Volume 46 - December 2013
Book Review
Robert Fox, The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. viii+394. ISBN 978-1-4214-0522-3. £31.50 (hardback).
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Bernard Joly, Descartes et la chimie. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2011. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-2-7116-2330-3. €24.00 (paperback).
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Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+528. ISBN 978-0-691-15478-7. £34.95 (hardback).
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- 13 May 2013, pp. 345-347
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Zur Shalev, Sacred Words and Worlds: Geography, Religion and Scholarship, 1550–1700. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxi+319. 978-90-04-20935-0. €99.00 (hardback).
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- 21 March 2013, pp. 163-164
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Charles H. Smith and Megan Derr (eds.), Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886–1887 Travel Diary: The North American Lecture Tour. Manchester: SIRI Scientific Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+258. ISBN 978-0-9567795-8-8. £21.00 (paperback).
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- 13 November 2013, pp. 722-724
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Jeremiah Horrocks and Wilbur Applebaum (trans.), Venus Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxiv+82. ISBN 978-90-04-22193-2. €99.00 (hardback).
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- 21 March 2013, pp. 164-165
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Geoffrey Cantor, Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+226. ISBN: 978-0-19-959667-6. £70.00 (hardback).
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James Kennaway, Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xii+213. ISBN 978-1-4094-2642-4. £65.00 (hardback).
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R.G.W. Anderson and Jean Jones (eds.), The Correspondence of Joseph Black. 2 vols. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xiv+1564. ISBN 978-0-7546-0131-0. £300.00 (hardback).
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Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe (eds.), Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the ‘Beagle’. Foreword by Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxiv+615. ISBN 978-0-521-51757-7. £104.00 (hardback). - John van Wyhe (ed.), Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications 1829–1883. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Pp. xxvi+529. ISBN 978-0-521-88809-7. £97.00 (hardback). - Edmund Russell, Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth. Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxii+216. ISBN 978-0-521-74509-3. £16.99 (paperback).
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John Rowlinson, Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923: A Ruthless Chemist. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xviii+236. ISBN 978-1-4094-0613-6. £65.00 (hardback).
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- 13 November 2013, pp. 724-725
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Gregory Lynall, Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690–1730. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. ix+209. ISBN 978-0-230-34364-1. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 21 March 2013, pp. 165-166
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Claudine Cohen, La méthode du Zadig: La trace, le fossile, la preuve. Paris: Editions de Seuil, 2011. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-2-02040-298-9. €23.00 (paperback).
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Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. x+230. ISBN 978-0-7486-3965-6. £70.00 (hardback).
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Jeremy Gray, Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii+592. ISBN 978-0-691-15271-4. £24.95 (hardback).
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- 13 November 2013, pp. 725-726
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Daniela Bleichmar, Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visible Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii+286. ISBN 978-0-226-05853-5. £33.50 (hardback).
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Margaret Bradley, Charles Dupin (1784–1873) and His Influence on France: The Contributions of a Mathematician, Educator, Engineer, and Statesman. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2012. Pp. xx+368. ISBN 978-1-60497-751-6. £71.99 (hardback).
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Frank A.J.L. James, Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+162. ISBN 978-0-19-957431-5. £7.99 (paperback). - Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), Michael Faraday. The Chemical History of a Candle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xlviii+152. ISBN 978-0-19-969491-4. £14.99 (hardback).
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- 21 March 2013, pp. 168-169
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Paul Crook, Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptology & the Diffusion of Culture: A Biographical Perspective. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Pp. vii+160. ISBN 978-1-84519-481-9. £19.95 (paperback).
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- 13 November 2013, pp. 726-728
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Alexander C.T. Geppert (ed.), Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xvii+393. ISBN 978-0-230-23172-6. £70.00 (hardback).
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