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Books received to March 2009 Achinstein, P. (Ed.). Science rules: A historical introduction to scientific methods. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004, pp. 427, Price US$69.95 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-7943-4, US$29.95 paperback, ISBN 0-8018-7944-2. Applebaum, W. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1800. Routledge, New York & Abingdon, pp. 800, Price $270.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8153-1503-2, $50.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-98846-9. Barad, K. Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 524, Price £75.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-3901-4, £17.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-3917-5. Bertoloni Meli, D. Thinking with objects: The transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006, pp. xii + 389, Price £46.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8426-8, £20.00 paperback, ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. Bird, A. Nature’s metaphysics: Laws and properties. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xiv + 231, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-922701-3. Bohm, D. The special theory of relativity (with preface by J. D. Barrow). Routledge, London, 2006, pp. xxi + 282, Price £9.99 paperback, ISBN 0-415-40425-8. Bordogna, F. William James at the boundaries: Philosophy, science, and the geography of knowledge. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. x + 382, Price $39.00 £25.00 hardback, ISBN 0-22606652-5, ISBN-13 978-0-22-606652-3. Bortolotti, L. An introduction to the philosophy of science. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. xii + 199, Price £50.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-74-563538-5, £14.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-74-563539-2. Brown, H. I. Conceptual systems. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Routledge, London & New York, 2007, Price £85.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-70182-2. Carrier, M., Howard, D., & Kourany, J. (Eds.). The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice: Science and values revisited. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2008, pp. 262, Price $50.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8229-4314-4, ISBN-13 978-0-8229-4317-4. Caruana, L. Science and virtue: An essay on the impact of the scientific mentality on moral character. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 142, Price £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0-46-5562-8. Chakravartty, A. A metaphysics for scientific realism: Knowing the unobservable. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 272, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN-13 9780521876490. Chang, H., & Jackson, C. (Eds.). An element of controversy: The life of chlorine in science, medicine, technology and war (from research by undergraduate students at University College, London). BSHS Monograph, 13. British Society for the History of Science, London, 2007, pp. 407, ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7.
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Coen, D. R. Vienna in the age of uncertainty: Science, liberalism, and private life. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 352, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-11172-5, ISBN-13 978-0226-11172-8. Cohen, D. J. Equations from God: Pure mathematics and Victorian faith. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. x + 242, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8553-1, ISBN-13 978-0-80188553-2. Cooper, A. Inventing the indigenous: Local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xiii + 218, Price £47.00 $84.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0. Creager, A. N. H., Lunbeck, E., & Wise, M. N. (Eds.). Science without laws: Model systems, cases, exemplary narratives. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 287, Price £52.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4046-1, £12.99 paperback, ISBN 9780-8223-4068-3. Crowe, M. J. Mechanics: From Aristotle to Einstein. Green Lion Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2007, pp. 331, Price $17.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-888009-32-3. Cummins, J., & Burchell, D. (Eds.). Science, literature and rhetoric in early modern England. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 256, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-5781-1. Cuomo, S. Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xi + 212, Price £40.00 $80.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-5218-1073-9, £15.99 $29.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-52100903-4. Dear, P. The intelligibility of nature: How science makes sense of the world. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 242, Price $27.50 £17.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-13948-4. Dear, P. The intelligibility of nature: How science makes sense of the world. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 242, Price $17.00 £9.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-13949-4. Debs, T., & Redhead, M. L. G. Objectivity, invariance, and convention: Symmetry in physical science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007, pp. xii + 194, Price £25.95 €34.00 $39.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-02298-0. Denny, M. Blip, ping & buzz: Making sense of radar and sonar technology. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. 274, Price £18.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-8665-2. Dewan, L. St. Thomas and form as something divine in things. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 98, Price $15.00 hardback, ISBN 0-87462-174-7, ISBN-13 978-0-87462-174-7. Dilworth, C. The metaphysics of science: An account of modern science in terms of principles, laws and theories (2nd ed.). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 173. Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, pp. xvi + 333, Price £31.99 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-3838-9.
