BJHS: books received for review
The British Journal for the History of Science publishes lists of books received for review quarterly, within each issue of the journal. The journal is happy to commission reviews from established academics, emeriti, doctoral students, and independent scholars. Prospective reviewers are encouraged to browse the books received list and contact the reviews editor, Dr Adam Mosley, if they see something that they would like to review. The reviews editor is also open to expressions of interest regarding forthcoming publications and other works not listed as books received. All enquiries should be directed to reviews.editor@bshs.org.uk.
Of items received over the past twelve months, the following have not yet been placed with a reviewer:
Books received for 0914 issue of the BJHS
Angeloni, Roberto, Unity and Continuity in Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Physics. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. xi + 211. ISBN 978-88-222-6282-0. €27 (paperback).
Atkins, Peter, Physical Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 128. ISBN 978-0-19-968909-5. £7.99 (paperback).
Collins, Harry, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 144. ISBN 978-0-7456-8204-4. £9.99 (paperback).
Coopmans, Catelijne, Vertesi, Janet, Lynch, Michael and Woolgar, Steve (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262-52538-1. £24.95 (paperback).
Córdoba, Ricardo (ed.), Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-2-503-54439-7. €75 (hardback).
Dewis, Sarah, The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xvi + 278. ISBN 978-1-4094-6922-3. £65 (hardback).
Fangerau, Heiner, Geisler, Hans, Halling, Thorsten, and Martin, William (eds.), Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science: Concepts - Methods - Visualization. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp. 198. ISBN 978-3-515-10460-9. €39 (paperback), free (e-book).
Feder, Helena, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. vii + 179. ISBN 978-1-4094-0157-5. £60 (hardback).
Finlayson, Clive, The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xix +202. ISBN 978-0-19-965879-4. £16.99 (hardback).
Forbes, Nancy and Mahon, Basil, Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionised Physics. New York: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-61614-942-0. $25.95 (hardback).
Frevert, Ute, et al., Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 288. ISBN 978-0-19-965573-1. £65 (hardback).
Klemm, Tanja, Bildphysiologie: Wahrnehmung und Körper in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013. Pp. xii + 324. ISBN 978-3-05-006478-9. €99.80 (hardback).
Kranz, Horst (ed.), Johannes Fontana – Liber instrumentorum iconographicus: Ein illustriertes Maschinenbuch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-3-515-10660-3. €46 (hardback).
Pick, Daniel, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 978-0-19-967851-8. £10.99 (paperback).
Priestman, Martin, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 310. ISBN 978-1-4724-1954-5. £70 (hardback).
Rey, Anne-Lise (ed.), Méthode et histoire: Quelle histoire font les historiens des sciences et des techniques? Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. Pp. 513. ISBN 978-2-8124-1419-0. £39.55 (paperback).
Robinson, Zandria F., This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 224. ISBN 978-1-4696-1422-9. $29.95 (paperback).
Sanders, Robert H., Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and its Black Hole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 197. ISBN 978-1-107-03918-6. £25 (hardback).
Secord, James A., Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 (hardback).
Shen, Grace Yen, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 309. ISBN 978-0-226-09040-5. $54/£31.50 (hardback).
Sheppard, Kathleen L., The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 267. ISBN 978-0-7391-7417-3. £51.95 (hardback).
Tega, Walter, Tradizione e Rivoluzione: Scienza e potere in Francia (1815-1840). Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. ix + 346. ISBN 978-88-222-6296-7. €35 (paperback).
Timmerman, Carsten, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. x + 244. ISBN 978-1-4039-8802-7. £50 (hardback).
Turek, Marian (ed.), Johannes Hevelius and his Gdańsk. Gdańsk: Gdańskie Towarzystwo Naukowe, 2013. Pp. 251. ISBN 978-83-60693-13-1. Price unknown (hardback).
Voigts, Eckart, Schaff, Barbara and Pietrzak-Franger, Monika (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xii + 231. ISBN 978-1-4724-1407-6. £60 (hardback).
Yeo, Richard, Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 978-0-226-10656-4. $45/£31.50 (hardback).
Zipser, Barbara (ed.), Simon of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon. London: Versita, 2013. Pp. 164. ISBN 978-83-7656-022-9. £69.95 (hardback).
Books received for 0614 issue of the BJHS
Asmussen, Tina, Burkart, Lucas and Rößler, Hole (eds.), Theatrum Kircherianum: Wissenskulturen und Bücherwelten im 17. Jahrhundert. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp. 314. ISBN 978-3-447-10006-9. €42 (hardback).
Badino, Massimiliano and Navarro, Jaume (eds.), Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-3-8442-5871-4. €37.84 (hardback).
Bailey, Andrew (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. x + 318. ISBN 978-1-4411-4276-4. £18.99 (paperback).
Baldwin, Stuart A., A Brief Bibliography of Sir Charles Lyell, FRS, Bt, Geologist. Witham: Baldwin Scientific Books, 2013. Pp. iv + 31. Free (e-book).
Bandinelli, Angela, Le Origine Chimiche della Vita: Legami tra la Rivoluzione di Lavoisier e la Biologia di Lamarck. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. ix + 252. ISBN 978-8-8222-62700-7. €27 (paperback).
Banker, James R., Piero della Francesca: Artist & Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii + 276. ISBN 978-0-19-960931-4. £25 (hardback).
Burkhardt, Frederick, Secord, James A., Browne, Janet, et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 21, 1873. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xl + 784. ISBN 978-1-107-05214-7. £90 (hardback).
