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 article
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world DARYN LEHOUX The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 383 – 403 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000165 Published Online on 30 April 2019
Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain MATTHEW WALE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 405 – 423 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000050 Published Online on 5 April 2019
Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific FELIX LÜTTGE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 425 – 445 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000177 Published Online on 14 June 2019
‘X-rays don't tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945 COREEN MCGUIRE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 447 – 465 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000232 Published Online on 22 July 2019
Life cycle of a star: Carl Sagan and the circulation of reputation OLIVER MARSH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 467 – 486 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000049 Published Online on 22 April 2019
Essay
The pharmakon of ‘If’: working with Steven Shapin's A Social History of Truth MICHAEL WINTROUB The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 487 – 514 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000414 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Essay Review
Agnes Arber, historian of botany and Darwinian sceptic Vittoria Feola The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 515 – 523 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000633 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Book review
Cristiano Zanetti, Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire: A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore: Brill, 2018. Pp. xii + 450. ISBN 978-9-0043-2089-5. €95.00/$110.00 (hardcover). Jim Bennett The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 525 – 526 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000542 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Patrick Armstrong, Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 175, ISBN 978-1-7891-4085-9, £11.99 (paperback). Michael A. Flannery The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 526 – 528 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000554 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 282. ISBN 978-1-4214-2658-7. $39.95/£29.50 (hardcover). Chris Pearson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 528 – 529 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000566 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Ruth Barton, The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 576. ISBN 978-0-2265-5161-6. £41.50/$60 (hardback) Matthew Wale The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 529 – 530 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000578 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer, Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx + 126. ISBN 978-1-1374-0687-3. £44.99 (hardcover). Kristen Starkowski The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 531 – 532 doi: 10.1017/S000708741900058X Published Online on 27 September 2019
Rachel Plotnick, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 394. ISBN 978-0-2620-3823-2. $40.00/£30.00 (cloth). Jaume Sastre-Juan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 532 – 533 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000591 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Susan Lanzoni, Empathy: A History. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 392. ISBN 978-0-3002-2268-5. $30.00 (hardcover). – Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-0-2265-0185-7. $30.00 (cloth). Rob Boddice The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 534 – 535 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000608 Published Online on 27 September 2019
Anthony Chaney,Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-4696-3173-8. $32.95 (cloth). Rhodri Hayward The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 536 – 537 doi: 10.1017/S000708741900061X Published Online on 27 September 2019
Lisa M. Osbeck, Values in Psychological Science: Re-imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 145. ISBN 978-1-1071-3490-4. £80.00 (hardback) Sydney Lane The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 3, September 2019, pp 537 – 539 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000621 Published Online on 27 September 2019