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  • Jon Agar, University College London, UK

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Table of Contents - Volume 42 - Issue 03  

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

BJH volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp f1-f2
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990082 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

BJH volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp b1-b3
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990094 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Editorial Note

 
 

Editorial

JON AGAR, JOE CAIN and HASOK CHANG

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 319-320
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990100 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

Religious conventions and science in the early Restoration: Reformation and ‘Israel’ in Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)

JOHN MORGAN

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 321-344
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Apr 2009
 

Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the reproduction of astronomical photographs in the late nineteenth-century periodical press

JAMES MUSSELL

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 345-380
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Apr 2009
 

The Astronomer Royal, the Hydrographer and the time ball: collaborations in time signalling 1850–1910

CAITLIN HOMES

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 381-406
doi:10.1017/S0007087409002192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Apr 2009
 

The scientific claims of British child guidance, 1918–45

JOHN STEWART

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 407-432
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001908 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Jan 2009
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Martin J. S. Rudwick, Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xxii+614. ISBN 978-0-226-73128-5. £23.50 (hardback).

Claudine Cohen

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 434-435
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990124 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

David N. Livingstone, Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. x+301. ISBN 978-0-8018-8813-7. £23.50 (hardback).

John M. Lynch

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 435-437
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990136 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Jessica Riskin (ed.), Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+389. ISBN 978-0-226-72081-4. £16.00, $25.00 (paperback).

Jacob Stegenga

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 437-438
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990148 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman (eds.), The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. viii+331. ISBN 978-0-262-02620-8. £25.95 (hardback).

Sophie Weeks

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 438-440
doi:10.1017/S000708740999015X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Steve Fuller, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2008. Pp. v+272. ISBN 978-184046804-5. £12.99 (hardback).

Nathaniel C. Comfort (ed.), The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+165. ISBN 978-0-8018-8599-0. £13.50 (hardback).

Thomas Dixon

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 440-442
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Alan Sokal, Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxi+465. ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7. £20.00 (hardback).

Sophie Roux (ed.), Retours sur l'affaire Sokal. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. Pp. x+190. ISBN 978-2-296-02389-5. €17.50 (paperback).

Steve Fuller

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 442-444
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990173 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Harry Collins and Robert Evans, Rethinking Expertise. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 160. ISBN 978-0-226-11360-9. $37.50 (hardback).

Graeme J. N. Gooday

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 444-445
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990185 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Massimo Mazzotti (ed.), Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xi+184. ISBN 978-0-7546-4863-5. £50.00 (hardcover).

Snait B. Gissis

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 445-447
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990197 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Roger Smith, Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. viii+288. ISBN 978-0-7190-7498-1. £25.00 (hardback).

Graham Richards

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 447-448
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990203 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

G. E. R. Lloyd, Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. viii+201. ISBN 978-0-19-921461-7. £27.50 (hardback). 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-956625-9. £14.99 (paperback).

Roger Smith

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 448-450
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990215 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié (eds.), Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiii+772. ISBN 978-90-04-16063-7. $149.00, $199.00 (hardback).

Benjamin A. Elman

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 450-451
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990227 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+212. ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4. £15.99 (paperback).

Eleanor Robson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 451-453
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990239 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

David Sedley, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+269. ISBN 978-0-520-25364-3. £17.95 (hardback).

Daryn Lehoux

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 453-454
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990240 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Liba Taub, Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+138. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-87071-196-1 (hardback).

Emily Wilson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 454-456
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+438. ISBN 0-300-11263-7. $35.00. £25.00 (hardback).

Sarah Hutton

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 456-457
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990264 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel (eds.), Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xi+164. ISBN 978-0-7546-6370-6. £55.00 (hardback).

Simon Werrett

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 457-459
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990276 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Daniel Carey, Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x+260. ISBN 978-0-5214-4502-1. £51.00 (hardback).

Sarah Irving, Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. xiii+183. ISBN 978-1-85196-889-3. £60.00 (hardback).

James Delbourgo

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 459-461
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990288 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (eds.), Science and Empire in the Atlantic World. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+365. ISBN 978-0-415-96127-1. £18.99 (paperback).

Michael F. Robinson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 461-462
doi:10.1017/S000708740999029X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Peter M. Jones, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology, and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1820. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 978-0-7190-7770-8. £55.00 (hardback).

Margaret C. Jacob

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 462-463
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990306 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+389. ISBN 978-0-226-70932-1. £55.00 (hardback).

Katharine Anderson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 464-465
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

William H. Brock, William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Alderhot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxi+556. ISBN 978-0-7546-6322-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Elizabeth R. Neswald

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 465-466
doi:10.1017/S000708740999032X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Elizabeth R. Neswald, Thermodynamik als kultureller Kampfplatz: Zur Faszinationsgeschichte der Entropie, 1850–1915. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2006. Pp. 475. ISBN 978-3-7930-9448-7. €48.00 (paperback).

Helge S. Kragh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-7546-6414-7. £60.00 (hardback).

Deborah R. Coen

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 467-468
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990331 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Richard G. Olson, Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-0-252-07433-2. £14.99 (paperback).

Daniel C. S. Wilson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 469-470
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990343 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Richard Staley, Einstein's Generation: The Origin of the Relativity Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+494. ISBN 978-0-226-77057-4. £26.00 (paperback).

Matthew Stanley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 470-471
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990355 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Silvan S. Schweber, Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+412. ISBN 978-0-674-02828-9. £19.25 (hardback).

Trevor Marshall and Max Wallis

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 471-473
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990367 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
 

Books Received

 
 

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 474-477
doi:10.1017/S0007087409990112 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 24 Aug 2009
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