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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2011 Contents
Volume 49, Part 1, Number 162, March 2011
Piss Profits: Thomas Willis, His Diatribae Duae and the Formation of His Professional Identity
Michael Hawkins
1–24

From Kearton to Attenborough: Fashioning the Telenaturalist’s ­Identity
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
39-74
Secrets Revealed: Alchemical Books in Early-modern England Lauren Kassell 61–87
REVIEW ARTICLE
How Theology, Imagination, and the Spirit of Inquiry Shaped ­Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages
Edward Grant
89–108
ESSAY REVIEW
Granting the Seasons, by Nathan Sivin
Catherine Jami 109–114
RESEARCH NOTE
William Herschel and Herschelian Reflectors
Michael Hoskin 115–120
Notices of Books
121–123
Notes on Contributors
124
Volume 49 Part 2 Number 163, June 2011    
The Revolving Planets and the Revolving Clocks: Circulating ­Mechanical Objects in the Mediterranean Avner Ben-Zaken 125–148
Divers Things: Collecting the World under Water James Delbourgo 149–185
Not as the Crow Flies: ‘Styles’ of Educational Measurement in the Reception of Inferential Statistics at Iowa and Minnesota Shirley A. Martin 187–216
REVIEW ARTICLE
Science in the Enlightenment, Revisited
Jan Golinski 217–231
Notices of Books 232–233
Notes on Contributors   234
Volume 49 Part 3 Number 164, September 2011    
NATURAL HISTORIES, ANALYSES AND EXPERIMENTATION:
DISSECTING THE WORKING KNOWLEDGES OF
CHEMISTRY, MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SINCE 1750
Guest Editor: John V. Pickstone
   
A Brief Introduction to Ways of Knowing and Ways of Working John V. Pickstone 235–245
Compositionism as a Dominant Way of Knowing in Modern Chemistry Hasok Chang 247–268
Bacteriology as a Cultural System: Analysis and its Discontents Christopher Hamlin 269–298
Labelled Bodies: Classification of Diseases and the Medical Way of Knowing Ilana Löwy 299–315
The Comparative and the Exemplary: Revisiting the Early History of Molecular Biology Bruno J. Strasser and Soraya de Chadarevian 317–336
Infra-experimentality: From Traces to Data, from Data to Patterning Facts Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 337–348
Natural Histories, Analyses and Experimentation: Three Afterwords John V. Pickstone 349–374
Notes on Contributors   375–376
Volume 49 Part 4 Number 165, December 2011    
Elements of the Modernist Creed in Henri Pirenne and George Sarton Lewis Pyenson and Christophe Verbruggen 377–394
Gaslight, Distillation, and the Industrial Revolution
Leslie Tomory
395–424
The BBC Natural History Unit: Instituting Natural History Film-making in Britain Jean-Baptiste Gouyon 425–451
Antonio Gramsci Revisited: Historians of Science, Intellectuals, and the Struggle for Hegemony Agustí Nieto-Galan 453–478
Notices of Books   479–484
Notes on Contributors   485
Index to Volume 49   486

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