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Susan D. Jones, Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xix+329. ISBN 978-0-8018-9696-5. $24.95 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 4 / December 2011
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 615-617
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Helmut Rechenberg, Werner Heisenberg – Die Sprache der Atome. Leben und Wirken – Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie. Die ‘Fröhliche Wissenschaft’ (Jugend bis Nobelpreis). 2 vols. Heidelberg: Springer, 2010. Pp. xxi+603. ISBN 978-3-540-69221-8. £168.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 612-614
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Maurits H. van den Boogert, Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-0-19-958856-5. £120.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 598-600
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Evelyn Fox Keller, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+107. ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6. £12.99 (paperback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 617-618
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Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine 1840–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+497. ISBN 978-0-19-958256-3. £35.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 606-607
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André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xxvii+545. ISBN 978-90-04-18107-6. €129.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 587-588
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Steve Fuller, Science. Durham: Acumen, 2010. Pp. vi+170. ISBN 978-1-84465-204-4. £9.99 (paperback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 577-578
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Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science, ed. Eric Oberheim. London: Polity, 2011. Pp. xii+153. ISBN 978-0-7456-5190-3. £12.95 (paperback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 576-577
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J.L. Heilbron, Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+508. ISBN 978-0-19-958352-2. £20.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 590-591
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Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+354. ISBN 978-0-521-17052-9. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 585-587
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 619-621
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Michael Hoskin, Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+237. £20.95 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 600-601
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Marco Beretta, Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe (eds.), The Accademia del Cimento and Its European Context. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2009. Pp. xiii+257. ISBN 978-0-88135-387-7. $49.95 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 592-593
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Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+238. ISBN 978-0-19-958458-1. £55.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 603-604
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Paul R. Josephson, Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. ii+307. ISBN 978-0-262-01458-8. £22.95 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 614-615
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Kirk D. Read, Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiii+205. ISBN 978-0-7546-6632-5. £55.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 584-585
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Daniel Schäfer, Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. viii+287. ISBN 978-1-84893-020-9. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 581-582
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Kurt Møller Pedersen and Peter de Clercq (eds.), An Observer of Observatories: The Journal of Thomas Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2010. Pp. xxiv+220. ISBN 978-87-7934-311-5. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 597-598
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John Laurence Busch, Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia LLC, 2010. Pp. xii+726. ISBN 978-1-893616-00-4. $35.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 605-606
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 625-628
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