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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
E. N. da C. Andrade, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. The real character of Bishop Wilkins . . 4--12
N. H. de Vaudrey Heathcote, B.Sc. Early nautical charts . . . . . . . . . 13--28
M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.I.C., M.I.Chem.E. History of the Chile nitrate industry. I 29--47
Leonora D. Cohen, M.A. Descartes and Henry More on the
beast-machine --- a translation of their
correspondence pertaining to animal
automatism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Richard Boyle, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., and
--- Incidentally --- Some of his
relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65
W. Cameron Walker, M.Sc., A.I.C. The detection and estimation of electric
charges in the eighteenth century . . . 66--100
Douglas McKie, Ph.D., B.Sc. On Thos. Cochrane's ms. notes of Black's
chemical lectures, 1767--8 . . . . . . . 101--110
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
R. A. Fisher, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Has Mendel's work been rediscovered? . . 115--137
Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. A Cullen chemical manuscript of 1753 . . 138--156
Hebbel E. Hoff, Ph.D. Galvani and the pre-Galvanian
electrophysiologists . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
Raymond Phineas Stearns, A.M., Ph.D. The production of sugar in Barbados \em
c. 1667 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--181
Harcourt Brown, M.A., Ph.D. The utilitarian motive in the age of
Descartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--192
M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.I.C., M.I.Chem.E. History of the Chile nitrate industry.
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216
E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. Early studies in radiant heat . . . . . 217--225
Robert S. Woodbury, S.B. The teaching of the History of Science
in an engineering school . . . . . . . . 226--232
H. Brown The History of Science Society Report of
the St. Louis meeting 1936 . . . . . . . 233--234
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
John F. Fulton, M.D. and
Harvey Cushing, M.D. A bibliographical study of the Galvani
and the Aldini writings on animal
electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--268
Douglas McKie, Ph.D., B.Sc. Béraut's theory of calcination (1747) . . 269--293
Raymond Phineas Stearns, A.M., Ph.D. The course of Capt. Edmond Halley in the
year 1700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--301
J. R. Morgan, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.I.C. The search for a safety-lamp in mines 302--329
Grant McColley, Ph.D. The second edition of \booktitleThe
discovery of a world in the moone . . . 330--334
J. F. Scott, B.A., Ph.D., M.Sc. John Wallis as a historian of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--357
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Joan Baptista van Helmont . . . . . . . 359--384
Grant McColley, Ph.D. The seventeenth-century doctrine of a
plurality of worlds . . . . . . . . . . 385--430
K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. A short sketch of the history of the
Oxford medical school . . . . . . . . . 431--446
J. Pelseneer Notes on some unpublished letters from
Faraday to Quetelet . . . . . . . . . . 447--452
Robert E. Schlueter, M.D. The first Aphorism of Hippocrates as
explained by Paracelsus . . . . . . . . 453--461
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Van Helmont's ice and water experiments 462--467
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--470
F. J. Cole, D.Sc., F.R.S. Leeuwenhoek's zoological researches.
Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--46
Frank G. Young, Ph.D. Claude Bernard and the theory of the
glycogenic function of the liver . . . . 47--83
W. Cameron Walker, M.Sc., A.I.C. Animal electricity before Galvani . . . 84--113
V. A. Eyles, B.Sc. John Macculloch, F.R.S., and his
geological map: An account of the first
geological survey of Scotland . . . . . 114--129
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
Henry Terry Obituary: Edward Turner, M.D., F.R.S.
(1798--1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152
M. J. J. Laboulle, B.A. and
H. Levy, M.A., D.Sc. Some questions of scientific method in
the `Si\`ecle des Lumi\`eres' . . . . . 153--163
A. W. Humphreys, B.A.B.Sc. The development of the conception and
measurement of electric current . . . . 164--178
Grant McColley, Ph.D. A facsimile of Salusbury's translation
of Didacus \`a Stunica's
\booktitleCommentary upon Job . . . . . 179--182
L. C. Ockenden, B.Sc. The great batteries of the London
institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
F. J. Cole, D.Sc., F.R.S. Leeuwenhoek's zoological researches.
Part II. Bibliography and analytical
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--235
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Jean Beguin and his \booktitleTyrocinium
Chymicum [Rudiments of chemistry] . . . 243--298
Marjorie Nicolson, Litt.D., Ph.D. and
Nora M. Mohler, Ph.D. The scientific background of Swift's
\booktitleVoyage to Laputa . . . . . . . 299--334
Charles Foster, M.A., B.Sc. One hundred years of science teaching in
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344
W. P. Jones, Ph.D. The vogue of natural history in England,
1750--1770 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--352
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--356
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston
theory. I. The levity of phlogiston . . 361--404
Marjorie Nicolson, Litt.D., Ph.D. and
Nora M. Mohler, Ph.D. Swift's `Flying Island' in the
\booktitleVoyage to Laputa . . . . . . . 405--430
Muriel A. Bentham, M.Sc. Some seventeenth century views
concerning the nature of heat and cold 431--450
Forsyth J. Wilson, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C. The Chemical Society of Glasgow: Minute
book of 1800--1801 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--459
Dorothy Stimson, Ph.D. The teaching of the history of science
in a liberal arts college for women . . 460--464
S. A. Dyment, M.Sc. Some eighteenth century ideas concerning
aqueous vapour and evaporation . . . . . 465--473
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston
theory. II. The negative weight of
phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--58
H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist:
His precursors, opponents and
successors. Parts I & II . . . . . . . . 59--118
E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. The radiant heat spectrum from Herschel
to Melloni. I. The work of Herschel and
his contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137
N. F. Newbury, M.A., M.Sc., A.I.C. The history of the common salt industry
on Merseyside . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--148
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Grant McColley, Ph.D. The Ross--Wilkins controversy . . . . . 153--189
V. A. Eyles, B.Sc. and
Joan M. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S. On the different issues of the first
geological map of England and Wales . . 190--212
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. On `nitre' and `natron' . . . . . . . . 213--216
Albert Joseph George A seventeenth-century amateur of
science: Jean Chapelain . . . . . . . . 217--236
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. A short history of the international
congresses of physiologists . . . . . . 241--335
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston
theory. III. Light and heat in
combustion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--371
Albert J. George The genesis of the académie des sciences 372--401
E. S. Cornell, M.Sc. The radiant heat spectrum from Herschel
to Melloni. II. The work of Melloni and
his contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . 402--416
Edwin M. J. Kretzmann, M.A., Ph.D. German technological Utopias of the
pre-war period . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. The discovery of the optical rotatory
power of tartaric acid . . . . . . . . . 431--434
H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist:
His precursors, opponents and
successors. Part III . . . . . . . . . . 435--456
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--460
Marjorie Nicolson, Ph.D., Litt.D. English almanacs and the `new astronomy' 1--33
Oswald J. Walker, B.Sc., Ph.D. August Kekulé and the benzene problem . . 34--46
K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. An introduction to the earlier history
of phlebitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Note on Blaise de Vigen\`ere, John
Ferguson, and benzoic acid . . . . . . . 61--64
H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist:
His precursors, opponents and
successors. Part IV . . . . . . . . . . 65--106
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Historical studies on the phlogiston
theory. IV. Last phases of the theory 113--149
Grant McColley, Ph.D. The debt of Bishop John Wilkins to the
\booktitleApologia pro Galileo of
Tommaso Campanella . . . . . . . . . . . 150--168
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. The history of the manufacture of soap 169--190
Carl Grabo Science and the romantic movement . . . 191--205
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. A history of Prussian blue . . . . . . . 206--211
D. Rutenberg, B.Sc. The early history of the potentiometer
system of electrical measurement . . . . 212--243
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The origins of the atomic theory . . . . 245--282
K. J. Franklin, D.M., M.R.C.P. Some textual changes in successive
editions of Richard Lower's
\booktitleTractatus de corde item de
motu & colore sanguinis et chyli in eum
transitu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--294
Bradley T. Scheer The development of the concept of tissue
respiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--305
William Ebenstein, Ll.D., Ph.D. The early reception of the doctrine of
evolution in the United States . . . . . 306--318
Grant McColley, Ph.D. J. H. and the \booktitleAstronomia
Crystallina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--324
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327
H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D. William Harvey, physician and biologist:
His precursors, opponents and
successors. Part V . . . . . . . . . . . 329--389
Grant McColley, Ph.D. Nicholas Hill and the
\booktitlePhilosophia Epicurea . . . . . 390--405
Sir Philip J. Hartog, K.B.E., C.I.E., Ll.D. The newer views of Priestley and
Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--56
K. J. Franklin, D.M., F.R.C.P. A survey of the growth of knowledge
about certain parts of the foetal
cardio-vascular apparatus, and about the
foetal circulation, in Man and some
other mammals. Part I: Galen to Harvey 57--89
F. J. North, D.Sc., F.G.S. Paviland cave, the `Red Lady', the
Deluge, and William Buckland . . . . . . 91--128
F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A., Ph.D. The origin of the thermometer . . . . . 129--156
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The early history of strontium . . . . . 157--166
E. C. Millington, M.Sc. History of the Young--Helmholtz theory
of colour vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
Edmund Anthony Spriggs, B.A. John Hunter and his approach to
pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D., M.A., B.Sc. The evolution of the still . . . . . . . 185--202
K. J. Franklin, D.M., F.R.C.P. Jean Méry (1645--1722) and his ideas on
the foetal blood flow . . . . . . . . . 203--228
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Some milestones in the study of
hydrocarbon flames . . . . . . . . . . . 229--252
E. C. Millington, M.Sc., Ph.D. Theories of cohesion in the seventeenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--269
Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. The history of the discovery of phosgene 270--287
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and
Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations
regarding the crystal form of
sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ ---
and $l$-tartrate, and potassium racemate
--- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--295
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Archibald Clow, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. and
Nan L. Clow, M.A., B.Sc. The natural and economic history of kelp 297--316
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and
Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations
regarding the crystal form of
sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ ---
and $l$-tartrate, and potassium
racemate. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324
H. Hamshaw Thomas, Sc.D., F.R.S. The rise of geology and its influence on
contemporary thought . . . . . . . . . . 325--341
Angus Armitage, M.Sc. The deviation of falling bodies . . . . 342--351
E. C. Millington, M.Sc., Ph.D. Studies in capillarity and cohesion in
the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 352--369
K. J. Franklin An autograph letter by Gilbert White . . 370--372
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and
J. D. Loudon, D.Sc., Ph.D. and
Adeline O. M. Cook, M.A. Robertus Vallensis' \booktitleDe
veritate et antiquitate artis chemicæ
[The authentic and ancient art of
chemistry] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The cosmology of Giordano Bruno . . . . 24--31
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc. The furnaces and thermometers of
Cornelis Drebbel . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--43
E. Weil, Ph.D. Andreas Albrecht, a seventeenth-century
military surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
J. Challinor, M.A. The beginnings of scientific
palaeontology in Britain . . . . . . . . 46--53
A. C. Crombie, B.Sc., Ph.D. Some reflections on the history of
science and its conception of nature . . 54--75
T. S. Patterson, D.Sc., Ph.D., Ll.D. and
Charles Buchanan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Historical and other considerations
regarding the crystal form of
sodium-ammonium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium $d$ --- and
$l$-tartrate, potassium-ammonium $d$ ---
and $l$-tartrate, and potassium
racemate. Addendum on the isomorphism of
potassium- and potassium-ammonium
tartrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
S. Lilley, M.Sc., Ph.D. `Nicholson's Journal' (1797--1813) . . . 78--101
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. Some letters from Jakob Samuel
Wyttenbach to Sir James Edward Smith . . 105--114
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Thomas Thomson, 1773--1852 . . . . . . . 115--126
Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part I.
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--180
F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D., M.A., B.Sc. The invention of the hygroscope . . . . 181--185
J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. A biographical note on William
Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800) . . 186--196
H. J. J. Winter, M.Sc., Ph.D. The work of G. T. Fechner on the
Galvanic circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--205
Anonymous Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Combe--Varin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228
Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part
II. Public health . . . . . . . . . . . 229--247
Dorothea Waley Singer Sir John Pringle and his circle. Part
III. Copley discourses . . . . . . . . . 248--261
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. and
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D. Sir John Eliot, Bart. (1736--86), and
John Elliot (1747--87) . . . . . . . . . 262--267
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. `Borell's hypothesis' and the rise of
celestial mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 268--282
H. Whitmore Jones, M.A., Ph.D. Some reflections on the beginnings of
experimental science . . . . . . . . . . 283--292
N. H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. Guericke's sulphur globe . . . . . . . . 293--305
E. Weil, Ph.D. An unpublished letter by Davy on the
safety-lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., M.I.Chem.E., A.R.C.S. Burchard Kranich (\em c. 1515--1578),
miner and queen's physician, Cornish
mining stamps, antimony and, Frobisher's
gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--322
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--326
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Johann Heinrich Hottinger's description
of the ice-mountains of Switzerland,
1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--360
J. A. Douglas, M.A., D.Sc. and
J. M. Edmonds, M.A., B.Sc. John Phillips's geological maps of the
British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Margaret E. Rowbottom, M.Sc. The earliest published writing of Robert
Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--389
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. I.
The tinplate workers . . . . . . . . . . 390--403
Herbert Dingle, D.Sc., D.I.C., A.R.C.S. Thomas Wright's astronomical heritage 404--415
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. I. The
journal and its editors . . . . . . . . 416--421
J. S. Rowe, B.Sc. The life and work of George Fownes,
F.R.S. (1815--49) . . . . . . . . . . . 422--435
J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William
Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800). I 436--447
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Edward Hughes, M.A. The early journal of Thomas Wright of
Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. II.
Early tinplate manufacture to 1700 . . . 25--42
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. III.
John Hanbury (1664--1734) . . . . . . . 43--61
Robert S. Whipple, M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P. John Yarwell or the story of a trade
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69
H. E. Street, Ph.D. and
G. E. Trease, B.Pharm., F.R.I.C., F.L.S. The discovery of asparagine . . . . . . 70--76
J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William
Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800). II 77--94
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. The early history of strontium. Part II 95--100
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. II. The
phlogiston theory . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
M. B. Donald, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., M.I.Chem.E., A.R.C.S. A further note on Burchard Kranich . . . 107--108
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. The rise of the tinplate industry. IV.
An eighteenth century tinplate mill . . 113--127
R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Friedrich Accum (1769--1838). A
biographical study . . . . . . . . . . . 128--143
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. III.
Pierre Bayen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--148
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Robert Dossie (1717--1777) and the
society of arts . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Jeremias Benjamin Richter and the law of
reciprocal proportions. I . . . . . . . 173--198
J. Russell-Wood, M.Sc., Ph.D. The scientific work of William
Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S. (1711--1800).
III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206
I. Bernard Cohen, Ph.D. Guericke and Dufay . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Peter Shaw and the revival of chemistry 211--237
John L. Thornton, A.L.A. The history of physiology at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London . . . . . 238--247
Herbert Weisinger, A.M., Ph.D. English treatment of the relationship
between the rise of science and the
Renaissance, 1740--1840 . . . . . . . . 248--274
Lynn Thorndike, A.M., Ph.D. Astronomical and chronological
calculations at Newminster in 1428 . . . 275--283
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's journal. IV. C. L.
Berthollet. V. [Unknown] . . . . . . . . 284--299
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. Master Georg Dörffel and the rise of
cometary astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 303--315
V. A. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.S.E. and
Joan M. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S. Some geological correspondence of James
Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--339
Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D. Science in English encyclopædias,
1704--1875. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--370
R. C. Oldfield, M.A. and
Lady Kathleen Oldfield, M.A. Hartley's \booktitleObservations on Man 371--381
Harold C. Passer, M.A., Ph.D. Electrical science and the early
development of the electrical
manufacturing industry in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's Journal. VI and
VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--400
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Historical survey of the japanning
trade. 1. Eastern and Western lacquer 401--416
Derek J. Price, Ph.D. The early observatory instruments of
Trinity College, Cambridge . . . . . . . 1--12
Jean Jacquot Sir Charles Cavendish and his learned
friends: a contribution to the history
of scientific relations between England
and the Continent in the earlier part of
the 17th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--27
E. W. J. Neave, M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry in Rozier's Journal. VIII and
IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--45
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Francis Vigani: First Professor of
Chemistry in the University of Cambridge 46--60
Mary B. Hesse, M.Sc., Ph.D. Boole's philosophy of logic . . . . . . 61--81
F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. The teaching of science at Oxford in the
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 82--112
J. J. Keevil, D.S.O., M.D., F.S.A. Sir Charles Scarburgh . . . . . . . . . 113--121
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Lewis, M.B., F.R.S. (1708--1781) 122--151
George A. Foote, M.A., Ph.D. Mechanism, materialism, and science in
England, 1800--1850 . . . . . . . . . . 152--161
Denis Duveen, F.R.I.C. An unpublished report on the
waterproofing of shoe leather by
Lavoisier and Hassenfratz . . . . . . . 162--164
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Mickleburgh: Professor of Chemistry
in the University of Cambridge, 1718--56 165--174
Jean Jacquot Sir Charles Cavendish and his learned
friends: a contribution to the history
of scientific relations between England
and the Continent in the earlier part of
the 17th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--191
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., A.Inst.P. Bartolomeo Telioux and the early history
of the thermometer . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. A notebook of William Lewis and
Alexander Chisholm . . . . . . . . . . . 202--220
Professor O. Neugebauer, Ph.D., Ll.D. and
Olaf Schmidt, Ph.D. Hindu astronomy at Newminster in 1428 221--228
D. R. Newth, B.Sc., Ph.D. Lamarck in 1800: a lecture on the
invertebrate animals and a note on
fossils taken from the
\booktitleSyst\`eme des Animaux sans
Vert\`ebres by J. B. Lamarck . . . . . . 229--254
R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S.
(1768--1840) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D. Prelude to chemistry in industry . . . . 271--281
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
F. Sherwood Taylor, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. The chemical studies of John Evelyn . . 285--292
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. John Hadley: Fourth Professor of
Chemistry in the University of Cambridge 293--301
Philip George, M.A., Ph.D. The scientific movement and the
development of chemistry in England, as
seen in the papers published in the
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions
from 1664/5 until 1750 . . . . . . . . . 302--322
Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D. Science in English encyclopædias,
1704--1875. II. Theories of the
elementary composition of matter . . . . 323--367
A. D. Atkinson, M.A. William Derham, F.R.S. (1657--1735) . . 368--392
Professor Sir Ernest Kennaway, F.R.S. Some recollections of Albrecht Kossel,
Professor of Physiology in Heidelberg,
1901--1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--397
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--401
G. R. de Beer, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Haller's \booktitleHistoria Stirpium . . 1--46
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The pilgrimage of Pingré: An
astronomer--monk of eighteenth-century
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63
S. F. Mason, Ph.D. The scientific revolution and the
Protestant Reformation. I. Calvin and
Servetus in relation to the new
astronomy and the theory of the
circulation of the blood . . . . . . . . 64--87
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning
trade. II. Early British japanning . . . 88--95
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Lavoisier's memoir on the composition of
nitric acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Richard Watson, Professor of Chemistry
in the University of Cambridge, 1764--71 101--123
J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology.
I. From Leland to Woodward, 1538--1728 124--153
S. F. Mason, Ph.D. The scientific revolution and the
Protestant Reformation. II. Lutheranism
in relation to iatrochemistry and the
German nature-philosophy . . . . . . . . 154--175
Harry Woolf, B.S., M.A. Eighteenth-century observations of the
transits of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . 176--190
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Robert Dossie (1717--77). A further
bibliographical note . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning
trade. III. Pontypool and Usk . . . . . 197--213
F. W. Gibbs, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Historical survey of the japanning
trade. IV. The Midlands . . . . . . . . 214--232
Arthur Hughes, M.A., Ph.D.Sc.D. Science in English encyclopædias,
1704--1875. III. Meteorology . . . . . . 233--264
G. H. Turnbull, M.A., Ph.D. Peter Stahl, the first public teacher of
chemistry at Oxford . . . . . . . . . . 265--270
Owen Potter, M.Sc. Auguste Laurent's contributions to
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
Sidney Melmore, B.Sc., F.R.A.S. Nathaniel Pigott's observatory
1781--1793 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Jeremias Benjamin Richter and the Law of
Reciprocal Proportions. II . . . . . . . 289--314
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., A.Inst.P. The zograscope or optical diagonal
machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--322
G. R. de Beer, D.Sc., F.R.S. Bernhard Friedrich Kuhn's investigations
on glaciers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--341
Kathleen Higgins, M.A.B.Sc. The classification of sundials . . . . . 342--358
Eric Robinson, M.A. The Derby Philosophical Society . . . . 359--367
Eric Robinson, M.A. Matthew Boulton, patron of the arts . . 368--376
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology.
II. From Strachey to Michell, 1719--1788 1--19
L. L. Whyte, M.A. On the history of natural lengths . . . 20--27
H. Drubba, Dip.-Phys. and
H. H. Rust, Dr.Phil. On the first echo-sounding experiment 28--32
M. F. M. Meiklejohn, M.A. The birds of Dante . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. Galileo's theory of the tides . . . . . 44--57
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. A letter from Berthollet to Blagden
relating to the experiments for a
large-scale synthesis of water carried
out by Lavoisier and Meusnier in 1785 58--62
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794)
and Christopher Columbus (1446?--1506) 63--68
Eric Robinson, M.A. Thomas Love Peacock: Critic of
scientific progress . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--86
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The contributions of P.-J. Macquer, T.
O. Bergman and L. B. Guyton de Morveau
to the reform of chemical nomenclature 87--106
J. Challinor, M.A. The early progress of British geology.
III. From Hutton to Playfair, 1788--1802 107--148
H. R. Thompson, M.A., M.Sc. The geographical and geological
observations of Bernard Palissy the
potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--165
E. Williams Some experiments on the expansive force
of freezing water . . . . . . . . . . . 166--171
Derek J. Price, Ph.D. A collection of armillary spheres and
other antique scientific instruments . . 172--187
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Hon.D.-\`es-L., F.R.S. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanist . . . . 189--223
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early history of laboratory
instruction in chemistry at the ecole
polytechnique, Paris, and elsewhere . . 224--233
L. J. M. Coleby, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Isaac Milner and the Jacksonian Chair of
Natural Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 234--257
Colin Matheson, M.A., B.Sc., F.M.A. Thomas Pennant and the Morris brothers 258--271
R. J. Cole, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., A.M.I.Chem.E. Biographical note on John Symmons,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. Chappe d'Auteroche: a pathfinder for
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--293
Robert E. Schofield, M.S. James Watt's letter to Joseph Priestley,
26 April 1783 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--300
Eric Robinson, M.A. Training captains of industry: The
education of Matthew Robinson Boulton
[1770--1842] and the younger James Watt
[1769--1848] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313
Eric Robinson, M.A. Erasmus Darwin's \booktitleBotanic
Garden and contemporary opinion . . . . 314--320
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. A bibliographical study of the
introduction of Lavoisier's
\booktitleTraité élémentaire de chimie into
Great Britain and America . . . . . . . 321--338
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. Augustin François Silvestre and the Société
Philomathique . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Archibald Clow, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. Fiscal policy and the development of
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--358
Paul F. Cranefield, Ph.D. Clerk Maxwell's corrections to the page
proofs of \booktitleA Dynamical Theory
of the Electromagnetic Field . . . . . . 359--362
J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc. Lignum nephriticum . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
A. R. Hall, M.A., Ph.D. Further optical experiments of Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--43
Raymond Williamson, M.A., B.Sc., M.D. The germ theory of disease. Neglected
precursors of Louis Pasteur, Richard
Bradley, Benjamin Marten, Jean-Baptiste
Goiffon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--57
A. Prince, B.Met., A.I.M. The significance of the early work of
Fredrik Rudberg on alloy constitution 58--63
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. Notes on some members of the Hanckwitz
family in England . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Arthur Hughes, Sc.D. Science in English encyclopædias,
1704--1875. IV. Theories of the Earth 74--92
E. Williams Two metallurgical discoveries . . . . . 93--98
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794)
Part I. Franklin and the new chemistry 103--128
W. H. G. Armytage Technology and Utopianism: J. A. Etzler
in England 1840--44 . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
Eric Robinson, M.A. Thomas Beddoes, M.D., and the reform of
science teaching in Oxford . . . . . . . 137--141
Eric Robinson, M.A. R. E. Raspe, Franklin's `Club of
thirteen', and the Lunar Society . . . . 142--144
F. W. Gibbs, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The rise of the tinplate industry. V.
Cockshutt on tinplate manufacture . . . 145--153
William P. D. Wightman, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Cullen and the teaching of
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165
G. R. Cameron, D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Rudolf Albert v. Koelliker (1817--1905) 166--172
G. E. Owen, Ph.B., Ph.D. The discovery of the electron . . . . . 173--182
Archibald Clow, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. A re-examination of William Walker's
\booktitleDistinguished Men of Science 183--193
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. Galton's contribution to the theory of
evolution with special reference to his
use of models and metaphors . . . . . . 194--205
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. The contributions of Newton, Bernoulli
and Euler to the theory of the tides . . 206--223
Michael Brook, M.A., A.L.A. Dr Warwick's chemistry lectures and the
scientific audience in Sheffield
(1799--1801) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--237
Joseph Turner, Ph.D. A note on Maxwell's interpretation of
some attempts at dynamical explanation 238--245
D. Thompson, M.A., B.Sc. Queenwood College, Hampshire: a mid-19th
century experiment in science teaching 246--254
Cecil A. Hoare, D.Sc., F.R.S. Erasmus Darwin in Russia . . . . . . . . 255--256
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early years of the Lycée and the Lycée
des Arts. A chapter in the lives of A.
L. Lavoisier and A. F. de Fourcroy . . . 257--267
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794).
Part II. Joint investigations . . . . . 271--302
Anonymous Title pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--308
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. The early years of the Lycée and the Lycée
des Arts. A chapter in the lives of A.
L. Lavoisier and A. F. de Fourcroy . . . 309--319
W. J. Sparrow, M.A.B.Sc., Ph.D. Count Rumford as a spy . . . . . . . . . 320--330
John R. Brown and
John L. Thornton William James Russell (1830--1909) and
investigations on London fog . . . . . . 331--336
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc. Descartes's theory of the tides . . . . 337--348
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. The first
aeronaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--355
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.S.A. The history of the altimetry of Mont
Blanc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
E. B. Verney, M.A., M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Some aspects of the work of Ernest Henry
Starling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--47
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of
Buffon. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--62
Richard S. Westfall, M.A., Ph.D. Unpublished Boyle papers relating to
scientific method. I . . . . . . . . . . 63--73
E. Williams Hooke's law and the concept of the
elastic limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Archibald Clow, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. and
Nan L. Clow, M.A.B.Sc. The timber famine and the development of
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102
Richard S. Westfall, M.A., Ph.D. Unpublished Boyle papers relating to
scientific method. II . . . . . . . . . 103--117
Robert E. Schofield, M.S., Ph.D. Membership of the Lunar Society of
Birmingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--136
Rexmond C. Cochrane, M.A., Ph.D. Francis Bacon and the rise of the
mechanical arts in eighteenth-century
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Two unrecorded publications of the régie
des poudres et salpêtres probably written
by Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
W. H. G. Armytage, M.A., Ph.D. Joseph Priestley and Edmund Burke: An
unpublished letter . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. The astronomical work of Nicolas-Louis
de Lacaille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--191
William P. D. Wightman, M.Sc., Ph.D. William Cullen and the teaching of
chemistry. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--205
Charles R. Metzger, Ph.D. Thoreau on science . . . . . . . . . . . 206--211
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of
Buffon. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--227
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the Société
royale de médecine . . . . . . . . . . . 228--244
W. H. G. Armytage, M.A. The early Utopists and science in
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D. The idea of evolution in the writings of
Buffon. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--266
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the Société
royale d'Agriculture and the Comité
d'Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277
F. S. Bodenheimer, Ph.D. H. B. Tristram's collections in natural
history, especially of Palestine . . . . 278--287
John L. Thornton and
Anna Wiles William Odling, 1829--1921 . . . . . . . 288--295
Eric Robinson, M.A. The Lunar Society and the improvement of
scientific instruments: I . . . . . . . 296--304
Eric Robinson, M.A. The Lunar Society and the improvement of
scientific instruments: II . . . . . . . 1--8
D. Thompson, M.A., B.Sc. John Tyndall and The Royal Institution 9--22
E. Williams Some observations of Leonardo, Galileo,
Mariotte and others relative to size
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
Denis I. Duveen, F.R.I.C. and
Herbert S. Klickstein, M.D. Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) and
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794).
Part III. Documentation . . . . . . . . 30--46
F. W. Gibbs, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.I.C. Boerhaave and the Botanists . . . . . . 47--61
A. Rupert Hall, M.A., Ph.D. Newton on the calculation of central
forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. The ``\em Observations'' of the Abbé
François Rozier (1734--93). I . . . . . . 73--89
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. A summary of former accounts of the life
and work of Robert Boyle . . . . . . . . 90--108
John Anthony Harrison Blind Henry Moyes, `An excellent
lecturer in philosophy' . . . . . . . . 109--125
Anonymous Proceedings at Meetings . . . . . . . . 77--81
F. H. C. Butler Report of the Council for the Year
1956--57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
H. R. Calvert and
John Craggs and
Co Accounts for the Year Ending 31st March,
1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Anonymous Report of the Committee of the
Philosophy of Science Group for the Year
1956--1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Sc.D., D.-\`es-L., F.R.S., F.S.A. Gregory Watt's Tour on the Continent,
1801 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
Florence N. David, D.Sc. Mr Newton, Mr Pepys & Dyse: a Historical
Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--147
Robert E. Schofield, M.S., Ph.D. The Scientific Background of Joseph
Priestley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--163
J. H. S. Green, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.I.C. Thomas Clark (1801--1867). A
Biographical Study . . . . . . . . . . . 164--179
I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Clerk Maxwell's Apparatus for the
Measurement of Surface Tension . . . . . 180--187
S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil The Development of the Kinetic Theory of
Gases. I. Herapath . . . . . . . . . . . 188--198
N. H. de V. Heathcote and
F. N. David and
G. Burniston Brown Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
Pamela R. Barnett, M.A. Theodore Haak and the early years of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. L'avant-coureur: The journal in which
some of Lavoisier's earliest research
was reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. Lavoisier's membership of the assembly
of representatives of the Commune of
Paris, 1789--1790 . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary
motions. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--264
I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance
I. The determination of the absolute
unit of resistance . . . . . . . . . . . 265--272
S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of
gases II. Waterston . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E. and
Niels H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. William Cleghorn's \booktitleDe Igne
(1779) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--82
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., Sc.D., D.-\`es-L., F.R.S., F.S.A. Further unpublished letters of Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--115
Angus Armitage, M.Sc., Ph.D. A naturalist's vacation. The London
letters of J. C. Fabricius . . . . . . . 116--131
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary
motions. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--147
Lucien Scheler and
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.C.S. An account of Lavoisier's reconciliation
with the Church a short time before his
death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--153
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
W. H. G. Armytage, M.A. Richard Watson and the Marquess of
Rockingham: An unpublished exchange in
1771 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The vortex theory of the planetary
motions. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
G. E. Fussell Crop nutrition in the late Stuart age
(1660--1714) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--184
S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of
gases III. Clausius . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance.
