The British Journal for the History of ScienceVolume 41 - Issue 03 - September 2008
Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture FRANCESCA BRAY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 319 - 344
The enlightened microscope: re-enactment and analysis of projections with eighteenth-century solar microscopes PETER HEERING The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 345 - 367
A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory ELIZABETH CAVICCHI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 369 - 383
Historical geographies of provincial science: themes in the setting and reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and Ireland, 1831– c.1939 CHARLES WITHERS REBEKAH HIGGITT DIARMID FINNEGAN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 385 - 415
Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79 SIMONE TURCHETTI KATRINA DEAN SIMON NAYLOR MARTIN SIEGERT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 417 - 444
Jonathan Burt, Rat. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 189. ISBN 1-86189-224-1. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).
Helen Macdonald, Falcon. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 208. ISBN 1-86189-238-1. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).
Claire Preston, Bee. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 206. ISBN 1-86189-256-X. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback). Tania Munz The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 445 - 447
Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. viii+302. ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. £36.50 (hardback). Richard W. Burkhardt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 447 - 449
Gregory Radick, The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+577. ISBN 978-0-226-70224-7. $45.00, £23.50. Roger Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 449 - 450
Richard G. Delisle, Debating Humankind's Place in Nature 1860–2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. vii+447. ISBN 0-13-1777390-9. $53.00 (paperback). Matthew R. Goodrum The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 451 - 452
Henrika Kuklick (ed.) A New History of Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xiii+402. ISBN 978-0-631-22600-0. £22.99 (paperback). Efram Sera Shriar The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 452 - 453
Diana Jeater, Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the ‘Native Mind’ in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. ISBN 978-0-325-07108-4. Pp. xxii+274. £54.95, $94.95 (hardback). Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 453 - 455
Felix Driver and Luciana Martins (eds.) Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+279. ISBN 0-226-16472-1. $25.00, £16.00 (paperback).
David Arnold, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-295-98581-X. $50.00, £32.95 (hardback). Sujit Sivasundaram The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 455 - 456
David Buisseret (ed.) The Oxford Companion to World Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Vol. 1. Pp. xxviii+478. Vol. 2. Pp. vii+501. ISBN 978-0-19-514922-7, 0-19-514922-X. £140.00 (hardback). Michael F. Robinson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 457 - 458
Bart Grob and Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs Scientific Instruments? Conference on Scientific Instruments and their Users, 20–22 October 2005. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006. Pp. 272. ISBN 906292-158-2. No price given (paperback, includes CD-ROM). Hester Higton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 458 - 459
A. D. Morrison-Low, Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xvi+408. ISBN 978-0-7546-5758-3. £55.00 (hardback). Richard Dunn The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 459 - 460
Jutta Schickore, The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-73784-3. $40.00 (hardback). Boris Jardine The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 460 - 462
Laura J. Snyder, Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. x+386. ISBN 0-226-76733-7. $45.00, £23.50 (hardback). Thomas Dixon The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 462 - 464
Bart Schultz, Henry Sidgwick – Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx+858. ISBN 0-521-82967-4. £40.00 (hardback). Roy MacLeod The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 464 - 465
Jennifer Tucker, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+294. ISBN 0-8018-7991-4. £36.50 (hardback). Phillip Prodger The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 465 - 467
Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman (eds.) Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2006. Pp. xxx+386. ISBN 1-58465-602-6. $65.00 (hardback). Ludmilla Jordanova The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 467 - 469
Gowan Dawson, Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+282. ISBN 978-0-521-87249-2 £50.00, $90.00 (hardback). Frank M. Turner The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 469 - 470 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001428 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008 [ abstract ]
Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick and Rafael A. Martínez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 326. ISBN 0-8018-8389-7. £33.50, $50.00 (hardback). Juliana Adelman The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 471 - 472 doi:10.1017/S000708740800143X Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008 [ abstract ]