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Table of Contents - Volume 41 - Issue 01  

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Research Articles

 
 

Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 1

RUSSELL SMITH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 1-18
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000362 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Sep 2007
 

In search of the ‘true prospect’: making and knowing the Giant's Causeway as a field site in the seventeenth century

ALASDAIR KENNEDY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 19-41
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2007
 

Principle, practice and persona in Isambard Kingdom Brunel's patent abolitionism

DAVID PHILIP MILLER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 43-72
doi:10.1017/S0007087407009892 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jul 2007
 

Standardizing wounds: Alexis Carrel and the scientific management of life in the First World War

PERRIN SELCER

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 73-107
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 11 Sep 2007
 

Essay Review

 
 

Cybernetics and the machinery of rationality

Jamie Cohen-Cole

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 109-114
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Jul 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker and Xiang Chen, The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+199. ISBN 978-0-521-85575-4. £45.00 (hardback).

P. Kyle Stanford

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 116-117
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000672 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geography and Revolution. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+433. ISBN 0-226-48733-4. £45.00 (hardback).

Crosbie Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 117-119
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000684 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Helen M. Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. With a Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp xii+276. ISBN 0-674-01691. £16.95 (hardback).

Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren (eds.), The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment. Sagamore Beach, CA: Science History Publications, 2004. Pp. 399. ISBN 0-88135-372-8. £24.99 (hardback).

Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 119-120
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

David E. Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Cambridge, MA and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+282. ISBN: 0-262-14093-4. £18.95 (hardback).

Christine MacLeod

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 120-122
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Carsten Timmerman and Julie Anderson (eds.) Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xiv+284. ISBN 1-4039-86444-4. £55.00 (hardback).

Susan E. Lederer

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 122-123
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000702 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 542. ISBN 0-674-01876-2. £18.95, $29.95, €25.50 (hardback).

David Edgerton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 123-124
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa and Malcolm Dando (eds.), Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+479. ISBN 0-0674-01699-8. £37.95, €51.00, $59.95 (hardback).

Roy Macleod

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 124-126
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000611 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Sean F. Johnston, Holographic Visions: A History of New Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi+518. ISBN 0-19-857122-4. £75.00 (hardback).

Jon Agar

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 126-127
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000623 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist (eds.) The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xv+313. ISBN 0-415-39142-3. £80.00 (paperback).

Soraya de Chadarevian

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 127-129
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000714 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

T. K. Johansen, Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. vi+218. ISBN 0-521-79067-0. £45.00 (hardback).

Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+339. ISBN 0-19-928530-6. £45.00 (hardback).

Daryn Lehoux

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 129-130
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Simone van Riet, Jules Janssens and André Allard (eds.) Avicenna Latinus, Liber primus naturalium, tractatus secundus: De motu et de consimilibus. Introduction by Gérard Verbeke. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. lxxxix+373. ISBN 978-2-8031-0231-0. £173.70 (hardback).

Jon McGinnis

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 131-132
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000726 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Stephen Clucas (ed.) John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 193. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. Pp. xvii+366. ISBN: 1-4020-4245-0. €144.00, $189.00, £111.00 (hardback). ISBN: 1-4020-4246-9 (e-book).

Adam Mosley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 132-134
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000738 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Promise: Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550–1800 (Selected Essays of Allen G. Debus). Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xxv+548. ISBN 0-88135-296-9. $89.95 (hardback).

Anke Timmermann

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 134-135
doi:10.1017/S000708740700074X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston (eds.) The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 3: Early Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii+865. ISBN 0-521-57244-4. £90.00 (hardback).

Sophie Weeks

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 136-137
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean (eds.) Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi+274. ISBN 0-19-928878-X. £100.00 (hardback).

Pamela H. Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 137-138
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the Curious: Looking back at Early English Museums. Perspectives on Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii+297. ISBN 0-7546-0506-X. £47.50 (hardback).

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 139-140
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Cynthia Sundberg Wall, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+316. ISBN 0-226-87158-4. $35.00 (hardback).

James Delbourgo

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 140-141
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Judith P. Zinsser and Julie Candler Hayes (eds.) Emilie du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006. Pp. xi+325. ISBN 0-7294-0872-8. £60.00, €99.00, $122.00 (paperback).

Mary Terrall

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 141-142
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+177. ISBN 0-7190-7373-1. £50.00.

Oliver Hochadel

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 143-144
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000805 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

David Knight, Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-415-20638-3. £65.00 (hardback).

James Secord

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 144-145
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 662. ISBN 0-226-1091-6. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

David Knight

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 145-147
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000829 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

David J. Frank and Jay Gabler, Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the Twentieth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+248. ISBN 0-8047-5376-8. $19.95 (paperback).

Jonathan Harwood

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 147-148
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000568 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Aant Elzinga, Einstein's Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed Doors. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp xii+128. ISBN 0-88135-283-7. $39.95 (hardback).

Max K. Wallis and Trevor W. Marshall

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 148-149
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000581 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Theodore Arabatzis, Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+295. ISBN 0-226-02420-2. $70.00, £44.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-02421-0. $28.00, £18.00 (paperback).

Graeme Gooday

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 149-151
doi:10.1017/S000708740700057X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

David Kaiser, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xx+469. ISBN 0-226-42267-4. £21.00, $30.00 (paperback).

Helge Kragh

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 151-152
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, Michael Polanyi, Scientist and Philosopher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx+364. ISBN 0-19-517433-X. £26.99, $45.00 (hardback).

Jutta Schickore

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 152-154
doi:10.1017/S000708740700060X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. xi+261. ISBN 0-262-02589-2. £22.95 (hardback).

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 154-155
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000635 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 157-159
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000660 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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