Volume 42 - March 2009
Contents
Book Review
Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel (eds.), Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. xi+164. ISBN 978-0-7546-6370-6. £55.00 (hardback).
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Steven McClean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. ix+242. ISBN 978-0-230-53562-6. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 623-624
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Jeremy J. Gray and Karen H. Parshall (eds.), Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society and London: London Mathematical Society, 2007. Pp. vii+336 pp. ISBN 978-0-8218-4343-7. $69.00 (hardback).
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- 15 June 2009, pp. 304-305
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Deborah Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xi+380. ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 624-626
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Chris Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. x+382. ISBN 978-0-226-64077-8. £13.00 (paperback).
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Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-226-30205-8. $35.00 (hardback). - James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen (eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xx+264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1. $39.95 (hardback).
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Daniel Carey, Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x+260. ISBN 978-0-5214-4502-1. £51.00 (hardback). - Sarah Irving, Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. xiii+183. ISBN 978-1-85196-889-3. £60.00 (hardback).
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Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise (eds.), Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4068-3. £12.99 (paperback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 626-628
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James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew (eds.), Science and Empire in the Atlantic World. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+365. ISBN 978-0-415-96127-1. £18.99 (paperback).
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Alice Jenkins (ed.), Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+250. ISBN 978-1-84631-140-6. £47.50, $85.00 (hardback).
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Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des Sciences citoyennes? La Question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN 9-782752-602305. €20.00.
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David Edgerton, Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv+364. ISBN 0-521-67231-7. £45.00, $75.00 (paperback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 628-629
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Frank A. J. L. James (ed.), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: Volume 5, 1855–1860. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. Pp. lviii+835. ISBN 978-0-86341-823-5. £70.00 (hardback). - Frank A. J. L. James (ed.), Christmas at the Royal Institution: An Anthology of Lectures by M. Faraday, J. Tyndall, R. S. Ball, S. P. Thompson, E. R. Lankester, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg, R. L. Gregory, and I. Stewart. Singapore: World Scientific Books, 2007. Pp. xxxiii+366. ISBN 981-277-109-3. £39.00 (paperback).
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Peter M. Jones, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology, and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1820. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 978-0-7190-7770-8. £55.00 (hardback).
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D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 (hardback).
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- 26 February 2009, pp. 142-143
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Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. London: Imperial College Press, 2007. pp. xxvii+825. ISBN 1-86094-709-3. £122.40, $152.00 (softcover).
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Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+389. ISBN 978-0-226-70932-1. £55.00 (hardback).
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Jamie Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x+233. ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).
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The English Mechanic and World of Science. Vols. 1–124 on 14 DVDs. Waltham Abbey: E. S. Hutton, 2006. ISBN 1-905383-00-2. Single disks £22.00 (individual), £50.00 (institutional); complete set £308.00 (individual), £650.00 (institutional).
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- 15 June 2009, pp. 310-311
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