Janet Browne: Essay review: a field comes of age 469

Geoffrey Cantor and Frank James: Obituary: David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947–13 December 2009) 459

James Delbourgo: Essay review: Gardens of life and death 113

Nicholas Dew: Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles 1

Karin J. Ekholm: Tartaglia's ragioni: a maestro d'abaco’s mixed approach to the bombardier's problem 181

Martha Few: Circulating smallpox knowledge: Guatemalan doctors, Maya Indians and designing Spain's smallpox vaccination expedition, 1780–1803 519

J.V. Field: Obituary: Alfred Rupert Hall, Marie Boas Hall 99

John Fisher: Conjectures and reputations: the composition and reception of James Bradley's paper on the aberration of light with some reference to a third unpublished version 19

Ivor Grattan-Guinness: Essay review: The role of an editor: some remarks on Whiteside's edition of Newton's mathematical papers 105

Thomas F. Mayer: The Roman Inquisition's precept to Galileo (1616) 327

Cyrus C.M. Mody and Michael Lynch: Test objects and other epistemic things: a history of a nanoscale object 423

Jane H. Murphy: Locating the sciences in eighteenth-century Egypt 557

Omar W. Nasim: Observation, working images and procedure: the ‘Great Spiral’ in Lord Rosse's astronomical record books and beyond 353

Jaume Navarro: Electron diffraction chez Thomson: early responses to quantum physics in Britain 245

Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen: Postcolonial partnerships: deep sea research, media coverage and (inter)national narratives on the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952 75

Michael Pettit: The problem of raccoon intelligence in behaviourist America 391

Kapil Raj: Introduction: circulation and locality in early modern science 513

Catarina Madeira Santos: Administrative knowledge in a colonial context: Angola in the eighteenth century 539

Melissa Smith: Architects of Armahgeddon: the Home Office Scientific Advisers’ Branch and civil defence in Britain, 1945–68 149

Mary Terrall: Following insects around: tools and techniques of eighteenth-century natural history 573

K.G. Valente: Giving wings to logic: Mary Everest Boole's propagation and fulfilment of a legacy 49

Janet Vertesi: Instrumental images: the visual rhetoric of self-presentation in Hevelius's Machina Coelestis 209

Jakob Vogel: Locality and circulation in the Habsburg Empire: disputing the Carlsbad medical salt, 1763–1784 589