II. Proposals for the re-determination
of the B.A. unit of 1863 . . . . . . . . 197--210
Anonymous Henry William Robinson 1888--1960 . . . 211--213
W. A. Osman, M.Sc., A.R.C.S. Alessandro Volta and the inflammable-air
eudiometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--242
S. G. Brush, A.B., D.Phil. The development of the kinetic theory of
gases IV. Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . 243--255
Thomas P. Harrison, B.A., Ph.D. Longolius on birds . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., A.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Sir
Humphry Davy. Part I: The voltaic pile
and electrolysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., A.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Sir
Humphry Davy. Part II: Electrical
interpretations of chemistry . . . . . . 15--25
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The Cartesian theory of gravity . . . . 27--49
I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's work on electrical resistance
III. Improvement on Mance's method for
the measurement of battery resistance 51--55
E. Williams Some historical notes on the `fusible
metals' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. On some ms. copies of Black's chemical
lectures. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
M. P. Crosland, M.Sc., Ph.D. The use of diagrams as chemical
`equations' in the lecture notes of
William Cullen and Joseph Black . . . . 75--90
I. B. Hopley, M.Sc., Ph.D. Maxwell's determination of the number of
electrostatic units in one
electromagnetic unit of electricity . . 91--108
Michael W. Flinn, M.A. Timber and the advance of technology: a
reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120
A. Coutts William Cruickshank of Woolwich . . . . 121--133
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Anonymous John Farquhar Fulton 1899--1960 . . . . 139--140
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. The portraiture of the honourable Robert
Boyle, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--214
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. On some ms. copies of Black's chemical
lectures. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Nägeli's work on the fine structure of
living matter. I . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--41
Radu R. Florescu, M.A., B.Litt., Ph.D. The origin and development of science in
Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The celestial mechanics of Leibniz . . . 65--82
Claude A. Lopez, M.A. Saltpetre, tin and gunpowder: Addenda to
the correspondence of Lavoisier and
Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
A. W. Badcock, M.Sc., Ph.D. Physics at the Royal Society,
1660--1800. I. Change of state . . . . . 95--115
G. Burniston Brown, M.Sc., Ph.D. The Newton letters (Vols. I and II) . . 117--124
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. and
David Kennedy, M.Sc. On some letters of Joseph Black and
others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--170
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Nägeli's work on the fine structure of
living matter. II. The immediate
reception of Nägeli's work . . . . . . . 171--207
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Nageli's work on the fine structure of
living matter. IIIa Studies tending to
confirm, correct and develop Nägeli's
views I: Optical Studies . . . . . . . . 209--239
Andrew Kent, M.A., Ph.D. and
Owen Hannaway, B.Sc. Some new considerations on Beguin and
Libavius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.S.A., F.R.S. Alexander Moritzi . . . . . . . . . . . 251--254
M. P. Earles, B.Pharm., M.Sc., Ph.D. The experimental investigation of viper
venom by Felice Fontana (1730--1805) . . 255--268
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--275
Anonymous Addenda & corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
M. P. Crosland, M.Sc., Ph.D. The origins of Gay-Lussac's law of
combining volumes of gases . . . . . . . 1--26
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Nägeli's work on the fine structure of
living matter. III. Studies tending to
confirm, correct and develop Nägeli's
views II: X-ray studies . . . . . . . . 27--62
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
J. Z. Fullmer, M.S.Chem., Ph.D. On spontaneous combustion . . . . . . . 65--80
H. J. C. Larwood, M.Sc., M.Ed Science and education in India before
the Mutiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
M. P. Earles, B.Pharm., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.P.S. Early theories of the mode of action of
drugs and poisons . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. The plagiary of Francis Boyle . . . . . 111--120
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Eric Gray Forbes, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. A history of the solar red shift problem 129--164
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. The earliest published writing of Robert
Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--173
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
geologist (1773--1844). I . . . . . . . 175--195
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--200
Robert M. Stecher, M.D. The Darwin--Innes letters The
correspondence of an evolutionist with
his vicar, 1848--1884 . . . . . . . . . 201--258
William P. D. Wightman, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. The language of chemistry . . . . . . . 259--267
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--272
Allen G. Debus, Ph.D. An Elizabethan history of medical
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The celestial mechanics of Leibniz in
the light of Newtonian criticism . . . . 31--41
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. The first edition of Robert Boyle's
Medicinal experiments . . . . . . . . . 43--47
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.S.A., F.R.S. The volcanoes of Auvergne . . . . . . . 49--61
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Sydney Ross, B.Sc., Ph.D. \em Scientist: The story of a word . . . 65--85
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. On some ms. copies of Black's chemical
lectures. IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--97
K. M. Baker, B.A. An unpublished essay of Condorcet on
technical methods of classification . . 99--123
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
R. G. Swinburne, M.A., B.Phil. The presence-and-absence theory . . . . 131--145
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
geologist (1773--1844). II . . . . . . . 147--175
A. M. Duncan, M.A., M.Sc., Dip.Ed. Some theoretical aspects of
eighteenth-century tables of affinity. I 177--194
Eric Robinson, M.A. The profession of civil engineer in the
eighteenth century: a portrait of Thomas
Yeoman, F.R.S., 1704(?)--1781 . . . . . 195--215
A. M. Duncan, M.A., M.Sc., Dip.Ed Some theoretical aspects of
eighteenth-century tables of affinity.
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232
Philip C. Ritterbush, D.Phil John Lindsay and the sensitive plant . . 233--254
J. S. Wilkie, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Harvey's lectures on anatomy . . . . . . 255--270
E. Ashworth Underwood, M.A., B.Sc., M.D., M.R.C.P. The early teaching of anatomy at Padua,
with special reference to a model of the
Padua anatomical theatre . . . . . . . . 1--26
Eric Robinson, M.A. Benjamin Donn (1729--1798), teacher of
mathematics and navigation . . . . . . . 27--36
J. M. Dubbey, M.Sc. The introduction of the differential
notation to Great Britain . . . . . . . 37--48
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
Geologist (1773--1844). III . . . . . . 49--79
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Robert Jameson in London, 1793 Excerpts
from Robert Jameson's \booktitleJournal
of a Voyage from Leith to London 1793 81--116
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Berzelius.
Part I: Origins of the theory . . . . . 117--126
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Berzelius.
Part II: An electrochemical view of
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--145
E. Rancke-Madsen, Dr.Phil. A painting of the Hon. Robert Boyle in
Danish possession . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
V. A. Eyles, D.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.S.E. The evolution of a chemist Sir James
Hall, Bt., F.R.S., P.R.S.E., of
Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, (1761--1832),
and his relations with Joseph Black,
Antoine Lavoisier, and other scientists
of the period . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--182
L. Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry at the Royal Society of London
in the eighteenth century. I . . . . . . 183--237
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
M. P. Earles, B.Pharm., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.P.S. Experiments with drugs and poisons in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 241--254
Colin A. Russell, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. The electrochemical theory of Sir
Humphry Davy. Part III: The evidence of
the Royal Institution manuscripts . . . 255--271
G. A. Lindeboom Pitcairne's Leyden interlude described
from the documents . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
Geologist (1773--1844). IV . . . . . . . 285--297
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
L. Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry at the Royal Society of London
in the eighteenth century. II . . . . . 1--57
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
Geologist (1773--1844). V . . . . . . . 59--80
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The inverse problem of central forces 81--99
R. E. W. Maddison, B.Sc., Ph.D. Boyle's Hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The celestial mechanics of Leibniz: a
new interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
W. E. Knowles Middleton, D.Sc., F.R.S.C. Chemistry and meteorology, 1700--1825 125--141
John Challinor, M.A., F.G.S. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster,
Geologist (1773--1844). VI . . . . . . . 143--164
J. Z. Fullmer, M.S.Chem., Ph.D. Humphry Davy and the gunpowder
manufactory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--194
N. G. Coley, M.Sc. The physico-chemical studies of Amedeo
Avogadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--210
K. M. Baker, M.A., Ph.D. The early history of the term `social
science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226
J. N. Hays, B.A. Science and Brougham's society . . . . . 227--241
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Matthew Guthrie (1743--1807): An
eighteenth-century gemmologist . . . . . 245--302
Sir Gavin de Beer, D.Sc., F.S.A., F.R.S. Other men's shoulders . . . . . . . . . 303--322
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
John J. O'Brien, M.A.B.Sc. Samuel Hartlib's influence on Robert
Boyle's scientific development Part I.
The Stalbridge period . . . . . . . . . 1--14
R. G. Swinburne, M.A., B.Phil. Galton's law --- Formulation and
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--31
K. M. Baker, M.A., Ph.D. and
W. A. Smeaton, M.Sc., Ph.D. The origins and authorship of the
educational proposals published in 1793
by the \em Bureau de Consultation des
Arts et Métiers and generally ascribed to
Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
Harold L. Burstyn, M.S., Ph.D. The deflecting force of the Earth's
rotation from Galileo to Newton . . . . 47--80
Leonard Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry at the Royal Society of London
in the eighteenth century. III(A).
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--130
J. J. Bikerman A book Humboldt gave to Schiller . . . . 131--134
E. Williams Two observations of Leonardo da Vinci
concerning ramifications and concavities 135--138
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--144
Niels H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. N. J. Callan: inventor of the induction
coil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--167
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. An imaginary error in the celestial
mechanics of Leibniz . . . . . . . . . . 169--173
L. Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry at the Royal Society of London
in the eighteenth century. III(B).
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--201
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.E. On some ms. Copies of Black's chemical
lectures. V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--255
John J. O'Brien, M.A.B.Sc. Samuel Hartlib's influence on Robert
Boyle's scientific development. Part II.
Boyle in Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
Eric Gray Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. The origin and development of the marine
chronometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
Clyde L. Hardin, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. The scientific work of the reverend John
Michell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--47
J. K. Crellin, B.Pharm., M.Sc. Airborne particles and the germ theory:
1860--1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--60
J. M. Dubbey, M.Sc., A.K.C. Cauchy's contribution to the
establishment of the calculus . . . . . 61--67
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
Laurens Laudan, M.A., Ph.D. The clock metaphor and probabilism: The
impact of Descartes on English
methodological thought, 1650--65 . . . . 73--104
Eric Gray Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. Tobias Mayer's lunar tables . . . . . . 105--116
A. J. Meadows, M.A., D.Phil. The discovery of an atmosphere on Venus 117--127
Gordon L. Davies, M.A. The eighteenth-century denudation
dilemma and the Huttonian theory of the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--144
Arnold W. Thackray, M.A.B.Sc. Fragmentary remains of John Dalton. Part
I. Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--174
L. Gittins, B.Sc., (Econ.), Ph.D. The manufacture of alkali in Britain,
1779--1789 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190
Marianne Winder, M.A., A.L.A. A bibliography of German astrological
works printed between 1465 and 1600,
with locations of those extant in London
libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--220
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
Diana M. Simpkins, B.Sc., A.L.A. Early editions of Euclid in England . . 225--249
F. C. Storrs, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Dip.Bact. (Lond.) Lavoisier's technical reports:
1768--1794 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 251--275
Leonard Trengove, B.D.M.Sc., Ph.D. Newton's theological views . . . . . . . 277--294
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--301
Douglas McKie, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.E. On some MS. copies of Black's chemical
lectures. VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33
E. Ashworth Underwood, M.A., B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P. Dumfries and the early history of
surgical anaesthesia . . . . . . . . . . 35--75
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. and
Charles D. Waterston, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. Robert Jameson's approach to the
Wernerian theory of the Earth, 1796 . . 81--95
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Robert Jameson's Irish journal, 1797
Excerpts from Robert Jameson's
\booktitleJournal of my Tour in 1797 . . 97--126
Allen G. Debus, B.S., A.M., Ph.D. Fire analysis and the elements in the
sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries 127--147
A. M. Duncan, M.A., M.Sc. William Keir's \booktitleDe Attractione
Chemica (1778) and the concepts of
chemical saturation, attraction and
repulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--173
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Joan M. Eyles, B.Sc., F.G.S. William Smith: The sale of his
geological collection to the British
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--212
G. L'E. Turner, M.A., M.Sc. The auction sales of the Earl of Bute's
instruments, 1793 . . . . . . . . . . . 213--242
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
P. M. Heimann, B.A.B.Sc. Moseley and celtium: The search for a
missing element . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260
Niels H. de V. Heathcote, B.Sc., Ph.D. The early meaning of electricity: Some
\booktitlePseudodoxia Epidemica. I . . . 261--275
John L. Thornton, F.L.A. Charles Hunnings Wilkingson (1763 or
64--1850) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
Nicholas Goodison, M.A. Daniel Quare and the portable barometer 287--293
W. A. Smeaton, D.Sc. Some unrecorded editions of Fourcroy's
\booktitlePhilosophie chimique . . . . . 295--298
P. M. Heimann, B.A.B.Sc. Rutherford, Nagaoka, and the nuclear
atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--314
Anonymous Douglas McKie 1896--1967 . . . . . . . . 1--5
Robert Olby, M.A., D.Phil. and
Peter Gautrey Eleven references to Mendel before 1900 7--20
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., A.Inst.P. Scientific activities in Paris in 1791:
Evidence from the diaries of Sir James
Hall for 1791, and other contemporary
records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--52
E. J. Rothery, B.Sc. Æneas Coffey (1780--1852) . . . . . . . . 53--71
M. C. Egerton, M.Sc. William Strutt and the application of
convection to the heating of buildings 73--87
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
C. H. Spiers, M.A., Ph.D., B.Sc., D.I.C., F.S.A. Sir Humphry Davy and the leather
industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--113
W. V. Farrar, B.Sc., Ph.D. and
Kathleen R. Farrar, B.Sc., Ph.D. Thomas Allan, mineralogist: An
autobiographical fragment . . . . . . . 115--120
Joan L. Hawes, M.Sc. Newton and the `electrical attraction
unexcited' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
Gordon L. Davies, M.A., Ph.D. The tour of the British Isles made by
Louis Agassiz in 1840 . . . . . . . . . 131--146
A. E. Best, M.A., Ph.D., B.Litt. The discovery of the mechanism of
colour-changes in the chameleon . . . . 147--167
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
F. C. Storrs, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Dip.Bact. (Lond.) Lavoisier's technical reports:
1768--1794. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
Douglas S. Kemsley, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D., M.Sc. Religious influences in the rise of
modern science: a review and criticism,
particularly of the `Protestant--Puritan
ethic' theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--226
Wallace Shugg, Ph.D. Humanitarian attitudes in the early
animal experiments of the Royal Society 227--238
Ronald S. Calinger, M.A. Frederick the Great and the Berlin
Academy of Sciences (1740--1766) . . . . 239--249
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--258
Bertel Linder, M.A., Ll.B. and
W. A. Smeaton, D.Sc. Schwediauer, Bentham and Beddoes:
Translators of Bergman and Scheele . . . 259--273
Robert Siegfried, Ph.D. and
Betty Jo Dobbs, M.A. Composition, a neglected aspect of the
chemical revolution . . . . . . . . . . 275--293
Paul Morgan, M.A., F.S.A. George Hartgill: An Elizabethan
Parson--Astronomer and his library . . . 295--311
Stanislaus Quan, M.A. Galileo and the problem of concentric
circles: a refutation, and the solution 313--338
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--345
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Robert M. Stecher, M.D. The Darwin--Bates letters correspondence
between two nineteenth-century
travellers and naturalists. Part I . . . 1--47
W. H. Brock, M.Sc., Ph.D. Studies in the history of Prout's
hypotheses. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 49--80
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--92
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Robert M. Stecher, M.D. The Darwin--Bates letters correspondence
between two nineteenth-century
travellers and naturalists. Part II. The
Darwin--Bates correspondence . . . . . . 95--125
W. H. Brock, M.Sc., Ph.D. Studies in the history of Prout's
hypotheses. Part II. Prout's lectures of
1814 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
Edward T. Foote, S.J., A.M., Ph.D. Harvey: Spontaneous generation and the
egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--163
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
C. H. Spiers, M.A., Ph.D., B.Sc., F.S.A. William Thomas Brande, leather expert 179--201
Richard G. Olson, A.M., Ph.D. A note on Leslie's cube in the study of
radiant heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
Ronald A. Sarno, S.J., A.B., M.A. A sixteenth-century war of ideas:
Science against the Church . . . . . . . 209--227
Seymour H. Mauskopf Thomson before Dalton: Thomas Thomson's
considerations of the issue of combining
weight proportions prior to his
acceptance of Dalton's chemical atomic
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--242
W. V. Farrar, B.Sc., Ph.D. Richard Laming and the coal-gas
industry, with his views on the
structure of matter . . . . . . . . . . 243--253
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. Newton's aether-stream hypothesis and
the inverse square law of gravitation 255--260
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
J. Oliver, B.A., Ph.D. William Borlase's contribution to
eighteenth-century meteorology and
climatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--317
Mark C. W. Sleep, M.Sc., A.R.S.M. Sir William Hamilton (1730--1803): His
work and influence in geology . . . . . 319--338
R. Cecilia and
H. Tanner Ph.D. Nathaniel Torporley and the Harriot
manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--368
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
George Graham, M.D., F.R.C.P. The formation of the medical and
surgical professorial units in the
London teaching hospitals . . . . . . . 1--22
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. William Bullock's collection and the
University of Edinburgh, 1819 . . . . . 23--32
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. The collection of Louis Dufresne
(1752--1832) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--71
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anand C. Chitnis, M.A., Ph.D. The University of Edinburgh's natural
history museum and the
Huttonian--Wernerian debate . . . . . . 85--94
Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's theory of colour-mixing
and its application to artistic
reproductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--114
Stanislaus Quan, M.A. Galileo and the problem of infinity: a
refutation, and the solution . . . . . . 115--151
E. J. Aiton, M.Sc., Ph.D. Ioannes Marcus Marci (1595--1667) . . . 153--164
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--174
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
John Challinor, M.A. The progress of British geology during
the early part of the nineteenth century 177--234
Hans Kangro, Dr.rer.nat Ultrarotstrahlung bis zur Grenze
elektrisch erzeugter Wellen, Das
Lebenswerk von Heinrich Rubens. (German)
[Infrared radiation at the border,
electrically generated waves, the life's
work of Heinrich Rubens] . . . . . . . . 235--259
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Richard G. Olson, A.M., Ph.D. Count Rumford, Sir John Leslie, and the
study of the nature and propagation of
heat at the beginning of the nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--304
A. J. Meadows, D.Phil. Observational defects in
eighteenth-century British telescopes 305--317
Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's method of measuring the
areas of irregular polygons . . . . . . 319--329
Leonard Trengove, M.A., B.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. Chemistry at the Royal Society of London
in the eighteenth century. IV. Dyes . . 331--353
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
R. D. Harley, B.A., Ph.D. Oil colour containers: Development work
by artists and colourmen in the
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
R. Derek Wood J. B. Reade, F.R.S., and the early
history of photography. Part I. A
re-assessment on the discovery of
contemporary evidence . . . . . . . . . 13--45
R. Derek Wood J. B. Reade, F.R.S., and the early
history of photography. Part II. Gallic
acid and Talbot's calotype patent . . . 47--83
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. and
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. Private enterprise and chemical training
in nineteenth century Liverpool . . . . 85--93
Joan L. Hawes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Newton's two electricities . . . . . . . 95--103
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's new astrolabe (1759): Its
principles and construction . . . . . . 109--116
Harcourt Brown, M.A., Ph.D. Doctor François Rabelais: Pantagruel and
health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Science training for the Nineteenth
Century English amateur: The Penzance
Natural History and Antiquarian Society 135--141
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Education and training for English
engineers in the late Nineteenth Century
and early Twentieth Century . . . . . . 143--163
Hans Kangro Ultrarotstrahlung bis zur Grenze
elektrisch erzeugter Wellen, das
Lebenswerk von Heinrich Rubens. (German)
[Infrared radiation at the border,
electrically generated waves, the life's
work of Heinrich Rubens] . . . . . . . . 165--200
J. J. Bikerman Forced marriage and love union: a
romantic affair in the history of
Russian chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Eric G. Forbes, B.Sc., Ph.D. The correspondence between Carl
Friedrich Gauss and the Rev. Nevil
Maskelyne (1802--5) . . . . . . . . . . 213--237
R. Derek Wood The involvement of Sir John Herschel in
the photographic patent case, \em Talbot
v. Henderson, 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264
Richard G. Olson, A.M., Ph.D. The Gould controversy at Dudley
Observatory: Public and professional
values in conflict . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276
Lewis S. Feuer, B.Sc., Ph.D. The social roots of Einstein's Theory of
Relativity. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--309
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: \booktitlePhysics without
Einstein, by Harold Aspden . . . . . . . 302--303
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Lewis S. Feuer, B.Sc., Ph.D. The social roots of Einstein's Theory of
Relativity. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 313--344
I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Towards a biography of Georg Cantor . . 345--391
Joachim Thiele, Dr.rer.nat., Dr.phil. Zur Wirkungsgeschichte des
Dopplerprinzips im Neunzehnten
Jahrhundert. (German) [The historical
impact of the Doppler principle in the
Nineteenth Century] . . . . . . . . . . 393--407
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. Wollaston, Malacrida, and the platinum
thermometer An unsolved problem in the
history of pyrometry . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--421
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--424
D. J. Bryden, B.Sc. George Brown, author of the
\booktitleRotula . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
Eric G. Forbes, B.Sc., Ph.D. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and the
\booktitleOpera Inedita of Tobias Mayer 31--42
Nicholas Edwards, Ph.D. Some correspondence of Thomas Webster
(\em circa 1772--1844), concerning the
Royal Institution . . . . . . . . . . . 43--60
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Nineteenth century ventures in
Liverpool's scientific education . . . . 61--86
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. Hans Loeser's metallic thermometers of
1746 and 1747 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Nicholas Edwards, Ph.D. One of the last letters of Adam
Sedgwick, geologist (1785--1873) . . . . 109--112
Ian Inkster, B.A. Charles Sylvester and the great railroad
debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
J. MacLean, D.Sc. On harmonic ratios in spectra . . . . . 121--137
Karin Figala, Dr.rer.nat. Tycho Brahe's elixier . . . . . . . . . 139--176
Eric G. Forbes, M.Sc., Ph.D. Tobias Mayer's method for calculating
the circumstances of a solar eclipse . . 177--189
Piero Ariotti, Ph.D. From the top to the foot of a mast on a
moving ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
John F. McDonald, M.A. Properties and causes: An approach to
the problem of hypothesis in the
scientific methodology of Sir Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
Ian Inkster, B.A. A note on itinerant science lecturers,
1790--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Stanislaus Quan, M.A. Galileo and the problem of infinity.
Part II. The dialectical arguments, and
the solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--284
C. F. A. Marmoy, F.L.A. and
John L. Thornton, F.L.A. The anatomical and physiological
bibliography of George E. Day
(1815--1872) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--291
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Morten Wormskiold: Botanist:
(1783--1845) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--318
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Norriss S. Hetherington, Ph.D. The first measurements of stellar
parallax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--325
A. J. M. Szanser, M.Sc., Ph.D. F. G. W. Struve (1793--1864). Astronomer
at the Pulkovo Observatory . . . . . . . 327--346
J. A. Chaldecott, M.Sc., F.Inst.P. The platinum pyrometers of Louis Bernard
Guyton de Morveau, F.R.S. (1737--1816) 347--368
I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. University mathematics at the turn of
the century unpublished recollections of
W. H. Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--384
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.C.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. The later Victorians and scientific and
technical education . . . . . . . . . . 385--400
Peter Zacharias, Dipl.phys Zur Entstehung des
Einteilchen-Schalenmodells. (German)
[The emergence of the single-particle
shell model] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--411
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
H. E. Le Grand, A.B., Ph.D. Lavoisier's oxygen theory of acidity . . 1--18
Herbert C. Winnik, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. A reconsideration of Henry A. Rowland
--- the man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Two little known copies of Black's
lecture notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Nineteenth century controversies
concerning the mesozoic/tertiary
boundary in New Zealand . . . . . . . . 39--57
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Supplementary education in a
nineteenth-century British mining area 59--79
W. V. Farrar, B.Sc., Ph.D. The Society for the Promotion of
Scientific Industry, 1872--1876 . . . . 81--86
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. British artisan scientific and technical
education in the early nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
I. Grattan-Guinness, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. A mathematical union: William Henry and
Grace Chisholm Young . . . . . . . . . . 105--185
J. MacLean, D.Sc. Science and theology at Groningen
University (1698--1702) . . . . . . . . 187--201
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211
D. R. Oldroyd, M.A., M.Sc. Edward Daniel Clarke, 1769--1822, and
his rôle in the history of the blow-pipe 213--235
G. A. J. Rogers, Ph.D. Descartes and the method of English
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255
Walter E. Gross, Ph.D. Theory and invention: The case of
Charles Tablot Porter and his steam
engine governor . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
Harold I. Sharlin, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. On being scientific: a critique of
evolutionary geology and biology in the
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 271--285
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. The Muspratts of Liverpool . . . . . . . 287--311
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Walter E. Gross, Ph.D. The American Philosophical Society and
the growth of meteorology in the United
States: 1835--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 321--338
Allen Harder, M.A., Ph.D. The Copernican character of Einstein's
cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--347
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. Science, the working classes and
Mechanics' Institutes . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Leonard Trengove, M.A., B.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. William Gregor (1761--1817) discoverer
of titanium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--395
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Instructions to collectors: John Walker
(1973) and Robert Jameson (1817); with
biographical notes on James Anderson
(LL.D.) and James Anderson (M.D.) . . . 397--414
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--423
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Piero E. Ariotti, Ph.D. A little known early seventeenth century
treatise on vision: Benedetto Castelli's
\booktitleDiscorso sopra la Vista (1639,
1669). Translation and critical comments 1--30
Piero E. Ariotti, Ph.D. Toward absolute time: The undermining
and refutation of the Aristotelian
conception of time in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries . . . . . . . . . 31--50
A. J. Turner, B.A. Mathematical instruments and the
education of gentlemen . . . . . . . . . 51--88
Dennis R. Dean, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. James Hutton and his public, 1785--1802 89--105
H. M. Barkla, M.A.B.Sc. Benjamin Robins and the resistance of
air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--122
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
J. A. Bennett, B.A. A study of \booktitleParentalia, with
two unpublished letters of Sir
Christopher Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--147
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., M.Inst.P. Changing attitudes to education in
England & Wales 1833--1902: The
governmental reports, with particular
reference to science & technical studies 149--164
D. J. Schove, Ph.D., F.R.Met.S. and
David Reynolds, B.A. Weather in Scotland, 1659--1660: The
diary of Andrew Hay . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
John A. Cable, M.A., M.Ed., Dipl.Deutsch (Marburg), A.L.C.M. Early Scottish science: The vocational
provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--199
Daniel Massa, M.A. Giordano Bruno and the top-sail
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
Lotte Mulligan, Ph.D. Anglicanism, latitudinarianism and
science in seventeenth century England 213--219
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--252
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
J. MacLean, D.Sc. Natural science in Japan. I. Before 1830 257--298
Henry M. Leicester, Ph.D. The electrical theories of M. V.
Lomonosov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
Lindsay Sharp, B.A. Walter Charleton's early life
1620--1659, and relationship to natural
philosophy in mid-seventeenth century
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--340
Keith Hutchison, M.Sc., Dipl.Hist.Phil.Sc. Der ursprung der entropiefunktion bei
Rankine und Clausius. (German) [The
origin of the entropy by Rankine and
Clausius] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--364
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--378
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
H. L. L. Busard and
P. S. van Koningsveld Der \booktitleLiber de Arcubus Similibus
des Ahmed Ibn Jusuf. (German) [The
\booktitleBook of Arcubus Similibus by
Ahmed Ibn Jusuf] . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--406
R. H. Nuttall, Ph.D. and
A. Frank Makers of jewel lenses in Scotland in
the early nineteenth century . . . . . . 407--416
Joachim Thiele Franz Walds Kritik der theoretischen
Chemie (nach Arbeiten aus den Jahren
1902--1906 und unveröffentlichten
Briefen). (German) [Franz Wald's
critique of theoretical chemistry
(according to works from the years 1902
to 1906 and unpublished letters)] . . . 417--433
Michael D. Stephens, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. and
Gordon W. Roderick, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.P. American and English attitudes to
scientific education during the
nineteenth-century . . . . . . . . . . . 435--456
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--464
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--468
T. H. Lodwig, M.Sc. and
W. A. Smeaton, D.Sc. The ice calorimeter of Lavoisier and
Laplace and some of its critics . . . . 1--18
Dott. Maurizio Farinelli and
A. L. B. Gale, B.Sc. and
A. J. B. Robertson, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. Ambrogio Fusinieri and the adsorption
theory of heterogeneous catalysis . . . 19--20
Jessie M. Sweet, M.B.E., B.Sc. Robert Jameson and the explorers: The
search for the North-West Passage. Part
I. 1. W. Scoresby (junior), C. L.
Giesecke, M. Wormskiold and John Ross 21--47
Thaddeus J. Trenn, Ph.D. Rutherfords Alpha-Teilchen. (German)
[Rutherford's alpha particles] . . . . . 49--72
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--91
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous A new editorial board for
\booktitleAnnals of Science . . . . . . 93--93
J. Harris and
W. H. Brock From Giessen to Gower street: Towards a
biography of Alexander William
Williamson (1824--1904) . . . . . . . . 95--130
Gordon W. Roderick and
Michael D. Stephens Science and secondary education in
nineteenth century Liverpool . . . . . . 131--163
Wade L. Robison Galileo on the moons of Jupiter . . . . 165--169
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Don C. Rawson The process of discovery: Mendeleev and
the periodic law . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--204
Barnett J. Sokol Thomas Harriot --- Sir Walter Ralegh's
tutor --- On population . . . . . . . . 205--212
H. E. Le Grand Ideas on the composition of muriatic
acid and their relevance to the oxygen
theory of acidity . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Stanislaus Quan Galileo and the Theorem of Pythagoras 227--261
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
D. R. Oldroyd Some phlogistic mineralogical schemes,
illustrative of the evolution of the
concept of `earth' in the 17th and 18th
centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--305
H. W. Jones A seventeenth-century geometrical debate 307--333
Michael D. Stephens and
Gordon W. Roderick Nineteenth century educational finance:
The literary and philosophical societies 335--349
Allen J. Harder E. A. Milne, scientific revolutions and
the growth of knowledge . . . . . . . . 351--363
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--370
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Otto Sonntag Liebig on Francis Bacon and the utility
of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386
I. Grattan-Guinness The Russell Archives: Some new light on
Russell's logicism . . . . . . . . . . . 387--406
Walter E. Gross The American Philosophical Society and
the rise of astronomy in the United
States in the middle of the nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--427
Walter E. Gross Geophysics in the American philosophical
society 1835--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447
W. Benham The Gauss anagram: An alternative
solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455
Piero E. Ariotti An overlooked autograph letter of
Galileo on the thermometer . . . . . . . 457--462
Michael D. Stephens and
Gordon W. Roderick Science, self improvement and the first
industrial revolution . . . . . . . . . 463--470
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
G. Bowles Physical, Human and Divine attraction in
the life and thought of George Cheyne 473--488
W. G. Tatham and
K. A. Harwood Astronomers and other scientists on St.
Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--510
John R. Millburn William Stukeley and the early history
of the Orrery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--528
Walter E. Gross Relativity of motion: From Occam to
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545
Rosaleen Love Herman Boerhaave and the
element-instrument concept of Fire . . . 547--559
Robin S. Fleming Newton, Gases, and Daltonian chemistry:
The foundations of combination in
definite proportion . . . . . . . . . . 561--574
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--578
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--584
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--587
Lewis S. Feuer Is the `Darwin--Marx correspondence'
authentic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
George B. Kauffman Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
(1826--1897) Swedish chemist and
mineralogist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--37
H. A. M. Snelders The reception in The Netherlands of the
discoveries of electromagnetism and
electrodynamics (1820--1822) . . . . . . 39--54
Harold Issadore Sharlin and
Stephen G. Brush and
Harold L. Burstyn and
Sandra Herbert and
Michael S. Mahoney and
Nathan Sivin A study and critique of the teaching of
the history of science and technology.
