As of June 2015 The British Journal for the History of Science has moved its list of books received to a page on the journal’s website. We will no longer be printing the list in the journal, but will instead provide a new list online every quarter. An archive of previous lists will also be held on the journal’s website.

The journal is happy to commission reviews from established academics, emeriti, doctoral students, and independent scholars. Prospective reviewers are encouraged to browse the books received list and contact the reviews editor, Dr Don Leggett, with suggestions for books they’d like to review. The reviews editor is also open to suggestions for reviews of books either not on the list, or forthcoming, provided they have been published within the past two calendar years. All enquiries should be directed to [log in to unmask]


Books received for June 2015 issue of the BJHS

Alper Yalçinkaya, M., Learned Patriots. Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-18420-3. $50 (hardback).

Anderson, Warwick, and Mackay, Ian R., Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 250. ISBN 978-1-4214-1533-8. £16.50 (paperback).

Beck, David (ed.), Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-84893-518-1. £60 (hardback).

Beck, Naomi, La Gauche Évolutionniste: Spencer et ses lecteurs en France et en Italie. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-2-84867-478-0. €12 (paperback).

Biow, Douglas, On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 311. ISBN 978-0-8122-4671-1. $55 (hardback).

Brain, Robert, The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-295-99320-1 $50 (hardcover).

Bredekamp, Horst, Vera Dünkel, and Birgit Schneider, (eds.), The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-25884-3. £35/$50 (hardback).

Bridger, Sarah, 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).

Brush, Stephen G., 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).

Burkhardt, Frederick, James A. Secord et al (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol 22, 1874. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 904. ISBN 978-1-107-08872-6. £95.00/$152.00 (hardback).

Burns, William E., The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-19998-933-1. £16.99 (paperback).

Campos, Luis A., Radium and the Secret of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-226-23827-2. $55/£38.50 (hardback).

Churchill, Frederick B., August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 720. ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4. £36.95/$49.95 (hardback).

Conway, Erik M., Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-1-4214-1604-5. $34.95 (hardback).

Coopersmith, Jonathan, Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-4214-1591-8. $54.95 (hardcover).

Crane, Jeff, The Environment in American History: Nature and the Formation of the United States. London: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-415-80871-2. £100.00 (hardback).

Creese, Mary R.S., with Creese, Thomas M., Ladies in the Laboratory IV: Imperial Russia's Women in Science, 1800-1900 - A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Pp. xiii + 173. ISBN 978-1-4422-4741-3. £59.95 (hardback).

De Bont, Raf, Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-14206-7 £28.00/$40.00 (paperback).

Derry, Margaret E., Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN 978-1-4426-2652-2. £18.99 (paperback).

Francis, Mark and Michael W. Taylor (eds.), Herbert Spencer: Legacies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 284. ISBN 978-1-84465-626-4. £65 (hardback).

Gaudillière, Jean-Paul and Ulrike Thoms (eds.), The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-1-84893-559-4. £60 (hardback).

Gillott, David, Samuel Butler against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900. London: Legenda, 2015. Pp. x + 198. ISBN 978-1-909662-25-4. £55 (hardback).

Hanson, Thor, The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-465-05599-9. $26.99/£17.99 (hardback).

Hargittai, István, and Hargittai, Magdolna, Budapest Scientific: A Guidebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 316. ISBN 978-0-19-871907-6. £25 (hardback).

Harrison, Peter, The Territories of Science and Religion. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-18448-7. $30 (hardback).

Hopwood, Nick, Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-04694-5. $45/£31.50 (hardback).

Hunter, Michael, Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91). Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 266. ISBN 978-1-4724-2810-3. £63 (hardcover).

Ingham, Patricia Clare, The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 277. ISBN 978-0-8122-4706-0. £42.50 (hardback).

Israelowich, Ido, Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-1-4214-1628-1. $59.95 (hardcover).

Johnson, Curtis, Darwin’s Dice: The Idea of Chance in the Thought of Charles Darwin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxii + 253. ISBN 978-0-19-936141-0. £19.99 (hardback).

Juler, Edward, Grown But Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-7190-9032-5. £75 (hardback).

Kaji, Masanori, Helge Kragh and Gábor Palló, (eds.), Early Responses to the Periodic System. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp.344. ISBN 978-0-19-020007-7. £22.99 (hardback).

