Volume 19 - Issue 3 - November 1986
Contents
Book Reviews
William McGucken. Scientists, Society and State. The Social Relations of Science Movement in Great Britain, 1931–1947. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 381. ISBN 0-8142-0351-5. £22.50.
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John Durant (ed.). Darwinism and Divinity. Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. ix + 210. ISBN 0-631-14188-X. £15.00.
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Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith (eds). A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. Pp. 690. ISBN 0-8240-9224-4. $100, £85. - The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 1, 1821–1836. Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxxii + 702. ISBN 0-521-25587-2. £30, $37.50.
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Annette Smith. Gobineau et l'Histoire Naturelle. Geneva and Paris: Libraire Droz. 1984. Pp. 262.
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Peter Alexander. Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the Natural World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 331. ISBN 0-521-26707-2. £27.50.
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C. A. Russell, ed. Recent Developments in the History of Chemistry. London: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1985. Pp. x + 333. ISBN 0-85186-917-3. £27.50, $36.00.
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Garry Adler. Beyond Bokhara: the Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon, 1767–1825. London: Century Publishing, 1985. Pp. xiii + 417. ISBN 0-7126-0722-6. £16.95.
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Norma E. Emerton. The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. Pp. 318. ISBN 0-8014-1583-7. $29.95.
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Seá O'Donnell. William Rowan Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy. Dublin: Boole Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 224. ISBN 0-906783-06-2. IR £19.95, $24.95. - Desmond MacHale. George Boole: His Life and Work. Dublin: Boole Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 304. ISBN 0-906783-05-4. IR £19.95, $24.95.
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Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50.
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Winfried Scharlau & Hans Opolka. From Fermat to Minkowski. Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development. Translated from the German by W. K. Bühler and G. Cornell. Berlin and New York: Springer, 1985. Pp xi + 184. ISBN 0-387-90942-7. DM 72.00.
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Paolo Rossi. The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico. A translation by Lydia G. Cochrane of I Segni del Tempo (1979). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 338. ISBN 0-226-72835-8. £36.75.
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William A. Wallace. Galileo and his Sources. The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 371. ISBN 0-691-08355-X. £45.80.
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Steven B. Engelsman. Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-444-86897-6. US $29.00, Dfl. 85.00.
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W. H. Brock & A. J. Meadows. The Lamp of Learning. Taylor & Francis and the Development of Science Publishing. London: Taylor & Francis, 1984. Pp. xvi + 240. ISBN 0-85066-253-2. £15.00.
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Donald Hill. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 0-7099-1209-9. £18.95.
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Derek Gjertsen. The Classics of Science. A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works. New York and Gravesend: Lilian Barber Press, 1984. Pp. iii + 374. ISBN 0-936508–4. £20.00 (hardback), £12.95 (paperback).
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F. Neil Johnson. The History of Lithium Therapy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xvii + 198 illustrations. ISBN 0-333-36942-4. £35.00.
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Trevor I. Williams. Howard Florey: Penicillin and After. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 404. ISBN 0-19-858173-4. £17.50.
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Wen-Yuan Qian. The Great Inertia. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. xii + 155. ISBN 0-7099-2104-7. £15.95.
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