Crawford, Dorothy H., Rickinson, Alan and Johannessen, Ingólfur. Cancer Virus: The Story of Epstein-Barr Virus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 208. ISBN 978-0-19-965311-9. £16.99 (hardback).
Denny, Mark, Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp xiii + 247. ISBN 978-1-4214-0096-2. £19.50 (paperback).
Ebner, Florian, Preprint 8: James Franck – Robert Wichard Pohl, Briefwechsel 1906-1964. Munich: Deutches Museum, 2013. Pp. 179. ISSN 2191-0871. Free (PDF download).
Epstein, Katherine C., Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-674-72526-3. £30 (hardback).
Erickson, Paul, Klein, Judy L., Daston, Lorraine, Lemov, Rebecca, Sturm, Thomas and Gordin, Michael D., How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 259. ISBN 978-0-226-04663-1. £24.50 (hardback).
Ferber, Sarah, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1-4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback).
Finkelstein, Gabriel, Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 362. ISBN 978-0-262-01950-7. £26.95 (hardback).
Friis, Ib, Harbsmeier, Michael and Bæk Simonsen, Jørgen (eds.), Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters: New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and ‘The Arabian Journey’ – Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2013. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-87-7304-375-2. DKK 300 (paperback).
Graham-Smith, Francis, Unseen Cosmos: The Universe in Radio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 256. ISBN 978-0-19-966058-2. £20 (hardback).
Grove, David I., Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A Compendium of Unpleasant Infections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 602. ISBN 978-0-19-964102-4. £25 (hardback).
Hardesty Doig, Kathleen, From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie Méthodique’: Revision and Expansion. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013. Pp. xiv + 314. ISBN 978-0-7294-1077-9. £65 (paperback).
Harwit, Martin, In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 393. ISBN 978-1-107-04406-7. £35 (hardback).
Heimlich, Henry J., Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-1-61614-849-2. $19.95 (paperback).
Kelly, Mary and Doherty, Charles (eds.), Music and the Stars: Mathematics in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 249. ISBN 978-1-84682-392-3. £45 (hardback).
King, Helen, The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xii + 274. ISBN 978-1-4094-6335-1. £65 (hardback).
Kraus, Elisabeth, Preprint 9: Repräsentation – Renommee – Rekrutierung: Mäzenatentum für das Deutsche Museum. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2013. Pp. 147. ISSN 2191-0871. Free (PDF download).
Lambert, David, Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 309. ISBN 978-0-226-07806-9. £35 (hardback).
Lee, W. David, From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 233.ISBN 978-0-262-01977-4. £20.95 (hardback).
Lincoln, Don, Alien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in our Minds and in the Cosmos. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 194. ISBN 978-1-4214-1072-2. £19.50 (hardback).
Monforte, Guillermo Lusa (ed.), Los Tres Directores de la Escuela Durante la Guerra (1936-1939): I – Fidel Moncada Nieto. Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, 2013. Pp. 94. ISSN 1137-0238. Free (PDF download).
Norrby, Erling, Nobel Prizes and Nature’s Surprises. Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. Pp. xviii + 451. ISBN 978-981-4520-99-7. £38 (paperback).
Öhrström, Lars, The Last Alchemist in Paris and other Curious Tales in Chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 257. ISBN 978-0-19-966109-1. £16.99 (hardback).
Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 300. ISBN 978-0-226-08602-6. £24.50 (paperback).
Parker, Barry, The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-61614-803-4. $25.95 (hardback).
Paul, Diane B., and Brosco, Jeffrey P., The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 289. ISBN 978-1-4214-1131-6. £16 (paperback).
Peckham, Robert (ed.), Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Pp. viii + 197. ISBN 978-0-415-83619-7. £80 (hardback).
Price, John, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xi + 265. ISBN 978-1-4411-0665-0. £65 (hardback).
Prothero, Donald R., Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-0-253-01029-2. £23.99 (hardback).
Rees, Jonathan, Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 236. ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4. £29 (hardback).
Richards, Robert J., Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. $27.50 (paperback).
Richardson, Angelique, After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-90-420-3747-2. €85 (hardback).
Ruston, Sharon, Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 218. ISBN 978-1-137-26428-2. £50 (hardback).
Slayton, Rebecca, Arguments That Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 325. ISBN 978-0-262-01944-6. £24.95 (hardback).
Sörlin, Sverker (ed.), Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiv + 443. ISBN 978-1-4724-0969-0. £70 (hardback).
Stone, A. Douglas, Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Pp. x + 332. ISBN 978-0-691-13968-5. £19.95 (hardback).
Timmerman, Anke, Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies). Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 374. ISBN 978-90-04-25484-8. €125 (hardback).
Toribio Pérez, Pablo (ed.), Isaac Newton. Historia Ecclesiastica (De origine schismatico Ecclesiae papisticae bicornis). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013. Pp. 628. ISBN 978-84-00-09736-3. €45 (hardback).
Van Miert, Dirk (ed.), Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. London: The Warburg Institute, 2013. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-1-908590-46-6. £50 (paperback).
Woodward, Jamie, The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 163. ISBN 978-0-19-958069-9. £7.99 (paperback).
Yoder, Joella (ed.), A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens including a concordance with his Oeuvres Complètes. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xii + 338. ISBN 978-90-04-23564-9. €134 / $184 (hardback).
Books received for 0314 issue of the BJHS
Berra, Tim M., Darwin and His Children: His Other Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 978-0-19-930944-3. £19.99 (hardback).
Boantza, Victor D., Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xv + 266. ISBN 978-1-4094-1867-2. £65 (hardback).
