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Table of Contents - Volume 41 - Issue 04  

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Presidential Address

 
 

The Janus face of modernity: Michael Faraday in the twentieth century

FRANK A. J. L. JAMES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 477-516
doi:10.1017/S000708740800126X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 28 Aug 2008
 

Research Articles

 
 

Bipartisan politics and practical knowledge: advertising of public science in two London newspapers, 1695–1720

JEFFREY R. WIGELSWORTH

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 517-540
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
 

Presbyterians and science in the north of Ireland before 1874

ANDREW R. HOLMES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 541-565
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
 

What happened in the sixties?

JON AGAR

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 567-600
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xi+315. ISBN 978-0-262-19557-7. £24.95 (hardback).

Silke Ackermann

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 602-603
doi:10.1017/S000708740800160X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Matthew McLean, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. viii+378. ISBN 978-0-7546-5843-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Adam Mosley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 603-605
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001611 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Adam Mosley, Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+354. ISBN 978-0-521-83866-5. £55.00 (hardback).

Pamela H. Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 605-606
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001623 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Louise H. Curth, English Almanacs, Astrology and Popular Medicine: 1550–1700. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+283. ISBN 978-0-7190-6928-4. £55.00 (hardback).

H. Darrel Rutkin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 606-608
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001635 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Tara Nummedal, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii +260. ISBN 978-0-226-60856-3. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback).

Bruce T. Moran, Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. viii+344. ISBN 978-0-88135-395-7. $49.95 (hardback).

Anna Marie Roos

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 608-610
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001647 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x+345. ISBN 978-0-262-11306-6. £24.95 (hardback).

Matthew D. Eddy

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 610-611
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Maurice Crosland, The Language of Science: From the Vernacular to the Technical. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2006. Pp. 128. ISBN 978-0-7188-3060-1. £12.50, $27.50 (paperback).

Maurice Crosland, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700–1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-7546-5913-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Charles C. Gillispie

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 611-613
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001684 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talent, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+401. ISBN 0-691-01715-8. £26.95 (hardback).

James W. Reed

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 613-614
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Ralph O'Connor, The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+541. ISBN 978-0-226-61668-1. £23.50 (hardback).

Nicolaas A. Rupke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 614-616
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001702 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+545. ISBN 978-0-226-48118-0. $37.50, £23.50 (hardback).

Ruth Barton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 616-617
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001726 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006. Pp. xi +183. ISBN 0-335-21548-3. £17.99 (paperback).

Jonathan R. Topham

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 617-619
doi:10.1017/S000708740800174X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell (eds.), Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2006. Pp. xiii+492. ISBN 978-0-521-81012-8. £60.00, $85.00 (hardback).

Cesare Lombroso, Criminal Man. Translated and with a new Introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+424. ISBN 0-8223-3723-1. £15.95 (paperback).

Roger Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 619-621
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Sarah E. Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 398. ISBN 978-0-674-02321-5. £22.95 (hardback).

Michael Pettit

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 621-623
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Margaret A. Boden, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xlviii+xxiii+1631. ISBN 0-19-924144-9. £125.00 (hardback).

Tara H. Abraham

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 623-624
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 384. ISBN 0-262-11297-3. $40.00, £25.95 (hardback).

Jeff Hughes

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 624-626
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Mariana Mazzucatto and Giovanni Dosi (eds.) Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: The Case of Pharma-Biotech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+446. ISBN 978-0-521-85822-4. £48.00 (hardback).

Viviane Quirke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 626-628
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman (eds.) The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+1065. ISBN 978-0-262-08364-5. £35.95 (hardback).

Jesse Richmond

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 628-629
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001829 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 631-633
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001854 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Dec 2008
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