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- Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund, Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-0-8229-4659-5. $40.00 (hardback).
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- Gordon Barrett, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-1088-4457-4. £75.00 (hardback).
- Daniel S. Milo, Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-0-6745-0462-2. $28.95 (hardback).
- Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-colonial Siam Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 978-1-5017-4015-2. $49.95 (hardback).
- Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-1-4696-5609-0. $99.00 (hardback).
- Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. Pp. 279. ISBN 978-3-8353-3680-3. €28.00 (hardback).
- Claudine Cohen, Nos ancêtres dans les arbres: Penser l’évolution humaine Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-2-0211-7599-8. €23.00 (paperback).
- Kevin McCain and Kostas Kampourakis: What Is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-1385-7015-3. £36.99 (paperback).
- The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- Antonio Stoppani’s ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene
- Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power
- Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-1084-8713-9. £74.99 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-1087-3219-2. £26.99 (paperback).
- Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain
- Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
- Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo
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- Lukas Rieppel, Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-0-6747-3758-7. £23.95 (hardback). – Michael J. Benton, The Dinosaurs: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting History London: Thames and Hudson, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-5000-5200-6. £10.99 (paperback).
- Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-0-2260-2038-9. $35.00 (hardback).
- Michel Anctil, Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 467. ISBN: 978-0-7735-5312-5. $49.95 (hardback).
- Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences
- Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century
- Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine
- Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet’s translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah
- Allan Esterson and David C. Cassidy, Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 336. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3897-8. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-2620-3961-1. $29.95 (hardback).
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- Introduction: the issue of duplicates
- Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)
- Globalizing ‘science and religion’: examples from the late Ottoman Empire
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- Amir Teicher, Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 268. ISBN 978-1-1084-9949-1. £26.99 (hardback).
- Claire Hickman, The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 238. ISBN 978-0-3002-3610-1. £30.00 (hardback).
- Veronica Della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-4129-1. $65.00 (hardback).
- Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 298. ISBN 978-1-1088-7915-6. £75.00 (hardback).
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-2267-3286-2. $25.00 (paperback).
- Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–1914
- Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates
- Science by Nobel committee: decision making and norms of scientific practice in the early physics and chemistry prizes
- Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–1926
- ‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
- Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–1920
- Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity
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- Elena Aronova, Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-2267-6138-1. $45.00 (hardback).
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- William Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 406. ISBN 987-1-1088-3708-8. £64.99 (hardback).
- Mark A. Waddell, Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 220. ISBN 978-1-1083-4823-2. £69.99/£19.99 (hardback/paperback).
- Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. xiii + 286. ISBN 978-0-8229-4681-6. $60.00 (hardback).
- Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2267-1070-9. £28.00/$35.00 (hardback).
- ‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain
- Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene
- Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin’s early nineteenth-century collection landscape
- ‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter’s investigation of the human gravid uterus
- Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.1950
- ‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology
- Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon
- Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology
- Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps
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- Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century New York: Zone Books, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-9354-0836-9. £25.00 (hardback).
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- Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).
- Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528. ISBN: 978-0-1988-1862-5. £84.00 (hardback).
- Zachary Dorner, Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0680-1. $50.00 (hardback).
- ‘The troubles of collecting’: William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain’s nineteenth-century world
- Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research
- R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain
- Denis Papin’s digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation
- ‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–1881
- Michael Wheeler, The Athenæum: More than Just Another London Club New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-3002-4677-3. £35.00 (hardback)
- Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 363. ISBN: 978-1-1084-7819-9, £59.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-1087-4709-7. £18.99 (paperback). – Amanda Rees and Charlotte Sleigh, Human London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-7891-4214-3. £12.95 (paperback).
- Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. £35.00 (hardcover).
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- The Anthropocene & the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
- Alexander Wragge-Morley, Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN: 978-0-2266-8086-6. $120.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2266-8072-9. $40.00 (paperback).
- Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0615-3. $82.50 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-2267-0629-0. $27.50 (paperback).
- Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. ISBN: 978-1-1087-8126-8. £90.00 (hardback).
- J.B. Shank, Before Voltaire: The French Origins of ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics, 1680–1715 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 464. ISBN: 978-0-2265-0929-7. $55.00 (paperback).
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- Malcolm Dick and Caroline Archer-Parré (eds.), James Watt, 1736–1819: Culture, Innovation, Enlightenment Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-1-7896-2081-8. £80.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-7896-2082-5. £24.99 (paperback).
- Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel
- Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)
- Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-1086-8845-1. £17.99 (hardback).
- Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach (eds.), Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century London: UCL Press, 2018. Pp. 438. ISBN 978-1-7873-5395-4. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-7873-5394-7. £30.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-7873-5393-0 (open access).
- Charles Smith, James T. Costa and David Collard (eds.), An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-2210-1. $60.00 (hardback). – Michael A. Flannery, Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-8173-1985-4. $44.95 (hardback).
- Alex Csiszar, The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-2265-5323-8. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-2267-5250-1. $35.00 (paperback).
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- Toby Musgrave, The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. ISBN 978-0-3002-2383-5. $35.00 (hardcover).
- Vanessa Heggie, Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-2266-5088-3. $40.00 (hardback).
- Bernard Lightman and Bennet Zon (eds.), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-3672-2842-2. £120.00 (hardback).
- C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider’s History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 453. ISBN 978-1-4214-2531-3. $79.95 (hardback).
- David Herzberg, White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-2267-3188-9. $27.50 (hardback).
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- Tom Sharpe, The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning Wimborne Minster: The Dovecote Press, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-9955-4629-5. £20.00 (hardback).
- Revolutionary electricity in 1790: shock, consensus, and the birth of a political metaphor
- ‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club
- ‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–1853
- Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–1949
- Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–1950
- Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young – CORRIGENDUM
- Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine
- Tom Williamson, Humphry Repton: Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-1-7891-4299-0. £35.00 (hardcover)
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- Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-3002-3006-2. £20.00 (hardback)
- Alexander Jones and Liba Taub (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. ISBN 978-0-511-98014-5. £120.00 (hardback)
- Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-3002-2741-3. $40.00 (hardcover)
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- Antony Adler, Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN: 978-0-6749-7201-8. £31.95 (hardback)
- Ido Hartogsohn, The American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3914-2. $35.00 (paperback)
- Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-2266-9304-0. $35.00 (paperback)
- Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 398. ISBN: 978-0-2625-3905-0. $50.00 (paperback)
- Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 987-1-4214-3874-0. $54.95 (hardback)
- Maria M. Portuondo, The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 446. ISBN 978-0-2265-9226-8. $65.00 (hardback)
- Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback)
- Audra Wolfe, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0. $29.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4214-3908-2. $19.95 (paperback)
- ‘Seeing with one’s own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics
- ‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms
- Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–1953
- Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c.1883–1914
- Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research
- Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835–1933
- The Society of Astrologers (c.1647–1684): sermons, feasts and the resuscitation of astrology in seventeenth-century London
- Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young
- Out on the fringe: Wales and the history of science
- DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher’s discovery of nuclein in its original context
- Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation
- Unfriendly guardians: India’s first nuclear leadership change in 1966
- Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry
- Robert M. Young’s Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited
- Sabine Clarke, Science at the End of Empire: Experts and the Development of the British Caribbean, 1940–62. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-5261-3138-6. £80.00 (hardback).
- Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 487. ISBN 978-1-1084-1828-7. £29.99 (hardback).
- Michael D. Barton, Janet Browne, Ken Corbett and Norman McMillan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall, vol. 6: The Correspondence, November 1856–February 1859. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. lviii + 537. ISBN 978-0-8229-4533-8. $125.00. (hardback).
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- Roger D. Launius, Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-3002-3046-8. $30.00 (hardback).
- Erika Lorraine Milam, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 408. ISBN 978-0-6911-8188-2. $29.95 (hardcover).
- Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 303. ISBN 978-1-7891-4342-3. £14.99 (hardback).
- Sergei Belyakov , Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-9-8132-2868-9. £25.00 (paperback).
- Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock, The Botany of Gin. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2020. Pp. 102. ISBN 978-1-8512-4553-6. £15.00 (hardback).
- Wendy Gonaver , The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696-4844-6. $32.95 (paperback).
- Voyaging towards the future: the brig Rurik in the North Pacific and the emerging science of the sea
- ‘Research sharing’ using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist
- Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency
- Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences
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- Thomas J. Anderson, Reassembling the Strange: Nationalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. 237. ISBN 978-1-4985-7605-5.
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- Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong and Christine von Oertzen (eds.), Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8229-4559-8. $55.00 (hardcover).
- Agustí Nieto-Galan, The Politics of Chemistry: Science and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxv + 284. ISBN 978-1-1084-8243-1. £75.00 (hardback).
- Anton Howes, Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-6911-8264-3. £30.00/$35.00 (hardback).
- Harun Küçük, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 324. ISBN 978-0-8229-4580-2. $50.00 (hardback).
- Natural history in the physician’s study: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), Steven Blankaart (1650–1705) and the ‘paperwork’ of observing insects
- The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain
- A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico
- The place of Edward Gresham’s Astrostereon (1603) in the discussion on cosmology and the Bible in the early modern period
- ‘An attempt to trace illusions to their physical causes’: atmospheric mirages and the performance of their demystification in the 1820s and 1830s
- Subject 01: exemplary Indigenous masculinity in Cold War genetics
- The logistics of the Republic of Letters: mercantile undercurrents of early modern scholarly knowledge circulation
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- Martin Beech, Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling through the Earth. New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chennai and Tokyo: World Scientific, 2019. Pp. xi + 276. ISBN 978-9813-2790-3-2. £35.00/$38.00 (paperback).
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- JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-1-4214-2889-5. $64.95 (hardcover).
- Ian Duncan, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-6911-7507-2. £30.00 (hardcover).
- Joshua Nall, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860–1910. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 287. ISBN 978-0-8229-4552-9. $50.00 (hardcover).
- Richard J. Oosterhoff, Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Etaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-1988-2352-0. £65.00 (hardback).
- Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-2265-4608-7. $30.00 (paperback).
- What is science for? The Lighthill report on artificial intelligence reinterpreted
- Why Semmelweis’s doctrine was rejected: evidence from the first publication of his results by Friedrich Wieger, and an editorial commenting on the results
- Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–1835
- Performing in a different place: the use of a prodigy to the Dublin Philosophical Society
- Cultivating famine: data, experimentation and food security, 1795–1848
- Peter R. Broughton, Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 539. ISBN 978-1-4426-3017-8. $90.00 (hardback).
- Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis, Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-8229-4551-2, $50.00 (hardcover).
- Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee, The World Health Organization: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 373. ISBN 978-1-1087-2884-3. £26.99 (paperback).
- Jacqueline H. Wolf, Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-4214-2552-8. $49.95 (hardback).
- Helen M. Rozwadowski, Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-1-78023-997-2. £16.00 (hardback).
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- Philip W. Clements, Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 269. ISBN 978-0-8229-4511-6. $39.95 (paperback).
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- Benjamin Wardhaugh, Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician, and Scientific Rebel. London: William Collins, 2019. pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-0082-9995-8. £20.00/$39.99 (hardback).
- Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes, Dale Jamieson, Keynyn Brysse, Jessica O’reilly, Matthew Shindell and Milena Wazeck, Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 281. ISBN 978-0-2266-0201-1. $35.00 (paperback).
- Lorei Gruen (ed.), Critical Terms for Animal Studies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 472. ISBN 978-0-2263-5542-9. £32.50/£24.50 (paperback).
- Michael Bravo, North Pole: Nature and Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-7891-4008-8. $24.95/£14.96 (paperback).
- Nicholas B. Breyfogle (ed.), Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 424. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6563-3. $34.95 (paperback).
