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Table of Contents - Volume 42 - Issue 02  

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

BJH volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp f1-f2
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002519 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

BJH volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp b1-b4
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

The Heavens Inscribed: the instrumental poetry of the Virgin in early modern France

MICHAEL WINTROUB

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 161-185
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001581 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Dec 2008
 

Advertising cadavers in the republic of letters: anatomical publications in the early modern Netherlands

DÁNIEL MARGÓCSY

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 187-210
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Sep 2008
 

Some reflections on Newton's Principia

E. B. DAVIES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 211-224
doi:10.1017/S000708740800188X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

Bones and words in 1870s New Zealand: the moa-hunter debate through actor networks

SIMON THODE

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 225-244
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001544 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Sep 2008
 

Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)

ELSA MOTA, PAULO CRAWFORD and ANA SIMÕES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 245-273
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001568 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

Essay Review

 
 

The languages of melancholy in early modern England

Yasmin Haskell

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 275-280
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001532 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Dec 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Mark Jackson, Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-86189-333-8. £12.25 (paperback).

Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+312. ISBN 978-0-300-11035-7. £20.00 (hardback).

Steve Sturdy

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 282-284
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine? A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+238. ISBN 978-0-19-921887-5. £14.99 (hardback).

Jacalyn Duffin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 284-285
doi:10.1017/S000708740900226X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+257. ISBN 0-7546-3619-4. £45.00 (hardback).

Adrian Wilson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 285-287
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Tatjana Buklijas and Nick Hopwood, Making Visible Embryos. An online exhibition developed by the University of Cambridge with support from the Wellcome Trust, 2008. Available at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/

Jane Maienschein

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 287-288
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Roy Church and E. M. Tansey, Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: Knowledge, Trust and Profit, and the Transformation of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880–1940. Lancaster: Crucible, 2007. Pp. xxvii+564. ISBN 978-1-905-472-07-9. £19.99 (paperback).

Claire Jones

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 288-289
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830–2000. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+247. ISBN 978-0-230-54240-2. £45.00 (hardback).

Harriet Ritvo

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 290-291
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Marcos Cueto , Cold Wars, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico 1955–1975. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+264. ISBN 978-0-8018-8645-4. $45.00, £30.00 (hardback).

Frank M. Snowden , The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+296. ISBN 0-300-10899-0. $43.00, £25.00 (hardback).

Sandra M. Sufian , Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920–1947. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+385. ISBN 978-0-226-77935-5. $40.00, £21.00 (hardback).

Thomes P. Weber

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 291-293
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

William Bynum, The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-19-921543-0. £7.99 (paperback).

Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-0-19-929551-7. £7.99 (paperback).

Patricia Fara

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 293-294
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002325 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+300. ISBN 978-0-521-87559-2. £50.00 (hardback).

Stephen Gaukroger

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 294-296
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002337 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear (eds.), The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007. Available outside the UK and Europe from University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxvii+503. ISBN 978-90-6984-483-1. €89.00, $110.00 (hardback).

Christine MacLeod

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 296-298
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv+285. ISBN 978-0-230-50708. £53.00 (hardback).

Lorraine Daston

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 298-299
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Josep Simon and Néstor Herran, with Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Pedro Ruiz Castell and Ximo Guillem-Llobat (eds.), Beyond Borders: Fresh Perspectives in History of Science. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. vii+377. ISBN 978-184-71843-2. £39.99 (hardback).

Lewis Pyenson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 299-301
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002362 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Alessandro Ottaviani and Oreste Trabucco, Theatrum Naturae: La ricerca naturalistica tra erudizione e nuova scienza nell'Italia del primo Seicento. Napoli: La Città del Sole. 2007. Pp. 177. ISBN 978-88-8292-363-1. €22.00 (paperback).

Valentina Pugliano

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 301-302
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

J. B. Shank, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+571. ISBN 978-0-226-74945-7. $55.00 (hardback).

Christopher Baxfield

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 302-304
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002386 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Jeremy J. Gray and Karen H. Parshall (eds.), Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London: London Mathematical Society, 2007. Pp. vii+336 pp. ISBN 978-0-8218-4343-7. $69.00 (hardback).

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 304-305
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002398 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Chris Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+382. ISBN 978-0-226-64077-8. £13.00 (paperback).

Jimena Canales

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 305-306
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002404 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Alice Jenkins (ed.), Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+250. ISBN 978-1-84631-140-6. £47.50, $85.00 (hardback).

Ryan D. Tweney

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 306-308
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002416 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Frank A. J. L. James (ed.), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: Volume 5, 1855–1860. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. Pp. lviii+835. ISBN 978-0-86341-823-5. £70.00 (hardback).

Frank A. J. L. James (ed.), Christmas at the Royal Institution: An Anthology of Lectures by M. Faraday, J. Tyndall, R. S. Ball, S. P. Thompson, E. R. Lankester, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg, R. L. Gregory, and I. Stewart. Singapore: World Scientific Books, 2007. Pp. xxxiii+366. ISBN 981-277-109-3. £39.00 (paperback).

Iwan Rhys Morus

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 308-310
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002428 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

The English Mechanic and World of Science. Vols. 1–124 on 14 DVDs. Waltham Abbey: E. S. Hutton, 2006. ISBN 1-905383-00-2. Single disks £22.00 (individual), £50.00 (institutional); complete set £308.00 (individual), £650.00 (institutional).

Richard Noakes

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 310-311
doi:10.1017/S000708740900243X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Thomas Dixon, The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain. Oxford: British Academy for the Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+420. ISBN 978-0-19-726426-3. £60.00 (hardback).

Frank M. Turner

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 312-313
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2009, pp 315-318
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002507 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Jun 2009
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