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STEVEN RUSKIN, John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxix+229. ISBN 0-7546-3558-9. £45.00 (hardback).