Interim report by the Committee on
Undergraduate Education of the History
of Science Society (U.S.A.) . . . . . . 55--70
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--73
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
I. Grattan-Guinness Some new policies for \booktitleAnnals
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Victor Lowe A. N. Whitehead on his mathematical
goals: a letter of 1912 . . . . . . . . 85--101
I. Grattan-Guinness Wiener on the logics of Russell and
Schröder. An account of his doctoral
thesis, and of his discussion of it with
Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--132
Harold Issadore Sharlin William Thomson's dynamical theory: An
insight into a scientist's thinking . . 133--147
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Caroline Herschel's contributions to
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161
Kurt Mòller Pedersen Argumente für und wider das
heliozentrische Weltbild. (German)
[Arguments for and against the
heliocentric world view] . . . . . . . . 163--167
D. M. Knight Teaching the history of science in some
British universities and polytechnics 169--173
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
Dennis R. Dean James Hutton on Religion and Geology:
the unpublished preface to his
\booktitleTheory of the Earth (1788) . . 187--193
G. N. Cantor The Edinburgh Phrenology Debate:
1803--1828 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--218
Steven Shapin Phrenological knowledge and the social
structure of early nineteenth-century
Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--243
G. N. Cantor A critique of Shapin's social
interpretation of the Edinburgh
phrenology debate . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
J. M. Edmonds The first geological lecture course at
the University of London, 1831 . . . . . 257--275
A. D. Orange The idols of the theatre: The British
Association and its early critics . . . 277--294
Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Mikulás Teich Born's amalgamation process and the
international metallurgic gathering at
Skleno in 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--340
Richard H. Schallenberg Evolution, adaptation and survival: the
very slow death of the American charcoal
iron industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--358
D. J. Bryden Sir Samuel Morland's account of the
balance barometer, 1678 . . . . . . . . 359--368
Philip Chandler Clairaut's critique of Newtonian
attraction: Some insights into his
philosophy of science . . . . . . . . . 369--378
Otto Sonntag Albrecht von Haller on academies and the
advancement of science: the case of
Göttingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--391
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--414
Margaret Bradley Scientific education versus military
training: The influence of Napoleon
Bonaparte on the \em École Polytechnique 415--449
Ian Inkster Science and the Mechanics' Institutes,
1820--1850: The case of Sheffield . . . 451--474
F. W. J. McCosh Boussingault versus Ville: The social,
political and scientific aspects of
their disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--490
Joseph Needham and
Lu Gwei-Djen and
Manfred Porkert Problems of translation and
modernisation of ancient Chinese
technical terms . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
Anonymous On Joseph Fourier: the man, the
mathematician and the physicist . . . . 503--514
Anonymous Recent studies of medieval and
Renaissance logic . . . . . . . . . . . 515--518
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--524
Michael Bartholomew Huxley's defence of Darwin . . . . . . . 525--535
B. Norton Metaphysics and population genetics:
Karl Pearson and the background to
Fisher's multi-factorial theory of
inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--553
Nail Bezel Autobiography and `The Two Cultures' in
the novels of C. P. Snow . . . . . . . . 555--571
J. J. Bikerman Payment of the learned, and lament of a
moneyed, man. History of the commotion
created by two letters to
\booktitleScience 25 years ago . . . . . 573--577
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--582
Pietro Corsi Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--586
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--608
I. Grattan-Guinness An extension of the period covered by
\booktitleAnnals of Science . . . . . . 1--1
Crosbie Smith `Mechanical philosophy' and the
emergence of physics in Britain:
1800--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
Norriss S. Hetherington Cleveland Abbe and a view of science in
mid-nineteenth-century America . . . . . 31--49
Elizabeth Garber Thermodynamics and meteorology
(1850--1900) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65
H. A. M. Snelders A. M. Mayer's experiments with floating
magnets and their use in the atomic
theories of matter . . . . . . . . . . . 67--80
Lotte Sauermann Eberhard Gieseler, Ingenieur und
Physiker. (German) [Eberhard Gieseler,
engineer and physicist] . . . . . . . . 81--103
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118
R. N. D. Martin The genesis of a mediaeval historian:
Pierre Duhem and the origins of statics 119--129
Jon V. Pepper Harriot's manuscript on the theory of
impacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--151
R. H. Naylor Galileo: the search for the parabolic
trajectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--172
James MacLachlan Galileo's experiments with pendulums:
Real and imaginary . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
David Knight Agriculture and chemistry in Britain
around 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--196
Robert P. Multhauf A history of magnesia alba . . . . . . . 197--200
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--228
W. Eccarius August Leopold Crelle als Herausgeber
wissenschaftlicher Fachzeitschriften.
(German) [August Leopold Crelle as a
publisher of scientific journals] . . . 229--261
Charles H. Cotter George Biddell Airy and his mechanical
correction of the magnetic compass . . . 263--274
B. R. Gossick Heaviside and Kelvin: a study in
contrasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
Rudolf Stenzel Begründung für die Verschmelzung der
\booktitleReichsanstalt für Mass und
Gewicht mit der \em
Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt
in Berlin im Jahre 1923. (German)
[Rationale for the merger of the
Imperial Institute of Weights and
Measures of the Physical-Technical
Institute in Berlin in 1923] . . . . . . 289--306
Alison R. Dorling The Graves Mathematical Collection in
University College London . . . . . . . 307--309
J. L. Heilbron Moseley letters . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--330
Piero E. Ariotti and
Francis J. Marcolongo The law of illumination before Bouguer
(1729): Statement, restatements and
demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340
Henry M. Leicester The geochemical ideas of Mikhail
Lomonosov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--350
Sydney Gill A voltaic enigma and a possible solution
to it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--370
M. H. Matthews The development of the synthetic alkali
industry in Great Britain by 1823 . . . 371--382
Lewis S. Feuer The `Darwin--Marx correspondence': a
correction and revision . . . . . . . . 383--394
David Bearman Survey of sources for the history of
biochemistry and molecular biology: an
introductory report . . . . . . . . . . 395--397
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--424
Margaret Bradley The facilities for practical instruction
in science during the early years of the
\em École Polytechnique . . . . . . . . . 425--446
Heinz Cassebaum and
George B. Kauffman The analytical concept of a chemical
element in the work of Bergman and
Scheele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--456
Harold Issadore Sharlin Herbert Spencer and scientism . . . . . 457--465
Joseph Frazier Wall Social Darwinism and constitutional law
with special reference to \em Lochner v.
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--476
David A. Hollinger Comments on papers by Sharlin and Wall 476--480
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--484
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--488
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--518
Karen Meier Reeds Renaissance humanism and botany . . . . 519--542
Charles B. Schmitt John Case on art and nature . . . . . . 543--559
Christopher J. T. Lewis The fortunes of Richard Swineshead in
the time of Galileo . . . . . . . . . . 561--584
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--588
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--593
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--618
Ian Inkster Science and society in the metropolis: a
preliminary examination of the social
and institutional context of the
Askesian Society of London, 1796--1807 1--32
Roy Porter and
Kate Poulton Research in British geology 1660--1800:
a survey and thematic bibliography . . . 33--42
Robin J. Spring A note on Thomas Graham, surgeon, author
of botanical lectures delivered at the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, London 43--47
Cyril Stanley Smith A highly personal view of science and
its history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Harold Issadore Sharlin and
Robert A. Leacock A course in physics and history:
matching an unlikely pair . . . . . . . 57--62
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--102
Albert C. Lewis H. Grassmann's 1844
\booktitleAusdehnungslehre and
Schleiermacher's \booktitleDialektik . . 103--162
Luis M. Laita The influence of Boole's search for a
universal method in analysis on the
creation of his logic . . . . . . . . . 163--176
Robert Bunn Quantitative relations between infinite
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
I. Grattan-Guinness History of science journals: `to be
useful, and to the living'? . . . . . . 193--202
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--220
John Hedley Brooke Natural theology and the plurality of
worlds: Observations on the
Brewster--Whewell debate . . . . . . . . 221--286
R. G. A. Dolby The transmission of two new scientific
disciplines from Europe to North America
in the late nineteenth century . . . . . 287--310
D. M. Knight A note on sumptuous natural histories 311--314
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
Nachum L. Rabinovitch The one and the many: Early stochastic
reasoning in philosophy . . . . . . . . 331--344
Sarah Hutton Some Renaissance critiques of
Aristotle's theory of time . . . . . . . 345--363
R. H. Naylor Galileo's theory of motion: Processes of
conceptual change in the period
1604--1610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--392
R. C. H. Tanner Nathaniel Torporley's
\booktitleCongestor analyticus
[Concentrated analysis] and Thomas
Harriot's \booktitleDe triangulis
laterum rationalium [the sides of the
rational triangle] . . . . . . . . . . . 393--428
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--448
Anita Gregory Anatomy of a fraud: Harry Price and the
medium Rudi Schneider . . . . . . . . . 449--549
John Cawood Terrestrial magnetism and the
development of international
collaboration in the early nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--587
Charles H. Cotter The early history of ship magnetism: The
Airy--Scoresby controversy . . . . . . . 589--599
B. R. Gossick Where is Heaviside's manuscript for
volume 4 of his
\booktitleElectromagnetic Theory . . . . 601--606
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--611
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--636
W. A. Smeaton The chemical work of Horace Bénédict de
Saussure (1740--1799), with the text of
a letter written to him by madame
Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
E. Robert Paul Alexander W. Williamson on the atomic
theory: a study of nineteenth-century
British atomism . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
Trevor Levere S. T. Coleridge: a poet's view of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
David H. Trevena Marcelin Berthelot's first publication
in 1850, on the subjection of liquids to
tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Peter J. Bowler Hugo de Vries and Thomas Hunt Morgan:
The mutation theory and the spirit of
Darwinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--73
Irena Stasiewicz-Jasiukowa The teaching of the history of science
and technology in Polish higher
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102
John James Significance in sacred sites: The
churches around Positano . . . . . . . . 103--130
Gillian R. Evans A commentary on Boethius's
\booktitleArithmetica of the twelfth or
thirteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
S. A. Jayawardene Western scientific manuscripts before
1600: a checklist of published
catalogues: To the memory of Carl B.
Boyer (1906--1976) . . . . . . . . . . . 143--172
E. J. Aiton Kepler's path to the construction and
rejection of his first oval orbit for
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--220
L. W. B. Brockliss Medical teaching at the University of
Paris, 1600--1720 . . . . . . . . . . . 221--251
Colin A. Russell Edward Frankland and the Cheapside
chemists of Lancaster: an early
Victorian pharmaceutical apprenticeship 253--273
Malcolm J. Kottler Charles Darwin's biological species
concept and theory of geographic
speciation: the transmutation notebooks 275--297
J. Frank Henderson The position of the glycosidic bond in
purine nucleosides: The conservative
influence of a convention of chemical
nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--323
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--338
Roy Porter George Hoggart Toulmin's theory of man
and the Earth in the light of the
development of British geology . . . . . 339--352
Ian Inkster Robert Goodacre's astronomy lectures
(1823--1825), and the structure of
scientific culture in Philadelphia . . . 353--363
Howard Plotkin Edward C. Pickering, the Henry Draper
Memorial, and the beginnings of
astrophysics in America . . . . . . . . 365--377
Ian Mitchell Marxism and German scientific
materialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--400
John T. Blackmore Three autobiographical manuscripts by
Ernst Mach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
Gottfried Gabriel Implizite Definitionen --- Eine
Verwechselungsgeschichte. (German)
[Implicit definitions --- confusing
story] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--423
Alfred Romer Liberal arts technology . . . . . . . . 425--426
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--431
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--440
Bert S. Hall The scholastic pendulum . . . . . . . . 441--462
J. E. McGuire Existence, actuality and necessity:
Newton on space and time . . . . . . . . 463--508
Alun C. Davies The life and death of a scientific
instrument: The marine chronometer,
1770--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--525
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--531
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--541
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--550
Melvyn C. Usselman The Wollaston/Chenevix controversy over
the elemental nature of palladium: a
curious episode in the history of
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--579
Thaddeus J. Trenn Thoruranium (U-236) as the extinct
natural parent of thorium: The premature
falsification of an essentially correct
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--597
W. H. Brock The society for the perpetuation of
Gmelin: The Cavendish Society,
1846--1872 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--617
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--622
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--654
Joyce Brown Guild organisation and the
instrument-making trade, 1550--1830: the
Grocers' and Clockmakers' Companies . . 1--34
Dennis R. Dean The word `geology' . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Luis M. Laita Influences on Boole's logic: The
controversy between William Hamilton and
Augustus De Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . 45--65
Virginia Berridge Morality and medical science: Concepts
of narcotic addiction in Britain,
1820--1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--110
Lyndsay A. Farrall The history of eugenics: a
bibliographical review . . . . . . . . . 111--123
D. MacKenzie Karl Pearson and the professional middle
class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--143
Rosaleen Love `Alice in Eugenics-Land': Feminism and
Eugenics in the scientific careers of
Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton . . . . . . 145--158
G. R. Searle Eugenics and politics in Britain in the
1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
R. W. Home Nollet and Boerhaave: a note on
eighteenth-century ideas about
electricity and fire . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
G. J. Tee Another link between Marx and Darwin . . 176--176
Arthur Donovan The history of science in undergraduate
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--181
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--204
W. D. Hackmann The relationship between concept and
instrument design in eighteenth-century
experimental science . . . . . . . . . . 205--224
Stephen G. Brush Nineteenth-century debates about the
inside of the Earth: Solid, liquid or
gas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--254
W. D. Hackmann Underwater acoustics and the Royal Navy,
1893--1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--278
Christoph Meinel Teaching the history of medicine,
science and technology in the Federal
Republic of Germany and in West Berlin 279--289
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--299
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
S. A. Jayawardene and
Jennifer Lawes Biographical notices of historians of
science: a checklist . . . . . . . . . . 315--394
George B. Kauffman History in the chemistry curriculum:
pros and cons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--402
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--408
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--424
James E. Mcclellan, III The scientific press in transition:
Rozier's journal and the scientific
societies in the 1770s . . . . . . . . . 425--449
Margaret Bradley The financial basis of French scientific
education and scientific institutions in
Paris, 1790--1815 . . . . . . . . . . . 451--491
Richard Yeo William Whewell, natural theology and
the philosophy of science in mid
nineteenth century Britain . . . . . . . 493--516
Malcolm J. Kottler Hugo de Vries and the rediscovery of
Mendel's laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--538
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--542
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--548
John Henry Francesco Patrizi da Cherso's concept of
space and its later influence . . . . . 549--573
Alice Browne J. B. van Helmont's attack on Aristotle 575--591
J. Mittelstrass The Philosopher's conception of \em
Mathesis Universalis from Descartes to
Leibniz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--610
Piero E. Ariotti Christiaan Huygens: Aviation pioneer
extraordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--624
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--672
David Gooding Metaphysics versus measurement: The
conversion and conservation of force in
Faraday's physics . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
David R. Topper `To reason by means of images': J. J.
Thomson and the mechanical picture of
nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--57
John Hendry The development of attitudes to the
wave-particle duality of light and
quantum theory, 1900--1920 . . . . . . . 59--79
Thaddeus J. Trenn The phenomenon of aggregate recoil: the
premature acceptance of an essentially
incorrect theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--100
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
R. C. H. Tanner The ordered regiment of the minus sign:
Off-beat mathematics in Harriot's
manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--158
R. C. H. Tanner The alien realm of the minus: Deviatory
mathematics in Cardano's writings . . . 159--178
Augustine Ziggelaar How did the wave theory of light take
shape in the mind of Christiaan Huygens? 179--187
W. Eccarius Der Gegensatz zwischen Julius Plücker und
Jakob Steiner im Lichte ihrer
Beziehungen zu August Leopold Crelle
Hintergründe eines wissenschaftlichen
Meinungsstreites. (German) [The contrast
between Julius Plücker and Jakob Steiner
in the light of their relations with
August Leopold Crelle: backgrounds of a
scientific opinion dispute] . . . . . . 189--213
Patrick H. Byrne Statistical and causal concepts in
Einstein's early thought . . . . . . . . 215--228
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
Melvyn C. Usselman William Wollaston, John Johnson and
Colombian alluvial platina: a study in
restricted industrial enterprise . . . . 253--268
J. A. Bennett George Biddell Airy and horology . . . . 269--285
Howard Plotkin Henry Tappan, Franz Brünnow, and the
founding of the Ann Arbor School of
Astronomers, 1852--1863 . . . . . . . . 287--302
Lester D. Stephens Joseph LeConte and the development of
the physiology and psychology of vision
in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 303--321
Harold J. Cook and
Nicholas H. Steneck and
Arthur J. Vander and
Gordon L. Kane Early research on the biological effects
of microwave radiation: 1940--1960 . . . 323--351
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--356
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--362
R. H. Naylor The role of experiment in Galileo's
early work on the law of fall . . . . . 363--378
David H. Trevena The pioneer work of François Donny on the
existence of tension in liquids . . . . 379--386
Crosbie Smith Engineering the Universe: William
Thomson and Fleeming Jenkin on the
nature of matter . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--412
Jan Urban On the history of geological mapping in
Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--432
Alexander M. Ospovat The importance of regional geology in
the geological theories of Abraham
Gottlob Werner: a contrary opinion . . . 433--440
D. R. Oldroyd Sir Archibald Geikie (1835--1924),
geologist, romantic aesthete, and
historian of geology: The problem of
Whig historiography of science . . . . . 441--462
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--467
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--488
Brian P. Copenhaver Jewish theologies of space in the
scientific revolution: Henry More,
Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their
predecessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--548
Graham Rees Atomism and `subtlety' in Francis
Bacon's philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 549--571
Penelope Gouk The role of acoustics and music theory
in the scientific work of Robert Hooke 573--605
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--614
Michael Ruse Charles Darwin and group selection . . . 615--630
Joel S. Schwartz Three unpublished letters to Charles
Darwin: the solution to a
`geometrico--geological' problem . . . . 631--637
Margaret Campbell Did de Vries discover the law of
segregation independently? . . . . . . . 639--655
L. G. A. Calcraft Aldous Huxley and the Sheldonian
hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--671
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--678
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--683
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--724
John J. Roche The radius astronomicus in England . . . 1--32
L. W. B. Brockliss Aristotle, Descartes and the New
Science: Natural philosophy at the
University of Paris, 1600--1740 . . . . 33--69
E. J. Aiton and
Eikoh Shimao Gorai Kinz\=o's study of Leibniz and the
\booktitleI ching hexagrams . . . . . . 71--92
Eikoh Shimao Darwinism in Japan, 1877--1927 . . . . . 93--102
E. J. Aiton An unpublished letter of Leibniz to
Sloane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Piero E. Ariotti Benedetto Castelli's \booktitleDiscourse
on the loadstone (1639--1640): the
origin of the notion of elementary
magnets similarly aligned . . . . . . . 125--140
E. L. Scott Richard Kirwan, J. H. de Magellan, and
the early history of specific heat . . . 141--153
Arthur I. Miller Unipolar induction: a case study of the
interaction between science and
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--189
Patrick H. Byrne The origins of Einstein's use of formal
asymmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--250
John L. Greenberg Alexis Fontaine's
\booktitleFluxio-differential method and
the origins of the calculus of several
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--290
Margaret Bradley Franco--Russian engineering links: The
careers of Lamé and Clapeyron, 1820--1830 291--312
Nathan Reingold Refugee mathematicians in the United
States of America, 1933--1941: reception
and reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--338
Stillman Drake Alleged departures from Galileo's Law of
Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--342
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--352
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--376
Graham Rees An unpublished manuscript by Francis
Bacon: \booktitleSylva Sylvarum drafts
and other working notes . . . . . . . . 377--412
Alison Hoppen Military engineers in Malta, 1530--1798 413--433
Dennis R. Dean The age of the Earth controversy:
Beginnings to Hutton . . . . . . . . . . 435--456
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Prelude to solar energy: Pouillet,
Herschel, Forbes and the solar constant 457--476
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--482
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--502
J. L. Cranmer-Byng and
Trevor H. Levere A case study in cultural collision:
Scientific apparatus in the Macartney
embassy to China, 1793 . . . . . . . . . 503--525
J. N. Hays The rise and fall of Dionysius Lardner 527--542
Theodore M. Porter The promotion of mining and the
advancement of science: the chemical
revolution of mineralogy . . . . . . . . 543--570
H. A. M. Snelders James F. W. Johnston's influence on
agricultural chemistry in The
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584
Mary Jo Nye Berthelot's anti-atomism: a `matter of
taste'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--590
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--596
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--612
Roy G. Neville and
W. A. Smeaton Macquer's \booktitleDictionnaire de
Chymie: a bibliographical study . . . . 613--662
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--690
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--700
John L. Greenberg Alexis Fontaine's integration of
ordinary differential equations and the
origins of the calculus of several
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
Helge Kragh Julius Thomsen and 19th-century
speculations on the complexity of atoms 37--60
John Hendry Mayer, Herschel and Prévost on the solar
motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--75
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--114
J. D. North Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
J. Bruce Brackenridge Kepler, elliptical orbits, and celestial
circularity: a study in the persistence
of metaphysical commitment. Part I . . . 117--143
Barry Gower Astronomy and probability: Forbes versus
Michell on the distribution of the stars 145--160
A. J. Turner `The accomplishment of many years':
Three notes towards a history of the
sand-glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172
Charles D. Waterston John Farey's mineral survey of
South-East Sutherland and the age of the
Brora Coalfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--227
M. L. Cooper and
V. M. D. Hall William Robert Grove and the London
Institution, 1841--1845 . . . . . . . . 229--254
Jean Jones James Hutton and the Forth and Clyde
canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--263
J. Bruce Brackenridge Kepler, elliptical orbits, and celestial
circularity: a study in the persistence
of metaphysical commitment. Part II . . 265--295
C. Hakfoort Nicolas Béguelin and his search for a
crucial experiment on the nature of
light (1772) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310
Robert B. Todd A note on Francesco Patrizi's use of
Cleomedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--325
Silvio A. Bedini Obituary: Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli
1917--1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Guy Kitteringham Science in provincial society: The case
of Liverpool in the early nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
O. Reinhardt and
D. R. Oldroyd Kant's thoughts on the ageing of the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--369
Jon M. Mallatt Dr Beringer's fossils: a study in the
evolution of scientific world view . . . 371--380
James MacLachlan Note on R. H. Naylor's error in
analysing experimental data . . . . . . 381--384
R. H. Naylor Galileo's law of fall: Absolute truth or
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--389
Stillman Drake Analysis of Galileo's experimental data 389--397
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--420
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--432
D. W. Jordan The adoption of self-induction by
telephony, 1886--1889 . . . . . . . . . 433--461
Mayling Stubbs John Beale, philosophical gardener of
Herefordshire. Part I. Prelude to the
Royal Society (1608--1663) . . . . . . . 463--489
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--504
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--526
Ann Savours and
Anita McConnell The history of the Rossbank Observatory,
Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--564
Christopher Hamlin James Geikie, James Croll, and the
eventful ice age . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--583
Magda Whitrow Condorcet: a pioneer in information
retrieval? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--592
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--603
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--630
Robert K. DeKosky William Crookes and the quest for
absolute vacuum in the 1870s . . . . . . 1--18
A. G. Cock William Bateson's rejection and eventual
acceptance of chromosome theory . . . . 19--59
Norriss S. Hetherington Mid-nineteenth-century American
astronomy: Science in a developing
nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--80
Jean Jones James Hutton: Exploration and
oceanography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--108
Carleton E. Perrin Joseph Black and the absolute levity of
phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--137
Mordechai Feingold and
Penelope M. Gouk An early critique of Bacon's
\booktitleSylva Sylvarum: Edmund
Chilmead's treatise on sound . . . . . . 139--157
A. D. Farr Religious opposition to obstetric
anaesthesia: a Myth? . . . . . . . . . . 159--177
Dennis R. Dean John Playfair and his books . . . . . . 179--187
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Une mythologie révolutionnaire dans la
chimie française . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--216
Paul K. Hoch The reception of central European
refugee physicists of the 1930s:
U.S.S.R., U.K., U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . 217--246
O. Reinhardt and
D. R. Oldroyd Kant's theory of earthquakes and
volcanic action . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--272
Graham F. Elliott The contribution of British oil
interests in the Middle East to
palaeontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--316
Ellen B. Wells Scientists' libraries: a handlist of
printed sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--389
R. H. Naylor Galileo's early experiments on
projectile trajectories . . . . . . . . 391--395
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--409
Penelope M. Gouk The union of arts and sciences in the
eighteenth century: Lorenz Spengler
(1720--1807), artistic turner and
natural scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 411--436
John R. Millburn The London evening courses of Benjamin
Martin and James Ferguson,
eighteenth-century lecturers on
experimental philosophy . . . . . . . . 437--455
Allan Chapman The design and accuracy of some
observatory instruments of the
seventeenth century . . . . . . . . . . 457--471
Allan Chapman A study of the accuracy of scale
graduations on a group of European
astrolabes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488
Michael Segre Torricell's correspondence on ballistics 489--499
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--529
Janis Langins Hydrogen production for ballooning
during the French Revolution: An early
example of chemical process development 531--558
J. C. Kassler and
D. R. Oldroyd Robert Hooke's Trinity College `Musick
Scripts', his music theory and the role
of music in his cosmology . . . . . . . 559--595
W. B. Yapp The illustrations of birds in the
Vatican manuscript of \booktitleDe arte
venandi cum avibus [The art of hunting
with birds] of Frederick II . . . . . . 597--634
Alison McCann A private laboratory at Petworth House,
Sussex, in the late Eighteenth Century 635--655
Robert M. Palter Essay review: History, philosophy, and
physics in Einstein's special relativity
paper: Arthur Miller, \booktitleAlbert
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity:
Emergence (1905) and Early
Interpretation (1905--1911) . . . . . . 657--662
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--676
I. Grattan-Guinness Work for the workers: Advances in
engineering mechanics and instruction in
France, 1800--1830 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33
H. A. M. Snelders The electromagnetic experiments of the
Utrecht physicist Gerrit Moll
(1785--1838) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--55
Peter Honigmann Entstehung und Schicksal von Humboldts
Magnetischen `Verein' (1829--1834) im
Zusammenhang mit seiner Rußlandreise.
(German) [Origin and fate of Humboldt's
Magnetic `association' (1829--1834) in
connection with his visit to Russia] . . 57--86
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
G. L'e. Turner Obituary: Derek John de Solla Price
1922--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
David K. Hill The projection argument in Galileo and
Copernicus: Rhetorical strategy in the
defence of the new system . . . . . . . 109--133
Kostas Gavroglu and
Yorgos Goudaroulis Some methodological and historical
considerations in low temperature
physics: The case of superconductivity
1911--57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--149
John L. Greenberg Degrees of longitude and the Earth's
shape: The diffusion of a scientific
idea in Paris in the 1730s . . . . . . . 151--158
Masao Watanabe and
Ichiro Tanaka A Newton manuscript in Japan . . . . . . 159--164
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--169
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--177
G. J. Tee Religious opposition to obstetric
anaesthesia: Hardly a myth . . . . . . . 179--179
A. D. Farr Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--202
O. Reinhardt and
D. R. Oldroyd By analogy with the heavens: Kant's
theory of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 203--221
Jean Jones The geological collection of James
Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--244
Peter J. Bowler E. W. MacBride's Lamarckian eugenics and
its implications for the social
construction of scientific knowledge . . 245--260
Hideto Nakajima Two kinds of modification theory of
light: Some new observations on the
Newton--Hooke controversy of 1672
concerning the nature of light . . . . . 261--278
Ruth Wallis The glory of gravity --- Halley's Comet
1759 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--286
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--311
Karen Hunger Parshall Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding
of a mathematical community in America,
1892--1902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--333
S. T. Keith Scientists as entrepreneurs: Arthur
Tyndall and the rise of Bristol physics 335--357
John L. Davis Weather forecasting and the development
of meteorological theory at the Paris
Observatory, 1853--1878 . . . . . . . . 359--382
Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--393
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415
Allan Chapman Tycho Brahe in China: the Jesuit mission
to Peking and the iconography of
European instrument-making processes . . 417--443
Arthur P. Molella At the edge of science: Joseph Henry,
`Visionary Theorizers', and the
Smithsonian Institution . . . . . . . . 445--461
Daniel A. Beck Life on the Moon? A short history of the
Hansen hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
Owen G. Harry The Hon. Mrs Ward and `A windfall for
the microscope', of 1856 and 1864 . . . 471--482
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--487
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--511
P. M. Sanders Charles de Bovelles's treatise on the
regular polyhedra (Paris, 1511) . . . . 513--566
David A. Cumming John MacCulloch's `Millstone Survey' and
its consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--591
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--606
Leo J. Klosterman A research school of chemistry in the
nineteenth century: Jean Baptiste Dumas
and his research students. Part I . . . 1--40
Leo J. Klosterman A research school of chemistry in the
nineteenth century: Jean Baptiste Dumas
and his research students. Part II . . . 41--80
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
J. V. Field and
M. T. Wright Gears from the Byzantines: a portable
sundial with calendrical gearing . . . . 87--138
Donald R. Hill Al-Biruni's mechanical calendar . . . . 139--163
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--185
R. C. Olby and
M. J. S. Hodge Editors' introduction . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Onno G. Meijer Hugo de Vries no Mendelian? . . . . . . 189--232
Lindley Darden Hugo de Vries's lecture plates and the
discovery of segregation . . . . . . . . 233--242
Douglas R. Weiner The roots of `Michurinism': Transformist
biology and acclimatization as currents
in the Russian life sciences . . . . . . 243--260
Nils Roll-Hansen A new perspective on Lysenko? . . . . . 261--278
Jonathan Harwood Geneticists and the evolutionary
synthesis in interwar Germany . . . . . 279--301
Paul Weindling Weimar eugenics: The Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Anthropology, Human
Heredity and Eugenics in social context 303--318
David L. Hull Bias and commitment in science:
Phenetics and cladistics . . . . . . . . 319--338
Michael H. MacRoberts Was Mendel's paper on \booktitlePisum
neglected or unknown? . . . . . . . . . 339--345
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
Alan J. Rocke Hypothesis and experiment in the early
development of Kekulé's Benzene theory 355--381
Robin Attfield Balthasar Bekker and the decline of the
Witch-Craze: The old demonology and the
new philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--395
John R. Millburn James Ferguson's lecture tour of the
English Midlands in 1771 . . . . . . . . 397--415
Donald MacKenzie The political `implications' of
scientific theories: a comment on Bowler 417--419
Peter J. Bowler Response to MacKenzie . . . . . . . . . 420--420
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--429
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--451
M. A. Crawforth Evidence from trade cards for the
scientific instrument industry . . . . . 453--544
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Jack Meadows Obituary: Eric Gray Forbes 1933--1984 547--548
Susan Sheets-Pyenson Popular science periodicals in Paris and
London: The emergence of a low
scientific culture, 1820--1875 . . . . . 549--572
Jean Jones James Hutton's agricultural research and
his life as a farmer . . . . . . . . . . 573--601
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--611
Anonymous Wisan on Galileo and the art of
reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--616
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--630
Greta Jones The mushroom-shaped cloud: British
scientists' opposition to nuclear
weapons policy, 1945--57 . . . . . . . . 1--26
Stewart Richards Drawing the life-blood of physiology:
Vivisection and the Physiologists'
dilemma, 1870--1900 . . . . . . . . . . 27--56
Trevor H. Levere Magnetic instruments in the Canadian
Arctic expeditions of Franklin, Lefroy,
and Nares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--76
Stillman Drake Galileo and the projection argument . . 77--79
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--86
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--109
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Thaddeus J. Trenn The Geiger--Müller Counter of 1928 . . . 111--135
Kostas Gavroglou and
Yorgos Goudaroulis Some methodological and historical
considerations in low temperature
physics. II: The case of superfluidity 137--146
C. R. Hill The cabinet of Bonnier de la Mosson
(1702--1744) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--174
Anonymous Correspondence The letters and papers of
Sir John Hill, 1714--75 . . . . . . . . 175--178
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--212
Giovanna Cifoletti Kepler's \booktitleDe quantitatibus . . 213--238
John S. White William Harvey and the primacy of the
blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--255
Anita McConnell The scientific life of William Scoresby
Jnr, with a catalogue of his instruments
and apparatus in the Whitby Museum . . . 257--286
Neil Morgan A note on the proposed amalgamation of
the Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine and the Medical Research
Committee: Philanthropy and state
support of medical research, 1914 . . . 287--289
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314
Jan A. van Maanen The refutation of Longomontanus'
quadrature by John Pell . . . . . . . . 315--352
Maurice Whitehead The Jesuit contribution to science and
technical education in
late-nineteenth-century Liverpool . . . 353--368
Allan A. Mills Portable heliostats (solar illuminators) 369--406
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412
Bruce Eastwood Alhazen, Leonardo, and late-medieval
speculation on the inversion of images
in the eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--446
Joanneke de Bruin and
Lewis Pyenson `Gentleman-scientist': Elie van
Rijckevorsel and the Dutch overseas
effort in exact sciences at the end of
the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 447--473
Klaus Hentschel Die Korrespondenz Einstein--Schlick: Zum
Verhältnis der Physik zur Philosophie.
