This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
Research article
Francis Bacon's doctrine of idols: a diagnosis of ‘universal madness’ S.V. WEEKS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 1 – 39 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000961 Published Online on 30 January 2019
The mechanical life of plants: Descartes on botany FABRIZIO BALDASSARRI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 41 – 63 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800095X Published Online on 30 January 2019
Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea JIM BENNETT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 65 – 83 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000013 Published Online on 13 February 2019
Charles Darwin and the scientific mind DAVID STACK The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 85 – 115 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000973 Published Online on 29 January 2019
Translation and transmutation: the Origin of Species in China XIAOXING JIN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 117 – 141 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000808 Published Online on 27 December 2018
Rothschild reversed: explaining the exceptionalism of biomedical research, 1971–1981 STEPHEN M. DAVIES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 143 – 163 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000523 Published Online on 28 August 2018
Book review
Hilary A. Smith, Forgotten Disease: Illness Transformed in Chinese Medicine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-5036-0344-8. $24.95 (paperback) Emma Stirling-Middleton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 165 – 167 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000062 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Aviva Rothman, The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN 978-0-226-49697-9. $55.00 (cloth cover). Cornelis J. Schilt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 167 – 168 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000074 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 375. ISBN 978-0-8229-4475-1. $45.00 (hardcover). Peter Reed The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 168 – 170 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000086 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin's Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin's View of Nature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 273. ISBN 978-1-78707-138-4. £60.00/$90.95 (hardback) Bárbara Jiménez The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 170 – 171 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000098 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Patricia Fara, A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 319. ISBN 978-0-19-879-498-1. £18.99 (hardcover). Amy Sue Bix The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 171 – 173 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000104 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Jaume Navarro (ed.), Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-1987-9725-8. £65.00 (hardcover). Geoffrey Cantor The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 173 – 174 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000116 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan M. Jones (eds.), A Global History of Sexual Science 1880–1960. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-0-520-29339-7. $34.95 (paperback). Eleni Loukopoulou The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 175 – 176 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000128 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Gayle Greene, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 2nd edn. Pp. xxvi + 321. ISBN 978-0-472-05356-8. $21.95 (paperback). Maria Rentetzi The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 176 – 178 doi: 10.1017/S000708741900013X Published Online on 5 March 2019
Roberto Lalli, Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xiv + 168. ISBN 978-3-319-54653-7. £49.99 (softcover). Tiffany Nichols The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 178 – 180 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000141 Published Online on 5 March 2019
Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein and James P. Collins (eds.), The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 454. ISBN 978-0-226-538446-4. $35.00 (paperback). Aaron van Neste The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 1, March 2019, pp 180 – 181 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000153 Published Online on 5 March 2019