Annals of Science, Volume 66, Issue 2 (2009)

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The Solar Element: A Reconsideration of Helium's Early History
Helge Kragh
Pages: 157-182
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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The Transformation of Aristotle's Mechanical Questions: A Bridge Between the Italian Renaissance Architects and Galileo's First New Science
Matteo Valleriani
Pages: 183-208
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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The Accuracy and Use of Sextants and Watches in Rupert's Land in the 1790s
Peter Broughton
Pages: 209-229
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Peirescs Nebel im Sternbild Orion—eine neue Textgrundlage für die Geschichte von M42
Harald Siebert
Pages: 231-246
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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The French Academy of Sciences As a Patron of the Medical Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century
Maurice Crosland
Pages: 247-265
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Essay Review

Review Article
A Tulip for a Cup of Tea? Commerce and Nature in the Dutch Golden Age
Pages: 267-276
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Education, Libraries, Museums

Book Review
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge
David Pantalony
Pages: 277-279
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Scientific Revolution

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Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century
Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati
Pages: 279-281
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
A. Goddu
Pages: 281-284
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210–1685
L. Daston
Pages: 284-288
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Social Aspects of Science

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Science and the Building of a New Japan
Akihito Suzuki
Pages: 288-290
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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History of Chemistry and Alchemy

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Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700–c. 1870
Hanna E. H. Martinsen
Pages: 290-292
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Earth Sciences

Book Review
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Anita Guerrini
Pages: 292-294
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Astrology and Occult

Book Review
The Secret History of Hermes: Hermeticism from Ancient Times to Modern Times
Steffen Ducheyne
Pages: 294-295
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Medicine and Health

Book Review
Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy
Martin Edwards
Pages: 295-297
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Medieval Science

Book Review
Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance
John M. Steele
Pages: 297-299
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Philosophical Aspects of Science

Book Review
Scientific Pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. XIX.
M. Emrah Aktunç
Pages: 299-302
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Life Sciences

Book Review
On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse
Tom Quick
Pages: 302-304
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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Miscellany

Corrigendum
Page: 305
Published online: 27 Apr 2009
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