THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 41 - Issue 04 - December 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Janus face of modernity: Michael Faraday in the twentieth century FRANK A. J. L. JAMESThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 477 - 516 doi:10.1017/S000708740800126X Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Aug 2008
Bipartisan politics and practical knowledge: advertising of public science in two London newspapers, 1695–1720 JEFFREY R. WIGELSWORTHThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 517 - 540 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001222 Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
Presbyterians and science in the north of Ireland before 1874 ANDREW R. HOLMESThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 541 - 565 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001234 Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008]
What happened in the sixties? JON AGARThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 567 - 600 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001179 Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xi+315. ISBN 978-0-262-19557-7. £24.95 (hardback). Silke AckermannThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 602 - 603 doi:10.1017/S000708740800160X Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Matthew McLean, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. viii+378. ISBN 978-0-7546-5843-6. £60.00 (hardback). Adam MosleyThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 603 - 605 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001611 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Adam Mosley, Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+354. ISBN 978-0-521-83866-5. £55.00 (hardback). Pamela H. SmithThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 605 - 606 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001623 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Louise H. Curth, English Almanacs, Astrology and Popular Medicine: 1550–1700. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+283. ISBN 978-0-7190-6928-4. £55.00 (hardback). H. Darrel RutkinThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 606 - 608 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001635 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Tara Nummedal, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii +260. ISBN 978-0-226-60856-3. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback). Bruce T. Moran, Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. viii+344. ISBN 978-0-88135-395-7. $49.95 (hardback). Anna Marie RoosThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 608 - 610 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001647 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x+345. ISBN 978-0-262-11306-6. £24.95 (hardback). Matthew D. EddyThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 610 - 611 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001659 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Maurice Crosland, The Language of Science: From the Vernacular to the Technical. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2006. Pp. 128. ISBN 978-0-7188-3060-1. £12.50, $27.50 (paperback). Maurice Crosland, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700–1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-7546-5913-6. £60.00 (hardback). Charles C. GillispieThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 611 - 613 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001684 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talent, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+401. ISBN 0-691-01715-8. £26.95 (hardback). James W. ReedThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 613 - 614 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001696 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Ralph O'Connor, The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+541. ISBN 978-0-226-61668-1. £23.50 (hardback). Nicolaas A. RupkeThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 614 - 616 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001702 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+545. ISBN 978-0-226-48118-0. $37.50, £23.50 (hardback). Ruth BartonThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 616 - 617 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001726 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006. Pp. xi +183. ISBN 0-335-21548-3. £17.99 (paperback). Jonathan R. TophamThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 617 - 619 doi:10.1017/S000708740800174X Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell (eds.), Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2006. Pp. xiii+492. ISBN 978-0-521-81012-8. £60.00, $85.00 (hardback). Cesare Lombroso, Criminal Man. Translated and with a new Introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+424. ISBN 0-8223-3723-1. £15.95 (paperback). Roger SmithThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 619 - 621 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001751 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Sarah E. Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 398. ISBN 978-0-674-02321-5. £22.95 (hardback). Michael PettitThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 621 - 623 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001763 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008]
Margaret A. Boden, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xlviii+xxiii+1631. ISBN 0-19-924144-9. £125.00 (hardback). Tara H. AbrahamThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 623 - 624 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001775 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 384. ISBN 0-262-11297-3. $40.00, £25.95 (hardback). Jeff HughesThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 624 - 626 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001787 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Mariana Mazzucatto and Giovanni Dosi (eds.) Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: The Case of Pharma-Biotech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+446. ISBN 978-0-521-85822-4. £48.00 (hardback). Viviane QuirkeThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 626 - 628 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001799 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman (eds.) The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+1065. ISBN 978-0-262-08364-5. £35.95 (hardback). Jesse RichmondThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 628 - 629 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001829 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 631 - 633 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001854 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008