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Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xx+413. ISBN 0-226-79845-3. $37.50, £24.00 (hardback).
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D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 (hardback).
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Lawrence M. Principe (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry.Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. xiii+274. ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. $45.00 (hardback). - Anna Marie Roos, The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650–1750.Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xvi+293. ISBN 978-90-04-16176-4. $129.00 (hardback).
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Jamie Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x+233. ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).
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Jene M. Porter and Peter W. B. Phillips (eds.), Public Science in Liberal Democracy.Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xii+343. ISBN 978-0-8020-9359-2. £45.00 (hardback).
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Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback).
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Timothy Boon, Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 2008. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978-1-905674-37-4. £16.99 (paperback).
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Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt (eds.), Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xi+360. ISBN 978-226-76329-3. $28.00 (paperback).
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Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des Sciences citoyennes? La Question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN 9-782752-602305. €20.00.
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Steven French and Décio Krause, Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+422. ISBN 0-19-927824-5. £55.00 (hardback).
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Saul Dubow, A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa 1820–2000. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-199-29663-7. £60.00 (hardback).
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Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-226-30205-8. $35.00 (hardback). - James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen (eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xx+264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1. $39.95 (hardback).
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 138-140
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Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
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Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-0684313207. $995.00 (hardback).
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 116-117
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. ISBN 978-0-8135-4220-1. $49.95 (hardback).
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Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+217. ISBN 978-0-8018-8709-3. £33.50 (hardback).
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 119-121
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Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson (eds.), An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. BSHS Monograph Series, Vol. 13. London: British Society for the History of Science, 2007. Pp. ix+407. ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7. £15.00 (paperback).
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Jim Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+429. ISBN 978-0-226-2-791-9. £20.50 (hardback).
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