- The green airliner that never was: aerodynamic theory, fuel-efficiency and the role of the British state in aviation technology in the mid-twentieth century
- Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context
- Science, Catholicism and politics in Argentina (1910–1935)
- Eating game: proteins, international conservation and the rebranding of African wildlife, 1955–1965
- Archaeology enters the ‘atomic age’: a short history of radiocarbon, 1946–1960
- Scientific broadcasting as a social responsibility? John Maynard Smith on radio and television in the 1960s and 1970s
- Retrospectives: Uses of history of science in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey
- Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c.1926–1950
- Lynda Payne, The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713–88. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-1-4331-2319-1. £64.00 (hardcover).
- Flavia Marcacci, Cieli in contraddizione: Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo. Perugia: Aguaplano, 2018. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-8-8858-0311-4. €20.00 (paperback).
- Shelley McKellar, Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 350. ISBN 978-1-4214-2355-5. $54.95 (hardcover).
- John Gascoigne, Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 978-1-3166-0938-5. £22.99 (paperback).
- Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (eds.), The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600–1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 311. ISBN: 978-1-7849-9516-4. £80.00 (hardcover).
- BJH volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
- Pablo Calvi, Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 276. ISBN 978-0-8229-4565-9. $45.00 (hardback).
- James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 373. ISBN 978-0-2266-2675-8. $45.00 (cloth).
- Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall (eds.), Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 244. ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3. $75.00 (cloth).
- Pere Grapí, Inspiring Air: A History of Air-Related Science. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 352. ISBN 1-62273-738-5. £44.00 (paperback).
- Mark Mccartney, Andrew Whitaker and Alastair Wood (eds.), George Gabriel Stokes: Life, Science and Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-1988-2286-8. £35.00 (hardcover).
- Eric Johnson, Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 179. ISBN 978-0-2620-3861-4. $22.95/£17.99 (cloth).
- Charles Wolfe, La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. Pp. 514. ISBN 978-2-4060-8072-5. €93.00 (hardback).
- David Philip Miller, The Life and legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 420. ISBN 978-0-8229-4558-1. $50.00 (cloth). – Simon Werrett, Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 315. ISBN 978-0-2266-1025-2. $45.00 (cloth).
- Nasser Zakariya, A Final Story: Science, Myth and Beginnings. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 554. ISBN 978-0-2264-7612-4. $34.00 (cloth).
- Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019. Pp. ix + 184. ISBN 978-3-0300-1637-1. $54.99 (paperback).
- BJH volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
- Eric Johnson, Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 179. ISBN 978-0-2620-3861-4. $22.95/£17.99 (cloth).
- Sociability, radium and the maintenance of scientific culture and authority in twentieth-century Ireland: a case study of the Royal Dublin Society
- Constructing the ‘automatic’ Greenwich time system: George Biddell Airy and the telegraphic distribution of time, c.1852–1880
- André Millard, Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 212. ISBN 978-1-4214-2664-8. $49.95 (hardback).
- Retrospectives: History of science in France
- Retrospectives: Unconventional paths
- ‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt’s New Deal
- ‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt’s New Deal
- Tremoring transits: railways, the Royal Observatory and the capitalist challenge to Victorian astronomical science
- ‘The want of a proper Gardiner’: late Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as intermediaries of medical and scientific knowledge
- Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital
- Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 282. ISBN 978-1-4214-2658-7. $39.95/£29.50 (hardcover).
- Patrick Armstrong, Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 175, ISBN 978-1-7891-4085-9, £11.99 (paperback).
- The pharmakon of ‘If’: working with Steven Shapin’s A Social History of Truth
- Agnes Arber, historian of botany and Darwinian sceptic
- Ruth Barton, The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 576. ISBN 978-0-2265-5161-6. £41.50/$60 (hardback)
- BJH volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
- Cristiano Zanetti, Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire: A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore: Brill, 2018. Pp. xii + 450. ISBN 978-9-0043-2089-5. €95.00/$110.00 (hardcover).
