Volume 17 - Issue 1 - March 1984
Book Reviews
National Traditions in Science - Geoffrey Howson, A history of mathematics education in England. Cambridge: University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 294. ISBN 0-521-24206-1. £25.
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National Traditions in Science - J. V. Pickstone (ed.), Health, disease and medicine in Lancashire 1750–1950: four papers on sources, problems and methods. Manchester: U.M.I.S.T., 1980. Pp. 103. £2.00.
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National Traditions in Science - Leslie Hannah, Engineers, managers and politicians. The first fifteen years of nationalised electricity supply in Britain. Research by Margaret Ackrill, Frances Bostock, Rachel Lawrence, Judy Slinn and Stephanie Zarach. London: MacMillan, 1982. Pp. xiii + 336. £15.95. ISBN 0-333-22087-0.
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National Traditions in Science - Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana (eds), Sciences and cultures. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Reidel, 1981. Pp. xvii + 270. ISBN 90-277-1234-4 (cloth)/1235–2 (paper). (No price stated.) - Norbert Elias, Herminio Martins and Richard Whitley (eds), Scientific Establishments and hierarchies. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xi + 368. ISBN 90-277-1322-7 (cloth)/1323–5 (paper). Dfl. 95.00, $42.50 (cloth); Dfl. 50.00, $19.95 (paper).
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Ivo Schneider, ‘Archimedes’ Erträge der Forschung, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Darmstadt, 1979.
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Johannes Morsink, Aristotle on the generation of animals, a philosophical study. Washington: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-8191-2607-1. $19.50 ($9.50 paperback). - Abraham Wasserstein, Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise, Airs, Waters, Places. Jerusalem: Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, VI.3, 1982. Pp. 119 (paperback). (No price stated.)
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Norman Kretzmann (ed.), Infinity and continuity in ancient medieval thought. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 367. ISBN 0-8014-1444-X. £20.75, $36.10.
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - C. B. Schmitt, Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 187. ISBN 0-674-04525-4. £14.80.
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - William A. Wallace, Prelude to Galileo: essays on medieval and sixteenth-century sources of Galileo's thought. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 62.) Dordrecht, Boston & London: D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 90-277-1215-8, Dfl. 95/US $49.95 (cased); ISBN 90-277-1216-6, Dfl. 45/US $23.50 (paper).
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Walter Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont: reformer of science and medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 219. ISBN 0-521-24807-8. £20.00.
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Janis L. Pallister (ed), Ambroise Paré On Monsters and Marvels: translated with an introduction and notes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 224. ISBN 0-226-64562-2. £14.00.
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Seventeenth Century - Steven J. Dick, Plurality of worlds. The origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-521-24308-4. Pp. x + 246. £19.00.
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Seventeenth Century - Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum: The secret of the universe. Translation by A. M. Duncan, Introduction and Commentary by E. J. Aiton, with a Preface by I. Bernard Cohen. New York: Abaris Books, 1981. Pp. 267. ISBN 0-913870-64-1. £13.
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Seventeenth Century - M. M. Slaughter, Universal languages and scientific taxonomy in the seventeenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 277. ISBN 0-521-24477-3. £25.00.
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Seventeenth Century - Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700: the morphology of an early scientific institution. Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.: The British Society for the History of Science, 1982. Pp. v + 270. ISBN 0-906450-03-9. £5.90, $11.00.
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Seventeenth Century - James R. Jacob, Henry Stubbe, radical protestantism and the early enlightenment. Cambridge: University Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 222. ISBN 0-521-24876-0. £19.50.
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Seventeenth Century - David Castillejo, The expanding force in Newton's cosmos, as shown in his unpublished papers. Madrid: Ediciones de Arte y Bibliofilia, 1981. Pp. 125.
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Seventeenth Century - Zev Bechler (ed.), Contemporary Newtonian research. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. vi + 241. DF1. 95.00. ISBN 90-277-1303-0.
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Seventeenth Century - Desmond M. Clarke, Descartes' philosophy of science. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 249. ISBN 0-7190-0868-9. £19.00.
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Seventeenth Century - Margaret Dauler Wilson, Descartes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xviii + 255. ISBN 0-7100-9208-3. £5.95. - Ralph C. S. Walker, Kant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xii + 201. ISBN 0-7100-0009-X. £4.95.
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