Volume 46 Part 4 Number 154 December 2008 CONTENTS Pillow Talk: Credibility, Trust and the Sexological Case History Ivan Crozier . 375 Galileo, Bruno and the Rhetoric of Dialogue in Seventeenth-century Natural Philosophy Stephen Clucas . 405 Liars, Experts and Authorities Graeme Gooday . 431 Science, Scientifi c Careers and Social Exchange in London: The Diary of Herbert McLeod, 1885–1900 Hannah Gay . 457 Notices of Books . 497 Notes on Contributors . 499 Index to Volume 46 . 500 HISTORY OF SCIENCE Editor: Iwan Rhys Morus, Department of History & Welsh History, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, UK (e-mail: irm@aber. ac.uk) Advisory Editors: Pascal Brioist, Janet Browne, Hal Cook, Serafi na Cuomo, Igor Dmitriev, Jan Golinski, Anna Guagnini, Trevor Levere, David Miller, William Newman, J. D. North, Lewis Pyenson, Larry Stewart, Andrew Warwick Publisher: SCIENCE HISTORY PUBLICATIONS LTD, 16 Rutherford Road, Cambridge CB2 8HH, UK Copyright: © 2008 by Science History Publications Ltd SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES. By e-mail attachment to
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