Volume 44 - March 2011
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Book Review
Alexander Marr (ed.), The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2009. Pp. xv+224. ISBN 978-1-900289-96-2. £40.00 (hardback).
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William Poole, The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. xviii + 234. ISBN 978-1-906165-08-6. £30.00 (hardback).
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Peter Heering, Oliver Hochadel and David J. Rhees (eds.), Playing with Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xi+290. ISBN 978-1-60618-995-5. $35.00 (paperback).
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Kathleen M. Crowther, Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+293. ISBN 978-0-52119-236-1. £50.00/$85.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 582-584
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Kirk D. Read, Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiii+205. ISBN 978-0-7546-6632-5. £55.00 (hardback).
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J.M.I. Klaver, Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881. London: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-956889-5. £95.00 (hardback).
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Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV's France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+301. ISBN 978-0-19-923484-4. £55.00 (hardback).
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María Portuondo, Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+335. ISBN 978-0-226-67534-3. £31.00 (hardback).
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Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xxiv+443. ISBN 978-0-7546-6338-6. £65.00 (hardback).
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Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+354. ISBN 978-0-521-17052-9. £60.00 (hardback).
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Michael R. Lynn, The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. ix+240. ISBN 978-1-84893-016-2. £60.00 (hardback).
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Alan Chalmers, The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2009. Pp xii+287. ISBN 978-90-481-2361-2. £90.00 (hardback).
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Jan Goldstein, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+246. ISBN 978-0-691-01186-8. £20.95 (hardback).
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André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xxvii+545. ISBN 978-90-04-18107-6. €129.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 587-588
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Theresa Levitt, The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France, 1789–1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-0-19-954470-7. £39.95 (hardback).
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Paul A. Elliott, Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xii+363. ISBN 987-1-84885-366-9. £65.00 (hardback).
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- 08 September 2011, pp. 465-467
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A.W. Bates, The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. ix+228. ISBN 978-1-84519-38-2. £39.95 (hardback). - Lisa Rosner, The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. vi+328. ISBN 978-0-8122-4191-4. £19.50 (hardback).
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Diarmid A. Finnegan, Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. Pp. xi+254. ISBN 978-1-85196-658-5. £60.00 (hardback). - Simon Naylor, Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010. Pp. xiv+245. ISBN 978-1-85196-636-3. £60.00 (hardback).
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Andrew Pattison, The Darwins of Shrewsbury. Stroud: The History Press, 2009. Pp. 127. ISBN 978-0-7524-4867-1. £14.99 (paperback). - Mike Dixon and Gregory Radick, Darwin in Ilkley. Stroud: The History Press, 2009. Pp. 126. ISBN 978-0-7524-5283-8. £12.99 (paperback).
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Matteo Valleriani, Galileo Engineer. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Pp. xv+320. ISBN 978-90-481-8644-0. £90.00 (hardback).
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- 05 December 2011, pp. 589-590
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