The British Journal for the History of Science 52 (2019), 2

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The British Journal for the History of Science 52 (2019), 2
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Special Issue: London 1600–1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice

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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.

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Introduction
Select 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

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