Annals of Science, Volume 71, Issue 4 (2014)

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Knut Lundmark, Meteors and an Early Swedish Crowdsourcing Experiment
Johan Kärnfelt
Pages: 449-473
Published online: 16 Aug 2013
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In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping: Liverpool and Victorian Electrical Horology
Yuto Ishibashi
Pages: 474-496
Published online: 26 Mar 2014
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Spanish Jesuits in the Philippines: Geophysical Research and Synergies between Science, Education and Trade, 1865–1898
Aitor Anduaga
Pages: 497-521
Published online: 15 Oct 2013
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The ‘Chemistry of Space’: The Sources of Hermann Grassmann's Scientific Achievements
Hans-Joachim Petsche
Pages: 522-576
Published online: 14 Feb 2014
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Book Reviews: Geography

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Sacred Words and Worlds: Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550–1700
Adam Mosley
Pages: 577-579
Published online: 06 Jul 2012
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Book Reviews: Astronomy and Cosmology

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From Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and Networks
Barbara J. Becker
Pages: 579-581
Published online: 13 Aug 2012
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Book Reviews: Scientific Revolution

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Regimens of the Mind. Boyle, Locke and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
Vivian Nutton
Pages: 581-583
Published online: 24 Sep 2012
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Fictions of the Cosmos. Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Jacqueline Wernimont
Pages: 583-585
Published online: 05 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews: The Enlightenment

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The Sciences of the Soul: the Early Modern Origins of Psychology
L.S. Jacyna
Pages: 585-586
Published online: 24 Sep 2012
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Book Reviews: Physical Sciences

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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Klaus Hentschel
Pages: 586-588
Published online: 05 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews: The Nineteenth Century

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Vision, Science and Literature, 1870–1920: Ocular Horizons
James Strick
Pages: 588-590
Published online: 30 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews: Biography

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Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal
Craig Fraser
Pages: 590-592
Published online: 30 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews: Medicine and Health

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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder / Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970
Carole Reeves
Pages: 592-595
Published online: 30 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews: Mathematics and Logic

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The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
Pages: 595-597
Published online: 27 Feb 2013
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: eb1
Published online: 08 Oct 2014
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