Annals of Science, Volume 69, Issue 4 (2012)

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Annals of Science, Volume 69, Issue 4 (2012)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial
Rob Iliffe & Trevor Levere
Page: 451
Published online: 21 Nov 2012
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Original Articles

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Measurement in French Experimental Physics from Regnault to Lippmann. Rhetoric and Theoretical Practice
Daniel Jon Mitchell
Pages: 453-482
Published online: 21 Nov 2012
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Printing Galileo's Discorsi: A Collaborative Affair
Renée J. Raphael
Pages: 483-513
Published online: 09 Mar 2012
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The Instrument That Never Was: Inventing, Manufacturing, and Branding Réaumur's Thermometer During the Enlightenment
Jean-François Gauvin
Pages: 515-549
Published online: 03 Jan 2012
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Contribution and Co-production: The Collaborative Culture of Linnaean Botany
Bettina Dietz
Pages: 551-569
Published online: 10 May 2012
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Essay Review: Library of a Polymath

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Conrad Gessner's Private Library
Brian Vickers
Pages: 571-574
Published online: 08 Mar 2012
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Book Reviews: Philosophical Aspects of Science

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The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms
Karim Bschir
Pages: 575-577
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Life Sciences

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Modern Nature. The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
Ayako Sakuri
Pages: 577-579
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: History of Chemistry and Alchemy

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The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800
Victor D. Boantza
Pages: 579-581
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science
David Philip Miller
Pages: 581-584
Published online: 28 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: The Nineteenth Century

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Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences/Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences
Frank A.J.L. James
Pages: 584-586
Published online: 10 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: Editions and Selections

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Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius or Sidereal Message
Paolo Palmieri
Pages: 586-587
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Biographies

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Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin
Tom Quick
Pages: 587-588
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Reviews: Institutions: Education, Libraries, Museums

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Æemula lauri: The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 1760–2010
Christer Nordlund
Pages: 589-590
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Technology and Engineering

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Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918–1939
David F. Channell
Pages: 591-592
Published online: 19 Jan 2011
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Miscellany

Correction
Corrigendum: Einstein's Quest for Unity
Page: 593
Published online: 21 Nov 2012
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Online Cover Figure
Page: e1
Published online: 21 Nov 2012
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