Bourgeois, Suzanne, Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of its Founders. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiv + 230. ISBN 978-0-520-27607-9. £34.95 (hardback).
Cadden, Joan, Nothing Natural is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 327. ISBN 978-0-8122-4537-0. £55.50 (hardback).
Catling, David C., Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 142. ISBN 978-0-19-958645-5. £7.99 (paperback).
Curth, Louise Hill, ‘A Plaine and Easie Waie to Remedie a Horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi + 274. ISBN 978-90-04-22394-3. €107 (hardback).
Curtis, Valerie, Don’t Look, Don’t Touch: The Science behind Revulsion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 195. ISBN 978-0-19-957948-4. £16.99 (hardback).
Donato, Maria Pia, Berlivet, Sara Cabibbo, Michetti, Raimondo and Nicoud, Marilyn, Médecine et Religion: Collaborations, Compétitions, conflits (XIIe-XXe Siècle). Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 2013. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-2-7283-0967-2. €40 (paperback).
Fallwell, Lynne, Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 263. ISBN 978-1-84893-428-3. £60 (hardback).
Finocchiaro, Maurice A., The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo’s Dialogue. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xviii + 357. ISBN 978-0-415-50368-6. £16.99 (paperback).
Ford, Brian J., Secret Weapons: Death Rays, Doodlebugs and Churchill’s Golden Goose. Oxford: Osprey, 2013. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78096-721-9. £9.99 (paperback).
Forstner, Christian and Hoffmann, Dieter (eds.), Physik im Kalten Krieg: Beiträge zur Physikgeschichte während des Ost-West-Konflikts. Weisbaden: Springer, 2013. Pp.vii + 297. ISBN 978-3-658-01049-2. £46.99 (paperback).
Hoffmann, Dieter, Einstein’s Berlin: In the Footsteps of a Genius. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 175. ISNB 978-1-4214-1040-1. £29 (paperback).
Jones, Claire L., The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 264. ISBN 978-1-84893-443-6. £60 (hardback).
Krüger, Tobias, Discovering the Ice Ages: International Reception and Consequences for a Historical Understanding of Climate. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xix + 534. ISBN 978-90-04-24169-5. €129 (hardback).
Marsden, Ben, Hutchison, Hazel and O’Connor, Ralph (eds.), Uncommon Contexts. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. viii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60 (hardback).
McCalla, Arthur, The Creationist Debate: The Encounter Between the Bible and the Historical Mind. 2nd edition. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp xiv + 327. ISBN 978-1-62356-852-8. £19.99 (paperback).
Mikkelsen, Jon M., Kant and the Concept of Race: Late Eighteenth-Century Writings. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. Pp. x + 377. ISBN 978-1-4384-4361-4. $90 (hardback).
Natali, Carlo and Hutchinson, D.S., Aristotle: His Life and School. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 219. ISBN 978-0-691-09653-7. £19.95 (hardback).
Pask, Colin, Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton’s Masterpiece. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2013. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-1-61614-745-7. $26 (hardback).
Pietsch, Tamson, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 242. ISBN 978-0-7190-8502-4 £65 (hardback).
Pleins, J. David, The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion. New York and London: Bloomsbury , 2013. Pp. xiv + 171. ISBN 978-1-62356-247-2. £17.99 (paperback).
Prince, Sue Ann (ed.), Of Elephants and Roses: French Natural History 1790-1830. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 2013. Pp. xxvi + 268. ISBN 978-0-87169-267-2. $50 (paperback).
Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale, Archives of Origins: Sanskrit, Philology, Anthropology in 19th Century Germany. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp.336. ISBN 978-3-447-06871-0. €68 (hardback).
Raber, Karen, Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 234. ISBN 978-0-8122-4536-3. £42.50 (hardback).
Rempel, Richard A., Research and Reform: W. P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Pp. xxvii + 308. ISBN 978-0-7735-4174-0. £39 (hardback).
Sambrook, Stephen C., The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 256. ISBN 978-1-84893-312-5. £60 (hardback).
Sumich, Christi, Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers: How practicing Medicine became a Respectable Profession. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. vi + 312. ISBN 978-90-420-3688-8. €68 (hardback).
Valencius, Conevery Bolton, The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 460. ISBN 978-0-226-05389-9. £24.50 (hardback).
Walsh, Lynda, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 264. ISBN 978-0-19-985711-1. £22.50 (paperback).
Williams, Rosalind, The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 416. ISBN 978-0-226-89955-8. £21 (hardback).
Books received for the 1213 issue of the BJHS
Aaserud, Finn and Heilbron, J. L., Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr’s 1913 Trilogy Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 284. ISBN 978-0-19-968028-3. £35 (hardback).
Anstey, Peter R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 651. ISBN 978-0-19-954999-3. £95 (hardback).
Arnold, David, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. vi + 223. ISBN 978-0-226-92202-7. £21 (hardback).
Authier, André, Early Days of X-ray Crystallography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 441. ISBN 978-0-19-965984-5. £45 (hardback).
Baldwin, Stuart A., A Brief Biography of Sir Charles Lyell, FRS, Bt, Geologist. Witham: Baldwin Scientific Books, 2013. Pp. iv + 31. £4 (paperback).
Becchi, Arnold, Meli, Domenico Bertoloni and Gamba, Enrico (eds.), Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-3-8442-4283-6. €23.04 (paperback).
Bell, Joshua A., Brown, Alison K. and Gordon, Robert J. (eds.), Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-1-93562-314-4. $49.95 (hardback).
