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.
IntroductionSelect London 1600–1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice
London 1600–1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice JIM BENNETT, REBEKAH HIGGITT Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019, pp. 183–196
‘A place of great trust to be supplied by men of skill and integrity’: assayers and knowledge cultures in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London JASMINE KILBURN-TOPPIN Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2019, pp. 197–223
Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London PHILIP BEELEY Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019, pp. 225–248
Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation NOAH MOXHAM Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2019, pp. 249–271
Trade, knowledge and networks: the activities of the Society of Apothecaries and its members in London, c.1670–c.1800 ANNA SIMMONS Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019, pp. 273–296
‘Greenwich near London’: the Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries REBEKAH HIGGITT Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2019, pp. 297–322
An experimental community: the East India Company in London, 1600–1800 ANNA WINTERBOTTOM Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019, pp. 323–343
Essay Review
Metaphors and other slippery creatures James E. Strick Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 345–352
Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship Mordechai Feingold Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 353–357
Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship Marius Stan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 359–360
Book Review
Karsten Mackensen, Musik und die Ordnung der Dinge im ausgehenden Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 353. ISBN 978–3-631-71992–3. €74.95/£51.95 (hardcover). Jacomien Prins Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 361–363
Yves Gingras, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2017. Pp. 249. ISBN 978–1-5095–1892-0. £17.99 (paperback). Renny Thomas Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 363–364
David Alff, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730. Alembics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-8122-4959-0. £54.00 (cloth). Daniella McCahey Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 365–366
Tita Chico, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 242. ISBN 978–1-5036-0544–2. $60.00 (hardcover). Patricia Fara Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 366–367
Susanna Gibson, The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN 978-0–1988–3337-6. £25.00 (hardback) Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 367–369
Efram Sera-Shriar (ed.), Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-0-8229-4529–1. $45.00 (hardcover). Alex Aylward Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 369–370
Helge Kragh, Ludvig Lorenz: A Nineteenth-Century Theoretical Physicist. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2018. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-8-7730-4417-9. DKK 240,00 (paperback) Bruce J. Hunt Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 370–372
David Cahan, Helmholtz: A Life in Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 937. ISBN 978-0–226-48114–2. $55.00 (cloth). Colin Hempstead Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 372–373
Gerrit Jasper Schenk (ed.), Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. ix + 436. ISBN 978–3–3194-9162–2. $139.00 (paperback). Ovanes Akopyan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 374–375
Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers and Ronald A. Binzley (eds.), The Warfare between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 355. ISBN 978–1-4214–2618–1. $39.95 (paperback). Geoffrey Cantor Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 375–376
Tiago Saraiva, Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp 326. ISBN 978-0–2620–3503–2. $40.00 (hardcover) Keir Waddington Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 376–378 Print publication: June 2019
Jared S. Buss, Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 321. ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8. $34.95 (hardcover). Robert W. Smith Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 378–379 Print publication: June 2019
Joseph D. Martin, Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 280. ISBN 978-0-8229-4538–3. $49.95 (cloth). Klaus Hentschel Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 379–381 Print publication: June 2019