Quick Search:

Cite Search:

Home> The British Journal for the History of Science> Vol. 42 Issue 01

Log In

Register Now
Guest
Username or Email Address Password
Athens Log In
Shibboleth Log In
Forgot your Password?

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive

Click here for details about our archive digitisation project. more details

2009 Journals Catalogue

Click here to download a PDF of our latest catalogue; a comprehensive guide to all of our journals. more details

CJO Now Includes:

567,269 articles from 321 leading journals.

The British Journal for the History of Science

Search

Note: Abstract, PDF and HTML open in a new window

Editor(s):
Jon Agar, University College London, UK

Sort by

Previous Issue

Next Issue

Table of Contents - Volume 42 - Issue 01


	Please select Articles below or use Select All, then click the appropriate button above.	Select/Deselect All:
	Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
	BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp f1-f2 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (592 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter
	BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp b1-b3 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (681 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Editorial Note
	Editorial The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 1-4 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 12 Dec 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (36 KB) HTML (13 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Research Articles
	‘Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit’: standard time and Victorian networks of regulation DAVID ROONEY and JAMES NYE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 5-30 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (147 KB) HTML (110 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Material culture in the history of science: case studies from the National Maritime Museum RICHARD DUNN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 31-33 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (26 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Safety networks: fishery barometers and the outsourcing of judgement at the early Meteorological Department SARAH DRY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 35-56 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (125 KB) HTML (95 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Magnetism and chronometers: the research of the Reverend George Fisher G. W. Roberts The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 57-72 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001209 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (194 KB) HTML (3.46 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Raising the aerocompass in early twentieth-century Britain SOPHIA DAVIS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 73-94 doi:10.1017/S0007087408001210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008 Preview Abstract PDF (484 KB) HTML (9.65 MB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory: anthropologists, chemists and the fluorine dating method in palaeoanthropology MATTHEW R. GOODRUM and CORA OLSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 95-114 doi:10.1017/S000708740800157X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Jan 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (121 KB) HTML (121 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Book Reviews
	Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-0684313207. $995.00 (hardback). Steven Shapin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 116-117 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001915 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Thomas Söderqvist (ed.) The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xv+270. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9. £55.00 (hardback). Mary Jo Nye The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 117-119 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001927 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (43 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+217. ISBN 978-0-8018-8709-3. £33.50 (hardback). Josipa G. Petrunić The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 119-121 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001939 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. ix+286. ISBN 978-1-85196-906-7. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback). Massimo Mazzotti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 121-122 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (37 KB) HTML (8 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Jim Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+429. ISBN 978-0-226-2-791-9. £20.50 (hardback). Gordon McOuat The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 122-124 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Mark Francis, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv+434. ISBN 978-1-84465-086-6. £25.00 (hardback). Chris Renwick The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 124-125 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001964 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback). John Hedley Brooke The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 125-127 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001976 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xx+413. ISBN 0-226-79845-3. $37.50, £24.00 (hardback). Jeff Hughes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 127-128 doi:10.1017/S0007087409001988 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (37 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson (eds.), An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. BSHS Monograph Series, Vol. 13. London: British Society for the History of Science, 2007. Pp. ix+407. ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7. £15.00 (paperback). Ursula Klein The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 128-130 doi:10.1017/S000708740900199X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (8 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Lawrence M. Principe (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. xiii+274. ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. $45.00 (hardback). Anna Marie Roos, The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650–1750. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xvi+293. ISBN 978-90-04-16176-4. $129.00 (hardback). Pamela H. Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 130-132 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002003 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (43 KB) HTML (11 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt (eds.), Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xi+360. ISBN 978-226-76329-3. $28.00 (paperback). Penelope Gouk The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 132-133 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Deborah E. Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+349. ISBN 978-0-300-11196-5. £19.99 (hardback). Sophie Weeks The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 133-135 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (43 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Paola Bertucci, Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie. Scienza e curiosità nell'Italia del Settecento. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. Pp. 294. ISBN 978-88-339-1802-0. €28.00 (paperback). Paula Findlen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 135-136 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (37 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback). Jan Golinski The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 137-138 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-226-30205-8. $35.00 (hardback). James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen (eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xx+264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1. $39.95 (hardback). Simon Naylor The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 138-140 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (44 KB) HTML (11 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des Sciences citoyennes? La Question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN 9-782752-602305. €20.00. Oliver Hochadel The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 140-142 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (43 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 (hardback). Kristin Johnson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 142-143 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Jamie Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x+233. ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback). Ellen Clarke The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 143-145 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002088 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Steven French and Décio Krause, Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+422. ISBN 0-19-927824-5. £55.00 (hardback). Kent W. Staley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 145-146 doi:10.1017/S000708740900209X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (37 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Klaus Hentschel, The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists, 1945–1949. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi+205. ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0. £25.00 (hardback). Michael D. Gordin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 147-148 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002106 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Timothy Boon, Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 2008. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978-1-905674-37-4. £16.99 (paperback). Charlotte Sleigh The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 148-149 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002118 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (7 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. ISBN 978-0-8135-4220-1. $49.95 (hardback). Simone Turchetti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 149-150 doi:10.1017/S000708740900212X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (8 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Jene M. Porter and Peter W. B. Phillips (eds.), Public Science in Liberal Democracy. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xii+343. ISBN 978-0-8020-9359-2. £45.00 (hardback). Diane B. Paul The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 150-152 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (9 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Saul Dubow, A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa 1820–2000. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-199-29663-7. £60.00 (hardback). Simon Pooley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 152-154 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002143 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (42 KB) HTML (10 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Ann Gibbons, The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. ix+303. ISBN 1-4000-7696-X. $14.95 (paperback). Matthew R. Goodrum The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 154-155 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (35 KB) HTML (8 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Books Received
	Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 157-159 doi:10.1017/S0007087409002167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009 Preview Abstract PDF (38 KB) HTML (15 KB) Abstract HTML Article Structure Figures and Tables References
	Please select Articles above or use Select All, then click the appropriate button below.	Select/Deselect All:

