Archiv für April 2013

BJH volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Miscellaneous The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp f1-f2Abstract

Books received

Books Received The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 175-177Abstract

Simone Turchetti, The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. iv+292. ISBN 978-0-226-81664-7. £29.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Neil Calver, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 173-174Abstract

Ray Monk, Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer . London: Jonathan Cape. 2012. Pp. xiv+818. ISBN 978-0-224-06262-6. £30.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Martin Underwood, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 172-173Abstract

Frank Uekötter, Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld: Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. Pp. 524. ISBN 978-3-5253-1705-1. €49.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Thomas P. Weber, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 170-172Abstract

Yves Bouvier, Robert Fox, Pascal Griset and Anna Guagnini (eds.), De l’atelier au laboratoire: Recherche et innovation dans l’industrie électrique XIXe–XXe siècles/From Workshop to Laboratory: Research and Innovation in Electric Industry 19th–20th Centuries . Brussels: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 141. ISBN 978-90-5201-656-6. £22.40 (paperback).

Book Reviews Josep Simon, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 169-170Abstract

Frank A.J.L. James, Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+162. ISBN 978-0-19-957431-5. £7.99 (paperback). Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), Michael Faraday. The Chemical History of a Candle . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xlviii+152. ISBN 978-0-19-969491-4. £14.99 (hardback).

Book Reviews Iwan Rhys Morus, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 168-169Abstract

Claudine Cohen, La méthode du Zadig: La trace, le fossile, la preuve . Paris: Editions de Seuil, 2011. Pp. 342. ISBN 978-2-02040-298-9. €23.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Chris Manias, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 166-168Abstract

Gregory Lynall, Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690–1730 . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. ix+209. ISBN 978-0-230-34364-1. £50.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Patricia Fara, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 165-166Abstract

Jeremiah Horrocks and Wilbur Applebaum (trans.), Venus Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks . Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxiv+82. ISBN 978-90-04-22193-2. €99.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Rebekah Higgitt, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 01, pp 164-165Abstract