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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 03  

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Research Articles

 
 

Inventing needs: expertise and water supply in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Paris

FRÉDÉRIC GRABER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 315-332
doi:10.1017/S000708740700979X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Constant differences: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the concept of the observer in early nineteenth-century practical astronomy and the history of the personal equation

CHRISTOPH HOFFMANN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 333-365
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009478 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 May 2007
 

From the Curse of Ham to the curse of nature: the influence of natural selection on the debate on human unity before the publication of The Descent of Man

ROBERT KENNY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 367-388
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009788 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

From engineer to scientist: reinventing invention in the Watt and Faraday centenaries, 1919–31

CHRISTINE MACLEOD and JENNIFER TANN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 389-411
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009855 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jul 2007
 

Lampreys, lungfish and elasmobranchs: Cambridge zoology and the politics of animal selection

HELEN BLACKMAN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 413-437
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Benjamin A. Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxviii+567. ISBN 0-674-01685-8. £35.95 (hardback).

Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+308. ISBN 0-674-02306-4. $35.00, £22.95, €29.80 (hardback).

Francesca Bray

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 439-441
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.), Science across the European Empires, 1800–1950. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute London, 2005. Pp. viii+376. ISBN 0-19-927629-2. £60.00 (hardback).

Emma Reisz

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 441-443
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Martin Daunton (ed.), The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 424. ISBN 0-19-726326-7. £55.00 (hardback).

Aileen Fyfe

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 443-444
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xi+231. ISBN 0-226-73569-9. $40.00, £25.50 (hardback).

Roger Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 445-446
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000143 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

William M. Taylor, The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii+252. ISBN 0-7546-3069-2. £45.00 (hardback).

J. F. M. Clark

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 446-447
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

A. J. Bowden, C. V. Burek and R. Wilding (eds.), History of Palaeobotany: Selected Essays. Geological Society Special Publication 241. London: The Geological Society, 2005. Pp. 304. ISBN 1-86239-174-2. £80.00 (hardback).

Jack Morrell

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 447-448
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

David S. Barnes, The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp xi+314. ISBN 0-8018-8349-0. £23.50 (hardback).

Christopher Hamlin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 449-450
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-226-13645-5. $35.00 (hardback).

Judith A. Houck

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 450-452
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Robert E. Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+363. ISBN 978-0-691-12539-2. $35.00, £22.95 (hardback).

Kristin Johnson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 452-453
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x+313. ISBN 0-8018-8171-4. £33.50 (hardback).

Kim Cuddington and Beatrix Beisner (eds.), Ecological Paradigms Lost. Routes of Theory Change. London: Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv+435. ISBN 0-12-088459-3. £49.95 (hardback).

Thomas P. Weber

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 453-455
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000209 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Allan Franklin, No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. xii+258. $29.95 (hardback).

Michela Massimi, Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+211. $80.00 (hardback).

Kent W. Staley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 455-457
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Arthur I. Miller, Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Pp xx+364. ISBN 0-618-34151-X. $26.00 (hardback).

Matthew Stanley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 457-458
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger (eds.), Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections. Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Volume 21. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 2005. Pp. xii+413. ISBN 0-9672617-3-2. $14.00 (paperback).

Jeff Hughes

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 459-460
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: The Roots of Evo-Devo. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+280. ISBN 0-521-80699-2. $75.00 (hardback).

Peter J. Bowler

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 460-462
doi:10.1017/S000708740600940X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-691-11857-4. £11.95 (paperback).

Lisa Gannett

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 462-464
doi:10.1017/S0007087406009411 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 280. ISBN 0-226-11366-3. $25.00, £17.50 (hardback).

Neil Pemberton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 464-465
doi:10.1017/S0007087406009423 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xv+376. ISBN 0-7546-3933-9. £60.00 (hardback).

John Pickstone

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 465-466
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 03, September 2007, pp 467-469
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009909 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Aug 2007
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