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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2013

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Jeffrey Abt, American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. By William Carruthers 691

Peter R. Anstey, John Locke and Natural Philosophy. By James A.T. Lancaster 129

John Bender and Michael Marrinan, The Culture of Diagram. By Norberto Serpente 133

Michael Bentley, The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God. By Frank A.J.L. James 700

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy. By Stephanie Eichberg 290

Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (eds.), Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective. By Graeme Gooday 312

Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall (eds.), Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. By Christopher M. Parsons 128

Patrick J. Boner (ed.), Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology. By Richard Oosterhoff 449

Andrew Brown, Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat. By Martin Underwood 465

B. Ricardo Brown, Until Darwin: Science, Human Variety and the Origin of Race. By Matthew R. Goodrum 135

Michael Brown, Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c.1760–1850. By James F. Stark 455

Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science. By Jane Murphy 296

David C. Cassidy, A Short History of Physics in the American Century. By Peter J. Westwick 464

Olivier Darrigol, A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. By Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis 678

Margaret E. Derry, Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Dominic Berry 695

Larrie D. Ferreiro, Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World. By Patricia Fara 685

John Edward Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’. By Daniel Stolzenberg 683

Aileen Fyfe, Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. By Gowan Dawson 687

C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe. By David M. Turner 285

Robert Goulding, Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. By Stephen Pumfrey 286

Christoph Gradmann and Jonathan Simon (eds.), Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents 1890–1950. By Viviane Quirke 462

Michael H. Graham, Joan Parker and Paul K. Dayton (eds.), The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History. By Jean-Baptiste Gouyon 443

Peter J. Grund, ‘Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite’: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy. By Anke Timmermann 448

Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank (eds.), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science. By David Beck 282

Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.), Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. By Richard Dunn 310

Vanessa Heggie, A History of British Sports Medicine. By Julie Anderson 141

Ian Hesketh, The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak. By Nathalie Richard 138

Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways. By Steven J. Main 305

Hiro Hirai, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul. By Anna Marie Roos 682

Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis (trans.), Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times. By Debby Banham 125

David A. Kirby, Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema. By Jean-Baptiste Gouyon 146

Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette (eds.), Alexander von Humboldt. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition. By Alison E. Martin 686

K. Maria D. Lane, Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet. By Joshua Nall 692

Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking. By T.E. Rihll 445

Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin (eds.), Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science 1500–1800. By Neil Tarrant 446

David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers (eds.), Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. By Casper Andersen 136

John G. McEvoy, The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science. By Victor D. Boantza 456

Angus McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies. By Jane Maienschein 697

Stuart McWilliams, Magical Thinking: History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult. By Claire Fanger 681

Michael Sean Mahoney, Histories of Computing. By Mark Priestley 703

Alexander Marr, Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy. By Renée Raphael 126

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. By Nancy Anderson 704

Rebecca Messbarger, The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini. By Anna Maerker 132

David Philip Miller, James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age. By Ben Marsden 298

A.D. Morrison-Low, Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses. By Julia Elton 300

Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. By Howard Chiang 702

Reviel Netz, William Noel, Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson (eds.), The Archimedes Palimpsest. By Serafina Cuomo 679

Louis Niebur, Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. By Timothy Boon 307

Erling Norrby, Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences. By Donald Gillies 142

P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston (eds.), John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660). By Anna Marie Roos 291

Christopher Pinney, Photography and Anthropology. By Geoffrey Belknap 461

Aaron Poochigian (trans.), Aratus: Phaenomena. By Daryn Lehoux 123

John C. Powers, Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts. By Anna Marie Roos 452

Mark Priestley, A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic, and the Invention of Programming. By Nathan Ensmenger 144

Sadiah Qureshi, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Efram Sera-Shriar 690

Brian Regal, Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. By Sebastian Normandin 699

Karin Reich and Elena Roussanova (eds.), Carl Friedrich Gauss und Russland: Sein Briefwechsel mit in Russland wirkenden Wissenschaftlern. By I. Grattan-Guinness 459

Volker Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution. By N. Kaoukji 288

Harriet Ritvo, Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History. By Charlotte Sleigh 460

Lissa Roberts (ed.), Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period. By Florike Egmond 451

Anna Marie Roos, Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist. By Palmira Fontes da Costa 293

Colin A. Russell and John A. Hudson, Early Railway Chemistry and Its Legacy. By Robert G.W. Anderson 688

Robert H. Sanders, The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective. By Jacob V. Pearce 306

Maria Semi, Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Penelope Gouk 454

Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler and Olaf Breidbach (eds.), The Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898–1951 and Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler and Jiří Sekerák (eds.), The Letters on G.J. Mendel: Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, 1902–1935. By Sander Gliboff 303

Charlotte Sleigh, Literature and Science. By Amanda Mordavsky Caleb 145

Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel (eds.), Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology. By Neeraja Sankaran 694

Justin E.H. Smith, Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. By Stephanie Eichberg 131

Sally Smith Hughes, Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. By Duncan Wilson 706

Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari (eds.), Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists. By Alison E. Martin 309

Joanna Stalnaker, The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia and Jeff Loveland, An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon's Universal History (1745). By Rachel L. Dunn 294

Emily Steel, He Is No Loss: Robert McCormick and the Voyage of HMS Beagle. By S. Karly Kehoe 301

Laurence Talairaich-Vielmas (ed.), Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761–1901. By Melanie Keene 302

Alfred I. Tauber, Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. By Roger Smith 140

Leslie Tomory, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. By David Philip Miller 458

Fernando Vidal, The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. By Jörgen L. Pind 283

Duncan Wilson, Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain. By Dmitriy Myelnikov 467

Brian Wynne, Rationality and Ritual: Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making. By Max K. Wallis 708