(German) [The Einstein--Schlick
correspondence: On the relationship of
physics to philosophy] . . . . . . . . . 475--488
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--510
Carleton E. Perrin Of theory shifts and industrial
innovations: The relations of J. A. C.
Chaptal and A. L. Lavoisier . . . . . . 511--542
Bert Theunissen The relevance of Cuvier's \em lois
zoologiques for his palaeontological
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--556
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--561
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--607
Stephen Pumfrey Mechanizing magnetism in restoration
England --- the decline of magnetic
philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Frances Willmoth John Flamsteed's letter concerning the
natural causes of earthquakes . . . . . 23--70
Robert B. Gordon Sixteenth-century metalworking
technology used in the manufacture of
two German astrolabes . . . . . . . . . 71--84
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--105
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Naum Kipnis Luigi Galvani and the debate on animal
electricity, 1791--1800 . . . . . . . . 107--142
John Hendry The scientific origins of controlled
fusion technology . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168
P. B. Wood Buffon's reception in Scotland: the
Aberdeen connection . . . . . . . . . . 169--190
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213
R. W. Home and
Masao Watanabe Physics in Australia and Japan to 1914:
a comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--235
Vasilis Pappas and
Ioannis Karas The printed book of physics: The
dissemination of scientific thought in
Greece 1750--1821 before the Greek
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244
Randall C. Brooks Magnetic influence on chronometers,
1798--1834: a case study . . . . . . . . 245--264
W. A. Smeaton Some large burning lenses and their use
by eighteenth-century French and British
chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276
Diana C. F. Smith The progress of the \booktitleOrcades
survey, with biographical notes on
Murdoch Mackenzie senior (1712--1797) 277--288
J. L. Greenberg Essay review: The Measurement of the
Earth: Antonio Lafuente and Antonio J.
Delgado, \booktitleLa Geometrizacion de
la Tierra: Observaciones y Resultados de
la Expedicion Geodesica
Hispano--Francesca al Virreinato del
Peru (1735--1744) . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--318
M. A. Crawforth Instrument makers in the London guilds 319--377
Ronald Curtis Darwin as an epistemologist . . . . . . 379--408
J. R. Moore Essay review: Born-again Social
Darwinism: Michael Ruse,
\booktitleTaking Darwin Seriously: A
Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy . . 409--417
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--438
E. Dekker Early explorations of the southern
celestial sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--470
H. Floris Cohen Simon Stevin's equal division of the
octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--488
C. B. Spurgin Gay-Lussac's gas-expansivity experiments
and the traditional mis-teaching of
`Charles's Law' . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--505
Brian P. Copenhaver Science and philosophy in early modern
Europe: The historiographical
significance of the work of Charles B.
Schmitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--517
W. J. Hornix Essay review: The Tales of Hofmann:
William Hodson Brock, editor,
\booktitleJustus von Liebig und August
Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen
(1841--1873) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--524
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--544
Giora Hon On Kepler's awareness of the problem of
experimental error . . . . . . . . . . . 545--591
P. K. Hoch and
E. J. Yoxen Schrödinger at Oxford: a hypothetical
national cultural synthesis which failed 593--616
D. Weaire and
S. O'Connor Unfulfilled renown: Thomas Preston
(1860--1900) and the anomalous Zeeman
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--644
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--656
Robert A. Stafford Roderick Murchison and the structure of
Africa: a geological prediction and its
consequences for British expansion . . . 1--40
Roger L. Emerson Sir Robert Sibbald, Kt, The Royal
Society of Scotland and the origins of
the Scottish enlightenment . . . . . . . 41--72
Klaus Hentschel Die Korrespondenz Duhem--Mach: Zur
`Modellbeladenheit' von
Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (German) [The
Duhem--Mach correspondence: The `model
laden' history of science] . . . . . . . 73--91
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--112
Peter de Clercq Science at court: the eighteenth-century
cabinet of scientific instruments and
models of the Dutch stadholders . . . . 113--152
J. B. Morrell The early Yorkshire Geological and
Polytechnic Society: a reconsideration 153--167
Frederic J. Baumgartner Galileo's French correspondents . . . . 169--182
Seymour L. Chapin Lalande and the length of the year; Or,
how to win a prize and double publish 183--190
R. E. W. Maddison An unpublished letter of Justus Liebig 191--192
R. E. W. Maddison The life of Robert Boyle: Addenda . . . 193--195
R. E. W. Maddison `The portraiture of Robert Boyle':
Addenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
Anonymous Hofmann's appointment to the College of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--220
John R. Millburn The office of ordnance and the
instrument-making trade in the
mid-eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 221--293
Stillman Drake The tower argument in the
\booktitleDialogue . . . . . . . . . . . 295--302
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--307
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--327
A. A. Mills The mercury clock of the
\booktitleLibros del Saber . . . . . . . 329--344
Antonio Gálvez The role of the French Academy of
Sciences in the clarification of the
issue of spontaneous generation in the
mid-nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 345--365
Kostas Gavroglu and
Yorgos Goudaroulis Understanding macroscopic quantum
phenomena: The history of superfluidity
1941--1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--385
Deborah Jean Warner Commodities for the classroom: Apparatus
for science and education in Antebellum
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397
Ian Inkster Prometheus bound: Technology and
industrialization in Japan, China and
India prior to 1914 --- a political
economy approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--426
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--446
E. J. Aiton Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--450
J. Bruce Brackenridge Newton's mature dynamics: Revolutionary
or reactionary? . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--476
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Leibniz's excerpts from the
\booktitlePrincipia mathematica . . . . 477--505
Michael J. Duck Newton and Goethe on colour: Physical
and physiological considerations . . . . 507--519
R. W. Home Leonhard Euler's `anti-Newtonian' theory
of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--533
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--554
J. F. Donnelly Chemical engineering in England,
1880--1922 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--590
Michel Blay Varignon ou la théorie du mouvement des
projectiles `comprise en une Proposition
générale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--618
Ida H. Stamhuis The mathematician Rehuel Lobatto
advocates life insurances in The
Netherlands in the period 1830--1860 . . 619--641
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--646
Anonymous Bookreviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--670
Lydie Touret Charles--François Exchaquet (1746--1792)
et les Plans en Relief du Mont-Blanc . . 1--20
Yang Jing Yi and
David Oldroyd The introduction and development of
continental drift theory and plate
tectonics in China: a case study in the
transference of scientific ideas from
west to east . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--43
Roy M. MacLeod The `Arsenal' in the strand: Australian
chemists and the British munitions
effort 1916--1919 . . . . . . . . . . . 45--67
Eikoh Shimao Some aspects of Japanese science,
1868--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--91
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
Luigi Indorato and
Guido Masotto Poincaré's role in the Crémieu--Pender
controversy over electric convection . . 117--163
Carole Stott and
David W. Hughes Two Piazzi Smyth comet paintings . . . . 165--172
A. A. Mills and
M. L. Jones Three lenses by Constantine Huygens in
the possession of the Royal Society of
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
Bruno Carazza and
Helge Kragh Adolfo Bartoli and the problem of
radiant heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219
John S. Reid A new look at old linear measures . . . 221--248
John P. Swann Manuscript resources in the history of
chemistry at the national library of
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--262
Ian Inkster Appropriate technology, alternative
technology and the Chinese model:
Terminology and analysis . . . . . . . . 263--276
Eberhard Knobloch Leonhard Eulers Mathematische
Notizbücher. (German) [Leonhard Euler's
mathematical notebooks] . . . . . . . . 277--302
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--307
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
Mayling Stubbs John Beale, philosophical gardener of
Herefordshire. Part II. The improvement
of agriculture and trade in the Royal
Society (1663--1683) . . . . . . . . . . 323--363
John L. Russell and
Sj Catholic astronomers and the Copernican
system after the condemnation of Galileo 365--386
Susann Hensel Zu einigen Aspekten der Berufung von
Mathematikern an die Technischen
Hochschulen Deutschlands im letzten
Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts. (German)
[On some aspects of the vocation of
mathematicians at the technical
universities in Germany in the last
third of the 19th century] . . . . . . . 387--416
József Illy Einstein und der Eötvös-Versuch: Ein Brief
Albert Einsteins an Willy Wien. (German)
[Einstein and the Eötvös Experiment: a
letter between Albert Einstein and Willy
Wien] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--422
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435
Timothy L. Alborn Negotiating notation: Chemical symbols
and British Society, 1831--1835 . . . . 437--460
Mary Jo Nye Chemical explanation and physical
dynamics: Two research schools at the
First Solvay Chemistry Conferences,
1922--1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480
Dennis R. Dean Benjamin Franklin and earthquakes . . . 481--495
Robert Olby Scientists and bureaucrats in the
establishment of the John Innes
horticultural institution under William
Bateson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--510
Edvige Schettino A new instrument for infrared radiation
measurements: the thermopile of
Macedonio Melloni . . . . . . . . . . . 511--517
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--548
Dennis R. Dean New light on William Maclure . . . . . . 549--574
Marian Fournier Huygens' designs for a simple microscope 575--596
S. Irfan Habib and
Dhruv Raina The introduction of scientific
rationality into India: a study of
Master Ramchandra --- Urdu journalist,
mathematician and educationalist . . . . 597--610
Anita McConnell Aluminium and its alloys for scientific
instruments, 1855--1900 . . . . . . . . 611--620
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--625
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--639
J. Bruce Brackenridge Newton's unpublished dynamical
principles: a study in simplicity . . . 3--31
Peter Lundgreen Engineering education in Europe and the
U.S.A., 1750--1930: The rise to
dominance of school culture and the
engineering professions . . . . . . . . 33--75
W. H. Brock The Cavendish Society's wonderful
repertory of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 77--80
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--109
Audrey B. Davis American medicine in the gilded age: The
first technological era . . . . . . . . 111--125
Russell C. Maulitz In the clinic: Framing disease at the
Paris hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
Neil Morgan The strategy of biological research
programmes: Reassessing the `dark age'
of biochemistry, 1910--1930 . . . . . . 139--150
David Cahan From dust figures to the kinetic theory
of gases: August Kundt and the changing
nature of experimental physics in the
1860s and 1870s . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--172
Margarida Archinard The diagram of unequal hours . . . . . . 173--190
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
Barbara Whitney Keyser Between science and craft: The case of
Berthollet and dyeing . . . . . . . . . 213--260
Pierre Quédec Itinéraire de Louis Néel des aimants aux
grenats ferrimagnétiques. (French) [The
route of Louis Néel to magnets of
ferrimagnetic garnets] . . . . . . . . . 261--275
Klaus Schillinger The development of Saxon scientific
instrument-making skills from the
Sixteenth Century to the Thirty Years
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--312
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
R. W. Home and
Masao Watanabe Forming new physics communities:
Australia and Japan, 1914--1950 . . . . 317--345
Morris Fraser Low Japan's secret war? `Instant' scientific
manpower and Japan's World War II.
Atomic bomb project . . . . . . . . . . 347--360
Charles S. F. Burnett A new source for Dominicus
Gundissalinus's account of the science
of the stars? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
John H. Appleby Erasmus King: Eighteenth-century
experimental philosopher . . . . . . . . 375--392
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--409
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
Clara Silvia Roero Leibniz and the Temple of Viviani:
Leibniz's prompt reply to the challenge
and the repercussions in the field of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--443
D. J. Bryden The Edinburgh Observatory 1736--1811: a
story of failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--474
Harold J. Cook Sir John Colbatch and Augustan medicine:
Experimentalism, character and
entrepreneurialism . . . . . . . . . . . 475--505
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--512
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--528
Elly Dekker The light and the dark: a reassessment
of the discovery of the Coalsack Nebula,
the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern
Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--560
Antonio Clericuzio A redefinition of Boyle's chemistry and
corpuscular philosophy . . . . . . . . . 561--589
A. J. Kox H. A. Lorentz's contributions to kinetic
gas theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--606
Mansel Davies W. T. Astbury, Rosie Franklin, and DNA:
a memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--618
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--628
Anita McConnell La Condamine's scientific journey down
the River Amazon, 1743--1744 . . . . . . 1--19
Silvana Galdabini and
Giuseppe Giuliani Magnetic field effects and dualistic
theory of metallic conduction in Italy
(1911--1926): cultural heritage,
creativity, epistemological beliefs, and
national scientific community . . . . . 21--37
Dennis R. Dean Robert Mallet and the founding of
seismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--67
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102
W. A. E. McBryde Petroleum deodorized: Early Canadian
history of the `doctor sweetening'
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
Patrice Bret Le Dépôt général de la guerre et la
formation scientifique des
ingénieurs-géographes militaires en France
(1789--1830). (French) [The General
Ministry of War and the scientific
formation of the military
engineer-geographers in France
(1789--1830)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--157
Bruce H. Pourciau On Newton's proof that inverse-square
orbits must be conics . . . . . . . . . 159--172
Allan A. Mills Canada balsam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
Mariano Hormogón History of science and technology today
in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
Satio Hayakawa and
Morris F. Low Science policy and politics in post-war
Japan: the establishment of the KEK high
energy physics laboratory . . . . . . . 207--229
Edward J. Larson Science in the American South through
the eyes of four natural historians,
1750--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--240
Eric L. Mills The oceanography of the Pacific: George
F. McEwen, H. U. Sverdrup and the origin
of physical oceanography on the west
coast of North America . . . . . . . . . 241--266
David B. Wilson P. G. Tait and Edinburgh natural
philosophy, 1860--1901 . . . . . . . . . 267--287
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--293
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--304
I. Grattan-Guinness Eric Aiton: an appreciation . . . . . . 305--308
Anonymous `Measuring of all maner of lands': Some
aspects of the history of surveying . . 311--311
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
G. L'E. Turner Introduction: Some notes on the
development of surveying and the
instruments used . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--317
Stephen Johnston Mathematical practitioners and
instruments in Elizabethan England . . . 319--344
J. A. Bennett Geometry and surveying in
early-seventeenth-century England . . . 345--354
Frances Willmoth `The genius of all arts' and the use of
instruments: Jonas--Moore (1617--1679)
as a mathematician, surveyor, and
astronomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--365
W. F. Ryan Scientific instruments in Russia from
the middle ages to Peter the Great . . . 367--384
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--389
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain:
Part I. The Rocks of St David's . . . . 407--452
Dennis R. Dean John Muir and the origin of Yosemite
Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--485
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--508
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--508
Robert Olby Social imperialism and state support for
agricultural research in Edwardian
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--526
Michael Chayut J. J. Thomson: The discovery of the
electron and the chemists . . . . . . . 527--544
Ian Inkster Science, technology and economic
development --- Japanese historical
experience in context . . . . . . . . . 545--563
Geoffrey Tresise `\em Chirotherium herculis' --- Problems
posed by the first finds . . . . . . . . 565--576
J. C. Deiman A myth revealed: The case of the
`Beeldsnyder achromatic objective' . . . 577--581
R. D. Hill Some comments on \booktitleForming new
physics communities: Australia and
Japan, 1914--1950, by R. W. Home and M.
Watanabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--587
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--595
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--606
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Phillips Salman William Harvey and art misplaced . . . . 3--19
Klaus Hentschel Grebe/Bachems photometrische Analyse der
Linienprofile und die
Gravitations-Rotverschiebung: 1919 bis
1922. (German) [Grebe/Bachem's
photometric analysis of the line
profiles and the gravitational redshift:
1919 to 1922] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--46
Lotte Mulligan Robert Hooke's \booktitleMemoranda:
Memory and natural history . . . . . . . 47--61
Philip K. Wilson `Out of sight, out of mind?': The Daniel
Turner--James Blondel dispute over the
power of the maternal imagination . . . 63--85
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
John Brooks The circular dividing engine:
Development in England 1739--1843 . . . 101--135
Margaret Bradley Engineers as military spies? French
engineers come to Britain, 1780--1790 137--161
Masao Watanabe Francis Bacon: Philanthropy and the
instauration of learning . . . . . . . . 163--173
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--200
I. Grattan-Guinness Counting the notes: Numerology in the
works of Mozart, especially
\booktitleDie Zauberflöte . . . . . . . . 201--232
Thomas Wright Scale models, similitude and dimensions:
Aspects of mid-nineteenth-century
engineering science . . . . . . . . . . 233--254
Malcolm Oster The scholar and the craftsman revisited:
Robert Boyle as aristocrat and artisan 255--276
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--300
D. J. Bryden Evidence from advertising for
mathematical instrument making in
London, 1556--1714 . . . . . . . . . . . 301--336
A. D. C. Simpson Grain packing in early standard capacity
measures: Evidence from the Scottish dry
capacity standards . . . . . . . . . . . 337--350
Mansel Davies Frederick Soddy: The scientist as
prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--367
Herman Erlichson The instantaneous impulse construction
as a formula for central force motion on
an arbitrary plane curve with respect to
an arbitrary force centre in the plane
of that curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--375
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--399
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain:
Part II. The Malverns and Shropshire . . 401--460
Susan Sheets-Pyenson Horse race: John William Dawson, Charles
Lyell, and the competition over the
Edinburgh natural history chair in
1854--1855 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--477
D. S. L. Cardwell On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde, and the
dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--487
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--502
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Rienk H. Vermij and
Jan A. van Maanen An unpublished autograph by Christiaan
Huygens: His letter to David Gregory of
19 January 1694 . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--523
C. Hakfoort Science deified: Wilhelm Osstwald's
energeticist world-view and the history
of scientism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--544
Ton van Helvoort The controversy between John H. Northrop
and Max Delbrück on the formation of
bacteriophage: Bacterial synthesis or
autonomous multiplication? . . . . . . . 545--575
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--583
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--588
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--600
D. J. Bryden and
D. L. Simms Spectacles improved to perfection and
approved of by the Royal Society . . . . 1--32
Jan Todd Science at the periphery: An
interpretation of Australian scientific
and technological dependency and
development prior to 1914 . . . . . . . 33--58
Janusz Sysak Coleridge's construction of Newton . . . 59--81
Allan A. Mills Seasonal-hour sundials on vertical and
horizontal planes, with an explanation
of the scratch dial . . . . . . . . . . 83--93
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Brian Gee The early development of the
magneto-electric machine . . . . . . . . 101--133
Ido Yavetz Oliver Heaviside and the significance of
the British electrical debate . . . . . 135--173
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--181
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--200
Silvio A. Bedini Of `science and liberty': The scientific
instruments of King's College and
Eighteenth Century Columbia College in
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--227
Anthony N. Stranges Synthetic fuel production in prewar and
World War II. Japan: a case study in
technological failure . . . . . . . . . 229--265
Davis Baird Analytical chemistry and the `big'
scientific instrumentation revolution 267--290
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--301
Elly Dekker Epact tables on instruments: Their
definition and use . . . . . . . . . . . 303--324
Patrice Bret Le Dernier des procédés révolutionnaires:
La fabrication et l'expertise de la
Poudre Ronde (1795--1830). (French) [The
last of the revolutionary processes:
Manufacturing and expertise of Round
Powder (1795--1830)] . . . . . . . . . . 325--347
Robert J. Manning John Elliot and the inhabited sun . . . 349--364
W. H. Brock Humboldt and the British: a note on the
character of British science . . . . . . 365--372
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--381
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--388
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402
Gerard L'E. Turner and
Elly Dekker An astrolabe attributed to Gerard
Mercator, \em c. 1570 . . . . . . . . . 403--443
Zdislav Síma Prague sextants of Tycho Brahe . . . . . 445--453
Roy MacLeod The chemists go to war: The mobilization
of civilian chemists and the British war
effort, 1914--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . 455--481
I. Grattan-Guinness Cottage industry or ghetto? The British
Society for the History of Mathematics,
1971--1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--490
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--500
Dennis R. Dean The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 . . 501--521
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain:
Part III. The rocks of Anglesey and
Caernarvonshire . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--584
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--599
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--600
B. J. Sokol The problem of assessing Thomas
Harriot's \booktitleA briefe and true
report of his discoveries in North
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Adel A. Ziadat Early reception of Einstein's Relativity
in the Arab periodical press . . . . . . 17--35
David Strauss Percival Lowell, W. H. Pickering and the
founding of the Lowell Observatory . . . 37--58
Peter Barker and
Bernard R. Goldstein Distance and velocity in Kepler's
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--73
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--102
I. Grattan-Guinness Some numerological features of
Beethoven's output . . . . . . . . . . . 103--135
Eric R. Scerri Prediction of the nature of hafnium from
chemistry, Bohr's theory and quantum
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150
Richard Dunn The true place of astrology among the
mathematical arts of late Tudor England 151--163
Trevor H. Levere Chronometers on the Arctic expeditions
of John Ross and William Edward Parry:
With notes on a letter from Messrs.
William Parkinson & William James
Frodsham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--199
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Marjorie Malley Thermodynamics and cold light . . . . . 203--224
Bert Theunissen Closing the door on Hugo de Vries'
Mendelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--248
Penha Maria Cardoso Dias Clausius and Maxwell: The statistics of
molecular collisions (1857--1862) . . . 249--261
Herman Erlichson Galileo's pendulums and planes . . . . . 263--272
Anita McConnell Bankruptcy proceedings against William
Harris, Optician, of Cornhill, 1830 . . 273--279
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--328
Gerard L'E. Turner The three astrolabes of Gerard Mercator 329--353
Giuseppe Giuliani and
Paolantonio Marazzini The Italian physics community and the
crisis of classical physics: New
radiations, quanta and Relativity
(1896--1925) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--390
Giovanni Boato and
Natalia Moro Bancalari's role in Faraday's discovery
of diamagnetism and the successive
progress in the understanding of
magnetic properties of matter . . . . . 391--412
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--452
Margaret Bradley Bonaparte's plans to invade England in
1801: The fortunes of Pierre Forfait . . 453--475
Anne C. van Helden Theory and practice in air-pump
construction: The cooperation between
Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and Jan van
Musschenbroek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--495
Helmut Pulte C. G. J. Jacobis Vermächtnis einer
`konventionalen' analytischen Mechanik:
Vorgeschichte, Nachschriften und Inhalt
seiner letzten Mechanik-Vorlesung.
(German) [C. G. J. Jacobi's legacy of a
conventional analytical mechanics:
history, transcripts and content of his
last mechanics lecture] . . . . . . . . 497--516
Yadong Li The introduction of chemical theories
into nineteenth-century China . . . . . 517--530
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--538
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--540
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--570
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
D. R. Oldroyd The Archaean controversy in Britain:
Part IV. Some general theoretical and
social issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--592
Keith Vernon Microbes at work. Micro-organisms, the
D.S.I.R. and industry in Britain,
1900--1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--613
Douglas Allchin James Hutton and phlogiston . . . . . . 615--635
Jean Jones and
Hugh S. Torrens and
Eric Robinson The correspondence between James Hutton
(1726--1797) and James Watt (1736--1819)
with two letters from Hutton to George
Clerk-Maxwell (1715--1784): Part I . . . 637--653
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--687
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
Elly Dekker An unrecorded medieval astrolabe
quadrant from c. 1300 . . . . . . . . . 1--47
Sungook Hong Efficiency and authority in the `Open
versus closed' transformer controversy 49--76
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102
Silvio A. Bedini and
Arthur G. Bennett \booktitleA treatise on optics by
Giovanni Christoforo Bolantio . . . . . 103--126
Mark E. Ehrlich Mechanism and activity in the scientific
revolution: The case of Robert Hooke . . 127--151
Dan Ch. Christensen The Òrsted--Ritter partnership and the
birth of Romantic natural philosophy . . 153--185
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
D. R. Oldroyd and
G. McKenna A note on Andrew Ramsay's unpublished
report on the St David's area, recently
discovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--212
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
J. Williams Mathematics and the alloying of coinage
1202--1700: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 213--234
J. Williams Mathematics and the alloying of coinage
1202--1700. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 235--263
Nadia Robotti J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish
Laboratory: The history of an electric
charge measurement . . . . . . . . . . . 265--284
Helge Kragh From curiosity to industry: The early
history of cryolite soda manufacture . . 285--301
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305
J. A. Bennett Obituary: R. E. W. Maddison (1901--93) 306--306
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
J. L. Davis The research school of Marie Curie in
the Paris faculty, 1907--14 . . . . . . 321--355
Jean Jones and
Hugh S. Torrens and
Eric Robinson The correspondence between James Hutton
(1726--1797) and James Watt (1736--1819)
with two letters from Hutton to George
Clerk-Maxwell (1715--1784). Part II . . 357--382
Dong-Won Kim The emergence of theoretical physics in
Japan: Japanese physics community
between the two World Wars . . . . . . . 383--402
John L. Russell What was the crime of Galileo? . . . . . 403--410
B. R. Coles An absolute zero of temperature: Locke's
enunciation of the concept . . . . . . . 411--412
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430
Allan Chapman Out of the meridian: John Bird's
equatorial sector and the new technology
of astronomical measurement . . . . . . 431--463
Paul Brassley Agricultural research in Britain,
1850--1914: Failure, success and
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--480
Greta Jones Women and eugenics in Britain: The case
of Mary Scharlieb, Elizabeth Sloan
Chesser, and Stella Browne . . . . . . . 481--502
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--507
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--517
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
Niccol`o Guicciardini Johann Bernoulli, John Keill and the
inverse problem of central forces . . . 537--575
Nathan M. Brooks Russian chemistry in the 1850s: a failed
attempt at institutionalization . . . . 577--589
Aparajito Basu Chemical research in India (1876--1918) 591--600
Michael Barth Huygens at work: Annotations in his
rediscovered personal copy of Hooke's
\booktitleMicrographia . . . . . . . . . 601--613
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--618
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--628
John H. Appleby A new perspective on John Rowley,
Virtuoso Master of mechanics and
hydraulic engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Charles W. J. Withers Geography, science and national identity
in early modern Britain: The case of
Scotland and the work of Sir Robert
Sibbald (1641--1722) . . . . . . . . . . 29--73
Allan A. Mills Altitude sundials for seasonal and equal
hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--106
P. M. Harman The collected papers of Albert Einstein,
vol 5, The Swiss years: Correspondence,
1902--1914 --- M. J. Klein, A. J. Kox,
R. Schulmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
David Oldroyd and
Yang Jing-Yi On being the first Western geologist in
China: The work of Raphael Pumpelly
(1837--1923) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--136
Ad Meskens Mathematics education in late
sixteenth-century Antwerp . . . . . . . 137--155
Robert Fox Thomas Edison's Parisian campaign:
Incandescent lighting and the hidden
face of technology transfer . . . . . . 157--193
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
George Molland Addressing ancient authority: Thomas
Bradwardine and \booktitlePrisca
Sapientia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
Katherine H. Tachau Logic's God and the natural order in
late medieval Oxford: The teaching of
Robert Holcot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--267
Klaus Hentschel Measurements of gravitational redshift
between 1959 and 1971 . . . . . . . . . 269--295
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--318
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--322
Sherrie Cross Prestige and Comfort: The development of
Social Darwinism in early Meiji Japan,
and the role of Edward Sylvester Morse 323--344
Morris F. Low Medical representations of the body in
Japan: Gender, class, and discourse in
the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 345--359
Carsten Flohr The Plague Fighter: Wu Lien-teh and the
beginning of the Chinese public health
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380
Michael Berger Henry David Thoreau's science in
\booktitleThe Dispersion of Seeds . . . 381--397
B. J. Sokol Poet in the atomic age: Robert Frost's
\booktitleThat Millikan Mote expanded 399--411
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebii--ebii
Sungook Hong Styles and credit in early radio
engineering: Fleming and Marconi on the
first transatlantic wireless telegraphy 431--465
Luis Fermín Capitán Vallvey Export and smuggling of Spanish platina
in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . 467--487
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--488
Edgar Nitsch Keuper 1820--34: Geburt eines
stratigraphischen Begriffes. (German)
[Keuper 1820--34: Birth of a
stratigraphic term] . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
Christine Brandon-Jones Charles Darwin and the repugnant
curators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--510
Penha Maria Cardoso Dias William Thomson and the heritage of
caloric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--520
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--540
Elly Dekker The Copernican globe: a delayed
conception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--566
William R. Newman The alchemical sources of Robert Boyle's
corpuscular philosophy . . . . . . . . . 567--585
Bruno Carazza and
Nadia Robotti The first molecular models for an
electromagnetic Theory of dispersion and
some aspects of physics at the end of
the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 587--607
Gustav Holmberg Mechanizing the astronomer's vision: On
the role of photography in Swedish
astronomy, \em c. 1880--1914 . . . . . . 609--616
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--625
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--631
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--654
Agustí Nieto-Galan Calico printing and chemical knowledge
in Lancashire in the early nineteenth
century: the life and `colours' of John
Mercer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Anthony N. Stranges The US Bureau of Mines's synthetic fuel
programme, 1920--1950s: German
connections and American advances . . . 29--68
David Oldroyd Some youthful beliefs of Sir Archibald
Geikie, PRS, and the first publication
of his \booktitleOn the study of the
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
John P. Lamprey An examination of two groups of Georg
Hartmann sixteenth-century astrolabes
and the tables used in their manufacture 111--142
Ad Meskens Michiel Coignet's contribution to the
development of the sector . . . . . . . 143--160
Silvio A. Bedini The transit in the tower: English
astronomical instruments in Colonial
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--196
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220
David Oldroyd and
Beryl Hamilton Geikie and Judd, and controversies about
the igneous rocks of the Scottish
Hebrides: Theory, practice, and power in
the geological community . . . . . . . . 221--268
Daniel Carey Compiling nature's history: Travellers
and travel narratives in the early Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--292
Jacob Adler J. S. Delmedigo and the liquid-in-glass
thermometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--299
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--326
Anonymous Books noticed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Kim Pelis Blood clots: the nineteenth-century
debate over the substance and means of
transfusion in Britain . . . . . . . . . 331--360
Robert Tattersall Frederick Pavy (1829--1911) and his
opposition to the glycogenic theory of
Claude Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
Jane Wess The logic demonstrators of the 3rd Earl
Stanhope (1753--1816) . . . . . . . . . 375--395
Michael Duck A question of faith: Goethe's belief in
the immutability of light . . . . . . . 397--406
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--421
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
Frederick Kurzer Samuel Parkes: Chemist, author, reformer
--- a biography . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--462
Mary Mosher Flesher Repetitive order and the human walking
apparatus: Prussian military science
versus the Webers' locomotion research 463--487
R. Derek Wood A state pension for L. J. M. Daguerre
for the secret of his Daguerreotype
technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--506
Ruth Wallis Edward Cocker (1632?--1676) and his
\booktitleArithmetick: De Morgan
demolished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--522
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--531
Ana Carneiro and
Natalie Pigeard Chimistes alsaciens \`a Paris au 19\`eme
si\`ecle: un réseau, une école?. (French)
[Alsace chemists in Paris in the 19th
Century: a network, a school?] . . . . . 533--546
Frank Dittmann and
Jérôme Ségal Hermann Schmidt (1894--1968) et la
théorie générale de la régulation: Une
cybernétique allemande en 1940?. (French)
[Hermann Schmidt (1894--1968) and the
general theory of regulation: a German
cybernetics in 1940?] . . . . . . . . . 547--565
Jutta Berger Chemische Mechanik und Kinetik: die
Bedeutung der mechanischen Wärmetheorie
für die Theorie chemischer Reaktionen.
