.95 (hardback) 108--109
James Livesey Book Review: L. W. B. Brockliss,
Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the
Republic of Letters in
Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xx +
471. ISBN 0-19-924748-X. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Claire Brock Book Review: Barbara T. Gates (ed.), In
Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's
Writing and Illustration, 1780--1930.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi + 673.
ISBN 0-226-28446-8. \pounds 17.50,
\$27.50 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Sheila Ann Dean Book Review: Richard Keynes, Fossils,
Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's
Adventures and Discoveries on the
Beagle, 1832--1836. London:
HarperCollins, 2002. Pp. xix + 428. ISBN
0-00-710189-9. \pounds 25.00 (hardback) 112--113
Paul White Book Review: Sofia Åkerberg, Knowledge
and Pleasure at Regent's Park: The
Gardens of the Zoological Society of
London during the Nineteenth Century.
Idéhistoriska skrifter, 36. Umeå:
Department of Historical Studies, 2001.
Pp. 254. ISBN 91-7305-147-0. No price
given (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
J. F. M. Clark Book Review: John Thackray and Bob
Press, The Natural History Museum:
Nature's Treasurehouse. London: Natural
History Museum, 2001. Pp. 144. ISBN
0-565-09164-6. \pounds 11.00 (paperback) 114--115
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen
W. Dorman and Frank R. Millikan (eds.),
The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 9.
The Smithsonian Years, January
1854--December 1857. With the assistance
of Deborah Y. Jeffries. Canton, MA:
Smithsonian Institution/Science History
Publications, 2002. Pp. l + 516. ISBN
1-88135-363-9. \$79.95 (hardback)} . . . 115--116
Robert Fox Book Review: Guillermo Lusa Monforte
(ed.), La creación de la Escuela
Industrial Barcelonesa (1851): 1 de
octubre de 1851--1 de octubre de 2001.
Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros
Industriales de Barcelona, 11.
Barcelona: Escola T\`ecnica Superior
d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona,
Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya,
2001. Pp. 168. ISSN 1137-0238. No price
given (hardback). Guillermo Lusa
Monforte, Inquietudes y reformas de
cambio de siglo: el proyecto de nueva
Escuela Industrial (1899--1910).
Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros
Industriales de Barcelona, 12.
Barcelona: Escola T\`ecnica Superior
d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona,
Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya,
2002. Pp. 191. ISSN 1137-0238. No price
given (paperback). Guillermo Lusa
Monforte, El conflicto con la Diputación
(1915). La plena incorporación de la
Escuela al Estado (1917). Documentos de
la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de
Barcelona, 13. Barcelona: Escola
T\`ecnica Superior d'Enginyeria
Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat
Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya, 2003. Pp.
191. ISSN 1137-0238. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew
Warwick (eds.), Histories of the
Electron: The Birth of Microphysics.
Dibner Institute Studies in the History
of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xi +
514. ISBN 0-262-02494-2. \pounds 37.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Harry M. Marks, The
Progress of Experiment: Science and
Therapeutic Reform in the United States,
1900--1990. Cambridge History of
Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 258.
ISBN 0-521-78561-8. \pounds 14.95,
\$19.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Akihito Suzuki Book Review: Roy Porter, Madness: A
Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 241. ISBN
0-19-280266-6. \pounds 11.99, \$22.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Stefano Gattei Book Review: Steve Fuller, Thomas Kuhn:
A Philosophical History for Our Times.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 472.
ISBN 0-226-26896-9. \pounds 14.50,
\$22.50 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Koen Vermeir The magic of the magic lantern
(1660--1700): on analogical
demonstration and the visualization of
the invisible . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--159
Francis Reid Isaac Frost's \booktitleTwo Systems of
Astronomy (1846): plebeian resistance
and scriptural astronomy . . . . . . . . 161--177
Simon Cook Late Victorian visual reasoning and
Alfred Marshall's economic science . . . 179--195
K. G. Valente `A finite universe?' Riemannian geometry
and the modernist theology of Ernest
William Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--217
Leigh D. Bregman Book Review: Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas
H. Broman (eds.), Science and Civil
Society. Osiris, 17. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. x
+ 373. ISBN 0-226-07371-8. \$50.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Ursula Klein Book Review: Robert Siegfried, From
Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical
Composition. Transactions of the
American Philosophical Society, 92 (4).
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 2002. Pp. x + 278. ISBN
0-87169-924-9. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
John Van Wyhe Book Review: Stanley Finger, Origins of
Neuroscience: A History of Explorations
into Brain Function. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 462.
ISBN 0-19-514694-8. \pounds 29.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: Jürgen Schönbeck, Euklid.
Vita Mathematica, 12. Basel, Boston and
Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2003. Pp. x + 264.
ISBN 3-7643-6584-6. \EURO82.24, SFr
128.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Hester Higton Book Review: Koenraad van Cleempoel, A
Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific
Instruments from the Louvain School,
1530 to 1600. De Diversis Artibus:
Collection of Studies from the
International Academy of the History of
Science, 65. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002.
Pp. xii + 284. ISBN 2-503-51218-6.
\EURO75.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Wilbur Applebaum Book Review: Barbara M. Benedict,
Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early
Modern Inquiry. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp.
ix + 321. ISBN 0-226-04264-2. \pounds
17.50, \$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 226--227
William C. Kimler Book Review: Carl von Linné, Nemesis
Divina. Edited and translated with
explanatory notes by M. J. Petry.
Archives internationales d'histoire des
idées, 177. Dordrecht, Boston and London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp.
xviii + 483. ISBN 0-7923-6820-7. \pounds
119.00, \$169.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . 227--228
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Jean-Luc Chappey, La Société
des observateurs de l'homme
(1799--1804): Des Anthropologues au
temps de Bonaparte. Biblioth\`eque
d'histoire révolutionnaire, 5. Paris:
Société des études robespierristes, 2002.
Pp. 573. ISBN 2-908327-45-7. \EURO46.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
David Knight Book Review: Robert J. Richards, The
Romantic Conception of Life: Science and
Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xix + 587. ISBN 0-226-71210-9.
\pounds 24.00, \$35.00 (hardback)} . . . 230--231
M. D. Eddy Book Review: Hugh Torrens, The Practice
of British Geology, 1750--1850. Variorum
Collected Studies Series, CS736.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. 372. ISBN
0-86078-876-8. \pounds 59.50 (hardback) 231--232
W. H. Brock Book Review: David Philip Miller,
Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry
Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century
`Water Controversy'. Science, Technology
and Culture, 1700--1945. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiii + 316. ISBN
0-7546-3177-X. \pounds 55.00 (hardback) 232--234
David Edgerton Book Review: Augustí Nieto-Galan, Santponç
-- Monturiol -- Isaac Peral: la seducción
de la máquina vapores, submarinos e
inventores. With a Preface by Saturnino
de la Plaza. Novatores, 2. Madrid:
Nivola, 2001. Pp. 129. ISBN
84-95599-10-4. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
Christine Hertler Book Review: Uwe Hoßfeld, Lennart Olsson
and Olaf Breidbach (eds.), Carl
Gegenbaur and Evolutionary Morphology.
Theory in Biosciences, 122, 2--3
(special issue). Jena: Urban & Fischer,
2003. Pp. 198. ISSN 1431-7613. No price
given (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Sean Johnston Book Review: Steven J. Dick, Sky and
Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory
1830--2000. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 609.
ISBN 0-521-81599-1. \pounds 90.00,
\$130.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Helen Small and Trudi Tate
(eds.), Literature, Science,
Psychoanalysis, 1830--1970: Essays in
Honour of Gillian Beer. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003. Pp. vii + 255.
ISBN 0-19-96667-0. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Enda Leaney Book Review: Mark McCartney and Andrew
Whitaker (eds.), Physicists of Ireland:
Passion and Precision. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN
0-7503-0866-4. \pounds 40.00, \$58.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
David Kaiser Book Review: Jagdish Mehra and Kimball
A. Milton, Climbing the Mountain: The
Scientific Biography of Julian
Schwinger. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 677. ISBN
0-19-850658-9. \pounds 45.00 (hardback) 239--240
Allan Franklin Book Review: Hans Radder (ed.), The
Philosophy of Scientific
Experimentation. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. Pp. xii +
311. ISBN 0-8229-5795-7. \$29.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Sophie Forgan Book Review: Ulf Larsson (ed.), Cultures
of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition
of the Nobel Prize. English translation
by Daniel M. Olson. Nobel Museum
Archives, 2. Canton, MA: Science History
Publications, 2001. Pp. 228. ISBN
0-88135-288-8. \$40.00 (paperback)} . . 242--243
Simon Chaplin Book Review: Ken Arnold and Danielle
Olsen (eds.), Medicine Man: The
Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome.
London: British Museum Press, 2003. Pp.
397. ISBN 0-7141-2794-9. \pounds 19.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--249
Janet Browne Presidential address: Commemorating
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--274
Maria Rentetzi Designing (for) a new scientific
discipline: the location and
architecture of the Institut für
Radiumforschung in early
twentieth-century Vienna . . . . . . . . 275--306
Gavin Schaffer `Like a baby with a box of matches':
British scientists and the concept of
`race' in the inter-war period . . . . . 307--324
Anna-K. Mayer When things don't talk: knowledge and
belief in the inter-war humanism of
Charles Singer (1876--1960) . . . . . . 325--347
J. R. R. Christie Book Review: John V. Pickstone, Ways of
Knowing: A New History of Science,
Technology and Medicine. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2000;
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 273. ISBN
0-226-66795-2. \pounds 14.00, \$27.50
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: John L. Heilbron (ed.), The
Oxford Companion to the History of
Modern Science. Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp.
xxviii + 941. ISBN 0-19-511229-6.
\pounds 80.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 351--353
Robert G. W. Kirk Book Review: Angela N. H. Creager and
William Chester Jordan (eds.), The
Animal/Human Boundary: Historical
Perspectives. Studies in Comparative
History, 2. Woodbridge: University of
Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 342.
ISBN 1-58046-120-4. \pounds 50.00,
\$75.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Jonathan Y. Tsou Book Review: Michael Heidelberger and
Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of
Philosophy of Science: New Trends and
Perspectives. Vienna Circle Institute
Yearbook, 9. Dordrecht, Boston and
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002. Pp. x + 440. ISBN 1-4020-0509-1.
\pounds 87.00, \EURO138.00, \$127.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Stephen C. Mccluskey Book Review: Asger Aaboe, Episodes from
the Early History of Astronomy. New
York: Springer-Verlag, 2001. Pp. xv +
172. ISBN 0-387-95136-9. \pounds 33.00,
\$49.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Jackie Stedall Book Review: Menso Folkerts, Essays on
Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin
Tradition. Variorum Collected Studies
Series, CS751. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Pp. 382. ISBN 0-86078-895-4. \pounds
59.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: David A. King, The Ciphers
of the Monks: A Forgotten
Number-Notation of the Middle Ages.
Boethius, 44. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner
Verlag, 2001. Pp. 506. ISBN
3-515-07640-9. DM 199.49, EUR 102.00
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Vivian Nutton Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi, Medicine
and the Italian Universities,
1250--1600. Education and Society in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance, 12. Leiden:
Brill, 2001. Pp. ix + 389. ISBN
90-04-11942-6. \$122.00, {\EURO}105.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
J. V. Field Book Review: Wolfgang Lef\`evre, Jürgen
Renn and Urs Schoepflin (eds.), The
Power of Images in Early Modern Science.
Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser
Verlag, 2003. Pp. ix + 308. ISBN
3-7643-2434-1. \EURO118.00 (paperback) 361--361
John Henry Book Reviews: Leonhart Fuchs, De
historia stirpium commentarii insignes.
With a Commentary by Karen Reeds. Octavo
Digital Editions. Oakland: Octavo, 2003.
ISBN 1-59110-051-8. \pounds 29.00,
\$30.00 (CD-ROM). Nicolaus Copernicus,
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
libri VI. With a Commentary by Owen
Gingerich. Octavo Digital Editions.
Oakland: Octavo, 2003. ISBN
1-891788-14-0. \pounds 24.00, \$40.00
(CD-ROM). Galileo Galilei, Siderius
Nuncius. With a Commentary by Albert van
Helden. Octavo Digital Editions.
Oakland: Octavo, 2003. ISBN
1-891788-12-4. \pounds 15.00, \$25.00
(CD-ROM). Robert Hooke, Micrographia.
With a Commentary by Brian J. Ford.
Octavo Digital Editions. Oakland:
Octavo, 2003. ISBN 1-891788-02-7.
\pounds 29.00, \$30.00 (CD-ROM).
Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and
Observations on Electricity. With a
Commentary by I. Bernard Cohen. Octavo
Digital Editions. Oakland: Octavo, 2003.
ISBN 1-891788-13-2. \pounds 23.00,
\$25.00 (CD-ROM)} . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Stanton J. Linden (ed.),
The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes
Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.
xxv + 260. ISBN 0-521-79662-8. \pounds
16.95, \$24.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 363--363
M. D. Eddy Book Reviews: William R. Newman,
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George
Starkey, an American Alchemist in the
Scientific Revolution. With a New
Forward. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv + 348.
ISBN 0-226-57714-7. \pounds 19.50,
\$27.50 (paperback). William R. Newman
and Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried
in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the
Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2002. Pp. xv+344. ISBN 0-226-57711-2.
\pounds 28.00, \$40.00 (hardback) . . . 364--366
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Book Review: S. Chandrasekhar, Newton's
Principia for the Common Reader. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii + 595.
ISBN 0-19-852675-X. \pounds 49.95
(paperback). (First published in
hardback, 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Fernando Vidal Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and Bruno Bernardi (eds.), Rousseau et
les sciences. Paris, Budapest and Turin:
L'Harmattan, 2003. Pp. 316. ISBN
2-7475-5100-8. \EURO25.90 (paperback) 368--369
Emma Spary Book Review: Roger L. Williams, French
Botany in the Enlightenment: The
Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His
Rescuers. International Archives of the
History of Ideas, 182. Dordrecht, Boston
and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2003. Pp. 240. ISBN 1-4020-1109-1.
\pounds 57.00, \$85.00 (hardback)} . . . 369--371
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Danielle Fauque (ed.),
Lavoisier et la naissance de la chimie
moderne. Paris: Vuibert, 2003. Pp. 233.
ISBN 2-7117-5353-0. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Jeremy Gray Book Review: Andrew Warwick, Masters of
Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of
Mathematical Physics. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2003. Pp. xiv + 572. ISBN 0-226-87375-7.
\pounds 20.50, \$29.00 (paperback)} . . 372--373
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--378
Huib J. Zuidervaart An eighteenth-century
medical--meteorological society in the
Netherlands: an investigation of early
organization, instrumentation and
quantification. Part 1 . . . . . . . . . 379--410
Juliana Adelman Evolution on display: promoting Irish
natural history and Darwinism at the
Dublin Science and Art Museum . . . . . 411--436
Anne O'Connor The competition for the Woodwardian
Chair of Geology: Cambridge, 1873 . . . 437--461
James Secord The electronic harvest . . . . . . . . . 463--467
Thomas Dixon Book Review: David C. Lindberg and
Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), When Science
and Christianity Meet. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2003. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 0-226-48214-6.
