Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 1
RUSSELL SMITH
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 1 - 18 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000362 Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Sep 2007
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In search of the ‘true prospect’: making and knowing the Giant's Causeway as a field site in the seventeenth century
ALASDAIR KENNEDY
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 19 - 41 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000349 Published online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2007
[ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=1688320>

Principle, practice and persona in Isambard Kingdom Brunel's patent abolitionism
DAVID PHILIP MILLER
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 43 - 72 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407009892 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jul 2007
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Standardizing wounds: Alexis Carrel and the scientific management of life in the First World War
PERRIN SELCER
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 73 - 107 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000295 Published online by Cambridge University Press 11 Sep 2007
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Cybernetics and the machinery of rationality
Jamie Cohen-Cole
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 109 - 114 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000015 Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Jul 2007
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Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker and Xiang Chen, /The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+199. ISBN 978-0-521-85575-4. £45.00 (hardback).
P. Kyle Stanford
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 116 - 117 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000672 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), /Geography and Revolution/. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+433. ISBN 0-226-48733-4. £45.00 (hardback).
Crosbie Smith
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 117 - 119 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000684 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Helen M. Rozwadowski, /Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea/. With a Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp xii+276. ISBN 0-674-01691. £16.95 (hardback).

Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren (eds.), /The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment/. Sagamore Beach, CA: Science History Publications, 2004. Pp. 399. ISBN 0-88135-372-8. £24.99 (hardback).
Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 119 - 120 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000052 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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David E. Nye, /Technology Matters: Questions to Live With/. Cambridge, MA and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+282. ISBN: 0-262-14093-4. £18.95 (hardback).
Christine MacLeod
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 120 - 122 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000696 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Carsten Timmerman and Julie Anderson (eds.) /Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective/. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xiv+284. ISBN 1-4039-86444-4. £55.00 (hardback).
Susan E. Lederer
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 122 - 123 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000702 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Michael Adas, /Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission/. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 542. ISBN 0-674-01876-2. £18.95, $29.95, €25.50 (hardback).
David Edgerton
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 123 - 124 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000556 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa and Malcolm Dando (eds.), /Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945/. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+479. ISBN 0-0674-01699-8. £37.95, €51.00, $59.95 (hardback).
Roy Macleod
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 124 - 126 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000611 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Sean F. Johnston, /Holographic Visions: A History of New Science/. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi+518. ISBN 0-19-857122-4. £75.00 (hardback).
Jon Agar
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 126 - 127 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000623 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist (eds.) /The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science/. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xv+313. ISBN 0-415-39142-3. £80.00 (paperback).
Soraya de Chadarevian
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 127 - 129 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000714 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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T. K. Johansen, /Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. vi+218. ISBN 0-521-79067-0. £45.00 (hardback).

Monte Ransome Johnson, /Aristotle on Teleology/. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+339. ISBN 0-19-928530-6. £45.00 (hardback).
Daryn Lehoux
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 129 - 130 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000064 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Simone van Riet, Jules Janssens and André Allard (eds.) /Avicenna Latinus, Liber primus naturalium, tractatus secundus: De motu et de consimilibus/. Introduction by Gérard Verbeke. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. lxxxix+373. ISBN 978-2-8031-0231-0. £173.70 (hardback).
Jon McGinnis
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 131 - 132 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000726 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Stephen Clucas (ed.) /John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought/. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 193. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. Pp. xvii+366. ISBN: 1-4020-4245-0. €144.00, $189.00, £111.00 (hardback). ISBN: 1-4020-4246-9 (e-book).
Adam Mosley
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 132 - 134 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000738 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Allen G. Debus, /The Chemical Promise: Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550–1800 (Selected Essays of Allen G. Debus)/. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xxv+548. ISBN 0-88135-296-9. $89.95 (hardback).
Anke Timmermann
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 134 - 135 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S000708740700074X Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston (eds.) /The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 3: Early Modern Science/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii+865. ISBN 0-521-57244-4. £90.00 (hardback).
Sophie Weeks
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 136 - 137 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000751 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean (eds.) /Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe/. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi+274. ISBN 0-19-928878-X. £100.00 (hardback).
Pamela H. Smith
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 137 - 138 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000763 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Ken Arnold, /Cabinets for the Curious: Looking back at Early English Museums/. Perspectives on Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii+297. ISBN 0-7546-0506-X. £47.50 (hardback).
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 139 - 140 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000775 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Cynthia Sundberg Wall, /The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century/. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+316. ISBN 0-226-87158-4. $35.00 (hardback).
James Delbourgo
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 140 - 141 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000787 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Judith P. Zinsser and Julie Candler Hayes (eds.) /Emilie du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science/. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006. Pp. xi+325. ISBN 0-7294-0872-8. £60.00, €99.00, $122.00 (paperback).
Mary Terrall
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 141 - 142 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000799 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Michael R. Lynn, /Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France/. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+177. ISBN 0-7190-7373-1. £50.00.
Oliver Hochadel
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 143 - 144 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000805 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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David Knight, /Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas/. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-415-20638-3. £65.00 (hardback).
James Secord
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 144 - 145 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000817 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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William Clark, /Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University/. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 662. ISBN 0-226-1091-6. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
David Knight
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 145 - 147 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000829 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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David J. Frank and Jay Gabler, /Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the Twentieth Century/. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+248. ISBN 0-8047-5376-8. $19.95 (paperback).
Jonathan Harwood
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 147 - 148 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000568 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Aant Elzinga, /Einstein's Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed Doors/. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp xii+128. ISBN 0-88135-283-7. $39.95 (hardback).
Max K. Wallis
Trevor W. Marshall
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 148 - 149 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000581 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Theodore Arabatzis, /Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities/. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+295. ISBN 0-226-02420-2. $70.00, £44.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-02421-0. $28.00, £18.00 (paperback).
Graeme Gooday
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 149 - 151 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S000708740700057X Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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David Kaiser, /Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics/. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xx+469. ISBN 0-226-42267-4. £21.00, $30.00 (paperback).
Helge Kragh
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doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000593 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, /Michael Polanyi, Scientist and Philosopher/. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx+364. ISBN 0-19-517433-X. £26.99, $45.00 (hardback).
Jutta Schickore
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doi: 10.1017/S000708740700060X Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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Geoffrey C. Bowker, /Memory Practices in the Sciences/. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. xi+261. ISBN 0-262-02589-2. £22.95 (hardback).
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 154 - 155 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
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Books received
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 157 - 159 <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BJH&volumeId=41&issueId=01sueId=01>
doi: 10.1017/S0007087407000660 Published online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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