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Dilworth, C. Scientific progress: A study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories (4th ed.). Synthese Library, 153. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. xviii + 290, Price £96.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6353-4. Dilworth, C. Scientific progress: A study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories (4th ed. corr. 2nd printing). Synthese Library, 153. Springer, Dordrecht, 2008, pp. 290, Price £96.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6353-4. Dummett, M. Thought and reality. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. 109, Price $29.95 hardback, ISBN 0-19-920727-5. Dyson, F. J. A many-colored glass: Reflections on the place of life in the universe. Page-Barbour Lectures. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA, & London, 2007, pp. 162, Price $21.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8139-26. Ekeland, I. The best of all possible worlds: Mathematics and destiny. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 208, Price $25.00 £16.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-19994-0. Foster, J. B., Clark, B., & York, R. Critique of intelligent design: Materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present, Monthly Review Press, NY, 2008, pp. 240, Price $15.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-58367-173-3. Fyfe, A., & Lightman, B. Science in the marketplace: Nineteenthcentury sites and experiences. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 410, Price $45.00 £23.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-27650-3. Galilei, G. The essential Galileo (M. A. Finocchaiaro, Ed. & Trans.). Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis & Cambridge, 2008, pp. 380, Price £24.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-87220-938-1, £7.95 paperback, ISBN 978-0-87220-937-4. Gattei, S. Thomas Kuhn’s ‘linguistic turn’ and the legacy of logical empiricism: Incommensurability, rationality and the search for truth. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. xiv + 277, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-6160-3. Gaukroger, S. The emergence of a scientific culture: Science and the shaping of modernity 1210–1685. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. ix + 562, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 0-19-929644-8. Giere, R. N. Scientific perspectivism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 160, Price $30.00 £19.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-29212-6. Gillies, D. How should research be organised? Individual author and College Publications, London, 2008, pp. xii + 137, Price £12.00 paperback, ISBN 978-1-904987-27-7. Grant, E. A history of natural philosophy: From the ancient world to the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. 361, Price £14.99 $24.99 paperback, ISBN 0-521689570, £40.00 $70.00 hardback, ISBN 0521869315. Grosholz, E. R. Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xviii + 313, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-929973-7. Harmon, J. H., & Gross, A. G. (Eds.). The scientific literature: A guided tour. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2007, pp. 327, Price $72.50 £46.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-31655-6, $29.00 £18.50 paperback, ISBN 0-226-31656-4. Hattiangadi, A. Oughts and thoughts: Rule-following and the normativity of content. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. x + 221, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19921902-5. Herrán, N., Simon, J., Guillem-Llobat, X., et al. Synergia: Primer encuentro de jóvenes investigadores en historia de la ciencia. Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, Madrid, 2007, pp. 447, Price €29.00 paperback, ISBN 978-84-00-08578-0. Horst, S. Beyond reduction: Philosophy of mind and post-reductionist philosophy of science. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 228, Price £29.99 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-531711-4. Jacob, C. The sovereign map: Theoretical approaches in cartography through history (T. Conley, Trans.; E. H. Dahl, Ed.). University
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of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 464, Price $60.00 £38.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-38953-7. Jammer, M. Concepts of simultaneity: From antiquity to Einstein and beyond. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006, pp. x + 308, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8422-5. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. I. Life and times, and values in a world of facts. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 300, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 07546-5375-7. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & and Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. II. Metaphysics and epistemology. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 300, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-75465376-5. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. III. Science. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 312, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7546-5712-4. Jones, M. L. The good life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 336, Price $65.00 £41.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-40954-6, $27.50 £17.50 paperback, ISBN 0-226-40955-4. Kellert, S. H. Borrowed knowledge: Chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 288, Price $35.00 £20.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-42978-6. Kellert, S. H., Longino, H. E., & Waters, C. K. (Eds.). Scientific pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 19. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2006, $50.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8166-4763-1. King, M., Secularism: The hidden origins of disbelief. James Clarke and Co., Cambridge, 2007, pp. 323, Price £25.00 $52.50 paperback, ISBN 978-0-227-17245-2. Kistler, M., & Gnassounou, B. Dispositions and causal powers. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 316, Price $55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-5425-4. Koslicki, K. The structure of objects. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 288, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19953989-5. Kragh, H. S. Entropic creation: Religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700– 1945. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 278, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-61414-7. Kusukawa, S., & Maclean, I (Eds.). Transmitting knowledge: Words, images and instruments in early modern Europe. Oxford– Warburg Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. xv + 274, £122.00 hardback, ISBN 0-19-928878-X. Ladyman, J., & Ross, D., with Spurrett, D., & Collier, J. Every thing must go: Metaphysics naturalised. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. x + 346, Price £47.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-927619-6. Leng, M., Paseau, A., Potter, M. (Eds.). Mathematical knowledge. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 188, Price $59.95, £30.00 hardback, ISBN-978-0-19-922824-9. Lewis, R. Language, mind and nature: Artificial languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xvi + 262, Price £50.00 US$90.00 hardback, ISBN 9780521874755. Lightman, B. Victorian popularizers of science: Designing nature for new audiences. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 528, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-48118-2, ISBN-13 978-0226-48118-0. Lindberg, D. C. The beginnings of Western Science: The European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450 (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 480, Price $25.00 £13.00 paperback, ISBN 0-22648205-7, ISBN-13 978-0-226-48205-7. Lindberg, D. C., & Numbers, R. L. When science and Christianity meet. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 368, Price $20.00 £10.50, paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-48216-3.
