Volume 18 - Issue 1 - March 1985
Book Reviews
Marin Mersenne, Correspondance, XV (1647). Edited by Cornelis de Waard and Armand Beaulieu. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983.
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Pietro Redondi, Galileo Eretico. Turin: Einaudi, 1983. Pp. x + 463. ISBN 88-06-05632-8. 25,000 lire.
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Stillman Drake, Cause Experiment and Science: A Galilean dialogue incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's ‘Bodies That Stay atop Water or Move in it.’Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xxviii + 237. ISBN 0-226-16228-1. $20.00.
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John Flamsteed, Preface to Historia Coelestis Britannica. Edited and introduced by Allan Chapman, based on a translation by Alison Dione Johnson. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, Maritime Monographs and Reports, No. 52, 1982. Pp. vi + 222. ISBN 0-905555-60-0. No price given.
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Lorin Anderson, Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known. (Studies in the History of Modern Science, 11.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982. Pp. xiii + 155. ISBN 90-277-1389-8. DFl. 85, $37.
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Leonard Euler 1707–1783. Beiträge zu Leben und Werk. Gedenkband des Kantons Basel-Stadt. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1983. Pp. 555. SFr. 58.
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G. N. Cantor. Optics after Newton. Theories of light in Britain and Ireland, 1704–1840. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 0-7190-0938-3. £20.
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Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Science. The Make-Believe of a Beginning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 257, £20.00 - Redmond O'Hanlon, Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin. The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction. Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1984. Pp. 189, £17.50
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Graeme Tytler, Physiognomy in the European Novel. Faces and Fortunes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xix + 436 ISBN 0-691-0649-1 £19.10.
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Elizabeth Chambers Patterson, Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840. (Archives internationales d'histoire des idees, 102) Boston, The Hague, Dordrecht, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1983. Pp. xiv + 264. ISBN 90-247-2823-1.
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Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell (eds.), Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780–1850. London: Hutchinson, 1983. Pp. 288. ISBN 0-09-145180-9. £17.50.
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Roy MacLeod (editor), Days of Judgement. Science, Examinations and the Organization of Knowledge in Late Victorian England. Driffield: Studies in Education Ltd., Nafferton Books, 1982. Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 0-905484-15-0. £15.95.
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Nathan Reingold (ed), The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 3: January 1836—December 1837, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xxxiv + 585. $30. - Nathan Reingold (ed), The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 4: January 1838—December 1840, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Pp. xxxiv + 475. $30.
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Georg Uschmann, editor, Ernst Haeckel. Biographie in Briefen. Leipzig: Urania-Verlag, 1983. Pp. 328. 24DM.
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Tom Simkin and Richard S. Fiske, Krakatau 1883: the volcanic eruption and its effects. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Pp. 464. £13.95.
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Edward Lee Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, edited by Frank N. Egerton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. Part I, Part II, Pp. 1139. ISBN 0-8047-1075-9. $100.00.
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Max Neuburger, The Historical Development of Experimental Brain and Spinal Cord Physiology Before Flourens Translated and edited by Edwin Clarke). Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xxii + 391. ISBN 0-8018-2380-3. £14.
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Ignaz Semmelweis, The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by K. Codell Carter. Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 262. $35 cloth, $10.95 paper.
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Martin Goldman, The demon in the aether. The story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86228-026-5. £18.
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Gerard L'E Turner: Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. London: Sotheby Publications, 1983, and Berkeley, Calif: Univ. of California Press, 1983. 320 pp. ISBN 0-85667-170-3 (UK), £37.50. ISBN 0-520-05160-2 (USA).
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