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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2000 Contents
Volume 38, Part 1, Number 119, March 2000
"Puffing Jamie": The Commercial and Ideological Importance of Being a 'Philosopher' in the Case of the Reputation of James Watt (1736-1819) David Philip Miller
 1-24
Hybrid Discourse and Textual Practice: Sinology and Natural History in the Nineteenth Century Fa-ti Fan
 25-56
The Value of Facts in Boyle's Experimental Philosophy Michael Ben-Chaim
 57-77
The Place of Nature and the Nature of Place: The Chorographic Challenge to the History of British Provincial Science Vladimir Jankovic
 79-113
Notices of Books
115-125
Notes on Contributors
126
Volume 38, Part 2, Number 120, June 2000
The Jew of Crane Court: Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-91), Natural History and Natural Excess G. S. Rousseau and David Haycock 127-170
Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-century Persian Medicine: Intellectual and Institutional Reforms Hormoz Ebrahimnejad 171-178
"Conquerors of the Künlün": The Schlagintweit Mission to High Asia, 1854-57 Gabriel Finkelstein 179-218
More on Darwin's Illness Ralph Colp, Jr 219-236
Missing Links in the History and Practice of Science: Teams, Technicians and Technical Work N. C. Russell, E. M. Tansey and P. V. Lear 237-241
BOOK REVIEWS
Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece, by Helen King (Rebecca Flemming); World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca, by David King (Owen Gingerich)
243-247
Notes on Contributors 249-250
Volume 38, Part 3, Number 121, September 2000
Uses and Abuses of Anachronism in the History of the Sciences Nick Jardine 251-270
On the History of Disease-concepts: The Case of Pleurisy Adrian Wilson 271-319
From Tubal Cain to Faraday: William Whewell as a Philosopher of Technology Joost Mertens 321-342
Trust and Mistrust in the Marketplace: Statistics and Clinical Research, 1945-1960 Harry M. Marks 343-355
BOOK REVIEW
Making the Body Beautiful and Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, by Sander L. Gilman (Chandak Sengoopta)
357-359
Notices of Books 360-361
Notes on Contributors 362
Volume 38, Part 4, Number 122, December 2000
Koyré's Kepler/Kepler's Koyré Nick Jardine 363-376
Healing the Nation's Wounds: Royal Ritual and Experimental Philosophy in Restoration England Simon Werrett 377-399
Local Colour: John Dalton and the Politics of Colour Blindness Elizabeth Green Musselman 401-424
The Modern Ovary: Constructions, Meanings, Uses Chandak Sengoopta 425-488
Notes on Contributors 489
Index to Volume 38 489-490

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