Archiv für März 2016

Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 342. ISBN 978-0-8223-5744-5. £17.99 (paperback)

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Alexander von Lünen,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 144-146

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Jiri Hudecek, Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics, History and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun . New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 978-0-4157-0296-6. £90.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 143-144Abstract

Roman Duda, Pearls from a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics . Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 231. ISBN 978-1-4704-1076-6. £28.50 (hardback).

Book Reviews Christopher Hollings, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 141-143Abstract

Christopher Hollings, Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups . Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2014. Pp. xi + 441. ISBN 978-1-4704-1493-1. £79.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Michael J. Barany, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 140-141Abstract

Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 397. ISBN 978-0-2260-9216-4. £31.50 (hardback). Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politics–Patronage–Social Science Nexus in Cold War America . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 253. ISBN 978-0-8135-5465-5. £39.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Alice White, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 138-140Abstract

Ulf Schmidt, Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxi + 637. ISBN 978-0-1992-9979-9. £25.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Alex Mankoo, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 136-138Abstract

Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military–Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain . Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 305. ISBN 978-0-6747-2526-3. £30.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Daniel Volmar, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 135-136Abstract

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-2262-3584-4. £24.50, $35.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Patricia Fara, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 134-135Abstract

Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor (eds.), Herbert Spencer: Legacies . Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 284. ISBN 978-1-84465-4. £65.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Gowan Dawson, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 132-133Abstract

Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.), Creationism in Europe . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978-1-4214-1562-8. £26.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews John Hedley Brooke, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 01, pp 131-132Abstract