Boner, Patrick J., Kepler’s Cosmological Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the Soul. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiii + 187. ISBN 978-90-04-24608-9. $138 (hardback).
Browman, David L. and Williams, Stephen, Anthropology at Harvard: A Biographical History 1790-1940. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 589. ISBN 978-0-87365-913-0. $65 (hardback).
Capelotti, P. J., Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2013. Pp. xxix + 269. ISBN 978-1-55238-705-4. $41.95 (paperback).
Carlson, W. Bernard, Tesla: Inventor of the Electric Age. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 500. ISBN 978-0-691-05776-7. £19.95 (hardback).
Dargavel, John and Johann, Elisabeth, Science and Hope: A Forest History. Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 269. ISBN 978-1-874267-73-7. £57 (hardback).
Dekker, Rudolf, Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr, Secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. x +195. ISBN 978-90-04-25094-9. €98 (hardback).
Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, Gasper, Giles E. M., Huxtable, Michael, McLeish Tom C. B., Panti, Cecilia and Smithson, Hannah, The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De Colore. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2013. Pp. x + 94. ISBN 978-088844-564-3. $19.95 (paperback).
Ehrmann, Werner and Wendisch, Manfred (eds.), Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Leipzig: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Geophysical Institute in 1913. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2013. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3-86583-742-4. €29 (hardback).
Eyers, Tom, Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. x + 217. ISBN 978-1-4411-8688-1. £65 (hardback).
Gainor, Chris, To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 236. ISBN 978-0-803204521-1. £15.99 (paperback).
Katzir, Shaul, Lehner, Christoph and Renn, Jürgen (eds.), Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-3-8442-5134-0. €20.89 (paperback).
Koch, Hans-Reinhard, Johann Conrad Stolls Abhandlung über den Grauen Staar und dessen Heilung. Bonn: D. & L. Koch Verlag, 2013. Pp. viii + 31. ISBN 978-3-9815935-3-2. €48 (hardback).
Lavine, Matthew, The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895-1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xi + 247. ISBN 978-1-137-30721-7. £55 (hardback).
Lehoux, Daryn, Morrison, A.D. and Sharrock, Alison (eds.), Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 326. ISBN 978-0-19-960540-8. £70 (hardback).
Leverington, David, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 521. ISBN 978-0-521-89994-9. £45 (hardback).
Lorimer, Douglas A., Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 344. ISBN 978-0-7190-3357-5. £80 (hardback).
Malcolmson, Cristina, Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 233. ISBN 978-0-7546-3778-3. £55 (hardback).
McCrossen, Alexis, Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and other Timekeepers in American Life. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 255. ISBN 978-0-226-01486-9. £29 (hardback).
Morgan, George D., Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2013. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-1-61614-739-6. $18 (paperback).
Moynahan, Gregory B., Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919.London: Anthem Press, 2013. Pp. lii + 225. ISBN 978-0-85728-321-4. £60 (hardback).
Renfrew, Colin, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind. London: The Folio Society, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 240. £29.95 (hardback).
Sakurai, Ayako, Science and Societies in Frankfurt am Main. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 235. ISBN 978-1-84893-397-2. £60 (hardback).
Sauer, Tilman and Wüthrich, Adrian (eds.), New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp.178. ISBN 978-3-8442-4284-3.€12.91 (paperback).
Scerri, Eric, A Tale of Seven Elements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiii + 270. ISBN 978-0-19-539131-2. £12.99 (hardback).
Schell, Patience A., The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 297. ISBN 978-1-137-28605-5. £55 (hardback).
Schmitt, Michael, From Taxonomy to Phylogenetics: Life and Work of Willi Hennig. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xvi + 208. ISBN 978-90-04-21928-1. €96 (hardback).
Sera-Shriar, Efram, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-1-84893-394-1. £60 (hardback).
Stewart, John, Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 234. ISBN 978-1-84893-429-0. £60 (hardback).
Sumner, James, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60 (hardback).
Toms, Jonathan, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 262. ISBN 978-1-137-32156-5. £55 (hardback).
Tsvetkova, Natalia, Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities 1945-1990. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi + 428. ISBN 978-90-04-25024-6. $179 (hardback).
Von Humboldt, Alexander and Bonpland, Aimé, Essay on the Geography of Plants. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xx + 274. ISBN 978-0-226-05473-5. £19.50 (hardback).
Voskuhl, Adelheid, Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 279. ISBN 978-0-226-03402-7. £31.50 (hardback).
Walker, Mark, Orth, Karin, Herbert, Ulrich and vom Bruch, Rüdiger (eds.), The German Research Foundation 1920-1970: Funding Poised between Science and Politics. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Pp. 515. ISBN 978-3-515-10195-0. €69 (paperback).
White, Gilbert, The Natural History of Selborne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxvi + 316. ISBN 978-0-19-959196-1. £14.99 (hardback).
Wilkinson, David, Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 227. ISBN 978-0-19-968020-7. £25 (hardback).
Wilson, Robin and Watkins John J. (eds.), Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 381. ISBN 978-0-19-965659-2. £55 (hardback).
Winch, Donald, Malthus: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xv +122. ISBN 978-0-19-967041-3. £7.99 (paperback).
Yeang, Chen-Pang, Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 361. ISBN 978-0-226-01519-4. £42 (hardback).
Zachmann, Karin, Risky Rays for an Improved Food Supply? National and Transnational Food Irradiation Research as a Cold War Recipe. Deutsches Museum Preprint 7. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2013. Pp. 55. ISSN 2190-8966. No price given (paperback).
