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Volume 40 - June 2007

Book Review

Peter Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+242. ISBN 0-226-13948-4. $27.50, £17.50 (hardback).

CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 239. ISBN 1-86189-255-1. £19.95, $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-8618-9285-0. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

W. F. BYNUM and ROY PORTER (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+712. ISBN 0-19-858409-1. £30.00, $50.00 (hardback).

Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.), Science across the European Empires, 1800–1950. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute London, 2005. Pp. viii+376. ISBN 0-19-927629-2. £60.00 (hardback).

Mario Biagioli, Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi+302. ISBN 0-226-04561-7. $25.00, £22.50 (hardback).

LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-231-13038-4. £32.00, $49.50 (hardback).

DONNA HARAWAY, The Haraway Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii+352. ISBN 0-415-96688-4. £16.99 (paperback).

Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+384. ISBN 0-226-40954-6. $65.00, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-40955-4. $27.50, £17.50 (paperback).

MARCO BERETTA (ed.), From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums. Uppsala Studies in History of Science. Vol. 31. European Studies in Science History and the Arts. Vol. 5. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2005. Pp. ix+252. ISBN 0-88-135360-4. $39.95 (hardback).

Martin Daunton (ed.), The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 424. ISBN 0-19-726326-7. £55.00 (hardback).

AMIRIA HENARE, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix+323. ISBN 0-521-83591-7. £48.00, $80.00 (hardback).

PETER J. BOWLER and IWAN RHYS MORUS, Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+464. ISBN 0-226-0681-7. £17.50, $25.00 (paperback).

Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xi+231. ISBN 0-226-73569-9. $40.00, £25.50 (hardback).

John Brooke and Ian Maclean (eds.), Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+373. ISBN 0-19-926897-5. $120.00, £65.00 (hardback).

GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+420. ISBN 0-19-927668-4. £50.00 (hardback).

William M. Taylor, The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii+252. ISBN 0-7546-3069-2. £45.00 (hardback).

Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+456. ISBN 978-0-521-84077-4. £45.00 (hardback).

GIANNA POMATA and NANCY G. SIRAISI (eds.), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2005. Pp. viii+490. ISBN 0-262-16229-6. £32.95 (hardback).

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