BSHS Monographs catalogue

This page lists all volumes published by BSHS monographs, volumes 1-14, since 1979. Follow the links for downloads, reviews and other material.

BSHS Monograph 14

He is no loss:
Robert McCormick and the voyage of HMS Beagle

Emily Steel
2011
74 pages
ISBN: 978-0-906450-18-5

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BSHS Monograph 13

An Element of Controversy:
The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War

Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson, editors
2007
407 pages
ISBN: 978-0-906450-15-4 – 6″x9″ trade paper
ISBN: 978-0-906450-01-7

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BSHS Monograph 12

To See the Fellows Fight:
Eye Witness Accounts of Meetings of the Geological Society of London and Its Club, 1822-1868

John C. Thackray, editor
2003
244 pages
ISBN: 0-906450-17-8 – second edition
ISBN: 0-906450-14-4 – first edition

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BSHS Monograph 11

Science in Art:
Works in the National Gallery that illustrate the History of Science and Technology

JV Field and Frank AJL James
1997
110 pages + 60 illustrations
ISBN 0-906450-13-6

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BSHS Monograph 10

E. Ray Lankester and the Making of Modern British Biology

Joe Lester and Peter Bowler
1995
219 pages
ISBN 978-0-906450-11-6

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BSHS Monograph 9

In the Shadow of Lavoisier:
The ‘Annales de Chimie’ and the Establishment of a New Science

Maurice Crosland
1994
354 pages + 6 illustrations
ISBN 0-906450-10-1

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BSHS Monograph 8

Science and Nature:
Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences

Michael Shortland, editor
1993
291 pages + 11 illustrations
ISBN 0-906450-08-X

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BSHS Monograph 7

Index to the Scientific Correspondence of John William Dawson

Susan Sheets-Pyenson
1992
275 pages
ISBN 978-0-906450-07-9

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BSHS Monograph 6

Archives of the British Chemical Industry, 1750-1914:
A Handlist

Peter J. T. Morris and Colin A. Russell;
John Graham Smith, editor
1988
273 pages
ISBN 0-0906450-06-3

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BSHS Monograph 5

Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy:
A New Source. A Transcription of Manuscript Hardwick 72A with translation and commentary

Graham Rees, assisted by Christopher Upton
1984
197 pages + 2 illustrations
ISBN 0-906450-04-7

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BSHS Monograph 4

The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700:
The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution

Michael Hunter
1982, reprinted 1985, second edition, 1994
291 pages
ISBN 978-0-906450-09-3

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BSHS Monograph 3

Rationality and Ritual:
The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain

Brian Wynne
1982
222 pages
ISBN 0-906450-02-0

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BSHS Monograph 2

The Letters of Georges Cuvier:
A Summary Calendar of the Manuscript and Printed Materials preserved in Europe, the United States of America, and Australasia

Dorinda Outram, editor
2009 (first published, 1980)
109 pages
ISBN 978-0-906450-16-1. The 2009 edition is a facsimile of the 1980 edition.

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BSHS Monograph 1

Images of the Earth:
Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences

LJ Jordanova and Roy Porter, editors
1979, reprinted 1981, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1997
293pp + 10 illustrations (downloads, reviews, etc)
ISBN 0-906450-12-8

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