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Lloyd, G. E. R. Principles and practices in ancient Greek and Chinese science. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS849. Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 320, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN 978-086078-993-2. Lloyd, G. E. R. Cognitive variations: Reflections on the unity and diversity of the human mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. viii + 201, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921461-7. López Corredoira, M., & Castro Perelman, C. (Eds.). Against the tide: A critical review by scientists of how physics and astronomy get done. Universal Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, 2008, pp. 265, Price $25.95 paperback, ISBN 1-59942-993-4, ISBN-13 978-159942-993-9. Luckhurst, R. Science fiction. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. vii + 305, £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7456-2892-3, ISBN-13 978-07456-2892-9, £17.99 paperback, ISBN 0-7456-2893-1, ISBN-13 978-0-7456-2893-6. Martin, M. W. Creativity: Ethics and excellence in science. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2007, pp. 162, Price £36.00 €56.70 hardback, ISBN 0-7391-2053-0, ISBN-13 978-0-7391-2053-8. Maudlin, T. The metaphysics within physics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 197, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-019-921821-9. Mazzotti, M. The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. xx + 217, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018, 8709-3. Mazzotti, M. (Ed.). Knowledge as social order: Rethinking the sociology of Barry Barnes. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 198, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-4863-5. Milburn, C. Nanovision: Engineering the future, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2009, pp. 296, Price £12.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4265-6, £50.00 hardback, ISBN 978-08223-4243-4. Moran, B. Andreas Libavius and the transformation of alchemy: Separating chemical cultures with polemical fire. Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, MA, 2007, pp. 344, Price $49.95 hardback, ISBN 0-88135-395-7, ISBN-13 978-0-88135-395-2. Mosley, A. Bearing the heavens: Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xiv + 354, Price £58.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0521-83866-5. Nersessian, N. J. Creating scientific concepts. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, & London, 2008, pp. 251, Price £20.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-262-14105-5. Newman, W. R. Atoms and alchemy: Chymistry and the experimental origins of the Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 235, Price $75.00 hardback, ISBN 0-22657696-5, $36.00 paperback, ISBN 0-226-57697-3. O’Connor, A. Finding time for the Old Stone Age: A history of palaeolithic archaeology and quaternary geology in Britain, 1860– 1960. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xxxix + 423, Price £75.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921547-8. Ogborn, M. Indian ink: Script and print in the making of the English East India Company. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 288, Price $40.00 £24.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-62041-7. O’Hear, A. (Ed.). Philosophy of science. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. vii + 278, Price £17.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-71896-7. Oleson, J. P. (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 864, Price £85.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1. Paoletti, C. La difesa dell’errore: Senso comune e filosofia positiva in Thomas Brown. Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, Bologna, 2006, pp. 319, Price €24.00 paperback, ISBN 88-4912774-X. Pickering, A., & Guzik, K. (Eds.). The mangle in practice: Science, society, and becoming. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, &
London, 2008, pp. xiv + 306, Price $23.95 paperback, ISBN 978-08223-4373-8, $84.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4351-6. Price, H., & Corry, R. (Eds.). Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality: Russell’s Republic revisited. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 416, Price £19.99 paperback, ISBN-13 978-019-927819-0, £58.00 hardback, ISBN-13 978-0-19-927818-3. Principe, L. M. (Ed.). Chymists and chymistry: Studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry. Chemical Heritage Foundation and Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, 2007, pp. xiii + 274, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. Psillos, S., & Curd, M. (Eds.) The Routledge companion to philosophy of science. Routledge, London & New York, 2008, pp. 618, Price £95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-35403-5. Radder, H. The world observed/the world conceived. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2006, pp. 220, Price $35.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8229-4284-4. Remmert, V. Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2005, pp. 267, Price €89.00 hardback, ISBN 3-447-05337-2. Richard Rufus of Cornwall. In Physicam Aristotelis (R. Wood, Ed.). Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, XVI. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, pp. 300, Price £50.00, ISBN 0-19-726274-0. Richardson, A., & Uebel, T. The Cambridge companion to logical empiricism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xi + 430, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-79178-6, £19.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-79628-6. Richet, P. A natural history of time (J. Venerella, Trans.). Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. xiv + 471, Price $29.00 £17.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-71287-7, ISBN-13 978-0-226-71287-1. Rickles, D., French, S., & Saatsi, J. The structural foundations of quantum gravity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. xii + 270, Price £50.00, ISBN 0-19-926969-6, ISBN-13 978-0-19926969-3. Rudwick, M. J. S. Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 800, Price $49.00 £25.50 hardback, ISBN 0226-73128-6. Safier, N. Measuring the New World: Enlightenment science and South America. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 428, Price $45.00 £23.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-73355-5. Sankey, H. Scientific realism and the rationality of science. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 162, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 9780-7546-5888-7. Sassower, R. Popper’s legacy: Rethinking politics, economics and science. Acumen Publishing, Stocksfield, 2006, pp. vii + 156, Price £40.00 hardback, ISBN 1-84465-066-9, £14.99 paperback, ISBN 184465-067-7. Scazzieri, R., & Simili, R. (Eds.). The migration of ideas. Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, 2008, pp. 254, Price $40.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-88135-397-6. Schiebinger, L. (Ed.). Gendered innovations in science and engineering. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2008, pp. 256, Price $65.00 hardback, ISBN 080475814X, ISBN-13 9780804758147, $24.95 paperback, ISBN 0804758158, ISBN-13 9780804758154. Schwartz, R. Visual versions. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006, pp. xi + 265, Price £48.95 hardback, ISBN 0-262-19544-5, £20.95 paperback, ISBN 0-262-69334-8. Schweber, L. Disciplining statistics: Demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 277, Price £14.99 paperback, ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. Shank, J. B. The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 464, Price $55.00 £28.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-74945-7.
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Shapin, S. The scientific life: A moral history of a late modern vocation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. xvii + 468, Price $29.00, ISBN-13 978-0-226-75024-8. Smith, P. H., & Schmidt, B. Making knowledge in early modern Europe: Practices, objects, and texts, 1400–1800. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 336, Price $68.00 £35.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-76328-6, £28.00 £14.50 paperback, ISBN 0-22676329-3. Snyder, L. J. Reforming philosophy: A Victorian debate on science and society. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 272, Price £28.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-76733-7. Sosa, E. Apt belief and reflective knowledge, Vol. I. A virtue epistemology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xiii + 149, Price £17.99 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-929702-3. Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and interpretations, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of R. S. Whipple’s gift to the University of Cambridge. The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, 2006, pp. xviii + 492, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 052186609X, ISBN13 9780521866095. Tessicini, D. I dintorni dell’infinito. Giordano Bruno e l’astronomia del Cinquecento. Supplementi XX di «Bruniana & Campanelliana» Studi 9. Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa & Roma, 2007, pp. 212, Price €44.00 paperback, ISBN 978-88-6227-097-7.
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Tsohatzidis, S. L. (Ed.). Intentional acts and institutional facts: Essays on John Searle’s social ontology. Theory and Decision Library A. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. vii + 224, Price £79.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6103-5. Van Fraassen, B. C. Scientific representation: Paradoxes of perspective. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 416, Price £30.00 hardback, ISBN-13 978-0-19-927822-0. Volpe, T. Science et théologie dans les débats savants de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle: La Genèse dans les Philosophical Transactions et le Journal des savants (1665–1710). Brepols, Turnhout, 2008, pp. 472 + CD ROM, Price €65.00 (excl. BTW/TVA/VAT) hardback, ISBN 9782-503-52584-6. Wang, X. Incommensurability and cross-language communication. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 384, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-3034-0. Withers, C. W. J. Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 330, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-90405-9, ISBN13: 978-0-226-90405-4. Ziman, J. Science in civil society. Imprint Academic, Exeter & Charlottesville, VA, 2008, pp. 250, Price £17.95 $34.90 paperback, ISBN 978-1845-40082-8.
