Volume 18 - November 1985
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Book Reviews
Roy Porter, The Earth sciences, an annotated bibliography. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1983. Pp. xviii + 192. ISBN 0-8240-9267-8, $35.
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John Langdon Brooks, Just before the Origin: Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 284. ISBN 0-231-05676-1. U.S. $39.
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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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D. P. Crook, Benjamin Kidd, Portrait of a Social Darwinist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 460. ISBN 0-521-25804-9. £30.00.
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History and Technology: An International Journal. Volume 1, number 1. Chur, London etc: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1983. Pp. 112. ISSN 0734-1512. $58 per volume of 4 numbers.
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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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L. J. Jordanova, Lamarck. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Past Masters), 1984. Pp. x + 118. ISBN 0-19-287588-4, £7.95 (hardback). 0-19-287587-6, £1.95 (paper).
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J. F. Clarke and F. Storr, The Introduction of the use of mild steel into the Shipbuilding and Marine Engine industries. Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, ‘Occasional Papers in the History of Science and Technology no. 1’, 1983, Pp. 97. £3.25.
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Iain Pattison, The British Veterinary Profession 1791–1948. London: J. A. Allen, 1983. Pp. x + 207. ISBN 0-85131-379-5. £9.50.
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Brian Inglis, Science and parascience. A history of the paranormal, 1914–1939. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. Pp. 382. ISBN 0-340-26325-3. £12.95.
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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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H. F. Cohen, Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of the Scientific Revolution, 1580–1650 (the University of Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science vol. 23) Dordrecht, Boston & Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984. Pp. xvii + 308. ISBN 90-277-1637-4. Dfl 145, $54.50.
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Dorinda Outram, Georges Cuvier. Vocation, science and authority in post-revolutionary France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. pp viii + 299. ISBN 0-7190-1077-2. £25.
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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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Philip F. Rehbock, The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology. (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine, 3). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp xv + 281. ISBN 0-299-09430-8. $30.
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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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Ronald Ferrier, The History of British Petroleum Company, Volume 1: The developing years, 1901–1932. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xxx + 801. ISBN 0521-24647-4. £35.00.
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N. Jardine, The birth of history and philosophy of science. Kepler's A defence of Tycho against Ursus with essays on its provenance and significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 301. ISBN 0-521-25226-1. £32.50.
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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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