\pounds 20.50, \$29.00 (hardback)} . . . 469--471
Jon Agar Book Review: Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey
and Andrew Feenberg (eds.), Modernity
and Technology. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 421.
ISBN 0-262-13421-7. \pounds 26.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--473
John Nerone Book Review: Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey
B. Pingree (eds.), New Media,
1740--1915. Media in Transition.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2003. Pp. xxxiv + 271. ISBN
0-262-07245-9. \pounds 23.50 (hardback) 473--474
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Paola Bertucci and Giuliano
Pancaldi (eds.), Electric Bodies:
Episodes in the History of Medical
Electricity. Bologna Studies in History
of Science 9. Bologna: Universit\`a di
Bologna, Dipartimento di Filosofia,
2001. Pp. 298. ISBN 88-900162-2-1. No
price given (paperback) . . . . . . . . 474--475
Aude Doody Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd, In the Grip
of Disease: Studies in the Greek
Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2003. Pp. xxi + 258. ISBN
0-19-925323-4. \pounds 25.00 (hardback) 476--477
Adam Lucas Book Review: Francesc Relaño, The Shaping
of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and
Cartographic Science in Late Medieval
and Early Modern Europe. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x + 271. ISBN
0-754-60239-7. \pounds 52.50 (hardback) 477--478
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: Sigmund Eisner (ed.), A
Variorum Edition of the Works of
Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume VI: The Prose
Treatises. Part One: A Treatise on the
Astrolabe. Norman: University of
Oklahoma, 2002. Pp. xxiv + 358. ISBN
0-8061-3413-5. \$75.00 (hardback)} . . . 478--478
Raquel Delgado-Moreira Book Review: Ayval Leshem, Newton on
Mathematics and Spiritual Purity.
International Archives of the History of
Ideas, 183. Dordrecht, Boston and
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2003. Pp. x + 230. ISBN 1-4020-1151-2.
\pounds 58.00, \$86.00, {\EURO}90.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
James Sumner Book Review: William J. Ashworth,
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production
and Consumption in England 1640--1845.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Pp. xiii + 396. ISBN 0-19-925921-6.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 480--481
Alexandra Cook Book Review: Jean-Daniel Candaux and
Jean-Marc Drouin (eds.),
Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle: Mémoires et
souvenirs (1778--1841). Biblioth\`eque
d'histoire des sciences, 5. Geneva:
Georg Editeur, 2003. Pp. xv + 591. ISBN
2-8257-0832-1. \EURO33.00 (paperback) 482--483
Sean Johnston Book Review: John Cantrell and Gillian
Cookson (eds.), Henry Maudslay and the
Pioneers of the Machine Age. Stroud and
Charleston: Tempus, 2002. Pp. 192. ISBN
0-7524-2766-0. \pounds 16.99, \$26.99
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
P. M. Harman Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus,
Frankenstein's Children: Electricity,
Exhibition, and Experiment in
Early-Nineteenth-Century London.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 324. ISBN
0-691-05952-7. \$45.00, \pounds 32.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Bruce J. Hunt Book Reviews: P. M. Harman (ed.),
\booktitleThe Scientific Letters and
Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I:
1846--1862. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xxviii +
748. ISBN 0-521-25625-9. \$195.00
(hardback). \booktitle{Volume II:
1862--1873}. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xxx + 999.
ISBN 0-521-25626-7. \$285.00 (hardback).
\booktitleVolume III: 1873--1879.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. Pp. xxvii + 932. ISBN
0-521-25627-5. \pounds 210.00, \$315.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--487
Jack Morrell Book Review: John C. Thackray, To See
the Fellows Fight: Eye-Witness Accounts
of Meetings of the Geological Society of
London and its Club, 1822--1868. BSHS
Monographs, 12. London: British Society
for the History of Science, 2003. Pp.
xviii + 243. ISBN 0-906450-14-4. \pounds
15.00. \$26.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 487--488
Roy Macleod Book Review: Lawrence Goldman, Science,
Reform and Politics in Victorian
Britain: The Social Science Association,
1857--1886. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. Pp. 419+index.
ISBN 0-521-33053 . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--490
David Smith Book Review: Roger Cooter and John
Pickstone (eds.), Companion to Medicine
in the Twentieth Century. Routledge
World Reference. London and New York:
Routledge, 2003. Pp. xix + 756. ISBN
0-415-28603-4. \pounds 24.99 (paperback) 490--491
Mary Croarken Book Review: Georgina Ferry, A Computer
Called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the
World's First Office Computer. London:
Fourth Estate, 2003. Pp. xi + 221. ISBN
1-84115-185-8. \pounds 15.99 (hardback) 491--492
Eve Seguin Book Review: Maxime Schwartz, How the
Cows Turned Mad. Translated by Edward
Schneider. Berkeley and London:
University of California Press, 2003.
Pp. viii + 238. ISBN 0-520-23531-2.
\pounds 17.95, \$24.95 (hardback)} . . . 492--494
Michael Roberts Book Review: John A. Moore, From Genesis
to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and
Creationism. Berkeley, Los Angeles and
London: University of California Press,
2002. Pp. xvi + 223. ISBN 0-520-22441-8.
\pounds 19.95, \$27.50 (hardback)} . . . 494--495
Jenny Marie Book Review: Alan H. Goodman, Deborah
Heath and M. Susan Lindee (eds.),
Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and
Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University of California Press, 2003.
Pp. xvii + 311. ISBN 0-520-23793-5.
\pounds 16.95, \$24.95 (paperback)} . . 495--496
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Stephen Pender Examples and experience: on the
uncertainty of medicine . . . . . . . . 1--28
Anna Maerker The tale of the hermaphrodite monkey:
classification, state interests and
natural historical expertise between
museum and court, 1791--1794 . . . . . . 29--47
Huib J. Zuidervaart An eighteenth-century
medical--meteorological society in the
Netherlands: an investigation of early
organization, instrumentation and
quantification. Part 2 . . . . . . . . . 49--66
Karen Wood Making and circulating knowledge through
Sir William Hamilton's \booktitleCampi
Phlegraei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--96
Savithri Preetha Nair Science and the politics of colonial
collecting: the case of Indian
meteorites, 1856--70 . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
Lewis Pyenson Book Review: Robert Fox (ed.), Centre
and Periphery Revisited: The Structures
of European Science, 1750--1914. Revue
de la Maison française: Oxford, 2003. Pp.
191. ISSN 1477-3082. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Mary Jo Nye (ed.), The
Cambridge History of Science. Volume 5:
The Modern Physical and Mathematical
Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003. Pp. xxix + 678.
ISBN 0-521-57199-5. \pounds 65.00,
\$95.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F.
Gianelli and Glenn N. Statile (eds.),
The Tests of Time: Readings in the
Development of Physical Theory.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2003. Pp. xliii + 716.
ISBN 0-691-09085-8. \$25.95 (paperback)} 125--126
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Hans Niels Jahnke (ed.), A
History of Analysis. History of
Mathematics, 24. Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society and London
Mathematical Society, 2003. Pp. xi +
422. ISBN 0-8218-2623-9. \$89.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
David Pantalony Book Review: Marco Beretta, Paolo
Galluzzi and Carlo Triarco (eds.), Musa
Musaei: Studies on Scientific
Instruments and Collections in Honour of
Mara Miniati. Biblioteca di Nuncius
Studi e Testi, XLIX. Firenze: Leo S.
Olschki, 2003. Pp. viii + 486. ISBN
88-222-5238-1. \EURO49.00 (paperback) 127--128
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: Hester Higton, with
contributions from Silke Ackermann,
Richard Dunn, Kiyoshi Takada and Anthony
Turner, Sundials at Greenwich: A
Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary
Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press and
National Maritime Museum, 2002. Pp. x +
463. ISBN 0-19-850877-8. \pounds 99.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Elaine Hobby Book Review: Caroline Bicks, Midwiving
Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Women
and Gender in the Early Modern World.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii + 212.
ISBN 0-7546-0938-3. \pounds 40.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Jim Bennett Book Review: Robert D. Huerta, Giants of
Delft. Johannes Vermeer and the Natural
Philosophers: The Parallel Search for
Knowledge during the Age of Discovery.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press and
London: Associated University Presses,
2003. Pp. 156. ISBN 0-8387-5538-0.
\pounds 39.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 131--131
Peter Dear Book Review: Nicholas Hammond (ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Pascal.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003. Pp. xvi + 287. ISBN 0-521-00611-2.
\pounds 15.95, \$23.00 (paperback)} . . 131--133
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Oliver Hochadel, Öffentliche
Wissenschaft. Elektrizität in der
deutschen Aufklärung. Göttingen: Wallstein
Verlag, 2003. Pp. 364. ISBN
3-89244-629-6. \EURO 35.00 (paperback) 133--134
Charlotte Bigg Book Review: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang,
Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar
Eclipse Expeditions. Writing Science.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2002. Pp. xii + 196. ISBN 0-8047-3926-9.
\pounds 16.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 134--135
Ana Carneiro Book Review: Ursula Klein, Experiments,
Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic
Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.
Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 305.
ISBN 0-8047-4359-2. \pounds 49.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Roger Smith Book Review: Thomas Dixon, From Passions
to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular
Psychological Category. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x
+ 287. ISBN 0-521-82729-9. \pounds
47.50, \$60.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 137--138
Thomas Dixon Book Review: Paul White, Thomas Huxley:
Making the `Man of Science'. Cambridge
Science Biographies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.
xiv + 205. ISBN 0-521-64967-6. \pounds
16.99, \$22.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 138--140
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: David Knight (ed.), The
Evolution Debate 1813--1870. London and
New York: Routledge in association with
the Natural History Museum, 2003. Pp.
3748. ISBN 0-415-28922-X (set of nine
volumes). \pounds 895.00 (hardback) . . 140--141
John C. Waller Book Review: Diana Wyndham, Eugenics in
Australia: Striving for National
Fitness. London: Diana Wyndham and the
Galton Institute, 2003. Pp. 406. ISBN
0-9504066-7-8. \pounds 5.00 (paperback) 141--142
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Deborah Fitzgerald, Every
Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in
American Agriculture. Yale Agrarian
Studies. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 241.
ISBN 0-300-08813-2. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Emma Spary Book Review: Steven B. Karch, A History
of Cocaine: The Mystery of Coca Java and
the Kew Plant. London: Royal Society of
Medicine Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 224. ISBN
1-85315-547-0. \pounds 24.95, \$39.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Peter Morris Book Review: Lesley Richmond, Julie
Stevenson and Alison Turton (eds.), The
Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to
Historical Records. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2003. Pp. ix + 561. ISBN 0-7546-3352-7.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 144--145
Alex Roland Book Review: Roger D. Launius and Janet
R. Daley Bednarek (eds.), Reconsidering
a Century of Flight. Chapel Hill and
London: University of North Carolina
Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 300. ISBN
0-8078-5488-3. \pounds 14.95, \$19.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
D. J. Clark Book Review: Slava Gerovitch, From
Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of
Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA and
London: MIT Press, 2002. pp. xiv + 369.
ISBN 0-262-07232-7. \pounds 25.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--148
C. A. J. Chilvers Book Review: Garland E. Allen and Roy M.
Macleod (eds.), Science, History and
Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett
Mendelsohn. Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 228. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2001. Pp. x + 388. ISBN
1-4020-0495-8. \pounds 85.00, \$124.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Piers J. Hale Book Review: Spencer R. Weart, The
Discovery of Global Warming. New
Histories of Science, Technology and
Medicine. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi +
228. ISBN 0-674-01157-0. \pounds 19.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Finn Bowring, Science,
Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the
Appropriation of Life. London and New
York: Verso, 2003. Pp. xiii + 388. ISBN
1-85984-687-4. \pounds 19.00, \$29.99,
C\$39.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Chandak Sengoopta Book Review: Henry C. Lee and Frank
Tirnady, Blood Evidence: How DNA is
Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes.
Oxford: Perseus Publishing, 2003. Pp.
xxx + 418. ISBN 0-7382-0602-4. \pounds
19.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Peter J. Bowler Presidential address: Experts and
publishers: writing popular science in
early twentieth-century Britain, writing
popular history of science now . . . . . 159--187
Jon Mcginnis A medieval Arabic analysis of motion at
an instant: the Avicennan sources to the
\em forma fluens/fluxus formae debate 189--205
Paul Elliott and
Stephen Daniels The `school of true, useful and
universal science'? Freemasonry, natural
philosophy and scientific culture in
eighteenth-century England . . . . . . . 207--229
Faidra Papanelopoulou Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815--1890):
engineering thermodynamics in
mid-nineteenth-century France . . . . . 231--254
Claire Brock The public worth of Mary Somerville . . 255--272
Jack Morrell Book Reviews: Geological movements
Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin,
Geologist. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 2005. Pp. xx + 485.
ISBN 0-8014-4348-2. \pounds 21.95,
\$39.95 (hardback). Martin J. S.
Rudwick, The New Science of Geology:
Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age
of Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Pp. xviii+316. ISBN 0-86078-958-6.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback). Martin J. S.
Rudwick, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists:
Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age
of Reform. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp.
xviii+316. ISBN 0-86078-959-4. \pounds
60.00 (hardback). Martin J. S. Rudwick,
Bursting the Limits of Time: The
Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age
of Revolution. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp.
xxiv+708. ISBN 0-226-73111-1. \pounds
28.50, \$45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . 273--279
Roberta Bivins Book Reviews: Mark Harrison, Disease and
the Modern World: 1500 to the Present
Day. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. Pp.
vi + 270. ISBN 0-7456-2810-9. \pounds
17.99, \$26.95 (paperback). Kenneth F.
Kiple (ed.), The Cambridge Historical
Dictionary of Disease. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.
xiii+412. ISBN 0-521-53026-1. \pounds
19.95, \$27.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 282--283
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Carsten Kretschmann (ed.),
Wissenspopularisierung. Konzepte der
Wissensverbreitung im Wandel.
Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher
Wandel 4. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003.
Pp. 409. ISBN 3-05-003770-9. \EURO49.80
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Marta Spranzi Book Review: Fernand Hallyn,
\booktitleLes Structures rhétoriques de
la science. De Kepler \`a Maxwell.
Collection $ \ll $Des travaux$ \gg $.
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004. Pp. 323.
ISBN 2-02-063249-7. \EURO24.00 . . . . . 285--286
Hester Higton Book Reviews: Catherine Eagleton,
Jennifer Downes, Katherine Harloe, Boris
Jardine, Nick Jardine and Adam Mosley,
Instruments of Translation. Cambridge:
Cambridge Latin Therapy Group and the
Whipple Museum of the History of
Science, 2003. Pp. 54. ISBN
0-906271-21-5. No price given
(paperback). Patrick Boner and Catherine
Eagleton (eds.), Instruments of Mystery.
