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Volume 44 - Issue 4 - December 2011

Book Review

Maurits H. van den Boogert, Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-0-19-958856-5. £120.00 (hardback).

Michael Hoskin, Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+237. £20.95 (hardback).

Janina Wellmann, Die Form des Werdens. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Embryologie, 1760–1830. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. Pp. 429. ISBN 978-3-8353-0594-6. €39.00 (paperback).

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+238. ISBN 978-0-19-958458-1. £55.00 (hardback).

John Laurence Busch, Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia LLC, 2010. Pp. xii+726. ISBN 978-1-893616-00-4. $35.00 (hardback).

Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine 1840–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+497. ISBN 978-0-19-958256-3. £35.00 (hardback).

Joel S. Schwartz, Darwin's Disciple: George John Romanes, a Life in Letters. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2010. Pp. xxiv+806. ISBN 978-1-60618-920-7. $60.00 (paperback).

Bruce J. Hunt, Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. x+182. ISBN 978-0-8018-9359-9. £10.50 (paperback).

Roy MacLeod, Archibald Liversidge, FRS: Imperial Science under the Southern Cross. Sydney: The Royal Society of New South Wales and Sydney University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii+637, illustrated. ISBN 978-1-920898-80-9. AU$59.95 (paperback).

Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Olaf Breidbach and Miklós Müller (eds.), Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900–1930. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Pp. 276. ISBN 978-3-515-09602-7. €48.00 (paperback).

Helmut Rechenberg, Werner Heisenberg – Die Sprache der Atome. Leben und Wirken – Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie. Die ‘Fröhliche Wissenschaft’ (Jugend bis Nobelpreis). 2 vols. Heidelberg: Springer, 2010. Pp. xxi+603. ISBN 978-3-540-69221-8. £168.00 (hardback).

Paul R. Josephson, Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. ii+307. ISBN 978-0-262-01458-8. £22.95 (hardback).

Susan D. Jones, Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xix+329. ISBN 978-0-8018-9696-5. $24.95 (hardback).

Evelyn Fox Keller, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+107. ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6. £12.99 (paperback).

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