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Volume 48 - March 2015

Book Review

Jamie C. Kassler, Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704–1713. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xii + 374. ISBN 978-1-4094-4921-8. £80.00 (hardback).

Angela Byrne, Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. ixv + 265. ISBN 978-1-137-31131-3. £55.00 (hardback).

Matthew C. Hunter, Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-01729-7. £38.50 (hardback).

Ute Frevert , Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-19-965573-1. £65.00 (hardback).

Hasok Chang, Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2012. Pp. xxi + 316. ISBN 978-94-007-3931-4. £126.00 (hardback).

Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-19-871581-8. £22.99 (hardback).

James Sumner, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60.00 (hardback).

Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. London: Oneworld, 2014. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-78074-532-9. £20.00 (paperback).

Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy (eds.), The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Pp. xv + 256. ISBN 978-1-84893-463-1. £60.00 (hardback).

Kathleen Hardesty Doig, From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie Méthodique’: Revision and Expansion. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013. Pp. xvi + 314. ISBN 978-0-7294-1077-9. £65.00 (paperback).

Ben Russell, James Watt: Making the World Anew. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8. £17.95 (hardback).

William J. Turkel, Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 287. ISBN 978-1-4214-0981-8. £22.50 (hardback).

Brian Gee (ed. Anita McConnell and A.D. Morrison-Low), Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 392. ISBN 978-1-4094-6643-7. £85.00 (hardback).

Sue Ann Prince (ed.), Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790–1830. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013. Pp. xxvi + 268. ISBN 978-0-87169-267-2. $50.00 (paperback).

Michael Pettit, The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-226-92374-1. £35.00/$50.00 (hardback).

Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer and Mara Miniati (eds.), Scientific Instruments on Display. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xxxiv + 231. ISBN 978-90-04-26439-7. £88.00 (hardback).

Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 310. ISBN 978-1-4724-1954-5. £70.00 (hardback).

Margaret C. Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 978-1-107-61983-8. £19.99 (paperback)

Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics. London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 226. ISBN 978-0-2260-3898-8. £31.50 (hardback).

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