Archiv für Juli 2014

Joseph Agassi, The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle . Heidelberg, New York and London: Springer, 2013. Pp. xvii+315. ISBN 978-94-007-5350-1. £90.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Sheldon Richmond, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 570-572Abstract

Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England . Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xviii+255. ISBN 978-0-7546-6960.9. £65.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Peter Rowlands, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 569-570Abstract

Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart (eds.), The Circulation of Knowledge between Britain, India and China: The Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century . Leiden: Brill, 2013. pp. xxi+339. ISBN: 978-90-04-24441-2. $146.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews James Poskett, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 567-569Abstract

From garden biotech to garage biotech: amateur experimental biology in historical perspective

Research Articles HELEN ANNE CURRY, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 539-565Abstract

‘What things mean in our daily lives’: a history of museum curating and visiting in the Science Museum’s Children’s Gallery from c. 1929 to 1969

Research Articles KRISTIAN H. NIELSEN, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 505-538Abstract

On the boredom of science: positional astronomy in the nineteenth century

Research Articles KEVIN DONNELLY, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 479-503Abstract

Unrolling Egyptian mummies in nineteenth-century Britain

Research Articles GABRIEL MOSHENSKA, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 451-477Abstract

Gate-keeping and localizing in scientific translation publishing: the case of Richard Taylor and Scientific Memoirs

Research Articles MAEVE OLOHAN, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 433-450Abstract

A sixteenth-century Neoplatonic synthesis: Francesco Piccolomini’s theory of mathematics and imagination in the Academicae contemplationes

Research Articles GUY CLAESSENS, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 421-431Abstract

‘We want no authors’: William Nicholson and the contested role of the scientific journal in Britain, 1797–1813

Research Articles IAIN P. WATTS, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 397-419Abstract