Annals of Science, Volume 77, Issue 3 (2020)

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A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
Mordechai Feingold & Andrej Svorenčík
Pages: 253-348
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Charles Darwin did not mislead Joseph Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst von Baer
Joachim L. Dagg & J. F. Derry
Pages: 349-365
Published online: 05 Aug 2020
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Essay Reviews

Science, industry, and the German Bildungsbürgertum
Ursula Klein
Pages: 366-376
Published online: 18 May 2020
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What is technology?
Technology: critical history of a concept, by Eric Schatzberg, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 352 pp., $27.45 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-226-58383-9
Jon Agar
Pages: 377-382
Published online: 11 Oct 2019
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Weighing light and pondering historiographies
No shadow of a doubt. The 1919 eclipse that confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, by Daniel Kennefick, Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, 403 pp., $ 29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-18386-2Einstein’s war. How relativity conquered nationalism and shook the world, by Matthew Stanley, New York, Dutton, 2019, 400 pp., $ 28 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-525-95415-7.Proving Einstein right: the daring expeditions that changed how we look at the Universe, by S. James Gates Jr. & Cathie Pelletier, New York, Public Affairs, 2019, 345 pp., $ 30 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-549-10133-5.
Klaus Hentschel
Pages: 383-387
Published online: 03 Jan 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Knowledge in translation: global patterns of scientific exchange, 1000–1800 CE
edited by P. Manning and A. Owen, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, 437 pp., 44 plts, $55.00, ISBN 9780822945376
Bettina Dietz
Pages: 388-389
Published online: 27 Sep 2019
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From influence to inhabitation: the transformation of astrobiology in the early modern period
by J. E. Christie, Cham, Springer, 2019, x + 215 pp., €85,59 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-22168-3/€67,40 (eBook)
David Dunér
Pages: 389-392
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
by S. Werrett, Chicago, IL and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 304 pp., 22 halftones, $45.00 (Hardback); £34.00, ISBN 978-0-226-61025-2
Alexi Baker
Pages: 392-394
Published online: 27 Sep 2019
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Germany’s ancient pasts: archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700
by B. Maner, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 336 pp., 8 halftones. Paper $40.00; cloth $120; e-book $10.00 to $40.00, ISBN 978-0-226-59291-7 (cloth); 978-0-226-59307-4 (paper); 9780226593104 (ebook)
Bonnie Effros
Pages: 394-397
Published online: 05 Sep 2019
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