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Discovering Cell Mechanisms

The Creation of Modern Cell Biology
William Bechtel
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Between 1940 and 1970 pioneers in the new field of cell biology discovered the operative parts of cells and their contributions to cell life. They offered mechanistic accounts that explained cellular phenomena by identifying the relevant parts of cells, the biochemical operations they performed, and the way in which these parts and operations were organised to accomplish important functions. Cell biology was a revolutionary science but in this book it also provides fuel for yet another revolution, one that focuses on the very conception of science itself. Laws have traditionally been regarded as the primary vehicle of explanation, but in the emerging philosophy of science it is mechanisms that do the explanatory work. Bechtel emphasises how mechanisms were discovered, focusing especially on the way in which new instruments made these inquiries possible. He also describes how new journals and societies provided institutional structure to this new enterprise.

Emily Steel, He Is No Loss: Robert McCormick and the Voyage of HMS Beagle. BSHS Monograph 14. Norwich: British Society for the History of Science, 2011. Pp. x+63. ISBN 978-0-906450-18-5. £10.00 (paperback).
S. Karly Kehoe
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Robert Goulding, Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2010. Pp. xx+201. ISBN 978-90-481-3541-7. £90.00 (hardback).
Stephen Pumfrey
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Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+439. ISBN 978-0-8018-9904-1. £23.50 (paperback).
Stephanie Eichberg
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Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari (eds.), Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. Pp. xxv + 272. ISBN 978-1-4438-2918-2. £44.99 (hardback).
Alison E. Martin
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Laurence Talairaich-Vielmas (ed.), Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761–1901. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pp. xii+309. ISBN 978-1-4438-2680-8. £44.99 (hardback).
Melanie Keene
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Joanna Stalnaker, The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+240. ISBN 978-0-8014-4864-5. £27.95 (hardback). - Jeff Loveland, An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon's Universal History (1745). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010. Pp. xiii+256. ISBN 978-0-7294-0992-6. £60.00 (paperback).
Rachel L. Dunn
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Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.), Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7. €49.00 (paperback).
Richard Dunn
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A.D. Morrison-Low, Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland in conjunction with The Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 2010. Pp. xxvi+262. ISBN 978-1-905267-47-7. £17.99 (paperback).
Julia Elton
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Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler and Olaf Breidbach (eds.), The Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898–1951. Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 27. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Department of Genetics/‘Mendelianum’ of the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-80-87378-67-0. Price unknown (paperback). - Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler, and Jiří Sekerák (eds.), The Letters on G.J. Mendel: Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, 1902–1935. Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 28. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Department of Genetics/‘Mendelianum’ of the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-80-87378-73-1. Price unknown (paperback).
Sander Gliboff
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Robert H. Sanders, The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+205. ISBN 978-0-521-11301. £35.00 (hardback).
Jacob V. Pearce
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Fernando Vidal, The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+413. ISBN 978-0-226-85586-8. £35.50 (hardback).
Jörgen L. Pind
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Anna Marie Roos, Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xx + 478. ISBN 978-90-04-20703-5. €129.00 (hardback).
Palmira Fontes da Costa
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Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xxvi+400. ISBN 978-0-7546-553908. £75.00 (hardback).
Steven J. Main
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Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+428. ISBN 978-0-691-14576-1. £25.95 (hardback).
Jane Murphy
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P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston (eds.), John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660). London: The Ray Society, 2011. Pp. ix+612. ISBN 978-0903874-43-4. £75.00 (hardback).
Anna Marie Roos
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Volker Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution. Philadelphia: St Joseph's University Press, 2011. Pp. 295. ISBN 978-0-916101-67-1. $65.00 (hardback).
N. Kaoukji
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Emily Steel, He Is No Loss: Robert McCormick and the Voyage of HMS Beagle. BSHS Monograph 14. Norwich: British Society for the History of Science, 2011. Pp. x+63. ISBN 978-0-906450-18-5. £10.00 (paperback).

BJH volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Robert Goulding, Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2010. Pp. xx+201. ISBN 978-90-481-3541-7. £90.00 (hardback).

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+439. ISBN 978-0-8018-9904-1. £23.50 (paperback).

Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari (eds.), Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. Pp. xxv + 272. ISBN 978-1-4438-2918-2. £44.99 (hardback).

Laurence Talairaich-Vielmas (ed.), Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761–1901. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pp. xii+309. ISBN 978-1-4438-2680-8. £44.99 (hardback).

Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.), Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7. €49.00 (paperback).

A.D. Morrison-Low, Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland in conjunction with The Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 2010. Pp. xxvi+262. ISBN 978-1-905267-47-7. £17.99 (paperback).

Robert H. Sanders, The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+205. ISBN 978-0-521-11301. £35.00 (hardback).

Fernando Vidal, The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+413. ISBN 978-0-226-85586-8. £35.50 (hardback).

Books received

Anna Marie Roos, Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xx + 478. ISBN 978-90-04-20703-5. €129.00 (hardback).

Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xxvi+400. ISBN 978-0-7546-553908. £75.00 (hardback).

Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+428. ISBN 978-0-691-14576-1. £25.95 (hardback).

P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston (eds.), John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660). London: The Ray Society, 2011. Pp. ix+612. ISBN 978-0903874-43-4. £75.00 (hardback).

Volker Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution. Philadelphia: St Joseph's University Press, 2011. Pp. 295. ISBN 978-0-916101-67-1. $65.00 (hardback).

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