Archiv für August 2012

David Philip Miller, James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age . Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009. Pp. viii+241. ISBN 978-1-85196-974-6. £60.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Ben Marsden, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 298-300Abstract

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 . Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+428. ISBN 978-0-691-14576-1. £25.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Jane Murphy, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 296-298Abstract

Joanna Stalnaker, The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+240. ISBN 978-0-8014-4864-5. £27.95 (hardback). Jeff Loveland, An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s Universal History (1745) . Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010. Pp. xiii+256. ISBN 978-0-7294-0992-6. £60.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Rachel L. Dunn, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 294-296Abstract

Anna Marie Roos, Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xx + 478. ISBN 978-90-04-20703-5. €129.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Palmira Fontes da Costa, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 293-294Abstract

P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston (eds.), John Ray’s Cambridge Catalogue (1660) . London: The Ray Society, 2011. Pp. ix+612. ISBN 978-0903874-43-4. £75.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Anna Marie Roos, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 291-293Abstract

Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+439. ISBN 978-0-8018-9904-1. £23.50 (paperback).

Book Reviews Stephanie Eichberg, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 290-291Abstract

Volker Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution . Philadelphia: St Joseph’s University Press, 2011. Pp. 295. ISBN 978-0-916101-67-1. $65.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews N. Kaoukji, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 288-290Abstract

Robert Goulding, Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History . Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2010. Pp. xx+201. ISBN 978-90-481-3541-7. £90.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Stephen Pumfrey, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 286-288Abstract

C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe . Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. x+381. ISBN 978-1-4094-2021-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews David M. Turner, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 285-286Abstract

Fernando Vidal, The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology . Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+413. ISBN 978-0-226-85586-8. £35.50 (hardback).

Book Reviews Jörgen L. Pind, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 02, pp 283-285Abstract