(German) [Chemical mechanism and
kinetics: the importance of the
mechanical theory of heat for the theory
of chemical reactions] . . . . . . . . . 567--584
David E. Cartwright Robert Paul de Lamanon: An unlucky
naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--596
I. Grattan-Guinness Benjamin Peirce's \booktitleLinear
Associative Algebra (1870): New light on
its preparation and `publication'. In
fond memory of Max H. Fisch (1900--95) 597--606
Christina Oedingen and
Joseph W. Staerk First cure for diphtheria by antitoxin
as early as 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--610
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--622
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--634
Ruth Barton Just before \booktitleNature: The
purposes of science and the purposes of
popularization in some English popular
science journals of the 1860s . . . . . 1--33
M. Eileen Magnello Karl Pearson's mathematization of
inheritance: From ancestral heredity to
Mendelian genetics (1895--1909) . . . . 35--94
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Paul Forman Molecular beam measurements of nuclear
moments before magnetic resonance. Part
I: I. I. Rabi and deflecting magnets to
1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--160
Nadia Robotti and
Francesca Pastorino Zeeman's discovery and the mass of the
electron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--183
Oscar Sheynin Stochastic thinking in the Bible and the
Talmud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--198
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218
Richard A. Jarrell Visionary or bureaucrat? T. H. Huxley,
the Science and Art Department and
Science teaching for the working class 219--240
Joost Mertens From the lecture room to the workshop:
John Frederic Daniell, the constant
battery and electrometallurgy around
1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--261
Laurent Mucchielli Aux origines de la psychologie
universitaire en France (1870--1900):
enjeux intellectuels, contexte
politique, réseaux et stratégies
d'alliance autour de la \booktitleRevue
philosophique de Théodule Ribot . . . . . 263--289
John L. Davis Artisans and savants: The role of the
Academy of Sciences in the process of
electrical innovation in France,
1850--1880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314
Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--328
Charles Burnett King Ptolemy and Alchandreus the
Philosopher: The earliest texts on the
astrolabe and Arabic astrology at
Fleury, Micy and Chartres . . . . . . . 329--368
Maria Yamalidou Molecular ideas in hydrodynamics . . . . 369--400
Xiang Chen Dispersion, experimental apparatus, and
the acceptance of the wave theory of
light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--448
G. L'E. Turner A New Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Silke Ackermann and
John Cherry Richard II, John Holland and Three
Medieval Quadrants . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
Elizabeth Henry Bellmer The Statesman and the Ophthalmologist:
Gladstone and Magnus on the Evolution of
Human Colour Vision, One Small Episode
of the Nineteenth-century Darwinian
Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45
Patti Wilger Hunter An Unofficial Community: American
Mathematical Statisticians before 1935 47--68
Anne C. van Helden and
Rob H. van Gent The Lens Production by Christiaan and
Constantijn Huygens . . . . . . . . . . 69--79
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Atomism and Positivism: a Legend about
French Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Jean Jones Essay Review: Priestley Enlightened . . 95--98
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--109
Trevor Levere More Introductions . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Frederick Kurzer The Life and Work of Edward Charles
Howard FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--141
Robinson M. Yost Pondering the Imponderable: John Robison
and Magnetic Theory in Britain
(c.1775--1805) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--174
David Oldroyd Early Ideas About Glaciation in the
English Lake District: The Problem of
Making Sense of Glaciation in a
Glaciated Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--203
Anonymous Essay Review: Suspension and Belief . . 205--209
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Guido Tagliaferri and
Pasquale Tucci Carlini and Plana on the Theory of the
Moon and their Dispute with Laplace . . 221--269
June Barrow-Green 'A Corrective to the Spirit of too
Exclusively Pure Mathematics': Robert
Smith (1689--1768) and his Prizes at
Cambridge University . . . . . . . . . . 271--316
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
Nicholas Kollerstrom The Path of Halley's Comet, and Newton's
Late Apprehension of the Law of Gravity 331--356
Martin Hilbert Herschel's Investigation of the Nature
of Radiant Heat: The Limitations of
Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--378
Reinier Plomp A Longitude Timekeeper by Isaac Thuret
with the Balance Spring Invented by
Christiaan Huygens . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
David Oldroyd Non-written Sources in the Study of the
History of Geology: Pros and Cons, in
the Light of the Views of Collingwood
and Foucault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Geological Museums and their
Collections: Rich Sources for Historians
of Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--431
Gerard Sierksma and
Wybe Sierksma The Great Leap to the Infinitely Small.
Johann Bernoulli: Mathematician and
Philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--449
Yung Sik Kim Towards a 'Comparative History of the
Foundations of Science': Language and
Logic in Traditional China . . . . . . . 451--460
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--464
Ruth Benschop and
Douwe Draaisma In Pursuit of Precision: The Calibration
of Minds and Machines in Late
Nineteenth-century Psychology . . . . . 1--25
Jacqueline Anne Stedall Ariadne's Thread: The Life and Times of
Oughtred's \booktitleClavis
[mathematicae] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--60
Paul Elliott The Birth of Public Science in the
English Provinces: Natural Philosophy in
Derby, c. 1690--1760 . . . . . . . . . . 61--100
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
Frederick Kurzer A History of the Surrey Institution . . 109--141
John Stewart 'Science Fights Death': David Stark
Murray, Science, and Socialism in
Interwar Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--161
Ezio Vaccari Mining and Knowledge of the Earth in
Eighteenth-century Italy . . . . . . . . 163--180
Paul Kunitzsch A Note on Ascelinus' \booktitleTable of
Astrolabe Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--185
Charles Burnett Addendum to ``King Ptolemy and
Alchandreus the Philosopher: The
Earliest Texts on the Astrolabe and
Arabic Astrology at Fleury, Micy and
Chartres'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Gordon McOuat Networks, Hybrids and Forms of Life . . 189--195
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--217
Ruth Wallis Cross-currents in Astronomy and
Navigation: Thomas Hornsby, FRS
(1733--1810) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--240
Matteo Leone and
Nadia Robotti Stellar, Solar and Laboratory Spectra:
The History of Lockyer's Proto-elements 241--266
Donata Brianta Education and Training in the Mining
Industry, 1750--1860: European Models
and the Italian Case . . . . . . . . . . 267--300
K. Hentschel Essay Review: Heisenberg, German
Culture, and Other Such Horrifying
Things. Paul Lawrence Rose,
\booktitleHeisenberg and the Nazi Atomic
Bomb Project, 1939--1945, ISBN
0-520-21077-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--327
Erik Zevenhuizen Keeping and Scrapping: The Story of a
Mendelian Lecture Plate of Hugo de Vries 329--352
Helge Kragh The Chemistry of the Universe:
Historical Roots of Modern
Cosmochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--368
Hannah Gay Association and Practice: The City and
Guilds of London Institute for the
Advancement of Technical Education . . . 369--398
Gerard L'E. Turner The Government and the English Optical
Glass Industry, 1650--1850 . . . . . . . 399--414
Frank Horstmann Hobbes und das Sinusgesetz der
Refraktion. (German) [Hobbes and the
sine law of refraction] . . . . . . . . 415--440
Brian Vickers Essay Review: Looking for the Rhetoric
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--446
Sergio L. Sanabria Essay Review: Perils of Certitude in the
Structural Analysis of Historic Masonry
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--453
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--462
Danny J. Beckers Definitely Infinitesimal: Foundations of
the Calculus in The Netherlands,
1840--1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Christer Nordlund 'On Going Up in the World': Nation,
Region and the Land Elevation Debate in
Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--50
Peter J. Ramberg and
Geert J. Somsen The Young J. H. van 't Hoff: The
Background to the Publication of his
1874 Pamphlet on the Tetrahedral Carbon
Atom, Together with a New English
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--74
Stephen D. Snobelen Mathematicians, Historians and Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
Bruce Pourciau A New Translation of and Guide to
Newton's \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . 85--91
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
Pere Grapí The Marginalization of Berthollet's
Chemical Affinities in the French
Textbook Tradition at the Beginning of
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 111--135
Nadia Robotti and
Massimiliano Badino Max Planck and the 'Constants of Nature' 137--162
Frederick Kurzer Chemistry and Chemists at the London
Institution 1807--1912 . . . . . . . . . 163--201
Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
Steven Vanden Broecke Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument
Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc
by Gerard Mercator (1551) . . . . . . . 219--240
Didier Kahn Entre atomisme, alchimie et théologie: La
réception des th\`eses d'Antoine de
Villon et Étienne de Clave contre
Aristote, Paracelse et les cabalistes'
(24--25 août 1624). (French) [Between
atomism, alchemy, and theology. The
reception of the theses of Antoine de
Villon and Étienne de Clave against
Aristotle, Paracelsus, and the cabalists
(24--25 August 1624)] . . . . . . . . . 241--286
Sacha Tomic L'Analyse chimique des végétaux: Le cas du
quinquina. (French) [The chemical
analysis of vegetables: the case of
quinquina] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--309
E. P. Hamm Of 'histories written by the hand of
nature itself' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--317
Robert Fox Science at Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . 319--322
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--326
Marco Beretta Lavoisier and his Last Printed Work: The
\booktitleMémoires de physique et de
chimie (1805) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--356
Steven A. Walton Theophrastus on \em Lyngurium: Medieval
and Early Modern Lore from the Classical
Lapidary Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 357--379
Rolf Willach The Development of Telescope Optics in
the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 381--398
Hanna E. H. Martinsen Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century . . . . 399--402
Eric L. Mills Enlightened Natural History or the
Beginnings of Oceanic Science? . . . . . 403--408
Iwan Rhys Morus Henry's House: The Smithsonian
Institution and the Making of American
Public Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--416
Theodore M. Porter Modern Facts and Postmodern
Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--422
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--452
Robert H. Kargon and
Scott G. Knowles Knowledge for Use: Science, Higher
Learning, and America's New Industrial
Heartland, 1880--1915 . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Roger L. Emerson The Scientific Interests of Archibald
Campbell, 1st Earl of Ilay and 3rd Duke
of Argyll (1682--1761) . . . . . . . . . 21--56
Klaus Hentschel Spectroscopic Portraiture . . . . . . . 57--82
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Drake on Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88
I. Grattan-Guinness Truths and Contradictions about Karl
Popper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
Anonymous Annals of Science Prize . . . . . . . . 109--109
Matthew Cobb Malpighi, Swammerdam and the Colourful
Silkworm: Replication and Visual
Representation in Early Modern Science 111--147
David Philip Miller 'Distributing Discovery' between Watt
and Cavendish: a Reassessment of the
Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy' 149--178
Giovanni Ferraro Convergence and Formal Manipulation of
Series from the Origins of Calculus to
About 1730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--199
Sabetai Unguru \booktitleAmicus Plato sed\ldots:
Fowler's New Mathematical Reconstruction
of the Mathematics of Plato's Academy 201--210
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Robert L. Carneiro and
Robert G. Perrin Herbert Spencer's Principles of
Sociology: a Centennial Retrospective
and Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--261
Andrew J. Hull Food for Thought?: The Relations between
the Royal Society Food Committees and
Government, 1915--19 . . . . . . . . . . 263--298
Bruno Carazza and
Nadia Robotti Explaining Atomic Spectra within
Classical Physics: 1897--1913 . . . . . 299--320
Rose-Mary Sargent A New Way to Read Boyle's Works . . . . 321--326
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Roberto Moreno and
Koenraad Van Cleempoel and
David King A Recently Discovered Sixteenth-Century
Spanish Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . 331--362
Deborah Jean Warner Political Geodesy: The Army, the Air
Force, and the World Geodetic System of
1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--389
Richard J. Howarth Fitting Geomagnetic Fields before the
Invention of Least Squares: I. Henry
Bond's Predictions (1636, 1668) of the
Change in Magnetic Declination in London 391--408
Charles C. Gillispie Some Recent 'Big Pictures' in the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 409--412
M. T. Bravo The Geography of an Empire Licensed by
Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
Alexei Kojevnikov The Last Century of Physics . . . . . . 419--422
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--446
David Oldroyd and
Yang Jing-Yi Bailey Willis (1857--1949): Geological
Theorizing and Chinese Geology . . . . . 1--37
Phillip R. Sloan Whewell's Philosophy of Discovery and
the Archetype of the Vertebrate
Skeleton: The Role of German Philosophy
of Science in Richard Owen's Biology . . 39--61
Richard J. Howarth Fitting Geomagnetic Fields before the
Invention of Least Squares: II. William
Whiston's Isoclinic Maps of Southern
England (1719 and 1721) . . . . . . . . 63--84
Anonymous Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--106
Antoni Malet Kepler and the Telescope . . . . . . . . 107--136
Frederick Kurzer William Hasledine Pepys FRS: a Life in
Scientific Research, Learned Societies
and Technical Enterprise . . . . . . . . 137--183
Frederick G. Page Lime in the Early Bleaching Industry of
Britain 1633--1828: Its Prohibition and
Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--200
Giles Hudson Essay Review of \booktitleThe
Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the
World of the Renaissance by John North 201--205
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--218
Buhm Soon Park The `Hyperbola of Quantum Chemistry':
the Changing Practice and Identity of a
Scientific Discipline in the Early Years
of Electronic Digital Computers,
1945--65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--247
Gerard L'E. Turner The Italian-Hour Nocturnal . . . . . . . 249--268
Michael Hunter and
Lawrence M. Principe The Lost Papers of Robert Boyle . . . . 269--311
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Ptolemy's Guide to Drawing
a Map of the Earth. J. Lennart Berggren
and Alexander Jones, \booktitlePtolemy's
Geography, An Annotated Translation of
the Theoretical Chapters, ISBN
0-691-09259-1 (hbk), ISBN 0-691-01042-0
(pbk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
A. E. Slaton Essay Review: \booktitleTechnology and
the Dream: Reflections on the Black
Experience at MIT, 1941--1999 by C. G.
Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
M. F. Low Book Review: \booktitleCurrent
Perspectives in the History of Science
in East Asia, edited by Y. S. Kim and F.
Bray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Luciano Boschiero Natural Philosophical Contention Inside
the Accademia del Cimento: the
Properties and Effects of Heat and Cold 329--349
R. Richard Hamerla Edward Williams Morley and the Atomic
Weight of Oxygen: the Death of Prout's
Hypothesis Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
Allan A. Mills Early Voltaic Batteries: an Evaluation
in Modern Units and Application to the
Work of Davy and Faraday . . . . . . . . 373--398
Maurice Crosland Difficult Beginnings in Experimental
Science at Oxford: the Gothic Chemistry
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--421
Anonymous A Manichean View of the History of
Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--436
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--458
Anonymous The Annals of Science Prize . . . . . . 459--459
E. A. Fellmann Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Carsten Reinhardt Chemistry in a Physical Mode: Molecular
Spectroscopy and the Emergence of NMR 1--32
D. L. Simms Newton's Contribution to the Science of
Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--77
Martin Edwards Good, Bad or Offal? The Evaluation of
Raw Pancreas Therapy and the Rhetoric of
Control in the Therapeutic Trial, 1925 79--98
Christine Garwood Green Crusaders or Captives of Industry?
The British Alkali Inspectorate and the
Ethics of Environmental Decision Making,
1864--95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--117
Charles J. Mozzochi Essay Review: Quest and Conquest: Proof
of Fermat's Last Theorem . . . . . . . . 119--126
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
John C. Waller Becoming a Darwinian: the Micro-politics
of Sir Francis Galton's Scientific
Career 1859--65 . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Once Snell Breaks Down: From Geometrical
to Physical Optics in the Seventeenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--185
Jeremy Vetter Science along the Railroad: Expanding
Field Work in the US Central West . . . 187--211
Brian Vickers Essay Review: \booktitle`Neither Proper
nor Useful': Jesuit Orthodoxy and
Galilean Science, Mordechai Feingold,
editor, \booktitleThe New Science and
Jesuit Science: Seventeenth-Century
Perspectives Dordrecht, Boston, MA, and
London: Kluwer, 2003. ix + 270 pp.
EUR118, US\$113, \pounds 76. ISBN
1-4020-0848-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
Keith J. Laidler Essay Review: \booktitleFrom Classical
to Modern Chemistry: The Instrumental
Revolution, Edited by Peter J. T.
Morris, editor, Royal Society of
Chemistry in association with the
Science Museum. London: xvi + 347 pp.
ISBN 0-85404-479-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 219--225
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--269
Jeremy Vetter Science along the Railroad: Expanding
Field Work in the US Central West . . . 271--271
Allan A. Mills The Lodestone: History, Physics, and
Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--319
A. D. C. Simpson and
R. D. Connor The Mass of the English Troy Pound in
the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 321--349
Jean-François Auger Le régime de recherche utilitaire du
professeur-consultant au cours de la
Seconde Révolution industrielle. (French)
[The utilitarian research program of the
professor consultant in the Second
Industrial Revolution] . . . . . . . . . 351--374
David A. King Book Reviews: \booktitleTowards a
History from Antiquity to the
Renaissance of Sundials and Other
Instruments for Reckoning Time by the
Sun and Stars, by Hester Higton,
\booktitleSundials --- An Illustrated
History of Portable Dials, London:
Philip Wilson, 2001, with contributions
from Silke Ackermann, Richard Dunn,
Kiyoshi T. Akada and Anthony Turner,
\booktitleSundials at Greenwich --- A
Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary
Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich Oxford:
Oxford University Press, and Greenwich:
National Maritime Museum, 2002 . . . . . 375--388
Michael Ruse Book Reviews: \booktitleI May Be Old
Fashioned but\ldots, Evelyn Fox Keller,
\booktitleMaking Sense of Life:
Explaining Biological Development with
Models, Metaphors, and Machines
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
Huib J. Zuidervaart Reflecting `Popular Culture': The
Introduction, Diffusion, and
Construction of the Reflecting Telescope
in The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . 407--452
Allan A. Mills The Early History of Insulated Copper
Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--467
Clifford Cunningham Discovery of the Missing Correspondence
between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the
Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1802--5) . . . . . 469--481
Anonymous Essay Review: Romanticism and Science 483--487
Anonymous Essay Review: The Way of Galton in the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--493
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--520
Melvyn Usselman and
Alan Rocke and
Christina Reinhart and
Kelly Foulser Restaging Liebig: a Study in the
Replication of Experiments . . . . . . . 1--55
David Pantalony Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound:
Instruments, Theories, and the Debate
over Combination Tones . . . . . . . . . 57--82
Anita McConnell Origins of the marine barometer . . . . 83--101
Anonymous Essay Review: The Historicity of Sound
and Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Anonymous Essay Review: What Does Science Have to
Do with Music? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
Anonymous Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--139
Ana Carneiro Outside Government Science, `Not a
Single Tiny Bone to Cheer Us Up!' The
Geological Survey of Portugal
(1857--1908), The Involvement of Common
Men, and the Reaction of Civil Society
to Geological Research . . . . . . . . . 141--204
Sumiko Otsubo Between Two Worlds: Yamanouchi Shigeo
and Eugenics in Early Twentieth-Century
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--231
Maurice Crosland Early Laboratories c. 1600--c. 1800 and
the Location of Experimental Science . . 233--253
Anonymous Essay review: Janis Langins on the Corps
Royal du Génie Militaire . . . . . . . . 255--263
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279
Hasok Chang and
Sang Wook Yi The Absolute and Its Measurement:
William Thomson on Temperature . . . . . 281--308
Margarida Archinard Les Cadrans Solaires Analemmatiques.
(French) [The analemmatic sundials] . . 309--346
Jean Eisenstaedt \booktitleLight and Relativity, a
Previously Unknown Eighteenth-Century
Manuscript by Robert Blair (1748--1828) 347--376
Anonymous Romantic Life and Science . . . . . . . 377--385
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--415
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Daniela Monaldi Life of $ \mu $: The Observation of the
Spontaneous Decay of Mesotrons and its
Consequences, 1938--1947 . . . . . . . . 419--455
Raf De Bont Rome and Theistic Evolutionism: The
Hidden Strategies behind the `Dorlodot
Affair', 1920--1926 . . . . . . . . . . 457--478
Andreas-Holger Maehle The Quantification and Differentiation
of the Drug Receptor Theory, c.
1910--1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--500
Danielle Fauque Organisation des laboratoires de chimie
\`a Paris sous le minist\`ere Duruy
(1863--1869): Cas des laboratoires de
Fremy et de Wurtz. (French)
[Organization of the chemistry
laboratories in Paris under the Dury
ministry (1863--1869): case of the
laboratories of Fremy and Wurtz] . . . . 501--531
Anonymous To Have, to Hold, and to Share:
Compiling Scientific Knowledge in the
Information Age of Enlightenment . . . . 533--538
Anonymous Technology and Engineering . . . . . . . 539--554
Anonymous Seventy Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Kärin Nickelsen The Challenge of Colour:
Eighteenth-Century Botanists and the
Hand-Colouring of Illustrations . . . . 3--23
A. M. Lucas and
Sara Maroske and
Andrew Brown-May Bringing Science to the Public:
Ferdinand von Mueller and Botanical
Education in Victorian Victoria . . . . 25--57
Monica Ugaglia The Science of Magnetism Before Gilbert
Leonardo Garzoni's \booktitleTreatise on
the Loadstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--84
Isabel Amaral The Emergence of New Scientific
Disciplines in Portuguese Medicine:
Marck Athias's Histophysiology Research
School, Lisbon (1897--1946) . . . . . . 85--110
Anonymous New Trends in Newtonian Scholarship:
Benefits and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . 111--117
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137
James A. Marcum `Soup' vs. `Sparks': Alexander Forbes
and the Synaptic Transmission
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--156
Trienke M. van der Spek Selling a Theory: The Role of Molecular
Models in J. H. van 't Hoff's
Stereochemistry Theory . . . . . . . . . 157--177
Kristine C. Harper Meteorology's Struggle for Professional
Recognition in the USA (1900--1950) . . 179--199
B. D. Newbury and
M. R. Notis and
B. Stephenson and
G. S. Cargill III and
G. B. Stephenson The Astrolabe Craftsmen of Lahore and
Early Brass Metallurgy . . . . . . . . . 201--213
Gerard L'E. Turner A Novel Italian-Hour Nocturnal by
Michiel Coignet . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219
Anonymous The Remarkable Fecundity of Leibniz's
Work on Infinite Series . . . . . . . . 221--225
Anonymous `Models': Diverse but Limited . . . . . 227--234
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
Alexander Jones Ptolemy's Ancient Planetary Observations 255--290
Mi Gyung Kim `Public' Science: Hydrogen Balloons and
Lavoisier's Decomposition of Water . . . 291--318
Elizabeth Cavicchi Nineteenth-Century Developments in
Coiled Instruments and Experiences with
Electromagnetic Induction . . . . . . . 319--361
Anonymous Artful Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
Anonymous Gravitational Waves under the Microscope 371--375
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393
Ja Hyon Ku British Acoustics and its Transformation
from the 1860s to the 1910s . . . . . . 395--423
Sabine Rommevaux Un exemple de \booktitleQuestion
mathématique au Moyen Âge. (French) [An
example of mathematical
\booktitleQuestion of the Middle Ages] 425--445
Shaul Katzir Thermodynamic deduction versus quantum
revolution: The failure of Richardson's
theory of the photoelectric effect . . . 447--469
Thomas Lepeltier Edward Milne's influence on modern
cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--481
Anonymous Ex Oriente Lux Mundi . . . . . . . . . . 483--492
Anonymous `The Geohistorical Revolution': The
Emergence of Geology as an Historical
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--501
Anonymous Exploration, Ecology and Earth and Life
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
M. Eugene Rudd Chromatic aberration of eyepieces in
early telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Teresa Salomé Alves Da Mota A Mere Shadow of an Institution: the
Unhappy Story of the Portuguese
Geological Survey (PGS) in the Period
Between the Two World Wars . . . . . . . 19--40
Klaus Hentschel Gauss, Meyerstein and Hanoverian
Metrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--75
Gustav Holmberg Taming tempests through telegraphy and
media appearances: Science communication
and the construction of a Swedish
storm-warning system before the Great
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
Anonymous (Stop) Talking About Victorian Science 93--100
Anonymous State of the Medical Historical Art
Versus Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Anonymous Making the History of Science Matter in
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--146
Deborah Jean Warner How Sweet It Is: Sugar, Science, and the
State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--170
S. Müller-Wille and
V. Orel From Linnaean Species to Mendelian
Factors: Elements of Hybridism,
1751--1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--215
Hiro Hirai Interprétation chymique de la création et
origine corpusculaire de la vie chez
Athanasius Kircher. (French) [Chemical
interpretation of the corpuscular
creation and origin of life according to
Athanasius Kircher] . . . . . . . . . . 217--234
Stephen G. Alter The Advantages of Obscurity: Charles
Darwin's Negative Inference from the
Histories of Domestic Breeds . . . . . . 235--250
Anonymous A Lot About a Little Bit of England . . 251--279
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291
J. M. Steele Celestial Measurement in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--325
Benjamin Wardhaugh The Logarithmic Ear: Pietro Mengoli's
Mathematics of Music . . . . . . . . . . 327--348
Gillian Gass Spheres of Influence: Illustration,
Notation, and John Dalton's Conceptual
Toolbox, 1803--1835 . . . . . . . . . . 349--382
Ian Wills Instrumentalizing Failure: Edison's
Invention of the Carbon Microphone . . . 383--409
Anonymous Seeds Sprouting Everywhere . . . . . . . 411--420
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--442
Anonymous Essay Review: \booktitleA Lot About a
Little Bit of England . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Helge S. Kragh and
Dominique Lambert The Context of Discovery: Lema\^\itre
and the Origin of the Primeval-Atom
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--470
Margarida Archinard Une Classification des Cadrans Solaires 471--524
Nathan Sidoli What We Can Learn from a Diagram: The
Case of Aristarchus's \booktitleOn The
Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon 525--547
Giora Hon and
Yaakov Zik Geometry of Light and Shadow: Francesco
Maurolyco (1494--1575) and the Pinhole
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--578
Christophe Genin Le Dosage Spectrométrique du Mercure dans
l'Air vers 1930. (French) [The
spectrometric dosage of mercury in the
air around 1930] . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--593
Anonymous Priestley and Lavoisier . . . . . . . . 595--605
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--620
Jed Z. Buchwald Descartes's Experimental Journey Past
the Prism and Through the Invisible
World to the Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . 1--46
David Philip Miller Seeing the Chemical Steam through the
Historical Fog: Watt's Steam Engine as
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--72
Sloan Evans Despeaux Mathematics Sent Across the Channel and
the Atlantic: British Mathematical
Contributions to European and American
Scientific Journals, 1835--1900 . . . . 73--99
Galina Granek and
Giora Hon Searching for Asses, Finding a Kingdom:
The Story of the Invention of the
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) . . 101--125
Anonymous The `New Historiography' and the Limits
of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--156
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Jonathan Hird and
Jonathan Betts and
Derek Pratt The Diamond Pallets of John Harrison's
Fourth Longitude Timekeeper --- H4 . . . 171--200
Elly Dekker `With his sharp lok perseth the sonne':
a new quadrant from Canterbury . . . . . 201--220
Donald Cotter A disciplinary immigrant. Alexander
Smith at the University of Chicago,
1894--1911 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--256
Claudia Schweizer Stratigraphy in the early nineteenth
century: a transdisciplinary approach,
with special reference to Central Europe 257--274
Anonymous Voyaging in Strange Seas of Thought . . 275--279
Anonymous Texts, Illustrations and Artifacts:
Intertextuality in the Transmission of
Scientific Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--308
Victor Boantza The Phlogistic Role of Heat in the
Chemical Revolution and the Origins of
Kirwan's \booktitleIngenious
Modifications\ldots Into the Theory of
Phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--338
Dirk van Delft Zero-Point Energy: The Case of the
Leiden Low-Temperature Laboratory of
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes . . . . . . . . . 339--361
Abraham C. Flipse Against the Science--Religion Conflict:
the Genesis of a Calvinist Science
Faculty in The Netherlands in the Early
Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 363--391
Ileana Chinnici The `Societ\`a degli Spettroscopisti
Italiani': birth and evolution . . . . . 393--438
Anonymous Cultures of Dissection and Anatomies of
Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--444
Anonymous Blessed are the Cheesemakers . . . . . . 445--451
Anonymous Social Aspects of Science . . . . . . . 453--455
Anonymous Medicine and Health . . . . . . . . . . 455--457
Anonymous Physical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 458--460
Anonymous History of Chemistry and Alchemy . . . . 461--464
Georgette Taylor Marking out a disciplinary common
ground: The role of chemical pedagogy in
establishing the doctrine of affinity at
the heart of British chemistry . . . . . 465--486
Gordon S. Lawson Benjamin Moore, Science, and Medical
Planning in early Twentieth-Century
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--517
Pedro Ruiz-Castell Scientific Instruments for Education in
Early Twentieth-Century Spain . . . . . 519--527
Albert Presas i Puig On a Lecture Trip to Spain: the
Scientific Relations Between Germany and
Spain During the Entente Boycott
(1919--1926) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--546
Danny C. K. Leung Thomas Clifford Allbutt and Comparative
Pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--571
Anonymous On Sociological Biographies . . . . . . 573--578
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--597
T. H. Levere Journals under threat: a joint response
from history of science, technology and
medicine editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
N. M. Swerdlow The Lunar Theories of Tycho Brahe and
Christian Longomontanus in the
\booktitleProgymnasmata and
\booktitleAstronomia Danica . . . . . . 5--58
Palmira Fontes da Costa Secrecy, Ostentation, and the
Illustration of Exotic Animals in
Sixteenth-Century Portugal . . . . . . . 59--82
Brian Regal Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz,
Science, and Sasquatch . . . . . . . . . 83--102
Gerrylynn K. Roberts and
Anna E. Simmons British Chemists Abroad, 1887--1971: the
Dynamics of Chemists' Careers . . . . . 103--128
Anonymous A Time of Air and Place . . . . . . . . 129--134
Anonymous Theory and Action in the Works of
Andreas Libavius and Other Alchemists 135--139
Robert J. Deltete Mathematics and Logic . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Cay-Rüdiger Prüll Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Peter J. Bowler Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Ana Carden-Coyne Medicine and Health . . . . . . . . . . 147--150
Marco Beretta Technology and Engineering . . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Trevor Levere Editor's Introduction to the Cumulative
Index Volumes 44--64 . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Anonymous \booktitleAnnals of Science Cumulative
Index Volumes 44 to 64 (1987--2007) . . 3--4
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--77
Anonymous Reviewed Authors Index . . . . . . . . . 79--140
Anonymous Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--269
Helge Kragh The Solar Element: a Reconsideration of
Helium's Early History . . . . . . . . . 157--182
Matteo Valleriani The Transformation of Aristotle's
\booktitleMechanical Questions: a Bridge
Between the Italian Renaissance
Architects and Galileo's First New
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--208
Peter Broughton The Accuracy and Use of Sextants and
Watches in Rupert's Land in the 1790s 209--229
Harald Siebert Peirescs Nebel im Sternbild Orion ---
eine neue Textgrundlage für die
Geschichte von M42. (German) [Peiresc
nebula in the Constellation Orion --- a
new textual basis for the story of M42] 231--246
Maurice Crosland The French Academy of Sciences As a
Patron of the Medical Sciences in the
Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . 247--265
Anonymous A Tulip for a Cup of Tea? Commerce and
Nature in the Dutch Golden Age . . . . . 267--276
David Pantalony The Whipple Museum of the History of
Science: Instruments and
Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th
Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to
the University of Cambridge . . . . . . 277--279
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Corsi Salviati Thinking with Objects: The
Transformation of Mechanics in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 279--281
A. Goddu Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval
and Early Modern Period . . . . . . . . 281--284
L. Daston The Emergence of a Scientific Culture.
Science and the Shaping of Modernity
1210--1685 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
Akihito Suzuki Science and the Building of a New Japan 288--290
Hanna E. H. Martinsen Scientific Institutions and Practice in
France and Britain, c. 1700--c. 1870 . . 290--292
Anita Guerrini Sustainability or Collapse? An
Integrated History and Future of People
on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
Steffen Ducheyne The Secret History of Hermes:
Hermeticism from Ancient Times to Modern
Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Martin Edwards Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy . . . . 295--297
John M. Steele Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy
and Cosmology in the Carolingian
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299
M. Emrah Aktunç Book Review: Stephen H. Kellert, Helen
E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters,
editors, \booktitleScientific Pluralism.
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of
Science. Vol. XIX. ISBN 0-8166-4763-1 299--302
Tom Quick On the Nature of Limbs: a Discourse . . 302--304
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Antoni Malet José María Albareda (1902--1966) and the
formation of the Spanish Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 307--332
Aitor Anduaga Sydney Chapman on the Layering of the
Atmosphere: Conceptual Unity and the
Modelling of the Ionosphere . . . . . . 333--344
Faidra Papanelopoulou The International Association of
Refrigeration through the correspondence
of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and
Charles-Édouard Guillaume, 1908--1914 . . 345--370
Ja Hyon Ku Uses and Forms of Instruments: Resonator
and Tuning Fork in Rayleigh's Acoustical
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--395
Martina Becvárová How to Fix an Election Honestly! Ivan
Petrov Salabashev's Novel Voting
Procedure in Bulgaria, 1879--1880 . . . 397--406
Christopher Lawrence The Grand Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--417
Mark R. Finlay Fermentation: Vital or Chemical Process? 419--421
Maurice Crosland Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science.
