THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 44 - Issue 01 - March 2011
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Research Articles
The biological precedents for medieval impetus theory and its Aristotelian character JOHANNES FRITSCHE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 1 - 27 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410000774 (About doi) Published Online on 27th September 2010
‘Your astronomers and ours differ exceedingly’: the controversy over the ‘new star’ of 1572 in the light of a newly discovered text by Thomas Digges STEPHEN PUMFREY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 29 - 60 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410001317 (About doi) Published Online on 08th October 2010
The uses of analogy: James Clerk Maxwell's ‘On Faraday's lines of force’ and early Victorian analogical argument KEVIN LAMBERT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 61 - 88 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410000439 (About doi) Published Online on 22nd March 2010
Synthetic technocracy: Dutch scientific intellectuals in science, society and culture, 1880–1950 DAVID BANEKE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 89 - 113 doi: 10.1017/S000708741000004X (About doi) Published Online on 14th May 2010
Obituaries
Professor Margaret J. Osler (27 November 1942–15 September 2010) FRANK W. STAHNISCH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 115 - 118 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410001342 (About doi) Published Online on 22nd November 2010
Book Reviews
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+114. ISBN 978-0-8047-6289-2. $18.95 (paperback). Todd Meyers The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 120 - 121 doi: 10.1017/S000708741100001X (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Ruth Glasner, Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-956773-7. £37.50 (hardback). Charles Burnett The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 121 - 122 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000021 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 422. ISBN 978-0-262-01317-8. $55.00 (hardback). Richard T.W. Arthur The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 122 - 124 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000033 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Simon Werrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vii+359. ISBN 978-0-226-89377-8. £29.00 (hardback). Brenda J. Buchanan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 124 - 125 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000045 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+393. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8. £45.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 126 - 127 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000057 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Peter Heering, Oliver Hochadel and David J. Rhees (eds.), Playing with Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xi+290. ISBN 978-1-60618-995-5. $35.00 (paperback). Florence Grant The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 127 - 128 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000069 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
J.M.I. Klaver, Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881. London: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-956889-5. £95.00 (hardback). Simon Mills The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 128 - 130 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000070 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Michael R. Lynn, The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix+240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2. £60.00 (hardback). Charles C. Gillispie The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 130 - 131 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000082 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Jan Goldstein, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+246. ISBN 978-0-691-01186-8. £20.95 (hardback). Jacqueline Carroy The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 131 - 132 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000094 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
A.W. Bates, The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. ix+228. ISBN 978-1-84519-38-2. £39.95 (hardback). Lisa Rosner, The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. vi+328. ISBN 978-0-8122-4191-4. £19.50 (hardback). Steve Sturdy The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 133 - 134 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000100 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN 987-0-674-04661-0. £21.95 (hardback). Karen Hunger Parshall The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 134 - 135 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000112 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7. £20.00 (hardback). Frank A.J.L. James The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 135 - 137 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000124 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Juliana Adelman, Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+221. ISBN 978-1-85196-653-0. £60.00 (hardback). Clara Cullen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 137 - 138 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000136 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Basil Mahon, Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+183. ISBN 978-0-86341-965-2. £15.00/ $30.00 (paperback). Graeme Gooday The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 138 - 140 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000148 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Christoph Gradmann, Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology, translated by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-8018-9313-1. £18.00 (hardback). James E. Strick The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 140 - 141 doi: 10.1017/S000708741100015X (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Heiner Fangerau, Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-3-05-004528-3. €59.80 (hardback). Max Stadler The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 141 - 143 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000161 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Suman Seth, Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. vii+378. ISBN 978-0-262-01373-4. £23.95 (hardback). Olivier Darrigol The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 143 - 144 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000173 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Heather Wolffram, The Stepchildren of Science. Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c.1870–1939. Amsterdam and New York: Ropodi, 2009. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-90-420-2728-2. £70.00 (hardback). Andreas Sommer The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 144 - 146 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000185 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Charles G. Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. x+356. ISBN 978-0-262-01338-3. £25.95 (hardback). Jeff Wolf The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 146 - 147 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000197 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Amparo Gómez Rodríguez and Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano (eds.), Ciencia y fascismo: La ciencia española de posguerra. Barcelona: Laertes, 2009. Pp. 358. ISBN 978-84-7584-657-6. €19.50 (paperback). Michael Richards The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 148 - 149 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000203 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Matthias Berg, Jens Thiel and Peter Th. Walther (eds.), Mit Feder und Schwert: Militär und Wissenschaft-Wissenschaftler und Krieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-3-515-09606-5. €46.00 (paperback). Mark Walker The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 149 - 151 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000215 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse and Mark Walker (eds.), The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv+477. ISBN 978-0-521-87906-4. £45.00 (hardback). Margit Szöllösi-Janze The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 151 - 152 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000227 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Peter J.T. Morris (ed.), Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xxi+350. ISBN 978-0-230-23009-5. £65.00 (hardback). Richard Dunn The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 152 - 153 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000239 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 626. ISBN 928-0-226-40118-8. $35.00 (hardback). Christine Macleod The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 153 - 155 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000240 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2011, pp 157 - 159 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000264 (About doi) Published Online on 01st March 2011