The British Journal for the History of Science

BJH volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
The British Journal for the History of Science12 July 2023
BJH volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
The British Journal for the History of Science12 July 2023
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy
The British Journal for the History of Science23 June 2023By Turchetti, Simone
Andrew Cunningham, ‘I Follow Aristotle’: How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 180. ISBN 987-1-0321-6223-2. £130.00 (hardback).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 June 2023By Jordanova, Ludmilla
Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-0-2266-0568-5. $32.00 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 June 2023By Hayes, Emily
Peter H. Hoffenberg, A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-0-8229-4576-5. $45.00 (cloth).
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2023By Winters, Lisa
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, Vera Rubin: A Life Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2021. Pp. x + 309. ISBN 978-0-6749-1919-8. £23.95 (hardback).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 June 2023By Fara, Patricia
Paula De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 404. ISBN 978-0-8229-4649-6 $50.00 (hardback).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 June 2023By Spielmann, Sophia
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback). – CORRIGENDUM
The British Journal for the History of Science06 June 2023By Law, Harry
Hans Radder, From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology and Society Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-8229-4579-6. $50.00 (hardcover).
The British Journal for the History of Science24 May 2023By Heslop, Beck Chamberlain
Representing noise: stacked plots and the contrasting diplomatic ambitions of radio astronomy and post-punk
The British Journal for the History of Science18 May 2023By Turchetti, Simone
Picturing Chinese science: wartime photographs in Joseph Needham’s science diplomacy
The British Journal for the History of Science04 May 2023By Barrett, Gordon
The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer
The British Journal for the History of Science27 April 2023By Medori, Beatriz
Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal
The British Journal for the History of Science20 April 2023By Diogo, Maria Paula
Showcasing the international atom: the IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962
The British Journal for the History of Science11 April 2023By Adamson, Matthew
Lydia Barnett, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-2951-9. $52.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4214-4527-4. $28.95 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By van Dijk, Alexander
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The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By McCahey, Daniella
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The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023
Gordon Barrett, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 978-1-1088-4457-4. £75.00 (hardback).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Krige, John
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Bernhardt-Radu, Stefan
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Weber, Thomas P.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Chu, Leo
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Stoeger, Alexander
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Bowler, Peter J.
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 British Journal for the History of Science22 March 2023By Durlo, Andrea
Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA’s ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations
The British Journal for the History of Science13 February 2023By Grevsmühl, Sebastian V.
The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The British Journal for the History of Science10 February 2023By Belteki, Daniel
Antonio Stoppani’s ‘Anthropozoic’ in the context of the Anthropocene
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2023By Luciano, Eugenio
Colouring flowers: books, art, and experiment in the household of Margery and Henry Power
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2023By Eriksen, Christoffer Basse
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science09 January 2023By Di Castri, Theo
Stratifying seamanship: sailors’ knowledge and the mechanical arts in eighteenth-century Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science22 December 2022By Jones, Elin
Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2022By Rossetter, Thomas
Commercial television and primate ethology: facial expressions between Granada and London Zoo
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2022By Kempton, Miles
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The British Journal for the History of Science15 December 2022
BJH volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
The British Journal for the History of Science15 December 2022
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 December 2022By Bowler, Peter J.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 December 2022By Short, Devin
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 December 2022By Hemmens, Sue
Re-examining globalization and the history of science: Ottoman and Middle Eastern experiences
The British Journal for the History of Science22 November 2022By Murphy, Jane H.
Medicine and Arabic literary production in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century
The British Journal for the History of Science22 November 2022By Khayat, Nicole
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine
The British Journal for the History of Science11 November 2022By Meyer, Victoria N.
Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet’s translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah
The British Journal for the History of Science31 October 2022By Tekin, Kenan
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 October 2022By Stenhouse, Brigitte
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The British Journal for the History of Science13 October 2022
BJH volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
The British Journal for the History of Science13 October 2022
Introduction: the issue of duplicates
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2022By Heumann, Ina
Visual duplication: specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935)
The British Journal for the History of Science08 August 2022By Mauuarin, Anaïs
Globalizing ‘science and religion’: examples from the late Ottoman Empire
The British Journal for the History of Science02 August 2022By Yalçınkaya, M. Alper
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The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022
BJH volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022By Shalvey, Aisling
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022By Holmes, Charlotte
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022By Bruinsma, Mette
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022By Rose, Sebastian James
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 July 2022By Šime, Zane
Contested duplicates: disputed negotiations surrounding ethnographic doppelgängers in German New Guinea, 1898–1914
The British Journal for the History of Science20 June 2022By Buschmann, Rainer F.
Malinowski and malacology: global value systems and the issue of duplicates
The British Journal for the History of Science20 June 2022By Margócsy, Dániel
Science by Nobel committee: decision making and norms of scientific practice in the early physics and chemistry prizes
The British Journal for the History of Science23 May 2022By Källstrand, Gustav
Curating duplicates: operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–1926
The British Journal for the History of Science23 May 2022By Nichols, Catherine A.
‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
The British Journal for the History of Science28 April 2022By Ledgerwood, Emmeline
Duplicate networks: the Berlin botanical institutions as a ‘clearing house’ for colonial plant material, 1891–1920
The British Journal for the History of Science26 April 2022By Kaiser, Katja
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity
The British Journal for the History of Science19 April 2022By Gordin, Michael D.
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The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022By Langstaff, Alex
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The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022By Giovannetti-Singh, Gianamar
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022By Tarrant, Neil
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022By Secord, James A.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2022By Dunn, Richard
‘A remedy for this dread disease’: Achille Sclavo, anthrax and serum therapy in early twentieth-century Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science06 April 2022By Stark, James F.
Caribou crossings: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, conservation, and stakeholdership in the Anthropocene
The British Journal for the History of Science25 March 2022By Schleper, Simone
Duplicates under the hammer: natural-history auctions in Berlin’s early nineteenth-century collection landscape
The British Journal for the History of Science21 March 2022By MacKinney, Anne Greenwood
‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter’s investigation of the human gravid uterus
The British Journal for the History of Science28 February 2022By Bellis, Richard T.
Imperial entomology: Boris P. Uvarov and locusts, c.1920–c.1950
The British Journal for the History of Science20 January 2022By Worboys, Michael
‘Not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation’: the life of a quotation in biology
The British Journal for the History of Science20 January 2022By Hopwood, Nick
Comparative globalizations: building and dismantling genetic laboratories in Lebanon
The British Journal for the History of Science19 January 2022By Burton, Elise K.
Descartes on fermentation in digestion: iatromechanism, analogy and teleology
The British Journal for the History of Science11 January 2022By Schmechel, Carmen
Mapping the invisible: knowledge, credibility and visions of earth in early modern cave maps
The British Journal for the History of Science10 January 2022By Mattes, Johannes
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2021By Hayes, Emily
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The British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2021
Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2021By Law, Harry
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2021By Korolija, Maja
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 British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2021By Fara, Patricia
‘The troubles of collecting’: William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain’s nineteenth-century world
The British Journal for the History of Science17 December 2021By McAleer, John
Adjusting to precarity: how and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research
The British Journal for the History of Science12 October 2021By Lowe, James W. E.
