THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 43 - Issue 04 - June 2011
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Research Articles
Architects of Armageddon: the Home Office Scientific Advisers' Branch and civil defence in Britain, 1945–68 MELISSA SMITH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 149 - 180 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990392 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Oct 2009
Tartaglia's ragioni: A maestro d'abaco's mixed approach to the bombardier's problem KARIN J. EKHOLM The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 181 - 207 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000038 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
Instrumental images: the visual rhetoric of self-presentation in Hevelius's Machina Coelestis JANET VERTESI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 209 - 243 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000440 Published online by Cambridge University Press 22 Mar 2010
Electron diffraction chez Thomson: early responses to quantum physics in Britain JAUME NAVARRO The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 245 - 275 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000026 Published online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2010
Essay Review
Heredity reconceived? Jonathan Harwood The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 277 - 282 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000488 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Book Reviews
Helaine Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Second Edition. 2 vols. Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 2008. Pp. xix+2416. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2. £355.00 (hardback). Sujit Sivasundaram The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 284 - 285 doi:10.1017/S000708741000049X Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Jagdish N. Sinha, Science, War and Imperialism: India in the Second World War. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xiv+278. ISBN 978-90-04-16645-5. €79.00 (paperback).
Itty Abraham (ed.), South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. ix+222. ISBN 978-0-253-22032-5. $24.95 (paperback). Jahnavi Phalkey The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 285 - 286 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000506 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Eleanor Robson, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvii+441. ISBN 978-0-691-09182-2. £35.00 (hardback). Alexander Jones The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 286 - 288 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000518 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Daryn Lehoux, Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Societies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+566. ISBN 978-0-521-85181-7. £65.00 (hardback). Eleanor Robson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 288 - 289 doi:10.1017/S000708741000052X Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. vii+918. ISBN 978-19-921312-2. £85.00 (hardback). Josipa G. Petrunić The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 289 - 291 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000531 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Robert Bartlett, The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x+170. ISBN 978-0-521-70255-3. £17.99. Margaret J. Osler The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 291 - 292 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000543 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Charles Webster, Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+326. ISBN 978-0-300-13911-2. £30.00 (hardback). Andrew Cunningham The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 292 - 295 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000555 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Peter M.J. Hess and Paul L. Allen, Catholicism and Science. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. Pp. xxvi+241. ISBN 978-0-313-33190-9. $65.00 (hardback). Don O'Leary, Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History. London and New York: Continuum, 2006. Pp. xx+356. ISBN 0-8264-1868-6. £18.99 (hardback). Juliana Adelman The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 295 - 296 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000567 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Tony Volpe, Science et théologie dans les débats savants de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle: La Genèse dans les Philosophical Transactions et le Journal des savants(1665–1710). Preface by Louis Châtellier. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Religieuses, 133. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. Pp. 467. ISBN 978-2-503-52584-6. €65.00 (paperback). Victor D. Boantza The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 296 - 297 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000579 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Kurt Ballstadt, Diderot: Natural Philosopher. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. Pp. viii+246. ISBN 978-0-72948-3. £55.00 (paperback). J.B. Shank The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 297 - 299 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000580 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Matthew D. Eddy, The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxi+309. ISBN 978-0-7546-6332-4. £60.00 (hardback). Lissa Roberts The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 299 - 301 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000592 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
David Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Modernity, 1789–1914. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2009. Pp. xiv+370. ISBN 978-0-7456-3676-4. £17.99 (paperback). Sophie Forgan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 301 - 302 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000609 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Laura Dassow Walls, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xv+404. ISBN 978-0-226-87182-0. £24.00 (hardback). H. Walter Lack, Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas. London: Prestel, 2009. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-3-79134142-2. £125.00 (hardback). Deborah R. Coen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 302 - 303 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000610 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Denise Gigante, Life: Organic Form and Romanticism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+302. ISBN 978-0-300-13685-2. £27.95 (hardback). John Holmes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 303 - 305 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000622 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
John Holmes, Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+288. ISBN 978-0-7486-3940-3. £60.00 (hardback). Gowan Dawson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 305 - 306 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000634 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Peter Ayres, The Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. Pp. xiii+227. ISBN 978-1-85196-970-8. £60.00 (hardback). David Kohn, Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure. New York: New York Botanical Garden, 2008. Pp. 60. ISBN 978-0-89327-970-7. $17.99. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 306 - 308 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000646 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Philip J. Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+336, ISBN 978-0-674-02663-6. £29.95 (hardback). Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+467. ISBN 978-0-521-67387-7. £15.99 (paperback). Berris Charnley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 308 - 309 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000658 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
J.F.M. Clark, Bugs and the Victorians. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+322. ISBN 978-0-300-15091. £25.00 (hardback). Charlotte Sleigh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 310 - 311 doi:10.1017/S000708741000066X Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Faidra Papanelopoulu, Agustí Nieto-Galan and Enrique Perdiguero (eds.), Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1820–2000. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xviii+284. ISBN 978-7546-6269-3. £60.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 311 - 312 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000671 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Aitor Anduaga, Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxv+386. ISBN 978-0-19-956272-5. £39.95 (hardback). Jeff Hughes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 312 - 314 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000683 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Kristin C. Harper, Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xii+308. ISBN 978-0-262-08378-2. £25.95 (hardback). Simone Turchetti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 314 - 315 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000695 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
G. Richard Delisle, Les Philosophies du néo-darwinisme. Preface by Jean Gayon. Paris: Presses universitaires France, 2009. Pp. 456. ISBN 978-2130566267. Canadian $56.70 (paperback). Maurizio Esposito The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 315 - 317 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000701 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-0-674-02424-3. £20.95 (hardback). S. Peter Harper, A Short History of Medical Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+557. ISBN 978-0-19-518750-2. £22.99 (hardback). John V. Pickstone The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 317 - 319 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000713 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan, Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xxii+389. ISBN 978-0-226-49806-5. £22.00 (hardback). Steve Sturdy The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 319 - 320 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000725 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind–Body Medicine. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-393-06563-3. £19.99 (hardback). Roger Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 320 - 322 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000737 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, June 2010, pp 323 - 325 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000476 Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 Jun 2010