- Rachel Plotnick, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 394. ISBN 978-0-2620-3823-2. $40.00/£30.00 (cloth).
- Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer, Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx + 126. ISBN 978-1-1374-0687-3. £44.99 (hardcover).
- Anthony Chaney,Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-4696-3173-8. $32.95 (cloth).
- Susan Lanzoni, Empathy: A History. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 392. ISBN 978-0-3002-2268-5. $30.00 (hardcover). – Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-0-2265-0185-7. $30.00 (cloth).
- BJH volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
- Lisa M. Osbeck, Values in Psychological Science: Re-imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 145. ISBN 978-1-1071-3490-4. £80.00 (hardback)
- What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other
- Cécile Morette and the Les Houches summer school for theoretical physics; or, how Girl Scouts, the 1944 Caen bombing and a marriage proposal helped rebuild French physics (1951–1972)
- Fashioned in the light of physics: the scope and methods of Halford Mackinder’s geography
- David Alff, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730. Alembics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-8122-4959-0. £54.00 (cloth).
- Response to H. Floris Cohen’s essay review on Newtonian scholarship
- BJH volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
- Metaphors and other slippery creatures
- Karsten Mackensen, Musik und die Ordnung der Dinge im ausgehenden Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 353. ISBN 978-3-631-71992-3. €74.95/£51.95 (hardcover).
- Joseph D. Martin, Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 280. ISBN 978-0-8229-4538-3. $49.95 (cloth).
- BJH volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
- Tiago Saraiva, Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp 326. ISBN 978-0-2620-3503-2. $40.00 (hardcover)
- Susanna Gibson, The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN 978-0-1988-3337-6. £25.00 (hardback)
- Jared S. Buss, Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 321. ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8. $34.95 (hardcover).
- Helge Kragh, Ludvig Lorenz: A Nineteenth-Century Theoretical Physicist. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2018. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-8-7730-4417-9. DKK 240,00 (paperback)
- Efram Sera-Shriar (ed.), Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-0-8229-4529-1. $45.00 (hardcover).
- Gerrit Jasper Schenk (ed.), Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. ix + 436. ISBN 978-3-3194-9162-2. $139.00 (paperback).
- David Cahan, Helmholtz: A Life in Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 937. ISBN 978-0-226-48114-2. $55.00 (cloth).
- Tita Chico, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 242. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2. $60.00 (hardcover).
- Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers and Ronald A. Binzley (eds.), The Warfare between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn’t Die. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 355. ISBN 978-1-4214-2618-1. $39.95 (paperback).
- Yves Gingras, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2017. Pp. 249. ISBN 978-1-5095-1892-0. £17.99 (paperback).
- ‘X-rays don’t tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945
- Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London
- London 1600–1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice
- Trade, knowledge and networks: the activities of the Society of Apothecaries and its members in London, c.1670–c.1800
- An experimental community: the East India Company in London, 1600–1800
- Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific
- Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation
- ‘Greenwich near London’: the Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- ‘A place of great trust to be supplied by men of skill and integrity’: assayers and knowledge cultures in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London
- Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
- Life cycle of a star: Carl Sagan and the circulation of reputation
- Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain
- Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 273. ISBN 978-1-78707-138-4. £60.00/$90.95 (hardback)
- Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 375. ISBN 978-0-8229-4475-1. $45.00 (hardcover).
- Hilary A. Smith, Forgotten Disease: Illness Transformed in Chinese Medicine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-5036-0344-8. $24.95 (paperback)
- Patricia Fara, A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 319. ISBN 978-0-19-879-498-1. £18.99 (hardcover).
- BJH volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
- Aviva Rothman, The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN 978-0-226-49697-9. $55.00 (cloth cover).
- Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan M. Jones (eds.), A Global History of Sexual Science 1880–1960. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-0-520-29339-7. $34.95 (paperback).
- Jaume Navarro (ed.), Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-1987-9725-8. £65.00 (hardcover).