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science11 October 2021By Aylward, Alex
Denis Papin’s digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation
The British Journal for the History of Science11 October 2021By Storni, Marco
‘Impossible to provide an accurate estimate’: the interested calculation of the Ottoman public debt, 1875–1881
The British Journal for the History of Science08 October 2021By Stolz, Daniel A.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By James, Frank A.J.L.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Turney, Jon
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Miller, Ian
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The Anthropocene & the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Hayes, Emily
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Figueroa, Javier Poveda
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Honeybun-Arnolda, Elliott
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Doley, Caitlin
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Bucciarelli, Lucia
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The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science28 September 2021By Guffroy, Yohann
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel
The British Journal for the History of Science24 September 2021By Armston-Sheret, Edward
Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)
The British Journal for the History of Science07 September 2021By Michel, Nicolas
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Lidwell-Durnin, John
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Beeston, Erin
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Talairach, Laurence
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Palmieri, Kristine
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Morris, Andrew M.A.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Holmes, Tarquin
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Jackson, Roland
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Ledgerwood, Emmeline
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Sachdev, Vorathep
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 July 2021By Reeves, Carole
Revolutionary electricity in 1790: shock, consensus, and the birth of a political metaphor
The British Journal for the History of Science29 July 2021By Wesner, Samantha
‘A method for safe transmission’: the microscope slides of the American Postal Microscopical Club
The British Journal for the History of Science29 July 2021By Beiermann, Lea
‘Ancient lore with modern appliances’: networks, expertise, and the making of the Open Polar Sea, 1851–1853
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2021By Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders
Frontier atmosphere: observation and regret at Chinese weather stations in Tibet, 1939–1949
The British Journal for the History of Science13 July 2021By Frank, Mark E.
Framing Asian atmospheres: imperial weather science and the problem of the local c. 1880–1950
The British Journal for the History of Science12 July 2021By Williamson, Fiona
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young – CORRIGENDUM
The British Journal for the History of Science03 June 2021By Secord, James A.
Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine
The British Journal for the History of Science20 May 2021By McGovern, Michael F.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Dessain, H.-F.
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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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Middleton, Lindsay
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Sialaros, Michalis
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Amborg, Jens
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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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Hardy, Penelope K.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Jones, Andrew
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Smith, David F.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Ambler, Katherine
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Giovannetti-Singh, Gianamar
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Moxham, Noah
Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN: 978-1-7891-4314-0. £20.00 (hardback)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Eichberg, Stephanie
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Duančić, Vedran
‘Seeing with one’s own eyes’ and speaking to the mind: a history of the Wilson cloud chamber in the teaching of physics
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Bertozzi, Eugenio
‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms
The British Journal for the History of Science11 May 2021By Huang, Chi Chi
Anticipating the monsoon: the necessity and impossibility of the seasonal weather forecast for South Asia, 1886–1953
The British Journal for the History of Science05 May 2021By Carson, Sarah
Just doing their job: the hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c.1883–1914
The British Journal for the History of Science26 April 2021By Williamson, Fiona
Priorities in Medical Research: elite dynamics in a pivotal episode for British health research
The British Journal for the History of Science23 March 2021By Davies, Stephen M.
Managing the observatory: discipline, order and disorder at Greenwich, 1835–1933
The British Journal for the History of Science19 March 2021By Johnston, Scott Alan
The Society of Astrologers (c.1647–1684): sermons, feasts and the resuscitation of astrology in seventeenth-century London
The British Journal for the History of Science15 March 2021By Pfeffer, Michelle
Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young
The British Journal for the History of Science11 March 2021By Secord, James A.
Out on the fringe: Wales and the history of science
The British Journal for the History of Science11 March 2021By Morus, Iwan Rhys
DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher’s discovery of nuclein in its original context
The British Journal for the History of Science19 February 2021By Hall, Kersten
Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation
The British Journal for the History of Science19 February 2021By Smith, Crosbie
Unfriendly guardians: India’s first nuclear leadership change in 1966
The British Journal for the History of Science19 February 2021By Yeon-Jung, Ji
Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry
The British Journal for the History of Science17 February 2021By Wynter, Rebecca
Robert M. Young’s Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited
The British Journal for the History of Science17 February 2021By Lawrence, Christopher
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Kana, Sandip
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Fara, Patricia
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Brock, William H.
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Katz, Osnat
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Goodrum, Matthew R.
Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 303. ISBN 978-1-7891-4342-3. £14.99 (hardback).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Smith, Roger
Sergei Belyakov , Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019. Pp. 188. ISBN 978-9-8132-2868-9. £25.00 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By McMullan, Joshua
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Marschall, Wythe
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science13 January 2021By Blakley, Christopher M.
Voyaging towards the future: the brig Rurik in the North Pacific and the emerging science of the sea
The British Journal for the History of Science01 December 2020By BEKASOVA, ALEXANDRA
‘Research sharing’ using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist
The British Journal for the History of Science01 December 2020By HOUGHTON, JEMMA
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency
The British Journal for the History of Science18 November 2020By ROBINSON, SAM
Two BSHS online alternatives to conventional conferences
The British Journal for the History of Science18 November 2020By BOON, TIM
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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.
The British Journal for the History of Science30 October 2020By Moul, Russell
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 October 2020By Heffner, Kathryn
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 October 2020By Camprubí, Lino
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 October 2020By Dunn, Richard
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science30 October 2020By Good, Peter
Natural history in the physician’s study: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), Steven Blankaart (1650–1705) and the ‘paperwork’ of observing insects
The British Journal for the History of Science29 October 2020By KLERK, SASKIA
The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science14 October 2020By LONG, MAX
A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico
The British Journal for the History of Science01 October 2020By ALONSO-PAVÓN, JOSÉ ANTONIO
The place of Edward Gresham’s Astrostereon (1603) in the discussion on cosmology and the Bible in the early modern period
The British Journal for the History of Science01 October 2020By BIENIAS, BARBARA
‘An attempt to trace illusions to their physical causes’: atmospheric mirages and the performance of their demystification in the 1820s and 1830s
The British Journal for the History of Science01 October 2020By AMERY, FIONA
Subject 01: exemplary Indigenous masculinity in Cold War genetics
The British Journal for the History of Science07 August 2020By DENT, ROSANNA
The logistics of the Republic of Letters: mercantile undercurrents of early modern scholarly knowledge circulation
The British Journal for the History of Science16 July 2020By ORRJE, JACOB
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Timberlake, Todd K.
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Weber, Thomas P.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Dessain, H.-F.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Sleigh, Charlotte
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Rossini, Paolo
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science15 July 2020By Holmes, Tarquin
What is science for? The Lighthill report on artificial intelligence reinterpreted
The British Journal for the History of Science10 July 2020By AGAR, JON
Why Semmelweis’s doctrine was rejected: evidence from the first publication of his results by Friedrich Wieger, and an editorial commenting on the results
The British Journal for the History of Science03 July 2020By KADAR, NICHOLAS
Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–1835
The British Journal for the History of Science29 June 2020By JENKINS, BILL
Performing in a different place: the use of a prodigy to the Dublin Philosophical Society
The British Journal for the History of Science03 June 2020By HOLT, PADDY
Cultivating famine: data, experimentation and food security, 1795–1848
The British Journal for the History of Science02 June 2020By LIDWELL-DURNIN, JOHN
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By MacDonald, Lee T.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Hanley, Anne
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Cozzoli, Daniele
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Frampton, Sally
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Meyer, Tirza
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Bimm, Jordan
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Wills, Hannah
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Honeybun-Arnolda, Elliot
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Deen, Rosa
Michael Bravo, North Pole: Nature and Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1-7891-4008-8. $24.95/£14.96 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Helsing, Daniel
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 British Journal for the History of Science19 May 2020By Rispoli, Giulia
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
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2020By SPINARDI, GRAHAM
Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context
The British Journal for the History of Science08 April 2020By BOLDYREV, IVAN
Science, Catholicism and politics in Argentina (1910–1935)
The British Journal for the History of Science06 April 2020By DE ASÚA, MIGUEL
Eating game: proteins, international conservation and the rebranding of African wildlife, 1955–1965
The British Journal for the History of Science03 April 2020By DE BONT, RAF
Archaeology enters the ‘atomic age’: a short history of radiocarbon, 1946–1960
The British Journal for the History of Science13 March 2020By KERN, EMILY M.
