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Unification achieved: William Cullen's theory of heat and phlogiston as an example of his philosophical chemistry
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Science, sociability and the improvement of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics' Institute, 1826–51
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‘Humanity in the chrysalis stage’: indigenous Australians in the anthropological imagination, 1899–1926
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Spreading nucleonics: the Isotope School at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 1951–67
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LONDA SCHIEBINGER, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+306. ISBN 0-674-01487-1. £25.95 (hardback). BERNARD BAILYN, Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 149. ISBN 0-674-01688-2. £12.95 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 588-590
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LONDA SCHIEBINGER and CLAUDIA SWAN (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. vi+346. ISBN 0-8122-3827-3. £36.00, $55.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 590-591
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TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.), Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific.The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv+367. ISBN 0-7546-3562-7. £75.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 591-593
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SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM, Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+244. ISBN 0-521-84836-9. £48.00 (hardback).
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LORRAINE DASTON and FERNANDO VITAL (eds.), The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. vii+519. ISBN 0-226-13681-7. $26.00 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 595-596
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SORAYA DE CHADAREVIAN and NICK HOPWOOD (eds.), Models: The Third Dimension of Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+464. ISBN 0-8047-3972-2. £17.50, $24.95 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 596-597
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DAVIS BAIRD, Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi+273. ISBN 0-520-23249-6. £42.95, $65.00 (hardback). ALLAN FRANKLIN, Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. ix+290. ISBN 0-8229-4191-0. £31.50 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 598-599
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HASOK CHANG, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+286. ISBN 0-19-517127-6. £32.50 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 599-600
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R. D. CONNOR and A. D. SIMPSON, with A. D. MORRISON-LOW (ed.), Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective. Edinburgh: NMS Publishing, 2004. Pp. xvi+842. ISBN 1-901663-88-4. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 601-602
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G. E. R. LLOYD, Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. ix+222. ISBN 0-19-927016-3. £25.00 (hardback).
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REVIEL NETZ (ed. and tr.), The Works of Archimedes: Translated into English, together with Eutocius’ Commentaries, with Commentary, and Critical Edition of the Diagrams. Vol. 1: The Two Books on the Sphere and the Cylinder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x+375. ISBN 0-521-66160-9. £75.00 (hardback).
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PETER ELMER (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xxix+408. ISBN 0-7190-6734-0. No price given (paperback). PETER ELMER and OLE PETER GRELL (eds.), Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800: A Source Book. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xx+380. ISBN 0-7190-6737-5. £16.99 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 605-606
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ERIC H. ASH, Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+265. ISBN 0-8018-7992-2. £30.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 606-607
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PAMELA H. SMITH, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x+367. ISBN 0-26-76399-4. £24.50, $35.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 607-609
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ROY PORTER, Flesh in the Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies and Souls. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp. xviii+574. ISBN 0-140-16735-8. £9.99 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 609-610
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IWAN RHYS MORUS, When Physics Became King. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+303. ISBN 0-226-54202-5. $25.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 610-611
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