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Of items received over the past twelve months, the following have not yet been placed with a reviewer:
Books received for 0914 issue of the BJHS
Angeloni, Roberto, Unity and Continuity in Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Physics. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. xi + 211. ISBN 978-88-222-6282-0. €27 (paperback).
Atkins, Peter, Physical Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 128. ISBN 978-0-19-968909-5. £7.99 (paperback).
Collins, Harry, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 144. ISBN 978-0-7456-8204-4. £9.99 (paperback).
Coopmans, Catelijne, Vertesi, Janet, Lynch, Michael and Woolgar, Steve (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 366. ISBN 978-0-262-52538-1. £24.95 (paperback).
Córdoba, Ricardo (ed.), Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-2-503-54439-7. €75 (hardback).
Dewis, Sarah, The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xvi + 278. ISBN 978-1-4094-6922-3. £65 (hardback).
Fangerau, Heiner, Geisler, Hans, Halling, Thorsten, and Martin, William (eds.), Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science: Concepts - Methods - Visualization. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp. 198. ISBN 978-3-515-10460-9. €39 (paperback), free (e-book).
Feder, Helena, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. vii + 179. ISBN 978-1-4094-0157-5. £60 (hardback).
Finlayson, Clive, The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xix +202. ISBN 978-0-19-965879-4. £16.99 (hardback).
Forbes, Nancy and Mahon, Basil, Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionised Physics. New York: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-61614-942-0. $25.95 (hardback).
Frevert, Ute, et al., Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 288. ISBN 978-0-19-965573-1. £65 (hardback).
Klemm, Tanja, Bildphysiologie: Wahrnehmung und Körper in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013. Pp. xii + 324. ISBN 978-3-05-006478-9. €99.80 (hardback).
Kranz, Horst (ed.), Johannes Fontana – Liber instrumentorum iconographicus: Ein illustriertes Maschinenbuch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-3-515-10660-3. €46 (hardback).
Pick, Daniel, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 978-0-19-967851-8. £10.99 (paperback).
Priestman, Martin, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 310. ISBN 978-1-4724-1954-5. £70 (hardback).
Rey, Anne-Lise (ed.), Méthode et histoire: Quelle histoire font les historiens des sciences et des techniques? Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. Pp. 513. ISBN 978-2-8124-1419-0. £39.55 (paperback).
Robinson, Zandria F., This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 224. ISBN 978-1-4696-1422-9. $29.95 (paperback).
Sanders, Robert H., Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and its Black Hole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 197. ISBN 978-1-107-03918-6. £25 (hardback).
Secord, James A., Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 (hardback).
Shen, Grace Yen, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 309. ISBN 978-0-226-09040-5. $54/£31.50 (hardback).
Sheppard, Kathleen L., The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 267. ISBN 978-0-7391-7417-3. £51.95 (hardback).
Tega, Walter, Tradizione e Rivoluzione: Scienza e potere in Francia (1815-1840). Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. ix + 346. ISBN 978-88-222-6296-7. €35 (paperback).
Timmerman, Carsten, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. x + 244. ISBN 978-1-4039-8802-7. £50 (hardback).
Turek, Marian (ed.), Johannes Hevelius and his Gdańsk. Gdańsk: Gdańskie Towarzystwo Naukowe, 2013. Pp. 251. ISBN 978-83-60693-13-1. Price unknown (hardback).
Voigts, Eckart, Schaff, Barbara and Pietrzak-Franger, Monika (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xii + 231. ISBN 978-1-4724-1407-6. £60 (hardback).
Yeo, Richard, Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 978-0-226-10656-4. $45/£31.50 (hardback).
Zipser, Barbara (ed.), Simon of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon. London: Versita, 2013. Pp. 164. ISBN 978-83-7656-022-9. £69.95 (hardback).
Books received for 0614 issue of the BJHS
Asmussen, Tina, Burkart, Lucas and Rößler, Hole (eds.), Theatrum Kircherianum: Wissenskulturen und Bücherwelten im 17. Jahrhundert. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp. 314. ISBN 978-3-447-10006-9. €42 (hardback).
Badino, Massimiliano and Navarro, Jaume (eds.), Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-3-8442-5871-4. €37.84 (hardback).
Bailey, Andrew (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. x + 318. ISBN 978-1-4411-4276-4. £18.99 (paperback).
Baldwin, Stuart A., A Brief Bibliography of Sir Charles Lyell, FRS, Bt, Geologist. Witham: Baldwin Scientific Books, 2013. Pp. iv + 31. Free (e-book).
Bandinelli, Angela, Le Origine Chimiche della Vita: Legami tra la Rivoluzione di Lavoisier e la Biologia di Lamarck. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Pp. ix + 252. ISBN 978-8-8222-62700-7. €27 (paperback).
Banker, James R., Piero della Francesca: Artist & Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii + 276. ISBN 978-0-19-960931-4. £25 (hardback).
Burkhardt, Frederick, Secord, James A., Browne, Janet, et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 21, 1873. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xl + 784. ISBN 978-1-107-05214-7. £90 (hardback).
Crawford, Dorothy H., Rickinson, Alan and Johannessen, Ingólfur. Cancer Virus: The Story of Epstein-Barr Virus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 208. ISBN 978-0-19-965311-9. £16.99 (hardback).
Denny, Mark, Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp xiii + 247. ISBN 978-1-4214-0096-2. £19.50 (paperback).
