Archiv für Januar 2013

Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’. With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xxxiv + 607. ISBN 978-90-04-20712-7. €184.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Daniel Stolzenberg, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 683-685Abstract

Hirai, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul . Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN 978-90-04-218171-0. €99.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Anna Marie Roos, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 682-683Abstract

McWilliams, Magical Thinking: History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult . London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. x + 187. ISBN 978-1-4411-1697-0. £65.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Claire Fanger, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 681-682Abstract

Netz, Noel, Tchernetska and Wilson (eds.), The Archimedes Palimpsest. 2 volume set. Volume 1: Catalogue and Commentary; Volume 2: Images and Transcription . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Walters Art Museum, 2011. Pp. viii + 342; x + 344. ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2. £150/$215.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Serafina Cuomo, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 679-681Abstract

Darrigol, A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 327. ISBN 978-0-19-964437-7. £35.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 678-679Abstract

Observations on observations

Review Articles John V. Pickstone, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 671-675Abstract

Protect/Protest: British nuclear fiction of the 1980s

Research Articles DANIEL CORDLE, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 653-669Abstract

Seven Days to Noon : containing the atomic threat

Research Articles DAVID SEED, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 641-652Abstract

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and changing attitudes towards the Earth in the nuclear age

Research Articles JODI BURKETT, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 625-639Abstract

‘The monster’? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945–early 1960s

Research Articles ADRIAN BINGHAM, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 609-624Abstract