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Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing the History of Science - The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment. By Rose-Mary Sargent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 355. $65.00. - Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740. By Robert Markley. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. x+268. $39.95. - Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London. By Harold J. Cook. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. 301. $45.00. - Divulging of Useful Truths in Physick: The Medical Agenda of Robert Boyle. By Barbara Beigun Kaplan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xii+216. $40.00. - The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii+359. $54.95. - The Scientific Revolution. By Steven Shapin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiv+218. $19.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Margaret C. Jacob
Margaret C. Jacob*
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University of Pennsylvania
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 459 - 467
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1 For an example of what is being done in other national histories, see Kranakis, Eda, Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)Google Scholar.

2 Schaffer, Simon and Shapin, Steven, Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, including Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, trans. Schaffer, Simon (Princeton, N.J., 1985)Google Scholar.

3 Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter and Jacob, Margaret C., Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1995)Google Scholar.

4 For example, Hutton, Ronald, The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658–1667 (Oxford, 1986)Google Scholar.

5 Shapin, Steven, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago, 1994)Google Scholar.

6 Hauksbee, F., Physico-mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects … (London, 1709), prefaceGoogle Scholar.

7 Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects …, ed. Brewster, David (Philadelphia, 1806), preface by Ferguson (died 1776), pp. xiii–xvGoogle Scholar.

8 I address these topics in Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (New York, 1997)Google Scholar.