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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2009 Contents
Volume 47, Part 1, Number 155, March 2009
Editorial: Journals under Threat. A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors
v–viii

“Familiar Demonstrations in Geometry”: French and Italian ­Engineers and Euclid in the Sixteenth Century Pascal Brioist
1–26

Science, England’s ‘Interest’ and Universal Monarchy: The Making of Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society John Morgan

27–54


Thinking about ‘Presentism’ from a Historian’s Perspective: Herbert Butterfield and Hélène Metzger Oscar Moro-Abadía 55–77
Voluntarist Theology at the Origins of Modern Science: A Response to Peter Harrison John Henry 79–113
Notices of Books 114–115
Notes on Contributors 122
Volume 47, Part 2, Number 156, June 2009
Test Objects for Microscopes Jutta Schickore 117–145
From Naples to Goa and Back: A Secretive Galilean Messenger and a Radical Hermeneutist Avner Ben-Zaken 147–174
The Analytic Spirit and the Paris Institution for the Deaf-Mutes, 1760–1830 Christine Aicardi 175–221
Voluntarism and the Origins of Modern Science: A Reply to John Henry Peter Harrison 223–231
Notices of Books 233–241
Notes on Contributors 242
Volume 47, Part 3, Number 157, Sept 2009
Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica Simon Schaffer 243–276

Islamic Atomism and the Galenic Tradition Y. Tzvi Langermann 277–295

Science on Stage: Amusing Physics and Scientific Wonder at the Nineteenth-century French Theatre Sofie Lachapelle 297–315
Clavius, Proclus, and the Limits of Interpretation:
Snapshot-idealization versus Projectionism
Guy Claessens 317–336
The History of Human Origins Research and its Place in the History of Science: Research Problems and Historiography Matthew R. Goodrum 337–357
ESSAY REVIEW
Science: A Four Thousand Year History, by Patricia Fara
Iwan Rhys Morus 359–366
Inventing the Indigenous, by Alix Cooper
Emma Spary 369–370
Notices of Books 367
Notes on Contributors 368
Volume 47, Part 4, Number 158, Dec 2009
DARWIN SPECIAL ISSUE
Editorial Iwan Rhys Morus 369–371
Charles Darwin Solves the “Riddle of the Flower”; or, Why Don’t Historians of Biology Know about the Birds and the Bees? Richard Bellon 373–406
Darwinian Struggles: But Is There Progress? Michael Ruse 407–430
The Eclipse of Pseudo-Darwinism? Reflections on Some Recent Developments in Darwin Studies Peter J. Bowler 431–443
The Undead Darwin: Iconic Narrative, Scientific Controversy and the History of Science Amanda Rees 445–457
Darwin Online and the Evolution of the Darwin Industry John van Wyhe 459–473
ESSAY REVIEWS
Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822–1859 (Anniversary edition), edited by F. Burkhardt, and other works by Charles Darwin
Jim Endersby 475–484
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution, and Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, by Martin J. S. Rudwick Adelene Buckland 485–492
Notes on Contributors 493
Index to Volume 494

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