This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.
Research Articles
Assembling the dodo in early modern natural history NATALIE LAWRENCE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 387–408 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000011, Published online by Cambridge University Press 23 Feb 2015
Making Kew Observatory: the Royal Society, the British Association and the politics of early Victorian science LEE T. MACDONALD The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 409–433 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000023, Published online by Cambridge University Press 27 Mar 2015
Finding revelation in anthropology: Alexander Winchell, William Robertson Smith and the heretical imperative DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 435–454 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000035, Published online by Cambridge University Press 30 Mar 2015
Phrenology, heredity and progress in George Combe's Constitution of Man BILL JENKINS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 455–473 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000278, Published online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2015
Weathering the empire: meteorological research in the early British straits settlements FIONA WILLIAMSON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 475–492 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500028X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Aug 2015
Essay Review
Sounding the field: recent works in sound studies Tim Boon The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 493–502 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000291, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Book Reviews
Anne-Lise Rey (ed.), Méthode et histoire: Quelle histoire font les historiens des sciences et des techniques? Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. Pp. 513. ISBN 987-2-8124-1419-0. £39.55 (paperback). Pierre Verschueren The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 504–505 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000308, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Helen King, The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xii + 274. ISBN 978-1–4094-6335- 1. £65.00 (hardback). Darren N. Wagner The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 505–507 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500031X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Tanja Klemm, Bildphysiologie: Wahrnehmung und Körper in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013. Pp. xii + 324. ISBN 978-3- 05-006478-9. €99.80 (hardback). Alexander von Lünen The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 507–508 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000321, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Barbara Zipser (ed.), Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. London: Versita, 2013, Pp. 164. ISBN 978-83-7656-022-9. \$69.95 (hardback). Karen Reeds The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 508–509 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000333, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Ute Frevertet al., Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-19-965573-1. £65.00 (hardback). Anita Winkler The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 509–511 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000345, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-19-871581-8. £22.99 (hardback). Dolores Martín Moruno The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 511–512 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000357, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Kathleen Hardesty Doig, From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie Méthodique’: Revision and Expansion. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013. Pp. xvi + 314. ISBN 978-0-7294-1077-9. £65.00 (paperback). Kit Heintzman The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 513–514 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000369, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Sue Ann Prince (ed.), Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790–1830. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013. Pp. xxvi + 268. ISBN 978-0-87169-267-2. \$50.00 (paperback). Caroline Gillan The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 514–515 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000370, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 310. ISBN 978-1–4724- 1954–5. £70.00 (hardback). Geoff Bil The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 516–517 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000382, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Efram Sera-Shriar, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-1-84893-394-1. £60.00 (hardback). Gowan Dawson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 517–518 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000394, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean and Chitra Ramalingam (eds.), William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 308 + 109 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-17934-7. £50.00 (cloth). Nele Diekmann The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 519–520 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000400, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker (eds.), James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on His Life and Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, Pp. x + 364. ISBN 978-0-19-966437–5. £39.99. Kenneth E. Hendrickson The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 520–521 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000412, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
James T. Costa (ed.), On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855–1859. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 573. ISBN 978-0-674-72488–4. £36.95 (hardback). Ahren Lester The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 521–523 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000424, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Angelique Richardson (ed.), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-90–420-3747-2. €85.00 (hardback). Stephanie Eichberg The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 523–525 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000436, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Claire L. Jones, The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 264. ISBN 978-1-84893–443-6. £60.00 (hardback). Eleni Loukopoulou The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 525–526 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000448, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 262. ISBN 978-1-137-32156–5. £55.00 (hardback). Janet Weston The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 526–527 doi: 10.1017/S000708741500045X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 978-0-19-967851- 8. £10.99 (paperback). Geoffrey Cantor The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 528–529 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000461, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Lynda Walsh, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 264. ISBN 978-0-19-985711-1. £22.50 (paperback). Jaume Navarro The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 529–530 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000473, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro (eds.), Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013, Pp. 296. ISBN 978-3-8442–5871–4. €37.84 (hardback). Tilman Sauer The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 530–532 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000485, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Kenneth D. McRae, Nuclear Dawn: F.E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxviii + 284. ISBN 978-0-19-968718-3. £35.00 (hardback). Christoph Laucht The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 532–533 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000497, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco, The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 289. ISBN 978-1–4214-1131-6. £16.00 (paperback). Norberto Serpente The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 533–534 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000503, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1–4039- 8802-7. £53.00 (hardback). Cheryl Lancaster The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 534–536 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000515, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Joseph November, Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 344. ISBN 978-1–4214-0468–4. £31.00 (hardback). Jenny Bangham The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 536–537 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000527, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Sarah Ferber, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1–4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback). Ángel R. Rodriguez The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 537–538 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000539, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm and Michael D. Gordin, How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 259. ISBN 978-0-226-04663-1. £24.50 (hardback). The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 539–540 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000540, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015
Harry Collins, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 144. ISBN 978-0-7456-8204–4. £9.99 (paperback). Frederick Grinnell The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp 540–541 doi: 10.1017/S0007087415000552, Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Aug 2015