Volume 42 - March 2009
Contents
Book Review
Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel, Romano Nanni and Nicole C. Karafyllis eds., Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies series vol. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 2 vols. Pp. xxix+577. ISBN 978-9-0041-70506. €149.00 (hardback).
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Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson (eds.), An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. BSHS Monograph Series, Vol. 13. London: British Society for the History of Science, 2007. Pp. ix+407. ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7. £15.00 (paperback).
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Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear (eds.), The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007. Available outside the UK and Europe from University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxvii+503. ISBN 978-90-6984-483-1. €89.00, $110.00 (hardback).
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- 15 June 2009, pp. 296-298
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Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié (eds.), Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiii+772. ISBN 978-90-04-16063-7. $149.00, $199.00 (hardback).
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- 24 August 2009, pp. 450-451
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Lawrence M. Principe (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry.Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. xiii+274. ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. $45.00 (hardback). - Anna Marie Roos, The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650–1750.Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xvi+293. ISBN 978-90-04-16176-4. $129.00 (hardback).
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Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+212. ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4. £15.99 (paperback).
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- 24 August 2009, pp. 451-453
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Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv+285. ISBN 978-0-230-50708. £53.00 (hardback).
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- 15 June 2009, pp. 298-299
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Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+218. ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0. £45.00, $75.00 (hardback).
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Josep Simon and Néstor Herran, with Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Pedro Ruiz Castell and Ximo Guillem-Llobat (eds.), Beyond Borders: Fresh Perspectives in History of Science. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. vii+377. ISBN 978-184-71843-2. £39.99 (hardback).
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- 15 June 2009, pp. 299-301
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Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt (eds.), Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xi+360. ISBN 978-226-76329-3. $28.00 (paperback).
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David Sedley, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+269. ISBN 978-0-520-25364-3. £17.95 (hardback).
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Marianne Sommer, Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+398. ISBN 978-0-674-02499-1. £25.95 (hardback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 619-620
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Liba Taub, Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+138. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-87071-196-1 (hardback).
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- 24 August 2009, pp. 454-456
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David Stack, Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2008. Pp. xviii+350. ISBN 978 1 84725 233 3.
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Alessandro Ottaviani and Oreste Trabucco, Theatrum Naturae: La ricerca naturalistica tra erudizione e nuova scienza nell'Italia del primo Seicento. Napoli: La Città del Sole. 2007. Pp. 177. ISBN 978-88-8292-363-1. €22.00 (paperback).
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Deborah E. Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+349. ISBN 978-0-300-11196-5. £19.99 (hardback).
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Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman (eds.), Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+410. ISBN 978 0 226 27650 2. $45.00, £23.50 (hardback).
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- 26 November 2009, pp. 621-623
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J. B. Shank, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+571. ISBN 978-0-226-74945-7. $55.00 (hardback).
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Paola Bertucci, Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie. Scienza e curiosità nell'Italia del Settecento. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. Pp. 294. ISBN 978-88-339-1802-0. €28.00 (paperback).
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Hugh Trevor-Roper, Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+438. ISBN 0-300-11263-7. $35.00. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 24 August 2009, pp. 456-457
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