Ebner, Florian, Preprint 8: James Franck – Robert Wichard Pohl, Briefwechsel 1906-1964. Munich: Deutches Museum, 2013. Pp. 179. ISSN 2191-0871. Free (PDF download).
Epstein, Katherine C., Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-674-72526-3. £30 (hardback).
Erickson, Paul, Klein, Judy L., Daston, Lorraine, Lemov, Rebecca, Sturm, Thomas and Gordin, Michael D., How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 259. ISBN 978-0-226-04663-1. £24.50 (hardback).
Ferber, Sarah, Bioethics in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 233. ISBN 978-1-4039-8724-2. £18.99 (paperback).
Finkelstein, Gabriel, Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 362. ISBN 978-0-262-01950-7. £26.95 (hardback).
Friis, Ib, Harbsmeier, Michael and Bæk Simonsen, Jørgen (eds.), Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters: New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and ‘The Arabian Journey’ – Proceedings of a Symposium on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia Felix. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2013. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-87-7304-375-2. DKK 300 (paperback).
Graham-Smith, Francis, Unseen Cosmos: The Universe in Radio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 256. ISBN 978-0-19-966058-2. £20 (hardback).
Grove, David I., Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A Compendium of Unpleasant Infections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 602. ISBN 978-0-19-964102-4. £25 (hardback).
Hardesty Doig, Kathleen, From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie Méthodique’: Revision and Expansion. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013. Pp. xiv + 314. ISBN 978-0-7294-1077-9. £65 (paperback).
Harwit, Martin, In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 393. ISBN 978-1-107-04406-7. £35 (hardback).
Heimlich, Henry J., Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-1-61614-849-2. $19.95 (paperback).
Kelly, Mary and Doherty, Charles (eds.), Music and the Stars: Mathematics in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 249. ISBN 978-1-84682-392-3. £45 (hardback).
King, Helen, The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xii + 274. ISBN 978-1-4094-6335-1. £65 (hardback).
Kraus, Elisabeth, Preprint 9: Repräsentation – Renommee – Rekrutierung: Mäzenatentum für das Deutsche Museum. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2013. Pp. 147. ISSN 2191-0871. Free (PDF download).
Lambert, David, Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 309. ISBN 978-0-226-07806-9. £35 (hardback).
Lee, W. David, From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 233.ISBN 978-0-262-01977-4. £20.95 (hardback).
Lincoln, Don, Alien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in our Minds and in the Cosmos. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 194. ISBN 978-1-4214-1072-2. £19.50 (hardback).
Monforte, Guillermo Lusa (ed.), Los Tres Directores de la Escuela Durante la Guerra (1936-1939): I – Fidel Moncada Nieto. Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, 2013. Pp. 94. ISSN 1137-0238. Free (PDF download).
Norrby, Erling, Nobel Prizes and Nature’s Surprises. Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. Pp. xviii + 451. ISBN 978-981-4520-99-7. £38 (paperback).
Öhrström, Lars, The Last Alchemist in Paris and other Curious Tales in Chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 257. ISBN 978-0-19-966109-1. £16.99 (hardback).
Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 300. ISBN 978-0-226-08602-6. £24.50 (paperback).
Parker, Barry, The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-61614-803-4. $25.95 (hardback).
Paul, Diane B., and Brosco, Jeffrey P., The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 289. ISBN 978-1-4214-1131-6. £16 (paperback).
Peckham, Robert (ed.), Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Pp. viii + 197. ISBN 978-0-415-83619-7. £80 (hardback).
Price, John, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xi + 265. ISBN 978-1-4411-0665-0. £65 (hardback).
Prothero, Donald R., Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-0-253-01029-2. £23.99 (hardback).
Rees, Jonathan, Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 236. ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4. £29 (hardback).
Richards, Robert J., Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. $27.50 (paperback).
Richardson, Angelique, After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-90-420-3747-2. €85 (hardback).
Ruston, Sharon, Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 218. ISBN 978-1-137-26428-2. £50 (hardback).
Slayton, Rebecca, Arguments That Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 325. ISBN 978-0-262-01944-6. £24.95 (hardback).
Sörlin, Sverker (ed.), Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiv + 443. ISBN 978-1-4724-0969-0. £70 (hardback).
Stone, A. Douglas, Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Pp. x + 332. ISBN 978-0-691-13968-5. £19.95 (hardback).
Timmerman, Anke, Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies). Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 374. ISBN 978-90-04-25484-8. €125 (hardback).
Toribio Pérez, Pablo (ed.), Isaac Newton. Historia Ecclesiastica (De origine schismatico Ecclesiae papisticae bicornis). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013. Pp. 628. ISBN 978-84-00-09736-3. €45 (hardback).
Van Miert, Dirk (ed.), Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. London: The Warburg Institute, 2013. Pp. 268. ISBN 978-1-908590-46-6. £50 (paperback).
Woodward, Jamie, The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 163. ISBN 978-0-19-958069-9. £7.99 (paperback).
Yoder, Joella (ed.), A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens including a concordance with his Oeuvres Complètes. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xii + 338. ISBN 978-90-04-23564-9. €134 / $184 (hardback).
Books received for 0314 issue of the BJHS
Berra, Tim M., Darwin and His Children: His Other Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 978-0-19-930944-3. £19.99 (hardback).
Boantza, Victor D., Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xv + 266. ISBN 978-1-4094-1867-2. £65 (hardback).
Bourgeois, Suzanne, Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of its Founders. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiv + 230. ISBN 978-0-520-27607-9. £34.95 (hardback).
Cadden, Joan, Nothing Natural is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 327. ISBN 978-0-8122-4537-0. £55.50 (hardback).
