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Volume 25 - December 1992

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Book Reviews

A. Chapman. Dividing the Circle. The Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy 1500–1650. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Ellis Horwood Library of Space Science and Space Technology, 1990. Pp. 209. ISBN 0-13-217555-X. £15.95.

Antonio Vallisneri. Epistolario. Volume I, 1679–1710, edited by Dario Generali. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1991. Pp. 639. ISBN 88-204-6733-X. L. 70,000.

Annie Bitbol-Hespériès. Le Principe de vie chez Descartes. Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1990. Pp. 236. ISBN 2-7116-1034-9.

Menachem Fisch and Simon Schaffer (eds.). William Whewell: A Composite Portrait. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 403. ISBN 0-19-824900-4. £47.50.

Bernhard Fritscher. Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie: Die Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments in der Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Pp. viii + 346. ISBN 3-515-05865-6. DM 86,–.

Dirk Stemerding. Plants, Animals and Formulae: Natural History in the Light of Latour's Science in Action and Foucault's The Order of Things. Enschede: Faculteit Wijsbegeerte en Maatschappijwetenschappen, Universiteit Twente, 1991. Pp. 202. ISBN 90-365-0379-5. Dfl 40.

Emily R. Grosholz. Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 161. ISBN 0-19-824250-6. £22.50.

Menachem Fisch. William Whewell, Philosopher of Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. ISBN 0-19-824240-9. £30.00

Javier Ordoñez and Albert Elena (eds.). La ciencia y su público: Perspectivas históricas. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1990. Pp. xv + 443. ISBN 84-00-07056-9.

A. Rupert Hall. Henry More: Magic, Religion and Experiment. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii + 304. ISBN 0-631-17295-5. £30.00.

Geoffrey Cantor. Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi + 359. ISBN 0-333-55077-3. £40.00.

I. Bernard Cohen (ed.). Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis, edited with the assistance of K. E. Duffin and Stuart Strickland. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 402. ISBN 0-8135-1529-7, $45.00 (hardback); 0-8135-1530-0, $17.00 (paperback).

P. M. Harman (ed.). The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I: 1846–1862. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxviii + 748. ISBN 0-521-25625-9. £135.00, $195.

Geoffrey Cantor, David Gooding and Frank A. J. L. James. Faraday. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiii + 109. ISBN 0-333-54291-6. £9.99.

Ian Hacking. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 264. ISBN 0-521-38014-6, £27.50, $44.50 (hardback); 0-521-38884-8, £9.95, $14.95 (paperback).

Peter Rowlands. Newton and the Concept of Mass-Energy. Liverpool Historical Essays, 4. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1990. Pp. ii + 34. ISBN 0-85323-187-7. £5.00.

Hourya Sinaceur. Corps et modèles. Essai sur l'histoire de l'algèbre réelle. J. Vrin: Paris, 1991. Pp. 496. ISBN 2-7116-1038-1. 198 F.

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