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Volume 40 - June 2007

Book Review

PETER HANNS REILL, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. x+388. ISBN: 0-520-24135-5. $55.00, £35.95 (hardback).

John L. Heilbron (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+358. ISBN 0-19-517198-5. $35.00 (hardback).

NICOLAAS A. RUPKE, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. 320. ISBN 3-631-53932-0. £22.80 (hardback).

Janet and Mark Robinson (eds.), The Stargazer of Hardwicke: The Life and Work of Thomas William Webb. Leominster: Gracewing, 2006. Pp. xix+259. ISBN 0-85244-666-7. £14.99 (hardback).

Arthur I. Miller, Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Pp xx+364. ISBN 0-618-34151-X. $26.00 (hardback).

Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+277. ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. £14.99 (paperback).

LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. £50.00 (hardback).

Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger (eds.), Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections. Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Volume 21. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 2005. Pp. xii+413. ISBN 0-9672617-3-2. $14.00 (paperback).

KATHARINE ANDERSON, Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x+331. ISBN 0-226-019680-3. £31.50, $45.00 (hardback).

Jonathan Smith, Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii+349. ISBN 0-521-85690-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: The Roots of Evo-Devo. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+280. ISBN 0-521-80699-2. $75.00 (hardback).

HARRO MAAS, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii+330. ISBN 0-521-82712-4. $75.00 (hardback).

Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-691-11857-4. £11.95 (paperback).

MARCUS HELLYER, Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. xii+337. ISBN 0-268-03071-5. $50.00 (hardback).

P. Kyle Stanford, Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+234. ISBN 0-19-517408-9. £26.99 (hardback).

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