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Volume 41 - March 2008

Book Review

Matthew McLean, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. viii+378. ISBN 978-0-7546-5843-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker and Xiang Chen, The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+199. ISBN 978-0-521-85575-4. £45.00 (hardback).

Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. ix+563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8. £35.00 (hardback).

Adam Mosley, Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+354. ISBN 978-0-521-83866-5. £55.00 (hardback).

David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds.), Geography and Revolution. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+433. ISBN 0-226-48733-4. £45.00 (hardback).

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).

Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. viii+302. ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. £36.50 (hardback).

Gregory Radick, The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+577. ISBN 978-0-226-70224-7. $45.00, £23.50.

Louise H. Curth, English Almanacs, Astrology and Popular Medicine: 1550–1700. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+283. ISBN 978-0-7190-6928-4. £55.00 (hardback).

W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+614. ISBN 0-5214-7565-5. £19.99, $29.99 (paperback).

David E. Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Cambridge, MA and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+282. ISBN: 0-262-14093-4. £18.95 (hardback).

Richard G. Delisle, Debating Humankind's Place in Nature 1860–2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. vii+447. ISBN 0-13-1777390-9. $53.00 (paperback).

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).

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x+345. ISBN 978-0-262-11306-6. £24.95 (hardback).

Henrika Kuklick (ed.) A New History of Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xiii+402. ISBN 978-0-631-22600-0. £22.99 (paperback).

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).

Carsten Timmerman and Julie Anderson (eds.) Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xiv+284. ISBN 1-4039-86444-4. £55.00 (hardback).

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