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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2006 Contents
Volume 44, Part 1, Number 143, March 2006
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune’s Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 1
Nicholas Kollerstrom
1–28

A Science Empire in Napoleonic France Maurice Crosland
29–48

The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law: (2) The Use and Non-use of Mathematics Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris
49–67


Robert Woodhouse and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics
Christopher Phillips

69–93
ESSAY REVIEW
A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, by Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen, and nine other books on molecular biology
Pnina G. Abir-Am

95–118


Notices of Books
119–121
Notes on Contributors 122
Volume 44, Part 2, Number 144, June 2006
SPECIAL ISSUE: ARTISANS AND INSTRUMENTS, 1300–1800
The Locales of Islamic Astronomical Instrumentation François Charette 123–138
From Print to Patents: Living on Instruments in Early Modern Europe Mario Biagioli
139–186
Artisans, Machines, and Descartes’s Organon
Jean-François Gauvin 187–216
Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade Simon Schaffer 217–246
Catadioptrics and Commerce in Eighteenth-century London Jim Bennett 247–278
Notes on Contributors 279
Volume 44, Part 3, Number 145, Sept 2006
Re-examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
Catherine M. Jackson 281–319
Traces of the Mouth: Andrei Andreyevich Markov’s Mathematization of Writing David Link 321–348
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune’s Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 2 Nicholas Kollerstrom 349–371
Notes on Contributors 372
Volume 44, Part 4, Number 146, Dec 2006
Gravitating Towards Stability: Guidobaldo’s Aristotelian-Archimedean Synthesis Maarten Van Dyck 373–407
Ecology, Biology and Social Life: Explaining the Origins of Primate Sociality Amanda Rees 409–434
The Elasticity of the Animal Fibre: Movement and Life in Enlightenment Medicine Hisao Ishizuka 435–468
Imperial Incursions in Late-Victorian Cambridge: J. J. Thomson and the Domains of the Physical Sciences
Jaume Navarro 469–495

Notes on Contributors 497
Index to Volume 44 498

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