Cambridge: Cambridge Latin Therapy Group
and the Whipple Museum of the History of
Science, 2004. Pp. iv + 65. ISBN
0-906271-22-3. No price given
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287
Yakup Bektas Book Review: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu,
Science, Technology and Learning in the
Ottoman Empire: Western Influence, Local
Institutions and the Transfer of
Knowledge. Variorum Collected Studies
Series, CS773. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Pp. xiv + 352. ISBN 0-86078-924-1.
\pounds 59.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 287--288
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Volker Fritz Brüning,
Bibliographie der alchemistischen
Literatur. Band 1: Die alchemistischen
Druckwerke von der Erfindung der
Buchdruckerkunst bis zum Jahr 1690.
München: K. G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xii + 500.
ISBN 3-598-11603-9. \EURO248.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Silvia Manzo Book Review: Francis Bacon, The
Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum
and Associated Texts. Edited with
introduction, notes, commentaries and
facing-page translations by Graham Rees
with Maria Wakely. The Oxford Francis
Bacon, XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
2004. Pp. cxxviii + 634. ISBN
0-19-924792-7. \pounds 120.00 (hardback) 290--291
Sean Johnston Book Review: Nicholas J. Wade, Destined
for Distinguished Oblivion: The
Scientific Vision of William Charles
Wells (1757--1817). History and
Philosophy of Psychology. New York,
Boston, Dordrecht, London and Moscow:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Pp. xi
+ 310. ISBN 0-306-47385-2. \$95.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Randall Dodgen Book Review: Fa-Ti Fan, British
Naturalists in Qing China: Science,
Empire and Cultural Encounter.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 238.
ISBN 0-674-01143-0. \pounds 32.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
Paul White Book Review: Margaret E. Derry, Bred for
Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies,
and Arabian Horses since 1800. Animals,
History, Culture. Baltimore and London:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Pp. xvi + 198. ISBN 0-8018-7344-4.
\pounds 27.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 294--295
Gillian Cookson Book Review: Kenneth Silverman,
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of
Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2003. Pp. vi + 503. ISBN
0-375-40128-8. \$35.00 (hardback)} . . . 295--296
Carolyn Dougherty Book Review: Michael R. Bailey (ed.),
Robert Stephenson: The Eminent Engineer.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xxvii +
401. ISBN 0-7546-3679-8. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Claire Brock Book Review: Allan Chapman, Mary
Somerville and the World of Science.
Bristol: Canopus Publishing, 2004. Pp.
ix + 157. ISBN 0-9537868-4-6. \pounds
12.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Leigh D. Bregman Book Review: Steven Ruskin, John
Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science,
Public Imagination and the Ambitions of
Empire. Science, Technology and Culture,
1700--1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Pp. xxix + 229. ISBN 0-7546-3558-9.
\pounds 45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 298--299
Thomas F. Glick Book Review: Janet Browne, Charles
Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume 2 of
a Biography. London: Jonathan Cape,
2002. Pp. 591. ISBN 0-679-42932-8.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 299--301
Jonathan Hodge Book Reviews: Frederick Burkhardt,
Duncan M. Porter et al. (eds.), The
Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume
12: 1864. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xl + 694.
ISBN 0-521-59034-5. \pounds 55.00
(hardback). Volume 13: 1865. With
Supplement to the Correspondence
1822--1864. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. Pp. xl+695. ISBN
0-521-82413-3. \pounds 65.00 (hardback).
Volume 14: 1866. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp. xl+655. ISBN
0-521-84459-2. \pounds 75.00 (hardback) 301--302
Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: Basil Mahon, \booktitleThe
Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of
James Clerk Maxwell. Chichester: John
Wiley, 2003. Pp. xx + 226. ISBN
0-470-86088-X. \pounds 18.99 (hardback) 303--303
Irina Sirotkina Book Review: Georges Didi-Huberman,
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the
Photographic Iconography of the
Salpêtri\`ere. Translated by Alisa Hartz.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2003. Pp. xii + 373. ISBN 0-262-04215-0.
\pounds 23.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 303--305
Peter Morris Book Review: Peter J. Ramberg, Chemical
Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The
Early History of Stereochemistry,
1874--1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Pp. xxiv + 399. ISBN 0-75546-0397-0.
\pounds 57.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 305--306
Amna Khalid Book Review: Alison Bashford, Imperial
Hygiene: A Critical History of
Colonialism, Nationalism and Public
Health. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2004. Pp. ix + 264. ISBN 1-4039-0488-X.
\pounds 50.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 306--307
Simone Turchetti Book Review: John Krige and Dominique
Pestre (eds.), Companion to Science in
the Twentieth Century. Routledge World
Reference. London and New York:
Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxxv + 941. ISBN
0-415-286065-9. \pounds 26.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Martin Cooper Book Review: Helmuth Trischler and
Stefan Zeilinger (eds.), Tackling
Transport. Artefects Series: Studies in
the History of Science and Technology.
London: Science Museum, 2003. Pp. vi +
186. ISBN 1-900747-53-7. \pounds 21.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Steve Sturdy Book Review: Chris Feudtner, Bitter
Sweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the
Transformation of Illness. Studies in
Social Medicine. Chapel Hill and London:
University of North Caroline Press,
2003. Pp. xxiiii + 290. ISBN
0-8087-2791-6. \pounds 22.95, \$29.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Roger Smith Book Review: Sonu Shamdasani, Jung and
the Making of Modern Psychology: The
Dream of a Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 387.
ISBN 0-521-53909-9. \pounds 18.95,
\$28.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 310--312
Rosalind Williams Book Review: Walter A. Rosenblith (ed.),
Jerry Wiesner: Scientist, Statesman,
Humanist: Memories and Memoirs. With a
Foreword by Edward M. Kennedy.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2003. Pp. xxiv + 612. ISBN
0-262-18232-7. \pounds 22.95 (hardback) 312--313
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318
Tobias Cheung From the organism of a body to the body
of an organism: occurrence and meaning
of the word `organism' from the
seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries 319--339
Paola Bertucci Revealing sparks: John Wesley and the
religious utility of electrical healing 341--362
Bettina Dietz Mobile objects: the space of shells in
eighteenth-century France . . . . . . . 363--382
Jutta Schickore Misperception, illusion and
epistemological optimism: vision studies
in early nineteenth-century Britain and
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--405
Simon Naylor Nationalizing provincial weather:
meteorology in nineteenth-century
Cornwall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--433
Ludmilla Jordanova Book Review: Lorraine Daston (ed.),
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from
Art and Science. New York: Zone
Books/MIT Press, 2004. Pp. 447. ISBN
1-890951-43-9. \$37.50 (hardback)} . . . 436--437
Greta Jones Book Review: Clare Pettitt, Patent
Inventions: Intellectual Property and
the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 341.
ISBN 0-19-925320-X. \pounds 58.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Christine Macleod Book Review: Anna Guagnini and Ian
Inkster (eds.), Patents in History.
History of Technology, Vol. 24. London
and New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. xxi +
242. ISBN 0-8264-7186-2. \pounds 75.00 438--439
Nicolas Rasmussen Book Review: Karl Grandin, Nina Wormbs
and Sven Widmalm (eds.), The
Science--Industry Nexus: History,
Policy, Implications. Nobel Symposium
123. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History
Publications and the Nobel Foundation,
2004. Pp. xvii + 457. ISBN
0-88135-365-5. \$54.95 (hardback)} . . . 440--441
Sean F. Johnston Book Review: Thomas P. Hughes,
Human-Built World: How to Think about
Technology and Culture. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2004. Pp. xii + 223. ISBN 0-226-35933-6.
\pounds 16.00, \$22.50 (hardback)} . . . 441--442
Richard Kremer Book Review: Sean F. Johnston, A History
of Light and Colour Measurement: Science
in the Shadows. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics,
2001. Pp. xi + 281. ISBN 0-7503-0754-4.
\pounds 45.00, \$75.00 (hardback)} . . . 442--444
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: Jean A. Givens, Observation
and Image-Making in Gothic Art.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004. Pp. xxiv + 231. ISBN
0-521-83031-1. \pounds 45.00, \$80.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
John Henry Book Review: Owen Gingerich, The Book
Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of
Nicolaus Copernicus. London: William
Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii + 306. ISBN
0-434-01315-3. \pounds 12.99 (hardback) 445--446
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Jamie C. Kassler, The
Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of
Music in England: Francis North's A
Philosophical Essay of Music (1677) with
Comments of Isaac Newton, Roger North
and in the Philosophical Transactions.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv + 243.
ISBN 0-7546-0139-0. \pounds 40.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--448
Matthew R. Goodrum Book Review: Rosemary Sweet,
Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past
in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London
and New York: Hambledon and London Ltd.,
2004. Pp. xxi + 473. ISBN 1-85285-309-3.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 448--449
M. Eileen Magnello Book Review: Paul M. M. Klep and Ida H.
Stamhuis (eds.), The Statistical Mind in
a Pre-statistical Era: The Netherlands
1750--1850. Askant: Amsterdam, 2002. Pp.
374. ISBN 90-5742-0341. No price given 449--451
Pietro Corsi Book Review: Charles Coulston Gillispie,
Science and Polity in France: The
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2004. Pp. ix + 751. ISBN 0-691-11541-9.
\pounds 52.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 451--452
Graeme J. N. Gooday Book Review: Tal Golan, Laws of Men and
Laws of Nature: The History of
Scientific Expert Testimony in England
and America. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii
+ 336. ISBN 0-674-01286-0. \pounds
33.95, \$52.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 452--454
Jack Morrell Book Review: Bernard Lightman (general
ed.), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century
British Scientists. 4 vols. Bristol:
Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. ISBN
1-85506-999-7. \pounds 650.00 (hardback) 454--456
Roger Smith Book Review: John van Wyhe, Phrenology
and the Origins of Victorian Scientific
Naturalism. Science, Technology and
Culture, 1700--1945. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2004. Pp. xvii + 282. ISBN
0-7546-3408-6. \pounds 49.50 (hardback) 456--458
Frank M. Turner Book Review: Aileen Fyfe, Science and
Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science
Publishing in Victorian Britain. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press.
2004. Pp. xiv + 325. ISBN 0-226-27648-1.
\$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: Alex Owen, The Place of
Enchantment: British Occultism and the
Culture of the Modern. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2004. Pp. xiv + 335. \$30.00, \pounds
21.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Ross A. Slotten, The
Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of
Alfred Russel Wallace. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. x +
602. ISBN 0-231-13010-4. \pounds 39.50
(hardback). Martin Fichman, An Elusive
Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred
Russel Wallace. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp.
x+382. ISBN 0-226-24613-2. \$40.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Gowan Dawson Book Review: Bert Bender, Evolution and
`the Sex Problem': American Narratives
during the Eclipse of Darwinism. Kent,
OH and London: Kent State University
Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 389. ISBN
0-87338-809-7. \$59.95 (hardback)} . . . 463--464
John C. Waller Book Review: Angelique Richardson, Love
and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth
Century: Rational Reproduction and the
New Woman. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003. Pp. 250. ISBN
0-1981-8700-9. \pounds 51.00 (hardback) 464--466
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Michael Hau, The Cult of
Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social
History, 1890--1930. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp.
272. ISBN 0-226-31976-8. \pounds 15.50,
\$22.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
Jeremy Gray Book Review: Leo Corry, David Hilbert
and the Axiomatization of Physics
(1898--1918). Archimedes New Studies in
the History and Philosophy of Science
and Technology. Dordrecht, Boston and
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2004. Pp. xvii + 513. ISBN
1-4020-2777-X. \$179.00 (hardback)} . . 467--468
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Anita Burdman Feferman and
Solomon Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life
and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp vi + 425.
ISBN 0-521-8049-7. \pounds 23.00,
\$35.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Andrew Hodges Book Reviews: B. Jack Copeland (ed.),
The Essential Turing: The Ideas that
Gave Birth to the Computer Age. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 613.
ISBN 0-19-825079-7. \pounds 50.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-19-825080-0. \pounds
14.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--475
Georgette Taylor Unification achieved: William Cullen's
theory of heat and phlogiston as an
example of his philosophical chemistry 477--501
Elizabeth Neswald Science, sociability and the improvement
of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics'
Institute, 1826--1851 . . . . . . . . . 503--534
Henrika Kuklick `Humanity in the chrysalis stage':
indigenous Australians in the
anthropological imagination, 1899--1926 535--568
Néstor Herran Spreading nucleonics: the Isotope School
at the Atomic Energy Research
Establishment, 1951--1967 . . . . . . . 569--586
Michael Robinson Book Reviews: Londa Schiebinger, Plants
and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in
the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xii
+ 306. ISBN 0-674-01487-1. \pounds 25.95
(hardback). Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic
History: Concepts and Contours.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2005. Pp. 149. ISBN 0-674-01688-2.
\pounds 12.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 588--590
James Delbourgo Book Review: Londa Schiebinger and
Claudia Swan (eds.), Colonial Botany:
Science, Commerce, and Politics in the
Early Modern World. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Pp. vi + 346. ISBN 0-8122-3827-3.
\pounds 36.00, \$55.00 (hardback)} . . . 590--591
Sujit Sivasundaram Book Review: Tony Ballantyne (ed.),
Science, Empire and the European
Exploration of the Pacific. The Pacific
World: Lands, Peoples and History of the
Pacific, 1500--1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv + 367. ISBN
0-7546-3562-7. \pounds 75.00 (hardback) 591--593
John Stenhouse Book Review: Sujit Sivasundaram, Nature
and the Godly Empire: Science and
Evangelical Mission in the Pacific,
1795--1850. Cambridge Social and
Cultural Histories. Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Pp. xii + 244. ISBN 0-521-84836-9.
\pounds 48.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 593--595
Paul Farber Book Review: Lorraine Daston and
Fernando Vital (eds.), The Moral
Authority of Nature. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp.
vii + 519. ISBN 0-226-13681-7. \$26.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--596
Manfred D. Laubichler Book Review: Soraya de Chadarevian and
Nick Hopwood (eds.), Models: The Third
Dimension of Science. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 464.
ISBN 0-8047-3972-2. \pounds 17.50,
\$24.95 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 596--597
David C. Gooding Book Reviews: Davis Baird, Thing
Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific
Instruments. Berkeley and London:
University of California Press, 2004.
Pp. xxi + 273. ISBN 0-520-23249-6.
\pounds 42.95, \$65.00 (hardback). Allan
Franklin, Selectivity and Discord: Two
Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Pp. ix+290. ISBN 0-8229-4191-0. \pounds
31.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 598--599
David Knight Book Review: Hasok Chang, Inventing
Temperature: Measurement and Scientific
Progress. Oxford Studies in Philosophy
of Science. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004. Pp. xviii + 286. ISBN
0-19-517127-6. \pounds 32.50 (hardback) 599--600
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: R. D. Connor and A. D.
