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.
Editorial Note
Editorial AMANDA REES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 541 – 541 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000670 Published Online on 26 November 2019
Research article
‘The want of a proper Gardiner’: late Georgian Scottish botanic gardeners as intermediaries of medical and scientific knowledge CLARE HICKMAN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 543 – 567 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000451 Published Online on 4 October 2019
Fashioned in the light of physics: the scope and methods of Halford Mackinder's geography EMILY HAYES The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 569 – 594 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000475 Published Online on 27 August 2019
Cécile Morette and the Les Houches summer school for theoretical physics; or, how Girl Scouts, the 1944 Caen bombing and a marriage proposal helped rebuild French physics (1951–1972) PIERRE VERSCHUEREN The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 595 – 616 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000505 Published Online on 18 September 2019
Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital EILÍS KEMPLEY The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 617 – 643 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000463 Published Online on 1 October 2019
‘A new and hopeful type of social organism’: Julian Huxley, J.G. Crowther and Lancelot Hogben on Roosevelt's New Deal OLIVER HILL-ANDREWS The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 645 – 671 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000657 Published Online on 22 October 2019
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other PAUL MERCHANT The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 673 – 688 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000517 Published Online on 26 September 2019
Forum
Retrospectives
Retrospectives: History of science in France JONATHAN SIMON The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 689 – 695 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000645 Published Online on 27 November 2019
Retrospectives: Unconventional paths ANITA GUERRINI The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 696 – 706 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000669 Published Online on 13 November 2019
Book review
Flavia Marcacci, Cieli in contraddizione: Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo. Perugia: Aguaplano, 2018. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-8-8858-0311-4. €20.00 (paperback). Simon Dumas Primbault The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 707 – 709 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000694 Published Online on 19 December 2019
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). Adam Fix The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 709 – 711 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000700 Published Online on 19 December 2019
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). Hanh Bui The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 711 – 712 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000712 Published Online on 19 December 2019
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). Germaine Warkentin The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 713 – 714 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000724 Published Online on 19 December 2019
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). James Kennaway The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 714 – 716 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000736 Published Online on 19 December 2019
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). Jane Insley The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 716 – 717 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000748 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Pere Grapí, Inspiring Air: A History of Air-Related Science. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 352. ISBN 1-62273-738-5. £44.00 (paperback). Nicholas Danne The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 717 – 719 doi: 10.1017/S000708741900075X Published Online on 19 December 2019
Charles Wolfe, La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: Une histoire du vitalisme. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. Pp. 514. ISBN 978-2-4060-8072-5. €93.00 (hardback). Snait Gissis The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 719 – 721 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000761 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Eric Johnson, Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 179. ISBN 978-0-2620-3861-4. $22.95/£17.99 (cloth). Massimiliano Badino The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 721 – 722 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000773 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Nasser Zakariya, A Final Story: Science, Myth and Beginnings. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 554. ISBN 978-0-2264-7612-4. $34.00 (cloth). Francesco Sacco The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 722 – 723 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000785 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Pablo Calvi, Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 276. ISBN 978-0-8229-4565-9. $45.00 (hardback). Molly Tun The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 723 – 725 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000797 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Mark Mccartney, Andrew Whitaker and Alastair Wood (eds.), George Gabriel Stokes: Life, Science and Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-1988-2286-8. £35.00 (hardcover). Paul Ranford The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 725 – 726 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000803 Published Online on 19 December 2019
James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 373. ISBN 978-0-2266-2675-8. $45.00 (cloth). Emily Hayes The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 726 – 728 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000815 Published Online on 19 December 2019
John Gascoigne, Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 978-1-3166-0938-5. £22.99 (paperback). Caroline Cornish The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 728 – 729 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000827 Published Online on 19 December 2019
Shelley McKellar, Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 350. ISBN 978-1-4214-2355-5. $54.95 (hardcover). Kaija-Liisa Koovit The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 729 – 730 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000839 Published Online on 19 December 2019
André Millard, Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 212. ISBN 978-1-4214-2664-8. $49.95 (hardback). John Z. Langrish The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 52 / Issue 4, December 2019, pp 730 – 731 doi: 10.1017/S0007087419000840 Published Online on 27 November 2019