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The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02

This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature. There are four issues a year, comprising an annual volume of over 600 pages.

‘To mend the scheme of Providence’: Benjamin Franklin's electrical heterodoxy

Research Articles
C.R.C. BAXFIELD,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 179-197

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Fostering a new industry in the Industrial Revolution: Boulton & Watt and gaslight 1800–1812

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LESLIE TOMORY,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 199-229

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Secularism and the cultures of nineteenth-century scientific naturalism

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MICHAEL RECTENWALD,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 231-254

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Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885–1955

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MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, HEIKE JÖNS,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 255-286

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

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

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Life, DNA and the model

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

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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 335-340

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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 341-342

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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 342-344

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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).

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

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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 345-347

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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 347-348

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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 349-351

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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 351-352

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Alexander C.T. Geppert (ed.), Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xvii+393. ISBN 978-0-230-23172-6. £70.00 (hardback).

Book Reviews
Jon Agar,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 352-354

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Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War . Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. ix+337. ISBN 978-0-262-51578-8. £20.95 (paperback).

Book Reviews
Jayita Sarkar,
The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 354-355

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Books received

Books Received

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp 357-358

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BJH volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Miscellaneous

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp f1-f2

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BJH volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Miscellaneous

The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 46 Issue 02, pp b1-b6

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