- Roberto Lalli, Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xiv + 168. ISBN 978-3-319-54653-7. £49.99 (softcover).
- Gayle Greene, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 2nd edn. Pp. xxvi + 321. ISBN 978-0-472-05356-8. $21.95 (paperback).
- BJH volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
- Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein and James P. Collins (eds.), The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 454. ISBN 978-0-226-538446-4. $35.00 (paperback).
- Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea
- The mechanical life of plants: Descartes on botany
- Francis Bacon’s doctrine of idols: a diagnosis of ‘universal madness’
- Charles Darwin and the scientific mind
- Translation and transmutation: the Origin of Species in China
- Olivier Darrigol, Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Statistico-Mechanical Writings – An Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 612. ISBN 978-0-19-881617-1. £45.00 (hardcover).
- Epilogue
- BJH volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
- 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).
- Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing (eds.), For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2016. Pp. lxxvii + 1082. ISBN 978-90-04-26330-7. €248.00 (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).
- Daniel Warner, Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-78023-824-1. £16.00 (cloth cover).
- Imperial vernacular: phytonymy, philology and disciplinarity in the Indo-Pacific, 1800–1900
- Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps
- Zachary A. Matus, Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 203. ISBN 978-0-8122-4921-7. £52.00 (cloth).
- Laura J. Miller, Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Food. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-22650-123-9. $105.00 (cloth cover).
- Stock and bulk in the latest Newton scholarship
- BJH volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
- A. Mark Smith, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp xi + 457. ISBN 978-0-226-52857-1. $36.00 (paperback).
- 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).
- The ‘genie of the storm’: cyclonic reasoning and the spaces of weather observation in the southern Indian Ocean, 1851–1925
- 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).
- 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)
- Science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds
- A hard nut to crack: nutmeg cultivation and the application of natural history between the Maluku islands and Isle de France (1750s–1780s)
- Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius
- 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).
- Govert Schilling, Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-0-6749-7166-0. £21.95 (hardcover).
- Annie Tindley and Andrew Wodehouse, Design, Technology and Communication in the British Empire, 1830–1914. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-1-1375-9797-7. £37.99 (hardcover).
- Richard McKay, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-2260-6400-0. $35.00.
- Joyce van Leeuwen, The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Berlin: Springer, 2016. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-3-3192-5925-3. $119.00 (hardcover).
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo (ed.), in collaboration with Karin Friedrich, Duncan Liddel (1561–1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xii + 322. ISBN 978-9-0043-1065-0, €135.00, $175.00 (hardback). – Kuni Sakamoto, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 213. ISBN 978-9-0043-1009-4, €104.00, $135.00 (paperback).
- Henrietta McBurney, Ian Rolfe, Caterina Napoleone and Paula Findlen, with Carlo Violani, Onno Wijnands, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, Arthur McGregor and Kathie Way, Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities (Volumes One and Two). London: Royal Collection Trust (in association with Harvey Miller Publishers), 2017. Pp. 927. ISBN 978-1-9094-0060-3. €170.00 (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).
- 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)
- BJH volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
- BJH volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
- Lorenz Oken (1779–1851): Naturphilosophie and the reform of natural history – ERRATUM
- 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).
- Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus, The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. 310. ISBN 978-1-5800-46595-3. £95.00 (hardcover).
- Michael Boulter, Bloomsbury Scientists: Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin. London: UCL Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 175. ISBN 978-1-7873-5005-2. £35.00 (paperback).
- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille, The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Translated by Adam Bostanci. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 147. ISBN 978-0-2265-1000-2. $25.00 (paperback).
- Paul Weindling (ed.), From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933–1945. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 376. ISBN 978-1-4724-8461-1. £105.00 (hardcover).
- Gaspare Galati, 100 Years of Radar. London: Springer, 2016. Pp. xviii + 399. ISBN 978-3-3190-0583-6. £109.99 (hardcover).
