10019 results in History of science: general interest
Leah DeVun, Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+255. ISBN 978-0-231-14538-1. £34.50 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 43 / Issue 3 / September 2010
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 479-480
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Joe Cain and Michael Ruse (eds.), Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900–1970. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xxvi+360. ISBN 978-1-60618-991-7. $35.00 (paperback).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 500-501
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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).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 490-491
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Sherry Turkle (ed.), Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. ix+385. ISBN 978-0-262-20168-1. £19.95 (hardback). - Sherry Turkle (ed.), Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xii+318. ISBN 978-0-262-20172-8. £19.95 (hardback). - Sherry Turkle (ed.), The Inner History of Devices. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. x+208. ISBN 978-0-262-20176-6. £19.95 (hardback).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 506-508
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David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947–13 December 2009)
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 459-467
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Galina Kichigina, The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. ii+374. ISBN 978-90-420-2658-2. £72.20 (hardback).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 491-493
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Jennifer Karns Alexander, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+233. ISBN 978-0-8018-8693-5. £33.50 (hardback).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 505-506
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Christopher Hamlin, Cholera: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp x+344. ISBN 978-0-19-954624-4. £12.99 (hardback). - Mark Jackson, Asthma: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp xi+249. ISBN 978-0-19-923795-1. £12.99 (hardback). - Andrew Scull, Hysteria: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp vii+223. ISBN 978-0-19-956096-7. £12.99 (hardback). - Robert Tattersall, Diabetes: The Biography. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-954136-2. £12.99 (hardback).
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- 08 September 2010, pp. 476-478
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Linnaeans outdoors: the transformative role of studying nature ‘on the move’ and outside
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 2 / June 2011
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 183-209
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Science as an ally of religion: a Muslim appropriation of ‘the conflict thesis’
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 44 / Issue 2 / June 2011
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 161-181
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Kristin C. Harper, Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xii+308. ISBN 978-0-262-08378-2. £25.95 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 314-315
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J.F.M. Clark, Bugs and the Victorians. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+322. ISBN 978-0-300-15091. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 310-311
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Aitor Anduaga, Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxv+386. ISBN 978-0-19-956272-5. £39.95 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 312-314
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-0-674-02424-3. £20.95 (hardback). - S. Peter Harper, A Short History of Medical Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+557. ISBN 978-0-19-518750-2. £22.99 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 317-319
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David Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Modernity, 1789–1914. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2009. Pp. xiv+370. ISBN 978-0-7456-3676-4. £17.99 (paperback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 301-302
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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).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 292-295
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Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. vii+918. ISBN 978-19-921312-2. £85.00 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 289-291
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Tony Volpe, Science et théologie dans les débats savants de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle: La Genèse dans les Philosophical Transactions et le Journal des savants(1665–1710). Preface by Louis Châtellier. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Religieuses, 133. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. Pp. 467. ISBN 978-2-503-52584-6. €65.00 (paperback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 296-297
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Books received
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 323-325
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Matthew D. Eddy, The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xxi+309. ISBN 978-0-7546-6332-4. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 14 June 2010, pp. 299-301
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