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British Journal for the History of Science 42(1), March 2009

Contents

Editorial: Journals under threat: a joint response from history of science, technology and medicine editors

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 1-4

DAVID ROONEY and JAMES NYE

‘Greenwich Observatory Time for the public benefit’: standard time and Victorian networks of regulation

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 5-30

RICHARD DUNN

Material culture in the history of science: case studies from the National Maritime Museum

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 31-33

SARAH DRY

Safety networks: fishery barometers and the outsourcing of judgement at the early Meteorological Department

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 35-56

G. W. ROBERTS

Magnetism and chronometers: the research of the Reverend George Fisher

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 57-72

SOPHIA DAVIS

Raising the aerocompass in early twentieth-century Britain

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 73-94

MATTHEW R. GOODRUM and CORA OLSON

The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory: anthropologists, chemists and the fluorine dating method in palaeoanthropology

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 95-114

Books Reviewed

Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-

0684313207. $995.00 (hardback).

Steven Shapin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 116-117

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001915, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Thomas Söderqvist (ed.) The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xv+270. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9. £55.00

(hardback).

Mary Jo Nye

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 117-119

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001927, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+217. ISBN

978-0-8018-8709-3. £33.50 (hardback).

Josipa G. Petruni

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 119-121

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001939, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science. London: Pickering & Chatto,

2007. Pp. ix+286. ISBN 978-1-85196-906-7. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).

Massimo Mazzotti

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 121-122

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001940, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jim Endersby, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp.

x+429. ISBN 978-0-226-2-791-9. £20.50 (hardback).

Gordon McOuat

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 122-124

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001952, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Mark Francis, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv+434. ISBN 978-1-84465-086-6.

£25.00 (hardback).

Chris Renwick

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 124-125

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001964, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN

978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback).

John Hedley Brooke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 125-127

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001976, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xx+413. ISBN 0-226-79845-3.

$37.50, £24.00 (hardback).

Jeff Hughes

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 127-128

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409001988, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson (eds.), An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. BSHS

Monograph Series, Vol. 13. London: British Society for the History of Science, 2007. Pp. ix+407. ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7. £15.00 (paperback).

Ursula Klein

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 128-130

doi: 10.1017/S000708740900199X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Lawrence M. Principe (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science

History Publications/USA, 2007. Pp. xiii+274. ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. $45.00 (hardback).Anna Marie Roos, The Salt of the Earth: Natural

Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650–1750. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xvi+293. ISBN 978-90-04-16176-4. $129.00

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 130-132

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002003, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt (eds.), Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800. Chicago and

London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xi+360. ISBN 978-226-76329-3. $28.00 (paperback).

Penelope Gouk

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 132-133

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002015, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Deborah E. Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+349.

ISBN 978-0-300-11196-5. £19.99 (hardback).

Sophie Weeks

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 133-135

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002027, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Paola Bertucci, Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie. Scienza e curiosità nell'Italia del Settecento. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. Pp. 294. ISBN 978-

88-339-1802-0. €28.00 (paperback).

Paula Findlen

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 135-136

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002039, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago and London: University of Chicago

Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 978-0-226-90405-4. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback).

Jan Golinski

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 137-138

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002040, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-226-

30205-8. $35.00 (hardback).James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic and Deborah R. Coen (eds.), Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes

in the History of Weather and Climate. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Pp. xx+264. ISBN 0-88135-367-1. $39.95

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 138-140

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002052, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Florian Charvolin, André Micoud and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.), Des Sciences citoyennes? La Question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. La

Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2007. Pp. 254. ISBN 9-782752-602305. €20.00.

Oliver Hochadel

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 140-142

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002064, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of

Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 (hardback).

Kristin Johnson

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 142-143

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002076, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jamie Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Pp. x+233.

ISBN 978-1-85196-920-3. £60.00, $99.00 (hardback).

Ellen Clarke

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 143-145

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002088, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Steven French and Décio Krause, Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp.

xv+422. ISBN 0-19-927824-5. £55.00 (hardback).

Kent W. Staley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 145-146

doi: 10.1017/S000708740900209X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Klaus Hentschel, The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists, 1945–1949. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp.

vi+205. ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0. £25.00 (hardback).

Michael D. Gordin

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 147-148

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002106, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Timothy Boon, Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 2008. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978-1-

905674-37-4. £16.99 (paperback).

Charlotte Sleigh

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 148-149

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002118, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. New Brunswick, NJ and London:

Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. ISBN 978-0-8135-4220-1. $49.95 (hardback).

Simone Turchetti

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 149-150

doi: 10.1017/S000708740900212X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Jene M. Porter and Peter W. B. Phillips (eds.), Public Science in Liberal Democracy. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Pp. xii+343. ISBN 978-0-8020-9359-2. £45.00 (hardback).

Diane B. Paul

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 150-152

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002131, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Saul Dubow, A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa 1820–2000. Oxford and New York: Oxford University

Press, 2006. Pp. 296. ISBN 978-0-199-29663-7. £60.00 (hardback).

Simon Pooley

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 152-154

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002143, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Ann Gibbons, The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. ix+303. ISBN 1-4000-7696-X. $14.95

(paperback).

Matthew R. Goodrum

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 154-155

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002155, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009

Books received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 157-159

doi: 10.1017/S0007087409002167, Published online by Cambridge University Press 26 Feb 2009