Annals of Science, Volume 69, Issue 1 (2012)

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Animal Experiments, Vital Forces and Courtrooms: Mateu Orfila, François Magendie and the Study of Poisons in Nineteenth-century France
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
Pages: 1-26
Published online: 17 Jan 2012
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The Prussian Mining Official Alexander von Humboldt
Ursula Klein
Pages: 27-68
Published online: 28 Oct 2011
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Pauling's Defence of Bent-Equivalent Bonds: A View of Evolving Explanatory Demands in Modern Chemistry
Julia R. Bursten
Pages: 69-90
Published online: 20 Oct 2011
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Christian Huygens’ Lost and Forgotten Pamphlet of his Pendulum Invention
Sebastian Whitestone
Pages: 91-104
Published online: 17 Jan 2012
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L'Ensei kanshō zusetsu (1823) de Yoshio Nankō: une fenêtre sur la science classique
Gabriel Thirion
Pages: 105-126
Published online: 17 Jan 2012
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Essay Review

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Case Studies, Controversy and the ‘Fieldworker's Regress’
William Kimler
Pages: 127-132
Published online: 12 Oct 2010
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Book Review: Medicine and Health

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The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmid
Charles Burnett
Pages: 133-135
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Book Review: Life Sciences

Book Review
Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics and Culture 1500–1870
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
Pages: 136-137
Published online: 14 Oct 2011
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Marking the Mind: A History of Memory
Stephen Jacyna
Pages: 138-139
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Book Review: Astronomy and Cosmology, Space and Time

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Les Alchandreana Primitifs: Études sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d'origine arabe (Xe siècle)
Charles Burnett
Pages: 139-141
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Book Review: Mathematics and Logic

Book Review
Of the Human Heart. A Biography of Benjamin Peirce
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Pages: 141-142
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Book Review: History of Chemistry and Alchemy

Book Review
Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567–1625)
Victor D. Boantza
Pages: 142-145
Published online: 04 Oct 2011
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Book Review: Editions and Selections

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Oeuvres complètes
Jeff Loveland
Pages: 145-149
Published online: 11 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Technology and Engineering

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Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison
Mark Finlay
Pages: 149-152
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Miscellany

Online Cover
Page: e1
Published online: 17 Jan 2012
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