Janet Browne
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British historian of science
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Janet Browne's Degrees
- PhD History of Science Imperial College London
- Masters History of Science Imperial College London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Janet Browne is a British historian of science, known especially for her work on the history of 19th-century biology. She taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London, before returning to Harvard. She is currently Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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Published Works
- Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism (1981) (339)
- Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens (1981) (200)
- Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) (163)
- History of botanical science (1982) (108)
- Biogeographic Roots@@@The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography. (1983) (105)
- Like engend'ring like: heredity and animal breeding in early modern England (1987) (47)
- Darwin's botanical arithmetic and the “principle of divergence,” 1854–1858 (1980) (45)
- Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and "The Loves of the Plants" (1989) (39)
- Darwin in Caricature: A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolution (2001) (38)
- A science of empire : British biogeography before Darwin (1992) (38)
- Looking at Darwin: Portraits and the Making of an Icon (2009) (29)
- Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (2008) (27)
- Wallace, Alfred Russel (2001) (27)
- Social Darwinism and English thought. The interaction between biological and social theory (1982) (24)
- Making Darwin: Biography and the Changing Representations of Charles Darwin (2010) (23)
- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body (1998) (22)
- Charles Darwin as a Celebrity (2003) (21)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (2001) (20)
- A Science of Processes (1983) (19)
- The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 8, 1860 (1994) (18)
- Presidential Address Commemorating Darwin (2005) (16)
- The Charles Darwin — Joseph Hooker correspondence: an analysis of manuscript resources and their use in biography (1978) (14)
- Joseph Leidy: the last man who knew everything (2000) (14)
- Victorian spectacle: Julia Pastrana, the bearded and hairy female. (2003) (13)
- Darwin the scientist. (2009) (13)
- Chapter 12. Darwin and the Expression of the Emotions (1988) (12)
- Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists (2010) (12)
- Darwin, Charles Robert (2002) (11)
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton (2001) (8)
- Nature, human nature, and society: Marx, Darwin, biology, and the human sciences (1984) (8)
- History of Biogeography (2001) (7)
- Birthdays to remember (2008) (7)
- A field comes of age (2010) (7)
- Memory, wisdom and healing: the history of domestic plant medicine (2002) (7)
- Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition (2001) (7)
- Portraits and the Making of an Icon (2009) (6)
- The expanding universe. Astronomy's ‘great debate’, 1900–1931 (1984) (6)
- The other beetle-hunter (2008) (6)
- Squibs and Snobs: Science in Humorous British Undergraduate Magazines around 1830 (1992) (6)
- Bates, Henry Walter (2001) (5)
- Mendel and Darwin (2022) (4)
- Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine (2021) (4)
- Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context (2016) (4)
- 'Botany' and 'Zoology' (1999) (3)
- History of Plant Sciences (2001) (3)
- Charles Darwin and ideology: Rethinking the Darwinian revolution (2016) (3)
- Science in culture: A bigger picture of apes (2006) (3)
- Officers and council members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97 (1997) (3)
- An appreciation of Christiane Groeben: the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn (2015) (2)
- The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8, 1860 (1995) (2)
- Observations of a travelling naturalist (2000) (2)
- A Most Interesting Problem (2021) (2)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–1895) (2007) (2)
- A CD-ROM on medicine in literature. (2001) (2)
- Brown, Robert (1773–1858) (2007) (2)
- History of the Earth The Epochs of Nature Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon Translated and edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, and Mateusz Zalasiewicz (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL; 2018) ISBN: 978-0-226-39543-2. (2018) (2)
- Charles Darwin and the Darwinian Tradition (2021) (2)
- Bibliography of the Rhinoceros: An Analysis of the Literature on the Recent Rhinoceroses in Culture, History, and Biology. L. C. Rookmaaker (1984) (2)
