THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 43 - Issue 01 - March 2010
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Research Articles
Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681–1683 NICHOLAS DEWThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 1 - 17 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990057 Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Aug 2009
Conjectures and reputations: The composition and reception of James Bradley's paper on the aberration of light with some reference to a third unpublished version JOHN FISHERThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 19 - 48 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990379 Published online by Cambridge University Press 24 Sep 2009
Giving wings to logic: Mary Everest Boole's propagation and fulfilment of a legacy K. G. VALENTEThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 49 - 74 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990380 Published online by Cambridge University Press 11 Nov 2009
Postcolonial partnerships: deep sea research, media coverage and (inter)national narratives on the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952 KRISTIAN HVIDTFELT NIELSENThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 75 - 98 doi:10.1017/S0007087409990045 Published online by Cambridge University Press 17 Jul 2009
Obituaries
Alfred Rupert Hall (26 July 1920–5 February 2009) and Marie Boas Hall (18 October 1919–23 February 2009) J.V. FIELDThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 99 - 103 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000014 Published online by Cambridge University Press 25 Jan 2010
Essay Review
The role of an editor: some remarks on Whiteside's edition of Newton's mathematical papers Ivor Grattan-GuinnessThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 105 - 112 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000257 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Gardens of life and death James DelbourgoThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 113 - 118 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000245 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Book Reviews
Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins. London: Allen Lane, 2009. Pp. xxi+485. ISBN 978-1-846-14035-8. £25.00 (hardback). Gordon McOuatThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 119 - 121 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000087 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Joe Bord, Science and Whig Manners: Science and Political Style in Britain, c. 1790–1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+213. ISBN 978-0-230-57484-7. £50.00 (hardback). Jack MorrellThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 121 - 122 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000099 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Lorraine Daston and Michael Stolleis (eds.), Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xii+338. ISBN 978-0-7546-5761-3. £60.00 (hardback). John HenryThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 123 - 124 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000105 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Palmira Fontes Da Costa, The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp. xvi+214. ISBN 978-1-4438-0357-1. £39.99 (hardback). John GascoigneThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 124 - 125 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000117 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Mike Jay, The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. vii+294. ISBN 978-0-300-12439-2. £20.00 (hardback). Michael A. FinnThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 125 - 126 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000129 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+548. ISBN 978-0-521-71184-5. £19.99 (paperback). Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Origin of Species’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxvii+395. ISBN 978-0-521-87079-5. £45.00 (hardback). Thierry HoquetThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 127 - 128 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000130 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Bernard Lightman, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The ‘Darwinians’ and Their Critics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xx+326. ISBN 978-0-7546-5987-7. £70.00 (hardback). Peter J. BowlerThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 129 - 130 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000142 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Francesca Bordogna, William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2008. Pp. x+382. ISBN 978-0-226-06652-3. £23.00 (hardback). Jacob StegengaThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 130 - 131 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000154 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Helge S. Kragh, Peter C. Kjaergaard, Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidfelt Nielsen, Science in Denmark: A Thousand Year History. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008. Pp. 607. ISBN 978-0-87-7934-317-7. £37.95 (hardback). Jacob HalfordThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 131 - 132 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000166 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xix+346. ISBN 978-0-226-73860-4. $26.00 (paperback). Matthew R. GoodrumThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 132 - 134 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000178 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Christina Chimisso, Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. ix+209. ISBN 978-0-7546-5705-7. £55.00 (hardback). Mary TilesThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 134 - 135 doi:10.1017/S000708741000018X Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+277. ISBN 978-0-226-28953-3. £19.00 (hardback). Roger SmithThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 135 - 136 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000191 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
L.S. Jacyna, Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head. London, Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. viii+353. ISBN 978-1-85196-907-4. £60.00 (hardback). Andrew HullThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 136 - 138 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000208 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Robert Bud, Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp ix+330. ISBN 978-0-19-954161-4. £16.99 (paperback). John V. PickstoneThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 138 - 139 doi:10.1017/S000708741000021X Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Julie Anderson Francis Neary and John V. Pickstone, Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv+222. ISBN 0-230-55314-9. £45.00 (hardback) Graeme J.N. GoodayThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 139 - 141 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000221 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Warwick Anderson, The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-8018-9040-6. £13.00 (hardback). Christopher HamlinThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 141 - 142 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000269 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Guy Ortolano, The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+295. ISBN 978-0-521-89204-9. £55.00 (hardback). Frank A.J.L. JamesThe British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 143 - 144 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000270 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 43, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 145 - 147 doi:10.1017/S0007087410000233 Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Mar 2010