Keene, Melanie, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 227. ISBN 978-0-19-966265-4. £16.99/$24.95 (hardback).

Knoeff, Rina and Robert Zwijnenberg (eds.), The Fate of Anatomical Collections. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 978-1-4094-6815-8. £67.50 (hardback).

Knight, David, Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-0-300-21275-4. £10.99/$25.00 (paperback).

Kölbl-Ebert, Martina, Science, Technology & Culture, 1700-1945. From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective. Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s -1970s. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 402. ISBN 978-1-4724-3886-7. £72 (hardback).

Leggett, Don, Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, c.1830-1906. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 300. ISBN 978-0-7190-9028-8. £80 (hardback).

Lesen, Amy E. (ed.), Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement: Walking a Fine Line. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 166. ISBN 978-1-4724-1524-0. £54 (hardback).

Marshall, Catherine, Bernard Lightman, and Richard England, (eds.), The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880. A Critical Edition. Vols 1-3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 1,288. ISBN 978-0-19-964303-5. £320 (hardback).

McRae, Kenneth D., Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-968718-3. £30 (hardback).

Mayer, Thomas F., The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 354. ISBN 978-0-8122-4655-1. £58.50 (hardback).

Mitchell, Piers D. (ed.), Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 290. ISBN 978-1-4724-4907-8. £63 (hardback).

Morriss, Roger, Science, Utility and Maritime Power: Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779-91. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 292. ISBN 978-1-4724-1267-6. £63 (hardback).

Oldenziel, Ruth and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels. The People Who Shaped Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-230-30801-5. £65 (hardcover).

Oreskes, Naomi and John Krige (eds.), Science & Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-2625-2653-1. £25.95 (paperback).

Podolsky, Scott H., 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).

Ray, Meredith K., Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 291. ISBN 978-0-674-50423-3. £33.95 (hardback).

Roos, Anna Marie (ed. and translated by), The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume 1: 1662-1677. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. 960. ISBN 978-9-0042-2553-4. €255/$330 (hardback).

Schmid, Sonja D., Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-262-02827-1. £26.95 (hardback).

Skaarup, Bjørn Okholm, Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 298. ISBN 978-1-4724-4826-2. £70 (hardback).

Strick, James E., Wilhelm Reich, Biologist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 467. ISBN 978-0-674-73609-2. £29.95 (hardback).

Tan, Kevin Y. L., Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-9971-69-855-3. $40 (hardback).

Usher, Peter D., Shakespeare and Saturn: Accounting for Appearances. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. Pp. xix + 243. ISBN 978-1-4331-2860-8. £54 (hardback).

Vandendriessche, Joris, Evert Peeters, and Kaat Wils (eds.), Scientists' Expertise as Performance: Between State and Society, 1860-1960. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-8489-3527-3. £60 (hardback).

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

Weindling, Paul, Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000. London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 258. ISBN 978-0-415-72700-6. £90 (hardback).

Yi, Doogab, The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-226-14383-5. $40.00 (hardback).

Zarimis, Maria, Darwin's Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s). Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 333. ISBN 978-963-3860-77-9. £38 (hardback).


Books received for March 2015 issue of the BJHS

Ackermann, Silke, Kremer, Richard L., and Miniati, Mara, Scientific Instruments on Display. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xxxiv + 231. ISBN 978-90-04-26439-7. £88 (hardback).

Agassi, Joseph, Popper and His Popular Critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. New York: Springer, 2014. Pp. xx + 158. ISBN 978-3-319-06586-1. £44.99 (paperback).

Archibald, J. David, Aristotle’s Ladder, Darwin’s Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 242. ISBN 978-0-231-16412-2. $60/£41.50 (hardback).

Arthur, Richard T.W., Leibniz. Cambridge: Polity, 2014. Pp. xvi + 231. ISBN 978-0-7456-5374-4. £16.99 (paperback).

Artstein, Zvi, Mathematics and the Real World: The Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of Mathematics. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 426. ISBN 978-1-61614-091-5. $26 (hardback).

Barnes Johnstone, Emma, and Baines, Joanna, The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer: Clinical and Cultural Visions since 1940. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 236. ISBN 978-1-4039-8801-0. £60 (hardback).

Beeley, Philip and Scriba, Christoph J. (eds.), Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume IV (1672-April 1675). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. lv + 595. ISBN 978-0-19-856948-0. £195 (hardback).