Simpson, with A. D. Morrison-Low (ed.),
Weights and Measures in Scotland: A
European Perspective. Edinburgh: NMS
Publishing, 2004. Pp. xvi + 842. ISBN
1-901663-88-4. \pounds 50.00 (hardback) 601--602
Elisabeth Hsu Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd, Ancient
Worlds, Modern Reflections:
Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and
Chinese Science and Culture. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. ix + 222.
ISBN 0-19-927016-3. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--603
Alain Bernard Book Review: Reviel Netz (ed. and tr.),
The Works of Archimedes: Translated into
English, together with Eutocius'
Commentaries, with Commentary, and
Critical Edition of the Diagrams. Vol.
1: The Two Books on the Sphere and the
Cylinder. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 375.
ISBN 0-521-66160-9. \pounds 75.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--605
Amna Khalid Book Reviews: Peter Elmer (ed.), The
Healing Arts: Health, Disease and
Society in Europe, 1500--1800.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press in association with The
Open University, 2004. Pp. xxix + 408.
ISBN 0-7190-6734-0. No price given
(paperback). PETERelmer and
OLEpetergrell (eds.), Health, Disease
and Society in Europe, 1500--1800: A
Source Book. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press in
association with The Open University,
2004. Pp. xx+380. ISBN 0-7190-6737-5.
\pounds 16.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . 605--606
Katherine A. Tredwell Book Review: Eric H. Ash, Power,
Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan
England. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. ix +
265. ISBN 0-8018-7992-2. \pounds 30.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--607
John Henry Book Review: Pamela H. Smith, The Body
of the Artisan: Art and Experience in
the Scientific Revolution. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2004. Pp. x + 367. ISBN 0-26-76399-4.
\pounds 24.50, \$35.00 (hardback)} . . . 607--609
Roger Smith Book Review: Roy Porter, Flesh in the
Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment
Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies
and Souls. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp.
xviii + 574. ISBN 0-140-16735-8. \pounds
9.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus, When
Physics Became King. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp.
xii + 303. ISBN 0-226-54202-5. \$25.00
(paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Juliana Adelman Book Review: Kevin Bright, The Royal
Dublin Society, 1815--1845. Dublin: Four
Courts Press, 2004. Pp. 288. ISBN
1-85182-813-3. \EURO45.00, \pounds
45.00, \$45.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 611--612
Amirouche Moktefi Book Review: Jack Meadows, The Victorian
Scientist: The Growth of a Profession.
London: The British Library, 2004. Pp.
vi + 202. ISBN 0-7123-0894-6. \pounds
16.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
Jack Morrell Book Review: Noah Heringman, Romantic
Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Pp. xxii + 304. ISBN 0-8014-4127-7.
\pounds 27.50, \$47.50 (hardback)} . . . 614--615
Robert J. Richards Book Review: Charles Darwin, The Descent
of Man, and Selection in Relation to
Sex. 2nd edition of 1874. With an
introduction by James Moore and Adrian
Desmond. Penguin Classics. London:
Penguin, 2004. Pp. lxvi + 791. ISBN
0-140-43631-6. \pounds 9.99 (paperback) 615--617
Chris Renwick Book Reviews: Greta Jones and Robert A.
Peel (eds.), Herbert Spencer: The
Intellectual Legacy. London: The Galton
Institute, 2004. Pp. xv + 154. ISBN
0-9504066-8-6. \pounds 5.00 (paperback).
Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards and
Michael Ruse (eds.), Darwinian Heresies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004. Pp. vii+200. ISBN 0-521-81516-9.
\pounds 40.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 617--619
M. Eileen Magnello Book Review: Theodore M. Porter, Karl
Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ and
London: Princeton University Press,
2004. Pp. viii + 342. ISBN
0-691-11445-5. \pounds 22.95, \$35.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--620
Andrew J. Butrica Book Review: Graeme J. N. Gooday, The
Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony,
and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical
Practices. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp.
xxvi + 285. ISBN 0-521-43098-4. \pounds
55.00, \$85.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 621--622
Gillian Cookson Book Review: Marshall J. Bastable, Arms
and the State: Sir William Armstrong and
the Remaking of British Naval Power,
1854--1914. Modern Economic and Social
History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp.
xii + 300. ISBN 0-7546-3404-3. \pounds
49.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--622
James Sumner Book Review: Alex Roland with Philip
Shiman, Strategic Computing: DARPA and
the Quest for Machine Intelligence,
1983--1993. History of Computing.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2002. Pp. xxvi + 427. ISBN
0-262-18226-2. \pounds 33.50 (hardback) 622--624
Jon Agar Book Review: Harry Collins, Gravity's
Shadow: The Search for Gravitational
Waves. Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii + 870.
ISBN 0-226-11378-7. \$39.00 (paperback)} 624--625
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--628
Alain Bernard Book review: \booktitleThe works of
Archimedes. Vol. I, translated into
English, together with Eutocius'
commentaries, with commentary, and
critical edition of the diagrams by
Reviel Netz [Cambridge Univ. Press,
Cambridge, 2004; MR2093668] . . . . . . 604--605
Michael Hunter Robert Boyle and the early Royal
Society: a reciprocal exchange in the
making of Baconian science . . . . . . . 1--23
Suman Seth Crisis and the construction of modern
theoretical physics . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
Matthew Stanley So simple a thing as a star: the
Eddington--Jeans debate over
astrophysical phenomenology . . . . . . 53--82
Christer Nordlund Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s
America: Louis Berman's ideas on new
creations in human beings . . . . . . . 83--104
Massimo Mazzotti Book Reviews: The two Newtons and beyond
J. E. Force and S. Hutton (eds.), Newton
and Newtonianism: New Studies.
International Archives of the History of
Ideas 188. Dordrecht, Boston and London:
Kluwer, 2004. Pp. xvii + 246. ISBN
1-4020-1969-6. \pounds 67.00 (hardback).
Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes and Rebekah
Higgitt (eds.), Early Biographies of
Isaac Newton 1660--1885. Vol. 1:
Eighteenth-Century Biography of Isaac
Newton: The Unpublished Manuscripts and
Early Texts. Vol. 2: Nineteenth-Century
Biography of Isaac Newton: Private
Debate and Public Controversy. London:
Pickering and Chatto, 2006. Pp.
lxxii+387 and xliii+420. ISBN
1-85-196778-8. \pounds 195.00
(hardback). Milo Keynes, The Iconography
of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800. Woodbridge:
The Boydell Press, 2005. Pp. viii+120.
ISBN 1-84383-133-3. \pounds 40.00
(hardback). John Henry (ed.),
Newtonianism in Eighteenth-Century
Britain. 7 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes
Continuum, 2004. ISBN 1-84371-113-3.
\pounds 595.00 (hardback). Mordechai
Feingold, The Newtonian Moment: Isaac
Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.
New York and Oxford: The New York Public
Library and Oxford University Press,
2004. Pp. xv+218. ISBN 0-19-517735-5.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback). Margaret C.
Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical
Matter: Newton's Science in the Service
of Industry and Empire 1687--1851.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2004. Pp. 201. ISBN
0-674-01497-9. \pounds 22.95 (hardback) 105--111
Timothy Boon Book Reviews: Christopher Frayling, Mad,
Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the
Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005.
Distributed in North America by
University of Chicago Press. Pp. 239.
ISBN 1-86189-255-1. \pounds 19.95,
\$35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-8618-9285-0.
\pounds 12.95, \$19.95 (paperback) . . . 114--115
Helge Kragh Book Review: Matthias Dörries (ed.),
Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in Debate:
Historical Essays and Documents on the
1941 Meeting between Niels Bohr and
Werner Heisenberg. Berkeley Papers in
History of Science Vol. 20. Berkeley,
CA: Office for History of Science and
Technology, 2005. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN
0-9672617-2-4. \$12.00 (paperback)} . . 115--116
Amanda Rees Book Review: Donna Haraway, The Haraway
Reader. New York and London: Routledge,
2004. Pp. viii + 352. ISBN
0-415-96688-4. \pounds 16.99 (paperback) 117--118
John L. Heilbron Book Review: Peter J. Bowler and Iwan
Rhys Morus, Making Modern Science: A
Historical Survey. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp.
viii + 464. ISBN 0-226-0681-7. \pounds
17.50, \$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 118--119
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Geoffrey Cantor, Quakers,
Jews, and Science: Religious Responses
to Modernity and the Sciences in
Britain, 1650--1900. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 420.
ISBN 0-19-927668-4. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Ruth Barton Book Review: David M. Knight and Matthew
D. Eddy (eds.), Science and Beliefs:
From Natural Philosophy to Natural
Science, 1700--1900. Science, Technology
and Culture, 1700--1945. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv + 272. ISBN
0-7546-3996-7. \pounds 47.50 (hardback) 121--123
David Depew Book Review: Andrea Falcon, Aristotle
and the Science of Nature: Unity without
Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii + 139.
ISBN 0-521-85439-3. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Nader El-Bizri Book Review: Roshdi Rashed, Geometry and
Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London:
al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation,
2005. Pp. xii + 1178. ISBN 1873992998.
\pounds 50.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 124--126
Norbert Samuelson Book Review: Gad Freudenthal, Science in
the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic
Traditions. Variorum Collected Studies
Series CS803. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Pp. xx + 350. ISBN 0-86078-952-7.
\pounds 62.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 126--127
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: John North, God's
Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and
the Invention of Time. London and New
York: Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp.
xix + 441. ISBN 1-85285-451-0. \pounds
25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Hester Higton Book Reviews: Gerard L'E. Turner,
Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii + 294.
ISBN 0-86078-903-9. \pounds 67.50,
\$124.95 (hardback). Koenraadvan
Cleempoel, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A
Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Oxford and Greenwich: Oxford University
Press and the National Maritime Museum,
2005. Pp. ix+339. ISBN 0-19-853069-2.
\pounds 99.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 129--130
John Henry Book Reviews: Bruce T. Moran, Distilling
Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the
Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Pp. 210. ISBN 0-674-01495-2. \pounds
16.95 (hardback). Allen G. Debus (ed.),
Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry:
Papers from Ambix. Huddersfield: Jeremy
Mills (for the Society for the History
of Alchemy and Chemistry), 2004. Pp. xv
+ 543. ISBN 0-9546484-1-2. \pounds
33.00, \$60.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . 130--132
Barbara H. Traister Book Review: Lauren Kassell, Medicine
and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon
Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and
Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii
+ 281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
James Hannam Book Reviews: William A. Wallace,
Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo:
Essays on Intellectual History. Variorum
Collected Studies Series. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv + 340. ISBN
0-86078-964-0, \$105.95 (hardback).
Galileo Galilei, Le Operazioni del
Compasso Geometrico et Militare. With a
translation by Stillman Drake and an
introduction by Filippo Camerota.
Oakland, CA: Octavo, 2005. ISBN
1-891788-97-3, \$35.00 (CD-ROM) . . . . 133--135
Peter Dear Book Review: Marcus Hellyer, Catholic
Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in
Early Modern Germany. Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Pp. xii + 337. ISBN 0-268-03071-5.
\$50.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Alexandra Cook Book Reviews: Dorinda Outram, The
Enlightenment. Second edition. New
Approaches to European History.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005. Pp. xiii + 165. ISBN
0-521-546681-8. \pounds 14.99, \$24.99
(paperback). William E. Burns, Science
in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia.
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Pp.
xcviii+165. ISBN 1-57607-887-6. \$65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Patricia Fara Book Review: C. U. M. Smith and Robert
Arnott (eds.), The Genius of Erasmus
Darwin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp.
xvii + 416. ISBN 0-7546-3671-2. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
Jack Morrell Book Review: Michael Collie and John
Diemer (eds.), Murchison's Wanderings in
Russia: His Geological Exploration of
Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains,
1840 and 1841. British Geological Survey
Occasional Publication No. 2. Keyworth:
British Geological Survey, 2004. Pp. xvi
+ 474. ISBN: 0-85272-467-5. \pounds
40.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Martin Rudwick Book Review: Jack Morrell, John Phillips
and the Business of Victorian Science.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xix + 437.
ISBN 1-84014-239-1. \pounds 57.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Elizabeth Neswald Book Review: Falk Müller,
Gasentladungsforschung im 19.
Jahrhundert. Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2004.
Pp. 300. ISBN 3-928186-76-0. \EURO35.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: David Kaiser (ed.),
Pedagogy and the Practice of Science:
Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 2005. Pp. vi + 426. ISBN
0-262-11288-4. \pounds 29.95 (hardback) 144--145
Barbara Kimmelman Book Review: Jonathan Harwood,
Technology's Dilemma: Agricultural
Colleges between Science and Practice in
Germany, 1860--1934. Bern: Peter Lang
AG, 2005. Pp. 288. ISBN 3-03910-299-0.
\pounds 29.00 (paperback.) . . . . . . . 146--147
Donald A. Dewsbury Book Reviews: Richard W. Burkhardt, J R,
Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz,
Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of
Ethology. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 636.
ISBN 0-226-08089-7. \$80.00 (hardback).
ISBN 0-226-08090-0. \$29.00 (paperback) 147--149
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Andrew Brown, J. D. Bernal:
The Sage of Science. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 562.
ISBN 0-19-851544-8. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Roy Macleod Book Review: Mary J O Nye, Blackett:
Physics, War, and Politics in the
Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Pp. x + 255. ISBN 0-674-01548-7. \$25.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Robert W. Smith Book Reviews: Jane Gregory, Fred Hoyle's
Universe. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. x + 406. ISBN
0-19-850791-7. \pounds 20.00 (hardback).
Simon Mitton, Fred Hoyle: A Life in
Science. With an Introduction by Paul
Davies. London: Aurum, 2005. Pp. xi+369.
ISBN 1-85410-961-8. \pounds 18.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Jonathan Y. Tsou Book Review: George A. Reisch, How the
Cold War Transformed Philosophy of
Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005. Pp. xiv + 418. ISBN 0-521-54689-3.
\pounds 17.99, \$26.99 (paperback)} . . 153--155
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--158
J. R. Ratcliff Samuel Morland and his calculating
machines c. 1666: the early career of a
courtier-inventor in Restoration London 159--179
Patrick Unwin and
Robert Unwin `A devotion to the experimental sciences
and arts': the subscription to the great
battery at the Royal Institution 1808--9 181--203
James Burns John Fleming and the geological deluge 205--225
Sally M. Horrocks The internationalization of science in a
commercial context: research and
development by overseas multinationals
in Britain before the mid-1970s . . . . 227--250
William Thomas The heuristics of war: scientific method
and the founders of operations research 251--274
Lorraine Daston Book Review: W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter
(eds.), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific
Quotations. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. xvii + 712. ISBN
0-19-858409-1. \pounds 30.00, \$50.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Tania Munz Book Review: Lorraine Daston and Gregg
Mitman (eds.), Thinking with Animals:
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism.
