Volume 26 - Issue 1 - March 1993
Book Reviews
Marcello Pera, The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani–Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xxvi + 203. ISBN 0-691-08512-9.
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Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 342. ISBN 0-521-39414-7. £32.50, $54.95.
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Gary Hatfield, The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 366. ISBN 0-262-08086-9. £31.50.
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Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xxi + 587. ISBN 0-262-19304-3. £49.50. - K. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The Fabric of the Body: European Traditions of Anatomical Illustration. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xx + 638, illus. ISBN 0-19-261198-4. £95.00.
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Richard B. Fisher, Edward Jenner 1749–1823. London: André Deutsch, 1991. Pp. 361. ISBN 0-233-98681-2. £20.00.
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John Snow, On Narcotism by the Inhalation of Vapours, a facsimile edition with an introductory essay by Richard H. Ellis. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services Limited, 1991. Pp. xxx + 112. ISBN 1-85315-158-0.
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Ryan D. Tweney and David Gooding (eds.), Michael Faraday's ‘Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions and Objects of Pursuit’ of 1822, London: Peter Peregrinus in association with the Science Museum, 1991. Pp. xvii + 152. ISBN 0-86341-255-6. £29.00.
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Poonam Bala, Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective. New Delhi, Newbury Park, London: Sage Publications, 1991. Pp. 1–174. ISBN 81-7036-245-8 (India), 0-8039-9100-2 (USA).
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Antonello La Vergata, Nonostante Malthus, Fecondità popolazioni e armonia della natura, 1700–1900. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri1991. Pp. 312. ISBN 88-339-0563-3. L. 40,000.
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Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer (eds.), Language and Earth: Elective Affinities Between the Emerging Sciences of Linguistics and Geology. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 1992. Pp. xvi + 445. ISBN 90-272-4553-3. Dfl. 200.00.
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Henrika Kuklick, The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 325. ISBN 0-521-41109-2. £30.00, $44.95.
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Frederick Gregory, Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-674-60483-0.
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Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp. xxi + 808. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3. £20.00.
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Daniel Becquemont, Darwin, Darwinisme, Evolutionnisme. Paris: Editions Kimé, 1992. Pp. 341. ISBN 2-908212-13)-7. 200FF. - Jean Gayon, Darwin et l'après Darwin: Une histoire de l'hypothèse de sélection naturelle. Paris: Editions Kimé, 1992. Pp. 453. ISBN 2-908212-14-5. 250FF.
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Fred Wilson, Empiricism and Darwin's Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xiv + 358. ISBN 0-7923-1019-5. £61.00, $99.00, Dfl 175.00.
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Mario A. Di Gregorio, Charles Darwin's Marginalia, Volume 1, with the assistance of N. W. Gill, New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. Pp. lxi + 448 + 275. ISBN 0-8240-6639-1. $95.00.
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Robert J. Richards, The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 205. ISBN 0-226-71202-8. £15.95, $19.95.
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Giuliano Pancaldi, Darwin in Italy: Science across Cultural Frontiers, updated and expanded edition, translated by Ruey Brodine Morelli, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 222. ISBN 0-253-34287-2. £22.50.
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Paul J. Weindling, Darwinism and Social Darwinism in Imperial Germany: The Contribution of the Cell Biologist Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922). Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, 1991. Pp. 355. ISBN 3-437-11305-4. DM 148.
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Helena Cronin. The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 490. ISBN 0-521-32937-X. £27.50, $39.50.
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