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A phenomenology of Galileo's experiments with pendulums A phenomenology of Galileo's experiments with pendulums

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PAOLO PALMIERI

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 479 - 513

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990033 (About DOI), Published online: 21 July 2009

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Producing and using the Historical Relation of Ceylon: Robert Knox, the East India Company and the Royal Society Producing and using the Historical Relation of Ceylon: Robert Knox, the East India Company and the Royal Society

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ANNA WINTERBOTTOM

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 515 - 538

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409002209 (About DOI), Published online: 15 April 2009

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The Royal Society, natural history and the peoples of the ‘New World(s)’, 1660–1800 The Royal Society, natural history and the peoples of the ‘New World(s)’, 1660–1800

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JOHN GASCOIGNE

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 539 - 562

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409002210 (About DOI), Published online: 15 April 2009

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Lilley revisited: or science and society in the twentieth century Lilley revisited: or science and society in the twentieth century

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VIDAR ENEBAKK

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 563 - 593

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409002246 (About DOI), Published online: 15 April 2009

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The disunities of representation The disunities of representation

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John V. Pickstone

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 595 - 600

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990070 (About DOI), Published online: 20 August 2009

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Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds and Alain Touwaide (eds.), Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xx+278. ISBN 0-7546-5296-3. £55.00 (hardback). Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds and Alain Touwaide (eds.), Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xx+278. ISBN 0-7546-5296-3. £55.00 (hardback).

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Martin Kemp

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 602 - 603

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990410 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+415. ISBN 978-0-19-925013-4. £35.00 (hardback). Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+415. ISBN 978-0-19-925013-4. £35.00 (hardback).

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Penelope Gouk

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 603 - 604

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990422 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Cristina Grasseni (ed.), Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007. Pp. viii+226. ISBN 978-1845-45210-0. £45.00 (hardback). Cristina Grasseni (ed.), Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007. Pp. viii+226. ISBN 978-1845-45210-0. £45.00 (hardback).

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Efram Sera Shriar

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 604 - 606

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990434 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Henry J. Noltie, Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2008. Pp. 215, 208 and 88. ISBN 978-1-906129-02-6. £75.00 (paperback, boxed set). Henry J. Noltie, Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2008. Pp. 215, 208 and 88. ISBN 978-1-906129-02-6. £75.00 (paperback, boxed set).

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Kapil Raj

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 606 - 608

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990446 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Constance Areson Clark, God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii+289. ISBN 978-0-8018-8825-0. £23.50 (hardback). Constance Areson Clark, God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii+289. ISBN 978-0-8018-8825-0. £23.50 (hardback).

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Dawn M. Digrius

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 608 - 609

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990458 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Margareta Tillberg, Tsvetnaia vselennaia: Mikhail Matiushin ob iskusstve i zrenii. Transl. from English by D. Dukhavina and M. Iarosh. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008. pp. 512. ISBN 978 5 867 93600 6. No price given (paperback). Margareta Tillberg, Tsvetnaia vselennaia: Mikhail Matiushin ob iskusstve i zrenii. Transl. from English by D. Dukhavina and M. Iarosh. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008. pp. 512. ISBN 978 5 867 93600 6. No price given (paperback).

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Irina Sirotkina

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 609 - 611

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000708740999046X (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Horst Bredekamp, Birgit Schneider and Vera Dünkel (eds.), Das technische Bild. Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder. Berlin: Akademie Verlag2008. Pp. 231. ISBN 978-3-05-004496-5. €29.80 (paperback). Horst Bredekamp, Birgit Schneider and Vera Dünkel (eds.), Das technische Bild. Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder. Berlin: Akademie Verlag2008. Pp. 231. ISBN 978-3-05-004496-5. €29.80 (paperback).

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Mirjam Brusius

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 611 - 612

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990471 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross (eds.), The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv+327. ISBN 978-0-22631656-7. $72.50, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-226-31656-7. $29.00, £18.50 (paperback). Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross (eds.), The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv+327. ISBN 978-0-22631656-7. \$72.50, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-226-31656-7. \$29.00, £18.50 (paperback).

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Steve Fuller

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 612 - 613

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409002490 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Patricia Fara, Science: A Four Thousand Year History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+408. ISBN 978-0-19-922689-4. £20.00 (hardback). Patricia Fara, Science: A Four Thousand Year History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+408. ISBN 978-0-19-922689-4. £20.00 (hardback).

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Charles C. Gillispie

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 613 - 615

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990483 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. viii+298. ISBN 978-0-8047-5901-4. $24.95 (paperback). Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. viii+298. ISBN 978-0-8047-5901-4. \$24.95 (paperback).

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Nick Tosh

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 615 - 616

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990495 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel, Romano Nanni and Nicole C. Karafyllis eds., Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies series vol. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 2 vols. Pp. xxix+577. ISBN 978-9-0041-70506. €149.00 (hardback). Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel, Romano Nanni and Nicole C. Karafyllis eds., Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies series vol. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 2 vols. Pp. xxix+577. ISBN 978-9-0041-70506. €149.00 (hardback).

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Peter Dear

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 616 - 617

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990501 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+218. ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0. £45.00, $75.00 (hardback). Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+218. ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0. £45.00, \$75.00 (hardback).

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Matthew D. Eddy

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 617 - 619

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990513 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Marianne Sommer, Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+398. ISBN 978-0-674-02499-1. £25.95 (hardback). Marianne Sommer, Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+398. ISBN 978-0-674-02499-1. £25.95 (hardback).

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Staffan Müller-Wille

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 619 - 620

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990525 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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David Stack, Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2008. Pp. xviii+350. ISBN 978 1 84725 233 3. David Stack, Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2008. Pp. xviii+350. ISBN 978 1 84725 233 3.

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Mark Francis

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 620 - 621

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990537 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+410. ISBN 978 0 226 27650 2. $45.00, £23.50 (hardback). Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+410. ISBN 978 0 226 27650 2. \$45.00, £23.50 (hardback).

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Angelique Richardson

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 621 - 623

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990549 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Steven McClean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+242. ISBN 978-0-230-53562-6. £50.00 (hardback). Steven McClean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+242. ISBN 978-0-230-53562-6. £50.00 (hardback).

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Charlotte Sleigh

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 623 - 624

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Deborah Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xi+380. ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback). Deborah Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xi+380. ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8. \$45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

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Tania Munz

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 624 - 626

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990562 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise (eds.), Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4068-3. £12.99 (paperback). Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise (eds.), Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4068-3. £12.99 (paperback).

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Jacob Stegenga

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 626 - 628

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409002477 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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David Edgerton, Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv+364. ISBN 0-521-67231-7. £45.00, $75.00 (paperback). David Edgerton, Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv+364. ISBN 0-521-67231-7. £45.00, \$75.00 (paperback).

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Roy MacLeod

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 628 - 629

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990574 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. London: Imperial College Press, 2007. pp. xxvii+825. ISBN 1-86094-709-3. £122.40, $152.00 (softcover). Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. London: Imperial College Press, 2007. pp. xxvii+825. ISBN 1-86094-709-3. £122.40, \$152.00 (softcover).

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Jean-François Auger

The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 04 / December 2009, pp 630 - 631

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087409990586 (About DOI), Published online: 26 November 2009

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