New York: Columbia University Press,
2005. Pp. vii + 230. ISBN 0-231-13038-4.
\pounds 32.00, \$49.50 (hardback)} . . . 277--279
Kristin Johnson Book Review: Marco Beretta (ed.), From
Private to Public: Natural Collections
and Museums. Uppsala Studies in History
of Science. Vol. 31. European Studies in
Science History and the Arts. Vol. 5.
Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History
Publications, 2005. Pp. ix + 252. ISBN
0-88-135360-4. \$39.95 (hardback)} . . . 279--280
James Urry Book Review: Amiria Henare, Museums,
Anthropology and Imperial Exchange.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005. Pp. xix + 323. ISBN 0-521-83591-7.
\pounds 48.00, \$80.00 (hardback)} . . . 280--282
Silvia De Renzi Book Review: Gianna Pomata and Nancy G.
Siraisi (eds.), Historia: Empiricism and
Erudition in Early Modern Europe.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press,
2005. Pp. viii + 490. ISBN
0-262-16229-6. \pounds 32.95 (hardback) 282--284
Sophie Weeks Book Review: Julie Robin Solomon and
Catherine Gimelli Martin (eds.), Francis
Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern
Thought: Essays to Commemorate The
Advancement of Learning (1605--2005).
Literary and Scientific Cultures of
Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2005. Pp. xiii + 257. ISBN
0-7546-5359-5. \pounds 47.50 (hardback) 284--285
James Hannam Book Reviews: Ernan Mcmullin (ed.), The
Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. xiv
+ 392. ISBN 0-268-03484-2. \$30.00
(paperback). Maurice A. Finocchiaro,
Retrying Galileo, 1633--1992. Berkeley,
Los Angeles and London: University of
Califonia Press, 2005. Pp. xii+485. ISBN
0-520-24261-0. \$50.00, \pounds 32.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Sarah Hutton Book Review: Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline
Stedall, John Pell (1611--1685) and his
Correspondence with Sir Charles
Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early
Modern Mathematician. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. 657. ISBN
0-19-856484-8. \pounds 90.00 (hardback) 287--288
Trevor H. Levere Book Review: Mary Archer and Christopher
Haley (eds.), The 1702 Chair of
Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation
and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi + 318.
ISBN 0-521-82873-2. \pounds 50.00,
\$90.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Lissa Roberts Book Review: Jonathan Simon, Chemistry,
Pharmacy and Revolution in France,
1777--1809. Science, Technology and
Culture, 1700--1945. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2005. Pp. vi + 189. ISBN 0-7546-5044-8.
\pounds 45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 290--291
Joan Steigerwald Book Review: Peter Hanns Reill,
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University of California Press, 2005.
Pp. x + 388. ISBN: 0-520-24135-5.
\$55.00, \pounds 35.95 (hardback)} . . . 292--293
Patricia Fara Book Review: Nicolaas A. Rupke,
Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp.
320. ISBN 3-631-53932-0. \pounds 22.80
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Jack Morrell Book Reviews: Michael Freeman,
Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks
to a Lost World. New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x +
310. ISBN: 0-300-10334-4. \pounds 25.00
(hardback). Jan T. KozÁK, Victor S.
Moreira and David R. Oldroyd,
Iconography of the 1755 Lisbon
Earthquake. Prague: Geophysical
Institute of the Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic and Academia, the
Publisher of the Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic, 2005. Pp. 84. ISBN:
80-239-4390-1 (GI), 80-200-1322-9
(Academia). No price given (hardback) 295--295
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: Katharine Anderson,
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and
the Science of Meteorology. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2005. Pp. x + 331. ISBN 0-226-019680-3.
\pounds 31.50, \$45.00 (hardback)} . . . 295--297
Philip Mirowski Book Review: Harro Maas, William Stanley
Jevons and the Making of Modern
Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 330.
ISBN 0-521-82712-4. \$75.00 (hardback)} 297--298
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Robert Fox and Graeme
Gooday (eds.), Physics in Oxford,
1839--1939: Laboratories, Learning, and
College Life. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. vii + 363. ISBN
0-19-856792-8. \pounds 60.00 (hardback) 298--299
Emma Reisz Book Review: Ben Marsden and Crosbie
Smith, Engineering Empires: A Cultural
History of Technology in
Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xi + 351.
ISBN 0-333-77278-4. \$65.00 (hardback)} 299--301
Michael Worboys Book Reviews: Nadja Durbach, Bodily
Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement
in England, 1853--1907. Durham, NC and
London, Duke University Press, 2005. Pp.
xiii + 276. ISBN 0-8223-3412-7. \$84.95
(hardback). ISBN 0-8223-3423-2
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Susan Lindee Book Review: Rebecca M. Herzig,
Suffering for Science: Reason and
Sacrifice in Modern America. New
Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers
University Press, 2005. Pp. 194. ISBN:
0-8135-3662-6. \$39.95 (hardback)} . . . 302--304
Andrew Hull Book Review: Christopher Lawrence,
Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and
Medicine in Edinburgh 1919--1930: New
Science in an Old Country. Rochester
Studies in Medical History. Vol. 5.
Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk:
University of Rochester Press, 2005. Pp.
ix + 373. ISBN 1-58046-195-6. \pounds
60.00, \$85.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 304--305
Josipa G. Petrunic Book Review: Thomas Ryckman, The Reign
of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics,
1915--1925. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 317. ISBN
0-19-517717-7. \pounds 36.50, \$60.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Stephen Frosh, Hate and the
`Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism
and Psychoanalysis. Basingstoke and New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. vi +
228. ISBN 1-4039-2170-9. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--309
Andy Hammond Book Review: Nils Roll-Hansen, The
Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science.
New York: Humanity Books, 2005. Pp. 335.
ISBN 1-59102-262-2. \pounds 17.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Frédéric Graber Inventing needs: expertise and water
supply in late eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Paris . . . . . . . . 315--332
Christoph Hoffmann Constant differences: Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessel, the concept of the observer in
early nineteenth-century practical
astronomy and the history of the
personal equation . . . . . . . . . . . 333--365
Robert Kenny From the Curse of Ham to the curse of
nature: the influence of natural
selection on the debate on human unity
before the publication of \booktitleThe
Descent of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--388
Christine Macleod and
Jennifer Tann From engineer to scientist: reinventing
invention in the Watt and Faraday
centenaries, 1919--1931 . . . . . . . . 389--411
Helen Blackman Lampreys, lungfish and elasmobranchs:
Cambridge zoology and the politics of
animal selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--437
Francesca Bray Book Reviews: Benjamin A. Elman, On
Their Own Terms: Science in China,
1550--1900. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp.
xxxviii + 567. ISBN 0-674-01685-8.
\pounds 35.95 (hardback). Benjamin A.
Elman, A Cultural History of Modern
Science in China. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Pp. xv+308. ISBN 0-674-02306-4. \$35.00,
\pounds 22.95, EUR29.80 (hardback)} . . 439--441
Emma Reisz Book Review: Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.),
Science across the European Empires,
1800--1950. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press/German Historical
Institute London, 2005. Pp. viii + 376.
ISBN 0-19-927629-2. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--443
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: Martin Daunton (ed.), The
Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian
Britain. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. 424. ISBN
0-19-726326-7. \pounds 55.00 (hardback) 443--444
Roger Smith Book Review: Margaret Schabas, The
Natural Origins of Economics. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2005. Pp. xi + 231. ISBN 0-226-73569-9.
\$40.00, \pounds 25.50 (hardback)} . . . 445--446
J. F. M. Clark Book Review: William M. Taylor, The
Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built
Environment in Nineteenth-Century
Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp.
xvii + 252. ISBN 0-7546-3069-2. \pounds
45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Jack Morrell Book Review: A. J. Bowden, C. V. Burek
and R. Wilding (eds.), History of
Palaeobotany: Selected Essays.
Geological Society Special Publication
241. London: The Geological Society,
2005. Pp. 304. ISBN 1-86239-174-2.
\pounds 80.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 447--448
Christopher Hamlin Book Review: David S. Barnes, The Great
Stink of Paris and the
Nineteenth-Century Struggle against
Filth and Germs. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp xi +
314. ISBN 0-8018-8349-0. \pounds 23.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450
Judith A. Houck Book Review: Robert Darby, A Surgical
Temptation: The Demonization of the
Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in
Britain. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. ISBN
978-0-226-13645-5. \$35.00 (hardback)} 450--452
Kristin Johnson Book Review: Robert E. Kohler, All
Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and
Biodiversity, 1850--1950. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2006. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN
978-0-691-12539-2. \$35.00, \pounds
22.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Thomas P. Weber Book Reviews: Sharon E. Kingsland, The
Evolution of American Ecology.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2005. Pp. x + 313. ISBN
0-8018-8171-4. \pounds 33.50 (hardback).
Kim Cuddington and Beatrix Beisner
(eds.), Ecological Paradigms Lost.
Routes of Theory Change. London:
Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv+435. ISBN
0-12-088459-3. \pounds 49.95 (hardback) 453--455
Kent W. Staley Book Review: Allan Franklin, No Easy
Answers: Science and the Pursuit of
Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 258.
\$29.95 (hardback). Michela Massimi,
Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin
and Validation of a Scientific
Principle. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+211.
\$80.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 455--457
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Arthur I. Miller, Empire of
the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and
Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin,
2005. Pp xx + 364. ISBN 0-618-34151-X.
\$26.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Cathryn Carson and David A.
Hollinger (eds.), Reappraising
Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and
Reflections. Berkeley Papers in History
of Science, Volume 21. Berkeley: Office
for History of Science and Technology,
University of California, 2005. Pp. xii
+ 413. ISBN 0-9672617-3-2. \$14.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Ron Amundson, The Changing
Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary
Thought: The Roots of Evo-Devo.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and
Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 280. ISBN
0-521-80699-2. \$75.00 (hardback)} . . . 460--462
Lisa Gannett Book Review: Jenny Reardon, Race to the
Finish: Identity and Governance in an
Age of Genomics. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp.
256. ISBN 0-691-11857-4. \pounds 11.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--464
Neil Pemberton Book Review: Harry Collins and Trevor
Pinch, Dr. Golem: How to Think about
Medicine. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 280. ISBN
0-226-11366-3. \$25.00, \pounds 17.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
John Pickstone Book Review: Margaret Pelling and Scott
Mandelbrote (eds.), The Practice of
Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science,
1500--2000: Essays for Charles Webster.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xv + 376.
ISBN 0-7546-3933-9. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
Manolis Patiniotis Periphery reassessed: Eugenios Voulgaris
converses with Isaac Newton . . . . . . 471--490
Fabien Locher The observatory, the land-based ship and
the crusades: earth sciences in European
context, 1830--1850 . . . . . . . . . . 491--504
Francesca Bordogna Inner division and uncertain contours:
William James and the politics of the
modern self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--536
Prakash Kumar Plantation science: improving natural
indigo in colonial India, 1860--1913 . . 537--565
Jamie Cohen-Cole Instituting the science of mind:
intellectual economies and disciplinary
exchange at Harvard's Center for
Cognitive Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 567--597
John L. Heilbron Book Review: Peter Dear, The
Intelligibility of Nature: How Science
Makes Sense of the World. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2006. Pp. xii + 242. ISBN 0-226-13948-4.
\$27.50, \pounds 17.50 (hardback)} . . . 599--601
William Shea Book Review: Mario Biagioli, Galileo's
Instruments of Credit: Telescopes,
Images, Secrecy. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp.
xi + 302. ISBN 0-226-04561-7. \$25.00,
\pounds 22.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 601--602
Steven Shapin Book Reviews: Matthew L. Jones, The Good
Life in the Scientific Revolution:
Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the
Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2006. Pp. xvii + 384. ISBN
0-226-40954-6. \$65.00, \pounds 46.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-226-40955-4. \$27.50,
\pounds 17.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . 602--603
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: John Brooke and Ian Maclean
(eds.), Heterodoxy in Early Modern
Science and Religion. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi + 373.
ISBN 0-19-926897-5. \$120.00, \pounds
65.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 603--605
Staffan Müller-Wille Book Review: Justin E. H. Smith (ed.),
The Problem of Animal Generation in
Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge
Studies in Philosophy and Biology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. Pp. xiii + 456. ISBN
978-0-521-84077-4. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606
Michelle DiMeo Book Review: Judith P. Zinsser (ed.),
Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern
Science. De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois
University Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 215.
ISBN 0-87580-340-7. \$38.00 (hardback)} 607--608
Josipa G. Petruni\'c Book Review: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
(ed.), Landmark Writings in Western
Mathematics 1640--1940. Amsterdam, San
Diego, Oxford and London: Elsevier B.
V., 2005. Pp. xvii + 1022. ISBN
0-444-50871-6. \pounds 158.00 (hardback) 608--610
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: Hubert Steinke, Irritating
Experiments: Haller's Concept and the
European Controversy on Irritability and
Sensibility, 1750--1790. The Wellcome
Series in the History of Medicine. Clio
Medicana 76. Union, NJ and Amsterdam:
Editions Rodopi B. V., 2005. Pp 354.
ISBN 90-420-1852-6. EUR75.00, \$94.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Richard W. Burkhardt Book Review: Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon,
Gabriel Gohau and Stéphane Tirard,
Lamarck, philosophe de la nature. Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 2006.
Pp. xii + 167 pp. ISBN 2-13-051976-8.
EUR20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
Robert Fox Book Review: Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon
Laplace 1749--1827:A Determined
Scientist. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii
+ 310. ISBN 0-674-01892-3. \pounds
22.95, \$35.00, EUR32.30 (hardback)} . . 613--614
Charlotte Bigg Book Review: John L. Heilbron (ed.), The
Oxford Guide to the History of Physics
and Astronomy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi + 358.
ISBN 0-19-517198-5. \$35.00 (hardback)} 614--615
Mark Hurn Book Review: Janet and Mark Robinson
(eds.), The Stargazer of Hardwicke: The
Life and Work of Thomas William Webb.
Leominster: Gracewing, 2006. Pp. xix +
259. ISBN 0-85244-666-7. \pounds 14.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
Chris Renwick Book Review: Libby Schweber,
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and
Vital Statistics in France and England,
1830--1885. Durham, NC and London: Duke
University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 277.
ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. \pounds 14.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--618
Gowan Dawson Book Review: Jonathan Smith, Charles
Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. Pp. xxiii + 349. ISBN
0-521-85690-6. \pounds 60.00 (hardback) 618--619
Marga Vicedo Book Review: P. Kyle Stanford, Exceeding
Our Grasp: Science, History, and the
Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Pp. xiv + 234. ISBN 0-19-517408-9.
