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Volume 44; Issue 1

The British Journal for the History of Science

Volume 44; Issue 1

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The uses of analogy: James Clerk Maxwell's ‘On Faraday's lines of force’ and early Victorian analogical argument

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The biological precedents for medieval impetus theory and its Aristotelian character

FRITSCHE, JOHANNES

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‘Your astronomers and ours differ exceedingly’: the controversy over the ‘new star’ of 1572 in the light of a newly discovered text by Thomas Digges

PUMFREY, STEPHEN

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Professor Margaret J. Osler (27 November 1942–15 September 2010)

STAHNISCH, FRANK W.

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J.M.I. Klaver, Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881. London: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-956889-5. £95.00 (hardback).

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Peter J.T. Morris (ed.), Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xxi+350. ISBN 978-0-230-23009-5. £65.00 (hardback).

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Christoph Gradmann, Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology, translated by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-8018-9313-1. £18.00 (hardback).

Strick, James E.

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Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse and Mark Walker (eds.), The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv+477. ISBN 978-0-521-87906-4. £45.00 (hardback).

Szöllösi-Janze, Margit

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english

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Matthias Berg, Jens Thiel and Peter Th. Walther (eds.), Mit Feder und Schwert: Militär und Wissenschaft-Wissenschaftler und Krieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-3-515-09606-5. €46.00 (paperback).

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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2011

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english

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Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7. £20.00 (hardback).

James, Frank A.J.L.

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Amparo Gómez Rodríguez and Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano (eds.), Ciencia y fascismo: La ciencia española de posguerra. Barcelona: Laertes, 2009. Pp. 358. ISBN 978-84-7584-657-6. €19.50 (paperback).

Richards, Michael

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Charles G. Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. x+356. ISBN 978-0-262-01338-3. £25.95 (hardback).

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Heiner Fangerau, Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-3-05-004528-3. €59.80 (hardback).

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P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+393. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8. £45.00 (hardback).

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BJH volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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BJH volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Ruth Glasner, Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-956773-7. £37.50 (hardback).

Burnett, Charles

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Peter Heering, Oliver Hochadel and David J. Rhees (eds.), Playing with Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xi+290. ISBN 978-1-60618-995-5. $35.00 (paperback).

Grant, Florence

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Michael R. Lynn, The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix+240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2. £60.00 (hardback).

Gillispie, Charles C.

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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2011

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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+114. ISBN 978-0-8047-6289-2. $18.95 (paperback).

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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Suman Seth, Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. vii+378. ISBN 978-0-262-01373-4. £23.95 (hardback).

Darrigol, Olivier

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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2011

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Synthetic technocracy: Dutch scientific intellectuals in science, society and culture, 1880–1950

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 422. ISBN 978-0-262-01317-8. $55.00 (hardback).

Arthur, Richard T.W.

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Simon Werrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vii+359. ISBN 978-0-226-89377-8. £29.00 (hardback).

Buchanan, Brenda J.

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Jan Goldstein, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+246. ISBN 978-0-691-01186-8. £20.95 (hardback).

Carroy, Jacqueline

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A.W. Bates, The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. ix+228. ISBN 978-1-84519-38-2. £39.95 (hardback).Lisa Rosner, The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. vi+328. ISBN 978-0-8122-4191-4. £19.50 (hardback).

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Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN 987-0-674-04661-0. £21.95 (hardback).

Parshall, Karen Hunger

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Juliana Adelman, Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+221. ISBN 978-1-85196-653-0. £60.00 (hardback).

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Basil Mahon, Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+183. ISBN 978-0-86341-965-2. £15.00/ $30.00 (paperback).

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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2011

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english

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Heather Wolffram, The Stepchildren of Science. Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c.1870–1939. Amsterdam and New York: Ropodi, 2009. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-90-420-2728-2. £70.00 (hardback).

Sommer, Andreas

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The British Journal for the History of Science

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2011

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Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 626. ISBN 928-0-226-40118-8. $35.00 (hardback).

Macleod, Christine

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Books received

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