10019 results in History of science: general interest
EMILY THOMPSON, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. ix+500. ISBN 0-262-20138-0. £30.95 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / March 2004
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- 02 March 2004, pp. 113-114
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‘An amusing account of a cave in Wales’: William Buckland (1784–1856) and the Red Lady of Paviland
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- 02 March 2004, pp. 53-74
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ANTONIO CLERICUZIO, Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 171. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi+223. ISBN 0-7923-6782-0. £65.00, $103.00 (hardback).
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- 02 March 2004, pp. 103-104
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The heavens of the sky and the heavens of the heart: the Ottoman cultural context for the introduction of post-Copernican astronomy
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / March 2004
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- 02 March 2004, pp. 1-28
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Fallible or inerrant? A belated review of the ‘constructivist's bible’ Jan Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science. Cambridge History of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv+236. ISBN 0-521-44913-8. £15.95 (paperback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / March 2004
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- 02 March 2004, pp. 93-98
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Emerging from the museum: Joseph Dawson, mineralogist, 1740–1813
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 455-469
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AGATHA C. HUGHES and THOMAS P. HUGHES (eds.), Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. ii+513. ISBN 0-262-08285-3. £34.50 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 485-487
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S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow, Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow 1796–1861. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx+338. ISBN 0-521-59146-5. £40.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 482-483
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Books received
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 489-491
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Tim Murray (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists. Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO, 1999. Pp. xxii+950. ISBN 1-57607-199-5. $150.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, p. 480
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NAOMI ORESKES (ed.) with HOMER LE GRAND, Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv+424. ISBN 0-8133-3981-2. $35.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 487-488
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ANITA GUERRINI, Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne. Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. xx+283. ISBN 0-8061-3201-9. $19.95 (paperback).
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 481-482
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Telling stories
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 471-476
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The dilemmas of seditious men: the Crowther–Hessen correspondence in the 1930s
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 417-435
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Atomic secrets and governmental lies: nuclear science, politics and security in the Pontecorvo case
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 389-415
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ANDREW C. SCOTT and DAVID FREEDBERG, Fossil Woods and Other Geological Specimens. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B: Natural History, Part Three. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000. Pp. 424. ISBN 1-872501-91-5. €232.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 478-480
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JOHN M. LYNCH (ed.), Creationism and Scriptural Geology, 1817–1857. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv+2994. ISBN 1-85506-928-8. £595.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 483-485
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‘Newton dépossédé!’ The British response to the Pascal forgeries of 1867
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 437-453
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DIDERICK RAVEN, WOLFGANG KROHN and ROBERT S. COHEN (eds.), Edgar Zilsel: The Social Origins of Modern Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 200. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. lix+267. ISBN 0-7923-6457-0. £89.00, $143.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2003
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- 05 January 2004, pp. 477-478
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PATRICIA FARA, Newton: The Making of Genius. London, Basingstoke and Oxford: Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xvi+347. ISBN 0-333-90735-3. £20.00 (hardback).
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- The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 36 / Issue 3 / September 2003
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- 08 October 2003, pp. 368-370
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