Scientific broadcasting as a social responsibility? John Maynard Smith on radio and television in the 1960s and 1970s
The British Journal for the History of Science15 January 2020By PIEL, HELEN
Retrospectives: Uses of history of science in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey
The British Journal for the History of Science14 January 2020By BILGILI, ALPER
Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c.1926–1950
The British Journal for the History of Science14 January 2020By BECCALOSSI, CHIARA
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Kennaway, James
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Primbault, Simon Dumas
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Koovit, Kaija-Liisa
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Cornish, Caroline
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Bui, Hanh
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Tun, Molly
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Hayes, Emily
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Warkentin, Germaine
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Danne, Nicholas
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Ranford, Paul
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Badino, Massimiliano
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Gissis, Snait
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Insley, Jane
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Sacco, Francesco
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Fix, Adam
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2019By Badino, Massimiliano
Sociability, radium and the maintenance of scientific culture and authority in twentieth-century Ireland: a case study of the Royal Dublin Society
The British Journal for the History of Science13 December 2019By KIRWAN, ADRIAN
Constructing the ‘automatic’ Greenwich time system: George Biddell Airy and the telegraphic distribution of time, c.1852–1880
The British Journal for the History of Science06 December 2019By ISHIBASHI, YUTO
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 November 2019By Langrish, John Z.
Retrospectives: History of science in France
The British Journal for the History of Science27 November 2019By SIMON, JONATHAN
Retrospectives: Unconventional paths
The British Journal for the History of Science13 November 2019By GUERRINI, ANITA
‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt’s New Deal
The British Journal for the History of Science22 October 2019By HILL-ANDREWS, OLIVER
‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt’s New Deal
The British Journal for the History of Science22 October 2019By HILL-ANDREWS, OLIVER
Tremoring transits: railways, the Royal Observatory and the capitalist challenge to Victorian astronomical science
The British Journal for the History of Science11 October 2019By GILLIN, EDWARD J.
‘The want of a proper Gardiner’: late Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as intermediaries of medical and scientific knowledge
The British Journal for the History of Science04 October 2019By HICKMAN, CLARE
Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital
The British Journal for the History of Science01 October 2019By KEMPLEY, EILÍS
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Pearson, Chris
Patrick Armstrong, Alfred Russel Wallace. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 175, ISBN 978-1-7891-4085-9, £11.99 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Flannery, Michael A.
The pharmakon of ‘If’: working with Steven Shapin’s A Social History of Truth
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By WINTROUB, MICHAEL
Agnes Arber, historian of botany and Darwinian sceptic
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Feola, Vittoria
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Wale, Matthew
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Bennett, Jim
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Sastre-Juan, Jaume
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Starkowski, Kristen
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Hayward, Rhodri
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Boddice, Rob
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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)
The British Journal for the History of Science27 September 2019By Lane, Sydney
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other
The British Journal for the History of Science26 September 2019By MERCHANT, PAUL
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science18 September 2019By VERSCHUEREN, PIERRE
Fashioned in the light of physics: the scope and methods of Halford Mackinder’s geography
The British Journal for the History of Science27 August 2019By HAYES, EMILY
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By McCahey, Daniella
Response to H. Floris Cohen’s essay review on Newtonian scholarship
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Stan, Marius
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Metaphors and other slippery creatures
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Strick, James E.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Prins, Jacomien
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Hentschel, Klaus
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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)
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Waddington, Keir
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Honeybun-Arnolda, Elliot
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Smith, Robert W.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Hunt, Bruce J.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Aylward, Alex
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Akopyan, Ovanes
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Hempstead, Colin
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Fara, Patricia
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Cantor, Geoffrey
Yves Gingras, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2017. Pp. 249. ISBN 978-1-5095-1892-0. £17.99 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By Thomas, Renny
‘X-rays don’t tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945
