Archiv für August 2012

Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (eds.), Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. vii+466. ISBN 978-0-226-90709-3. £26.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Graeme Gooday, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 312-313Abstract

Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds.), Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. Pp. 362. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7. €49.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Richard Dunn, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 310-312Abstract

Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari (eds.), Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. Pp. xxv + 272. ISBN 978-1-4438-2918-2. £44.99 (hardback).

Book Reviews Alison E. Martin, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 309-310Abstract

Louis Niebur, Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-536841-3. £17.99 (paperback); 978-0-19-536840-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Timothy Boon, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 307-309Abstract

Robert H. Sanders, The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+205. ISBN 978-0-521-11301. £35.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Jacob V. Pearce, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 306-307Abstract

Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways . Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xxvi+400. ISBN 978-0-7546-553908. £75.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Steven J. Main, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 305-306Abstract

Michal Simunek, Uwe Hoßfeld, Florian Thümmler and Olaf Breidbach (eds.), The Mendelian Dioskuri: Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898–1951 . Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 27. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Department of Genetics/‘Mendelianum’ of the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-80-87378-67-0. Price unknown (paperback). 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 . Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities 28. Prague: Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Department of Genetics/‘Mendelianum’ of the Moravian Museum, Brno, 2011. Pp. 131. ISBN 978-80-87378-73-1. Price unknown (paperback).

Book Reviews Sander Gliboff, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 303-305Abstract

Laurence Talairaich-Vielmas (ed.), Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761–1901 . Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pp. xii+309. ISBN 978-1-4438-2680-8. £44.99 (hardback).

Book Reviews Melanie Keene, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 302-303Abstract

Emily Steel, He Is No Loss: Robert McCormick and the Voyage of HMS Beagle . BSHS Monograph 14. Norwich: British Society for the History of Science, 2011. Pp. x+63. ISBN 978-0-906450-18-5. £10.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews S. Karly Kehoe, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 301-302Abstract

A.D. Morrison-Low, Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses . Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland in conjunction with The Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 2010. Pp. xxvi+262. ISBN 978-1-905267-47-7. £17.99 (paperback).

Book Reviews Julia Elton, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 300-301Abstract