THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Volume 44 - Issue 02 - June 2011
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Research Articles
Science as an ally of religion: a Muslim appropriation of ‘the conflict thesis’ M. ALPER YALCINKAYA The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 161 - 181 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410000749 ( About doi ) Published Online on 14th June 2010
Linnaeans outdoors: the transformative role of studying nature ‘on the move’ and outside HANNA HODACS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 183 - 209 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410000750 ( About doi ) Published Online on 14th June 2010
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf and the material culture of nineteenth-century gas discharge research FALK MÜLLER The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 211 - 244 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410001329 ( About doi ) Published Online on 24th November 2010
‘Sexual chemistry’ before the Pill: science, industry and chemical contraceptives, 1920–1960 ILANA LÖWY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 245 - 274 doi: 10.1017/S0007087410000762 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th September 2010
Essay Review
Complexity in practice Peter J. Bowler The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 275 - 280 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000562 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Book Reviews
David Creese, The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+409. ISBN 978-0-521-84324-9. £65.00 (hardback). Liba Taub The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 282 - 283 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000331 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Jon Arrizabalaga (eds.), Centres of Medical Excellence? Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xvi+335. ISBN 978-0-7546-6699-8. £60.00 (hardback). Alun Withey The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 283 - 284 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000343 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine and Kevin Sheehan (eds.), Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii+427. ISBN 978-0-8047-5358-6. $65.00 (hardback). Stefan Halikowski Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 285 - 286 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000355 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Florike Egmond, The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making 1550–1610. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiv+292. ISBN 978-1-84893-008-7. £60.00 (hardback). Harold J. Cook The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 286 - 287 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000367 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston, with a contribution by Gordon Higgott, Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1750. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-300-15093-3. £30.00 (hardback). Steven A. Walton The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 287 - 289 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000379 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
William Poole, The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. xviii + 234. ISBN 978-1-906165-08-6. £30.00 (hardback). Alexander Wragge-Morley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 289 - 290 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000380 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV's France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+301. ISBN 978-0-19-923484-4. £55.00 (hardback). Peter N. Miller The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 290 - 291 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000392 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xxiv+443. ISBN 978-0-7546-6338-6. £65.00 (hardback). Carin Berkowitz The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 291 - 293 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000409 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Theresa Levitt, The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France, 1789–1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-0-19-954470-7. £39.95 (hardback). Adelheid Voskuhl The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 293 - 294 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000410 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Diarmid A. Finnegan, Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+254. ISBN 978-1-85196-658-5. £60.00 (hardback). Simon Naylor, Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiv+245. ISBN 978-1-85196-636-3. £60.00 (hardback). Samuel J.M.M. Alberti The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 294 - 296 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000422 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Lawrence Dritsas, Zambesi: David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xii+242. ISBN 978-1-84511-705-4. £54.40 (hardback). Roy MacLeod The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 296 - 297 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000434 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Charles W.J. Withers, Geography and Science in Britain 1831–1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii+278. ISBN 978-0-7190-7976-4. £60.00 (hardback). Louise Miskell The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 297 - 298 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000446 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity and the Oxford Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. viii+144. ISBN 978-0-8020-9284-7. CDN$29.95 (hardback). Frank A.J.L. James The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 298 - 300 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000458 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (eds.), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems 1800–1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xiii+298. ISBN 978-0-230-23313-3. £55.00 (hardback). Michael A. Finn The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 300 - 301 doi: 10.1017/S000708741100046X ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon and Maurice Low, Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+272. ISBN 978-0-262-01398-7. £22.95 (hardback). Robert Bud The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 301 - 302 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000471 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America 1890–1930. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2010. Pp. xv+363. ISBN 978-0-226-44990-6 £29.00 (hardback). Katie Proctor The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 302 - 304 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000483 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Peter J. Bowler, Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi+339. ISBN 978-0-226-06863-3. £31.00 (hardback). Timothy Boon The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 304 - 305 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000495 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Neelam Kumar (ed.), Women and Science in India: A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxx+351. ISBN 978-0-19-569705-6. £21.99 (hardback). Nandini Bhattacharya The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 305 - 306 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000501 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Elisabeth Vaupel and Stefan L. Wolff (eds.), Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. Pp. 710. ISBN 978-3-8353-0596-0. €39.90. Klaus Hentschel The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 306 - 307 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000513 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Kristian Camilleri, Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Physicist as Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+199. ISBN 978-0-521-88484-6. £45.00 (hardback). Cathryn Carson, Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv+541. ISBN 978-0-521-82170-4. £55.00 (hardback). Matthew Stanley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 308 - 309 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000525 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Richard Moore, Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality: Britain, the United States and Nuclear Weapons 1958–64. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xvi+332. ISBN 978-0-230-23067-5. £65.00 (hardback). Melissa Smith The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 309 - 311 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000537 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. London and New York: Verso, 2010. Pp. xxxii+296. ISBN 1-84467-442-8. £10.24 (paperback). Ian James Kidd The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 311 - 312 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000549 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011
Books Received
Books received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, Issue 02 , June 2011 , pp 313 - 316 doi: 10.1017/S0007087411000550 ( About doi ) Published Online on 27th May 2011