THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 43 - Issue 03 - September 2011
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Research Articles
The Roman Inquisition's precept to Galileo (1616) THOMAS F. MAYER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 327 - 351 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990069 Published online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
Observation, working images and procedure: the ‘Great Spiral’ in Lord Rosse's astronomical record books and beyond OMAR W. NASIM The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 353 - 389 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000051 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Mar 2010
The problem of raccoon intelligence in behaviourist America MICHAEL PETTIT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 391 - 421 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990677 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2009
Test objects and other epistemic things: a history of a nanoscale object CYRUS C.M. MODY, MICHAEL LYNCH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 423 - 458 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990689 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2009
Obituaries
David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947–13 December 2009) GEOFFREY CANTOR, FRANK JAMES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 459 - 467 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001007 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Essay Review
A field comes of age Janet Browne The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 469 - 473 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001019 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Book Reviews
Christopher Hamlin, Cholera: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp x+344. ISBN 978-0-19-954624-4. £12.99 (hardback). Mark Jackson, Asthma: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp xi+249. ISBN 978-0-19-923795-1. £12.99 (hardback). Andrew Scull, Hysteria: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp vii+223. ISBN 978-0-19-956096-7. £12.99 (hardback). Robert Tattersall, Diabetes: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-954136-2. £12.99 (hardback). Roberta Bivins The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 476 - 478 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001020 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins (eds.), Galen and the World of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+327. ISBN: 978-0-521-76751-4. £60.00 (hardback). Laurence Totelin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 478 - 479 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001032 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Leah DeVun, Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+255. ISBN 978-0-231-14538-1. £34.50 (hardback). Stephanie Seavers The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 479 - 480 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001044 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl (eds.), The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Volume 1: Fascimile. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+519. ISBN 978-0-262-13503-0. $65.00 (hardback). Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl (eds.). The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Volume 2: Transcription and Translation. Transcription by Franco Rossi. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. lii+679. ISBN 978-0-262-19590-4. $75.00 (hardback). Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl (eds.). The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Volume 3: Studies. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+370. ISBN 978-0-262-12308-2. $45.00 (hardback). Paula Findlen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 481 - 482 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001056 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Nicholas Jardine and Alain-Philippe Segonds, La Guerre des Astronomes: La Querelle au sujet de l'origine du système géo-héliocentrique à la fin du XVIe siècle. Volume 1: Introduction. Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, 2008. Pp. xxiv+290. ISBN 978-2-251-34513-0. €40.00 (paperback). Nicholas Jardine and Alain-Philippe Segonds, La Guerre des Astronomes: La Querelle au sujet de l'origine du système géo-héliocentrique à la fin du XVIe siècle. Volume 2/1: LeContra Ursumde Jean Kepler, Introduction et textes préparatoires and Volume 2/2: LeContra Ursumde Jean Kepler, Édition critique, traduction et notes. Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, 2008. Pp. xx+222 and 223–634. ISBN 978-2-251-34512-3. €85.00 (paperback). J.R. Christianson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 483 - 485 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001068 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+366. ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4. £25.00 (hardback). Stephen D. Snobelen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 485 - 486 doi:10.1017/S000708741000107X Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+428. ISBN 978-0-19-956664. £35.00 (hardback). Andrew Pyle The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 487 - 488 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001081 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Celina Fox, The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+576. ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0. £40.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 488 - 489 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001093 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Siegfried Huigen, Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xii+273. ISBN 978-90-04-17743-7. €99.00 (hardback). Saul Dubow The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 490 - 491 doi:10.1017/S000708741000110X Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Galina Kichigina, The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. ii+374. ISBN 978-90-420-2658-2. £72.20 (hardback). Elizabeth Neswald The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 491 - 493 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001111 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Julie K. Brown, Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xi+326. ISBN 978-0-262-02657-4. £33.95 (hardback). Claire Jones The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 493 - 494 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001123 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Claire G. Jones, Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+264. ISBN 978-0-230-55521-1. £55.00 (hardback). Alison Adam The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 494 - 496 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001135 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Joachim Radkau, Max Weber: A Biography. Trans. Patrick Camiller. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2009. Pp. xix+683. ISBN 978-0-7456-4147-8. £25.00 (hardback).
Fritz Ringer, Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. ix+307. ISBN 978-0-2267-2005-0. $21.00 (paperback). Chris Renwick The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 496 - 498 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001147 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Graeme Gooday, Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. ix+292. ISBN 978-1-85196-975-3. £60.00 (hardback). Ruth Schwartz Cowan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 498 - 500 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001159 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Joe Cain and Michael Ruse (eds.), Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900–1970. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xxvi+360. ISBN 978-1-60618-991-7. $35.00 (paperback). Jesse Richmond The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 500 - 501 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001160 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Gavin Schaffer, Racial Science and British Society, 1930–62. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. x+234. ISBN 978-0-230-00892-2. £45.00 (hardback). Amanda Rees The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 501 - 502 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001172 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Amanda Rees, The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. ix+288. ISBN 978-0-226-70711-2. £40.00 (hardback). Georgina M. Montgomery The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 502 - 503 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001184 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Graeme Gooday and James Sumner (eds.), By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electrical Technologies. History of Technology, Volume 28. Series editor Ian Inkster. London: Continuum, 2008. Pp. xiv+171. ISBN 978-0-8264-3875-1. £90.00 (hardback). JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 503 - 505 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001196 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Jennifer Karns Alexander, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+233. ISBN 978-0-8018-8693-5. £33.50 (hardback). Sarah Dry The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 505 - 506 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001202 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Sherry Turkle (ed.), Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. ix+385. ISBN 978-0-262-20168-1. £19.95 (hardback). Sherry Turkle (ed.), Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xii+318. ISBN 978-0-262-20172-8. £19.95 (hardback). Sherry Turkle (ed.), The Inner History of Devices. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. x+208. ISBN 978-0-262-20176-6. £19.95 (hardback). Thomas Söderqvist The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 506 - 508 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001226 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 03, September 2010, pp 509 - 512 doi:10.1017/S0007087410001214 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2010