Special issue: Science and Islands in Indo-Pacific Worlds The December BJHS issue will take us to the distant islands and waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The editors Sebestian Kroupa, Stephanie Mawson and Dorit Brixius open with a conceptualisation of the Indo-Pacific, its islands and their place within the history of science. Following the [...]
Editor Charlotte Sleigh writes: September’s BJHS is pervaded by themes of public science. Daniel Mitchell’s ‘From Corps to Discipline’ starts us off in nineteenth-century France, where teaching and communication of experimental physics helped form the new, expert science. Following this, Katharine Anderson, examines the strange case of a merchant seaman, an outsider to science, who [...]
Editor Charlotte Sleigh writes: This June’s BJHS contains a pair of articles on natural history cabinets. Kit Heintzman’s Singer-winning essay ‘A cabinet of the ordinary’ discusses the collections of the Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort and the construction of veterinary science as a matter of domestic animals. Also located in the eighteenth century, Edwin Rose’s essay ‘Specimens, slips and [...]
