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Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79
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- 09 June 2008, pp. 417-444
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Historical geographies of provincial science: themes in the setting and reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and Ireland, 1831–c.1939
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Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture
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- 02 June 2008, pp. 319-344
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Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 298-300
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Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-520-24580-6. $49.95, £32.50 (hardback). - Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN 0-415-30174-2. £75.00 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 283-285
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Noah J. Efron, Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33053-7. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback). - Muzaffar Iqbal, Science and Islam. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33576-1. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 302-304
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G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x+320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 290-291
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Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1. $29.95, £19.95, €25.50 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 288-289
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Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xxix+397. ISBN 0-691-12310-1. £22.99 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 310-313
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Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+562. ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7. £28.00 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 278-279
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Prince Cesi and fungi, not to mention fungifunguli
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 267-273
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Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3. $60.00, £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-09277-1. $24.00, £15.00 (paperback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 304-305
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Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback). - Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 286-288
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Books received
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 315-317
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Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+389. ISBN 0-8018-8426-8. £46.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. £20.00 (paperback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 296-297
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Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xi+276. ISBN 0-7914-6679-5. $75.00 (hardback).
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Horst Bredekamp, Darwins Korallen. Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Wagenbach Verlag, 2005. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3803151735. €22.50 (hardback). - Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-3791336640. $100.00 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 306-307
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Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+361. ISBN 978-0-521-86931-7. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-68957-1. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 291-292
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Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds.) Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+295. ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. £55.00 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 281-282
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James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+367. ISBN 0-674-02299-8. $29.95, £19.95 (hardback).
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- 16 June 2008, pp. 297-298
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