The British Journal for the History of Science22 July 2019By MCGUIRE, COREEN
Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2019By BEELEY, PHILIP
London 1600–1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2019By BENNETT, JIM
Trade, knowledge and networks: the activities of the Society of Apothecaries and its members in London, c.1670–c.1800
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2019By SIMMONS, ANNA
An experimental community: the East India Company in London, 1600–1800
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2019By WINTERBOTTOM, ANNA
Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific
The British Journal for the History of Science14 June 2019By LÜTTGE, FELIX
Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation
The British Journal for the History of Science14 May 2019By MOXHAM, NOAH
‘Greenwich near London’: the Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The British Journal for the History of Science14 May 2019By HIGGITT, REBEKAH
‘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
The British Journal for the History of Science07 May 2019By KILBURN-TOPPIN, JASMINE
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
The British Journal for the History of Science30 April 2019By LEHOUX, DARYN
Life cycle of a star: Carl Sagan and the circulation of reputation
The British Journal for the History of Science22 April 2019By MARSH, OLIVER
Editing entomology: natural-history periodicals and the shaping of scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science05 April 2019By WALE, MATTHEW
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Jiménez, Bárbara
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Reed, Peter
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Stirling-Middleton, Emma
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Bix, Amy Sue
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Schilt, Cornelis J.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Loukopoulou, Eleni
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Cantor, Geoffrey
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Nichols, Tiffany
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By Rentetzi, Maria
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science05 March 2019By van Neste, Aaron
Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea
The British Journal for the History of Science13 February 2019By BENNETT, JIM
The mechanical life of plants: Descartes on botany
The British Journal for the History of Science30 January 2019By BALDASSARRI, FABRIZIO
Francis Bacon’s doctrine of idols: a diagnosis of ‘universal madness’
The British Journal for the History of Science30 January 2019By WEEKS, S.V.
Charles Darwin and the scientific mind
The British Journal for the History of Science29 January 2019By STACK, DAVID
Translation and transmutation: the Origin of Species in China
The British Journal for the History of Science27 December 2018By JIN, XIAOXING
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Tattersall, Mason
Epilogue
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By GÓMEZ, PABLO F.
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Gámez-Pérez, Carlos
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Abou-Nemeh, Catherine
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Richardson, Brian
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Beckers, Danny
Imperial vernacular: phytonymy, philology and disciplinarity in the Indo-Pacific, 1800–1900
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By BIL, GEOFF
Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By PARKER, KATHERINE
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Beck, Emily E.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Weber, Thomas P.
Stock and bulk in the latest Newton scholarship
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Cohen, H. Floris
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Everest, James
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 British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Wale, Matthew
The ‘genie of the storm’: cyclonic reasoning and the spaces of weather observation in the southern Indian Ocean, 1851–1925
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By MAHONY, MARTIN
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Lidwell-Durnin, John
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders
Science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By KROUPA, SEBESTIAN
A hard nut to crack: nutmeg cultivation and the application of natural history between the Maluku islands and Isle de France (1750s–1780s)
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By BRIXIUS, DORIT
Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius
The British Journal for the History of Science19 December 2018By YOO, GENIE
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Bellis, Richard T.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Nichols, Tiffany
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Berry, Dominic J.
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.
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Sankaran, Neeraja
Joyce van Leeuwen, The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Berlin: Springer, 2016. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-3-3192-5925-3. $119.00 (hardcover).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Gulizia, Stefano
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Carolino, Luís Miguel
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Kusukawa, Sachiko
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Wragge-Morley, Alexander
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Clericuzio, Antonio
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Lorenz Oken (1779–1851): Naturphilosophie and the reform of natural history – ERRATUM
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By GAMBAROTTO, ANDREA
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Eberhart, Marlene L.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Smith, Roger
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Hayes, Emily
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Aylward, Alex
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Fotinos, Nicoletta I.