Catling, David C., Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 142. ISBN 978-0-19-958645-5. £7.99 (paperback).
Curth, Louise Hill, ‘A Plaine and Easie Waie to Remedie a Horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi + 274. ISBN 978-90-04-22394-3. €107 (hardback).
Curtis, Valerie, Don’t Look, Don’t Touch: The Science behind Revulsion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 195. ISBN 978-0-19-957948-4. £16.99 (hardback).
Donato, Maria Pia, Berlivet, Sara Cabibbo, Michetti, Raimondo and Nicoud, Marilyn, Médecine et Religion: Collaborations, Compétitions, conflits (XIIe-XXe Siècle). Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 2013. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-2-7283-0967-2. €40 (paperback).
Fallwell, Lynne, Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 263. ISBN 978-1-84893-428-3. £60 (hardback).
Finocchiaro, Maurice A., The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo’s Dialogue. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xviii + 357. ISBN 978-0-415-50368-6. £16.99 (paperback).
Ford, Brian J., Secret Weapons: Death Rays, Doodlebugs and Churchill’s Golden Goose. Oxford: Osprey, 2013. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78096-721-9. £9.99 (paperback).
Forstner, Christian and Hoffmann, Dieter (eds.), Physik im Kalten Krieg: Beiträge zur Physikgeschichte während des Ost-West-Konflikts. Weisbaden: Springer, 2013. Pp.vii + 297. ISBN 978-3-658-01049-2. £46.99 (paperback).
Hoffmann, Dieter, Einstein’s Berlin: In the Footsteps of a Genius. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 175. ISNB 978-1-4214-1040-1. £29 (paperback).
Jones, Claire L., The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 264. ISBN 978-1-84893-443-6. £60 (hardback).
Krüger, Tobias, Discovering the Ice Ages: International Reception and Consequences for a Historical Understanding of Climate. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xix + 534. ISBN 978-90-04-24169-5. €129 (hardback).
Marsden, Ben, Hutchison, Hazel and O’Connor, Ralph (eds.), Uncommon Contexts. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. viii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60 (hardback).
McCalla, Arthur, The Creationist Debate: The Encounter Between the Bible and the Historical Mind. 2nd edition. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp xiv + 327. ISBN 978-1-62356-852-8. £19.99 (paperback).
Mikkelsen, Jon M., Kant and the Concept of Race: Late Eighteenth-Century Writings. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. Pp. x + 377. ISBN 978-1-4384-4361-4. $90 (hardback).
Natali, Carlo and Hutchinson, D.S., Aristotle: His Life and School. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 219. ISBN 978-0-691-09653-7. £19.95 (hardback).
Pask, Colin, Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton’s Masterpiece. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2013. Pp. 528. ISBN 978-1-61614-745-7. $26 (hardback).
Pietsch, Tamson, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 242. ISBN 978-0-7190-8502-4 £65 (hardback).
Pleins, J. David, The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion. New York and London: Bloomsbury , 2013. Pp. xiv + 171. ISBN 978-1-62356-247-2. £17.99 (paperback).
Prince, Sue Ann (ed.), Of Elephants and Roses: French Natural History 1790-1830. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 2013. Pp. xxvi + 268. ISBN 978-0-87169-267-2. $50 (paperback).
Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale, Archives of Origins: Sanskrit, Philology, Anthropology in 19th Century Germany. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp.336. ISBN 978-3-447-06871-0. €68 (hardback).
Raber, Karen, Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 234. ISBN 978-0-8122-4536-3. £42.50 (hardback).
Rempel, Richard A., Research and Reform: W. P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Pp. xxvii + 308. ISBN 978-0-7735-4174-0. £39 (hardback).
Sambrook, Stephen C., The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xii + 256. ISBN 978-1-84893-312-5. £60 (hardback).
Sumich, Christi, Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers: How practicing Medicine became a Respectable Profession. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. vi + 312. ISBN 978-90-420-3688-8. €68 (hardback).
Valencius, Conevery Bolton, The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 460. ISBN 978-0-226-05389-9. £24.50 (hardback).
Walsh, Lynda, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 264. ISBN 978-0-19-985711-1. £22.50 (paperback).
Williams, Rosalind, The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 416. ISBN 978-0-226-89955-8. £21 (hardback).
Books received for the 1213 issue of the BJHS
Aaserud, Finn and Heilbron, J. L., Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr’s 1913 Trilogy Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 284. ISBN 978-0-19-968028-3. £35 (hardback).
Anstey, Peter R. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 651. ISBN 978-0-19-954999-3. £95 (hardback).
Arnold, David, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. vi + 223. ISBN 978-0-226-92202-7. £21 (hardback).
Authier, André, Early Days of X-ray Crystallography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 441. ISBN 978-0-19-965984-5. £45 (hardback).
Baldwin, Stuart A., A Brief Biography of Sir Charles Lyell, FRS, Bt, Geologist. Witham: Baldwin Scientific Books, 2013. Pp. iv + 31. £4 (paperback).
Becchi, Arnold, Meli, Domenico Bertoloni and Gamba, Enrico (eds.), Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 380. ISBN 978-3-8442-4283-6. €23.04 (paperback).
Bell, Joshua A., Brown, Alison K. and Gordon, Robert J. (eds.), Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-1-93562-314-4. $49.95 (hardback).
Boner, Patrick J., Kepler’s Cosmological Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the Soul. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiii + 187. ISBN 978-90-04-24608-9. $138 (hardback).