- Obituary: Roy Sydney Porter (1946-2002). (2003) (2)
- A Science of Patterns (1983) (1)
- Darwin's Darkest Hour, and: Creation (review) (2010) (1)
- Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) (2007) (1)
- Book Review:Keywords in Evolutionary Biology Evelyn Fox Keller, Elisabeth A. Lloyd (1994) (1)
- Faces of medicine and science (2000) (1)
- A Fresh Look at Darwin (2006) (1)
- Bates, Henry Walter (1825–1882) (2007) (1)
- Ground Cover Plants (1989) (1)
- Buffon, Georges Louis (2001) (1)
- Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine (eds), Books and the sciences in history , Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiv, 438, illus., £52.00, US$85.00 (hardback 0-521-65063-1), £18.95, US$29.95 (paperback 0-521-65939-6). (2005) (1)
- Descent from Ararat (1983) (1)
- Charles Darwin. Volume 1, Voyaging. (1996) (1)
- 5. Noah’s Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History (2019) (1)
- Noah’s ark and the flood, (2003) (0)
- James E. Strick.Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation. xiv + 283 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2000. $45 (cloth). (2003) (0)
- Heroines of science (1991) (0)
- Gabrielle Hatfield, Memory, wisdom and healing: the history of domestic plant medicine , Thrupp, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp. ix, 209, illus., £25.00, US$36.00 (0-7509-1945-0). (2002) (0)
- Obituary of Roy Sydney Porter (2003) (0)
- 'Charles Darwin: heredity and evolution', in From Victoria to Viagra: 150 years of medical progress (2003) (0)
- Products of history (1986) (0)
- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: traveller and plant collector. Ray Desmond. 1999. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, with the Royal Botanic Gardens. 286 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85149-305-0. $29.50. (2000) (0)
- Koelreuter, Joseph Gottlieb (2001) (0)
- Introduction,Catalogue of books and letters by Charles Darwin (2003) (0)
- Linnaeus, Carl (Linné) (1707–1778) (2007) (0)
- Charles Darwin: heredity and evolution (2003) (0)
- PETER HAMILTON and ROGER HARGREAVES, The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography. Aldershot: Lund Humphries in association with the National Portrait Gallery, 2001. Pp. vi+122. ISBN 0-85331-821-2. £25.00 (hardback). (2003) (0)
- KEYOF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM (2008) (0)
- Eric L. Mills. Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870–1960. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 378. ISBN 0-8014-2340-6. $47.50. (1991) (0)
- A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolution 1 (2001) (0)
- Richard Darwin Keynes. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxix + 464. ISBN 0-521-23503-0. £35.00, $59.50. (1990) (0)
- Book Review:A Delicate Arrangement: The Strange Case of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace Arnold C. Brackman (1981) (0)
- Änne Baumer, Bibliography of the history of biology. Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Biologie , Frankfurt am Main and New York, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. xi, 307, £40.00 (3-631-32261-5, USA 0-8204-3513-9). (1999) (0)
- The Nations of Plants (1983) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Darwin’s Distribution (1983) (0)
- Sexual harassment in two Alberta High Schools (1998) (0)
- Philip F. Rehbock, The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology . (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine, 3). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp xv + 281. ISBN 0-299-09430-8. $30. (1985) (0)
- Essay review: Passports to success (1988) (0)
- Darwin: The Life, Horizon, BBC2 (1998) (0)
- The Voice of the Bird (2009) (0)
- Essay Review: Botany and Botanists: Landmarks of Botanical History, Linnaeus: The Man and His Work (1984) (0)
- Book Review (2005) (0)
- A Keystone to Creation (1983) (0)
- Female attention (1987) (0)
- Colin Finnet, Paradise Revealed: Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Australia . Melbourne: Museum of Victoria, 1993. Pp. xv + 186. ISBN 0-7306-2494-3. A$ 34.95. (1995) (0)
- Cultural identity and the municipal gallery: the re-imagining of Bradford’s collection as a transculturalrepresentation of identity at Cartwright Hall 1904-2014 (2016) (0)
- The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science by Ruth Barton (review) (2020) (0)
- Darwinism in popular culture (2012) (0)
- Buffon, Georges Louis (1707–1788) (2007) (0)
- The Earth as a Chessboard (1983) (0)
- Plant Sciences (The History) (2007) (0)
- :Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation (2003) (0)
- Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism , London, The Women's Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xviii, 485, £3.95 (paperback). - Janice C. Raymond, The transsexual empire , London, The Women's Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xxvii, 220, £2.95 (paperback). (1981) (0)
