Annals of Science, Volume 71, Issue 1 (2014)

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Editorial

Editorial
A new editorial team
Trevor H. Levere
Page: 1
Published online: 12 Dec 2013
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Swedenborg's Lunars
Simon Schaffer
Pages: 2-26
Published online: 08 Jun 2013
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From William Hyde Wollaston to Alexander von Humboldt - Star Spectra and Celestial Landscape
Jürgen Teichmann & Arthur Stinner
Pages: 27-60
Published online: 13 Feb 2013
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Science and the arts in William Henry's research into inflammable air during the Early Nineteenth Century
Leslie Tomory
Pages: 61-81
Published online: 17 Jun 2013
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Brokering Instruments in Napoleon's Europe: The Italian Journeys of Franz Xaver von Zach (1807–1814)
Ivano Dal Prete
Pages: 82-101
Published online: 10 Sep 2013
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Book Reviews: Scientific Revolution

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How Modern Science Came into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough
Stephen Gaukroger
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 31 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: Mathematics and Logic

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La via delle acque (1500–1700). Appropriazione delle arti e trasformazione delle matematiche
Steffen Ducheyne
Pages: 104-105
Published online: 20 Jan 2012
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Book Reviews: Life Sciences

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Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection
Richard Barnett
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 31 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: Physical Sciences

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Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India
Somaditya Banerjee
Pages: 107-110
Published online: 02 Dec 2011
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Book Reviews: Medieval Science

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Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis
Charles Burnett
Pages: 110-111
Published online: 23 Jan 2012
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Questiones super geometriam Euclidis
Charles Burnett
Pages: 111-113
Published online: 20 Jan 2012
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Book Reviews: Medicine and Health

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Managing the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880–1939
Lesley A. Hall
Pages: 113-116
Published online: 03 Nov 2011
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War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793-1830
Michael Moss
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 27 Mar 2012
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Book Reviews: Biography

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Nature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt
Andreas W. Daum
Pages: 118-121
Published online: 31 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: History of Chemistry and Alchemy

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Image and Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination
Jeffrey Allan Johnson
Pages: 121-123
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Book Reviews: Astronomy and Cosmology, Space and Time

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Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
Henry Folse
Pages: 123-127
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Book Reviews: The Enlightenment

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Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Englightenment. British and Global Contexts
Isabelle Charmantier
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 03 Nov 2011
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Book Reviews: Philosophical Aspects of Science

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Cosmopolitics I
Karim Bschir
Pages: 129-132
Published online: 17 Nov 2011
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Book Reviews: Institutions: Education, Libraries, Museums

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Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum
Liba Taub
Pages: 132-135
Published online: 03 Nov 2011
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Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Bestandaufnahme
Mark Walker
Pages: 135-138
Published online: 28 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: Renaissance and Reformation

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Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Pages: 138-140
Published online: 31 Oct 2011
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Between Raphael and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
J. L. Heilbron
Pages: 140-142
Published online: 26 Jun 2012
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Book Reviews: Social Sciences

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Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853--1931
Michael R. Lynn
Pages: 142-144
Published online: 28 Oct 2011
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Book Reviews: Historiography of Science

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Wrestling with Nature. From Omens to Science
Karim Bschir
Pages: 144-147
Published online: 16 Apr 2012
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Miscellany

Online cover 71:1
Page: e1
Published online: 12 Dec 2013
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