A Historical Ontology . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Andrew Wear Modernizing Nature. Forestry and
Imperial Eco-Development 1800--1950 . . 423--424
L. Schiebinger The Correspondence of Dr. William
Hunter, 1740--1783 . . . . . . . . . . . 424--426
A. Cambrosio La fabrique d'une nouvelle science. La
biologie moléculaire \`a l'âge atomique
(1945--1964). (French) [The factory of a
new science. Molecular biology in the
atomic age] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--429
Raymond E. Fancher Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons:
Evolution and Christianity from Darwin
to Intelligent Design . . . . . . . . . 429--431
L. S. Jacyna Herbert Spencer and the Invention of
Modern Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433
Robert J. Deltete Book Review: \booktitleThe End of the
Certain World: The Life and Science of
Max Born, the Nobel Scientist who
Ignited the Quantum Revolution . . . . . 433--436
Elizabeth Edwards Nature Exposed: Photography as
Eyewitness in Victorian Science . . . . 436--439
William R. Shea The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and
the Scientific Revolution . . . . . . . 439--441
A. J. Meadows Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards,
and Delusions of Campus Capitalism . . . 441--444
John M. Steele Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian
Tradition of Scientific Philosophy . . . 444--445
J. Caramalho Domingues Book Review: Mathematics and Logic.
Robert E. Bradley and C. Edward
Sandifer, editors, \booktitleLeonhard
Euler: Life, Work and Legacy. Studies in
the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics, 5. ISBN-13
978-0-444-52728-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 446--448
David Arnold Indian Ink: Script and Print in the
Making of the English East India Company 448--451
Ivano Dal Prete and
Dario Generali On the inventory of Antonio Vallisneri's
correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Christopher Lawrence Degeneration under the Microscope at the
fin de si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--471
Leslie Tomory The Origins of Gaslight Technology in
Eighteenth-Century Pneumatic Chemistry 473--496
Agustí Nieto-Galan `\ldots not fundamental in a state of
full civilization': The Sociedad
Astronómica de Barcelona (1910--1921) and
its Popularization Programme . . . . . . 497--528
Helge Kragh Contemporary History of Cosmology and
the Controversy over the Multiverse . . 529--551
David Oldroyd A Skeleton's `Biography' . . . . . . . . 553--558
Guy Attewell Medieval Islamic Medicine . . . . . . . 559--561
Richard Barnett From Witchcraft to Wisdom: a History of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the
British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563
Alice N. Walters Making Scientific Instruments in the
Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . 563--565
Jim Bennett Apr\`es Gassendi: son influence et sa
réputation, essai, avec l'histoire des
collections scientifiques et un
catalogue des instruments et appareils
concernant les sciences exactes
appartenant au Musée Gassandi \`a
Digne-les-Bains. (French) [After
Gassendi: his influence and reputation,
with the history of the scientific
collections and an catalog of
instruments and tools on the exact
sciences belonging to the Gassandi
Museum in Digne-les-Bains] . . . . . . . 565--566
Carla Nappi Inventing the Indigenous: Local
Knowledge and Natural History in Early
Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--568
Iwan Rhys Morus The Papers of Joseph Henry . . . . . . . 568--570
Victor D. Boantza The Boyle Papers: Understanding the
Manuscripts of Robert Boyle . . . . . . 570--572
David Branagan Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The
Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle,
Sledge and Camel . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--575
Steve Sturdy Suffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners'
Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends: The
Extreme Life of Dr. J. S. Haldane . . . 575--578
Klaus Hentschel Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit. Der Physiker
James Franck 1882--1964. (German)
[Upright in stormy times. The physicist
James Franck 1882--1964] . . . . . . . . 578--580
Roger Cooter Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and
Visual Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--582
Donald R. Franceschetti The Artificial and the Natural: An
Evolving Polarity . . . . . . . . . . . 582--584
Charles Burnett Volkstümliche Astronomie im islamischen
Mittelalter Zur Bestimmung der
Gebetszeiten und der Qibla bei, Ibn und
al-Farisi. (German) [Popular Astronomy
in the Islamic Middle Ages to determine
the prayer times and the Qibla bei, Ibn,
and al-Farisi] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--585
Olivia Harvey Culturing Life: How Cells Became
Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--588
David Cahan Helmholtz in Gilded-Age America: The
International Electrical Congress of
1893 and the Relations of Science and
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
Edward Jurkowitz Helmholtz's early empiricism and the
\booktitleErhaltung der Kraft
[Conservation of Energy] . . . . . . . . 39--78
Hannah Gay Chemist, entomologist, Darwinian, and
man of affairs: Raphael Meldola and the
making of a scientific career . . . . . 79--119
Jason M. Rampelt Religion as a Cause in Scientific
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
Charles Burnett Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics 131--132
Charles Burnett Expounding the Mathematical Seed: a
Translation of Bhaskara I on the
Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya 132--134
David Kaiser Disrupting Science: Social Movements,
American Scientists, and the Politics of
the Military, 1945--1975 . . . . . . . . 135--137
Richard H. Beyler William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and
Son: The Most Extraordinary
Collaboration in Science . . . . . . . . 137--139
Ryan Johnson The Making of a Tropical Disease: a
Short History of Malaria . . . . . . . . 139--142
Sally Frampton The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy:
Bodies, Books, Fortune and Fame . . . . 142--144
Robyn Braun Truth Machine: The Contentious History
of DNA Fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Anonymous Cover Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Duane H. Jaecks An investigation of the
eighteenth-century achromatic telescope 149--186
Andreas Blank Material souls and imagination in Late
Aristotelian embryology . . . . . . . . 187--204
François Wesemael `Unaffected by Fortune, Good or Bad':
Context and Reception of Chandrasekhar's
Mass--Radius Relationship for White
Dwarfs, 1935--1965 . . . . . . . . . . . 205--237
I. Grattan-Guinness How to take over a journal without
trying: \booktitleAnnals of Science 1974 239--242
Peter E. Pormann Arabic Astronomy and the Copernican
`Revolution' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
David Oldroyd Geohistory Revisited and Expanded . . . 249--259
Elizabeth Garber The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity: a
Study in Mundane Physics . . . . . . . . 261--265
Angela N. H. Creager Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of
Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA 265--268
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Earth Sciences. Donata
Brianta, \booktitleEuropa mineraria.
Circolazione delle élites e trasferimento
tecnologico (secoli XVIII--XIX), ISBN-13
978-88-464-8818-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Dennis Danielson Science, Literature and Rhetoric in
Early Modern England . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Claudia Stein Murder after Death: Literature and
Anatomy in Early Modern England . . . . 273--274
Alfred I. Tauber Crafting Immunity. Working Histories of
Clinical Immunology . . . . . . . . . . 274--277
Ian Burney Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady 277--281
Maria Rosa Antognazza Protogaea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
Geoffrey Cantor Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An
Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London 284--285
Katherine Arens Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty:
Science, Liberalism, and Private Life 285--288
Eleanor Robson Book Review: Mathematics and Logic.
Christine Proust, \booktitleTablettes
mathématiques de Nippur Varia Anatolica,
XVIII, ISBN-13 978-2-906-05392-9 . . . . 288--290
Oliver Kahl Ibn Baklarish's \booktitleBook of
Simples: Medical Remedies between Three
Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain . . . . 291--294
Juliana Adelman It's Part of What We Are: Some Irish
Contributors to the Development of the
Chemical and Physical Sciences . . . . . 294--295
Matthew R. Goodrum Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and
the Politics of Human Origins . . . . . 296--298
Anonymous Front Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Domenico Bertoloni Meli and
Anita Guerrini The representation of animals in the
early modern period . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
S. Kusukawa The sources of Gessner's pictures for
the \booktitleHistoria animalium . . . . 303--328
Karin J. Ekholm Fabricius's and Harvey's representations
of animal generation . . . . . . . . . . 329--352
Sarah R. Cohen Searching the animal psyche with Charles
Le Brun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--382
Anita Guerrini The king's animals and the king's books:
the illustrations for the Paris
Academy's \booktitleHistoire des animaux 383--404
Domenico Bertoloni Meli The representation of insects in the
seventeenth century: a comparative
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--429
Anonymous Cover page pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
P. Duris L'introuvable révolution scientifique.
Francesco Redi et la génération spontanée.
(French) [The unreachable scientific
revolution. Francesco Redi and
spontaneous generation] . . . . . . . . 431--455
Gérald Péoux Atmospheric Refraction and the Ramus
Circle: Aspects of a Late
Sixteenth-Century Dispute . . . . . . . 457--484
Hans Henrik Hjermitslev Danes commemorating Darwin: apes and
evolution at the 1909 anniversary . . . 485--525
Maurice Crosland Pensions for `Cultivators of Science' 527--559
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen We Have Never Been Scientists . . . . . 561--567
Keynyn Brysse Cryptozoology, Archaeology and
Palaeontology: Histories Near the High
Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--575
Amit Prasad Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of
Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--578
Johan Alfredo Linthorst Chemistry: The Impure Science . . . . . 579--581
John G. McEvoy Chemist: Understanding the Origins of
the Steam Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--583
Katy Price Pythagoras' Revenge: a Mathematical
Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--585
Anonymous Front Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Gianna Pomata A Word of the Empirics: The Ancient
Concept of Observation and its Recovery
in Early Modern Medicine . . . . . . . . 1--25
David Philip Miller The Political Economy of Discovery
Stories: The Case of Dr Irving Langmuir
and General Electric . . . . . . . . . . 27--60
Nikolai Krementsov From `Beastly Philosophy' to Medical
Genetics: Eugenics in Russia and the
Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--92
Terje Brundtland After Boyle and the Leviathan: the
Second Generation of British Air Pumps 93--124
Deanne Dunbar and
Howard I. Kushner Universalism in Context . . . . . . . . 125--132
I. Grattan Guinness Mathematics Emerging. A Sourcebook
1540--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
W. H. Schmidt Von der Bernoullischen Brachistochrone
zum Kalibrator-Konzept. (German) [On the
Bernoulli brachistochrone for calibrator
concepts] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Daniel J. Nicholson Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and
Philosophy of Artificial Life . . . . . 136--139
Ann F. La Berge The Microscope and the Eye: a History of
Reflections, 1740--1870. . . . . . . . . 139--141
Edward S. Slowik Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein . . 142--144
Katrina Gatley Cancer in the Twentieth Century. . . . . 144--146
Nick Wilding Book Review: Instruments and
Measurements: Eileen Reeves,
\booktitleGalileo's Glassworks. The
Telescope and the Mirror, ISBN-13
978-0-674-02667-4; ISBN-10 0-674-02667-5 146--148
Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
A. E. Hui Instruments of Music, Instruments of
Science: Hermann von Helmholtz's Musical
Practices, his Classicism, and his
Beethoven Sonata . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--177
Kleber Cecon Chemical Translation: The Case of Robert
Boyle's Experiments on Sensible
Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--198
Algimantas Grigelis and
Zbigniew Wójcik and
Wojciech Narebski and
Leonora Zivile Gelumbauskaite and
Jan Kozák Stanis\law Staszic: An Early Surveyor of
the Geology of Central and Eastern
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--228
Mark Solovey and
Jefferson D. Pooley The Price of Success: Sociologist Harry
Alpert, the NSF's First Social Science
Policy Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--260
Robert Deltete Essay Review: How Relativity Got
Accepted and How Einstein Came to be
Regarded as its Author. Richard Stayley,
\booktitleEinstein's Generation: The
Origins of the Relativity Revolution,
ISBN-13 978-0-226-77057-5 . . . . . . . 261--265
Alberto A. Martínez Essay Review: The Myriad Pieces of
Einstein's Remains: John Stachel, Robert
Schulmann, Diana Kormos Buchwald, et al,
editors, \booktitleThe Collected Papers
of Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . 267--280
I. Grattan-Guinness 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Eine
kulturgeschichtliche Zeitreise. (German)
[6000 years of mathematics. A cultural
and historical journey through time] . . 281--282
Menso Folkerts Jacopo da Firenze's \booktitleTractatus
Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus
Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
Richard H. Beyler William Crookes (1832--1919) and the
Commercialization of Science . . . . . . 284--286
Harriet Ritvo Picturing Animals in Britain 1750--1850 286--288
Richard Barnett Book Review: John S. Partington, editor,
\booktitleH. G. Wells in
\booktitleNature. A Reception Reader.
ISBN-13 978-3-631-57110-1 . . . . . . . 288--290
Barry Milligan The Poet as Botanist . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Sven Dupré The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention
from the Late Renaissance to Early
Industrialization . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Warren Alexander Dym Freiberg and the Frontier: Louis Janin,
German Engineering, and `Civilisation'
in the American West . . . . . . . . . . 295--323
Chen-Pang Yeang Engineering Entanglement,
Conceptualizing Quantum Information . . 325--350
Christopher M. Graney and
Timothy P. Grayson On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: a
Review and Analysis of Stellar
Observations from the Early Seventeenth
through the Middle Nineteenth Centuries 351--373
Maria Rentetzi Packaging Radium, Selling Science:
Boxes, Bottles and Other Mundane Things
in the World of Science . . . . . . . . 375--399
Ximo Guillem-Llobat The sugar industry, political
authorities, and scientific institutions
in the regulation of saccharin: Valencia
(1888--1939) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--424
Anonymous Navigating the History of Mathematics 425--433
J.-F. Auger The Rise and Decline of Colloid Science
in North America, 1900--1935: The
Neglected Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 435--437
Helge Kragh Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier &
Megascience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
Malcolm Nicolson Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical
Exploration of the Americas . . . . . . 440--441
J. H. Tannenbaum Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: a Short
History of Failing Kidneys . . . . . . . 441--443
Anonymous Front Cover page . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Benno van Dalen Between Orient and Occident:
Transformation of Knowledge . . . . . . 445--451
J. M. Steele Visual Aspects of the Transmission of
Babylonian Astronomy and its Reception
into Greek Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 453--465
Kim Plofker `Yavana' and `Indian': Transmission and
Foreign Identity in the Exact Sciences 467--476
Hidemi Takahashi The Mathematical Sciences in Syriac:
From Sergius of Resh-`Aina and Severus
Sebokht to Barhebraeus and Patriarch
Ni`matallah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--491
Peter E. Pormann The Formation of the Arabic Pharmacology
Between Tradition and Innovation . . . . 493--515
D. Juste Non-transferable Knowledge: Arabic and
Hebrew Onomancy into Latin . . . . . . . 517--529
Martin Gansten and
Ola Wikander Sahl and the Tajika Yogas: Indian
transformations of Arabic astrology . . 531--546
Jennifer C. Sarrett and
Howard I. Kushner A Case for Preserving the Diversity of
Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--554
Jeff Loveland Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of
Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--558
Charles Thorpe Book Review: Silvan S. Schweber,
\booktitleEinstein and Oppenheimer,
ISBN-13 978-0-674-02828-9 . . . . . . . 558--561
Niccol\`o Guicciardini John Wallis. Una vita per un progetto.
(Italian) [John Wallis. A life for a
project] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563
David Philip Miller The Singular and the Making of Knowledge
at the Royal Society of London in the
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 563--565
Roger Cooter Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and
the Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--567
Christina Matta H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the
Origins of German Darwinism . . . . . . 568--570
Lawrence Badash Trafficking Materials and Gendered
Experimental Practices: Radium Research
in Early 20th Century Vienna . . . . . . 571--573
William R. Shea The Accademia del Cimento and its
European Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--575
Matthew R. Goodrum God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in
the Jazz Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--577
Charles Burnett Book Review: Medieval Science. Avicenna
Latinus, \booktitleLiber primus
naturalium. Tractatus secundus de motu
et de consimilibus, ISBN 2-8031-0231-5 577--578
Charles Burnett Book Review: Aristoteles Latinus, X 2.1.
\booktitleMeteorologica. Translatio
Guillelmi de Morbeka, ISBN-13
978-2-503-53078-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 579--580
Robert J. Deltete Book Review: Fulvio Melia,
\booktitleCracking the Einstein Code:
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole
Physics, ISBN-13 978-0-226-51951-7 . . . 581--583
Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Animal Experiments, Vital Forces and
Courtrooms: Mateu Orfila, François
Magendie and the Study of Poisons in
Nineteenth-Century France . . . . . . . 1--26
Ursula Klein The Prussian Mining Official Alexander
von Humboldt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--68
Julia R. Bursten Pauling's Defence of Bent-Equivalent
Bonds: a View of Evolving Explanatory
Demands in Modern Chemistry . . . . . . 69--90
Sebastian Whitestone Christian Huygens' Lost and Forgotten
Pamphlet of his Pendulum Invention . . . 91--104
Gabriel Thirion L'\booktitleEnsei kansho zusetsu (1823)
de Yoshio Nanko: une fenêtre sur la
science classique. (French) [The
\booktitleEnsei kansho zusetsu (1823) of
Yoshio Nanko: a window into classical
science] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126
William Kimler Case Studies, Controversy and the
`Fieldworker's Regress' . . . . . . . . 127--132
Charles Burnett The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmid . . . 133--135
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of
Biology, Politics and Culture 1500--1870 136--137
Stephen Jacyna Marking the Mind: a History of Memory 138--139
Charles Burnett Les Alchandreana Primitifs: Études sur
les plus anciens traités astrologiques
latins d'origine arabe (Xe si\`ecle).
(French) [The primitive Alchandreana:
Studies on the oldest Roman astrological
treatises of Arab origin (tenth
century)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Of the Human Heart. A Biography of
Benjamin Peirce . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Victor D. Boantza Alchimie et paracelsisme en France \`a
la fin de la Renaissance (1567--1625).
(French) [Alchemy and Paracelsism in
France at the end of the Renaissance
(1567--1625)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
Jeff Loveland Oeuvres compl\`etes . . . . . . . . . . 145--149
Mark Finlay Power Struggles: Scientific Authority
and the Creation of Practical
Electricity before Edison . . . . . . . 149--152
Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Roberto Lalli The Reception of Miller's Ether-Drift
Experiments in the USA: The History of a
Controversy in Relativity Revolution . . 153--214
Luís Miguel Carolino and
Ana Simões The Eclipse, the Astronomer and his
Audience: Frederico Oom and the Total
Solar Eclipse of 28 May 1900 in Portugal 215--238
Stephen T. Swinfin Chemists Employed in the Manchester
Area, 1902--1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
Elena Serrano The \booktitleSpectacle de la Nature in
Eighteenth-Century Spain: From French
Households to Spanish Workshops . . . . 257--282
Robert Deltete Essay Review: Einstein's Quest for
Unity: Jeroen van Dongen,
\booktitleEinstein's Unification, ISBN
978-0-521-88346-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
Lawrence Dritsas Geography and Revolution . . . . . . . . 289--291
Christa Binder Book Review: Mathematics and Logic.
Kirsti Andersen, \booktitleThe Geometry
of an Art, The History of the
Mathematical Theory of Perspective from
Alberti to Monge. Sources and Studies in
the History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences, ISBN-10 0-387-25961-9 . . . . 291--294
S. A. Walton Technology and Culture in Greek and
Roman Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Anonymous Winner of the \em Annals of Science
Prize for 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
D. Juste Non-transferable Knowledge: Arabic and
Hebrew Onomancy into Latin . . . . . . . 301--301
Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ursula Klein Artisanal-scientific Experts in
Eighteenth-century France and Germany 303--306
Christine Lehman Pierre-Joseph Macquer: an
Eighteenth-Century Artisanal-Scientific
Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--333
Peter Konecný The Hybrid Expert in the `Bergstaat':
Anton von Ruprecht as a Professor of
Chemistry and Mining and as a Mining
Official, 1779--1814 . . . . . . . . . . 335--347
Ursula Klein Savant Officials in the Prussian Mining
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--374
Marco Beretta The Rise and Fall of the Glassmaker Paul
Bosc d'Antic (1753--1784) . . . . . . . 375--393
Bruno Belhoste A Parisian Craftsman Among the Savants:
The Joiner André-Jacob Roubo (1739--1791)
and his Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--411
Marcus Popplow Knowledge Management to Exploit Agrarian
Resources as Part of
Late-eighteenth-century Cultures of
Innovation: Friedrich Casimir Medicus
and Franz von Paula Schrank . . . . . . 413--433
Jean-François Gauvin Toward a Theory of Practice (but not yet
there) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--440
Matthew James Crawford Measuring the New World: Enlightenment
Science and South America . . . . . . . 441--443
Shang-Jen Li People's Peking Man: Popular Science and
Human Identity in Twentieth-Century
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446
Charles Burnett Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific
Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and
Astronomy Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
Joel Chandelier Book Review: Renaissance and
Reformation. Hiro Hirai, editor.
\booktitleCornelius Gemma. Cosmology,
Medicine and Natural Philosophy in
Renaissance Louvain. ISBN-13
978-88-6227-118-9; ISSN 1127-6045 . . . 447--449
Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Rob Iliffe and
Trevor Levere Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Daniel Jon Mitchell Measurement in French Experimental
Physics from Regnault to Lippmann.
Rhetoric and Theoretical Practice . . . 453--482
Renée J. Raphael Printing Galileo's \booktitleDiscorsi: a
Collaborative Affair . . . . . . . . . . 483--513
Jean-François Gauvin The Instrument That Never Was:
Inventing, Manufacturing, and Branding
Réaumur's Thermometer During the
Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--549
Bettina Dietz Contribution and Co-production: The
Collaborative Culture of Linnaean Botany 551--569
Brian Vickers Essay Review: Library of a Polymath: Urs
B. Leu, Raffael Keller, and Sandra
Weimann, \booktitleConrad Gessner's
Private Library, ISBN-13
978-90-04-16723-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 571--574
Karim Bschir Book Review: Philosophical Aspects of
Science: Alan Chalmers, \booktitleThe
Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's
Stone: How Science Succeeded and
Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of
Atoms, ISBN-13 978-90-481-2361-2 . . . . 575--577
Ayako Sakuri Book Review: Life Sciences: Lynn K.
Nyhart, \booktitleModern Nature. The
Rise of the Biological Perspective in
Germany, ISBN-13 978-0-226-61089-4 . . . 577--579
Victor D. Boantza Book Review: History of Chemistry and
Alchemy: Mathew D. Eddy, \booktitleThe
Language of Mineralogy: John Walker,
Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical
School, 1750--1800, ISBN-13
978-0-7546-6332-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581
David Philip Miller Book Review: John G. McEvoy,
\booktitleThe Historiography of the
Chemical Revolution: Patterns of
Interpretation in the History of
Science, ISBN-13 978-1-84893-030-8 . . . 581--584
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: The Nineteenth Century:
Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman,
editors, \booktitleScience in the
Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites
and Experiences/Victorian Popularizers
of Science: Designing Nature for New
Audiences, ISBN-13 978-0-226-27650-2 and
Bernard Lightman, \booktitleVictorian
Popularizers of Science: Designing
Nature for New Audiences, ISBN-13
978-0-226-48119-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 584--586
Paolo Palmieri Book Review: Editions and Selections:
William R. Shea and Tiziana Bascelli,
editors, \booktitleGalileo's Sidereus
Nuncius or Sidereal Message, ISBN-13
978-0-88135-375-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 586--587
Tom Quick Book Review: Biographies: Nicolaas A.
Rupke, \booktitleRichard Owen: Biology
without Darwin, ISBN-13
978-0-226-73177-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 587--588
Christer Nordlund Book Review: Institutions: Education,
Libraries, Museums: Håkon With Andersen,
Britta Brenna, Magne Njåstad, and Astrid
Wale, \booktitleÆemula lauri: The Royal
Norwegian Society of Sciences and
Letters, 1760--2010, ISBN-13
978-0-88135-383-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 589--590
David F. Channell Book Review: Technology and Engineering:
Aitor Anduaga [Egaña], \booktitleWireless
and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry
and Ionosphere in the British Empire,
1918--1939, ISBN-13 978-0-19-956272-5 591--592
Anonymous Corrigendum: Essay Review: Einstein's
Quest for Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--593
Anonymous Online Cover Figure . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
John A. Schuster and
Judit Brody Descartes and Sunspots: Matters of Fact
and Systematizing Strategies in the \em
Principia Philosophiae . . . . . . . . . 1--45
Janet Martin-Nielsen `The Deepest and Most Rewarding Hole
Ever Drilled': Ice Cores and the Cold
War in Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70
Natalie Pigeard Micault The Curie's Lab and its Women
(1906--1934). Le laboratoire Curie et
ses Femmes (1906--1934) . . . . . . . . 71--100
Ian James Kidd Essay Review: Science and the Making of
Modernity. D. M. Knight, \booktitleThe
Making of Modern Science: Science,
Technology, Medicine and Modernity:
1789--1914. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. xii
+ 370 pp. 30 plts. \$25.75 / \pounds
24.99. ISBN-13 978-0-7456-3676-4. S. F.
Johnson, \booktitle{History of Science:
A Beginner's Guide}: Oxford: Oneworld,
2009. viii + 218 pp. \$14.95 / \pounds
9.99. ISBN-13 978-1-85168-681-0 . . . . 101--104
Tom Quick Book Review: Christopher E. Cosans,
\booktitleOwen's Ape and Darwin's
Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and
Creationism. Bloomington, Indiana
University Press, 2009. xxi + 162 pp. 29
plts. \$21.95. ISBN-13
978-0-253-22051-6} . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
John H. Eddy Book Review: Marc J. Ratcliff,
\booktitleThe Quest for the Invisible:
Microscopy in the Enlightenment.
Farnham, England and Burlington,
Vermont: Ashgate Pub. Limited, 2009. xii
+ 315 pp. 6 charts. 14 tables. 34
reprints. \$124.95. ISBN-13
978-0-7546-6150-4} . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
Doogab Yi Book Review: Robert H. Carlson,
\booktitleBiology is Technology: The
Promise, Peril, and New Business of
Engineering Life. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press, 2010.
vii + 279 pp. \$39.95. ISBN-13
978-0-674-03544-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Thad Parsons Book Review: Sam Alberti,
\booktitleNature and Culture: Objects,
Disciplines and the Manchester Museum.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 2009. xiii + 239 pp.
28 figures. \$89.95 / \pounds 60.00.
ISBN-13 978-0-7190-8114-9} . . . . . . . 111--114
Paul D. Brinkman Book Review: John M. MacKenzie,
\booktitleMuseums and Empire: Natural
History, Human Cultures and Colonial
Identities. Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press, 2009. xv +
286 pp. 15 figs. \$89.95. ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8022-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Rienk Vermij Book Review: \booktitleThe Disordered
Police State. German Cameralism as
Science and Practice, Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
2009. 226 pp. illus. \$45.00. ISBN-13
978-0-226-87020-5}} . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Jeff Wolf Book Review: David B. Wilson,
\booktitleSeeking Nature's Logic:
Natural Philosophy in the Scottish
Enlightenment. University Park, PA: Penn
State University Press, 2009. xvi + 344
pp. \$55.00. ISBN-13 978-0-271-03525-3} 117--119
Paul R. Jones Book Review: \booktitleThe Early
Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding
Encyclopedia, Voltaire Foundation,
University of Oxford, 2009. xiii + 307
pp., \pounds 65.00 / EUR 76 / \$104.
ISBN-13 978-0-7294-0981-0}} . . . . . . 119--122
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Jimena Canales, \booktitleA
Tenth of a Second. A History. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
288 pp. Illus. \$35.00. ISBN-13
978-0-226-09318-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Robert W. Seidel Book Review: Lawrence Badash,
\booktitleA Nuclear Winter's Tale.
Science and Politics in the 1980s.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,
2009. 424 pp. \$40.00 / \pounds 29.95.
ISBN-13 978-0-262-01272-0} . . . . . . . 124--126
Bernard Langer Book Review: Simon Werrett,
\booktitleFireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts
and Sciences in European History.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2010. Maps / viii + 359
pp. \$45.00 (cloth), ISBN-13
978-0-226-89377-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: P. M. Harman, \booktitleThe
Culture of Nature in Britain,
1680--1890. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2009. xi + 392 pp. 17 plts.
\pounds 45.00. ISBN-13 978-0-300-15197-8 129--131
Roland Wittje Book Review: David Pantalony,
\booktitleAltered Sensations: Rudolph
Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in
Nineteenth Century Paris. Archimedes ---
New Studies in the History of Science
and Technology, Volume 24. Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer,
2009. xxxvi + 372 pp. EUR 149.75 /
\$189.00 / \pounds 126.00. ISBN-13
978-90-481-2815-0; e-ISBN-13
978-90-481-2816-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Sally Frampton Book Review: Christoph Gradmann,
\booktitleLaboratory Disease: Robert
Koch's Medical Bacteriology. Translated
from the German by Elborg Forster.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2009. 318 pp. \$35.00 / \pounds
18.00. ISBN-13 978-0-801-89313-1} . . . 133--136
Roger Cooke Book Review: Amir Alexander,
\booktitleDuel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs,
and the Rise of Modern Mathematics.
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2010. 307 pp. \$28.95.
ISBN-13 978-0-674-04661-0} . . . . . . . 136--138
Eric Mills Book Reviews: Bernard Finn and Daqing
Yang, editors, \booktitleCommunications
under the Seas: The Evolving Cable
Network and its Implications. Dibner
Institute Studies in the History of
Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA
and London: MIT Press, 2009. vii + 303
pp. \$40.00. ISBN-13 978-0-262-01286-7.
Ted Rowe, \booktitle{Connecting the
Continents: Heart's Content and the
Atlantic Cable}. St. John's, NL:
Creative Publishers, 2009. vii + 158 pp.
\$19.95 (Canadian) pbk. ISBN-13
978-1-897174-42-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141
Helge Kragh Book Review: Michael Eckert,
\booktitleHeinrich Hertz. Hamburg:
Ellert & Richter Verlag, 2010. 168 pp. 45
figures. EUR 14.00. ISBN-13
978-3-8319-0371-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Jeff Loveland Book Review: Aude Doody,
\booktitlePliny's Encyclopedia: The
Reception of the Natural History.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010. viii + 194 pp. \$95.00 / \pounds
55.00. ISBN-13 978-0-521-49103-7} . . . 143--146
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Hannah Gay A Questionable Project: Herbert McLeod
and the Making of the Fourth series of
the \em Royal Society Catalogue of
Scientific Papers, 1901--25 . . . . . . 149--174
Michael Elazar A Dispute Over Superposition: John
Wallis, Honoré Fabri, and Giovanni
Alfonso Borelli . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--195
Cesare S. Maffioli A Fruitful Exchange/Conflict: Engineers
and Mathematicians in Early Modern Italy 197--228
Ja Hyon Ku Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in
Nineteenth-Century America . . . . . . . 229--256
Helge Kragh and
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen Spreading the Gospel: a Popular Book on
the Bohr Atom in its Historical Context 257--283
Lis Brack-Bernsen What and How Can We Learn from the
Babylonian Astronomical Compendium
MUL.APIN? [Book Review:
\booktitleWriting science before the
Greeks: a naturalistic analysis of the
Babylonian astronomical treatise
MUL.APIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--289
Sarah Chaney Book Review: \booktitleThe Woman Who
Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and
the Making of a Genetic Disease . . . . 291--293
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleThe Development
of Modern Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleNumerical
Notation: a Comparative History . . . . 294--295
Richard Staley Book Review: \booktitleDomesticating
Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and
Gender, 1880--1914 . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Anonymous Online Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Justin E. H. Smith and
James Delbourgo In Kind: Species of Exchange in Early
Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
S. Müller-Wille Systems and How Linnaeus Looked at Them
in Retrospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317
Justin E. H. Smith `A Series of Generations': Leibniz on
Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--335
Kelly Joan Whitmer What's in a Name? Place, Peoples and
Plants in the Danish--Halle Mission, c.
