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.
IntroductionScience and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds SEBESTIAN KROUPA, STEPHANIE J. MAWSON, DORIT BRIXIUS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 541 – 558 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000730 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Research article
Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius GENIE YOO The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 559 – 584 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000742 Published Online on 19 December 2018
A hard nut to crack: nutmeg cultivation and the application of natural history between the Maluku islands and Isle de France (1750s–1780s) DORIT BRIXIUS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 585 – 606 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000754 Published Online on 19 December 2018
The ‘genie of the storm’: cyclonic reasoning and the spaces of weather observation in the southern Indian Ocean, 1851–1925 MARTIN MAHONY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 607 – 633 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000766 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Imperial vernacular: phytonymy, philology and disciplinarity in the Indo-Pacific, 1800–1900 GEOFF BIL The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 635 – 658 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000778 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps KATHERINE PARKER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 659 – 677 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800078X Published Online on 19 December 2018
Other
Epilogue PABLO F. GÓMEZ, SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 679 – 686 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000791 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Essay Review
Stock and bulk in the latest Newton scholarship H. Floris Cohen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 687 – 701 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000924 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Book review
Zachary A. Matus, Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 203. ISBN 978-0-8122-4921-7. £52.00 (cloth). Emily E. Beck The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 703 – 705 doi: 10.1017/S000708741800081X Published Online on 19 December 2018
A. Mark Smith, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp xi + 457. ISBN 978-0-226-52857-1. $36.00 (paperback). James Everest The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 705 – 706 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000821 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Mel Gooding, David Mabberley and Joe Studholme, Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-500-51936-3. £65.00 (hardcover). Brian Richardson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 706 – 708 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000833 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Emily B. Stanback, The Wordsworth–Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv + 337. ISBN 978-1-137-51139-3. £90.00 (hardcover). Carlos Gámez-Pérez The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 708 – 709 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000845 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Henry A. McGhie, Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv + 341. ISBN 978-1-7849-9413-6. £25.00 (hardcover). Matthew Wale The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 709 – 710 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000857 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Heather Ellis, Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-137-31173-3. £66.99 (hardcover) Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 710 – 711 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000869 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Janet Browne (ed.), The Quotable Darwin. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix + 348. ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4. $24.95 (hardcover). John Lidwell-Durnin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 711 – 713 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000870 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Olivier Darrigol, Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings – An Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 612. ISBN 978-0-19-881617-1. £45.00 (hardcover). Mason Tattersall The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 713 – 714 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000882 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Laura J. Miller, Building Nature's Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Food. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-22650-123-9. $105.00 (cloth cover). Thomas P. Weber The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 714 – 716 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000894 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Daniel Warner, Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-78023-824-1. £16.00 (cloth cover). Danny Beckers The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 716 – 717 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000900 Published Online on 19 December 2018
Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing (eds.), For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2016. Pp. lxxvii + 1082. ISBN 978-90-04-26330-7. €248.00 (hardcover). Catherine Abou-Nemeh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 51 / Issue 4, December 2018, pp 717 – 719 doi: 10.1017/S0007087418000912 Published Online on 19 December 2018