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Volume 44 - March 2011

Essay Review

What needs to be explained about modern science?

Book Review

Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science, ed. Eric Oberheim. London: Polity, 2011. Pp. xii+153. ISBN 978-0-7456-5190-3. £12.95 (paperback).

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+114. ISBN 978-0-8047-6289-2. $18.95 (paperback).

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).

Ahmad Dallal, Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+239. ISBN 978-0-300-15911-0. £18.99 (hardback).

Ruth Glasner, Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+229. ISBN 978-0-19-956773-7. £37.50 (hardback).

Steve Fuller, Science. Durham: Acumen, 2010. Pp. vi+170. ISBN 978-1-84465-204-4. £9.99 (paperback).

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).

Benjamin Wardhaugh, How to Read Historical Mathematics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+116. ISBN 978-0-691-14014-8. $22.95 (hardback).

Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 422. ISBN 978-0-262-01317-8. $55.00 (hardback).

Henk W. De Regt, Sabina Leonelli and Kai Eigner (eds.), Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Pp. ix+352. ISBN 978-0-8229-4378-6. $65.00 (hardback).

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).

Catherine Eagleton, Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval England. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xi+292. ISBN 978-90-04-27665-2. €99.00 (hardback).

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).

Simon Werrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vii+359. ISBN 978-0-226-89377-8. £29.00 (hardback).

Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift, Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300–1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+456. ISBN 978-0-19-927820-6. £41.00 (hardback).

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).

Daniel Schäfer, Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. viii+287. ISBN 978-1-84893-020-9. £60.00 (hardback).

P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+393. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8. £45.00 (hardback).

Andrew Cunningham and Sachiko Kusukawa (eds.), Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8–11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical Pearl (1503). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. lxxiv+346. ISBN 978-0-7546-0612-3. £65.00 (hardback).

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