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Books received to March 2009 Achinstein, P. (Ed.). Science rules: A historical introduction to scientific methods. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004, pp. 427, Price US$69.95 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-7943-4, US$29.95 paperback, ISBN 0-8018-7944-2. Applebaum, W. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1800. Routledge, New York & Abingdon, pp. 800, Price $270.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8153-1503-2, $50.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-98846-9. Barad, K. Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 524, Price £75.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-3901-4, £17.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-3917-5. Bertoloni Meli, D. Thinking with objects: The transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006, pp. xii + 389, Price £46.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8426-8, £20.00 paperback, ISBN 0-8018-8427-6. Bird, A. Nature’s metaphysics: Laws and properties. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xiv + 231, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-922701-3. Bohm, D. The special theory of relativity (with preface by J. D. Barrow). Routledge, London, 2006, pp. xxi + 282, Price £9.99 paperback, ISBN 0-415-40425-8. Bordogna, F. William James at the boundaries: Philosophy, science, and the geography of knowledge. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. x + 382, Price $39.00 £25.00 hardback, ISBN 0-22606652-5, ISBN-13 978-0-22-606652-3. Bortolotti, L. An introduction to the philosophy of science. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. xii + 199, Price £50.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-74-563538-5, £14.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-74-563539-2. Brown, H. I. Conceptual systems. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Routledge, London & New York, 2007, Price £85.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-70182-2. Carrier, M., Howard, D., & Kourany, J. (Eds.). The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice: Science and values revisited. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2008, pp. 262, Price $50.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8229-4314-4, ISBN-13 978-0-8229-4317-4. Caruana, L. Science and virtue: An essay on the impact of the scientific mentality on moral character. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 142, Price £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0-46-5562-8. Chakravartty, A. A metaphysics for scientific realism: Knowing the unobservable. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 272, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN-13 9780521876490. Chang, H., & Jackson, C. (Eds.). An element of controversy: The life of chlorine in science, medicine, technology and war (from research by undergraduate students at University College, London). BSHS Monograph, 13. British Society for the History of Science, London, 2007, pp. 407, ISBN 978-0-906450-01-7.
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Coen, D. R. Vienna in the age of uncertainty: Science, liberalism, and private life. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 352, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-11172-5, ISBN-13 978-0226-11172-8. Cohen, D. J. Equations from God: Pure mathematics and Victorian faith. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. x + 242, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8553-1, ISBN-13 978-0-80188553-2. Cooper, A. Inventing the indigenous: Local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xiii + 218, Price £47.00 $84.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0. Creager, A. N. H., Lunbeck, E., & Wise, M. N. (Eds.). Science without laws: Model systems, cases, exemplary narratives. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 287, Price £52.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4046-1, £12.99 paperback, ISBN 9780-8223-4068-3. Crowe, M. J. Mechanics: From Aristotle to Einstein. Green Lion Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2007, pp. 331, Price $17.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-888009-32-3. Cummins, J., & Burchell, D. (Eds.). Science, literature and rhetoric in early modern England. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 256, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-5781-1. Cuomo, S. Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xi + 212, Price £40.00 $80.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-5218-1073-9, £15.99 $29.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-52100903-4. Dear, P. The intelligibility of nature: How science makes sense of the world. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 242, Price $27.50 £17.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-13948-4. Dear, P. The intelligibility of nature: How science makes sense of the world. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 242, Price $17.00 £9.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-13949-4. Debs, T., & Redhead, M. L. G. Objectivity, invariance, and convention: Symmetry in physical science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007, pp. xii + 194, Price £25.95 €34.00 $39.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-02298-0. Denny, M. Blip, ping & buzz: Making sense of radar and sonar technology. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. 274, Price £18.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-8665-2. Dewan, L. St. Thomas and form as something divine in things. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 98, Price $15.00 hardback, ISBN 0-87462-174-7, ISBN-13 978-0-87462-174-7. Dilworth, C. The metaphysics of science: An account of modern science in terms of principles, laws and theories (2nd ed.). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 173. Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, pp. xvi + 333, Price £31.99 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-3838-9.
