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Descent of Darwin: race, sex, and human nature
Erika Lorraine Milam, Suman Seth
BJHS Themes, Volume 6

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‘Constitutions selection’: Darwin, race and medicine
Suman Seth
BJHS Themes, Volume 6

Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking the origins of bacteriology
23 August 2023, Mieneke te Hennepe
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century...

Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
01 February 2023, Thomas Rossetter
In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...

Embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
11 July 2022, Emmeline Ledgerwood
At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example...

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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BJHS Themes

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Medical History

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Science in Context

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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy

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Renaissance Quarterly

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The Historical Journal

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Journal of Global History

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The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
Edited by Stephen Case, Lukas M. Verburgt

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Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60
Edited by K. Brad Wray