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Volume 49 - December 2016

Book Reviews

David Beck (ed.), Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-8489-3518-1. £60.00 (hardback).

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Ayesha Ramachandran , The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 299. ISBN: 978-0-226-28879-6. $45.00 (hardback).

Cristina Bellorini , The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany: Medicine and Botany. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016. Pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-1-4724-6622-8. £95.00 (hardback).

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)

Amir Alexander , Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-374-53499-8. $16.00 (paperback).

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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Mary Terrall, Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 275. ISBN 978-0-2260-8860-0. £28.00 (hardback).

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Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (eds.), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, vol. 1: The Medieval and Early Modern Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-137-56760-5. £63.00 (hardback).

Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye (eds.), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, vol. 2: The Modern Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-1-137-56761-1. £63.00 (hardback).

Michael Hunter , Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627–91). Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 266. ISBN 978-1-4724-2810-3. £63.00 (hardcover).

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Margaret E. Derry, Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN 978-1-4426-2652-2. £18.99 (paperback).

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Ohad Nachtomy and Justin E.H. Smith (eds.), The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-19-998731-3. £51.00 (hardback).

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Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg (eds.), The Fate of Anatomical Collections. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-1-4094-6815-8. £67.50 (hardback).

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David Arnold , Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 241. ISBN 978-1-107-12697-8. £34.99 (hardback).

David Gillott, Samuel Butler against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860–1900. London: Legenda, 2015. Pp. x + 198. ISBN 978-1-909662-25-4. £55.00 (hardback).

Marie-Christine Skuncke , Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician – Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century. Uppsala: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2014. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-91-981948-0-7. Kr 275.00 (hardback).

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).

John M. Dixon , The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden: Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 243. ISBN 978-0-8014-4803-4. $35.00 (hardback).

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Timothy Larsen, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-1996-5787-2. £25.00 (hardback).

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