Browman, David L. and Williams, Stephen, Anthropology at Harvard: A Biographical History 1790-1940. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 589. ISBN 978-0-87365-913-0. $65 (hardback).
Capelotti, P. J., Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2013. Pp. xxix + 269. ISBN 978-1-55238-705-4. $41.95 (paperback).
Carlson, W. Bernard, Tesla: Inventor of the Electric Age. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 500. ISBN 978-0-691-05776-7. £19.95 (hardback).
Dargavel, John and Johann, Elisabeth, Science and Hope: A Forest History. Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 269. ISBN 978-1-874267-73-7. £57 (hardback).
Dekker, Rudolf, Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr, Secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. x +195. ISBN 978-90-04-25094-9. €98 (hardback).
Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, Gasper, Giles E. M., Huxtable, Michael, McLeish Tom C. B., Panti, Cecilia and Smithson, Hannah, The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De Colore. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2013. Pp. x + 94. ISBN 978-088844-564-3. $19.95 (paperback).
Ehrmann, Werner and Wendisch, Manfred (eds.), Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Leipzig: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Geophysical Institute in 1913. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2013. Pp. 111. ISBN 978-3-86583-742-4. €29 (hardback).
Eyers, Tom, Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. x + 217. ISBN 978-1-4411-8688-1. £65 (hardback).
Gainor, Chris, To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv + 236. ISBN 978-0-803204521-1. £15.99 (paperback).
Katzir, Shaul, Lehner, Christoph and Renn, Jürgen (eds.), Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp. 340. ISBN 978-3-8442-5134-0. €20.89 (paperback).
Koch, Hans-Reinhard, Johann Conrad Stolls Abhandlung über den Grauen Staar und dessen Heilung. Bonn: D. & L. Koch Verlag, 2013. Pp. viii + 31. ISBN 978-3-9815935-3-2. €48 (hardback).
Lavine, Matthew, The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895-1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xi + 247. ISBN 978-1-137-30721-7. £55 (hardback).
Lehoux, Daryn, Morrison, A.D. and Sharrock, Alison (eds.), Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 326. ISBN 978-0-19-960540-8. £70 (hardback).
Leverington, David, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 521. ISBN 978-0-521-89994-9. £45 (hardback).
Lorimer, Douglas A., Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 344. ISBN 978-0-7190-3357-5. £80 (hardback).
Malcolmson, Cristina, Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 233. ISBN 978-0-7546-3778-3. £55 (hardback).
McCrossen, Alexis, Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and other Timekeepers in American Life. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 255. ISBN 978-0-226-01486-9. £29 (hardback).
Morgan, George D., Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2013. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-1-61614-739-6. $18 (paperback).
Moynahan, Gregory B., Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919.London: Anthem Press, 2013. Pp. lii + 225. ISBN 978-0-85728-321-4. £60 (hardback).
Renfrew, Colin, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind. London: The Folio Society, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 240. £29.95 (hardback).
Sakurai, Ayako, Science and Societies in Frankfurt am Main. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 235. ISBN 978-1-84893-397-2. £60 (hardback).
Sauer, Tilman and Wüthrich, Adrian (eds.), New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2013. Pp.178. ISBN 978-3-8442-4284-3.€12.91 (paperback).
Scerri, Eric, A Tale of Seven Elements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiii + 270. ISBN 978-0-19-539131-2. £12.99 (hardback).
Schell, Patience A., The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 297. ISBN 978-1-137-28605-5. £55 (hardback).
Schmitt, Michael, From Taxonomy to Phylogenetics: Life and Work of Willi Hennig. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xvi + 208. ISBN 978-90-04-21928-1. €96 (hardback).
Sera-Shriar, Efram, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-1-84893-394-1. £60 (hardback).
Stewart, John, Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 234. ISBN 978-1-84893-429-0. £60 (hardback).
Sumner, James, Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 295. ISBN 978-1-84893-423-8. £60 (hardback).
Toms, Jonathan, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii + 262. ISBN 978-1-137-32156-5. £55 (hardback).
Tsvetkova, Natalia, Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities 1945-1990. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi + 428. ISBN 978-90-04-25024-6. $179 (hardback).
Von Humboldt, Alexander and Bonpland, Aimé, Essay on the Geography of Plants. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xx + 274. ISBN 978-0-226-05473-5. £19.50 (hardback).
Voskuhl, Adelheid, Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 279. ISBN 978-0-226-03402-7. £31.50 (hardback).
Walker, Mark, Orth, Karin, Herbert, Ulrich and vom Bruch, Rüdiger (eds.), The German Research Foundation 1920-1970: Funding Poised between Science and Politics. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Pp. 515. ISBN 978-3-515-10195-0. €69 (paperback).
White, Gilbert, The Natural History of Selborne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxvi + 316. ISBN 978-0-19-959196-1. £14.99 (hardback).
Wilkinson, David, Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 227. ISBN 978-0-19-968020-7. £25 (hardback).
Wilson, Robin and Watkins John J. (eds.), Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 381. ISBN 978-0-19-965659-2. £55 (hardback).
Winch, Donald, Malthus: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xv +122. ISBN 978-0-19-967041-3. £7.99 (paperback).
Yeang, Chen-Pang, Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 361. ISBN 978-0-226-01519-4. £42 (hardback).
Zachmann, Karin, Risky Rays for an Improved Food Supply? National and Transnational Food Irradiation Research as a Cold War Recipe. Deutsches Museum Preprint 7. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2013. Pp. 55. ISSN 2190-8966. No price given (paperback).
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