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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2005 Contents
Volume 43, Part 1, Number 139, March 2005
Ernst Mayer, Karl Jordan, and the History of Systematics
Kristin Johnson
1–35

Keeping It Secret: The Identity and Status of an Early-Modern Inventor
Marika Keblusek
37–56

Botany and Provincial Enlightenment in Montpellier: Antoine Banal Père and Fils 1750–1800
James Livesey

57–76


Post-Galilean Thought and Experiment in Seventeenth-century Italy: The Life and Work of Vincenzio Viviani
Luciano Boschiero

77–100

ESSAY REVIEW
The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity, by Ralph Bauer
James Delbourgo

101–107


Notices of Books
107
Notes on Contributors
108
Volume 43, Part 2, Number 140, June 2005
SPECIAL ISSUE: TWO CULTURES?
Introduction: Historicizing the Two Cultures Theodore M. Porter 109–114
Ministers of Culture: Arnold, Huxley and Liberal Anglican Reform of Learning Paul White 115–138
Reluctant Technocrats: Science Promotion in the Neglect-of-Science Debate of 1916–1918
Anna-K. Mayer 139–159
F. R. Leavis, Science, and the Abiding Crisis of Modern Civilization Guy Ortolano 161–185
C. P. Snow as Anti-historian of British Science: Revisiting the ­Technocractic Moment, 1959–1964
David Edgerton 187–208
Notices of Books 209–215
Notes on Contributors 216
Volume 43, Part 3, Number 141, September 2005
Newton’s Training in the Aristotelian Textbook Tradition: From Effects to Causes and Back
Steffen Ducheyne 217–237
Visual Standards and Disciplinary Change: Normal Plates, Tables and Stages in Embryology Nick Hopwood 239–303
Unfinished Business: William Herschel’s Sweeps for Nebulae Michael Hoskin 305–320
The Celestial Streams of Giulio Camillo Kate Robinson 321–341
Notes on Contributors 342
Volume 43, Part 4, Number 142, December 2005
Galileo’s Construction of Idealized Fall in the Void
Paolo Palmieri 343–389
The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law: (1) Metaphysical Images and Mathematical Practices Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris 391–414
Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics: Beyond the Wynne Thesis Richard Noakes 415–455
ESSAY REVIEW
The Instauratio Magna, Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts, edited by Graham Rees
Ian G. Stewart 457–466
Notes on Contributors 467
Index to Volume 43 468

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