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Volume 43 - June 2010

Book Review

David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg and H. Otto Sibum (eds.), The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+384. ISBN 978-0-8223-4640-1. £16.99 (paperback).

Palmira Fontes Da Costa, The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp. xvi+214. ISBN 978-1-4438-0357-1. £39.99 (hardback).

Robert Bartlett, The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x+170. ISBN 978-0-521-70255-3. £17.99.

Charles Webster, Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+326. ISBN 978-0-300-13911-2. £30.00 (hardback).

Mike Jay, The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. vii+294. ISBN 978-0-300-12439-2. £20.00 (hardback).

Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+366. ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4. £25.00 (hardback).

Christopher Carter, Magnetic Fever: Global Imperialism and Empiricism in the Nineteenth Century.Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xxvi+168. ISBN 978-1-60618-994-8. $35.00 (paperback).

Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+428. ISBN 978-0-19-956664. £35.00 (hardback).

Pietro Corsi, Fossils and Reputations. A Scientific Correspondence: Pisa, Paris, London, 1853–1857.Pisa: Edizioni Plus – Pisa University Press, 2008. Pp. 411. ISBN 978-88-8492-564-0. €25.00 (paperback).

Celina Fox, The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+576. ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0. £40.00 (hardback).

Bernard Lightman, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The ‘Darwinians’ and Their Critics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xx+326. ISBN 978-0-7546-5987-7. £70.00 (hardback).

Siegfried Huigen, Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xii+273. ISBN 978-90-04-17743-7. €99.00 (hardback).

Mark S. Micale, Hysterical Men: the Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+366. ISBN 978-0-674-03166-1. £22.95 (hardback).

Francesca Bordogna, William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2008. Pp. x+382. ISBN 978-0-226-06652-3. £23.00 (hardback).

Kurt Ballstadt, Diderot: Natural Philosopher. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. Pp. viii+246. ISBN 978-0-72948-3. £55.00 (paperback).

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