10019 results in History of science: general interest
‘Like a baby with a box of matches’: British scientists and the concept of ‘race’ in the inter-war period
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / September 2005
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- 26 August 2005, pp. 307-324
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- 26 August 2005, pp. 374-378
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HELEN SMALL and TRUDI TATE (eds.), Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830–1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii+255. ISBN 0-19-96667-0. £50.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 38 / Issue 2 / June 2005
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 237-238
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STEVEN J. DICK, Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+609. ISBN 0-521-81599-1. £90.00, $130.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 236-237
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BARBARA M. BENEDICT, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. ix+321. ISBN 0-226-04264-2. £17.50, $25.00 (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 226-227
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HANS RADDER (ed.), The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. Pp. xii+311. ISBN 0-8229-5795-7. $29.95 (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 241-242
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 245-249
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ROBERT SIEGFRIED, From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 92 (4). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002. Pp. x+278. ISBN 0-87169-924-9. No price given (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 221-222
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KEN ARNOLD and DANIELLE OLSEN (eds.), Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome. London: British Museum Press, 2003. Pp. 397. ISBN 0-7141-2794-9. £19.99 (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 243-244
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CARL VON LINNÉ, Nemesis Divina. Edited and translated with explanatory notes by M. J. Petry. Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 177. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xviii+483. ISBN 0-7923-6820-7. £119.00, $169.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 227-228
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DAVID PHILIP MILLER, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiii+316. ISBN 0-7546-3177-X. £55.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 232-234
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ULF LARSSON (ed.), Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize. English translation by Daniel M. Olson. Nobel Museum Archives, 2. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2001. Pp. 228. ISBN 0-88135-288-8. $40.00 (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 242-243
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Late Victorian visual reasoning and Alfred Marshall's economic science
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 179-195
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AUGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, Santponç – Monturiol – Isaac Peral: la seducción de la máquina vapores, submarinos e inventores. With a Preface by Saturnino de la Plaza. Novatores, 2. Madrid: Nivola, 2001. Pp. 129. ISBN 84-95599-10-4. No price given (paperback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 234-235
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ROBERT J. RICHARDS, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix+587. ISBN 0-226-71210-9. £24.00, $35.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 230-231
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KOENRAAD VAN CLEEMPOEL, A Catalogue Raisonnéof Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530 to 1600. De Diversis Artibus: Collection of Studies from the International Academy of the History of Science, 65. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Pp. xii+284. ISBN 2-503-51218-6. €75.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 225-226
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The magic of the magic lantern (1660–1700): on analogical demonstration and the visualization of the invisible
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 127-159
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LYNN K. NYHART and THOMAS H. BROMAN (eds.), Science and Civil Society. Osiris, 17. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. x+373. ISBN 0-226-07371-8. $50.50 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 220-221
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JAGDISH MEHRA and KIMBALL A. MILTON, Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+677. ISBN 0-19-850658-9. £45.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 239-240
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JÜRGEN SCHÖNBECK, Euklid. Vita Mathematica, 12. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2003. Pp. x+264. ISBN 3-7643-6584-6. €82.24, SFr 128.00 (hardback).
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- 25 May 2005, pp. 223-225
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