- From corps to discipline, part one: Charles d’Almeida, Pierre Bertin and French experimental physics, 1840–1880
- 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).
- Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum
- Rothschild reversed: explaining the exceptionalism of biomedical research, 1971–1981
- Illustrating natural history: images, periodicals, and the making of nineteenth-century scientific communities
- Reading and writing the scientific voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross
- Sex in the laboratory: the Family Planning Association and contraceptive science in Britain, 1929–1959
- A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and gardening in the early twentieth century
- 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).
- Tara H. Abraham, Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-262-03509-5. $40.00 (hardcover).
- Pankaj Jain, Science and Socio-religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xxii + 98. ISBN 978-1-138-02359-8. £48.99 (hardcover).
- Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-35136-0. $30.00 (hardback).
- Hannah Gay and William P. Griffith, The Chemistry Department at Imperial College: A History, 1845–2000. London: World Scientific Publishing, 2017. Pp. xi + 569 + illus. ISBN 978-1-78326-973-0. £56.00 (hardcover).
- Courtney Fullilove, The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-226-45486-3. $40.00 (hardback).
- Cristiano Casalini, Aristotle in Coimbra: The Cursus Conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts. Translated by Luana Salvarani. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii + 195. ISBN 978-1-472-46410-1. £110.00 (hardcover)
- Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner, eds., Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 175. ISBN 978-0-7190-8977-0. £70.00 (hardcover).
- BJH volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
- BJH volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
- 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).
- 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).
- Andreas Marklund and Mogens Rüdiger (eds.), Historicizing Infrastructure. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2017. Pp. 235. ISBN 978-87-7112-594-8. DKr 298.00 (hardcover).
- J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 359. ISBN 978-0-231-17954-6. $65.00/£54.00 (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).
- Roland Wittje, The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2. $40.00/£32.95
- Friedrich Steinle, Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Translated by Alex Levine. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN 978-0-8229-4450-8. $65.00 (hardcover).
- 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).
- 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).
- Relocating anti-racist science: the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race and economic development in the global South
- A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799
- Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world’s first public museum, 1753–1768
- Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world’s first public museum, 1753–1768
- Blood money: Harvey’s De motu cordis (1628) as an exercise in accounting
- Science and self-assessment: phrenological charts 1840–1940
- 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).
- BJH volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
- 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).
- John L. Ingraham , Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 978-0-674-66040-3. $29.95 (hardcover).
- Hallam Stevens , Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-226-04601-3. £21.00/$30.00 (paperback).
- Brian J. McVeigh , The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-4742-8308-3. £76.50 (hardback).
- Rebecca Onion , Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 226. ISBN 978-1-4696-2947-6. $29.95 (paperback).
- Volker R. Remmert , Martina R. Schneider and Henrik Kragh Sørensen (eds.), Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cham: Birkhauser and Springer, 2016. Pp. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-39647-7. £89.50 (hardcover).
- Anne R. Hanley , Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-3-319-32454-8. £66.99 (hardcover).
- BJH volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
- Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany
- 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).
- Joanna Radin , Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 305. ISBN 978-0-226-41731-8. $40.00 (hardcover).
- Sarah R. Kyle , Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xiii + 243. ISBN 978-1-4724-4652-7. £110.00 (hardcover).
- 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).
- Ronald S. Calinger , Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 669. ISBN 978-0-691-11927-4. $55.00/€40.95 (cloth).
- Michel Blay , Critique de l’histoire des sciences. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-2-271-09184-0. €22.00 (paperback).
- Utopian biologies
- Andreas-Holger Maehle , Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 165. ISBN 978-0-226-40482-0. $40.00 (cloth).
- Myles W. Jackson , The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-0-262-02866-0. $37.00 (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).
- Ethnic cartography and politics in Vienna, 1918–1945
- The history of transdisciplinary race classification: methods, politics and institutions, 1840s–1940s
- The past as a work in progress
- Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain
- Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities