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	Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science MICHAEL HUNTER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 1-23 doi:10.1017/S0007087406009083 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Crisis and the construction of modern theoretical physics SUMAN SETH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 25-51 doi:10.1017/S0007087406009101 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	So simple a thing as a star: the Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology MATTHEW STANLEY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 53-82 doi:10.1017/S0007087406008740 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman's ideas on new creations in human beings CHRISTER NORDLUND The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 83-104 doi:10.1017/S0007087406009113 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Essay Review
	The two Newtons and beyond J. E. Force and S. Hutton (eds.), Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies. International Archives of the History of Ideas 188. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer, 2004. Pp. xvii+246. ISBN 1-4020-1969-6. £67.00 (hardback). Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes and Rebekah Higgitt (eds.), Early Biographies of Isaac Newton 1660–1885. Vol. 1: Eighteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: The Unpublished Manuscripts and Early Texts. Vol. 2: Nineteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: Private Debate and Public Controversy. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. Pp. lxxii+387 and xliii+420. ISBN 1-85-196778-8. £195.00 (hardback). Milo Keynes, The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. Pp. viii+120. ISBN 1-84383-133-3. £40.00 (hardback). John Henry (ed.), Newtonianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. 7 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. ISBN 1-84371-113-3. £595.00 (hardback). Mordechai Feingold, The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. New York and Oxford: The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv+218. ISBN 0-19-517735-5. £25.00 (hardback). Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687–1851. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 201. ISBN 0-674-01497-9. £22.95 (hardback). Massimo Mazzotti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 105-111 doi:10.1017/S0007087406008764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Book Reviews
	CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 239. ISBN 1-86189-255-1. £19.95, $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-8618-9285-0. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback). TIMOTHY BOON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 114-115 doi:10.1017/S000708740621937X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	MATTHIAS DÖRRIES (ed.), Michael Frayn's *Copenhagen* in Debate: Historical Essays and Documents on the 1941 Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Berkeley Papers in History of Science Vol. 20. Berkeley, CA: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005. Pp. viii+195. ISBN 0-9672617-2-4. $12.00 (paperback). HELGE KRAGH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 115-116 doi:10.1017/S0007087406229376 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	DONNA HARAWAY, The Haraway Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii+352. ISBN 0-415-96688-4. £16.99 (paperback). AMANDA REES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 117-118 doi:10.1017/S0007087406239372 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	PETER J. BOWLER and IWAN RHYS MORUS, Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+464. ISBN 0-226-0681-7. £17.50, $25.00 (paperback). JOHN L. HEILBRON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 118-119 doi:10.1017/S0007087406249379 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+420. ISBN 0-19-927668-4. £50.00 (hardback). MATTHEW STANLEY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 120-121 doi:10.1017/S0007087406259375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	DAVID M. KNIGHT and MATTHEW D. EDDY (eds.), Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7. £47.50 (hardback). RUTH BARTON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 121-123 doi:10.1017/S0007087406269371 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	ANDREA FALCON, Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+139. ISBN 0-521-85439-3. £45.00 (hardback). DAVID DEPEW The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 123-124 doi:10.1017/S0007087406279378 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	ROSHDI RASHED, Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. Pp. xii+1178. ISBN 1873992998. £50.00 (hardback). NADER EL-BIZRI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 124-126 doi:10.1017/S0007087406289374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	GAD FREUDENTHAL, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS803. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx+350. ISBN 0-86078-952-7. £62.50 (hardback). NORBERT SAMUELSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 126-127 doi:10.1017/S0007087406299370 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	JOHN NORTH, God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp. xix+441. ISBN 1-85285-451-0. £25.00 (hardback). CATHERINE EAGLETON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 127-128 doi:10.1017/S0007087406309375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	GERARD L'E. TURNER, Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii+294. ISBN 0-86078-903-9. £67.50, $124.95 (hardback). KOENRAAD VAN CLEEMPOEL, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and Greenwich: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 2005. Pp. ix+339. ISBN 0-19-853069-2. £99.50 (hardback). HESTER HIGTON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 129-130 doi:10.1017/S0007087406319371 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	BRUCE T. MORAN, Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 210. ISBN 0-674-01495-2. £16.95 (hardback). ALLEN G. DEBUS (ed.), Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers from Ambix. Huddersfield: Jeremy Mills (for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry), 2004. Pp. xv+543. ISBN 0-9546484-1-2. £33.00, $60.00 (paperback). JOHN HENRY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 130-132 doi:10.1017/S0007087406329378 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. £50.00 (hardback). BARBARA H. TRAISTER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 132-133 doi:10.1017/S0007087406339374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo: Essays on Intellectual History. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+340. ISBN 0-86078-964-0, $105.95 (hardback). GALILEO GALILEI, Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare. With a translation by Stillman Drake and an introduction by Filippo Camerota. Oakland, CA: Octavo, 2005. ISBN 1-891788-97-3, $35.00 (CD-ROM). JAMES HANNAM The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 133-135 doi:10.1017/S0007087406349370 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	MARCUS HELLYER, Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. xii+337. ISBN 0-268-03071-5. $50.00 (hardback). PETER DEAR The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 135-137 doi:10.1017/S0007087406359377 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	DORINDA OUTRAM, The Enlightenment. Second edition. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+165. ISBN 0-521-546681-8. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback). WILLIAM E. BURNS, Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Pp. xcviii+165. ISBN 1-57607-887-6. $65.00 (hardback). ALEXANDRA COOK The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 137-139 doi:10.1017/S0007087406369373 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	C. U. M. SMITH and ROBERT ARNOTT (eds.), The Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvii+416. ISBN 0-7546-3671-2. £60.00 (hardback). PATRICIA FARA The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 139-140 doi:10.1017/S000708740637937X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	MICHAEL COLLIE and JOHN DIEMER (eds.), Murchison's Wanderings in Russia: His Geological Exploration of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, 1840 and 1841. British Geological Survey Occasional Publication No. 2. Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2004. Pp. xvi+474. ISBN: 0-85272-467-5. £40.00 (hardback). JACK MORRELL The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 140-141 doi:10.1017/S0007087406389376 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	JACK MORRELL, John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xix+437. ISBN 1-84014-239-1. £57.50 (hardback). MARTIN RUDWICK The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 141-143 doi:10.1017/S0007087406399372 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	FALK MÜLLER, Gasentladungsforschung im 19. Jahrhundert. Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 2004. Pp. 300. ISBN 3-928186-76-0. €35.00 (paperback). ELIZABETH NESWALD The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 143-144 doi:10.1017/S0007087406409377 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	DAVID KAISER (ed.), Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. vi+426. ISBN 0-262-11288-4. £29.95 (hardback). BRUCE J. HUNT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 144-145 doi:10.1017/S0007087406419373 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	JONATHAN HARWOOD, Technology's Dilemma: Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860–1934. Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2005. Pp. 288. ISBN 3-03910-299-0. £29.00 (paperback.) BARBARA KIMMELMAN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 146-147 doi:10.1017/S000708740642937X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	RICHARD W. BURKHARDT, JR, Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+636. ISBN 0-226-08089-7. $80.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-08090-0. $29.00 (paperback). DONALD A. DEWSBURY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 147-149 doi:10.1017/S0007087406439376 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	ANDREW BROWN, J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+562. ISBN 0-19-851544-8. £25.00 (hardback). JEFF HUGHES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 149-150 doi:10.1017/S0007087406449372 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	MARY JO NYE, Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x+255. ISBN 0-674-01548-7. $25.95 (hardback). ROY MACLEOD The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 150-152 doi:10.1017/S0007087406459379 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	JANE GREGORY, Fred Hoyle's Universe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. x+406. ISBN 0-19-850791-7. £20.00 (hardback). SIMON MITTON, Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science. With an Introduction by Paul Davies. London: Aurum, 2005. Pp. xi+369. ISBN 1-85410-961-8. £18.99 (hardback). ROBERT W. SMITH The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 152-153 doi:10.1017/S0007087406469375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	GEORGE A. REISCH, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+418. ISBN 0-521-54689-3. £17.99, $26.99 (paperback). JONATHAN Y. TSOU The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 153-155 doi:10.1017/S0007087406479371 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
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	Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 156-158 doi:10.1017/S0007087406009368 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007 Preview Abstract Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00 Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 01

