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
From corps to discipline, part one: Charles d'Almeida, Pierre Bertin and French experimental physics, 1840–1880 DANIEL JON MITCHELL The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 333 – 368 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000535 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Reading and writing the scientific voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross KATHARINE ANDERSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 369 – 394 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800050X Published Online on 13 August 2018
Illustrating natural history: images, periodicals, and the making of nineteenth-century scientific communities GEOFFREY BELKNAP The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 395 – 422 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000511 Published Online on 15 August 2018
A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and gardening in the early twentieth century JIM ENDERSBY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 423 – 455 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800047X Published Online on 20 June 2018
Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum HILARY BUXTON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 457 – 485 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000493 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Sex in the laboratory: the Family Planning Association and contraceptive science in Britain, 1929–1959 NATASHA SZUHAN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 487 – 510 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000481 Published Online on 28 June 2018
Erratum
Lorenz Oken (1779–1851): Naturphilosophie and the reform of natural history – ERRATUM ANDREA GAMBAROTTO The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 511 – 511 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000547 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Book review
Joyce van Leeuwen, The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Berlin: Springer, 2016. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-3-3192-5925-3. $119.00 (hardcover). Stefano Gulizia The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 513 – 515 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000572 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (ed.), in collaboration with Karin Friedrich, Duncan Liddel (1561–1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xii + 322. ISBN 978-9-0043-1065-0, €135.00, $175.00 (hardback). – Kuni Sakamoto, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 213. ISBN 978-9-0043-1009-4, €104.00, $135.00 (paperback). Luís Miguel Carolino The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 515 – 518 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000584 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Henrietta McBurney, Ian Rolfe, Caterina Napoleone and Paula Findlen, with Carlo Violani, Onno Wijnands, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, Arthur McGregor and Kathie Way, Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities (Volumes One and Two). London: Royal Collection Trust (in association with Harvey Miller Publishers), 2017. Pp. 927. ISBN 978-1-9094-0060-3. €170.00 (hardcover). Sachiko Kusukawa The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 518 – 520 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000596 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Sabrina Minuzzi, Sul filo dei segreti: Farmacopea, libri e pratiche terapeutiche a Venezia in età moderna. Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, 2016. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-8-8400-1869-0. €25.00 (paperback) Antonio Clericuzio The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 520 – 521 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000602 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-7802-3640-7. £35.00 (hardback). Alexander Wragge-Morley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 521 – 522 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000614 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 294. ISBN 978-0-2261-1029-5. $55.00 (cloth). Richard T. Bellis The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 522 – 524 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000626 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Anita Guerrini, The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 343. ISBN: 978-0-2262-4766-3. $35.00 (hardback). Allen Shotwell The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 524 – 525 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000638 Published Online on 11 September 2018
James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart (eds.), Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-2264-0207-9. $55.00 (cloth). Marlene L. Eberhart The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 525 – 527 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800064X Published Online on 11 September 2018
Annie Tindley and Andrew Wodehouse, Design, Technology and Communication in the British Empire, 1830–1914. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-1-1375-9797-7. £37.99 (hardcover). Dominic J. Berry The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 527 – 529 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000651 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Michael Boulter, Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin. London: UCL Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 175. ISBN 978-1-7873-5005-2. £35.00 (paperback). Emily Hayes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 529 – 530 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000663 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus, The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-1-5800-46595-3. £95.00 (hardcover). Roger Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 531 – 532 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000675 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Paul Weindling (ed.), From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933–1945. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4724-8461-1. £105.00 (hardcover). Nicoletta I. Fotinos The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 532 – 533 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000687 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille, The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Translated by Adam Bostanci. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 147. ISBN 978-0-2265-1000-2. $25.00 (paperback). Alex Aylward The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 534 – 535 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000699 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Gaspare Galati, 100 Years of Radar. London: Springer, 2016. Pp. xviii + 399. ISBN 978-3-3190-0583-6. £109.99 (hardcover). Elizabeth Bruton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 535 – 536 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000705 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Richard McKay, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-2260-6400-0. $35.00. Neeraja Sankaran The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 536 – 538 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000717 Published Online on 11 September 2018
Govert Schilling, Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-0-6749-7166-0. £21.95 (hardcover). Tiffany Nichols The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 3, September 2018, pp 538 – 539 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000729 Published Online on 11 September 2018