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Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science
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Crisis and the construction of modern theoretical physics
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So simple a thing as a star: the Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology
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Endocrinology and expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman's ideas on new creations in human beings
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Essay Review
The two Newtons and beyond J. E. Force and S. Hutton (eds.), Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies. International Archives of the History of Ideas 188. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer, 2004. Pp. xvii+246. ISBN 1-4020-1969-6. £67.00 (hardback). Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes and Rebekah Higgitt (eds.), Early Biographies of Isaac Newton 1660–1885. Vol. 1: Eighteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: The Unpublished Manuscripts and Early Texts. Vol. 2: Nineteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: Private Debate and Public Controversy. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. Pp. lxxii+387 and xliii+420. ISBN 1-85-196778-8. £195.00 (hardback). Milo Keynes, The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. Pp. viii+120. ISBN 1-84383-133-3. £40.00 (hardback). John Henry (ed.), Newtonianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. 7 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. ISBN 1-84371-113-3. £595.00 (hardback). Mordechai Feingold, The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. New York and Oxford: The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv+218. ISBN 0-19-517735-5. £25.00 (hardback). Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687–1851. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 201. ISBN 0-674-01497-9. £22.95 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 105-111
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Book Review
CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 239. ISBN 1-86189-255-1. £19.95, $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-8618-9285-0. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 114-115
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MATTHIAS DÖRRIES (ed.), Michael Frayn'sCopenhagenin Debate: Historical Essays and Documents on the 1941 Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Berkeley Papers in History of Science Vol. 20. Berkeley, CA: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005. Pp. viii+195. ISBN 0-9672617-2-4. $12.00 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 115-116
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DONNA HARAWAY, The Haraway Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii+352. ISBN 0-415-96688-4. £16.99 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 117-118
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PETER J. BOWLER and IWAN RHYS MORUS, Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+464. ISBN 0-226-0681-7. £17.50, $25.00 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 118-119
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GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+420. ISBN 0-19-927668-4. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 120-121
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DAVID M. KNIGHT and MATTHEW D. EDDY (eds.), Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7. £47.50 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 121-123
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ANDREA FALCON, Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+139. ISBN 0-521-85439-3. £45.00 (hardback).
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ROSHDI RASHED, Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. Pp. xii+1178. ISBN 1873992998. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 124-126
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GAD FREUDENTHAL, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS803. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx+350. ISBN 0-86078-952-7. £62.50 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 126-127
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JOHN NORTH, God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp. xix+441. ISBN 1-85285-451-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 127-128
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GERARD L'E. TURNER, Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii+294. ISBN 0-86078-903-9. £67.50, $124.95 (hardback). KOENRAAD VAN CLEEMPOEL, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and Greenwich: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 2005. Pp. ix+339. ISBN 0-19-853069-2. £99.50 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 129-130
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BRUCE T. MORAN, Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 210. ISBN 0-674-01495-2. £16.95 (hardback). ALLEN G. DEBUS (ed.), Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers fromAmbix. Huddersfield: Jeremy Mills (for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry), 2004. Pp. xv+543. ISBN 0-9546484-1-2. £33.00, $60.00 (paperback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 130-132
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LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 132-133
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WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo: Essays on Intellectual History. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+340. ISBN 0-86078-964-0, $105.95 (hardback). GALILEO GALILEI, Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare. With a translation by Stillman Drake and an introduction by Filippo Camerota. Oakland, CA: Octavo, 2005. ISBN 1-891788-97-3, $35.00 (CD-ROM).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 133-135
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MARCUS HELLYER, Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. xii+337. ISBN 0-268-03071-5. $50.00 (hardback).
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- 05 March 2007, pp. 135-137
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