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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2013 Contents


Volume 51 Part 1, Number 170, March 2013

The Natural Philosopher and the Microscope:
Nicolas Hartsoeker Unravels Nature's "Admirable Oeconomy"
S. Catherine Abou-Nemeh
1-32



Chameleons Between Science and Literature: Observation, Writing, and the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences in the Literary Field
Oded Rabinovitch
33-62



Sacrificial Experts? Science, Senescence and Saving the British Nuclear Project Jon Agar 63-84

Is the History of Science Essentially Whiggish? David Alvargonzalez
85-99

Finding a Teacher of Navigation Abroad in Eighteenth-Century Venice: A Study of the Circulation of Useful Knowledge
Timothy McEvoy 100-123

Notes on Contributors   124

Volume 51 Part 2, Number 171, June 2013    
Criticism and the Circulation of News: The Scholarly Press in the Late Seventeenth Century
Thomas Broman
125–150


Trajectories in the History and Historiography of Physics in the ­Twentieth Century
Richard Staley
151–177


Governing Model Populations: Queries, Quantification, and William Petty’s “Scale of Salubrity”
Ted McCormick
179–197


Halley Turns Republican: How the Portuguese Press Presented the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet
Ana Simões, Isabel Zilhão, Maria Paula Diogo and Ana ­Carneiro
199–219


Seeing the Invisible: The Introduction and Development of Electron Microscopy in Britain, 1935–1945
Pedro Ruiz-Castell
221–249


Notes on Contributors

250


Volume 51 Part 3, Number 172, Sept 2013

Talking Plants: Botany and Speech in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica Miles Ogborn 251–282

Gender, Race and Science in Twentieth-Century India: E. K. Janaki Ammal and the History of Science Vinita Damodaran 283–307

“Writing in Letters of Blood”: Manners in Scientific Dispute in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the German Lands Raf de Bont 309–335

Small Skills, Big Networks: Marin Mersenne as Mathematical Intelligencer Justin Grosslight 337–374

Notes on Contributors
375

Volume 51 Part 4, Number 173, Dec 2013

The Rise and Fall of Nitrous Air Eudiometry: Enlightenment Ideals, Embodied Skills, and the Conflicts of Experimental Philosophy
Victor D. Boantz
377–412


Framed in the Public Sphere: Tools for the Conceptual History of
‘Applied Science’ – A Review Paper
Robert Bud
413–433



Ranking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine (1820–72) and the Making of ‘Engineering Science’ Revisited
Ben Marsden
434–456


From Practical Men to Scientific Experts: British Veterinary Surgeons and the Development of Government Scientific Expertise,
c. 1878–1919
Abigail Woods

457–480


Scientific Practice for Technology: Hermann Aron’s Development of the Storage Battery
Shaul Katzir

481–500


Notes on Contributors

501


Index

502


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