Archiv für Juni 2016

A capital Scot: microscopes and museums in Robert E. Grant’s zoology (1815–1840)

Research Articles TOM QUICK, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 173-204Abstract

Janet Vertesi, Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-15596-8. $35.00/£24.50 (hardback).

Book Reviews Robert W. Smith, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 322-323Abstract

Olivier Darrigol, Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 400. ISBN 978-0-19-871288-6. £39.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Kanta Dihal, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 321-322Abstract

Stephen G. Brush, Making 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 552. ISBN 978-0-19-997815-1. £25.99 (hardback).

Book Reviews Jaume Navarro, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 320-321Abstract

Doogab Yi, The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN: 978-0-2261-4383-5. $40.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews Neeraja Sankaran, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 318-320Abstract

Scott H. Podolsky, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-4214-1593-2. $34.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Daniele Cozzoli, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 317-318Abstract

Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts (eds.), The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 978-1-137-43872-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Kristine C. Harper, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 315-317Abstract

Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 350. ISBN 978-0-674-73682-5. £33.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Simone Turchetti, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 314-315Abstract

Kathryn Steen, The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910–1930 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 403. ISBN 978-1-4696-1290-4. £32.50 (paperback).

Book Reviews Peter Reed, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 312-314Abstract

Edward Juler, Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 239. ISBN 978-0-7190-9032-4. £75.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Boris Jardine, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 49 Issue 02, pp 311-312Abstract