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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2012 Contents


Volume 50 Part 1, Number 166, March 2012

Galileo’s Abandoned Project on Acoustic Instruments at the Medici Courtfessional Identity
Matteo Valleriani
1–31



An Angel’s View of Heaven: The Mystical Heliocentricity of Medieval Geocentric Cosmology
Keith Hutchison
33–74


“Give Me a Telescope and I Shall Move the Earth”: Hooke’s Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations Frédérique Aït-Touati 75–91

The Portugese Popularizer of Science Teodoro de Almeida: Agendas, Publics, and Bilingualism José Alberto Silva 93–122

Notes on Contributors   123

Volume 50 Part 2, Number 167, June 2012    
The Shifting Ground of Nature: Establishing an Organ of Scientific Communication in Britain, 1869–1900 Melinda Baldwin 125–154

An Interim Report on a Census of Galileo’s Sunspot Letters Thomas F. Mayer 155–196

Historiography of Not-so-recent Science Peter Dear 197–211

Testing Power and Trust: The Steam Indicator, the ‘Reynolds Controversy’, and the Relations of Engineering Science and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain David Philip Miller 212–250

Notes on Contributors   250

Volume 50 Part 3, Number 168, September 2012    
Cross-National Education and theMaking ofScience, Technology and Medicine
Guest Editor: Josep Simon
   
Cross-National Education and the Making of Science, Technology and Medicine
Josep Simon
251–256

Swedish in Name Only: The International Education of Nineteenth–Century Swedish Medical Students and Practitioners Stephan Curtis 257–288

Cross-National Odyssey of a Chemist: Edward Divers at London, Galway and Tokyo Yoshiyuki Kikuchi 289–314


The Polytechnic Comes to America: How French Approaches to Science Instruction Influenced Mid-Nineteenth Century American Higher Education A. J. Angulo 315–338


Secondary Matters: Textbooks and the Making of Physics in Nineteenth-Century France and England Josep Simon 339–374

Notes on Contributors   375

Volume 50 Part 4, Number 169, December 2012

Leibniz on Natural History and National History
Justin E. H. Smith
377–401


Otto Neugebauer, Historian
Roshdi Rashed and Lewis Pyenson
402–431


Darwinian Disease Archaeology: Genomic Variants and the Eugenic Debate
Dorothy Porter
432–452


On Being an Animal, or, the Eighteenth-Century Zoophyte Controversy in Britain
Susannah Gibson
453–476


Senses of Localism
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
477–500


Notes on Contributors

501


Index

502


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