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Volume 45 - December 2012

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Michael Brown, Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c.1760–1850. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2011. Pp. ix+254. ISBN 978-0-7190-7797-5. £60.00 (hardback).
James F. Stark
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25 September 2012, pp. 463-464
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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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14 June 2012, pp. 296-298
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Hiro Hirai, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN 978-90-04-218171-0. €99.00 (hardback).
Anna Marie Roos
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21 January 2013, pp. 682-683
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Ian Hesketh, The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. xii+229. ISBN 978-1-84893-126-8. £60.00 (hardback).
Nathalie Richard
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27 February 2012, pp. 138-139
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David Philip Miller, James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009. Pp. viii+241. ISBN 978-1-85196-974-6. £60.00 (hardback).
Ben Marsden
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14 June 2012, pp. 298-300
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John Edward Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’. With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xxxiv + 607. ISBN 978-90-04-20712-7. €184.00 (hardback).
Daniel Stolzenberg
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21 January 2013, pp. 683-685
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Alfred I. Tauber, Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xx+318. ISBN 978-0-691-14552-5. $24.95 (paperback).
Roger Smith
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27 February 2012, pp. 140-141
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John G. McEvoy, The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiii+328. ISBN 978-1-84893-030-8. £60.00/$99.00 (hardback).
Victor D. Boantza
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25 September 2012, pp. 464-465
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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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14 June 2012, pp. 300-301
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Larrie D. Ferreiro, Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Pp. xix + 353. ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2. $28.00 (hardback).
Patricia Fara
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21 January 2013, pp. 685-686
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Vanessa Heggie, A History of British Sports Medicine. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. x+222. ISBN 978-0-7190-8261-0. £60.00 (hardback).
Julie Anderson
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27 February 2012, pp. 141-142
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Leslie Tomory, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xii+348. ISBN 978-0-262-01675-9. £19.95 (hardback).
David Philip Miller
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25 September 2012, pp. 466-467
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Karin Reich and Elena Roussanova (eds.), Carl Friedrich Gauss und Russland: Sein Briefwechsel mit in Russland wirkenden Wissenschaftlern. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. Pp. xxiii+905. ISBN 978-3-11-025306-1. €149.95 (hardback).
I. Grattan-Guinness
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25 September 2012, pp. 467-468
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Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette (eds.), Alexander von Humboldt. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xxvi + 519. ISBN 978-0-226-46568-5. £45.00 (hardback).
Alison E. Martin
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21 January 2013, pp. 686-687
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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).
S. Karly Kehoe
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14 June 2012, pp. 301-302
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Erling Norrby, Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences. London and Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+317. ISBN 978-981-4299-37-4. £25.00 (paperback).
Donald Gillies
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27 February 2012, pp. 142-143
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Harriet Ritvo, Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. x+239. ISBN 978-0-8139-3060-2. $39.50 (hardback).
Charlotte Sleigh
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25 September 2012, pp. 468-469
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Aileen Fyfe, Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 313. ISBN 978-0-226-27651-9. £32.50 (hardback).
Gowan Dawson
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21 January 2013, pp. 687-688
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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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14 June 2012, pp. 302-303
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Mark Priestley, A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic, and the Invention of Programming. London, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 2011. Pp. ix+341. ISBN 978-1-84882-554-3. £90.00 (hardback).
Nathan Ensmenger
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27 February 2012, pp. 144-145
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