TABLE OF CONTENTS

Romancing the salve: Sir Kenelm Digby and the powder of sympathy
ELIZABETH HEDRICK
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 161 - 185

Optical reflection and mechanical rebound: the shift from analogy to axiomatization in the seventeenth century. Part 2
RUSSELL SMITH
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 187 - 207

From medicine to natural philosophy: Francis Hauksbee's way to the air-pump
TERJE BRUNDTLAND
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 209 - 240

The return of Thomas Salusbury's Life of Galileo (1664)
NICK WILDING
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 241 - 265

Prince Cesi and fungi, not to mention fungifunguli
Nicholas Jardine
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 267 - 273

Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. ix+563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8. £35.00 (hardback).
John Hedley Brooke
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 276 - 277

Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+562. ISBN 978-0-300-11796-7. £28.00 (hardback).
Rina Knoeff
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 278 - 279

W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+614. ISBN 0-5214-7565-5. £19.99, $29.99 (paperback).
Roberta Bivins
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 279 - 280

Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds.), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+295. ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. £55.00 (hardback).
Roger Smith
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 281 - 282

Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xi+276. ISBN 0-7914-6679-5. $75.00 (hardback).
Iwan Rhys Morus
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 282 - 283

Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-520-24580-6. $49.95, £32.50 (hardback).

Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xviii +278. ISBN 0-415-30174-2. £75.00 (hardback).
Anne Digby
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 283 - 285

Ian Burney, Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+169. ISBN 0-7190-7376-6. £35.00 (hardback).
Christopher Hamlin
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 285 - 286

Chandak Sengoopta, The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+354. ISBN 0-226-74863-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+328. ISBN 0-674-01896-6. £24.95, $39.95 (hardback).
Cheryl Logan
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 286 - 288

Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Tr. Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+399. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1. $29.95, £19.95, €25.50 (hardback).
Carolyn Merchant
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 288 - 289

G. E. R. Lloyd, Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. x+320. ISBN 0-86078-993-4. £60.00 (hardback).
Gordon Campbell
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 290 - 291

Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+361. ISBN 978-0-521-86931-7. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-68957-1. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback).
Stephen Gaukroger
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 291 - 292

R. J. W. Evans and Alexander Marr (eds.) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xv+265. ISBN 0-7546-4102-3. £55.00, $99.95 (hardback).
Catherine Eagleton
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 293 - 294

William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xi+212. ISBN 0-88135-356-6. $30.00 (hardback).

Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial, Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus Syllepticus. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+245. ISBN 0-268-02201-1. $35.00 (hardback).
John L. Heilbron
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 294 - 296

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+389. ISBN 0-8018-8426-8. £46.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. £20.00 (paperback).
Peter Dear
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 296 - 297

James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+367. ISBN 0-674-02299-8. $29.95, £19.95 (hardback).
Paola Bertucci
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 297 - 298

Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x+242. ISBN 978-0-8018-8553-2. £33.50 (hardback).
Judith V. Grabiner
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 298 - 300

Karen Hunger Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+461. ISBN 0-8018-8291-5. £46.50 (hardback).
Jeremy Gray
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 300 - 302

Noah J. Efron, Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33053-7. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).

Muzaffar Iqbal, Science and Islam. Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx+348. ISBN 978-0-313-33576-1. $65.00, £37.95 (hardback).
Geoffrey Cantor
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 302 - 304

Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (eds.), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. ISBN 0-226-09276-3. $60.00, £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-09277-1. $24.00, £15.00 (paperback).
Veronika Lipphardt
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02,

Horst Bredekamp, Darwins Korallen. Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Wagenbach Verlag, 2005. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3803151735. €22.50 (hardback).

Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2006. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-3791336640. $100.00 (hardback).
Thomas P. Weber
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 306 - 307

Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. iv+370. ISBN 0-262-06254-2. £29.95(hardback).
Kenneth L. Caneva
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 307 - 308

Myles W. Jackson, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x+368. ISBN 0-262-10116-5. £25.95 (hardback).
David Pantalony
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 309 - 310

Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xxix+397. ISBN 0-691-12310-1. £22.99 (hardback).
Andrew Warwick
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 310 - 313

Liba Taub and Frances Willmoth (eds.), The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2006. Pp. xx+492. ISBN 0-521-86609-X. £35.00 (hardback).
Emily Winterburn
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 313 - 314

Books received
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 41, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 315 - 317
doi:10.1017/S0007087408001167 Published online by Cambridge University Press 16 Jun 2008
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