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Volume 41 - March 2008

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Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback).

Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the Curious: Looking back at Early English Museums. Perspectives on Collecting. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii+297. ISBN 0-7546-0506-X. £47.50 (hardback).

Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch and Judy Wajcman (eds.) The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+1065. ISBN 978-0-262-08364-5. £35.95 (hardback).

Gowan Dawson, Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+282. ISBN 978-0-521-87249-2 £50.00, $90.00 (hardback).

Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick and Rafael A. Martínez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 326. ISBN 0-8018-8389-7. £33.50, $50.00 (hardback).

Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+461. ISBN 0-8018-8291-5. £46.50 (hardback).

Cynthia Sundberg Wall, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+316. ISBN 0-226-87158-4. $35.00 (hardback).

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Judith P. Zinsser and Julie Candler Hayes (eds.) Emilie du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006. Pp. xi+325. ISBN 0-7294-0872-8. £60.00, €99.00, $122.00 (paperback).

Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3. $60.00, £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-09277-1. $24.00, £15.00 (paperback).

Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+177. ISBN 0-7190-7373-1. £50.00.

David Knight, Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-415-20638-3. £65.00 (hardback).

Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. iv+370. ISBN 0-262-06254-2. £29.95(hardback).

William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 662. ISBN 0-226-1091-6. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

Myles W. Jackson, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x+368. ISBN 0-262-10116-5. £25.95 (hardback).

David J. Frank and Jay Gabler, Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the Twentieth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+248. ISBN 0-8047-5376-8. $19.95 (paperback).

Aant Elzinga, Einstein's Nobel Prize: A Glimpse behind Closed Doors. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp xii+128. ISBN 0-88135-283-7. $39.95 (hardback).

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