Annals of Science, Volume 68, Issue 2 (2011)

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Original Articles

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Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Hermann von Helmholtz's Musical Practices, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata
A. E. Hui
Pages: 149-177
Published online: 15 Dec 2010
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Chemical Translation: The Case of Robert Boyle's Experiments on Sensible Qualities
Kleber Cecon
Pages: 179-198
Published online: 02 Aug 2010
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Stanisław Staszic: An Early Surveyor of the Geology of Central and Eastern Europe
Algimantas Grigelis, Zbigniew Wójcik, Wojciech Narębski, Leonora Živilė Gelumbauskaitė & Jan Kozák
Pages: 199-228
Published online: 04 Apr 2011
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The Price of Success: Sociologist Harry Alpert, the NSF's First Social Science Policy Architect
Mark Solovey & Jefferson D. Pooley
Pages: 229-260
Published online: 03 Dec 2010
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Essay Reviews

Review Article
How Relativity Got Accepted and How Einstein Came to be Regarded as its Author
Robert Deltete
Pages: 261-265
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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The Myriad Pieces of Einstein's Remains
Alberto A. Martínez
Pages: 267-280
Published online: 09 Jul 2010
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Book Reviews: Mathematics and Logic

Book Review
6000 Jahre Mathematik. Eine kulturgeschichtliche Zeitreise
I. Grattan-Guinness
Pages: 281-282
Published online: 29 Jul 2010
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Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
Menso Folkerts
Pages: 282-284
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Biographies

Book Review
William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science
Richard H. Beyler
Pages: 284-286
Published online: 29 Jul 2010
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Book Reviews: Natural History

Book Review
Picturing Animals in Britain 1750–1850
Harriet Ritvo
Pages: 286-288
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Editions and Selections

Book Review
H.G. Wells in Nature. A Reception Reader
Richard Barnett
Pages: 288-290
Published online: 04 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Social Aspects of Science

Book Review
The Poet as Botanist
Barry Milligan
Pages: 290-291
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Technology and Engineering

Book Review
The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialization
Sven Dupré
Pages: 291-294
Published online: 11 Jan 2011
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Miscellany

Front Cover page
Page: e1
Published online: 04 Apr 2011
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