1710--1740 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--356
Daniel Carey Locke's Species: Money and Philosophy in
the 1690s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--380
Dániel Margócsy The Fuzzy Metrics of Money: The Finances
of Travel and the Reception of
Curiosities in Early Modern Europe . . . 381--404
Paolo Palladino Biopolitics Between History and
Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
Lindley Darden The \booktitleAnnotated Origin: A
Facsimile of the First Edition of
\booktitleOn the Origin of Species, by
James T. Costa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--419
Robert J. Deltete Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science
and the Public Sphere . . . . . . . . . 419--422
Richard L. Kremer European Collections of Scientific
Instruments, 1550--1750 . . . . . . . . 423--425
Lesley A. Hall Reconstructing the Body: Classicism,
Modernism, and the First World War . . . 425--428
Andreas W. Daum Ein `Diplomat aus den Wäldern des
Orinoko': Alexander von Humboldt als
Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich.
(German) [A `diplomat from the forests
of the Orinoco': Alexander von Humboldt
as a mediator between Prussia and
France] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--431
Peter K. Benbow Naming Infinity: A True Story of
Religious Mysticism and Mathematical
Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
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Etienne Stockland `La Guerre aux Insectes': Pest Control
and Agricultural Reform in the French
Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--460
Efram Sera-Shriar Observing Human Difference: James Hunt,
Thomas Huxley and Competing Disciplinary
Strategies in the 1860s . . . . . . . . 461--491
Christophe Schmit Sur l'origine du `Principe Général' de
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert . . . . . . . . 493--530
Phil Senter and
LaRhonda C. Hill and
Brandon J. Moton Solution to a 440-year-old Zoological
Mystery: The Case of Aldrovandi's Dragon 531--537
Paul Richard Blum Essay Review: Theories of Life in the
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--543
Philip K. Wilson Book Review: \booktitleScientists and
Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in
America, 1820--1890, by Paul Lucier . . 545--547
David M. Knight Book Review: \booktitleGeography and
Science in Britain, 1831--1939: A Study
of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, by Charles W.
Withers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--550
Anita Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleKnowing Global
Environments. New Historical
Perspectives on the Field Sciences,
edited by Jeremy Vetter . . . . . . . . 550--551
Keynyn Brysse Book Review: \booktitleThe Second
Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and
Paleontology in America at the Turn of
the Twentieth Century, by Paul D.
Brinkman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--554
Daniel J. Nicholson Book Review: \booktitleLife Explained,
by Michel Morange . . . . . . . . . . . 554--557
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Book Review: \booktitleThe Dialogue of
Civilizations in the Birth of Modern
Science, by Arun Bala . . . . . . . . . 557--559
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Book Review: \booktitleMaterials and
Expertise in Early Modern Europe.
Between Market and Laboratory, edited by
Ursula Klein and Emma C. Spary . . . . . 559--562
Pingyi Chu Book Review: \booktitleSojourners in a
Strange Land: Jesuits and their
Scientific Missions in Late Imperial
China, by Florence C. Hsia . . . . . . . 562--564
Jonathan Simon Book Review: \booktitleAux origines de
la chimie organique: Méthodes et
pratiques des pharmaciens et des
chimistes (1785--1835), by Sacha Tomic 564--566
Arie Leegwater Book Review: \booktitleCollected Papers
on the Philosophy of Chemistry, by Eric
R. Scerri; \booktitleSelected Papers on
the Periodic Table, by Eric R. Scerri 567--568
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleObserving and
Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters,
by Wolfgang Steinicke . . . . . . . . . 569--570
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleAn Observer of
Observatories: The Journal of Thomas
Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and
England in 1777, edited by Kurt Mòller
Pedersen and Peter De Clercq . . . . . . 570--573
Steffen Ducheyne Book Review: \booktitleMathématiques et
connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée.
Series: Histoire des savoirs, by Sabine
Rommevaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--575
Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleScience,
libertinage et clandestinité \`a l'aube
des Lumi\`eres: Le transformisme de
Telliamed, by Claudine Cohen . . . . . . 575--577
William Schupbach Book Review: \booktitleDeath Defied. The
Anatomy Lessons of Frederik Ruysch, by
L. Kooijmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--580
Morrice McCrae Book Review: \booktitleMedicine in the
Remote and Rural North, 1800--2000,
edited by J. T. H. Connor and Stephen
Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--582
Bradford Bouley Book Review: \booktitleHistories of
Scientific Observation, edited by L.
Daston and E. Lunbeck . . . . . . . . . 582--585
Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleThe English
Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion
as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics.
Volume 1: The interpretation. Volume 2:
Sources, by Matthias Schemmel . . . . . 585--588
Etienne Benson Book Review: \booktitleConsidering
Animals: Contemporary Studies in
Human-Animal Relations, edited by Carol
Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette
Watt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--590
Rachel Dunn Book Review: \booktitlePopularizing
Science and Technology in the European
Periphery, 1800--2000, edited by F.
Papanelopoulou, A. Nieto-Galan, and E.
Perdiguero; \booktitleScience for All:
The Popularisation of Science in Early
Twentieth Century Britain, by P. J.
Bowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--593
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--594
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Trevor H. Levere A new editorial team . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Simon Schaffer Swedenborg's Lunars . . . . . . . . . . 2--26
Jürgen Teichmann and
Arthur Stinner From William Hyde Wollaston to Alexander
von Humboldt --- Star Spectra and
Celestial Landscape . . . . . . . . . . 27--60
Leslie Tomory Science and the arts in William Henry's
research into inflammable air during the
Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . 61--81
Ivano Dal Prete Brokering Instruments in Napoleon's
Europe: The Italian Journeys of Franz
Xaver von Zach (1807--1814) . . . . . . 82--101
Stephen Gaukroger Book Review: \booktitleHow Modern
Science Came into the World. Four
Civilizations, One 17th Century
Breakthrough, by H. Floris Cohen . . . . 102--104
Steffen Ducheyne Book Review: \booktitleLa via delle
acque (1500--1700). Appropriazione delle
arti e trasformazione delle matematiche,
by Cesare Maffioli . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Richard Barnett Book Review: \booktitleEvolutionary
Restraints: The Contentious History of
Group Selection, by Mark E. Borrello . . 106--107
Somaditya Banerjee Book Review: \booktitleNucleus and
Nation: Scientists, International
Networks, and Power in India, by Robert
S. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleQuaestiones super
libros. De generatione et corruptione
Aristotelis, by John Buridan . . . . . . 110--111
Charles Burnett Book Review: Nicole Oresme,
\booktitleQuestiones super geometriam
Euclidis, edited by H. L. L. Busard . . 111--113
Lesley A. Hall Book Review: \booktitleManaging the
Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in
Britain, 1880--1939, by Ina
Zweiniger-Bargielowska . . . . . . . . . 113--116
Michael Moss Book Review: \booktitleWar and the
Militarization of British Army Medicine,
1793--1830, by Catherine Kelly . . . . . 116--118
Andreas W. Daum Book Review: \booktitleNature's
Interpreter: The Life and Times of
Alexander von Humboldt, by Donald
McCrory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Jeffrey Allan Johnson Book Review: \booktitleImage and
Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific
Imagination, by Alan J. Rocke . . . . . 121--123
Henry Folse \booktitleHigher Speculations: Grand
Theories and Failed Revolutions in
Physics and Cosmology, by Helge Kragh 123--127
Isabelle Charmantier Book Review: \booktitleScience,
Philosophy and Religion in the Age of
the Enlightenment. British and Global
Contexts, by John Gascoigne . . . . . . 127--129
Karim Bschir Book Review: \booktitleCosmopolitics I,
by Isabelle Stengers . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
Liba Taub Book Review: \booktitleScience for the
Nation: Perspectives on the History of
the Science Museum, edited by P. J. T.
Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Mark Walker Book Review: \booktitleDas Deutsche
Museum in der Zeit des
Nationalsozialismus. Eine
Bestandaufnahme, edited by Elisabeth
Vaupel and Stefan Wolff . . . . . . . . 135--138
Benjamin Wardhaugh Book Review: \booktitleDefending
Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the
Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical
History, by Robert Goulding . . . . . . 138--140
J. L. Heilbron Book Review: \booktitleBetween Raphael
and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the
Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance
Italy, by A. Marr . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleInvestigating the
Supernatural: From Spiritism and
Occultism to Psychical Research and
Metapsychics in France, 1853--1931, by
Sofie Lachapelle . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
Karim Bschir Book Review: \booktitleWrestling with
Nature. From Omens to Science, by Peter
Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael
H. Shank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
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Dmitri Levitin The Experimentalist as Humanist: Robert
Boyle on the History of Philosophy . . . 149--182
Canay Ozden The Pontifex Minimus: William Willcocks
and Engineering British Colonialism . . 183--205
Mary Orr Fish with a Different Angle:
\booktitleThe Fresh-Water Fishes of
Great Britain, by Mrs Sarah Bowdich
(1791--1856) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--240
Wei Yu Wayne Tan Science, Politics and Networks:
Shibukawa Harumi and the Birth of the
New Almanac in Seventeenth-Century Japan 241--270
Richard H. Beyler Book Review: \booktitleScience Secrets:
The Truth about Darwin's Finches,
Einstein's Wife and, Other Myths, by
Alberto A. Martínez . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273
Ulrich Reich Book Review: \booktitleFrom Cardano's
Great Art to Lagrange's Reflections:
Filling a Gap in the History of Algebra,
by Jacqueline Stedall . . . . . . . . . 273--275
Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleHonoré Fabri and
the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between
Conceptual Frameworks, by Michael Elazar 276--277
Henry Folse Book Review: \booktitleThought
Experiments in Methodological and
Historical Contexts, edited by K.
Ierodiakonou and S. Roux . . . . . . . . 277--280
Morrice McCrae Book Review: \booktitleCradle to Grave,
by A. Levene, M. Powell, J. Stewart, and
B. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--283
Sally Frampton Book Review: \booktitlePossessing the
Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy, by
Helen MacDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--286
Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleLe Liber
Mahameleth: Édition critique et
commentaires, edited by Anne-Marie
Vlasschaert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287
James Lattis Book Review: \booktitleOn Sunspots, by
Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner 288--289
Peter K. Benbow Book Review: \booktitleMistical Wordes
and Names Infinite: An Edition and Study
of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy,
by Peter J. Grund . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
Ari Gross Book Review: \booktitleFeynman, by J.
Ottaviani and L. Myrick . . . . . . . . 292--294
I. Grattan-Guinness \booktitleIris Runge: A Life at the
Crossroads of Mathematics, Science, and
Industry, by Renate Tobies . . . . . . . 294--295
Greg Lusk Book Review: \booktitleA Vast Machine:
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the
Politics of Global Warming, by P. N.
Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
Anonymous Online cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Viktoria Tkaczyk Listening in Circles. Spoken Drama and
the Architects of Sound, 1750--1830 . . 299--334
Michael Nauenberg Barrow, Leibniz and the Geometrical
Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of the
Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--354
Luisa Bonolis International Scientific Cooperation
During the 1930s. Bruno Rossi and the
Development of the Status of Cosmic Rays
into a Branch of Physics . . . . . . . . 355--409
David Nofre Managing the Technological Edge: The
UNESCO International Computation Centre
and the Limits to the Transfer of
Computer Technology, 1946--61 . . . . . 410--431
Doogab Yi Book Review: \booktitleGenentech: The
Beginnings of Biotech . . . . . . . . . 432--434
Daniel J. Nicholson Book Review: \booktitleKnowledge of Life 434--437
David Boersema Book Review: \booktitleMichael Polanyi
and His Generation: Origins of the
Social Construction of Science . . . . . 437--439
Andreas W. Daum Book Review: \booktitleAlexander von
Humboldt--August Böckh: Briefwechsel . . 439--441
Raffaele Pisano Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Virtual Work Laws. A History of
Mechanics Prospective . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Carole Reeves Book Review: \booktitleScottish
Medicine: An Illustrated History . . . . 443--445
Patti Wilger Hunter Book Review: \booktitleMathematics in
Victorian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 445--448
Anonymous Online cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1--e1
Johan Kärnfelt Knut Lundmark, Meteors and an Early
Swedish Crowdsourcing Experiment . . . . 449--473
Yuto Ishibashi In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping:
Liverpool and Victorian Electrical
Horology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--496
Aitor Anduaga Spanish Jesuits in the Philippines:
Geophysical Research and Synergies
between Science, Education and Trade,
1865--1898 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--521
Hans-Joachim Petsche The `Chemistry of Space': The Sources of
Hermann Grassmann's Scientific
Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--576
Adam Mosley Book Review: \booktitleSacred Words and
Worlds: Geography, Religion, and
Scholarship, 1550--1700 . . . . . . . . 577--579
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: \booktitleFrom Earth-Bound
to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581
Vivian Nutton Book Review: \booktitleRegimens of the
Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern
\em Cultura Animi Tradition . . . . . . 581--583
Jacqueline Wernimont Book Review: \booktitleFictions of the
Cosmos. Science and Literature in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 583--585
L. S. Jacyna Book Review: \booktitleThe Sciences of
the Soul: the Early Modern Origins of
Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--586
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Optics from Greek Antiquity to the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 586--588
James Strick Book Review: \booktitleVision, Science
and Literature, 1870--1920: Ocular
Horizons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--590
Craig Fraser Book Review: \booktitleTurbulent Times
in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields
and the History of the Fields Medal . . 590--592
Carole Reeves Book Review: \booktitleNervous Disease
in Late Eighteenth Century Britain: The
Reality of a Fashionable Disorder /
Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the
Domestic Environment, 1945--1970 . . . . 592--595
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
the History of Mathematics: Case Studies
for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 595--597
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . eb1--eb1
Anonymous David Roger Oldroyd (20 January 1936--7
November 2014): An Appreciation . . . . 1--1
Jeff Loveland and
Stéphane Schmitt Poinsinet's Edition of the
\booktitleNaturalis historia
(1771--1782) and the Revival of Pliny in
the Sciences of the Enlightenment . . . 2--27
C. N. Brown Ruling Engines, Diffraction Gratings and
Wavelength Measurements before the
Rowland Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--74
Jérôme Lamy and
Frédéric Soulu L'émergence contrariée du chronographe
imprimant dans les observatoires français
(fin 19$^e$--début 20$^e$ s.) . . . . . . 75--98
Renee Jennifer Raphael Galileo's \booktitleDiscorsi as a Tool
for the Analytical Art . . . . . . . . . 99--123
Peter Susalla Book Review: \booktitleUnravelling
Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins
and the Rise of the New Astronomy . . . 124--126
James Lattis Book Review: Horst Bredekamp, general
editor, \booktitleGalileo's O. Volume 1:
Irene Brückle and Oliver Hahn, editors,
\booktitleGalileo's \booktitleSidereus
Nuncius: A Comparison of the Proof Copy
(New York) with other Paradigmatic
Copies. Volume 2: Paul Needham,
\booktitleGalileo Makes a Book: The
First Edition of \booktitleSidereus
Nuncius. Venice 1610. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005095-9 . . 126--128
Michael R. Lynn Book Review: \booktitleFemale Sexuality
and Cultural Degradation in
Enlightenment France: Medicine and
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Mark A. Waddell Book Review: \booktitleArt and Science
in the Early Modern Netherlands . . . . 131--133
Sheldon Lee Gosline Book Review: \booktitleA Man in a Hurry:
The Extraordinary Life and Times of
Edward Payson Weston . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
David E. Hahm Book Review: \booktitleWhat Did the
Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and
Worldmaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--137
Tom Treasure Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends
to Modern Practice . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141
Mat Savelli Book Review: \booktitleCompeting with
the Soviets: Science, Technology, and
the State in Cold War America . . . . . 141--142
Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitleToxicants, Health
and Regulation since 1945 . . . . . . . 143--144
Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleScience in
Medieval Jewish Cultures . . . . . . . . 144--147
Peter J. Ramberg and
Mary Jo Nye Introduction: Atomism and Organic
Chemistry in Context: Essays in Honour
of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
Melvyn C. Usselman and
Todd A. Brown Atomic Theory and Multiple Combining
Proportions: The Search for Whole Number
Ratios: Essay in Honour of Alan J. Rocke 153--169
Peter J. Ramberg Chemical Research and Instruction in
Zürich, 1833--1872: Essay in Honour of
Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--186
Catherine M. Jackson Chemical Identity Crisis: Glass and
Glassblowing in the Identification of
Organic Compounds: Essay in Honour of
Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205
Seymour H. Mauskopf William Barlow and the Determination of
Atomic Arrangement in Crystals: Essay in
Honour of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . 206--223
Jeffrey Allan Johnson Dilemmas of 19th-century Liberalism
among German Academic Chemists: Shaping
a National Science Policy from Hofmann
to Fischer, 1865--1919: Essay in Honour
of Alan J. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--241
Stephen J. Weininger Benzene and Beyond: Pursuing the Core of
Aromaticity: Essay in Honour of Alan J.
Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--257
Christopher Lawrence Today, Will T. H. Huxley Dig the Garden
or Paper the Parlour? . . . . . . . . . 258--261
Paul Wood Book Review: \booktitleAn Enlightened
Duke: The Life of Archibald Campbell
(1682--1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of
Argyll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264
Peder Anker Book Review: \booktitleThe Silwood
Circle: A History of Ecology and the
Making of Scientific Careers in Late
Twentieth-Century Britain . . . . . . . 264--266
Warwick Anderson Book Review: \booktitleScience in the
Twentieth Century and Beyond . . . . . . 266--267
Jonathan Smith Book Review: \booktitleNovel Science:
Fiction and the Invention of
Nineteenth-Century Geology . . . . . . . 268--270
Jeffrey Allan Johnson Book Review: \booktitleProgressive
Enlightenment: The Origins of the
Gaslight Industry, 1780--1820 . . . . . 270--272
James Everest Book Review: \booktitleThe Secrets of
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Rob Iliffe and
David Miller Winner of the \em Annals of Science
Prize for 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
David Philip Miller and
Rob Iliffe and
Trevor Levere Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (1941--2014) 276--278
Pedro M. P. Raposo Time, Weather and Empires: The Campos
Rodrigues Observatory in Lourenço
Marques, Mozambique (1905--1930) . . . . 279--305
Dominique Raynaud Un Fragment du \booktitleDe speculis
comburentibus de Regiomontanus Copié par
Toscanelli et Inséré dans les Carnets de
\booktitleLeonardo (\booktitleCodex
Atlanticus, 611rb/915ra) . . . . . . . . 306--336
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome: The
Annotated Edition of the
\booktitlePrincipia by Calandrini, Le
Seur and Jacquier . . . . . . . . . . . 337--380
Marij van Strien Vital Instability: Life and Free Will in
Physics and Physiology, 1860--1880 . . . 381--400
Efram Sera-Shriar The Correspondence of Michael Faraday 401--406
Dániel Margócsy Book Review: \booktitleAndroids in the
Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and
Cultures of the Self . . . . . . . . . . 407--409
Kelsey Jackson Williams Book Review: \booktitleNotebooks,
English Virtuosi, and Early Modern
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Alison Bashford Book Review: \booktitlePolitical
Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the
Politics of Evolution in Victorian
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413
Oliver Hill-Andrews Book Review: \booktitleUncommon
Contexts: Encounters Between Science and
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
Stephen Case `Land-marks of the universe': John
Herschel against the background of
positional astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 417--434
Roland Jackson John Tyndall and the Early History of
Diamagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--489
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Chemistry, microscopy and smell:
bloodstains and nineteenth-century legal
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--516
Lloyd Strickland and
Michael Church Leibniz's Observations on Hydrology: An
Unpublished Letter on the Great Lombardy
Flood of 1705 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532
Shaul Katzir Pursuing frequency standards and
control: the invention of quartz clock
technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--39
Lukas M. Verburgt Duncan F. Gregory, William Walton and
the development of British algebra:
`algebraical geometry', `geometrical
algebra', abstraction . . . . . . . . . 40--67
Yael Kedar The nomological image of nature:
explaining the tide in the thirteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--88
Peter J. Bowler Discovering Science from an Armchair:
Popular Science in British Magazines of
the Interwar Years . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107
Christopher D. Preston Book Review: \booktitleMethodus
Plantarum Nova: John Ray (1682) . . . . 108--110
David Philip Miller Book Review: \booktitleThe Limits of
Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment 110--112
Emily Thomas Book Review:
\booktitleDescartes-agonistes:
Physico-mathematics, method and
corpuscular-mechanism 1618--33 . . . . . 112--114
Sophie Weeks Book Review: \booktitleVoyaging in
Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Bettina Dietz Introduction: Special Issue `Translating
and translations in the history of
science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Patrice Bret The letter, the dictionary and the
laboratory: translating chemistry and
mineralogy in eighteenth-century France 122
Bettina Dietz Linnaeus' restless system: translation
as textual engineering in
eighteenth-century botany . . . . . . . 143
Alison E. Martin Outward bound: women translators and
scientific travel writing, 1780--1800 157
Yulia Frumer Before words: reading Western
astronomical texts in early
nineteenth-century Japan . . . . . . . . 170
Jenny Beckman The publication strategies of Jöns Jacob
Berzelius (1779--1848): negotiating
national and linguistic boundaries in
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Michael D. Gordin The Dostoevsky Machine in Georgetown:
scientific translation in the Cold War 208
Aaron Sidney Wright A beautiful sea: P. A. M. Dirac's
epistemology and ontology of the vacuum 225--256
Huib J. Zuidervaart and
Douglas Anderson Antony van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes and
other scientific instruments: new
information from the Delft archives . . 257
Ignacio Suay-Matallana Between chemistry, medicine and leisure:
Antonio Casares and the study of mineral
waters and Spanish spas in the
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Hyung Wook Park Constructing Failure: Leonard Hayflick,
Biomedicine, and the Problems with
Tissue Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Victor D. Boantza The Enlightenment of Joseph Black . . . 328
Jacob Norris Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860--1950 . . 333
Melissa Charenko Earth's Deep History: How It Was
Discovered and Why It Matters . . . . . 335
Jim Endersby Charles Darwin's Looking Glass: The
Theory of Evolution and the Life of its
Author in Contemporary British Fiction
and Non-Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Anna Gielas Book Review: Melinda Baldwin,
\booktitleMaking ``\booktitleNature''.
The History of a Scientific Journal.
Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press,
2015. 309 pp + plates. \$45.00; \pounds
31.50, ISBN 978-0-226-26145-4} . . . . . 338
Anna Winterbottom Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de
Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and
Drugs of India (1563) in Context . . . . 340
Anonymous Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of
Science Prize for 2015 . . . . . . . . . 344
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
Alberto A. Martinez Giordano Bruno and the heresy of many
worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--374
Daniel Spelda Veritas filia temporis: The origins of
the idea of scientific progress . . . . 375--391
Mark F. Watson and
Henry J. Noltie Career, collections, reports and
publications of Dr Francis Buchanan
(later Hamilton), 1762--1829: natural
history studies in Nepal, Burma
(Myanmar), Bangladesh and India. Part 1 392--424
Bill Jenkins The platypus in Edinburgh: Robert
Jameson, Robert Knox and the place of
the \bionameOrnithorhynchus in nature,
1821--24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--441
Lynn K. Nyhart Essay Review: Interpreting Visual
Cultures of Science . . . . . . . . . . 442--446
Peter Susalla Book Review: \booktitleSelected
Correspondence of William Huggins,
Barbara J. Becker, Pickering and Chatto,
London (2014) ISBN 1-84893-415-7 (two
volumes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Alper Bilgili Book Review: \booktitleScience Among the
Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and
Exchange of Knowledge, by Miri
Shefer-Mossensohn, University of Texas
Press, Austin (2015), ISBN
978-1-4773-0359-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450
Theodore M. Porter Book Review: \booktitleKuhn's
\booktitleStructure of Scientific
Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a
Science Classic, Robert J. (Robert John)
Richards and Lorraine Daston, University
of Chicago Press, Chicago (2016), ISBN
978-0-226-31703-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 450--452
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Astronomy and calendar reform at the
curia of Pope Clement VI: a new source 1--24
Cecilia Veracini and
Dante Martins Teixeira Perception and description of New World
non-human primates in the travel
literature of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries: a critical review 25--63
Alexander Pavuk Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin and the
idea of the religious direction of human
evolution in the early 1920s . . . . . . 64--82
David Knight Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction . . 83--84
Don Leggett Book Review: \booktitleScientists'
expertise as performance: between state
and society, 1860--1960 . . . . . . . . 84--86
Emily Herring Book Review: \booktitleThe Physicist and
the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and
the Debate that Changed our
Understanding of Time . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Jon Agar Book Review: \booktitleThe cybernetics
moment: or why we call our age the
information age / Moore's Law: the life
of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's quiet
revolutionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Craft, money and mercy: an apothecary's
self-portrait in sixteenth-century
Bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--107
Steffen Ducheyne Different shades of Newton: Herman
Boerhaave on Newton \em mathematicus,
\em philosophus, and \em optico-chemicus 108--125
Helge Kragh `Let the stars shine in peace!' Niels
Bohr and stellar energy, 1929--1934 . . 126--148
Matthew Holmes Changing techniques in crop plant
classification: molecularization at the
National Institute of Agricultural
Botany during the 1980s . . . . . . . . 149--164
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: \booktitleA Companion to
the History of Science, by, Bernard
Lightman, editor, Chichester, West
Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. 624 pp.
\$150.00, \pounds 120.00, ISBN
978-1-118-62077-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Maryam M. Patton Book Review: \booktitleSuccess and
Suppression: Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy in the Renaissance . . . . . 167--169
John Henry Book Review: \booktitleCopernicus: A
Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . 169--171
Waqar Zaidi Book Review: \booktitleScientific
Governance in Britain 1914--79 . . . . . 171--172
Jon Agar Book Review: \booktitleEurope's
Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War,
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
John Holmes Book Review: \booktitleCharles Darwin
and the Church of Wordsworth . . . . . . 174--176
Jim Endersby Book Review: \booktitleHeredity
Explored: Between Public Domain and
Experimental Science, 1850--1930 . . . . 176--178
Max Kemeny What motion \em is: William Neile and
the laws of motion . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191
Ana Duarte Rodrigues and
Ana Simões Horticulture in Portugal 1850--1900: The
role of science and public utility in
shaping knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 192--213
Rebekah Higgitt Framing the transit: expeditionary
culture and identities in Lieutenant E.
J. W. Noble's caricatures of the 1874
transit of Venus expedition to Honolulu 214--239
Matthew Stanley Strange Science: Investigating the
Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age 240--241
Alison Adam Murder and the Making of English CSI . . 241--243
Ann Shteir Orchid: A Cultural History . . . . . . . 243--245
Michael D. Gordin Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: US
Technological Collaboration and
Nonproliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Nicolas Rasmussen Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to
Crack the Genetic Code . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Richard E. Ashcroft Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy
and Genomic Science . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
Lydia Braunack-Mayer How to Do Science with Models: A
Philosophical Primer . . . . . . . . . . 250--252
Rob Iliffe and
David Philip Miller Winner of the \em Annals of Science
Prize for 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
David Philip Miller The story of `Scientist: The Story of a
Word' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
Geir Hestmark Tracings of the north of Europe: Robert
Chambers in search of the Ice Age . . . 262--281
Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund A frosty disagreement: John Tyndall,
James David Forbes, and the early
formation of the X-Club . . . . . . . . 282--298
Sybil Gertrude De Clark Qualitative vs quantitative conceptions
of homogeneity in nineteenth century
dimensional analysis . . . . . . . . . . 299--325
Catriona Sandilands Essay Review: Making Kin, Making
Trouble: Donna Haraway's Critical
Ongoingness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--330
Wolfgang Köberer Book Review: \booktitleNavigation. A
Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . 331--332
Margaret Carlyle Book Review: \booktitleThe Body as
Object and Instrument of Knowledge:
Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--335
Gregory Tate Book Review: \booktitleThe Experimental
Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a
Man of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Carolyn Burdett Book Review: \booktitleThe Science of
Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and
Victorian Civilization . . . . . . . . . 337--339
Antony Adler Book Review: \booktitleField Life:
Science in the American West During the
Railroad Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Deborah Fitzgerald Book Review: \booktitleEvolution Made to
Order: Plant Breeding and Technological
Innovation in Twentieth-Century America 341--342
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: \booktitleThe Life Organic:
The Theoretical Biology Club and the
Roots of Epigenetics . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Zhaoyuan Wan Newton in China: Translating the
\booktitlePrincipia into Chinese (c.
1855--2015) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Carolyn Ann Cobbold The rise of alternative bread leavening
technologies in the nineteenth century 21--39
Emily Herring `Great is Darwin and Bergson his poet':
Julian Huxley's other evolutionary
synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54
Maria Rentetzi Book review: Analogies that shape the
recent history of radiation:
\booktitleStrange Glow: The Story of
Radiation, by Timothy Jorgensen,
Princeton University Press, 2016, 512
pp., \$35.00, \pounds 27.95, ISBN
978-0-691-16503-5. \booktitle{Radium and
the Secret of Life}, by Luis Campos,
University of Chicago Press, 2015, 352
pp., \$35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-41874-2 . . 55--59
Boris Jardine Book Review: \booktitleHow Scientific
Instruments Have Changed Hands, by A. D.
Morrison-Low, Sara Schechner, and Paolo
Brenni, Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxxii + 239
pp., ISBN 978-90-04-32492-3 . . . . . . 60--61
Vitaly Pronskikh Book Review: \booktitleWhat Makes a Good
Experiment? Reasons and Roles in
Science, A. Franklin, Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
384 pp. \$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4441-6} 62--64
Geoff Bil Book Review: \booktitleNatures in
Translation: Romanticism and Colonial
Natural History, by Alan Bewell,
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2016, xvii + 393 pp., ISBN
978-1-4214-2096-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Emilie J. Raymer Book Review: \booktitleDarwin and Women:
A Selection of Letters, edited by
Samantha Evans, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2017, xxviii + 270 pp,
ISBN 978-1-107-15886-3 . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Jonathan Smith Book Review: \booktitleDarwin and the
Making of Sexual Selection, by E.
Richards, Chicago and London, University
of Chicago Press, 2017, xxxiv + 672 pp.,
48 halftones, \$47.50, \pounds 35.50,
ISBN 978-0-226-43690-6} . . . . . . . . 67--69
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleEinstein and
Twentieth-Century Politics: `A Salutary
Moral Influence', R. Crockatt, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp.
