Archiv für Mai 2013

Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930 . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. x+230. ISBN 978-0-7486-3965-6. £70.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Ahren Lester, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 351-352Abstract

Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe (eds.), Charles Darwin’s Notebooks from the Voyage of the ‘Beagle’ . Foreword by Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxiv+615. ISBN 978-0-521-51757-7. £104.00 (hardback). John van Wyhe (ed.), Charles Darwin’s Shorter Publications 1829–1883 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord. Pp. xxvi+529. ISBN 978-0-521-88809-7. £97.00 (hardback). Edmund Russell, Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth . Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxii+216. ISBN 978-0-521-74509-3. £16.99 (paperback).

Book Reviews Gregory Radick, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 349-351Abstract

Geoffrey Cantor, Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+226. ISBN: 978-0-19-959667-6. £70.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Roy MacLeod, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 347-348Abstract

Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization . Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+528. ISBN 978-0-691-15478-7. £34.95 (hardback).

Book Reviews Allison Ksiazkiewicz, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 345-347Abstract

Benjamin Wardhaugh (ed.), The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012. Pp. vi+187. ISBN 978-3-0343-0708-6. £32.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews Michael J. Barany, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 344-345Abstract

Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+331. ISBN 978-0-226-46529-6. $45.00/£29.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Florike Egmond, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 342-344Abstract

Muzaffar Iqbal (ed.), New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science . Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives, vol. 3. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xxiv+546. ISBN 978-0-75462-2914-6. £140.00 (hardback). Muzaffar Iqbal (ed.), Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion . Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives, vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xxiii+552. ISBN 978-0-75462-2916-0. £140.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews Charles Burnett, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 341-342Abstract

In a different vein? Scientific development in the Greek Orthodox East

Review Articles Vasilios N. Makrides, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 335-340Abstract

Life, DNA and the model

Research Articles ROBERT BUD, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 311-334Abstract

V.I. Vernadskii and the development of biogeochemical understandings of the biosphere, c. 1880s–1968

Research Articles JONATHAN D. OLDFIELD, DENIS J.B. SHAW, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 287-310Abstract