This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
Research Articles
The industrial archaeology of deep time JENNY BULSTRODE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 1–25 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000017, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Feb 2016
An experimental ‘Life’ for an experimental life: Richard Waller's biography of Robert Hooke (1705) NOAH MOXHAM The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 27–51 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000029, Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Feb 2016
Newton and scholastic philosophy DMITRI LEVITIN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 53–77 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000667, Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Nov 2015
Les liaisons dangereuses: resource surveillance, uranium diplomacy and secret French–American collaboration in 1950s Morocco MATTHEW ADAMSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 79–105 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000655, Published online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2015
Essay Review
Heredity, evolution and development in their (epistemic) environment at the turn of the nineteenth century Federica Turriziani Colonna The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 107–113 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000303, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Book Reviews
Martin J.S. Rudwick, Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 360. ISBN 978-0-2262-0393-5. \$30.00/£21.00 (hardback). Allison Ksiazkiewicz The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 116–117 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000030, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Craig Martin, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 262. ISBN 978–1-4214–1316-7. £35.50 (hardback). Adam Mosley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 117–119 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000042, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Jacomien Prins, Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xiv + 461. ISBN 978-9-0042-7437-2. €49.00 (hardback). Penelope Gouk The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 119–120 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000054, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Dennis Danielson, Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii + 220. ISBN 978–1–1070- 3360-3. £60.00 (hardback). Mason Tattersall The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 120–122 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000066, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Meredith K. Ray, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 291. ISBN 978-0-6745-0423-3. \$45.00, £33.95 (hardback) Francesco G. Sacco The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 122–123 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000078, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
David Beck (ed.), Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 978–1-8489-3518–1. £60.00 (hardback). Cornelis J. Schilt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 123–125 doi: 10.1017/S000708741600008X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Mary Terrall, Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 275. ISBN 978-0-2260-8860-0. £28.00 (hardback). Sarah Easterby-Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 125–126 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000091, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Margaret E. Derry, Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN 978–1-4426-2652-2. £18.99 (paperback). Jennifer Adlem The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 126–127 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000108, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg (eds.), The Fate of Anatomical Collections. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978–1-4094-6815-8. £67.50 (hardback). Jennifer Wallis The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 127–129 doi: 10.1017/S000708741600011X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Timothy Larsen, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0–1996-5787-2. £25.00 (hardback). Efram Sera-Shriar The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 129–130 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000121, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.), Creationism in Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978–1-4214–1562-8. £26.00 (hardback). John Hedley Brooke The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 131–132 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000133, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor (eds.), Herbert Spencer: Legacies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 284. ISBN 978–1-84465-4. £65.00 (hardback). Gowan Dawson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 132–133 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000145, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-2262-3584-4. £24.50, \$35.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 134–135 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000157, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military–Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-6747-2526-3. £30.00 (hardback). Daniel Volmar The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 135–136 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000169, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Ulf Schmidt, Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxi + 637. ISBN 978-0–1992-9979-9. £25.00 (hardback). Alex Mankoo The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 136–138 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000170, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-2260-9216-4. £31.50 (hardback). The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 138–140 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000182, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Christopher Hollings, Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 441. ISBN 978–1-4704–1493–1. £79.95 (hardback). Michael J. Barany The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 140–141 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000194, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Roman Duda, Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 231. ISBN 978–1-4704–1076-6. £28.50 (hardback). Christopher Hollings The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 141–143 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000200, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Jiri Hudecek, Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics, History and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 978-0-4157-0296-6. £90.00 (hardback). Ubiratan D'Ambrosio The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 143–144 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000212, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 342. ISBN 978-0-8223- 5744-5. £17.99 (paperback) Alexander von Lünen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 144–146 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000224, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel and Birgit Schneider (eds.), The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-2262-5884-3. £35.00 (hardback). Elizabeth Haines The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 146–147 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000236, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Thor Hansen, The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-4650-5599-9. \$26.99/£17.99 (hardback). Matthew Holmes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 147–148 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000248, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Matthew Smith, Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-2311-6484-9. £19.95 (hardback). Ian Miller The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 148–150 doi: 10.1017/S000708741600025X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson (eds.), Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-6290-8. \$28.95 (paperback). Peter Reed The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 150–151 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000261, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016
Pieter Dhondt (ed.), University Jubilees and University Writing: A Challenging Relationship. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-9-0042–1696- 9. £79.00 (hardback). Pierre Verschueren The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 151–152 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000273, Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Mar 2016