Gaspare Galati, 100 Years of Radar. London: Springer, 2016. Pp. xviii + 399. ISBN 978-3-3190-0583-6. £109.99 (hardcover).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Bruton, Elizabeth
From corps to discipline, part one: Charles d’Almeida, Pierre Bertin and French experimental physics, 1840–1880
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By MITCHELL, DANIEL JON
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By Shotwell, Allen
Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum
The British Journal for the History of Science11 September 2018By BUXTON, HILARY
Rothschild reversed: explaining the exceptionalism of biomedical research, 1971–1981
The British Journal for the History of Science28 August 2018By DAVIES, STEPHEN M.
Illustrating natural history: images, periodicals, and the making of nineteenth-century scientific communities
The British Journal for the History of Science15 August 2018By BELKNAP, GEOFFREY
Reading and writing the scientific voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross
The British Journal for the History of Science13 August 2018By ANDERSON, KATHARINE
Sex in the laboratory: the Family Planning Association and contraceptive science in Britain, 1929–1959
The British Journal for the History of Science28 June 2018By SZUHAN, NATASHA
A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and gardening in the early twentieth century
The British Journal for the History of Science20 June 2018By ENDERSBY, JIM
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Murphy-Young, Sarah
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Prkachin, Yvan
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Kumar, Deepak
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Boantza, Victor D.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Morris, Peter J.T.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Weber, Thomas P.
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)
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Bigotti, Fabrizio
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Conway, Hannah
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Martin, Rebecca
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Curto, Gemma
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Gooday, Graeme
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Das, Anup Kumar
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Marschall, Wythe
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
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Jamieson, Annie
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Falconer, Isobel
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Peace, David
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science31 May 2018By Peace, David
Relocating anti-racist science: the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race and economic development in the global South
The British Journal for the History of Science07 May 2018By GIL-RIAÑO, SEBASTIÁN
A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799
The British Journal for the History of Science18 April 2018By HEINTZMAN, KIT
Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world’s first public museum, 1753–1768
The British Journal for the History of Science15 April 2018By ROSE, EDWIN D.
Specimens, slips and systems: Daniel Solander and the classification of nature at the world’s first public museum, 1753–1768
The British Journal for the History of Science15 April 2018By ROSE, EDWIN D.
Blood money: Harvey’s De motu cordis (1628) as an exercise in accounting
The British Journal for the History of Science13 April 2018By NEUSS, MICHAEL J.
Science and self-assessment: phrenological charts 1840–1940
The British Journal for the History of Science26 March 2018By SYSLING, FENNEKE
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Fulford, Tim
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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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Boddice, Rob
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Dawes, Laura
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Reed, Peter
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Smith, Roger
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Wainman, Ruth
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Sialaros, Michalis
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Bowen, Elliott
BJH volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018
Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By PETROU, MARISSA H.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Duffy, Timothy
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By McGovern, Michael F.
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Feola, Vittoria
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By D'Ambrosio, Ubiratan
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Beckers, Danny
Michel Blay , Critique de l’histoire des sciences. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-2-271-09184-0. €22.00 (paperback).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Bussotti, Paolo
Utopian biologies
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Endersby, Jim
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Hanley, Anne
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Capocci, Mauro
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).
The British Journal for the History of Science07 March 2018By Hunt, Bruce J.
Ethnic cartography and politics in Vienna, 1918–1945
The British Journal for the History of Science13 February 2018By SVATEK, PETRA
The history of transdisciplinary race classification: methods, politics and institutions, 1840s–1940s
The British Journal for the History of Science08 February 2018By MCMAHON, RICHARD
The past as a work in progress
The British Journal for the History of Science20 December 2017By FARA, PATRICIA
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain
The British Journal for the History of Science13 December 2017By VIRDI, JAIPREET
Robert Boyle and the representation of imperceptible entities
The British Journal for the History of Science06 November 2017By WRAGGE-MORLEY, ALEXANDER

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