Browse Items (36 total)

'The Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin', TIME magazine

Tags: 2003-7-7; History of Science

'A Place for Hype', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-10-5; Alvin Toffler; B-52 bombers; David Edgerton; flat-pack bookcases; Future; History of Science; Horses; Hype; Kalashnikovs; Robert Hughes; Social change; STS; Tenner, Edward

'Other Lives', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-2-22; Burnyeat, M. F.; Charles Kahn; Christoph Riedweg; History of Science; Mathematics; Maths; Pythagoras

'Flowery Regions of Algebra', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-14; Biography; History of Science; Physics; Pierre Laplace; Roger Hahn; Schaffer, Simon

'Careful Readers', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2005-9-22; Cosmology; Heilbron, J. L.; History of Science; Owen Gingerich; Physics

'Anti-Condescensionism', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2005-1-9; activism; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; History of Science; Medicine; Nadja Durbach; Pedersen, Susan; Vaccination

'Spiv v. Gentleman', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-10-23; Ancient Science; Barnes, Jonathan; Chinese Science; Geoffrey Lloyd; Greek Science; History of Science; Nathan Sivin; STS

'Rough Trade', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-6-3; Design and Invention; Engineering; History of Science; Intellectual Property; invention; Patents; Robert Hooke; Shapin, Steven; Stephen Inwood

'Learned Insane', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-4-17; Charles Darwin; Erasmus Darwin; History of Science; Industrial Science; invention; Jenny Uglow; Schaffer, Simon; STS

'Saintly Resonances', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-10-31; Alfred Wallace; Beatrice Webb; Charles Darwin; Charles Dickens; Daston, Lorraine; Epistemology; George Eliot; George Levine; Harriet Martineau; History of Science; Karl Pearson; Mary Somerville; Objectivity; Oscar Wilde; STS; Thomas Carlyle; Wlater Pater

'Francine-Machine', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-9-5; Automata; Barbara Maria Stafford; Descartes; Frances Terpak; Gaby Wood; History of Science; Puppets; R�e, Jonathan; STS; Victoria Nelson

'After the Deluge', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-4-25; Alistair Fraser; Benjamin Langwith; Campbell, Peter; Earth Sciences; History of Science; Isaac Newton; Meteorology; Rainbows; Raymond Lee

'No High Heels in Paradise', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-7-19; History of Science; Horticulture; John Evelyn; John ingram; STS; Thomas, Keith

'A Duck Folded in Half', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-6-19; Biology; Gaspard Monge; Geoffroy St-Hillaire; George Cuvier; Henry Gee; History of Science; Leroi, Armand Marie; Napoleon; Transcendental Anatomy; Zoology

'Did Lady Brewster faint?', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-4-24; Adrian Desmond; Biology; Charles Darwin; Evolution; History of Science; Korn, Eric; Thomas Henry Huxley; Wendell Phillips Garrison

'You have to be educated to be educated', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-3-4; History of Science; Phillips, Adam; Scientific Revolution; Sociology of Science; Steven Shapin; STS

'In the Know', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-10-11; alchemy; books of secrets; History of Science; Italo Calvino; Schaffer, Simon; STS; William Eamon

'In praise of Geoffrey Lloyd', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-10; Ancient Science; G.E.R Lloyd; History of Science; King, Helen; STS

'Among the Sandemanians', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-7-25; Brooke, John Hedley; Electricity; Geoffrey Cantor; History of Science; Michael Faraday; Science and religion; STS

'Faith, Hope and Probability', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-23; Douglas, Mary; History of Science; Ian Hacking; Maths; probability; Statistics

'Grassi gets a fright', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-7-7; Astronomy; Burke, Peter; Galileo; History of Science; Physics; Pietro Redondi; Science and religion; STS

'The Kentish Hog', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-10-15; Adel Ziadat; Charles Darwin; David Kohn; Desmond, Adrian; Evolutionary Theory; Frederick Burckhardt; History of Science; James Second; Paul Barrett; Peter Bowler; R.B. Freeman; Robert Young; STS; Sydney Smith

'Philoponia', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-9-7; Ancient Science; Barnes, Jonathan; History of Science; Ioannes Philoponus; Neoplatonism; Philosophy; Richard Sorabji; STS

'Toad-Kisser', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-7-5; Biology; Campbell, Peter; History of Science; Joseph Banks; Natural history; Plant Sciences; Scientific Societies

'Contra Galton', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-5-3; Biology; Daniel Kevles; Eugenics; Francis Galton; Genetics; History of Science; Neve, Michael

'Post-Scepticism', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-2-19; Experimental Culture; History of Science; Robert Boyle; Simon Schaffer; Steven Shapin; STS; Thomas Hobbes; Tuck, Richard

'Rethinking the countryside', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-1-22; Allen, David; Biology; Foxglove; History of Science; Natural history; Plant Sciences; Woodland

'Goodbye to the Aether', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-2-20; Edmund Whittaker; History of Science; James Clerk Maxwell; Maths; P.M. Harman; Physics; Pippard, Brian; William Thomson

'Aristotle and Women', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-2-16; Ancient Greece; Ancient Science; Barnes, Jonathan; Classics; Geoffrey Lloyd; History of Science; Kepler; Newton; STS

'Carnivals of Progress', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1983; 1983-2-17; Arnold Thackray; History of Science; Jack Morrell; John Maynard Smith; Mathematics; Peter Collins; Roy MacLeod; Scientific Societies; STS; Thomas Hankins; William Rown Hamilton; Ziman, John