10019 results in History of science: general interest
Olivier Darrigol, Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 400. ISBN 978-0-19-871288-6. £39.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 321-322
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H. Floris Cohen, The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Comparative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 301. ISBN 978-1-107-54560-1. £18.99 (paperback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 289-291
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Janet Vertesi, Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-15596-8. $35.00/£24.50 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 322-323
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Helen Cowie, Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. x + 256. ISBN 978-1-137-38443-0. £60.00 (hardback). - Takashi Ito, London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828–1859. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014. Pp. xi + 204. ISBN 978-0-86193-321-1. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 298-300
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Klaus Hentschel, Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 496. ISBN 978-0-19-871781-4. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 288-289
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Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 350. ISBN 978-0-674-73682-5. £33.95 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 314-315
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Robert Brain, The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. Pp. xxxii + 348. ISBN 978-0-295-99320-1. $50.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 309-311
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Deceived by orchids: sex, science, fiction and Darwin
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 205-229
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Joris Vandenriessche, Evert Peeters and Kaat Wils (eds.), Scientists’ Expertise as Performance: Between State and Society, 1860–1960. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-8489-3527-3. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 303-304
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Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts (eds.), The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 978-1-137-43872-0. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 315-317
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A capital Scot: microscopes and museums in Robert E. Grant's zoology (1815–1840)
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 173-204
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Melinda Baldwin, Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-226-26145-4. $45.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 301-302
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Edward Juler, Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-7190-9032-4. £75.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 311-312
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Innes M. Keighren, Charles W.J. Withers and Bill Bell, Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773–1859. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-42953-3. $45.00 (hardback)
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 295-296
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Scott H. Podolsky, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-4214-1593-2. $34.95 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 317-318
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Film lessons: early cinema for historians of science*
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 279-286
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Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-674-28614-6. $39.95/£29.95 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 306-307
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Doogab Yi, The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN: 978-0-2261-4383-5. $40.00 (cloth).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 318-320
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Susannah Gibson, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-19-870513-0. £16.99 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 293-294
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Sarah Dewis, The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xvi + 278. ISBN 978-1-4094-6922-3. £65.00 (hardback).
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- 29 June 2016, pp. 296-298
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