Volume 39 - December 2006
Contents
Essay Review
Geological movements Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xx+485. ISBN 0-8014-4348-2. £21.95, $39.95 (hardback). Martin J. S. Rudwick, The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xviii+316. ISBN 0-86078-958-6. £60.00 (hardback). Martin J. S. Rudwick, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xviii+316. ISBN 0-86078-959-4. £60.00 (hardback). Martin J. S. Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv+708. ISBN 0-226-73111-1. £28.50, $45.00 (hardback).
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Book Review
LORRAINE DASTON (ed.), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone Books/MIT Press, 2004. Pp. 447. ISBN 1-890951-43-9. $37.50 (hardback).
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LONDA SCHIEBINGER and CLAUDIA SWAN (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. vi+346. ISBN 0-8122-3827-3. £36.00, $55.00 (hardback).
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ROBERT FOX (ed.), Centre and Periphery Revisited: The Structures of European Science, 1750–1914. Revue de la Maison française: Oxford, 2003. Pp. 191. ISSN 1477-3082. No price given (paperback).
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TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.), Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific.The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv+367. ISBN 0-7546-3562-7. £75.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 591-593
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CLARE PETTITT, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+341. ISBN 0-19-925320-X. £58.00 (hardback).
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MARY JO NYE (ed.), The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxix+678. ISBN 0-521-57199-5. £65.00, $95.00 (hardback).
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MARK HARRISON, Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. Pp. vi+270. ISBN 0-7456-2810-9. £17.99, $26.95 (paperback). KENNETH F. KIPLE (ed.), The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+412. ISBN 0-521-53026-1. £19.95, $27.00 (paperback).
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ANNA GUAGNINI and IAN INKSTER (eds.), Patents in History. History of Technology, Vol. 24. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. xxi+242. ISBN 0-8264-7186-2. £75.00.
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LISA M. DOLLING, ARTHUR F. GIANELLI and GLENN N. STATILE (eds.), The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xliii+716. ISBN 0-691-09085-8. $25.95 (paperback).
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SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM, Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+244. ISBN 0-521-84836-9. £48.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 593-595
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CARSTEN KRETSCHMANN (ed.), Wissenspopularisierung. Konzepte der Wissensverbreitung im Wandel. Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel 4. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. Pp. 409. ISBN 3-05-003770-9. €49.80 (hardback).
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HANS NIELS JAHNKE (ed.), A History of Analysis. History of Mathematics, 24. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2003. Pp. xi+422. ISBN 0-8218-2623-9. $89.00 (hardback).
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KARL GRANDIN, NINA WORMBS and SVEN WIDMALM (eds.), The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. Nobel Symposium 123. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications and the Nobel Foundation, 2004. Pp. xvii+457. ISBN 0-88135-365-5. $54.95 (hardback).
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LORRAINE DASTON and FERNANDO VITAL (eds.), The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. vii+519. ISBN 0-226-13681-7. $26.00 (paperback).
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FERNAND HALLYN, Les Structures rhétoriques de la science. De Kepler à Maxwell. Collection “Des travaux”. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2004. Pp. 323. ISBN 2-02-063249-7. €24.00.
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MARCO BERETTA, PAOLO GALLUZZI and CARLO TRIARCO (eds.), Musa Musaei: Studies on Scientific Instruments and Collections in Honour of Mara Miniati. Biblioteca di Nuncius Studi e Testi, XLIX. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. Pp. viii+486. ISBN 88-222-5238-1. €49.00 (paperback).
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SORAYA DE CHADAREVIAN and NICK HOPWOOD (eds.), Models: The Third Dimension of Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+464. ISBN 0-8047-3972-2. £17.50, $24.95 (paperback).
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THOMAS P. HUGHES, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii+223. ISBN 0-226-35933-6. £16.00, $22.50 (hardback).
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CATHERINE EAGLETON, JENNIFER DOWNES, KATHERINE HARLOE, BORIS JARDINE, NICK JARDINE and ADAM MOSLEY, Instruments of Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge Latin Therapy Group and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2003. Pp. 54. ISBN 0-906271-21-5. No price given (paperback). PATRICK BONER and CATHERINE EAGLETON (eds.), Instruments of Mystery. Cambridge: Cambridge Latin Therapy Group and the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2004. Pp. iv+65. ISBN 0-906271-22-3. No price given (paperback).
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