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Volume 50 - September 2017

Book Review

Ulinka Rublack , The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-19-873677-6. £20.00 (hardback).

Robert Fox , Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2016, Pp. 168. ISBN 978-0-87071-867-0. $22.95 (paperback).

Matthew J. Crawford , The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-4452-2. $45.00 (hardback).

Donald L. Opitz , Staffan Bergwik and Brigitte van Tiggelen (eds.), Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-137-49272-2. £63.00 (hardback).

Tom Kennett , The Lord Treasurer of Botany: Sir James Edward Smith and the Linnaean Collections. London: The Linnean Society, 2016. Pp. x + 388. ISBN 978-0-9935510-0-0. £25.00 (paperback).

Georgiana D. Hedesan , An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: ‘The Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579–1644). London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 244 + xix. ISBN 978-1472469168. £95.00 (hardback).

Maria Paula Diogo and Dirk van Laak , Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xviii + 352. ISBN 978-0-230-27963-6. £60.00 (hardcover).

Diarmid A. Finnegan and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (eds.), Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-47244436-3. £63.00 (hardback).

E. Charles Nelson , John Scouler (c.1804–1871), Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages. Glasgow: The Glasgow Natural History Society, 2014. Pp. 142. ISBN 978-0-9565295-1-0. £11.00 (paperback).

Sarah K. Gillespie , The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-currents in Art and Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016, Pp. x + 213. ISBN 978 0 2620 3410 4. £23.95 (cloth).

Jonathan Sadowsky , Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 172. ISBN 978-1-138-69696-9. £110.00 (hardcover).

Rebecca Cypess , Curious & Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xix + 307. ISBN 978-0-226-31944-5. £38.50 (cloth).

Elizabeth Hallam , Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed. London: Reaktion, 2016. Pp. 444. ISBN 978-1-86189-375-8. £35.00 (hardback).

Peter Hobbins , Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 202. ISBN 978-1-5261-0144-0. £70.00 (hardback).

Erik L. Peterson , The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 334. ISBN 978-0-8229-4466-9. $45.00 (hardback).

Claire Preston , The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-870480-5. £60.00 (hardback)

Rob Boddice , The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization. Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. iv + 179. ISBN 978-0-252-08205-4. €28.00 (paperback).

Joanna Ebenstein , The Anatomical Venus. London: Thames & Hudson, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-0-500-25218-5. £19.95 (quarter bound/PLC).

Gowan Dawson , Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-0-226-33273-4. $50.00 (cloth).

Christine Holmberg , Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough (eds.), The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 343. ISBN 978-1-5261-1088-6. £75.00 (hardcover).

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