\$40.00, \pounds 25.00, ISBN
978-0-19-878549-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
Richard Yeo Hippocrates' complaint and the
scientific ethos in early modern England 73--96
Sean F. Johnston Vaunting the independent amateur:
\booktitleScientific American and the
representation of lay scientists . . . . 97--119
Dominic Lusinchi `The Great Fiasco' of the 1948
presidential election polls: status
recognition and norms conflict in social
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--144
John Schuster Book Review: \booktitleOne Hundred Years
of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to
Newton, by Alan F. Chalmers, Dordrecht,
Springer, 2017, ix + 197 pp., \$99.99,
\pounds 72.00, ISBN 978-3-319-56528-6
(Archimedes: New Studies in the History
and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, vol. 51, ISSN 1385-0180)} 145--148
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: \booktitleEye for Detail:
Images of Plants and Animals in Art and
Science 1500--1630, by Florike Egmond,
London: Reaktion Books, 288 pp., ISBN
978-1-78023-640-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Florike Egmond Book Review: \booktitleThe Paper Zoo:
500 Years of Animals in Art, by
Charlotte Sleigh, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 256 pp., ISBN
978-0-226-44712-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Stefano Gattei Book Review: \booktitleReading Galileo:
Scribal Technologies and the Two New
Sciences, by Renée Raphael, Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017,
xii + 266 pp., \$54.95, ISBN
978-1-4214-2177-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Margaret Carlyle Book Review: \booktitleThe Use of Humans
in Experiment: Perspectives from the
17$^{th}$ to the 20$^{th}$ Century,
edited by E. Dyck and L. Stewart,
Leiden, Brill, 2016, xii + 297 pp., EUR
115.00, \$149.00, ISBN
978-90-04-28670-2} . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156
Piers J. Hale Book Review: \booktitleGlobal
Spencerism: The Communication and
Appropriation of a British Evolutionist,
edited by B. Lightman, Leiden: Brill,
2016. xiv + 409 pp., EUR 115, \$149,
ISBN 978-90-04-26399-4} . . . . . . . . 156--159
Oliver Hill-Andrews Book Review: \booktitleBloomsbury
Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake
of Darwin, by Michael Charles Boulter,
London: UCL Press, 188 pp., ISBN
978-1-78735-005-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: \booktitleRuling Minds:
Psychology in the British Empire, by
Erik Linstrum, Cambridge, MA and London,
Harvard University Press, 2016. viii +
309 pp., \$41.00, \pounds 32.95, EUR
37.00, ISBN 978-0-674-08866-5} . . . . . 161--163
Jeremy Robin Schneider The first mite: insect genealogy in
Hooke's \booktitleMicrographia . . . . . 165--200
Lee T. Macdonald The origins and early years of the
Magnetic and Meteorological Department
at Greenwich Observatory, 1834--1848 . . 201--233
Gabriel Henderson Resurrecting Maunder's ghost: John
`Jack' Eddy, the Maunder Minimum, and
the rise of a dilettante astrophysicist 234--254
Matthew Mauger Writing tea's empire . . . . . . . . . . 255--259
Andrew S. Lea The Chinese Typewriter: A History . . . 260--262
Xiaona Wang John Wilkins (1614--1672): New Essays 262--265
Paul Lawrence Farber Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology:
Birds, Books and Business . . . . . . . 265--266
Robert A. Nye Masculinity and Science in Britain,
1830--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
Anja-Silvia Goeing Science in the Archives: Pasts,
Presents, Futures . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Karen Rader Science museums in transition: cultures
of display in nineteenth-century Britain
and America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Anonymous Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of
Science Prize for 2017 . . . . . . . . . 273--273
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Henry Bate's \booktitleTabule
Machlinenses:the earliest astronomical
tables by a Latin author . . . . . . . . 275--303
Boris Jardine Instruments of statecraft: Humphrey
Cole, Elizabethan economic policy and
the rise of practical mathematics . . . 304--329
C. N. Brown Ruling engines and diffraction gratings
before Rowland: the work of Lewis
Rutherfurd and William Rogers . . . . . 330--360
Jim Endersby Of making many Darwins . . . . . . . . . 361--367
Carlos M. N. Eire Levitation: The Science, Myth, and Magic
of Suspension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
S. Ducheyne Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Patricia Seed Navigational enterprises in Europe and
its empires, 1730--1850 . . . . . . . . 371--373
Christiana Payne The pre-Raphaelites and science . . . . 373--375
Jörg Matthias Determann The Lighthouse and the Observatory:
Islam, Science, and Empire in Late
Ottoman Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Natasha Silk Medicine in First World War Europe:
soldiers, medics, pacifists . . . . . . 377--379
Michael Nauenberg Visiting Newton's atelier before the
\booktitlePrincipia, 1679--1684 . . . . 1--16
Kenneth L. Caneva Helmholtz, the conservation of force and
the conservation of \em vis viva . . . . 17--57
Katharine Anderson An `experimental' instrument: testing
the torsion balance in Britain, Canada
and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--86
John A. Schuster The young René Descartes --- lawyer,
military engineer, courtier, diplomat
\ldots and, we might add, ambitious
`savant' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95
Kathleen Long The voyage of thought: navigating
knowledge across the sixteenth-century
world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Elizabeth Hyde Cultivating commerce: cultures of botany
in Britain and France, 1760--1815 . . . 98--100
Michael Berger Henry David Thoreau: A life . . . . . . 100--103
Jon Agar Science without frontiers:
cosmopolitanism and national interests
in the world of learning, 1870--1940 . . 103--105
John M. Kinder Rethinking modern prostheses in
Anglo-American commodity cultures,
1820--1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Oliver Hill-Andrews Eugenics: a very short introduction . . 107--109
Yulia Egorova History within: the science, culture,
and politics of bones, organisms, and
molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Robert Haas Maligned for mathematics: Sir Thomas
Urquhart and his \em Trissotetras . . . 113--156
Anna Svensson `And \em Eden from the \em Chaos rose':
utopian order and rebellion in the
Oxford Physick Garden . . . . . . . . . 157--183
Andreas Blank Instrumental causes and the natural
origin of souls in Antonio Ponce
Santacruz's theory of animal generation 184--209
Mordechai Feingold The religion of the young Isaac Newton 210--218
Larry Stewart Reading Newton in early modern Europe 219--221
Georges Farhat Can diplopia reshape our views of
perspective? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
Lee T. Macdonald Making stars physical: the astronomy of
Sir John Herschel . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
Claire L. Jones The patent medicines industry in
Georgian England . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Johannes Wietzke Science writing in Greco-Roman antiquity 233--236
Anna Gielas The scientific journal. Authorship and
the politics of knowledge in the
nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Anonymous Winner of the \em Annals of Science
Prize for 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Ofer Gal and
Cindy Hodoba Eric Between Kepler and Newton: Hooke's
`principles of \em congruity and \em
incongruity ' and the naturalization of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--266
Alberto A. Martinez Melchior Inchofer, Giordano Bruno, and
the soul of the world . . . . . . . . . 267--302
Longfei Chu and
Haohao Zhu Re-examining the impact of European
astronomy in seventeenth-century China:
a study of Xue Fengzuo's system of
thought and his integration of Chinese
and Western knowledge . . . . . . . . . 303--323
Charis Charalampous `One common matter' in Descartes'
physics: the Cartesian concepts of
matter quantities, weight and gravity 324--339
Jonathan Shaheen Essay Rview: \booktitleThe well-ordered
universe: the philosophy of Margaret
Cavendish, by D. Boyle, New York, Oxford
University Press, 2018, x + 273 pp.,
\$74.00, \pounds 53.00, ISBN
978-0-19-023480-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 340--346
Marius Stan Standing colossus: Newton and the
French: Essay review of J. B. Shank,
\booktitleBefore Voltaire: the French
Origins of ``Newtonian'' Mechanics,
1680--715. University of Chicago Press,
2018. Cloth, x + 444 pp., ill. ISBN
978-0-226-50929-7. \$55.00} . . . . . . 347--354
Andy Byford Russian eugenics in transnational and
transhistorical perspective: from
comparison to translation: Review of
\booktitleWith and without Galton:
Vasilii Florinskii and the fate of
eugenics in Russia, by N. Krementsov,
Cambridge, UK, Open Book Publishers,
2018, xxvi + 666 pp., \pounds 32.95
(Hardback), ISBN 978-1-78374-512-8 . . . 355--364
Aaron Van Neste Book Review: \booktitleWorlds of natural
history, edited by H. A. Curry, N.
Jardine, J. A. Secord, and E. C. Spary,
Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University
Press, 2018, xxv + 656 pp., 16 plts,
\$48.00; \pounds 36.99, ISBN
978-1-316-64971-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Sharon Kingsland Book Review: \booktitleInside science:
Stories from the field in human and
animal science, by R. E. Kohler, Chicago
and London, University of Chicago Press,
2019, 245 pp., \$35.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-226-61798-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 367--369
Olivia Weisser Book Review: \booktitleRecipes and
everyday knowledge: medicine, science,
and the household in early modern
England, by Elaine Leong, Chicago, IL,
University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288
pp., 19 halftones, \$90.00 (cloth);
\$32.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-58366-2 369--371
Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitleThe circulation
of penicillin in Spain: health, wealth
and authority, by María Jesús Santesmases,
London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, i--x;
1--238 pp., \$99.99 (hbk), ISBN
978-3-319-69717-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Jole Shackelford Book Review: \booktitleBurned alive:
Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the
Inquisition, by Alberto A. Martínez,
London, Reaktion Books, 2018, 348 pp.,
21 illustrations, \pounds 25.00 (hbk),
ISBN 976-1-78023-8968 . . . . . . . . . 372--375
Jonathan Regier Book Review: \booktitleThe pursuit of
harmony: Kepler on cosmos, confession,
and community, by Aviva Rothman,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
2017, vii + 355 pp., \$55.00 (hbk), ISBN
978-0-226-49697-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
John Slater Book Review: \booktitleThe Spanish
disquiet: the biblical natural
philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, by
M. M. Portuondo, Chicago and London, The
University of Chicago Press, 2019, xv +
426 pp., 13 plts, \$65.00 (hardback),
ISBN 978-0-226-59226-8} . . . . . . . . 377--380
Victor D. Boantza Book Review: \booktitleFor the love of
science: the correspondence of J. H. de
Magellan (1722--1790), edited by R. W.
Home, I. M. Malaquias and M. F. Thomaz,
Bern, Peter Lang, 2017, 2002 pp. (2
volumes), \pounds 157 (cloth), ISBN
978-3-0343-1294-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 380--382
Jan Golinski Book Review: \booktitleThe life and
legend of James Watt: collaboration,
natural philosophy, and the improvement
of the steam engine, by David Philip
Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2019, xix + 420 pp.,
24 b&w illus., \$50 (hardcover), ISBN
978-0-8229-4558-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Joshua Howe Book Review: \booktitleThe ascent of
John Tyndall: Victorian scientist,
mountaineer, and public intellectual, by
Roland Jackson, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2018. xx + 556 pp., 26
plts, \pounds 25.00, ISBN 0-19-878895-9 385--387
J. L. Heilbron Book Review: \booktitlePhotons. The
history and mental models of light
quanta, Klaus Hentschel, Cham,
Switzerland, Springer International,
2018, xiii + 231 pp. EUR 69,99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-3-319-95251-2 . . 387--389
Roger Luckhurst Book Review: \booktitleA history of the
future: prophets of progress from H. G.
Wells to Isaac Asimov, by Peter J.
Bowler, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2017, x + 287 pp., 9 colour plts,
18 black and white plts, \pounds 19.99,
ISBN 978-1-316-60262-1 . . . . . . . . . 389--391
John Krige Book Review: \booktitleGreening the
alliance: the diplomacy of NATO's
science and environmental initiatives,
by S. Turchetti, Chicago and London,
University of Chicago Press, 2019, 256
pp., 19 plts, \$37.50 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-226-59579-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393
Francisco Malta Romeiras The Inquisition and the censorship of
science in early modern Europe:
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Helena Avelar de Carvalho Preludes to the Inquisition:
self-censorship in medieval astrological
discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--25
Neil Tarrant Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert
Bellarmine and the papal bull
\booktitleCoeli et terrae . . . . . . . 26--49
Luís Campos Ribeiro The bounded heavens: defining the limits
of astrological practice in the Iberian
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--70
Francisco Malta Romeiras Putting the \booktitleIndices into
practice: censoring science in early
modern Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--95
Luís Tirapicos On the censorship of Tycho Brahe's books
in Iberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--107
Daniele Macuglia Newtonianism and information control in
Rome at the wake of the eighteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--126
Henrique Leitão Inquisition and science: where do we
stand now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
John R. R. Christie Atlantic chemistries, 1600--1820 . . . . 135--138
Mariana Sánchez Daza Alchemical and Paracelsian ideas in the
\booktitleArte de los Metales . . . . . 139--154
John Stewart Chemistry and slavery in the Scottish
Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--168
Christopher Halm `Enquiries on \em Plaister of Paris': a
material history of early agrochemical
knowledge in the United States of
America, 1785--1812 . . . . . . . . . . 169--188
Thomas Apel `Revolutions, philosophical as well as
civil': French chemistry and American
science in Samuel Latham Mitchill's
\booktitleMedical Repository . . . . . . 189--214
J. Marc Macdonald Failed utopias and practical chemistry:
the Priestleys, the Du Ponts, and the
transmission of transatlantic science,
1770--1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--252
Mordechai Feingold and
Andrej Svoren\vcík A preliminary census of copies of the
first edition of Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia (1687) . . . . . . . 253--348
Joachim L. Dagg and
J. F. Derry Charles Darwin did not mislead Joseph
Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence
about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst
von Baer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365
Ursula Klein Science, industry, and the German \em
Bildungsbürgertum . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--376
Jon Agar What is technology? . . . . . . . . . . 377--382
Klaus Hentschel Weighing light and pondering
historiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
Bettina Dietz Knowledge in translation: global
patterns of scientific exchange,
1000--1800 CE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
David Dunér From influence to inhabitation: the
transformation of astrobiology in the
early modern period . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
Alexi Baker Thrifty science: making the most of
materials in the history of experiment 392--394
Bonnie Effros Germany's ancient pasts: archaeology and
historical interpretation since 1700 . . 394--397
John P. McCaskey History of `temperature': maturation of
a measurement concept . . . . . . . . . 399--444
Craig Martin Francis Bacon, José de Acosta, and
Traditions of Natural Histories of Winds 445--468
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza `Ghosts from other planets': plurality
of worlds, afterlife and satire in
Emanuel Swedenborg's \booktitleDe
Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758) 469--494
Henry-James Meiring Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the
mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--523
Ian Hesketh The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--548
John Henry Newton the alchemist: science, enigma,
and the quest for nature's `secret fire' 549--552
Helge Kragh Constructing quantum mechanics, volume
1: The Scaffold 1900--1923 . . . . . . . 552--554
Jed Z. Buchwald (Co-Editor) and
Mordechai Feingold (Co-Editor) Winner of the \booktitleAnnals of
Science Best Paper Prize for 2019 . . . 555--555
Norman Biggs Linear Programming from Fibonacci to
Farkas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Miguel Palomo New insight into the origins of the
calculus war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--40
Justin Begley John Hill (1714?--1775) on `Plant
Sleep': experimental physiology and the
limits of comparative analysis . . . . . 41--63
Xi Ma Mineral and mineralogy in late Qing
China: translations and
conceptualizations, 1860s--1910s . . . . 64--91
Alan R. Rushton Counting human chromosomes before 1960:
preconceptions, perceptions and
predilections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--116
Kirill Rossiianov The problem of Lysenkoism: why we cannot
explain it away? . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125
Ovanes Akopyan After the flood. Imagining the global
environment in early modern Europe . . . 126--128
Margaret Carlyle Malleable Anatomies. Models, Makers, and
Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Matthew Stanley Book Review: \booktitleEinstein in
Bohemia, by M. Gordin, Princeton, NJ,
Princeton University Press, 2020, xi +
343 pp., \$29.95. Hardback. ISBN
978-0-691-17737-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Dmitri Levitin Isaac Newton's `\booktitleDe
gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum':
its purpose in historical context . . . 133--161
E. Chassefi\`ere Aurora borealis systems in the
German--Russian world in the first half
of the eighteenth century: the cases of
Friedrich Christoph Mayer and Leonhard
Euler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--196
Miguel de Asúa Traces on a Muddy Shore. Science and
religion in Colonial and Early
Independent Río de la Plata . . . . . . . 197--220
William H. Brock and
David E. Lewis A different kind of Nierenstein
reaction. The Chemical Society's
mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein 221--245
Michael Mcvaugh Book Review: \booktitleGalen: A Thinking
Doctor in Imperial Rome, by Vivian
Nutton, London and New York, Routledge,
2020, xiii + 209 pp., 12 plts., \$39.95
(Paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-35723-8} . . 246--248
Vivian Nutton Book Review: \booktitleCutting words:
polemical dimensions of Galen's
anatomical experiments. Studies in
Ancient Medicine 55, by Luis Alejandro
Salas, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2020, x
+ 328 pp., EUR 119.00 (Hardback);
\$143.00, ISBN 978-90-04-43918-4} . . . 248--250
Stefan Laube Book Review: \booktitleAnna Zieglerin
and the Lion's blood: alchemy and end
times in reformation Germany, by Tara
Nummedal, Philadelphia, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2019, xi + 288 pp.,
16 fig., \pounds 37.00 (Hardback);
\$39.95, ISBN 978-0-81225-089-3} . . . . 250--252
Elizabeth W. Mellyn \booktitleHealers, innovators,
entrepreneurs: women in early modern
healthcare: \booktitleForgotten Healers:
women and the pursuit of health in late
Renaissance Italy, by Sharon Strocchia,
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press,
2020, ix + 330 pp., \$49.95, \pounds
39.95, EUR 45.00, ISBN
978-0-674-24174-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 252--259
Katrina Maydom Book Review: \booktitleDrugs on the
Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing
Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic
World, edited by M. J. Crawford and J.
M. Gabriel, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh
University Press, 2019, ix + 374 pp.,
\$50.00, ISBN 0-822-94562-2} . . . . . . 259--261
Craig Martin Book Review: \booktitleForbidden
knowledge: medicine, science, and
censorship in early modern Italy, by
Hannah Marcus, Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 2020, xi + 356 pp., 36
fig., \$45.00 (Hardback), ISBN
978-0-226-73658-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 261--264
Ivana Gambaro Geo-heliocentric models and the Society
of Jesus: from Clavius's resistance to
Dechales's \booktitleMathesis Regia . . 265--294
Sergio H. Orozco-Echeverri and
Sebastián Molina-Betancur A mestizo cosmographer in the New
Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and
chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá's
\booktitleTratado (\em c. 1696) . . . . 295--333
Bert Hansen Pasteur's lifelong engagement with the
fine arts: uncovering a scientist's
passion and personality . . . . . . . . 334--386
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: \booktitleTheoricae novae
planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans
l'histoire de l'astronomie, Michela
Malpangotto, CNRS Éditions, 2020. 751pp.
65.00 EUR. ISBN-10: 2-271-13458-7,
ISBN-13: 978-2-271-13458-5 . . . . . . . 387--392
Mark J. Geller Medicine in ancient Assur, a
microhistorical study of the
Neo-Assyrian healer Ki\dsir-Assur.
Ancient magic and divination 18 . . . . 393--395
Lyke de Vries The Experimental Fire: Inventing English
Alchemy, 1300--1700 . . . . . . . . . . 395--397
Anita Guerrini The transmutations of chymistry. Wilhelm
Homberg and the Académie Royale des
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Guillaume des Moustiers' treatise on the
armillary instrument (1264) and the
practice of astronomical observation in
medieval Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--417
Susanna Berger and
Sara J. Schechner Observations on Niccol\`o Tornioli's
\booktitleThe Astronomers . . . . . . . 418--462
Mark Adrian Govier Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and
the Royal Society's 3rd Charter of 1669 463--483
Jutta Schickore The place and significance of
comparative trials in German
agricultural writings around 1800 . . . 484--503
Adriana Minor Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff
accelerators and the making of two major
Latin American universities in 1950s
Brazil and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 504--530
Christopher Lawrence The sense of movement. An intellectual
history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--533
Nathaniel Comfort Heredity under the Microscope:
Chromosomes and the Study of the Human
Genome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--535
Andrea Sangiacomo and
Raluca Tanasescu and
Silvia Donker and
Hugo Hogenbirk Mapping the evolution of early modern
natural philosophy: corpus collection
and authority acknowledgement . . . . . 1--39
Raphael Uchôa From the state of nature to the state of
ruins: `American race' and `savage
knowledge' according to Carl von Martius 40--59
Anna Kvicalova Purkyne's \booktitleOpistophone: the
hearing `Deaf', auditory attention and
organic subjectivity in Prague
psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s . . 60--80
C. N. Brown The ruling engines and diffraction
gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland . . . 81--130
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley Book Review: \booktitleImmunization: How
Vaccines Became Controversial, 2nd ed.,
by Stuart Blume, London, Reaktion Books,
Ltd., 2021, 280 pp., \pounds 9.99
(Paperback), ISBN 978-1-78914-504-5 . . 131--133
M. Susan Lindee Book Review: \booktitleScience on a
mission: how military funding shaped
what we do and don't know about the
ocean, by Naomi Oreskes, Chicago and
London, University of Chicago Press,
2021, 738 pp., \$40.00 (hardback), ISBN
978--0-226-73238-I} . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Gábor Almási Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy
debate after the comet of 1577 . . . . . 137--163
Robert Goulding The Harvest of Optics: Descartes,
Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of
refraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--214
Fernando B. Figueiredo and
Guy Boistel Monteiro da Rocha and the international
debate in the 1760s on astronomical
methods to find the longitude at sea:
his proposals and criticisms to
Lacaille's lunar-distance method . . . . 215--258
François Gendron The M de Jussieu's `mirror of the
Incas': an Ecuadorian archaeological
artefact in the mineralogical collection
of René-Just Haüy (1743--1822) . . . . . . 259--273
Rienk Vermij and
Paul Vieth Confessionalization and comets. John
Bainbridge on the comet of 1618 . . . . 275--291
Yijie Huang Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King's
analogy, observation and conception of
the tubular body . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--319
James Greener Offering themselves by chance:
Newcomen's starting materials . . . . . 320--363
M. Alper Yalçinkaya Kindred fatalisms: debating science,
Islam, and free will in the Darwinian
era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--385
Jan Potters Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading
Kuhn's history of the quantum . . . . . 386--405
Evan Hepler-Smith The elements: a visual history of their
discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--408
Georgiana D. Hedesan The poison trials: wonder drugs,
experiment, and the battle for authority
in renaissance science . . . . . . . . . 408--410
Sophie Roux Mechanism. A visual, lexical and
conceptual history . . . . . . . . . . . 411--413
Margaret Carlyle Minerva's French Sisters: Women of
Science in Enlightenment France . . . . 413--415
John Krige Cold War social science: transnational
entanglements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Fabrizio Bigotti Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and
classification of complexions in
14th-century Italian medicine . . . . . 419--441
Nuno Castel-Branco Physico-mathematics and the life
sciences: experiencing the mechanism of
venous return, 1650s--1680s . . . . . . 442--467
Alan R. Rushton Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome
theory of inheritance: William Bateson,
Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett
1879--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--496
C. S. Leedham and
V. L. Allan Scientific computing in the Cavendish
Laboratory and the pioneering women
computors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
Paula Findlen On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on
plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--515
Pamela H. Smith Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and
Technological Literature --- 1450--1750 515--518
Maria Rentetzi and
Donatella Germanese Science diplomacy on display: mobile
atomic exhibitions in the Cold War:
Introduction to Special Issue . . . . . 1--9
Donatella Germanese The ingredients of a successful atomic
exhibition in Cold War Italy . . . . . . 10--37
Michaela Smidrkalová Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from
`Atoms for Peace' to Expo 58 . . . . . . 38--61
Gisela Mateos and
Edna Suárez-Díaz The photographers' gaze: the Mobile
Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America
(1960--1965) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--76
Michael Hunter Magic, Science and Religion in Early
Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Kathryn M. Olesko Helmholtz and the conservation of
energy: contexts of creation and
reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Jia Hui Lee Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika
and the application of ecological
frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--111
Giulia Giannini Establishing an experimental agenda at
the \em Accademia del Cimento: Carlo
Rinaldini's book lists . . . . . . . . . 112--142
Michael Wiescher A German physicist's travels in Great
Britain: Julius Plücker's visits from
1853 to 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--194
Ian Maclean Renaissance medicine: a short history of
European medicine in the sixteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
Luís Campos Ribeiro Nautical astrology: a forgotten early
modern tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--231
John Henry Newton's `\booktitleDe Aere et Aethere'
and the introduction of interparticulate
forces into his physics . . . . . . . . 232--267
Nathan Edward Charles Smith Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and
succession of popular microscopy in
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--292
Jens Hòyrup A new history of Greek mathematics . . . 293--296
Carol Pal Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of
Robert Boyle's sister . . . . . . . . . 296--299
Robert Goulding The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton
Volume II: \booktitleThe Opticks and
Related Papers ca. 1688--1717 . . . . . 299--302
Siobhan Moira Ryan Norwegian climatology, the Republic of
Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment . . 303--336
Shaul Katzir The use of the conservation of living
force before Helmholtz . . . . . . . . . 337--356
Mary Pickard Winsor Darwin's dark matter: utter extinction 357--389
Christoffer Leber and
Claus Spenninger The many histories of the conflict
thesis: the science vs. religion
narrative in nineteenth-century Germany 390--417
Anita Guerrini Book Review: \booktitleMaking
physicians. Tradition, teaching, and
trials at Leiden University, 1575--1639,
vol. 1, by Evan Ragland, Leiden and
Boston, Brill, 2022, Clio Medica, vol.
106, xiv + 457 pp., 13 plts., \$143.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-90-04-46511-4} . . 418--420
Catherine Wilson Book Review: \booktitleAnalytical essay
on the faculties of the soul, by Charles
Bonnet, translated with an introductory
essay by Stephen Gaukroger, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 234 +
xxxiv, \$85.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-19-284677-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 420--423
Giles Scott-Smith Book Review: \booktitleKnowledge flows
in a global age: a transnational
approach, d. John Krige, Chicago and
London, University of Chicago Press,
2022, 368 pp., \$135 (Hardback), ISBN:
978-0-226-81994-5; \$45 (Paperback),
IBSN: 978-0-226-82038-5 . . . . . . . . 423--425
Sibylle Gluch Promises of precision: questioning
precision in `precision' instruments . . 1--9
Arthur Harris and
Liba Taub Quantification and precision: a brief
look at some ancient accounts . . . . . 10--29
Samuel Gessner `Si te omnimoda delectat precisio':
early astronomical instruments with
scales and the multiple meanings of
precision in the sixteenth century . . . 30--59
Richard L. Kremer Searching for precision: Lorenz
Eichstadt's \booktitleTabulae harmonicae
coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and
astronomical prediction after Kepler . . 60--78
Dana Jalobeanu Francis Bacon and the practices of
measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--99
Boris Jardine The social life of precision
instruments: artisans' trials in
early-modern England, 1550--1700 . . . . 100--123
Luís Tirapicos Directions of precision: George Graham's
instructions for his pendulum
astronomical clocks . . . . . . . . . . 124--138
David Aubin Popularizing precision: cultures of
exactness at the Paris Observatory,
1667--1742 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--159
Sibylle Gluch Time troubles: clocks and practices of
precision in early eighteenth-century
observatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--188
Rossella Baldi How to ensure a chronometer's accuracy.
Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users 189--207
Richard Dunn On being sufficiently exact: assessing
navigational instruments in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 208--234
Emily Akkermans Managing precision: how to use
chronometers accurately at sea . . . . . 235--257
Miguel Ohnesorge The promises and pitfalls of precision:
random and systematic error in physical
geodesy, c. 1800--1910 . . . . . . . . . 258--284
Marlis Hinckley `Prudence, Foresight, Courage,
Oeconomy': glass beehives and English
society, 1650--1680 . . . . . . . . . . 285--308
Cristiano Zanetti A telescopic paradox: the artisans of
the Accademia del Cimento, their
instruments and their (in)visibility . . 309--358
Bernardo Gonçalves Galilean resonances: the role of
experiment in Turing's construction of
machine intelligence . . . . . . . . . . 359--389
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze The two `strongest pillars of the
empiricist wing': the Vienna Circle,
German academia and emigration in the
light of correspondence between Philipp
Frank and Richard von Mises (1916--1939) 390--419
Xiao Liu Understanding sovereignty through
meteorology: China, Japan, and the
dispute over the Qingdao Observatory,
1918--1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--439
Steven Nadler Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and
the birth of modern philosophy . . . . . 440--442
Tom Archibald Anachronisms in the History of
Mathematics: Essays on the Historical
Interpretation of Mathematical Texts . . 442--444
Michael Olson Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th
century philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 444--446
Jiemin Tina Wei The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology,
History, and the Limits of Telehealth 447--449
Gabriele Vanin On Simon Mayr's alleged discovery of
Jupiter's satellites . . . . . . . . . . 451--473
Plamena Panayotova Inventing the language of \em Things:
the emergence of scientific reporting in
seventeenth-century England . . . . . . 474--509
Marco Beretta Stahl in France: an unknown Latin
translation of the \booktitleZufällige
Gedancken und nützliche Bedencken über den
Streit, von dem so genannten Sulfure
(1718) owned by Étienne--François
Geoffroy, Jean Hellot and
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier . . . . . . . 510--537
Olivier Morizot David Brewster's and William Herschel's
experiments on inflection that delivered
the \em coup de grâce to Thomas Young's
ether distribution hypothesis . . . . . 538--562
Christopher D. Hollings Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855
dispute over examination results . . . . 563--596
Cristiano Zanetti Book Review: \booktitleLynceorum
historia: le `schede lincee' di Martin
Fogel, edited by Michele Camerota,
Alessandro Ottaviani, and Oreste
Trabucco, Roma, Bardi edizioni editore
commerciale, 2021, pp. 548, EUR 35
(hardback), ISBN 978-88-218-1214-9 . . . 597--600
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: \booktitleEngraving
accuracy in early modern England: visual
communication and the Royal Society, by
Meghan Doherty, Amsterdam, Amsterdam
University Press 2022, 224 pp., EUR
116.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-94-6372-106-6 601--603
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Book Review: \booktitleOle Ròmer's
\booktitleTriduum vol. I--III, edited by
Claus Fabricius, Niels Therkel Jòrgensen
and Chr Gorm Tortzen, Copenhagen,
Society for Danish Language and
Literature, 2023, 234 + 473 + 112 pp. 11
plts., 799 DKK (Hardback), ISBN:
978-87-7533-060-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606
Coreen McGuire Book Review: \booktitleSound
authorities: scientific and musical
knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain,
by Edward J. Gillin, Chicago and London,
University of Chicago, 2021, 320 pp., 33
halftones, 4 tables, \$50.00 (hardback),
IBSN 978-0-226-78777-0} . . . . . . . . 606--607
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christoph Lüthy The late origins of the timeline, or:
three paradoxes explained . . . . . . . 1--43
Noemi Di Tommaso Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca
Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern
Bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--73
Leendert van der Miesen Sound between water and light: images
and analogies in early acoustics,
1660-1710 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--101
Liz Kambas Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's
`\booktitleSur la nature de l'eau': an
annotated English translation . . . . . 102--132
George Hook Julius Haast and the discovery of the
origin of alpine lakes . . . . . . . . . 133--173
Dominique Raynaud Book Review: \booktitleA light on Ibn
al-Haytham's \booktitleOptics, Books IV
and V, The optics of Ibn al-Haytham
Books IV-V: on reflection and images
seen by reflection, by A. I. Sabra,
prepared for publication by J.P.
Hogendijk, Chicago, The University of
Chicago Press, London, University of
London Press, 2023, xiv + 343 pp., 49
halftones, \$120.00 (hardback); \pounds
90.00, ISBN 978-1-908590-58-9 (Warburg
Institute Studies and Texts 8)} . . . . 174--179
John A. Schuster Book Review: Heroic resuscitation? An
attempt to revive Descartes' method,
\booktitleDescartes's method: the
formation of the subject of science, by
Tarek R. Dika, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2023, xxii + 382 pp., \$115
(hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-286986-9} . . 179--189
Robert W. Smith Book Review: \booktitleStar Noise:
Discovering the Radio Universe, by
Kenneth I. Kellermann and Ellen N.
Bouton, Cambridge and New York,
Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp.
xvii + 396, \$49.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-316-51935-6} . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Didier Kahn and
William R. Newman Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--197
Urs Leo Gantenbein The two lights of Paracelsus: natural
philosophy meets theology . . . . . . . 198--221
Dane T. Daniel and
Charles D. Gunnoe Jr Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus's
\booktitleAstronomia Magna (1537/8) and
the anonymous \booktitleAstrologia
Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian
anthropology in the light of Lutheran
biblical hermeneutics . . . . . . . . . 222--254
William R. Newman \booktitleA Chymist Among Beasts:
Reading Paracelsus Literally (with a
translation of \booktitleDe lunaticis,
chapter two) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--274
Charles D. Gunnoe Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague
Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis
of \booktitleVon der Pestilentz an die
Statt Stertzingen . . . . . . . . . . . 275--296
Didier Kahn The chymistry of rainbows, winds,
lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus 297--311
Andrew W. Sparling First entities in the \booktitleDe
renovatione et restauratione of
Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and
for people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--332
James L. Zainaldin Book Review: \booktitleThe Mechanical
Tradition of Hero of Alexandria:
Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to
the Early Modern Period, by Courtney Ann
Roby, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2023, viii + 300 pp., \$110.00
(hardcover), ISBN 978-1-316-51623-2} . . 333--335
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleFraming global
mathematics: the International
Mathematical Union between theorems and
politics, by Norbert Schappacher, Cham,
Springer, 2022, vii + 384 pp., \$59.99
(hardback), \$49.99 (paperback), ISBN
978-3-030-95682-0; (eBook) ISBN
978-3-030-95683-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 335--338
Stephen Bocking Book Review: \booktitleA lab for all
seasons: the laboratory revolution in
modern botany and the rise of
physiological plant ecology, by Sharon
E. Kingsland, New Haven and London, Yale
University Press, 2023, Xii + 385 pp.,
\$85.00 (hardcover), ISBN
978-0-300-26722-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 338--340