\pounds 26.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 619--621
Patricia Fara Book Review: David Edgerton, The Shock
of the Old: Technology and Global
History since 1900. London: Profile
Books, 2007. Pp. xviii + 270. ISBN
1-86197-296-2. \pounds 18.99 (hardback) 621--622
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--625
Russell Smith Optical reflection and mechanical
rebound: the shift from analogy to
axiomatization in the seventeenth
century. Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Alasdair Kennedy In search of the `true prospect': making
and knowing the Giant's Causeway as a
field site in the seventeenth century 19--41
David Philip Miller Principle, practice and persona in
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's patent
abolitionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--72
Perrin Selcer Standardizing wounds: Alexis Carrel and
the scientific management of life in the
First World War . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--107
Jamie Cohen-Cole Cybernetics and the machinery of
rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
P. Kyle Stanford Book Review: Hanne Andersen, Peter
Barker and Xiang Chen, The Cognitive
Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. Pp. xvii + 199. ISBN
978-0-521-85575-4. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Crosbie Smith Book Review: David N. Livingstone and
Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geography
and Revolution. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp.
viii + 433. ISBN 0-226-48733-4. \pounds
45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson Book Reviews: Helen M. Rozwadowski,
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and
Exploration of the Deep Sea. With a
Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle. Cambridge,
MA and London: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp xii +
276. ISBN 0-674-01691. \pounds 16.95
(hardback). Helen M. Rozwadowski and
David K. van Keuren (eds.), The Machine
in Neptune's Garden: Historical
Perspectives on Technology and the
Marine Environment. Sagamore Beach, CA:
Science History Publications, 2004. Pp.
399. ISBN 0-88135-372-8. \pounds 24.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Christine MacLeod Book Review: David E. Nye, Technology
Matters: Questions to Live With.
Cambridge, MA and London: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Press, 2006. Pp.
xiv + 282. ISBN: 0-262-14093-4. \pounds
18.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Susan E. Lederer Book Review: Carsten Timmerman and Julie
Anderson (eds.) Devices and Designs:
Medical Technologies in Historical
Perspective. Basingstoke and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xiv + 284.
ISBN 1-4039-86444-4. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
David Edgerton Book Review: Michael Adas, Dominance by
Design: Technological Imperatives and
America's Civilizing Mission. Cambridge,
MA and London: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 542.
ISBN 0-674-01876-2. \pounds 18.95,
\$29.95, EUR25.50 (hardback)} . . . . . 123--124
Roy Macleod Book Review: Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa
and Malcolm Dando (eds.), Deadly
Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 479.
ISBN 0-0674-01699-8. \pounds 37.95,
EUR51.00, \$59.95 (hardback)} . . . . . 124--126
Jon Agar Book Review: Sean F. Johnston,
Holographic Visions: A History of New
Science. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006. Pp. xxi + 518. ISBN
0-19-857122-4. \pounds 75.00 (hardback) 126--127
Soraya de Chadarevian Book Review: Ronald E. Doel and Thomas
Söderqvist (eds.) The Historiography of
Contemporary Science, Technology, and
Medicine: Writing Recent Science. London
and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xv +
313. ISBN 0-415-39142-3. \pounds 80.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Daryn Lehoux Book Reviews: T. K. Johansen, Plato's
Natural Philosophy: A Study of the
Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp. vi + 218.
ISBN 0-521-79067-0. \pounds 45.00
(hardback). Monte Ransome Johnson,
Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+339. ISBN
0-19-928530-6. \pounds 45.00 (hardback) 129--130
Jon McGinnis Book Review: Simone van Riet, Jules
Janssens and André Allard (eds.) Avicenna
Latinus, Liber primus naturalium,
tractatus secundus: De motu et de
consimilibus. Introduction by Gérard
Verbeke. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp.
lxxxix + 373. ISBN 978-2-8031-0231-0.
\pounds 173.70 (hardback) . . . . . . . 131--132
Adam Mosley Book Reviews: Stephen Clucas (ed.) John
Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in
English Renaissance Thought.
International Archives of the History of
Ideas, 193. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.
Pp. xvii + 366. ISBN: 1-4020-4245-0.
EUR144.00, \$189.00, \pounds 111.00
(hardback). ISBN: 1-4020-4246-9
(e-book)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
Anke Timmermann Book Review: Allen G. Debus, The
Chemical Promise: Experiment and
Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy,
1550--1800 (Selected Essays of Allen G.
Debus). Sagamore Beach, MA: Science
History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xxv
+ 548. ISBN 0-88135-296-9. \$89.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Sophie Weeks Book Review: Katharine Park and Lorraine
Daston (eds.) The Cambridge History of
Science, Volume 3: Early Modern Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. Pp. xxvii + 865. ISBN
0-521-57244-4. \pounds 90.00 (hardback) 136--137
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian
Maclean (eds.) Transmitting Knowledge:
Words, Images, and Instruments in Early
Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 274. ISBN
0-19-928878-X. \pounds 100.00 (hardback) 137--138
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti Book Review: Ken Arnold, Cabinets for
the Curious: Looking back at Early
English Museums. Perspectives on
Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
Pp. xii + 297. ISBN 0-7546-0506-X.
\pounds 47.50 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 139--140
James Delbourgo Book Review: Cynthia Sundberg Wall, The
Prose of Things: Transformations of
Description in the Eighteenth Century.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 316.
ISBN 0-226-87158-4. \$35.00 (hardback)} 140--141
Mary Terrall Book Review: Judith P. Zinsser and Julie
Candler Hayes (eds.) Emilie du Châtelet:
Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and
Science. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation,
2006. Pp. xi + 325. ISBN 0-7294-0872-8.
\pounds 60.00, EUR99.00, \$122.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Oliver Hochadel Book Review: Michael R. Lynn, Popular
Science and Public Opinion in
Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in
Early Modern European History.
Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2006. Pp. ix + 177. ISBN 0-7190-7373-1.
\pounds 50.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
James Secord Book Review: David Knight, Public
Understanding of Science: A History of
Communicating Scientific Ideas. Abingdon
and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii
+ 232. ISBN 0-415-20638-3. \pounds 65.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
David Knight Book Review: William Clark, Academic
Charisma and the Origins of the Research
University. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp.
662. ISBN 0-226-1091-6. \$45.00, \pounds
28.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: David J. Frank and Jay
Gabler, Reconstructing the University:
Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the
Twentieth Century. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 248.
ISBN 0-8047-5376-8. \$19.95 (paperback)} 147--148
Max K. Wallis and
Trevor W. Marshall Book Review: Aant Elzinga, Einstein's
Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed
Doors. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science
History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp xii +
128. ISBN 0-88135-283-7. \$39.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Graeme Gooday Book Reviews: Theodore Arabatzis,
Representing Electrons: A Biographical
Approach to Theoretical Entities.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 295. ISBN
0-226-02420-2. \$70.00, \pounds 44.50
(hardback). ISBN 0-226-02421-0. \$28.00,
\pounds 18.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 149--151
Helge Kragh Book Review: David Kaiser, Drawing
Theories Apart: The Dispersion of
Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xx + 469. ISBN
0-226-42267-4. \pounds 21.00, \$30.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Jutta Schickore Book Review: William T. Scott and Martin
X. Moleski, Michael Polanyi, Scientist
and Philosopher. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. Pp. xx + 364.
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\$45.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis Book Review: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory
Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. xi +
261. ISBN 0-262-02589-2. \pounds 22.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Elizabeth Hedrick Romancing the salve: Sir Kenelm Digby
and the powder of sympathy . . . . . . . 161--185
Russell Smith Optical reflection and mechanical
rebound: the shift from analogy to
axiomatization in the seventeenth
century. Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--207
Terje Brundtland From medicine to natural philosophy:
Francis Hauksbee's way to the air-pump 209--240
Nick Wilding The return of Thomas Salusbury's
\booktitleLife of Galileo (1664) . . . . 241--265
Nicholas Jardine Prince Cesi and fungi, not to mention
fungifunguli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--273
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Stephen Gaukroger, The
Emergence of a Scientific Culture:
Science and the Shaping of Modernity,
1210--1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
2006. Pp. ix + 563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8.
\pounds 35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 276--277
Rina Knoeff Book Review: Harold J. Cook, Matters of
Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and
Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
2007. Pp. xiv + 562. ISBN
978-0-300-11796-7. \pounds 28.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Roberta Bivins Book Review: W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy,
Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and
E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical
Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp.
xiii + 614. ISBN 0-5214-7565-5. \pounds
19.99, \$29.99 (paperback)} . . . . . . 279--280
Roger Smith Book Review: Roberta Bivins and John V.
Pickstone (eds.) Medicine, Madness and
Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy
Porter. Basingstoke and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x + 295.
ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Elizabeth Green Musselman,
Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body
Politic in Early Industrial Britain.
Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 276. ISBN
0-7914-6679-5. \$75.00 (hardback)} . . . 282--283
Anne Digby Book Reviews: Akihito Suzuki, Madness at
Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and
the Family in England, 1820--1860.
Berkeley and London: University of
California Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 260.
ISBN 0-520-24580-6. \$49.95, \pounds
32.50 (hardback). Joseph Melling and
Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness:
The State, Insanity and Society in
England, 1845--1914. Abingdon:
Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN
0-415-30174-2. \pounds 75.00 (hardback)} 283--285
Christopher Hamlin Book Review: Ian Burney, Poison,
Detection, and the Victorian
Imagination. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 169.
ISBN 0-7190-7376-6. \pounds 35.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Cheryl Logan Book Reviews: Chandak Sengoopta, The
Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex,
Glands and Hormones, 1850--1950. Chicago
and London: The University of Chicago
Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 354. ISBN
0-226-74863-4. \$45.00, \pounds 28.50
(hardback). Judith A. Houck, Hot and
Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause
in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. \pounds
24.95, \$39.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . 286--288
Carolyn Merchant Book Review: Pierre Hadot, The Veil of
Isis: An Essay on the History of the
Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase.
Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp.
xii + 399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1.
\$29.95, \pounds 19.95, EUR25.50
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Gordon Campbell Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles
and Practices in Ancient Greek and
Chinese Science. Variorum Collected
Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2006. Pp. x + 320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 290--291
Stephen Gaukroger Book Reviews: Edward Grant, A History of
Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient
World to the Nineteenth Century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. Pp. xvi + 361. ISBN
978-0-521-86931-7. \pounds 40.00,
\$70.00 (hardback). ISBN
978-0-521-68957-1. \pounds 14.99,
\$24.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: R. J. W. Evans and
Alexander Marr (eds.) Curiosity and
Wonder from the Renaissance to the
Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
Pp. xv + 265. ISBN 0-7546-4102-3.
\pounds 55.00, \$99.95 (hardback)} . . . 293--294
John L. Heilbron Book Reviews: William R. Shea and
Mariano Artigas, Galileo Observed:
Science and the Politics of Belief.
Sagamore Beach: Science History
Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xi + 212.
ISBN 0-88135-356-6. \$30.00 (hardback).
Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the Scenes
at Galileo's Trial, Including the First
English Translation of Melchior
Inchofer's Tractatus Syllepticus. Notre
Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006.
Pp. xiii+245. ISBN 0-268-02201-1.
\$35.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
Peter Dear Book Reviews: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
Thinking with Objects: The
Transformation of Mechanics in the
Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii
+ 389. ISBN 0-8018-8426-8. \pounds 46.50
(hardback). ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. \pounds
20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Paola Bertucci Book Review: James Delbourgo, A Most
Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity
and Enlightenment in Early America.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 367.
ISBN 0-674-02299-8. \$29.95, \pounds
19.95 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Judith V. Grabiner Book Review: Daniel J. Cohen, Equations
from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian
Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 242.
ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. \pounds 33.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Jeremy Gray Book Review: Karen Hunger Parshall,
James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish
Mathematician in a Victorian World.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 461. ISBN
0-8018-8291-5. \pounds 46.50 (hardback) 300--302
Geoffrey Cantor Book Reviews: Noah J. Efron, Judaism and
Science: A Historical Introduction.
Greenwood Guides to Science and
Religion. Westport, CT and London:
Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xx + 348.
ISBN 978-0-313-33053-7. \$65.00, \pounds
37.95 (hardback). Muzaffar Iqbal,
Science and Islam. Greenwood Guides to
Science and Religion. Westport, CT and
London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp.
xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33576-1. \$65.00,
\pounds 37.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 302--304
Veronika Lipphardt Book Reviews: Geoffrey Cantor and Marc
Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and
the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press,
2006. Pp. xii + 260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3.
\$60.00, \pounds 38.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-226-09277-1. \$24.00, \pounds 15.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Thomas P. Weber Book Review: Horst Bredekamp, Darwins
Korallen. Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die
Tradition der Naturgeschichte. Berlin:
Wagenbach Verlag, 2005. Pp. 111. ISBN
978-3803151735. EUR22.50 (hardback).
Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: The
Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel.
Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. Pp. 299.
ISBN 978-3791336640. \$100.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Kenneth L. Caneva Book Review: Michael Friedman and Alfred
Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in
Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge,
MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. iv +
370. ISBN 0-262-06254-2. \pounds
29.95(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
David Pantalony Book Review: Myles W. Jackson,
Harmonious Triads: Physicists,
Musicians, and Instrument Makers in
Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x + 368. ISBN
0-262-10116-5. \pounds 25.95 (hardback) 309--310
Andrew Warwick Book Review: Jeffrey Crelinsten,
Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test
Relativity. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp.
xxix + 397. ISBN 0-691-12310-1. \pounds
22.99 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--313
Emily Winterburn Book Review: Liba Taub and Frances
Willmoth (eds.), The Whipple Museum of
the History of Science: Instruments and
Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th
Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to
the University of Cambridge. Cambridge:
Whipple Museum of the History of
Science, 2006. Pp. xx + 492. ISBN
0-521-86609-X. \pounds 35.00 (hardback) 313--314
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Francesca Bray Science, technique, technology: passages
between matter and knowledge in imperial
Chinese agriculture . . . . . . . . . . 319--344
Peter Heering The enlightened microscope: re-enactment
and analysis of projections with
eighteenth-century solar microscopes . . 345--367
Elizabeth Cavicchi A witness account of solar microscope
projections: collective acts integrating
across personal and historical memory 369--383
Charles Withers and
Rebekah Higgitt and
Diarmid Finnegan Historical geographies of provincial
science: themes in the setting and
reception of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science in Britain
and Ireland, 1831--c. 1939 . . . . . . . 385--415
Simone Turchetti and
Katrina Dean and
Simon Naylor and
Martin Siegert Accidents and opportunities: a history
of the radio echo-sounding of
Antarctica, 1958--1979 . . . . . . . . . 417--444
Tania Munz Book Reviews: Jonathan Burt, Rat. Animal
Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006.
Pp. 189. ISBN 1-86189-224-1. \pounds
12.95, \$19.95 (paperback). Helen
Macdonald, Falcon. Animal Series.
London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 208.
ISBN 1-86189-238-1. \pounds 12.95,
\$19.95 (paperback). Claire Preston,
Bee. Animal Series. London: Reaktion
Books, 2006. Pp. 206. ISBN
1-86189-256-X. \pounds 12.95, \$19.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
Richard W. Burkhardt Book Review: Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs
Better: A Cultural History of
Myrmecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007. Pp. viii + 302.
ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. \pounds 36.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--449
Roger Smith Book Review: Gregory Radick, The Simian
Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal
Language. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv + 577.
ISBN 978-0-226-70224-7. \$45.00, \pounds
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Matthew R. Goodrum Book Review: Richard G. Delisle,
Debating Humankind's Place in Nature
1860--2000: The Nature of
Paleoanthropology. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. vii
+ 447. ISBN 0-13-1777390-9. \$53.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Efram Sera Shriar Book Review: Henrika Kuklick (ed.) A New
History of Anthropology. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xiii + 402. ISBN
978-0-631-22600-0. \pounds 22.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang Book Review: Diana Jeater, Law,
Language, and Science: The Invention of
the `Native Mind' in Southern Rhodesia,
1890--1930. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,
2007. ISBN 978-0-325-07108-4. Pp. xxii +
274. \pounds 54.95, \$94.95 (hardback)} 453--455
Sujit Sivasundaram Book Reviews: Felix Driver and Luciana
Martins (eds.) Tropical Visions in an
Age of Empire. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp.
xii + 279. ISBN 0-226-16472-1. \$25.00,
\pounds 16.00 (paperback). David Arnold,
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze:
India, Landscape, and Science,
1800--1856. Seattle and London:
University of Washington Press, 2006.
Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-295-98581-X.
\$50.00, \pounds 32.95 (hardback) . . . 455--456
Michael F. Robinson Book Review: David Buisseret (ed.) The
Oxford Companion to World Exploration.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Vol. 1. Pp. xxviii + 478. Vol. 2. Pp.
vii+501. ISBN 978-0-19-514922-7,
0-19-514922-X. \pounds 140.00 (hardback) 457--458
Hester Higton Book Review: Bart Grob and Hans
Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs
Scientific Instruments? Conference on
Scientific Instruments and their Users,
20-22 October 2005. Leiden: Museum
Boerhaave, 2006. Pp. 272. ISBN
906292-158-2. No price given (paperback,
includes CD-ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Richard Dunn Book Review: A. D. Morrison-Low, Making
Scientific Instruments in the Industrial
Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Pp. xvi + 408. ISBN 978-0-7546-5758-3.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 459--460
Boris Jardine Book Review: Jutta Schickore, The
Microscope and the Eye: A History of
Reflections, 1740--1870. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-73784-3.
\$40.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 460--462
Thomas Dixon Book Review: Laura J. Snyder, Reforming
Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on
Science and Society. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. x
+ 386. ISBN 0-226-76733-7. \$45.00,
\pounds 23.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 462--464
Roy MacLeod Book Review: Bart Schultz, Henry
Sidgwick --- Eye of the Universe: An
Intellectual Biography. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx
+ 858. ISBN 0-521-82967-4. \pounds 40.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Phillip Prodger Book Review: Jennifer Tucker, Nature
Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in
Victorian Science. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. ix +
294. ISBN 0-8018-7991-4. \pounds 36.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
Ludmilla Jordanova Book Review: Ann B. Shteir and Bernard
Lightman (eds.) Figuring It Out:
Science, Gender, and Visual Culture.
Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press,
2006. Pp. xxx + 386. ISBN 1-58465-602-6.
\$65.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
Frank M. Turner Book Review: Gowan Dawson, Darwin,
Literature and Victorian Respectability.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. Pp. xii + 282. ISBN
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(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Juliana Adelman Book Review: Mariano Artigas, Thomas F.
Glick and Rafael A. Martínez, Negotiating
Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution,
1877--1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2006. Pp. 326. ISBN
0-8018-8389-7. \pounds 33.50, \$50.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
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Frank A. J. L. James The Janus face of modernity: Michael
Faraday in the twentieth century . . . . 477--516
Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth Bipartisan politics and practical
knowledge: advertising of public science
in two London newspapers, 1695--1720 . . 517--540
Andrew R. Holmes Presbyterians and science in the north
of Ireland before 1874 . . . . . . . . . 541--565
Jon Agar What happened in the sixties? . . . . . 567--600
Silke Ackermann Book Review: George Saliba, Islamic
Science and the Making of the European
Renaissance. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 315. ISBN
978-0-262-19557-7. \pounds 24.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--603
Adam Mosley Book Review: Matthew McLean, The
Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster:
Describing the World in the Reformation.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. viii +
378. ISBN 978-0-7546-5843-6. \pounds
60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--605
Pamela H. Smith Book Review: Adam Mosley, Bearing the
Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the
Astronomical Community of the Late
Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv + 354.
ISBN 978-0-521-83866-5. \pounds 55.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606
H. Darrel Rutkin Book Review: Louise H. Curth, English
Almanacs, Astrology and Popular
Medicine: 1550--1700. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp.
xi + 283. ISBN 978-0-7190-6928-4.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 606--608
Anna Marie Roos Book Reviews: Tara Nummedal, Alchemy and
Authority in the Holy Roman Empire.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii +260. ISBN
978-0-226-60856-3. \$37.50, \pounds
22.00 (hardback). Bruce T. Moran,
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation
of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures
with Polemical Fire. Sagamore Beach, MA:
Science History Publications\slash USA,
2007. Pp. viii + 344. ISBN
978-0-88135-395-7. \$49.95 (hardback) 608--610
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: Ursula Klein and Wolfgang
Lef\`evre, Materials in
Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical
Ontology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
Press, 2007. Pp. x + 345. ISBN
978-0-262-11306-6. \pounds 24.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Charles C. Gillispie Book Reviews: Maurice Crosland, The
Language of Science: From the Vernacular
to the Technical. Cambridge: Lutterworth
Press, 2006. Pp. 128. ISBN
978-0-7188-3060-1. \pounds 12.50,
\$27.50 (paperback). Maurice Crosland,
Scientific Institutions and Practice in
France and Britain, c. 1700--1870.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 228. ISBN
978-0-7546-5913-6. \pounds 60.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
James W. Reed Book Review: John Carson, The Measure of
Merit: Talent, Intelligence, and
Inequality in the French and American
Republics, 1750--1940. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp.
xvii + 401. ISBN 0-691-01715-8. \pounds
26.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
Nicolaas A. Rupke Book Review: Ralph O'Connor, The Earth
on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of
Popular Science, 1802--1856. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. xiii + 541. ISBN
978-0-226-61668-1. \pounds 23.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--616
Ruth Barton Book Review: Bernard Lightman, Victorian
Popularizers of Science: Designing
Nature for New Audiences. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. xvi + 545. ISBN
978-0-226-48118-0. \$37.50, \pounds
23.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617
Jonathan R. Topham Book Review: Peter Broks, Understanding
Popular Science. Maidenhead: Open
University Press, 2006. Pp. xi +183.
ISBN 0-335-21548-3. \pounds 17.99
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--619
Roger Smith Book Reviews: Peter Becker and Richard
F. Wetzell (eds.), Criminals and Their
Scientists: The History of Criminology
in International Perspective. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press and
Washington, DC: German Historical
Institute, 2006. Pp. xiii + 492. ISBN
978-0-521-81012-8. \pounds 60.00,
\$85.00 (hardback). Cesare Lombroso,
Criminal Man. Translated and with a new
Introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole
Hahn Rafter. Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+424.
ISBN 0-8223-3723-1. \pounds 15.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--621
Michael Pettit Book Review: Sarah E. Igo, The Averaged
American: Surveys, Citizens, and the
Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge, MA
and London: Harvard University Press,
2007. Pp. 398. ISBN 978-0-674-02321-5.
\pounds 22.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 621--623
Tara H. Abraham Book Review: Margaret A. Boden, Mind as
Machine: A History of Cognitive Science.
2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006. Pp. xlviii+xxiii + 1631. ISBN
0-19-924144-9. \pounds 125.00 (hardback) 623--624
Jeff Hughes Book Review: John Krige, American
Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction
of Science in Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2006. Pp. 384. ISBN
0-262-11297-3. \$40.00, \pounds 25.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--626
Viviane Quirke Book Review: Mariana Mazzucatto and
Giovanni Dosi (eds.) Knowledge
Accumulation and Industry Evolution: The
Case of Pharma-Biotech. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp.
xvii + 446. ISBN 978-0-521-85822-4.
\pounds 48.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 626--628
Jesse Richmond Book Review: Edward J. Hackett, Olga
Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy
Wajcman (eds.) The Handbook of Science
and Technology Studies, Third Edition.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
2007. Pp. xiv + 1065. ISBN
978-0-262-08364-5. \pounds 35.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--629
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--633
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
David Rooney and
James Nye `Greenwich Observatory Time for the
public benefit': standard time and
Victorian networks of regulation . . . . 5--30
Richard Dunn Material culture in the history of
science: case studies from the National
Maritime Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Sarah Dry Safety networks: fishery barometers and
the outsourcing of judgement at the
early Meteorological Department . . . . 35--56
G. W. Roberts Magnetism and chronometers: the research
of the Reverend George Fisher . . . . . 57--72
Sophia Davis Raising the aerocompass in early
twentieth-century Britain . . . . . . . 73--94
Matthew R. Goodrum and
Cora Olson The quest for an absolute chronology in
human prehistory: anthropologists,
chemists and the fluorine dating method
in palaeoanthropology . . . . . . . . . 95--114
Steven Shapin Book Review: Noretta Koertge (ed.), New
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8
vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's
Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN
978-0684313207. \$995.00 (hardback)} . . 116--117
Mary Jo Nye Book Review: Thomas Söderqvist (ed.) The
History and Poetics of Scientific
Biography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp.
xv + 270. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9.
\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 117--119
Josipa G. Petruni\'c Book Review: Massimo Mazzotti, The World
of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician
of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007. Pp. xx + 217.
ISBN 978-0-8018-8709-3. \pounds 33.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating
Newton: Newtonian Biography and the
Making of Nineteenth-Century History of
Science. London: Pickering & Chatto,
2007. Pp. ix + 286. ISBN
978-1-85196-906-7. \pounds 60.00,
\$99.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Gordon McOuat Book Review: Jim Endersby, Imperial
Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices
of Victorian Science. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2008. Pp. x + 429. ISBN
978-0-226-2-791-9. \pounds 20.50
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Chris Renwick Book Review: Mark Francis, Herbert
Spencer and the Invention of Modern
Life. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing,
2007. Pp. xiv + 434. ISBN
978-1-84465-086-6. \pounds 25.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Matthew Stanley, Practical
Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S.
Eddington. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x
+ 313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. \$37.50,
\pounds 22.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 125--127
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Charles Thorpe,
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xx + 413. ISBN
0-226-79845-3. \$37.50, \pounds 24.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Ursula Klein Book Review: Hasok Chang and Catherine
Jackson (eds.), An Element of
Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in
Science, Medicine, Technology and War.
BSHS Monograph Series, Vol. 13. London:
British Society for the History of
Science, 2007. Pp. ix + 407. ISBN
978-0-906450-01-7. \pounds 15.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Pamela H. Smith Book Reviews: Lawrence M. Principe
(ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies
in the History of Alchemy and Early
Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, MA:
Science History Publications/USA, 2007.
Pp. xiii + 274. ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9.
\$45.00 (hardback). Anna Marie Roos, The
Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy,
Medicine, and Chymistry in England,
1650--1750. Leiden and Boston: Brill,
2007. Pp. xvi+293. ISBN
978-90-04-16176-4. \$129.00 (hardback) 130--132
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Pamela H. Smith and
Benjamin Schmidt (eds.), Making
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe:
Practices, Objects, and Texts,
1400--1800. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp.
xi + 360. ISBN 978-226-76329-3. \$28.00
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Sophie Weeks Book Review: Deborah E. Harkness, The
Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the
Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii + 349.
ISBN 978-0-300-11196-5. \pounds 19.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Paula Findlen Book Review: Paola Bertucci, Viaggio nel
paese delle meraviglie. Scienza e
curiosit\`a nell'Italia del Settecento.
Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. Pp.
294. ISBN 978-88-339-1802-0. EUR28.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Jan Golinski Book Review: Charles W. J. Withers,
Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking
Geographically about the Age of Reason.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 330.
ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. \$45.00, \pounds
28.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Simon Naylor Book Reviews: Jan Golinski, British
Weather and the Climate of
Enlightenment. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp.
272. ISBN 978-0-226-30205-8. \$35.00
(hardback). James Rodger Fleming,
Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen
(eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and
Global Themes in the History of Weather
and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science
History Publications\slash USA, 2006.
Pp. xx + 264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1.
\$39.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Oliver Hochadel Book Review: Florian Charvolin, André
Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des
Sciences citoyennes? La Question de
l'amateur dans les sciences
naturalistes. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions
de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN
9-782752-602305. EUR20.00 . . . . . . . 140--142
Kristin Johnson Book Review: D. Graham Burnett, Trying
Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New
York Court Case that Put the Whale on
Trial and Challenged the Order of
Nature. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2007. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN
978-0-691-12950-1. \pounds 17.95
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Ellen Clarke Book Review: Jamie Elwick, Styles of
Reasoning in the British Life Sciences:
Shared Assumptions, 1820--1858. London:
Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x + 233.
ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. \pounds 60.00,
\$99.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Kent W. Staley Book Review: Steven French and Décio
Krause, Identity in Physics: A
Historical, Philosophical, and Formal
Analysis. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006. Pp. xv + 422. ISBN
0-19-927824-5. \pounds 55.00 (hardback) 145--146
Michael D. Gordin Book Review: Klaus Hentschel, The Mental
Aftermath: The Mentality of German
Physicists, 1945--1949. Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp.
vi + 205. ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 147--148
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Timothy Boon, Films of
Fact: A History of Science in
Documentary Films and Television.
London: Wallflower Press, 2008. Pp. x +
312. ISBN 978-1-905674-37-4. \pounds
16.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Simone Turchetti Book Review: Jacob Darwin Hamblin,
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in
the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear
Age. New Brunswick, NJ and London:
Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x +
311. ISBN 978-0-8135-4220-1. \$49.95
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Diane B. Paul Book Review: Jene M. Porter and Peter W.
B. Phillips (eds.), Public Science in
Liberal Democracy. Toronto, Buffalo and
London: University of Toronto Press,
2007. Pp. xii + 343. ISBN
978-0-8020-9359-2. \pounds 45.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Simon Pooley Book Review: Saul Dubow, A Commonwealth
of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and
White South Africa 1820--2000. Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press,
2006. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-199-29663-7.
