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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 04  

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Research Articles

 
 

Periphery reassessed: Eugenios Voulgaris converses with Isaac Newton

MANOLIS PATINIOTIS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 471-490
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009806 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2007
 

The observatory, the land-based ship and the crusades: earth sciences in European context, 1830–50

FABIEN LOCHER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 491-504
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 11 Sep 2007
 

Inner division and uncertain contours: William James and the politics of the modern self

FRANCESCA BORDOGNA

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 505-536
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009880 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 11 Jul 2007
 

Plantation science: improving natural indigo in colonial India, 1860–1913

PRAKASH KUMAR

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 537-565
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Jul 2007
 

Instituting the science of mind: intellectual economies and disciplinary exchange at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies

JAMIE COHEN-COLE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 567-597
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 11 Sep 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Peter Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+242. ISBN 0-226-13948-4. $27.50, £17.50 (hardback).

John L. Heilbron

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 599-601
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000398 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Mario Biagioli, Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi+302. ISBN 0-226-04561-7. $25.00, £22.50 (hardback).

William Shea

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 601-602
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000404 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+384. ISBN 0-226-40954-6. $65.00, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-40955-4. $27.50, £17.50 (paperback).

Steven Shapin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 602-603
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000416 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

John Brooke and Ian Maclean (eds.), Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+373. ISBN 0-19-926897-5. $120.00, £65.00 (hardback).

Sachiko Kusukawa

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 603-605
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000428 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+456. ISBN 978-0-521-84077-4. £45.00 (hardback).

Staffan Müller-Wille

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 605-606
doi:10.1017/S000708740700043X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Judith P. Zinsser (ed.), Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science. De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. viii+215. ISBN 0-87580-340-7. $38.00 (hardback).

Michelle DiMeo

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 607-608
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Ivor Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640–1940. Amsterdam, San Diego, Oxford and London: Elsevier B. V., 2005. Pp. xvii+1022. ISBN 0-444-50871-6. £158.00 (hardback).

Josipa G. Petrunić

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 608-610
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Hubert Steinke, Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750–1790. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Clio Medicana 76. Union, NJ and Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B. V., 2005. Pp 354. ISBN 90-420-1852-6. €75.00, $94.00 (hardback).

Matthew D. Eddy

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 610-611
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000465 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon, Gabriel Gohau and Stéphane Tirard, Lamarck, philosophe de la nature. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006. Pp. xii+167 pp. ISBN 2-13-051976-8. €20.00 (paperback).

Richard W. Burkhardt

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 611-613
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000477 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827:A Determined Scientist. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+310. ISBN 0-674-01892-3. £22.95, $35.00, €32.30 (hardback).

Robert Fox

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 613-614
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

John L. Heilbron (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+358. ISBN 0-19-517198-5. $35.00 (hardback).

Charlotte Bigg

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 614-615
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000490 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Janet and Mark Robinson (eds.), The Stargazer of Hardwicke: The Life and Work of Thomas William Webb. Leominster: Gracewing, 2006. Pp. xix+259. ISBN 0-85244-666-7. £14.99 (hardback).

Mark Hurn

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 615-616
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000507 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+277. ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. £14.99 (paperback).

Chris Renwick

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 616-618
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000519 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Jonathan Smith, Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii+349. ISBN 0-521-85690-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Gowan Dawson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 618-619
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

P. Kyle Stanford, Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+234. ISBN 0-19-517408-9. £26.99 (hardback).

Marga Vicedo

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 619-621
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000532 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. London: Profile Books, 2007. Pp. xviii+270. ISBN 1-86197-296-2. £18.99 (hardback).

Patricia Fara

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 621-622
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000544 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2007
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 40, Issue 04, December 2007, pp 623-625
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2007
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