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The biological precedents for medieval impetus theory and its Aristotelian character
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- 27 September 2010, pp. 1-27
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‘Your astronomers and ours differ exceedingly’: the controversy over the ‘new star’ of 1572 in the light of a newly discovered text by Thomas Digges
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- 08 October 2010, pp. 29-60
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The uses of analogy: James Clerk Maxwell's ‘On Faraday's lines of force’ and early Victorian analogical argument
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- 22 March 2010, pp. 61-88
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Synthetic technocracy: Dutch scientific intellectuals in science, society and culture, 1880–1950
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- 14 May 2010, pp. 89-113
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Obituary
Professor Margaret J. Osler (27 November 1942–15 September 2010)
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- 22 November 2010, pp. 115-118
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+114. ISBN 978-0-8047-6289-2. $18.95 (paperback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 120-121
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Ruth Glasner, Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-956773-7. £37.50 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 121-122
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Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 422. ISBN 978-0-262-01317-8. $55.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 122-124
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Simon Werrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vii+359. ISBN 978-0-226-89377-8. £29.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 124-125
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P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+393. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8. £45.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 126-127
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Peter Heering, Oliver Hochadel and David J. Rhees (eds.), Playing with Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xi+290. ISBN 978-1-60618-995-5. $35.00 (paperback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 127-128
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J.M.I. Klaver, Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881. London: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-956889-5. £95.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 128-130
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Michael R. Lynn, The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix+240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 130-131
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Jan Goldstein, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+246. ISBN 978-0-691-01186-8. £20.95 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 131-132
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A.W. Bates, The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. ix+228. ISBN 978-1-84519-38-2. £39.95 (hardback). - Lisa Rosner, The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. vi+328. ISBN 978-0-8122-4191-4. £19.50 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 133-134
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Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN 987-0-674-04661-0. £21.95 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 134-135
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Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7. £20.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 135-137
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Juliana Adelman, Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+221. ISBN 978-1-85196-653-0. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 137-138
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Basil Mahon, Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+183. ISBN 978-0-86341-965-2. £15.00/ $30.00 (paperback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 138-140
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Christoph Gradmann, Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology, translated by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. 318. ISBN 978-0-8018-9313-1. £18.00 (hardback).
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- 01 March 2011, pp. 140-141
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