Volume 52 - December 2019
Book Review
Patricia Fara, A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 319. ISBN 978-0-19-879-498-1. £18.99 (hardcover).
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- 05 March 2019, pp. 171-173
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Ruth Barton, The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 576. ISBN 978-0-2265-5161-6. £41.50/$60 (hardback)
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- 27 September 2019, pp. 529-530
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Karsten Mackensen, Musik und die Ordnung der Dinge im ausgehenden Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 353. ISBN 978-3-631-71992-3. €74.95/£51.95 (hardcover).
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- 22 July 2019, pp. 361-363
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Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019. Pp. ix + 184. ISBN 978-3-0300-1637-1. $54.99 (paperback).
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 709-711
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Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer, Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx + 126. ISBN 978-1-1374-0687-3. £44.99 (hardcover).
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- 27 September 2019, pp. 531-532
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Yves Gingras, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2017. Pp. 249. ISBN 978-1-5095-1892-0. £17.99 (paperback).
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- 22 July 2019, pp. 363-364
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Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (eds.), The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600–1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 311. ISBN: 978-1-7849-9516-4. £80.00 (hardcover).
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 711-712
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Jaume Navarro (ed.), Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-1987-9725-8. £65.00 (hardcover).
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- 05 March 2019, pp. 173-174
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Rachel Plotnick, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 394. ISBN 978-0-2620-3823-2. $40.00/£30.00 (cloth).
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- 27 September 2019, pp. 532-533
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David Alff, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730. Alembics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-8122-4959-0. £54.00 (cloth).
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- 22 July 2019, pp. 365-366
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Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall (eds.), Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 244. ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3. $75.00 (cloth).
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 713-714
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Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan M. Jones (eds.), A Global History of Sexual Science 1880–1960. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-0-520-29339-7. $34.95 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2019, pp. 175-176
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Tita Chico, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 242. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2. $60.00 (hardcover).
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- 22 July 2019, pp. 366-367
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Susan Lanzoni, Empathy: A History. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 392. ISBN 978-0-3002-2268-5. $30.00 (hardcover). - Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 282. ISBN 978-0-2265-0185-7. $30.00 (cloth).
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- 27 September 2019, pp. 534-535
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Lynda Payne, The Best Surgeon in England: Percivall Pott, 1713–88. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2017. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-1-4331-2319-1. £64.00 (hardcover).
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 714-716
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Gayle Greene, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 2nd edn. Pp. xxvi + 321. ISBN 978-0-472-05356-8. $21.95 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2019, pp. 176-178
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Roberto Lalli, Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xiv + 168. ISBN 978-3-319-54653-7. £49.99 (softcover).
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- 05 March 2019, pp. 178-180
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Anthony Chaney,Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-1-4696-3173-8. $32.95 (cloth).
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- 27 September 2019, pp. 536-537
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David Philip Miller, The Life and legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 420. ISBN 978-0-8229-4558-1. $50.00 (cloth). - Simon Werrett, Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 315. ISBN 978-0-2266-1025-2. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 716-717
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Susanna Gibson, The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN 978-0-1988-3337-6. £25.00 (hardback)
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- 22 July 2019, pp. 367-369
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