- Antiquity to the Renaissance (1984) (0)
- Maritime sea changes (1995) (0)
- Charles Darwin: Traveller, author, and naturalist (2011) (0)
- Greta Jones, Social Darwinism and English thought. The interaction between biological and social theory , Brighton, Sussex, Harvester Press (New York, Humanities Press), 1980, 8vo, pp. xiv, 234, £22.50. (1982) (0)
- De Candolle, Augustin‐Pyramus (1778–1841) (2007) (0)
- Biogeography (The History) (2007) (0)
- Peter J. Bowler. Evolution: the History of an Idea . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 412. $29.95. (1986) (0)
- Gardens of Empire. Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire. DP McCracken (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews: William LeFanu, Nehemiah Grew, M.D., F.R.S.: a study and bibliography of his writings (1991) (0)
- De Jussieu, Antoine‐Laurent (1748–1836) (2007) (0)
- A. G. Morton, History of botanical science , London and New York, Academic Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xii, 474, illus., £8.80 (paperback). (1982) (0)
- Leonard Warren, Joseph Leidy: the last man who knew everything , New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. xvi, 303, £25.00 (hardback 0-300-07359-3). (2000) (0)
- Catesby's World: England (2015) (0)
- A concordance to Erasmus Darwin's poem `The Botanic Garden' (1996) (0)
- Book Review:The Southern Ark: Zoological Discovery in New Zealand, 1769-1900 J. R. H. Andrews (1989) (0)
- Cambridge and Clare. Harry Godwin (1987) (0)
- Wallace and Darwin (2013) (0)
- W. J. Dempster. Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection: Nineteenth Century Gentleman-Farmer, Naturalist and Writer . Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Pp 156. ISBN 0-86228-065-6. £8.50. (1986) (0)
- Rachel Laudan. From Mineralogy to Geology: the Foundations of a Science, 1650–1830 . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 0-226-46950-6. £21.95; $32.95 in Europe. (1989) (0)
- Nicholas Russell, Like engend'ring like: heredity and animal breeding in early modern England, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 271, £27.50. (1987) (0)
- JOHN C. GREENE, Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar. Claremont: Regina Books, 1999. Pp. vi+288. ISBN 0-941690-85-7. No price given (hardback). (2003) (0)
- Robert Smith, The expanding universe. Astronomy's ‘great debate’, 1900–1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 220. ISBN 0-521-23212-0. £19 (1984) (0)
- Book Review: Ornithologists Organized, Discovering Birds: The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760–1850 (1998) (0)
- Life and Earth Sciences (1983) (0)
- Charles Robert Darwin (2004) (0)
- Articles on Darwin, Horticulture, Botany, Botanical Gardens, Ovism, Photosynthesis and Monsters; Oxford companion to the history of modern science (2003) (0)
- Banks, Joseph (1743‐1820) (2007) (0)
- ALTER, S. G. Darwinism and the linguistic image: language, race and natural theology in the nineteenth century. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 1999. Pp 193. Price £ 32.50. ISBN 0-8018-5882-8 (hardback). (2000) (0)
- Editors note (1994) (0)
- Essay reviews: Cataloguing for Empire (1994) (0)
- John Langdon Brooks, Just before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution . New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 284. ISBN 0-231-05676-1. U.S. $39. (1985) (0)
- When maps cost lives (1998) (0)
- Marlene J. Norst. Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings . Art in Natural History no. 1. London: British Museum of Natural History, 1989. Pp. 120. ISBN 0-565-01048-4. No price given. (1991) (0)
- Life Sciences (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Augerius Clutius and His "De Hemerobio": An Early Work on Ephemeroptera Frans P. M. Francissen, Ad W. M. Mol (1985) (0)
- Ladies of inequality (1989) (0)
- Reflections on Darwin Historiography (2022) (0)
- Foreword by Janet Browne and Jim Secord (2009) (0)
- Book Review (2017) (0)
- Linnaeus, Carl (Linné) (2006) (0)
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817–1911) (2007) (0)
- An appreciation of Christiane Groeben: the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn (2015) (0)
- Lucile H. Brockway, Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens , New York and London, Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. xvi, 215, illus., $21.00. (1981) (0)
- History of Natural History (1984) (0)
- PORTER D. M. and GRAHAM P. W., (editors). The portable Darwin. The Viking Portable Library, Penguin Books, London: 1993. Pp xxii, 56: Price £ 8.99. (1995) (0)
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