\pounds 60.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 152--154
Matthew R. Goodrum Book Review: Ann Gibbons, The First
Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest
Ancestors. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. ix
+ 303. ISBN 1-4000-7696-X. \$14.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Anonymous BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3
Anonymous BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Michael Wintroub The Heavens Inscribed: the instrumental
poetry of the Virgin in early modern
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--185
Dániel Margócsy Advertising cadavers in the republic of
letters: anatomical publications in the
early modern Netherlands . . . . . . . . 187--210
E. B. Davies Some reflections on Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
Simon Thode Bones and words in 1870s New Zealand:
the moa-hunter debate through actor
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--244
Elsa Mota and
Paulo Crawford and
Ana Simões Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's
expedition to Principe and the reactions
of Portuguese astronomers (1917--1925) 245--273
Yasmin Haskell The languages of melancholy in early
modern England . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
Steve Sturdy Book Reviews: Mark Jackson, Allergy: The
History of a Modern Malady. London:
Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 288. ISBN
978-1-86189-333-8. \pounds 12.25
(paperback). Gregg Mitman, Breathing
Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and
Landscapes. London: Yale University
Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 312. ISBN
978-0-300-11035-7. \pounds 20.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
Jacalyn Duffin Book Review: Roberta Bivins, Alternative
Medicine? A History. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 238.
ISBN 978-0-19-921887-5. \pounds 14.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Adrian Wilson Book Review: Lianne McTavish, Childbirth
and the Display of Authority in Early
Modern France. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Pp. xiv + 257. ISBN 0-7546-3619-4.
\pounds 45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 285--287
Jane Maienschein Book Review: Tatjana Buklijas and Nick
Hopwood, Making Visible Embryos. An
online exhibition developed by the
University of Cambridge with support
from the Wellcome Trust, 2008 . . . . . 287--288
Claire Jones Book Review: Roy Church and E. M.
Tansey, Burroughs Wellcome & Co.:
Knowledge, Trust and Profit, and the
Transformation of the British
Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880--1940.
Lancaster: Crucible, 2007. Pp. xxvii +
564. ISBN 978-1-905-472-07-9. \pounds
19.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Harriet Ritvo Book Review: Neil Pemberton and Michael
Worboys, Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies
in Britain, 1830--2000. Basingstoke and
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp.
x + 247. ISBN 978-0-230-54240-2. \pounds
45.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Thomes P. Weber Book Reviews: Marcos Cueto, Cold Wars,
Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in
Mexico 1955--1975. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xv +
264. ISBN 978-0-8018-8645-4. \$45.00,
\pounds 30.00 (hardback). Frank M.
Snowden, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy,
1900--1962. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2006. Pp. viii+296. ISBN
0-300-10899-0. \$43.00, \pounds 25.00
(hardback). Sandra M. Sufian, Healing
the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the
Zionist Project in Palestine,
1920--1947. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp.
xviii+385. ISBN 978-0-226-77935-5.
\$40.00, \pounds 21.00 (hardback)} . . . 291--293
Patricia Fara Book Reviews: William Bynum, The History
of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-19-921543-0. \pounds
7.99 (paperback). Thomas Dixon, Science
and Religion: A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pp. 150. ISBN 978-0-19-929551-7. \pounds
7.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Stephen Gaukroger Book Review: Peter Harrison, The Fall of
Man and the Foundations of Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. Pp. xi + 300. ISBN
978-0-521-87559-2. \pounds 50.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
Christine MacLeod Book Review: Lissa Roberts, Simon
Schaffer and Peter Dear (eds.), The
Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from
the Late Renaissance to Early
Industrialisation. Amsterdam:
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van
Wetenschappen, 2007. Available outside
the UK and Europe from University of
Chicago Press. Pp. xxvii + 503. ISBN
978-90-6984-483-1. EUR89.00, \$110.00
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--298
Lorraine Daston Book Review: Kapil Raj, Relocating
Modern Science: Circulation and the
Construction of Knowledge in South Asia
and Europe, 1650--1900. Houndmills and
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp.
xiv + 285. ISBN 978-0-230-50708. \pounds
53.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Lewis Pyenson Book Review: Josep Simon and Néstor
Herran, with Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Pedro
Ruiz Castell and Ximo Guillem-Llobat
(eds.), Beyond Borders: Fresh
Perspectives in History of Science.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2008. Pp. vii + 377. ISBN
978-184-71843-2. \pounds 39.99
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Valentina Pugliano Book Review: Alessandro Ottaviani and
Oreste Trabucco, Theatrum Naturae: La
ricerca naturalistica tra erudizione e
nuova scienza nell'Italia del primo
Seicento. Napoli: La Citt\`a del Sole.
2007. Pp. 177. ISBN 978-88-8292-363-1.
EUR22.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Christopher Baxfield Book Review: J. B. Shank, The Newton
Wars and the Beginning of the French
Enlightenment. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp.
xvi + 571. ISBN 978-0-226-74945-7.
\$55.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Jeremy J. Gray and Karen H.
Parshall (eds.), Episodes in the History
of Modern Algebra (1800--1950).
Providence, RI: American Mathematical
Society and London: London Mathematical
Society, 2007. Pp. vii + 336 pp. ISBN
978-0-8218-4343-7. \$69.00 (hardback)} 304--305
Jimena Canales Book Review: Chris Otter, The Victorian
Eye: A Political History of Light and
Vision in Britain, 1800--1910. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2008. Pp. x + 382. ISBN
978-0-226-64077-8. \pounds 13.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Ryan D. Tweney Book Review: Alice Jenkins (ed.),
Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An
Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2008. Pp. xii + 250. ISBN
978-1-84631-140-6. \pounds 47.50,
\$85.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 306--308
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Reviews: Frank A. J. L. James
(ed.), The Correspondence of Michael
Faraday: Volume 5, 1855--1860. London:
Institution of Engineering and
Technology, 2008. Pp. lviii + 835. ISBN
978-0-86341-823-5. \pounds 70.00
(hardback). Frank A. J. L. James (ed.),
Christmas at the Royal Institution: An
Anthology of Lectures by M. Faraday, J.
Tyndall, R. S. Ball, S. P. Thompson, E.
R. Lankester, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg,
R. L. Gregory, and I. Stewart.
Singapore: World Scientific Books, 2007.
Pp. xxxiii+366. ISBN 981-277-109-3.
\pounds 39.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . 308--310
Richard Noakes Book Review: The English Mechanic and
World of Science. Vols. 1-124 on 14
DVDs. Waltham Abbey: E. S. Hutton, 2006.
ISBN 1-905383-00-2. Single disks \pounds
22.00 (individual), \pounds 50.00
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(institutional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Frank M. Turner Book Review: Thomas Dixon, The Invention
of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in
Victorian Britain. Oxford: British
Academy for the Oxford University Press,
2008. Pp. xiv + 420. ISBN
978-0-19-726426-3. \pounds 60.00
(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318
Anonymous BJH volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b4
Anonymous BJH volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Jon Agar and
Joe Cain and
Hasok Chang Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
John Morgan Religious conventions and science in the
early Restoration: Reformation and
`Israel' in Thomas Sprat's
\booktitleHistory of the Royal Society
(1667) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--344
James Mussell Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the
reproduction of astronomical photographs
in the late nineteenth-century
periodical press . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--380
Caitlin Homes The Astronomer Royal, the Hydrographer
and the time ball: collaborations in
time signalling 1850--1910 . . . . . . . 381--406
John Stewart The scientific claims of British child
guidance, 1918--1945 . . . . . . . . . . 407--432
Claudine Cohen Book Review: Martin J. S. Rudwick,
Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction
of Geohistory in the Age of Reform.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xxii + 614.
ISBN 978-0-226-73128-5. \pounds 23.50
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John M. Lynch Book Review: David N. Livingstone,
Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and
the Politics of Human Origins.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2008. Pp. x + 301. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--437
Jacob Stegenga Book Review: Jessica Riskin (ed.),
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and
Philosophy of Artificial Life. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. xvii + 389. ISBN
978-0-226-72081-4. \pounds 16.00,
\$25.00 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Sophie Weeks Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and William R. Newman (eds.), The
Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving
Polarity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2007. Pp. viii + 331. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440
Thomas Dixon Book Reviews: Steve Fuller, Dissent over
Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge
to Darwinism. Cambridge: Icon Books,
2008. Pp. v + 272. ISBN 978-184046804-5.
\pounds 12.99 (hardback). Nathaniel C.
Comfort (ed.), The Panda's Black Box:
Opening up the Intelligent Design
Controversy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+165. ISBN
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--442
Steve Fuller Book Reviews: Alan Sokal, Beyond the
Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 2008. Pp. xxi + 465. ISBN
978-0-19-923920-7. \pounds 20.00
(hardback). Sophie Roux (ed.), Retours
sur l'affaire Sokal. Paris: L'Harmattan,
2007. Pp. x+190. ISBN 978-2-296-02389-5.
EUR17.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 442--444
Graeme J. N. Gooday Book Review: Harry Collins and Robert
Evans, Rethinking Expertise. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. 160. ISBN 978-0-226-11360-9.
\$37.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
Snait B. Gissis Book Review: Massimo Mazzotti (ed.),
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking
the Sociology of Barry Barnes.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xi + 184.
ISBN 978-0-7546-4863-5. \pounds 50.00
(hardcover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
Graham Richards Book Review: Roger Smith, Being Human:
Historical Knowledge and the Creation of
Human Nature. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp.
viii + 288. ISBN 978-0-7190-7498-1.
\pounds 25.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 447--448
Roger Smith Book Reviews: G. E. R. Lloyd, Cognitive
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Benjamin A. Elman Book Review: Francesca Bray, Vera
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié
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Production of Technical Knowledge in
China. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill,
2007. Pp. xiii + 772. ISBN
978-90-04-16063-7. \$149.00, \$199.00
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Eleanor Robson Book Review: Serafina Cuomo, Technology
and Culture in Greek and Roman
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Emily Wilson Book Review: Liba Taub, Aetna and the
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138. \$24.95. ISBN 978-0-87071-196-1
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Sarah Hutton Book Review: Hugh Trevor-Roper, Europe's
Physician: The Various Life of Sir
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London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp.
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\pounds 25.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 456--457
Simon Werrett Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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\pounds 55.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 457--459
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(hardback). Sarah Irving, Natural
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Michael F. Robinson Book Review: James Delbourgo and
Nicholas Dew (eds.), Science and Empire
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Margaret C. Jacob Book Review: Peter M. Jones, Industrial
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York: Manchester University Press, 2008.
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Katharine Anderson Book Review: Michael S. Reidy, Tides of
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Elizabeth R. Neswald Book Review: William H. Brock, William
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der Entropie, 1850--1915. Freiburg:
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978-3-7930-9448-7. EUR48.00 (paperback).
Helge S. Kragh, Entropic Creation:
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Daniel C. S. Wilson Book Review: Richard G. Olson, Science
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Richard Staley, Einstein's
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(hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--473
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Paolo Palmieri A phenomenology of Galileo's experiments
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Anna Winterbottom Producing and using the Historical
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John Gascoigne The Royal Society, natural history and
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Vidar Enebakk Lilley revisited: or science and society
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John V. Pickstone The disunities of representation . . . . 595--600
Martin Kemp Book Review: Jean A. Givens, Karen M.
Reeds and Alain Touwaide (eds.),
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Studies in the History of Medieval
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Penelope Gouk Book Review: Stuart Clark, Vanities of
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Efram Sera Shriar Book Review: Cristina Grasseni (ed.),
Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship
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Kapil Raj Book Review: Henry J. Noltie, Robert
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(paperback, boxed set) . . . . . . . . . 606--608
Dawn M. Digrius Book Review: Constance Areson Clark, God
or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the
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University Press, 2008. xviii + 289.
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Irina Sirotkina Book Review: Margareta Tillberg,
Tsvetnaia vselennaia: Mikhail Matiushin
ob iskusstve i zrenii. Transl. from
English by D. Dukhavina and M. Iarosh.
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie,
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Mirjam Brusius Book Review: Horst Bredekamp, Birgit
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Bilder. Berlin: Akademie Verlag2008. Pp.
231. ISBN 978-3-05-004496-5. EUR29.80
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--612
Steve Fuller Book Reviews: Joseph E. Harmon and Alan
G. Gross (eds.), The Scientific
Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2007. Pp. xxiv + 327. ISBN
978-0-22631656-7. \$72.50, \pounds 46.00
(hardback). ISBN 978-0-226-31656-7.
\$29.00, \pounds 18.50 (paperback) . . . 612--613
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: Patricia Fara, Science: A
Four Thousand Year History. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv +
408. ISBN 978-0-19-922689-4. \pounds
20.00 (hardback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--615
Nick Tosh Book Review: Robert N. Proctor and Londa
Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The
Making and Unmaking of Ignorance.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2008. Pp. viii + 298. ISBN
978-0-8047-5901-4. \$24.95 (paperback)} 615--616
Peter Dear Book Review: Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel,
Romano Nanni and Nicole C. Karafyllis
eds., Philosophies of Technology:
Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries.
Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern
Studies series vol. 11. Leiden: Brill,
2008. 2 vols. Pp. xxix + 577. ISBN
978-9-0041-70506. EUR149.00 (hardback) 616--617
Matthew D. Eddy Book Review: Alix Cooper, Inventing the
Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural
History in Early Modern Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. Pp. xiii + 218. ISBN
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\$75.00 (hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . 617--619
Staffan Müller-Wille Book Review: Marianne Sommer, Bones and
Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red
Lady of Paviland. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Pp. xii + 398. ISBN 978-0-674-02499-1.
\pounds 25.95 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 619--620
Mark Francis Book Review: David Stack, Queen
Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the
Mid-Victorian Mind. London: Hambledon
Continuum, 2008. Pp. xviii + 350. ISBN
978 1 84725 233 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 620--621
Angelique Richardson Book Review: Aileen Fyfe and Bernard
Lightman (eds.), Science in the
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and Experiences. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x
+ 410. ISBN 978 0 226 27650 2. \$45.00,
\pounds 23.50 (hardback)} . . . . . . . 621--623
Charlotte Sleigh Book Review: Steven McClean, The Early
Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of
Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave
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Tania Munz Book Review: Deborah Coen, Vienna in the
Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism,
and Private Life. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp.
xi + 380. ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8.
\$45.00, \pounds 28.50 (hardback)} . . . 624--626
Jacob Stegenga Book Review: Angela N. H. Creager,
Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise
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Durham, NC and London: Duke University
Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4068-3.
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Roy MacLeod Book Review: David Edgerton, Warfare
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Jean-François Auger Book Review: Hannah Gay, The History of
Imperial College London, 1907--2007:
Higher Education and Research in
Science, Technology and Medicine.
London: Imperial College Press, 2007.
pp. xxvii + 825. ISBN 1-86094-709-3.
\pounds 122.40, \$152.00 (softcover)} 630--631
Duncan Wilson Book Review: Mike Fortun, Promising
Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in
a World of Speculation. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2008.
Pp. x + 330. ISBN 978-0-520-24751-2.
\pounds 17.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 631--632
Robert Bud Book Review: Steven Shapin, The
Scientific Life: A Moral History of a
Late Modern Vocation. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2008. Pp. xvii + 468. ISBN
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