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Volume 51 - December 2018

Book Review

J. David Archibald, Origins of Darwin's Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle through Time and Place. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 192. ISBN 978-0-231-17684-2. £54.95 (hardcover).

Sabrina Minuzzi, Sul filo dei segreti: Farmacopea, libri e pratiche terapeutiche a Venezia in età moderna. Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, 2016. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-8-8400-1869-0. €25.00 (paperback)

Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes (ed.), Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. ix + 204. ISBN 978-1-138-67938-2. £110.00 (hardcover).

Mel Gooding, David Mabberley and Joe Studholme, Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-500-51936-3. £65.00 (hardcover).

Tania Anne Woloshyn, Soaking Up the Rays: Light Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain, c.1890–1940. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 273. ISBN 978-1-7849-9512-6. £45.00 (hardcover).

Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-7802-3640-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Meredith K. Ray , Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 98. ISBN 978-1-137-59769-4. £45.00 (hardcover).

Emily B. Stanback, The Wordsworth–Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv + 337. ISBN 978-1-137-51139-3. £90.00 (hardcover).

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 294. ISBN 978-0-2261-1029-5. $55.00 (cloth).

Carl A. Zimring, Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 199. ISBN 978-1-4214-2186-5. $39.95 (hardcover).

Henry A. McGhie, Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv + 341. ISBN 978-1-7849-9413-6. £25.00 (hardcover).

Susan Broomhall (ed.), Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650–1850. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 241. ISBN 978-1-138-82817-9. £31.99 (paperback).

Lisa Vox, Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 266. ISBN 978-0-8122-4919-4. $55.00 (cloth).

Heather Ellis, Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-137-31173-3. £66.99 (hardcover)

Trevor Levere , Larry Stewart and Hugh Torrens , with Joseph Wachelder , The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, Medicine, and Reform. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-1-4724-8829-9. £110.00 (hardcover).

Anita Guerrini, The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 343. ISBN: 978-0-2262-4766-3. $35.00 (hardback).

Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xx + 268. ISBN 978-1-4696-3287-2. $27.95 (paperback).

James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart (eds.), Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-2264-0207-9. $55.00 (cloth).

Janet Browne (ed.), The Quotable Darwin. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxix + 348. ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4. $24.95 (hardcover).

Iwan Rhys Morus , William Robert Grove: Victorian Gentleman of Science. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. Pp. 172. ISBN 978-1-78683-004-3. £16.99 (paperback).

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