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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

Samuel Morland and his calculating machines c.1666: the early career of a courtier–inventor in Restoration London

J. R. RATCLIFF

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 159-179
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009466 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

‘A devotion to the experimental sciences and arts’: the subscription to the great battery at the Royal Institution 1808–9

PATRICK UNWIN and ROBERT UNWIN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 181-203
doi:10.1017/S000708740700948X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

John Fleming and the geological deluge

JAMES BURNS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 205-225
doi:10.1017/S0007087406009095 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

The internationalization of science in a commercial context: research and development by overseas multinationals in Britain before the mid-1970s

SALLY M. HORROCKS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 227-250
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009491 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

The heuristics of war: scientific method and the founders of operations research

WILLIAM THOMAS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 251-274
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009508 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

W. F. BYNUM and ROY PORTER (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+712. ISBN 0-19-858409-1. £30.00, $50.00 (hardback).

LORRAINE DASTON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 276-277
doi:10.1017/S000708740700951X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-231-13038-4. £32.00, $49.50 (hardback).

TANIA MUNZ

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 277-279
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009521 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

MARCO BERETTA (ed.), From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums. Uppsala Studies in History of Science. Vol. 31. European Studies in Science History and the Arts. Vol. 5. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2005. Pp. ix+252. ISBN 0-88-135360-4. $39.95 (hardback).

KRISTIN JOHNSON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 279-280
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009533 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

AMIRIA HENARE, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix+323. ISBN 0-521-83591-7. £48.00, $80.00 (hardback).

JAMES URRY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 280-282
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009545 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

GIANNA POMATA and NANCY G. SIRAISI (eds.), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2005. Pp. viii+490. ISBN 0-262-16229-6. £32.95 (hardback).

SILVIA DE RENZI

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 282-284
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

JULIE ROBIN SOLOMON and CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN (eds.), Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005). Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiii+257. ISBN 0-7546-5359-5. £47.50 (hardback).

SOPHIE WEEKS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 284-285
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009569 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

ERNAN MCMULLIN (ed.), The Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. xiv+392. ISBN 0-268-03484-2. $30.00 (paperback). MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO, Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of Califonia Press, 2005. Pp. xii+485. ISBN 0-520-24261-0. $50.00, £32.50 (hardback).

JAMES HANNAM

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 285-287
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009570 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

NOEL MALCOLM and JACQUELINE STEDALL, John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 657. ISBN 0-19-856484-8. £90.00 (hardback).

SARAH HUTTON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 287-288
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009582 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

MARY ARCHER and CHRISTOPHER HALEY (eds.), The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+318. ISBN 0-521-82873-2. £50.00, $90.00 (hardback).

TREVOR H. LEVERE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 289-290
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009594 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

JONATHAN SIMON, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777–1809. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. vi+189. ISBN 0-7546-5044-8. £45.00 (hardback).

LISSA ROBERTS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 290-291
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009600 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

PETER HANNS REILL, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. x+388. ISBN: 0-520-24135-5. $55.00, £35.95 (hardback).

JOAN STEIGERWALD

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 292-293
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009612 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

NICOLAAS A. RUPKE, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. 320. ISBN 3-631-53932-0. £22.80 (hardback).

PATRICIA FARA

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 293-294
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009624 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

MICHAEL FREEMAN, Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x+310. ISBN: 0-300-10334-4. £25.00 (hardback). JAN T. KOZÁK, VICTOR S. MOREIRA and DAVID R. OLDROYD, Iconography of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. Prague: Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Academia, the Publisher of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2005. Pp. 84. ISBN: 80-239-4390-1 (GI), 80-200-1322-9 (Academia). No price given (hardback).

JACK MORRELL

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 295-295
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009636 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

KATHARINE ANDERSON, Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x+331. ISBN 0-226-019680-3. £31.50, $45.00 (hardback).

MATTHEW D. EDDY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 295-297
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009648 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

HARRO MAAS, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii+330. ISBN 0-521-82712-4. $75.00 (hardback).

PHILIP MIROWSKI

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 297-298
doi:10.1017/S000708740700965X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

ROBERT FOX and GRAEME GOODAY (eds.), Physics in Oxford, 1839–1939: Laboratories, Learning, and College Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+363. ISBN 0-19-856792-8. £60.00 (hardback).

MATTHEW STANLEY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 298-299
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009661 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

BEN MARSDEN and CROSBIE SMITH, Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xi+351. ISBN 0-333-77278-4. $65.00 (hardback).

EMMA REISZ

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 299-301
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009673 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

NADJA DURBACH, Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+276. ISBN 0-8223-3412-7. $84.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-8223-3423-2 (paperback).

MICHAEL WORBOYS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 301-302
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009685 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. 194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6. $39.95 (hardback).

SUSAN LINDEE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 302-304
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009697 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE, Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919–1930: New Science in an Old Country. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Vol. 5. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2005. Pp. ix+373. ISBN 1-58046-195-6. £60.00, $85.00 (hardback).

ANDREW HULL

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 304-305
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009703 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

THOMAS RYCKMAN, The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, 1915–1925. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix+317. ISBN 0-19-517717-7. £36.50, $60.00 (hardback).

JOSIPA G. PETRUNIC

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 306-307
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009715 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

STEPHEN FROSH, Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. vi+228. ISBN 1-4039-2170-9. £25.00 (hardback).

GEOFFREY CANTOR

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 307-309
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009727 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

NILS ROLL-HANSEN, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science. New York: Humanity Books, 2005. Pp. 335. ISBN 1-59102-262-2. £17.99 (paperback).

ANDY HAMMOND

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 309-310
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009739 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 02, June 2007, pp 311-313
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
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