Archiv für April 2015

Milena Wazeck, Einstein’s Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s . Translated by Geoffrey S. Koby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-01744-3. £65.00/$99.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Jaume Navarro, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 375-377Abstract

Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Einstein . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 562. ISBN 978-0-521-82834-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Rawaa Mahmoud Hussain, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 374-375Abstract

Douglas A. Lorimer, Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870–1914 . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 344. ISBN 978-0-7190-3357-5. £80.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Efram Sera-Shriar, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 373-374Abstract

P.J. Capelotti, Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer . Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013. Pp. xxix + 269. ISBN 978-1-55238-705-4. US$41.95 (paperback).

Book Reviews Peder Roberts, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 371-372Abstract

Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds.), Evolution and Victorian Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 320. ISBN 978-1-107-02842-5. £60.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Gowan Dawson, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 370-371Abstract

James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 (hardback).

Book Reviews David Knight, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 368-370Abstract

Margaret C. Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 978-1-107-61983-8. £19.99 (paperback)

Book Reviews Thomas Palmelund Johansen, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 367-368Abstract

Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 466. ISBN 978-0-231-14766-8. £34.50 (hardback); 978-0-231-51952-6. £34.50 (e-book). Robert J. Mayhew, Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet . Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press, 2014. Pp. 284. ISBN 978-0-674-72871-4. £20.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Chris Renwick, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 365-367Abstract

William J. Turkel, Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 287. ISBN 978-1-4214-0981-8. £22.50 (hardback).

Book Reviews James F. Stark, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 364-365Abstract

Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World . London: Oneworld, 2014. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-1-78074-532-9. £20.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Michael J. Barany, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48 Issue 02, pp 362-364Abstract