Annals of Science, Volume 77, Issue 4 (2020)

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History of ‘temperature’: maturation of a measurement concept
John P. McCaskey
Pages: 399-444
Published online: 27 Sep 2020
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Francis Bacon, José de Acosta, and Traditions of Natural Histories of Winds
Craig Martin
Pages: 445-468
Published online: 03 Sep 2020
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‘Ghosts from other planets’: plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758)
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
Pages: 469-494
Published online: 20 Sep 2020
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Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind
Henry-James Meiring
Pages: 495-523
Published online: 08 Oct 2020
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The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution
Ian Hesketh
Pages: 524-548
Published online: 26 Aug 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature’s ‘secret fire’
by William R. Newman, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, xx + 537 pp., 10 colour + 40 black & white plts, $39.95 (hardcover); £34.00, ISBN 978-0-691-17487-7
John Henry
Pages: 549-552
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Constructing quantum mechanics, volume 1: the Scaffold 1900-1923
by A. Duncan and M. Janssen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xvi + 487 pp., 26 plts., £65.00 (Hardback); $85.00, ISBN 978-0-19-884547-8
Helge Kragh
Pages: 552-554
Published online: 17 Oct 2020
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Announcement

Announcement
Winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize for 2019
Jed Z. Buchwald (Co-Editor) & Mordechai Feingold (Co-Editor)
Page: 555
Published online: 07 Dec 2020
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