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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2007 Contents
Volume 45, Part 1, Number 147, March 2007
Between Memory and Paperbooks: Baconianism and Natural History in Seventeenth-century England Richard Yeo
1–46

Defining the Russian People: Konstantin Arsen’ev and Russian Statistics Before 1861 Susan Smith-Peter
47–64

Copernicus and his Islamic Predecessors: Some Historical Remarks F. Jamil Ragep
65–81

Scientific Dissemination in Portugese Encyclopaedic Periodicals, 1779–1820 Fernando Egidio Reis
83–118
Notices of Books
119–121
Notes on Contributors 122
Volume 45, Part 2, Number 148, June 2007
SPECIAL ISSUE:
REFLECTIONS ON JOEL MOKYR’S THE GIFTS OF ATHENA
The Genesis of ‘Useful Knowledge’ Maxine Berg 123–133
Technology as a Public Culture in the Eighteenth Century: The Artisan’s Legacy Liliane Hilaire-Pérez 135–153
Experimental Spaces and the Knowledge Economy Larry Stewart 155–177
Technology Selection and Useful Knowledge: A Comment Kristine Bruland 179–183
Knowledge, Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution: Reflections on The Gifts of Athena Joel Mokyr 185–196
Mechanical Science on the Factory Floor: The Early Industrial Revolution in Leeds Margaret C. Jacob 197–221
Notices of Books 223–228
Notes on Contributors 228–229
Volume 45, Part 3, Number 149, September 2007
Surgery, Science and Modernity: Operating Rooms and Laboratories as Spaces of Control Thomas Schlich 231–256
“Turpentine Hides Everything”: Autonomy and Organization in Anatomical Model Production for the State in Late Eighteenth-century Florence Anna Maerker 257–286
“A Plague to the Learned World”: Pieter Gabry, F.R.S. (1715–1770) and His Use of Natural Philosophy to Gain Prestige and Social Status Huib J. Zuidervaart 287–326
The Financial Support of Men of Science in France c. 1660 – c. 1800: A Survey Maurice Crosland 327–355
Notes on Contributors 356
Volume 45, Part 4, Number 150, December 2007
Young-earth Creationists in Early Nineteenth-century Britain? Towards a Reassessment of ‘Scriptural Geology’ Ralph O’Connor 357–403
Science and Authority in Giacomo Zabarella Paolo Palmieri 404–427
Finders, Keepers: Collecting Sciences and Collecting Practice Robert E. Kohler 428–454
Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway Peder Anker 455–479
Notes on Contributors 481
Index to Volume 45 482

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