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The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 41 - Issue 02 - June 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Romancing the salve: Sir Kenelm Digby and the powder of sympathy ELIZABETH HEDRICK The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 161 - 185
Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 2 RUSSELL SMITH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 187 - 207
From medicine to natural philosophy: Francis Hauksbee's way to the air-pump TERJE BRUNDTLAND The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 209 - 240
The return of Thomas Salusbury's Life of Galileo (1664) NICK WILDING The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 241 - 265
Prince Cesi and fungi, not to mention fungifunguli Nicholas Jardine The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 267 - 273
Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. ix+563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8. £35.00 (hardback). John Hedley Brooke The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 276 - 277
Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+562. ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7. £28.00 (hardback). Rina Knoeff The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 278 - 279
W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+614. ISBN 0-5214-7565-5. £19.99, $29.99 (paperback). Roberta Bivins The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 279 - 280
Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds.), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+295. ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. £55.00 (hardback). Roger Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 281 - 282
Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xi+276. ISBN 0-7914-6679-5. $75.00 (hardback). Iwan Rhys Morus The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 282 - 283
Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-520-24580-6. $49.95, £32.50 (hardback).
Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN 0-415-30174-2. £75.00 (hardback). Anne Digby The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 283 - 285
Ian Burney, Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+169. ISBN 0-7190-7376-6. £35.00 (hardback). Christopher Hamlin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 285 - 286
Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 (hardback). Cheryl Logan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 286 - 288
Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1. $29.95, £19.95, €25.50 (hardback). Carolyn Merchant The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 288 - 289
G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x+320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4. £60.00 (hardback). Gordon Campbell The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 290 - 291
Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+361. ISBN 978-0-521-86931-7. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-68957-1. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback). Stephen Gaukroger The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 291 - 292
R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr (eds.) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xv+265. ISBN 0-7546-4102-3. £55.00, $99.95 (hardback). Catherine Eagleton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 293 - 294
William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xi+212. ISBN 0-88135-356-6. $30.00 (hardback).
Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial, Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus Syllepticus. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+245. ISBN 0-268-02201-1. $35.00 (hardback). John L. Heilbron The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 294 - 296
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+389. ISBN 0-8018-8426-8. £46.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. £20.00 (paperback). Peter Dear The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 296 - 297
James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+367. ISBN 0-674-02299-8. $29.95, £19.95 (hardback). Paola Bertucci The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 297 - 298
Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback). Judith V. Grabiner The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 298 - 300
Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+461. ISBN 0-8018-8291-5. £46.50 (hardback). Jeremy Gray The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 300 - 302
Noah J. Efron, Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33053-7. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).
Muzaffar Iqbal, Science and Islam. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33576-1. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback). Geoffrey Cantor The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 302 - 304
Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3. $60.00, £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-09277-1. $24.00, £15.00 (paperback). Veronika Lipphardt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02,
Horst Bredekamp, Darwins Korallen. Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Wagenbach Verlag, 2005. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3803151735. €22.50 (hardback).
Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-3791336640. $100.00 (hardback). Thomas P. Weber The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 306 - 307
Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. iv+370. ISBN 0-262-06254-2. £29.95(hardback). Kenneth L. Caneva The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 307 - 308
Myles W. Jackson, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x+368. ISBN 0-262-10116-5. £25.95 (hardback). David Pantalony The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 309 - 310
Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xxix+397. ISBN 0-691-12310-1. £22.99 (hardback). Andrew Warwick The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 310 - 313
Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth (eds.), The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2006. Pp. xx+492. ISBN 0-521-86609-X. £35.00 (hardback). Emily Winterburn The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 313 - 314
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 315 - 317 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001167 Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008 [ abstract ]