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Dilworth, C. Scientific progress: A study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories (4th ed.). Synthese Library, 153. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. xviii + 290, Price £96.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6353-4. Dilworth, C. Scientific progress: A study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories (4th ed. corr. 2nd printing). Synthese Library, 153. Springer, Dordrecht, 2008, pp. 290, Price £96.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6353-4. Dummett, M. Thought and reality. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. 109, Price $29.95 hardback, ISBN 0-19-920727-5. Dyson, F. J. A many-colored glass: Reflections on the place of life in the universe. Page-Barbour Lectures. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA, & London, 2007, pp. 162, Price $21.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8139-26. Ekeland, I. The best of all possible worlds: Mathematics and destiny. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 208, Price $25.00 £16.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-19994-0. Foster, J. B., Clark, B., & York, R. Critique of intelligent design: Materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present, Monthly Review Press, NY, 2008, pp. 240, Price $15.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-58367-173-3. Fyfe, A., & Lightman, B. Science in the marketplace: Nineteenthcentury sites and experiences. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 410, Price $45.00 £23.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-27650-3. Galilei, G. The essential Galileo (M. A. Finocchaiaro, Ed. & Trans.). Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis & Cambridge, 2008, pp. 380, Price £24.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-87220-938-1, £7.95 paperback, ISBN 978-0-87220-937-4. Gattei, S. Thomas Kuhn’s ‘linguistic turn’ and the legacy of logical empiricism: Incommensurability, rationality and the search for truth. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. xiv + 277, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-6160-3. Gaukroger, S. The emergence of a scientific culture: Science and the shaping of modernity 1210–1685. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. ix + 562, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 0-19-929644-8. Giere, R. N. Scientific perspectivism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 160, Price $30.00 £19.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-29212-6. Gillies, D. How should research be organised? Individual author and College Publications, London, 2008, pp. xii + 137, Price £12.00 paperback, ISBN 978-1-904987-27-7. Grant, E. A history of natural philosophy: From the ancient world to the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. 361, Price £14.99 $24.99 paperback, ISBN 0-521689570, £40.00 $70.00 hardback, ISBN 0521869315. Grosholz, E. R. Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xviii + 313, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-929973-7. Harmon, J. H., & Gross, A. G. (Eds.). The scientific literature: A guided tour. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2007, pp. 327, Price $72.50 £46.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-31655-6, $29.00 £18.50 paperback, ISBN 0-226-31656-4. Hattiangadi, A. Oughts and thoughts: Rule-following and the normativity of content. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. x + 221, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19921902-5. Herrán, N., Simon, J., Guillem-Llobat, X., et al. Synergia: Primer encuentro de jóvenes investigadores en historia de la ciencia. Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, Madrid, 2007, pp. 447, Price €29.00 paperback, ISBN 978-84-00-08578-0. Horst, S. Beyond reduction: Philosophy of mind and post-reductionist philosophy of science. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 228, Price £29.99 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-531711-4. Jacob, C. The sovereign map: Theoretical approaches in cartography through history (T. Conley, Trans.; E. H. Dahl, Ed.). University
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of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 464, Price $60.00 £38.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-38953-7. Jammer, M. Concepts of simultaneity: From antiquity to Einstein and beyond. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006, pp. x + 308, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 0-8018-8422-5. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. I. Life and times, and values in a world of facts. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 300, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 07546-5375-7. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & and Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. II. Metaphysics and epistemology. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 300, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-75465376-5. Jarvie, I., Milford, K., & Miller, D. (Eds.). Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Vol. III. Science. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 312, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7546-5712-4. Jones, M. L. The good life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 336, Price $65.00 £41.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-40954-6, $27.50 £17.50 paperback, ISBN 0-226-40955-4. Kellert, S. H. Borrowed knowledge: Chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 288, Price $35.00 £20.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-42978-6. Kellert, S. H., Longino, H. E., & Waters, C. K. (Eds.). Scientific pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 19. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2006, $50.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8166-4763-1. King, M., Secularism: The hidden origins of disbelief. James Clarke and Co., Cambridge, 2007, pp. 323, Price £25.00 $52.50 paperback, ISBN 978-0-227-17245-2. Kistler, M., & Gnassounou, B. Dispositions and causal powers. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 316, Price $55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-5425-4. Koslicki, K. The structure of objects. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 288, Price £45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19953989-5. Kragh, H. S. Entropic creation: Religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700– 1945. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 278, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-61414-7. Kusukawa, S., & Maclean, I (Eds.). Transmitting knowledge: Words, images and instruments in early modern Europe. Oxford– Warburg Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. xv + 274, £122.00 hardback, ISBN 0-19-928878-X. Ladyman, J., & Ross, D., with Spurrett, D., & Collier, J. Every thing must go: Metaphysics naturalised. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. x + 346, Price £47.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-927619-6. Leng, M., Paseau, A., Potter, M. (Eds.). Mathematical knowledge. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 188, Price $59.95, £30.00 hardback, ISBN-978-0-19-922824-9. Lewis, R. Language, mind and nature: Artificial languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xvi + 262, Price £50.00 US$90.00 hardback, ISBN 9780521874755. Lightman, B. Victorian popularizers of science: Designing nature for new audiences. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 528, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-48118-2, ISBN-13 978-0226-48118-0. Lindberg, D. C. The beginnings of Western Science: The European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450 (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 480, Price $25.00 £13.00 paperback, ISBN 0-22648205-7, ISBN-13 978-0-226-48205-7. Lindberg, D. C., & Numbers, R. L. When science and Christianity meet. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 368, Price $20.00 £10.50, paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-48216-3.