Sort by

Log In

Browse Journals

Special Sales

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive

2009 Journals Catalogue

CJO Now Includes:

Customize Your Search Toolbar

The British Journal for the History of Science

Search

Social Bookmarking

Table of Contents - Volume 42 - Issue 01

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp f1-f2

doi:10.1017/S0007087409002222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

BJH volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp b1-b3

doi:10.1017/S0007087409002234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Editorial Note

Editorial

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 1-4

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 12 Dec 2008

Research Articles

‘Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit’: standard time and Victorian networks of regulation

DAVID ROONEY and JAMES NYE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 5-30

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

Material culture in the history of science: case studies from the National Maritime Museum

RICHARD DUNN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 31-33

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

Safety networks: fishery barometers and the outsourcing of judgement at the early Meteorological Department

SARAH DRY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 35-56

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

Magnetism and chronometers: the research of the Reverend George Fisher

G. W. Roberts

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 57-72

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001209 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Jul 2008

Raising the aerocompass in early twentieth-century Britain

SOPHIA DAVIS

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 73-94

doi:10.1017/S0007087408001210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jul 2008

The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory: anthropologists, chemists and the fluorine dating method in palaeoanthropology

MATTHEW R. GOODRUM and CORA OLSON

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 95-114

doi:10.1017/S000708740800157X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Jan 2009

Book Reviews

Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-0684313207. $995.00 (hardback).

Steven Shapin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 116-117

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001915 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Thomas Söderqvist (ed.) The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xv+270. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9. £55.00 (hardback).

Mary Jo Nye

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 117-119

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001927 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+217. ISBN 978-0-8018-8709-3. £33.50 (hardback).

Josipa G. Petrunić

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 119-121

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001939 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. ix+286. ISBN 978-1-85196-906-7. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).

Massimo Mazzotti

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 121-122

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jim Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+429. ISBN 978-0-226-2-791-9. £20.50 (hardback).

Gordon McOuat

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 122-124

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Mark Francis, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv+434. ISBN 978-1-84465-086-6. £25.00 (hardback).

Chris Renwick

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 124-125

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001964 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback).

John Hedley Brooke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 125-127

doi:10.1017/S0007087409001976 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xx+413. ISBN 0-226-79845-3. $37.50, £24.00 (hardback).

Jeff Hughes

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 127-128