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Table of Contents - Volume 41 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

Romancing the salve: Sir Kenelm Digby and the powder of sympathy

ELIZABETH HEDRICK

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 161-185
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000386 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2007
 

Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 2

RUSSELL SMITH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 187-207
doi:10.1017/S0007087407000374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2007
 

From medicine to natural philosophy: Francis Hauksbee's way to the air-pump

TERJE BRUNDTLAND

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 209-240
doi:10.1017/S000708740800085X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Mar 2008
 

The return of Thomas Salusbury's Life of Galileo (1664)

NICK WILDING

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 241-265
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000861 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Mar 2008
 

Essay Review

 
 

Prince Cesi and fungi, not to mention fungifunguli

Nicholas Jardine

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 267-273
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. ix+563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8. £35.00 (hardback).

John Hedley Brooke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 276-277
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000915 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+562. ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7. £28.00 (hardback).

Rina Knoeff

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 278-279
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000927 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+614. ISBN 0-5214-7565-5. £19.99, $29.99 (paperback).

Roberta Bivins

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 279-280
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000939 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds.) Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+295. ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. £55.00 (hardback).

Roger Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 281-282
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xi+276. ISBN 0-7914-6679-5. $75.00 (hardback).

Iwan Rhys Morus

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 282-283
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-520-24580-6. $49.95, £32.50 (hardback).

Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN 0-415-30174-2. £75.00 (hardback).

Anne Digby

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 283-285
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000964 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Ian Burney, Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+169. ISBN 0-7190-7376-6. £35.00 (hardback).

Christopher Hamlin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 285-286
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000976 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 (hardback).

Cheryl Logan

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 286-288
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000988 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1. $29.95, £19.95, €25.50 (hardback).

Carolyn Merchant

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 288-289
doi:10.1017/S000708740800099X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x+320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4. £60.00 (hardback).

Gordon Campbell

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 290-291
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001003 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+361. ISBN 978-0-521-86931-7. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-68957-1. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback).

Stephen Gaukroger

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 291-292
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr (eds.) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xv+265. ISBN 0-7546-4102-3. £55.00, $99.95 (hardback).

Catherine Eagleton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 293-294
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xi+212. ISBN 0-88135-356-6. $30.00 (hardback).

Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial, Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus Syllepticus. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+245. ISBN 0-268-02201-1. $35.00 (hardback).

John L. Heilbron

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 294-296
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+389. ISBN 0-8018-8426-8. £46.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. £20.00 (paperback).

Peter Dear

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 296-297
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+367. ISBN 0-674-02299-8. $29.95, £19.95 (hardback).

Paola Bertucci

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 297-298
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback).

Judith V. Grabiner

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 298-300
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+461. ISBN 0-8018-8291-5. £46.50 (hardback).

Jeremy Gray

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 300-302
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Noah J. Efron, Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33053-7. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).

Muzaffar Iqbal, Science and Islam. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33576-1. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).

Geoffrey Cantor

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 302-304
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001088 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3. $60.00, £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-09277-1. $24.00, £15.00 (paperback).

Veronika Lipphardt

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 304-305
doi:10.1017/S000708740800109X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Horst Bredekamp, Darwins Korallen. Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Wagenbach Verlag, 2005. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3803151735. €22.50 (hardback).

Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-3791336640. $100.00 (hardback).

Thomas P. Weber

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 306-307
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001106 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. iv+370. ISBN 0-262-06254-2. £29.95(hardback).

Kenneth L. Caneva

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 307-308
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001118 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Myles W. Jackson, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x+368. ISBN 0-262-10116-5. £25.95 (hardback).

David Pantalony

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 309-310
doi:10.1017/S000708740800112X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xxix+397. ISBN 0-691-12310-1. £22.99 (hardback).

Andrew Warwick

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 310-313
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth (eds.), The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2006. Pp. xx+492. ISBN 0-521-86609-X. £35.00 (hardback).

Emily Winterburn

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 313-314
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 315-317
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
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