Bell, Matthew, Melancholia: The Western Malady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii +210. ISBN 978-1-107-06996-1. £65 (hardback).

Blancke, Stefaan, Hjermitslev, Hans Henrik, and Kjærgaard, Peter C. (eds.), Creationism in Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978-1-4214-1562-8. $39.95/£26 (hardback).

Brezinski, Claude, and Tournès, Dominique, André-Louis Cholesky: Mathematician, Topographer, and Army Officer. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2014. ISBN 978-3-319-08135-9. £67.99 (e-book).

Brusius, Mirjam, Dean, Katrina, and Ramalingam, Chitra (eds.), William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-300-17934-7. £50 (hardback).

Calloway, Katherine, Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution: God’s Scientists. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Pp. ix + 205. ISBN 978-1-84893-464-1. £60 (hardback).

Cantor, Geoffrey, and Dawson, Gowan (eds.), The Correspondence of John Tyndall – Volume 1. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Pp. lxix + 467. ISBN 978-1-84893-409-2. £100 (hardback).

Carruthers, William (ed.), Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xiii + 283. ISBN 978-0-415-84369-0. £85 (hardback).

Chiang, Howard (ed.), Psychiatry and Chinese History. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Pp. xiii + 279. ISBN 978-1-84893-438-2. £60 (hardback).

Cooper, Leon N., Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 246. ISBN 978-1-107-04317-6. £17.99 (hardback).

Danielson, Dennis, ‘Paradise Lost’ and the Cosmological Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii + 220. ISBN 978-1-107-03360-3. £60 (hardback).

Dawes, Laura, Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 305. ISBN 978-0-674-28144-8. £33.95 (hardback).

de Asúa, Miguel, Science in the Vanished Arcadia: Knowledge and Nature in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and Río de la Plata. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xvii + 385. ISBN 978-90-04-25676-7. €140/$192 (hardback).

Dhondt, Peter (ed.), University Jubilees and University History Writing: A Challenging Relationship. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-90-04-21696-9. £79 (hardback).

Drucker, Donna J., The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. ix +244. ISBN 978-0-8229-6303-5. $30 (paperback).

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

Duzdevich, Daniel, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix + 313. ISBN 978-0-253-01170-1. £19.99 (paperback).

Finocchiaro, Maurice A., The Trial of Galileo: Essential Documents. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2014. Pp. xii + 160. ISBN 978-1-62466-132-7. $12/£10 (paperback).

Fors, Hjalmar, The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining and Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 241. ISBN 978-0-226-19499-8. $40/£28 (hardback).

Frederickson, Kathleen, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 218. ISBN 978-0-8232-6252-6. £16.99 (paperback).

Garrison, Daniel H. (ed. and trans.), Vesalius: The China Root Epistle – A New Translation and Critical Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxvii + 263. ISBN 978-1-107-02635-3. £49.50 (hardback).

Granada, Miguel A., Mosley, Adam, and Jardine, Nicholas, Christoph Rothmann’s Discourse on the Comet of 1585: An Edition and Translation with Accompanying Essays. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xx + 376. ISBN 978-90-04-26034-4. £115 (hardback).

Gyatso, Janet, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Pp. xv + 519. ISBN 978-0-231-16496-2. $45/£30.95 (hardback).

Hale, Piers J., Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 442. ISBN 978-0-226-10849-0. $45/£31.50 (hardback).

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

Hamlin, Christopher, More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 383. ISBN 978-1-424-1502-4. £16.50 (paperback).

Havil, Julian, John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 279. ISBN 978-0-691-15570-8. $35/£24.95 (hardback).

Hendriksen, Marieke M.A., Elegant Anatomy: The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xi + 249. ISBN 978-90-04-26278-2. £79 (hardback).

Hentschel, Klaus, Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 496. ISBN 978-0-19-871781-4. £60 (hardback).

Higgitt, Rebekah (ed.), Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal. London: Robert Hale, 2014. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-7198-0912-5. £25 (hardback).

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

Homei, Aya, and Warboys, Michael, Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States, 1850-2000: Mycoses and Modernity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiii + 225. ISBN 978-1-137-39263-3. £15 (paperback).

Hudecek, Jiri, Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics, History and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 978-0-415-70296-6. £90 (hardback).

Janiak, Andrew, Newton. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. 203. ISBN 978-1-405-18728-2. £14.99 (paperback).

Jolivette, Catherine (ed.), British Art in the Nuclear Age. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xv + 275. ISBN 978-1-4724-1276-8. £70 (hardback).

Kennaway, James (ed.), Music and the Nerves, 1700-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii + 236. ISBN 978-1-137-33950-8. £60 (hardback).

Klein, Ursula and Reinhardt, Carsten (eds.), Objects of Chemical Inquiry. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2014. Pp. xvii + 382. ISBN 978-90-04-27496-9. €45/$62 (paperback).

Knight, David, Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 329. ISBN 978-0-300-17379-6. £25 (hardback).

Krämer, Fabian, Ein Zentaur in London: Lektüre und Beobachtung in der frühneuzeitlichen Natursforschung. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2014. Pp. 436. ISBN 978-3-939020-42-4. €39 (hardback).

Kuzmin, Eugene, Alchemical Imagery in the Works of Quirinus Kuhlmann. Wilsonville, OR: Sirius Academic Press, 2013. Pp. 462. ISBN 978-1-940964-01-0. £18 (paperback).

Larsen, Timothy, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-0-19-965787-2. £25 (hardback).

Latham, Rob (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 620. ISBN 978-0-19-983884-4. £97(hardback).

Lipking, Lawrence, What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 314. ISBN 978-0-8014-5297-0. $35/£21.50 (hardback).

Ludmerer, Kenneth M., Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 431. ISBN 978-0-19-974454-1. £22.99 (hardback).

Maas, Ad, and Schatz, Henriëtte (eds.), Physics as a Calling, Science for Society: Studies in Honour of A.J. Kox. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2013. Pp. 227. ISBN 978-90-8728-1984. €27.50/£24.50/$37.50 (paperback).

Marcovich, Anne and Shinn, Terry, Toward a New Dimension: Exploring the Nanoscale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 213. ISBN 978-0-19-871461-3. £35 (hardback).

Margócsy, Dániel, Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 319. ISBN 978-0-226-11774-4. £28 (hardback).

Martin, Paula J., Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xi + 157. ISBN 978-1-4724-1188-4. £65 (hardback).

McDonald, Lynn, Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth. Ontario: Iguana Books, 2014. Pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-77180-055-6. £14.99 (paperback).

Navarro Brotons, Víctor, Disciplinas, Saberes y Prácticas: Filosofía natural, matemáticas y astronomía en la sociedad española de la época moderna . València: Universitat de València, 2014. Pp. 496. ISBN 978-84-370-9446-5. £26.75 (paperback).

Nicolaides, Demetris, In the Light of Science: Our Ancient Quest for Knowledge and the Measure of Modern Physics. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 266. ISBN 978-1-61592-225-3. $19 (paperback).

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel, Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xiii + 433. ISBN 978-90-04-25178-6. €150/$205 (hardback).

Packer, Sharon, Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2015. Pp. ix + 287. ISBN 978-0-7864-7234-5. £31.95 (paperback).

Parsons, Keith, It Started with Copernicus: Vital Questions about Science. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2014. Pp. 429. ISBN 978-1-61614-929-1. $19.95 (paperback).

Persaud, T.V.N., Loukas, Marios, and Tubbs, R. Shane, A History of Human 
Anatomy (2nd edn.). Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 2014. Pp. xiv + 390. ISBN 978-0-398-08104-1. $74.95 (hardback).

Pleins, J. David, In Praise of Darwin: George Romanes and the Evolution of a Darwinian Believer. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xvii +397. ISBN 978-1-62356-594-7. £23.99 (paperback).

Rader, Karen A., and Cain, Victoria E.M., Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science & Natural History in the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 467. ISBN 978-0-226-07966-0. $45/£31.50 (hardback).

Ragep, F. Jamil, and Wallis, Faith (eds.), The Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī: A Facsimile Edition with Critical Essays. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 736. ISBN 978-0-7735-4475-8. £101 (hardback).

Rothenberg, Albert, Flight From Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 221. ISBN 978-0-19-998879-2. £22.99 (hardback).

Rudwick, Martin J.S., Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 360. ISBN 978-0-226-20393-5. $30 (hardback).

Schmidt, Benjamin, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism and Europe’s Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 412. ISBN 978-0-8122-4646-9. $85/£55.50 (hardback).

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