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Lloyd, G. E. R. Principles and practices in ancient Greek and Chinese science. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS849. Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot, 2006, pp. 320, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN 978-086078-993-2. Lloyd, G. E. R. Cognitive variations: Reflections on the unity and diversity of the human mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. viii + 201, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921461-7. López Corredoira, M., & Castro Perelman, C. (Eds.). Against the tide: A critical review by scientists of how physics and astronomy get done. Universal Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, 2008, pp. 265, Price $25.95 paperback, ISBN 1-59942-993-4, ISBN-13 978-159942-993-9. Luckhurst, R. Science fiction. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. vii + 305, £55.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7456-2892-3, ISBN-13 978-07456-2892-9, £17.99 paperback, ISBN 0-7456-2893-1, ISBN-13 978-0-7456-2893-6. Martin, M. W. Creativity: Ethics and excellence in science. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2007, pp. 162, Price £36.00 €56.70 hardback, ISBN 0-7391-2053-0, ISBN-13 978-0-7391-2053-8. Maudlin, T. The metaphysics within physics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 197, Price £27.50 hardback, ISBN 978-019-921821-9. Mazzotti, M. The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, pp. xx + 217, Price £33.50 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018, 8709-3. Mazzotti, M. (Ed.). Knowledge as social order: Rethinking the sociology of Barry Barnes. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 198, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-4863-5. Milburn, C. Nanovision: Engineering the future, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2009, pp. 296, Price £12.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4265-6, £50.00 hardback, ISBN 978-08223-4243-4. Moran, B. Andreas Libavius and the transformation of alchemy: Separating chemical cultures with polemical fire. Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, MA, 2007, pp. 344, Price $49.95 hardback, ISBN 0-88135-395-7, ISBN-13 978-0-88135-395-2. Mosley, A. Bearing the heavens: Tycho Brahe and the astronomical community of the late sixteenth century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xiv + 354, Price £58.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0521-83866-5. Nersessian, N. J. Creating scientific concepts. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, & London, 2008, pp. 251, Price £20.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-262-14105-5. Newman, W. R. Atoms and alchemy: Chymistry and the experimental origins of the Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 235, Price $75.00 hardback, ISBN 0-22657696-5, $36.00 paperback, ISBN 0-226-57697-3. O’Connor, A. Finding time for the Old Stone Age: A history of palaeolithic archaeology and quaternary geology in Britain, 1860– 1960. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xxxix + 423, Price £75.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921547-8. Ogborn, M. Indian ink: Script and print in the making of the English East India Company. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 288, Price $40.00 £24.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-62041-7. O’Hear, A. (Ed.). Philosophy of science. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. vii + 278, Price £17.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-71896-7. Oleson, J. P. (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 864, Price £85.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1. Paoletti, C. La difesa dell’errore: Senso comune e filosofia positiva in Thomas Brown. Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, Bologna, 2006, pp. 319, Price €24.00 paperback, ISBN 88-4912774-X. Pickering, A., & Guzik, K. (Eds.). The mangle in practice: Science, society, and becoming. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, &
London, 2008, pp. xiv + 306, Price $23.95 paperback, ISBN 978-08223-4373-8, $84.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4351-6. Price, H., & Corry, R. (Eds.). Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality: Russell’s Republic revisited. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. 416, Price £19.99 paperback, ISBN-13 978-019-927819-0, £58.00 hardback, ISBN-13 978-0-19-927818-3. Principe, L. M. (Ed.). Chymists and chymistry: Studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry. Chemical Heritage Foundation and Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, 2007, pp. xiii + 274, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-88135-396-9. Psillos, S., & Curd, M. (Eds.) The Routledge companion to philosophy of science. Routledge, London & New York, 2008, pp. 618, Price £95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-35403-5. Radder, H. The world observed/the world conceived. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2006, pp. 220, Price $35.00 hardback, ISBN 0-8229-4284-4. Remmert, V. Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2005, pp. 267, Price €89.00 hardback, ISBN 3-447-05337-2. Richard Rufus of Cornwall. In Physicam Aristotelis (R. Wood, Ed.). Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, XVI. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, pp. 300, Price £50.00, ISBN 0-19-726274-0. Richardson, A., & Uebel, T. The Cambridge companion to logical empiricism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. xi + 430, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-79178-6, £19.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-79628-6. Richet, P. A natural history of time (J. Venerella, Trans.). Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. xiv + 471, Price $29.00 £17.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-71287-7, ISBN-13 978-0-226-71287-1. Rickles, D., French, S., & Saatsi, J. The structural foundations of quantum gravity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. xii + 270, Price £50.00, ISBN 0-19-926969-6, ISBN-13 978-0-19926969-3. Rudwick, M. J. S. Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 800, Price $49.00 £25.50 hardback, ISBN 0226-73128-6. Safier, N. Measuring the New World: Enlightenment science and South America. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 428, Price $45.00 £23.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-73355-5. Sankey, H. Scientific realism and the rationality of science. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 162, Price £55.00 hardback, ISBN 9780-7546-5888-7. Sassower, R. Popper’s legacy: Rethinking politics, economics and science. Acumen Publishing, Stocksfield, 2006, pp. vii + 156, Price £40.00 hardback, ISBN 1-84465-066-9, £14.99 paperback, ISBN 184465-067-7. Scazzieri, R., & Simili, R. (Eds.). The migration of ideas. Science History Publications/USA, Sagamore Beach, 2008, pp. 254, Price $40.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-88135-397-6. Schiebinger, L. (Ed.). Gendered innovations in science and engineering. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2008, pp. 256, Price $65.00 hardback, ISBN 080475814X, ISBN-13 9780804758147, $24.95 paperback, ISBN 0804758158, ISBN-13 9780804758154. Schwartz, R. Visual versions. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006, pp. xi + 265, Price £48.95 hardback, ISBN 0-262-19544-5, £20.95 paperback, ISBN 0-262-69334-8. Schweber, L. Disciplining statistics: Demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, & London, 2007, pp. 277, Price £14.99 paperback, ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. Shank, J. B. The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 464, Price $55.00 £28.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-74945-7.
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Shapin, S. The scientific life: A moral history of a late modern vocation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. xvii + 468, Price $29.00, ISBN-13 978-0-226-75024-8. Smith, P. H., & Schmidt, B. Making knowledge in early modern Europe: Practices, objects, and texts, 1400–1800. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, pp. 336, Price $68.00 £35.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-76328-6, £28.00 £14.50 paperback, ISBN 0-22676329-3. Snyder, L. J. Reforming philosophy: A Victorian debate on science and society. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006, pp. 272, Price £28.50 hardback, ISBN 0-226-76733-7. Sosa, E. Apt belief and reflective knowledge, Vol. I. A virtue epistemology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp. xiii + 149, Price £17.99 hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-929702-3. Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and interpretations, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of R. S. Whipple’s gift to the University of Cambridge. The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, 2006, pp. xviii + 492, Price £35.00 hardback, ISBN 052186609X, ISBN13 9780521866095. Tessicini, D. I dintorni dell’infinito. Giordano Bruno e l’astronomia del Cinquecento. Supplementi XX di «Bruniana & Campanelliana» Studi 9. Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa & Roma, 2007, pp. 212, Price €44.00 paperback, ISBN 978-88-6227-097-7.
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Tsohatzidis, S. L. (Ed.). Intentional acts and institutional facts: Essays on John Searle’s social ontology. Theory and Decision Library A. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. vii + 224, Price £79.00 hardback, ISBN 978-1-4020-6103-5. Van Fraassen, B. C. Scientific representation: Paradoxes of perspective. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 416, Price £30.00 hardback, ISBN-13 978-0-19-927822-0. Volpe, T. Science et théologie dans les débats savants de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle: La Genèse dans les Philosophical Transactions et le Journal des savants (1665–1710). Brepols, Turnhout, 2008, pp. 472 + CD ROM, Price €65.00 (excl. BTW/TVA/VAT) hardback, ISBN 9782-503-52584-6. Wang, X. Incommensurability and cross-language communication. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 384, Price £60.00 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-3034-0. Withers, C. W. J. Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2007, pp. 330, Price $45.00 hardback, ISBN 0-226-90405-9, ISBN13: 978-0-226-90405-4. Ziman, J. Science in civil society. Imprint Academic, Exeter & Charlottesville, VA, 2008, pp. 250, Price £17.95 $34.90 paperback, ISBN 978-1845-40082-8.