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Table of Contents - Volume 41 - Issue 03  

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Research Articles

 
 

Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture

FRANCESCA BRAY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 319-344
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000873 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jun 2008
 

The enlightened microscope: re-enactment and analysis of projections with eighteenth-century solar microscopes

PETER HEERING

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 345-367
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000836 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Mar 2008
 

A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory

ELIZABETH CAVICCHI

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 369-383
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000885 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 06 Mar 2008
 

Historical geographies of provincial science: themes in the setting and reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and Ireland, 1831– c.1939

CHARLES WITHERS, REBEKAH HIGGITT and DIARMID FINNEGAN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 385-415
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000848 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jun 2008
 

Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79

SIMONE TURCHETTI, KATRINA DEAN, SIMON NAYLOR and MARTIN SIEGERT

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 417-444
doi:10.1017/S0007087408000903 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Jonathan Burt, Rat. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 189. ISBN 1-86189-224-1. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

Helen Macdonald, Falcon. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 208. ISBN 1-86189-238-1. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

Claire Preston, Bee. Animal Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 206. ISBN 1-86189-256-X. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

Tania Munz

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 445-447
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. viii+302. ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. £36.50 (hardback).

Richard W. Burkhardt

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 447-449
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Gregory Radick, The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+577. ISBN 978-0-226-70224-7. $45.00, £23.50.

Roger Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 449-450
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Richard G. Delisle, Debating Humankind's Place in Nature 1860–2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. vii+447. ISBN 0-13-1777390-9. $53.00 (paperback).

Matthew R. Goodrum

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 451-452
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Henrika Kuklick (ed.) A New History of Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xiii+402. ISBN 978-0-631-22600-0. £22.99 (paperback).

Efram Sera Shriar

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 452-453
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Diana Jeater, Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the ‘Native Mind’ in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. ISBN 978-0-325-07108-4. Pp. xxii+274. £54.95, $94.95 (hardback).

Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 453-455
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001325 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Felix Driver and Luciana Martins (eds.) Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+279. ISBN 0-226-16472-1. $25.00, £16.00 (paperback).

David Arnold, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-295-98581-X. $50.00, £32.95 (hardback).

Sujit Sivasundaram

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 455-456
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001337 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

David Buisseret (ed.) The Oxford Companion to World Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Vol. 1. Pp. xxviii+478. Vol. 2. Pp. vii+501. ISBN 978-0-19-514922-7, 0-19-514922-X. £140.00 (hardback).

Michael F. Robinson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 457-458
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Bart Grob and Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs Scientific Instruments? Conference on Scientific Instruments and their Users, 20–22 October 2005. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006. Pp. 272. ISBN 906292-158-2. No price given (paperback, includes CD-ROM).

Hester Higton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 458-459
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

A. D. Morrison-Low, Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xvi+408. ISBN 978-0-7546-5758-3. £55.00 (hardback).

Richard Dunn

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 459-460
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001362 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Jutta Schickore, The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-73784-3. $40.00 (hardback).

Boris Jardine

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 460-462
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Laura J. Snyder, Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. x+386. ISBN 0-226-76733-7. $45.00, £23.50 (hardback).

Thomas Dixon

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 462-464
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001386 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Bart Schultz, Henry Sidgwick – Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx+858. ISBN 0-521-82967-4. £40.00 (hardback).

Roy MacLeod

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 464-465
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001398 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Jennifer Tucker, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+294. ISBN 0-8018-7991-4. £36.50 (hardback).

Phillip Prodger

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 465-467
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001404 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman (eds.) Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2006. Pp. xxx+386. ISBN 1-58465-602-6. $65.00 (hardback).

Ludmilla Jordanova

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 467-469
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001416 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Gowan Dawson, Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+282. ISBN 978-0-521-87249-2 £50.00, $90.00 (hardback).

Frank M. Turner

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 469-470
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001428 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick and Rafael A. Martínez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 326. ISBN 0-8018-8389-7. £33.50, $50.00 (hardback).

Juliana Adelman

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 471-472
doi:10.1017/S000708740800143X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 03, September 2008, pp 473-476
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 Aug 2008
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