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MICHAEL HAU, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890–1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 272. ISBN 0–226–31976–8. £15.50, $22.00 (paperback).
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LEO CORRY, David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918). Archimedes New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. Pp. xvii+513. ISBN 1-4020-2777-X. $179.00 (hardback).
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ROSEMARY SWEET, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London and New York: Hambledon and London Ltd., 2004. Pp. xxi+473. ISBN 1-85285-309-3. £25.00 (hardback).
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Revealing sparks: John Wesley and the religious utility of electrical healing
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 341-362
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Nationalizing provincial weather: meteorology in nineteenth-century Cornwall
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 407-433
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B. JACK COPELAND (ed.), The Essential Turing: The Ideas that Gave Birth to the Computer Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. viii+613. ISBN 0-19-825079-7. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-825080-0. £14.99 (paperback).
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ROSS A. SLOTTEN, The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. x+602. ISBN 0-231-13010-4. £39.50 (hardback). MARTIN FICHMAN, An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x+382. ISBN 0-226-24613-2. $40.00 (hardback).
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ALEX OWEN, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+335. $30.00, £21.50 (hardback).
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OWEN GINGERICH, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. London: William Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii+306. ISBN 0-434-01315-3. £12.99 (hardback).
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Mobile objects: the space of shells in eighteenth-century France
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 363-382
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ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON, Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 250. ISBN 0-1981-8700-9. £51.00 (hardback).
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LORRAINE DASTON (ed.), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone Books/MIT Press, 2004. Pp. 447. ISBN 1-890951-43-9. $37.50 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 436-437
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CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+751. ISBN 0-691-11541-9. £52.95 (hardback).
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CLARE PETTITT, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+341. ISBN 0-19-925320-X. £58.00 (hardback).
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BERT BENDER, Evolution and ‘the Sex Problem': American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism. Kent, OH and London: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+389. ISBN 0-87338-809-7. $59.95 (hardback).
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JEAN A. GIVENS, Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv+231. ISBN 0-521-83031-1. £45.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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PAUL M. M. KLEP and IDA H. STAMHUIS (eds.), The Statistical Mind in a Pre-statistical Era: The Netherlands 1750–1850. Askant: Amsterdam, 2002. Pp. 374. ISBN 90-5742-0341. No price given.
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AILEEN FYFE, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xiv+325. ISBN 0-226-27648-1. $25.00 (paperback).
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SEAN F. Johnston, A History of Light and Colour Measurement: Science in the Shadows. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 2001. Pp. xi+281. ISBN 0-7503-0754-4. £45.00, $75.00 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 442-444
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TAL GOLAN, Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+336. ISBN 0-674-01286-0. £33.95, $52.50 (hardback).
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