Volume 39 - December 2006
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Book Review
PAUL M. M. KLEP and IDA H. STAMHUIS (eds.), The Statistical Mind in a Pre-statistical Era: The Netherlands 1750–1850. Askant: Amsterdam, 2002. Pp. 374. ISBN 90-5742-0341. No price given.
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ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+196. ISBN 0-8047-3926-9. £16.95 (paperback).
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PETER ELMER (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xxix+408. ISBN 0-7190-6734-0. No price given (paperback). PETER ELMER and OLE PETER GRELL (eds.), Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800: A Source Book. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xx+380. ISBN 0-7190-6737-5. £16.99 (paperback).
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MARGARET E. DERRY, Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800. Animals, History, Culture. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+198. ISBN 0-8018-7344-4. £27.50 (hardback).
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KENNETH SILVERMAN, Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. vi+503. ISBN 0-375-40128-8. $35.00 (hardback).
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URSULA KLEIN, Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+305. ISBN 0-8047-4359-2. £49.50 (hardback).
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ERIC H. ASH, Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+265. ISBN 0-8018-7992-2. £30.00 (hardback).
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CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+751. ISBN 0-691-11541-9. £52.95 (hardback).
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MICHAEL R. BAILEY (ed.), Robert Stephenson: The Eminent Engineer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xxvii+401. ISBN 0-7546-3679-8. £55.00 (hardback).
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THOMAS DIXON, From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x+287. ISBN 0-521-82729-9. £47.50, $60.00 (hardback).
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TAL GOLAN, Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+336. ISBN 0-674-01286-0. £33.95, $52.50 (hardback).
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PAMELA H. SMITH, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x+367. ISBN 0-26-76399-4. £24.50, $35.00 (hardback).
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ALLAN CHAPMAN, Mary Somerville and the World of Science. Bristol: Canopus Publishing, 2004. Pp. ix+157. ISBN 0-9537868-4-6. £12.95 (hardback).
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ROY PORTER, Flesh in the Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies and Souls. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp. xviii+574. ISBN 0-140-16735-8. £9.99 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 609-610
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BERNARD LIGHTMAN (general ed.), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. 4 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. ISBN 1-85506-999-7. £650.00 (hardback).
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PAUL WHITE, Thomas Huxley: Making the ‘Man of Science’. Cambridge Science Biographies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+205. ISBN 0-521-64967-6. £16.99, $22.00 (paperback).
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DAVID KNIGHT (ed.), The Evolution Debate 1813–1870. London and New York: Routledge in association with the Natural History Museum, 2003. Pp. 3748. ISBN 0-415-28922-X (set of nine volumes). £895.00 (hardback).
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JOHNVAN WYHE, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii+282. ISBN 0-7546-3408-6. £49.50 (hardback).
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IWAN RHYS MORUS, When Physics Became King. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+303. ISBN 0-226-54202-5. $25.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 610-611
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STEVEN RUSKIN, John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxix+229. ISBN 0-7546-3558-9. £45.00 (hardback).
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