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Volume 39 - December 2006

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LORRAINE DASTON (ed.), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone Books/MIT Press, 2004. Pp. 447. ISBN 1-890951-43-9. $37.50 (hardback).

ROBERT FOX (ed.), Centre and Periphery Revisited: The Structures of European Science, 1750–1914. Revue de la Maison française: Oxford, 2003. Pp. 191. ISSN 1477-3082. No price given (paperback).

LONDA SCHIEBINGER and CLAUDIA SWAN (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. vi+346. ISBN 0-8122-3827-3. £36.00, $55.00 (hardback).

CLARE PETTITT, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+341. ISBN 0-19-925320-X. £58.00 (hardback).

TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.), Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific.The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv+367. ISBN 0-7546-3562-7. £75.00 (hardback).

MARY JO NYE (ed.), The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxix+678. ISBN 0-521-57199-5. £65.00, $95.00 (hardback).

ANNA GUAGNINI and IAN INKSTER (eds.), Patents in History. History of Technology, Vol. 24. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. xxi+242. ISBN 0-8264-7186-2. £75.00.

LISA M. DOLLING, ARTHUR F. GIANELLI and GLENN N. STATILE (eds.), The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xliii+716. ISBN 0-691-09085-8. $25.95 (paperback).

SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM, Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+244. ISBN 0-521-84836-9. £48.00 (hardback).

CARSTEN KRETSCHMANN (ed.), Wissenspopularisierung. Konzepte der Wissensverbreitung im Wandel. Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel 4. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. Pp. 409. ISBN 3-05-003770-9. €49.80 (hardback).

HANS NIELS JAHNKE (ed.), A History of Analysis. History of Mathematics, 24. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2003. Pp. xi+422. ISBN 0-8218-2623-9. $89.00 (hardback).

KARL GRANDIN, NINA WORMBS and SVEN WIDMALM (eds.), The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. Nobel Symposium 123. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications and the Nobel Foundation, 2004. Pp. xvii+457. ISBN 0-88135-365-5. $54.95 (hardback).

LORRAINE DASTON and FERNANDO VITAL (eds.), The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. vii+519. ISBN 0-226-13681-7. $26.00 (paperback).

FERNAND HALLYN, Les Structures rhétoriques de la science. De Kepler à Maxwell. Collection “Des travaux”. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2004. Pp. 323. ISBN 2-02-063249-7. €24.00.

MARCO BERETTA, PAOLO GALLUZZI and CARLO TRIARCO (eds.), Musa Musaei: Studies on Scientific Instruments and Collections in Honour of Mara Miniati. Biblioteca di Nuncius Studi e Testi, XLIX. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. Pp. viii+486. ISBN 88-222-5238-1. €49.00 (paperback).

SORAYA DE CHADAREVIAN and NICK HOPWOOD (eds.), Models: The Third Dimension of Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+464. ISBN 0-8047-3972-2. £17.50, $24.95 (paperback).

THOMAS P. HUGHES, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii+223. ISBN 0-226-35933-6. £16.00, $22.50 (hardback).

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