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
‘Morals can not be drawn from facts but guidance may be’: the early life of W.D. Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness SARAH A. SWENSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 543–563 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000643, Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Nov 2015
An Ottoman response to Darwinism: İsmail Fennî on Islam and evolution ALPER BILGILI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 565–582 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000618, Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Sep 2015
Bears in Eden, or, this is not the garden you're looking for: Margaret Cavendish, Robert Hooke and the limits of natural philosophy IAN LAWSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 583–605 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000588, Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2015
Medicine, metals and empire: the survival of a chymical projector in early eighteenth-century London KOJI YAMAMOTO The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 607–637 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500059X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2015
The ichneumon fly and the equilibration of British natural economies in the eighteenth century SHEILA WILLE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 639–660 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500062X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Oct 2015
Between universalism and regionalism: universal systematics from imperial Japan JUNG LEE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 661–684 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000606, Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2015
Book Reviews
Ian Hacking, Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 290. ISBN 978-1-107–65815- 8. £17.99 (paperback). Michael J. Barany The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 686–687 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000692, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 485. ISBN 978-0–691-14905-9. £34.95 (hardback). Christopher Hollings The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 687–689 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000709, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
William E. Burns, The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-19998-933-1. £16.99 (paperback). James Poskett The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 689–690 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000710, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Dario Tessicini and Patrick J. Boner (eds.), Celestial Novelties on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution, 1540–1630. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2013. Pp. xvi + 282. ISBN 978-88-222–62547. €32.00 (paperback). Neil Tarrant The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 690–691 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000722, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Jamie C. Kassler, Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704–1713. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xii + 374. ISBN 978-1-4094-4921-8. £80.00 (hardback). Cornelis J. Schilt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 691–693 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000734, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
James Sumner, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60.00 (hardback). Alexi Baker The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 693–694 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000746, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Ben Russell, James Watt: Making the World Anew. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1–78023-375-8. £17.95 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 694–696 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000758, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Brian Gee (ed. Anita McConnell and A.D. Morrison-Low), Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 392. ISBN 978-1-4094–6643–7. £85.00 (hardback). Richard Dunn The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 696–697 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500076X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati (eds.), Scientific Instruments on Display. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xxxiv + 231. ISBN 978-90-04- 26439–7. £88.00 (hardback). Rebekah Higgitt The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 697–699 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000771, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Charles Mollan (ed.), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 368. ISBN 978-0–7190-9144–5. £70.00 (hardback). Adrian James Kirwan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 699–700 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000783, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor (eds.), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60.00 (hardback). Courtney J. Salvey The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 700–702 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000795, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Piers J. Hale, Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 442. ISBN 978-0-226-10849-0. \$45.00/£31.50 (hardback). Jonathan Conlin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 702–704 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000801, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Robert J. Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. \$27.50 (paperback). John Z. Langrish The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 704–705 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000813, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman and Richard England (eds.), The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 1,288. ISBN 978-0-19-964303–5. £320.00 (hardback). Gowan Dawson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 705–706 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000825, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Peter Lamont, Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 321. ISBN 978-1-107–68802–5. £19.99 (paperback). Andreas Sommer The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 707–708 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000837, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross (eds.), Science and Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 432. ISBN 978-0-226-12648–7. £28.00 (paperback). Joanna Bourke The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 708–709 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000849, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden (eds.), Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 367. ISBN: 978-1580464765. \$125.00 (hardback). Neeraja Sankaran The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 709–710 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000850, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440. IBSN 978- 0-230-30801–5. £65.00 (hardback). Coreen McGuire The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 711–712 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000862, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Angela N.H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 489. ISBN 978-0-226-01780-8. £31.50 (hardback). Mauro Capocci The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 712–713 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000874, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Catherine Jolivette (ed.), British Art in the Nuclear Age. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xv + 275. ISBN 978-1-4724-1276-8. £70.00 (hardback). Camilla Mørk Røstvik The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 713–714 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000886, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (eds.), Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0- 2625-2653-1. £25.95 (paperback). Jon Agar The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 715–716 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000898, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
John P. DiMoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 978-0-8047-8411–5. \$45.00 (hardback). Victoria Lee The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 716–717 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000904, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-1340-2. \$35.00 (hardback). The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 717–719 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000916, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Karen A. Rader and Victoria E.M. Cain, Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 467. ISBN 978-0-2260–7966-0. \$45.00/£31.50 (hardback). Samuel J.M.M. Alberti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 719–721 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000928, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Francis Graham-Smith, Unseen Cosmos: The Universe in Radio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 256. ISBN 978-0-19-966058-2. £20.00 (hardback). Oliver Marsh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 721–722 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500093X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262–52538-1. £24.95 (paperback). Melissa Lo The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 722–724 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000941, Published online by Cambridge University Press 02 Dec 2015
Corrigendum
Book review: Sarah Ferber, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1-4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM ÁNGEL R. RODRIGUEZ The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 04, December 2015, pp 725–725 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000631, Published online by Cambridge University Press 21 Oct 2015