Research Articles

Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science

MICHAEL HUNTER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 1-23

doi:10.1017/S0007087406009083 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

Crisis and the construction of modern theoretical physics

SUMAN SETH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 25-51

doi:10.1017/S0007087406009101 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

So simple a thing as a star: the Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology

MATTHEW STANLEY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 53-82

doi:10.1017/S0007087406008740 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman's ideas on new creations in human beings

CHRISTER NORDLUND

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 83-104

doi:10.1017/S0007087406009113 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

Essay Review

Massimo Mazzotti

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 105-111

doi:10.1017/S0007087406008764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

Book Reviews

CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 239. ISBN 1-86189-255-1. £19.95, $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-8618-9285-0. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

TIMOTHY BOON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 114-115

doi:10.1017/S000708740621937X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

HELGE KRAGH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 115-116

doi:10.1017/S0007087406229376 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

DONNA HARAWAY, The Haraway Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii+352. ISBN 0-415-96688-4. £16.99 (paperback).

AMANDA REES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 117-118

doi:10.1017/S0007087406239372 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

PETER J. BOWLER and IWAN RHYS MORUS, Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+464. ISBN 0-226-0681-7. £17.50, $25.00 (paperback).

JOHN L. HEILBRON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 118-119

doi:10.1017/S0007087406249379 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+420. ISBN 0-19-927668-4. £50.00 (hardback).

MATTHEW STANLEY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 120-121

doi:10.1017/S0007087406259375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

DAVID M. KNIGHT and MATTHEW D. EDDY (eds.), Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7. £47.50 (hardback).

RUTH BARTON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 121-123

doi:10.1017/S0007087406269371 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

ANDREA FALCON, Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+139. ISBN 0-521-85439-3. £45.00 (hardback).

DAVID DEPEW

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 123-124

doi:10.1017/S0007087406279378 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

ROSHDI RASHED, Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. Pp. xii+1178. ISBN 1873992998. £50.00 (hardback).

NADER EL-BIZRI

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 124-126

doi:10.1017/S0007087406289374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

GAD FREUDENTHAL, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS803. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx+350. ISBN 0-86078-952-7. £62.50 (hardback).

NORBERT SAMUELSON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 126-127

doi:10.1017/S0007087406299370 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

JOHN NORTH, God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp. xix+441. ISBN 1-85285-451-0. £25.00 (hardback).

CATHERINE EAGLETON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 127-128

doi:10.1017/S0007087406309375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

HESTER HIGTON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 129-130

doi:10.1017/S0007087406319371 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

JOHN HENRY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 01, March 2007, pp 130-132

doi:10.1017/S0007087406329378 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Mar 2007

LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. £50.00 (hardback).

BARBARA H. TRAISTER